MARIAH LAW: part showgirls

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Eh, she's somehow managed to totally eff up the singles from E=MC2 (it is really beyond me how you can even do that with an album which has a surfeit of precision-tooled singles but w/vs) but maybe the gayest video ever will help 'I Stay In Love', which is the most shameless ballad I've heard in an age. That piano line is ridiculous. I love the way that even in the middle of all this schmaltz Mimi still finds time to break it down with "what I wanna do / is ride shotgun next to you".

So, let's recap all the amazing tracks which were inexplicably never made singles off this album: 'Migrate', 'I'm That Chick', 'Side Effects', 'Cruise Control', 'OOC', 'For The Record'. Oh, Mimi. FAIL. Still my second favourite album of the year, mind.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I still haven't heard this album. :/ The only Mariah Carey song I like is 'We Belong Together;' should I bother?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Definitely! It's more of a summer album for me, haven't played it since the cold snap hit, but it sounds almost precision-engineered to be good.

Also I've just finished listening to the Gang Gang Dance album and it strikes me as very much your thing, tangled thickets of rhythm and riffs.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I shall get on the torrent-o-matic then!