Let's be honest: the bright spot of that misbegotten mess called Rainbow. A standard summer single, but in retrospect, a bit more challenging lyrically and structurally than anything else she had released.
A good number of tens, but not that much passion for a song that Mariah and Jermaine Dupri started writing before The Emancipation of Mimi was due to the label, but finished in time for a re-release. It feels like a re-release track, doesn't it?
This is the first of Mariah's four R&B Female Vocal performance nominations to go. Will we see any of the other three - Always Be My Baby, Honey, and We Belong Together - tonight?
Speaking of the Grammys ...
... one of Mariah's most acclaimed live performances, even though I still maintain it was lipped.
A stirring combo of pop, dance, R&B and Gospel, Make It Happen hit the charts in the spring of 1992 as the third single from Emotions. With a vocal recalling Gospel greats like Shirley Caesar, Mariah shouted to the rafters and blended the secular and the spiritual with a slender groove. That groove called to mind another song that blended The Lord with the Earth, Alicia Myers' 1979 hit I Want to Thank You (Heavenly Father.) The writer of that track heard the similarities, and sued Mariah and her co-writers; they later settled out of court. Thinking about it now - I can hear it. Especially the beginning; the chords are eerily similar.
Get your pitchforks ready girls.
Strangergab's coming.
Highest: 10[Ace Reject, ECNEICSNOC, Mariah4life, EJQL8, Flashing Lights, Neptune, nicklada, waryofothers, tcweh, berberocka, Stateoftheworld, fortheloveofmusic, Great Username, Damien M, Luigi M, RockStarshit101, MiguelPortugal, Doc, Praise Mariallah, Taste of Honey, dreamloverfantasy]
Lowest: 1[Strangergab]
I wish the stan wars were as intense in the 90s as they are today; it would have been a hootenanny to see the Janet and Mariah stans go at it in the summer of 1993, as the two basically owned the entire summer with their multi-week number ones.
Both songs have similarities. Both represented concerted efforts to move into a more pop sound and broaden their base. Both are centered around samples; Dreamlover samples "Blind Alley" by the Emotions. (Not the first time Mariah sampled The Emotions, but the first time she credited the writers without being forced to by a court. But we'll get to that later!) It did the track, as it became one of her biggest global hits to date.
A stirring combo of pop, dance, R&B and Gospel, Make It Happen hit the charts in the spring of 1992 as the third single from Emotions. With a vocal recalling Gospel greats like Shirley Caesar, Mariah shouted to the rafters and blended the secular and the spiritual with a slender groove. That groove called to mind another song that blended The Lord with the Earth, Alicia Myers' 1979 hit I Want to Thank You (Heavenly Father.) The writer of that track heard the similarities, and sued Mariah and her co-writers; they later settled out of court. Thinking about it now - I can hear it. Especially the beginning; the chords are eerily similar.
Get your pitchforks ready girls.
Strangergab's coming.
Highest: 10[Ace Reject, ECNEICSNOC, Mariah4life, EJQL8, Flashing Lights, Neptune, nicklada, waryofothers, tcweh, berberocka, Stateoftheworld, fortheloveofmusic, Great Username, Damien M, Luigi M, RockStarshit101, MiguelPortugal, Doc, Praise Mariallah, Taste of Honey, dreamloverfantasy]
Lowest: 1[Strangergab]
I wish the stan wars were as intense in the 90s as they are today; it would have been a hootenanny to see the Janet and Mariah stans go at it in the summer of 1993, as the two basically owned the entire summer with their multi-week number ones.
Both songs have similarities. Both represented concerted efforts to move into a more pop sound and broaden their base. Both are centered around samples; Dreamlover samples "Blind Alley" by the Emotions. (Not the first time Mariah sampled The Emotions, but the first time she credited the writers without being forced to by a court. But we'll get to that later!) It did the track, as it became one of her biggest global hits to date.
DREAMLOVER. A 1. DISGUSTING. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.
And what happend to not letting in any scores under 6 for emotions
Don't Forget Asparagus 
