Mariah Carey - Carey, Mariah (CD 1990)

Mariah Carey is often regarded as one of the foremost R

Let s start from the beginning shall we? The year was 1990, we were coming out of big hair bands and ugly clothes and we needed some change. Then comes along Mariah Carey with a five-octave voice capable of making you sit up and listen when she sang. Then there was that song - Vision Of Love . Carey wrapped her voice around that song and sang it like no one will ever be able to replicate. She did things with her voice that no one was doing at the time or had ever really heard and people adored her. Her debut album simply entitled Mariah Carey was equally impressive as her first single. A...

When Mariah Carey stepped onto the scene in the summer of 1990, a lot of people saw her as the second coming of Whitney Houston. On the surface, the two had a lot in common. They were both fresh-scrubbed (at the time) young ladies, they both had a thing for big, melodramatic ballads, they both had voices overflowing with melismatic showiness. But while Whitney's debut album was stiff, overprocessed and WAY OVERSUNG, Mariah's first record has a more charming, "real" flavor. While Whitney sounded like a robot pounding you over the head with power-singing, Mariah sounded like a human being...

(Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Album Overview" section. The section titled "Detailed Track Discussion" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of the songs, and they do not constitute the essence of this review. Lastly and most importantly, this review is not necessarily written by the point of view of a Mariah Carey fan.) Introduction If you ve been following what reviews I ve been submitting to this site so far, it might surprise you when I say that this Mariah Carey gal isn t too bad. She s...