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

[pointyelbow.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. That we didn't hear "Side Effects", "Migrate", and "Cruise Control" on the radio all summer is a huge shame. I get her wanting to release "Bye Bye", which I happen to like a whole lot, but then she needed to release the club tracks to make the charts.

[pointyelbow.livejournal.com]

We're also missing out on a bunch of potentially great remixes.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like 'Bye Bye' too, but have soured on it slightly as I blame it for the entire singles campaign debacle.