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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dude compare 'Heat' with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwUO_NHAjQA) - ok not quite an 'answer', more of a 'channelling'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh bloody hell of course - idiot me, it's cuz I haven't listened to 'Heat' much at all.

Though the Wikipedia trail seems to suggest that Mariah's just sampled the same track that NWA sampled - Brass Construction's 'The Message (Inspiration)' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_RN0acBet4) - as they're given co-writing credits on 'Heat'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yep, probably will.i.am's magpie in action again, but she DEFINITELY makes plenty of references to being 'the one' and getting her hair done etc.