"I FEAR Mariah Carey. Superficially, she might seem like a purveyor of saccharine bilge like 'Hero', whose message seems wholesome enough: that if you vacate your mind of all intelligent thought, flutter your eyelashes and wish hard, sweet babies and honey will follow. But that's ********. You don't sell 90million records unless you reserve that fluffybunny stuff for your sucker fans. To attain 13 Number One singles, all featured on this anthology, you gotta be cold-eyed, hard-boiled and have balls of steel. Noticed how in interviews, Mariah sounds more deep-throated than on record? She knows what she's about. She'll do whatever it takes. And her most fiendish weapon is the duet. If the MOR market needs servicing, she'll duet with Luther or Whitney and outdo them in the soulful gurgle stakes ("Eeeooowaarghoourgh") gurgle for gurgle. If her contemporary edge needs sharpening, she'll hang with the Wu-Tang Clan ('Fantasy'), fluttering about making twittery, orgasmic noises like Ol' Dirty Bastard just deflowered her ("Eeurrgghow! Oo!"). If you're big in the R&B charts, like Brian McKnight, she'll be in there ('Whenever You Call') like a heat-seeking parasite. She don't give a ****. She destroys competition by sucking them dry and spitting them out. Heard much from Boyz II Men since she cut 'One Sweet Day' with them?"
-NME Review [Mariah Carey's #1s
As much as I despise NME for that low ass score they gave Mariah for no reason, I have to say NME has a point though. Let's set the record straight. Mariah has been in this business for over 25 years. She's been singing for 43 years. And that's out of the 45 years she's been on this earth. And out of that time, she may have hurt a lot of feeling, and she's killed a lot of careers. With many of those duets that she has done, really, they only had one other hit, then you wonder where the hell they went?! But that's what queens do! Mariah's credit is as high as Beyonce's lacefront. She has more degrees than a circle. And a strong voice to go along with that!!!
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