All those #1s, but we only care about her Christmas song! All that success, but now she's so elusive! All that "impact," but all we've gotten out of it is Ariana Grande () and "Mariah Kareoke." ()
All those #1s, but we only care about her Christmas song! All that success, but now she's so elusive! All that "impact," but all we've gotten out of it is Ariana Grande () and "Mariah Kareoke." ()
In a lot of ways, Mariah Carey fails as a popstar - terrible dancer, few globally known songs, repetitive lyrical tableaux, no great videos. It could be written off as a sign of 90s kids voting ....
...until one looks closer. I'm pretty sure Mariah was the first mixed-race person I saw on my television, letting a whole lot of swirly kids out there know that they could make it. She was also the first girl who was so very clearly pop to be down. To be REALLY down. Most of all, everything (except for the Music Box era) she's ever done has come from her heart - there's a fragility, a vulnerability that all public figures should have, and Mimi has it in spades. She's Judy without the barbiturates, Liza without the gay husbands, Dusty without the sexuality confusion issues. She is a lovely little lamb, with a voice sent from above.
) and "Mariah Kareoke." (
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