Mariah CANON

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You get ELEVEN ticks to denote your Mariah love!



[Poll #752838]

Comments

[koganbot]

Also, I recommend "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (not on the list). It's aching to be a country song.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Covering Def Leppard? I feel like I heard this, but strangely I can't hear what can only be a remarkable song in my head. (Although that may be because Pandora is playing me The Carpenters' "Hurting Each Other" right now.)

[koganbot]

Yes, 'twas the Leppard song. Mariah's version came and went without anybody who wasn't Swiss noticing (went Top 30 in Switzerland, bombed everywhere else; I think the assumption was that she was now terrible and could be ignored though I don't see where she was wasn't as good as when she romped back up the charts two years later). She's quiet for most of the song, but you feel the latent power in her quietness; as you'd expect, she eventually sets off skyrockets, but they're really quite gorgeous. I always heard a lot of feeling in her acrobatics (whereas I heard no feeling in Whitney's), don't think her singing is stupid at all. Wish she hadn't tended to subdue herself in service of r&b moods starting around 1993. So here's a later track that reminds me of what I loved about her in the first place.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I did notice when compiling the poll that Ms Carey hasn't bothered releasing half her US singles in the UK.