MARIAH CAREY
E=MC (Island): B+
Mimi is a long way from her “Vision of Love” roots. That’s non necessarily a badly thing. An artist moldiness evolve to stay electric current with the young and the fickle, and Carey successfully does it on her 11th studio album, a combination of club-ready tracks, breathy appeals, amusing Mariahisms and her signature song tumbling.
The phylogeny of Mariah (and The Emancipation of Mariah Carey to the Second Power) means that the 38-year-old champion is neither a one-dimensional pop famous person nor soulful confessionist. Mariah 2K8 creates a mood preferably than overwhelming with veer mightiness; she gets personal without disclosure besides often.
As on her previous “The Emancipation of Mimi,” Mariah relies on pop smell with an urban tilt. T-Pain, Young Jeezy and Damien Bob Marley are onboard, and beat generation come good manners of Jermaine Dupri, Danja, Tricky Jimmy Stewart, Bryan-Michael Cox, Scott Storch, DJ Toomp and Swizz Beatz. Though fans seem to feed up her midtempo ballads, to a fault many of them find like a variation on the saami strain. The hip-hop-inspired tracks prove the strongest, oblation more lip than pure psyche.
Download: “Side Effects.”
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
