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█ ARTIST: Mariah Carey █
█ TITLE: E=MC▓ █
█ LABEL: Island/Def Jam/UMG Japan █
█ GENRE: R&B █
█ GRABBER: EAC (Secure Mode) █
█ ENCODER: LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new █
█ QUALITY: 197 Kbps Avg / 44.1 KHz / Joint Stereo █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 07min 49sec total █
█ SIZE: 11.10MB █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2008-04-16 ▐▌
█ RIP DATE: 2008-04-16 █
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█ 01. Heat (JP Bonus Track) (Produced By Will.i.am) 3:36
█ 02. 4Real4Real (Feat. Da Brat) (JP Bonus Track) (Produced By 4:13
█ Bryan-Michael Cox)
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█ Props to the other group for getting the EU/US retail out, now have the
█ Japanese bonus tracks. <3 MC!
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█ Two weeks prior to the April 2008 release of E=MC2 -- Mariah Carey's tenth
█ album and the sequel to her big 2005 comeback, The Emancipation of Mimi --
█ the diva broke Elvis Presley's record of being the solo artist with the most
█ number one singles on the Billboard charts. Lots of publicity surrounded
█ "Touch My Body" reaching number one, as well it should: busting an Elvis
█ record is always news, but this particular record served team Mariah well, as
█ it paints Carey as being a diva who's bigger and better than the rest. An
█ unintentional side effect of this very record is that it also tacitly pointed
█ out that Mariah has been around a long, long time: 18 years, to be exact,
█ roughly two years shy of the two decades that it took Elvis to establish his
█ record. Unlike Elvis -- or any other major artist who's been around for two
█ decades, for that matter -- Carey seems determined not to look back, to exist
█ in some kind of eternal now, never acknowledging that she has a past, unless
█ she's wielding her divorce from her ex-husband/ex-record label chief Tommy
█ Mottola for some kind of sympathy, something she does once again here via
█ vague allusions to na∩vetΘ and "violent times" on "Side Effects." Mariah
█ refers to that separation so often that it's hard not to think of it as
█ something recent but it happened a long, long time ago -- well over a decade
█ prior to the release of E=MC2, to be precise -- but as the separation was the
█ pivot point for Carey's career, it's easy to see why she keeps returning to
█ it, even if the emotional heft of her singing about the pain has long since
█ diminished.
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█ After that separation, Carey restyled herself as a relentlessly modern R&B
█ diva, chasing every passing trend in a given year, a move that often kept her
█ on the top of the charts -- apart from the post-millennial stumble of
█ Glitter, of course -- but had the side effect of making Mariah a musician who
█ became progressively less mature with each passing year, culminating in the
█ hazy soft-porn fantasies of "Touch My Body," the single that broke Elvis'
█ longstanding record and will likely only be remembered for that achievement.
█ Like so much of Emancipation and E=MC2, which is a virtual replica of its
█ predecessor in almost every way, "Touch My Body" is all about sound, rhythm,
█ and texture and not so much about song, something that helps sustain Mariah
█ Carey's run at the top the charts, but something that also pushes melodic
█ hooks, and in the process singing, into the background. As Carey's
█ multi-octave voice has always been her calling card, the one thing that even
█ her biggest critics have grudgingly acknowledged as her unassailable
█ strength, this is a little odd -- especially on the T-Pain duet "Mirage,"
█ where she succumbs to auto-tune -- but it not only makes Mariah modern, it
█ also camouflages her slightly diminishing range, so it does have a dual
█ purpose. Sometimes all this production is good and occasionally it's married
█ to a full-fledged, hooky song, as on the excellent "I'm That Chick," a sleek
█ slice of Off the Wall disco that's nearly giddy in its energy and melody, and
█ perhaps on "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time," which also has a lightness that so
█ much of E=MC2 lacks. Everything else pushes the rhythm and bass to the
█ forefront and mixes Mariah into the middle, so it becomes a wash of sound --
█ sound that is designed to be fashionable, but like so much fashion, it's tied
█ to the time and dates quickly. Which is why it's misleading to judge Mariah
█ based on her new record of possessing the most number one singles, as she's
█ not about longevity, she's about being permanently transient, a
█ characteristic E=MC2 captures all too well.
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█ Don't forget to support the artists! We did.
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