For me Charmbracelet is her third worst, above Glitter and rainbow.
You Got Me is underrated. The rapping is annoying to get through but the chorus is so pretty and daydream-like. One of the few moments her whispering on the album works instead of being messy.
Yours is also a a beautiful song. Those harmonies
Clown and My Saving Grace slay.
Oh and I hate Boy I've tried so hard to appreciate it cuz so many of you guys love it for some reason but I don't see the appeal of it
Also the same with Subtle Invitation. It's the same boring whispering for two minutes and then she starts YELPING like crazy like wtf? The brassy instrumental sounds so fun and different from what we normally hear from a Mariah song and I feel like if she had approached the song differently it could be one of her best to date but nope.
Oh and I hate Boy I've tried so hard to appreciate it cuz so many of you guys love it for some reason but I don't see the appeal of it
Also the same with Subtle Invitation. It's the same boring whispering for two minutes and then she starts YELPING like crazy like wtf? The brassy instrumental sounds so fun and different from what we normally hear from a Mariah song and I feel like if she had approached the song differently it could be one of her best to date but nope.
I spot lies on your post
Subtle Invitation is the only tolerable song actually
the song is lustful and sexy
My first album I ever bought of Miss Mariah!!!!...I had heard some of her hits like Daydream and My All...But I really remember that Cold Winter and listening to Charmbracelet in my room, that was the day that I officially became a LAMB, in the next couple of weeks I hit all the Record Stores and bought her entire Discography!!!!
Charmbracelet is special to me because It was the first full Mariah album that I learned to appreciate and love and listen as a whole body of work...My favorites were BOTH, The One, Yours, Lullaby, Subtle Invitation, My Saving Grace and of course ICMITTR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is probably my least favourite album of hers, but this doesn't mean it's bad. I really like it, but if we compare it to her other albums, then Charmbracelet comes last
I love the cover song, Clown, Subtle Invitation, My Saving Grace and Through the Rain. Yours and The One are cute too. Oh, and I like I Only Wanted, like Bro said, a better rehash than After Tonight.
Boy, You Got Me and Irresistible are some of the few Mariah songs I dislike.
The three remaining songs, YHYC, Lullaby and Sunflowers, I'd say they are just ok, nothing special tbh
Besides Bringin' On The Heartbreak, this is a dull, bleak, lifeless and uneventful album.
After the failure of Glitter and her "emotional" breakdown, she played it way too safe with this album. She delivered an uncooked batch of tracks that aren't memorable or exciting.
Not the discussion I've been waiting for starting at 4AM (in my time zone)
Charmbracelet is her smoothest album and it's totally personal, in a way none of her other albums are. SFAR, Clown, YHYC, IOW, MSG and obviously Through The Rain are some of her most autobiographic, heartfelt songs ever. I also love the urban sound of the first half with Boy and You Got Me, which should have been a single.
I LOVE watching interviews from the Charm era because I feel like she was very real and very straightforward about everything. Especially the ones she did with Larry King and Oprah.
The best songs on the album are Lullaby, You Had Your Chance and Subtle Invitation. The latter is in my top 10 of Mariah songs ever tbh!
It's her worst album cover by far, but everything on it works in theory except her mouth area. It looks like they pasted her lips on, it's so airbrushed that she doesn't even have anything between her nose and lips
The single cover for Boy should've been the album cover imo
It's her worst album cover by far, but everything on it works in theory except her mouth area. It looks like they pasted her lips on, it's so airbrushed that she doesn't even have anything between her nose and lips
The single cover for Boy should've been the album cover imo
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Mariah?
Glamour UK - December 2002 Issue
Quote:
Mariah now realises the marriage was doomed from the start. "My thinking was, 'If this person really wants to do this and they're so super-paranoid that I wanna go out and be with a bunch of young guys (which was so not on my agenda) and if getting married will soothe him -- then fine.'" She spent most of the time in a $10 million mansion outside of New York City or in the recording studio, where she met other musicians who began to make her feel that her life was not her own. Despite couples counselling, the marriage foundered and the couple split in 1998, when Mariah began seeing baseball player Derek Jeter.
Still signed to Mottola's label, she shed the "turtlenecks and long leather jackets covering me up" for vests and cut-offs as a declaration of her independence. "I'm not Little Miss Priss," Mariah says. "Well, I am in my own way, like the fact I can count the number of men I've been with in my life on one hand. I was with Tommy, I was with Derek and I was with Luis. I didn't date anybody else."
Not even, as it has been reported, Eminem?
"No, I did not date him and I certainly did not have sexual relationship with him," Mariah replies. "Is that clear enough?"
So is that image of come-hither sexuality a front? Mariah says that yes, it is. "People can make up as many rumours as they want. I know the reality. There isn't a chance in hell that I'd go there -- even if I hung out with a person and slept in the same bed. I don't like the whole sex game thing where men think they've psychologically conquered you if you allow them to go there. I'm very guarded. I really will not let someone in my life that way unless they're willing to stick it out for a year or so to see if I'm ready to be with them. If they haven't been through a lot of stuff with me, if we haven't gone through the wringer, there's just too much at stake."
Though she has made a career singing about love, Mariah says her actual experience is rather limited. "I don't know that I've ever been in love," she reveals. " I think I've romanticised about certain people and certain relationships I let drag out even though I knew it wasn't the right thing, but because it was convenient."
She's already been a wife, but she's not at all ready to be a mother. "Maybe one day, but I would want to do it properly," she says. "Because I know that children always want what they don't have, no matter what." Indeed. And it is no small irony that Mariah's life has been a case study in deprivation and overcompensation. And, apparently, it will continue to be. "Now I need to be -- I don't want to use the word -- selfish, but if I'm gonna do The Career, I'm gonna do The Career."
