Y'all are preaching tonight.
Mariah owes no one anything. The first decade of her career was already enough. In the span of ten years, she became the biggest female artist in the world, even if she held on to the title for a short time.
We witnessed the artistic evolution of a young and brilliant singer finding her own voice in the wave of Whitney Houston to a hugely profitable Adult Contemporary singer to an experienced musician realizing her full potential as a RnB artist, able to express herself in ways that profoundly affected others and with a clarity most could only dream of. To further these artistic endeavors she released countless remixes in times she felt her freedom of expression was being surpressed, and even these remixes turned out to have an impact on pop culture and music. Along the way she released (one of) the best selling Christmas albums of all time, and with it an original classic Christmas song that stands with the greatest.
Her voice itself underwent many transformations with each year. She reached her vocal peak within the span of a mere two years from 1995-1996, truly using her voice as a coloratura soprano, and then the incredible effortlessness was gone in the blink of an eye. Yet those 7 years of vocal perfection are more than enough, and we will treasure them for a lifetime.
Mariah endured violent racism, poverty, a marriage with a monster, and endless years of overworking herself in the studio with the fear of declining back into her old and miserable life to emerge on top.
Then in the 2000s, she faced commercial disappointment for the first time, proved herself to be a never fading force in the industry, broke some more records, and suffered a miscarriage.
Now she is a happy wife, a proud mother, and a legend in the industry. Her name alone draws people to their feet. Her existence has been validated through her hard work, and has graced us with 23 years of beautiful music.
It is a short time for a figure of her status, but still a long period for any human. Since discovering her in 7th grade, it has taken me about three and a half ears to completely go through her entire discography, including remixes and unreleased songs. And I have barely scratched the surface with her live performances.
She has nothing left to prove. She has enough money to live like a queen for the rest of her and her childrens' lives. Anyone who gets pressed over her releasing new songs or her chart success or whatever does not take her achievements seriously. After getting into Janet Jackson, I had fully accepted that she was done with music and didn't even mind, because she had done so much already. The announcement of her new album was more of a pleasant surprise to me than anything. And anyone who would rather see Mariah suffer with Tommy than be content with life as Nick does not deserve to ever speak of her again, much less call himself a lamb.
Also, let me just say I loved #Beautiful. To me it's still the perfect summer cruising song. I'd just like an extended album version, thanks Mimi.
Anyways, this was way longer than what I intended.
I hope no one actually read all of that drag, I just got on a rant.
Lemme end this with a cute little Mariah pic, cuz she sure knows how to have fun. What a lucky girl.
) and I still have a ton of her remixes to discover, so i'll be fine. Plus I recently discovered that Glitter is actually a great album, so I can hold over 
I found it on a Mariah pic site and no matter how fake she may be there are enough parts in this picture for us to enjoy 
