Butterfly

I once told a good friend, when she gave me a Carey CD for Christmas, “I hate this bitch”. Enough said.

Offensively bland with no redeeming features. I did not need to hear this before I died.

Boring

I always looked forward to seeing the Honey video on TRL

Right out of the gate this is insipid pop industry garbage. Canned beats, fake instrumentation, and Mariah's signature melismatic singing style that she forces into every fucking song, just to hide the fact that she's actually NOT that talented. This is the epitome of everything I hate in music.

I tried to approach it objectively, fully knowing that this isn't the kind of music that I enjoy. But I just can't. Her vocal acrobatics got on my nerves after 1 minute, and it all sounds so samey. The ballads were especially excruciating. I don't want to hear another Mariah Carey album ever again.

She truly have a great voice, but the rest just falls flat. The album is also too long for what it has to offer.

Lame and superficial music made to hurt nobody that would dare to listen to a commercial radio station.

Look, I tried. I'm 3 songs in and I think that'll do. For someone with such an amazing voice, she somehow manages to convey no emotion. Weird.

I was expecting not to care for this - but I was expecting Mariah Carey to at least deliver some impressive vocal performances. I don’t even think she delivers on that. It’s a horrible addition to this list.

More proof hat technical skill is possibly the least important component of great music

Never has a great voice done so little

I truly, deeply, and intensely hate Mariah Carey. I know it's wrong to evaluate this record based on something that isn't on it, but "All I Want For Christmas Is You" can go to hell. And she can join it. There's also an overly cheesy sound to some 90s pop that I just can't stand.

Let's just get straight to the conclusion here. There's one great song off this album. It's not her song and she phugged it up pretty good. Not a fan of her voice and really, it was just one boring song after another. Beautiful Ones is a great song. It shouldn't be performed by her. She shouldn't do any Prince song.

Ei tämä hirveää ole, mutten myöskään jaksanut kuunnella yhtään levyn virtuoosimaisista (kai) suorituksista loppuun saakka. Erityismaininta mieleenpainuvasta kosketinfillistä ekassa biisissä. 1+

Run a bubble bath, grab a glass of wine, relax and stick this on for an hour and you'll probably give it five stars. The definition of easy listening. It's pleasant enough, but it's just too similar and honestly a bit dull. I really don't like the slow, breathy tunes of 90's R'n'B. The better tracks are the ones that are more pop, or where Mariah actually shows off her fantastic vocals and belts it out like on 'Whenever You Call'. 'Honey' has a funky beat and 'Breakdown' is somewhat catchy. You know at the end of 90's kids films when they have a slow R'n'B version of a song from the film playing through the credits and you think 'I just wish I was listening to the original'. Imagine that, but for twelve songs. Not for me, and I wouldn't actively pick anything out to listen to again.

This is going to be a tough listen. This was not for me at all. 90S pop and R&B at its worst, good voice though!! Favourite song: honey was an ok pop song. Least favourite: The rest of the album. Album artwork: Hot!!!

Insidiously insipid

When someone claiming to collect the greatest artwork of the 20th century throws in the equivalent of a digital print taken from the wall of a Courtyard by Marriott you know you're being trolled.

Not my kind of music

Awful, breathy boring singing

Definitely appreciate a number of MC tracks, I wouldn’t dare deny her vocal range and ability. I also love the whole glamorous, uncompromising, self aware, tongue-in-cheek-or-is-it diva persona she has cultivated. But this album I struggled to get thru and will likely not listen to again. The sound is dated, late 90s r’n’b that to me lacks some of the charm or listenability of contemporaries. I’m gonna go groove the morning away to The Velvet Rope now.

Adult contemporary and alikes make me so unhappy. This stuff was everywhere when I was growing up. It made me think I didn't like music. It seemed like you were supposed to relate your feelings to this stuff, and like there were hardly alternatives, and that was such a lonely feeling. I think this is covertly spirit-draining and not life-affirming to the people that find something in it too. It's bad enough to listen to people oversinging national anthems, you don't need that stuff on records. NO STARS. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

When I listen to guitar guy music around non guitar guys, is this what they hear? If so I have a lot of apologizing to do. An entire album of Mariah Carey songs is an insane experience. You hear her pack 12 notes into 1 note once and go “wow she has good vocal control” and then she does it for another 48:57.

Officer, arrest this artist. This is everything wrong with music - right here. If Hershey's made a Cadbury Creme Egg in musical form then this would be it. Sickly sweet, mass produced, and utterly without nutritional value. An insult to proper chocolate. Yes, she can sing, and has inspired a generation of similarly talented women to appear on tv talent shows around the world. None of them worth a second of my time.

This butterfly has no real effect. It was a hurricane when it came to sales. But it's an inconsequential draft when it comes to its actual importance within music history at large. Even worse than the hackneyed, cheesefest pop R&B performed on this record, you most especially have all those flat, "dear-diary-you're-my-only-friend" garbage lyrics. They're on the nose, and devoid of any interesting turn of phrase, image or metaphor. And the fact that Carey has written those lyrics herself is somehow even more embarrassing than if she hadn't. The problem here is not merely that Carey writes and performs commercial pop music. No, the real issue is that said pop music is *both* bland and grating somehow. Two wings of the same annoying, ugly-looking butterfly, which should have stayed a caterpillar. I recently gave a 1 to Britney Spears' debut LP. Wish this app could make us select *zero* stars to differentiate the two records. Hit single "Baby One More Time" is fun and memorable at least. Whereas it's just inconceivable for me to enjoy any song on *Butterfly*, even with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums. And 5/10 for more general purposes (5 for music competency + 0 for the artistry). Number of albums left to review: 86 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 392 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 229 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 294 (including this one)

1 star

I preferred Mariah the Belter. You can take away the butterfly.

Every track sounded the same (boring.)

One of my possibly most controversial opinions is that I’ve never been able to stand Mariah Carey’s vocals. Sure, it’s technically impressive that she’s got that range. My vocal range is dogshit. But I’ve never found her breathy, trying-to-be-sensual, glissando thing particularly pleasant to listen to. The best vocalists are the ones who are either the most straightforward interpreters of lyrics, or the best actors. I’m listening to Breakdown as I write this, and there’s a point where Carey ad-libs on the line ‘Am I losing my mind.’ It’s probably not a fair comparison, but I can’t help but be reminded about the song Losing My Mind from Sondheim’s Follies. I’m most familiar with the 2018 National Theatre production’s recording with Imelda Staunton. Mariah Carey is a better vocalist than Imelda Staunton, but Staunton sells the idea of ‘losing [one’s] mind’ through song much better by dint of acting it, rather than relying on sheer vocal ability. On then other hand, this is an R&B record and takes inspiration from such R&B legends as Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin, who they were masters at both straightforwardly interpreting songs and acting their material. And they’re both equally good singers as Carey is. What I think works in Aretha and Stevie’s favour is that they have much better material to work with. There are two things wrong with the production on Butterfly, one of which was unavoidable, one of which could have been improved. The latter is that the songwriting is just bad. Outside of the opening track it’s all slow, heavily orchestrated ballads with an almost obsessive focus on love and sex for it’s lyrical topics. It’s a proven concept, of course. The love song in Pop ain’t going away anytime soon folks, but the lack of diversity even within the limited scope Butterfly sets for itself is almost kind of impressive. It’s all about longing for them, and that’s basically it. There’s nothing much more to expand on. It plays pretty heavily into the idea that women are just sex objects, waiting for their man to come and ravage them before he goes off to do his manly things, while she’s just left to wait for him to come back and ravage her again. It’s not a great look. I know that women have lives outside of sex, I’ve listened to Joni Mitchell. It all seems specifically designed for the male gaze, a beautiful woman singing pretty, uncomplicated songs specifically about about how much she wants you, and only you. Look, I am a man, and I’m as prone to falling in love with famous women as anyone. I don’t find any of this particularly erotic. It all hinges on the idea that Mariah Carey is just laying about in bed, waiting for you, yes you, the gorgeous listener, who hasn’t realised how genuinely attractive to women he is, to come and rock her world. I try not to come across as the sort of person who specifically looks for plot inconsistencies in porn (That’s not a joke, that is the vibe I try and cultivate in real life. If you saw me you’d think, ‘that’s a guy who doesn’t care about logical inconsistencies in his pornography’) but I genuinely don’t get why this is the vibe or the subject that Carey wanted to go for with Butterfly. Surely there must be other things she wants to write about than just Sex, and how much she wants to have it with you, the completely striking but until now unnoticed by women, listener? I’m a writer (shock of shocks) and I know that I have a few general topics that I focus on specifically, but I still try and vary the things I write about just as a general attempt at keeping myself sane. There’s no way to continually write about the ways that Capitalism has affected the proletariat in their everyday life without going mad. Write a fucking poem about sunsets or some shit, a landscape, whatever. It’ll do you the world of good. Mariah Carey obviously didn’t get the memo. The former problem with Butterfly’s production, the unavoidable one, is that we’re having to deal with Mariah Carey’s voice. As I said at the head of the review, I don’t find her voice all that pleasant to listen to, which is it’s own problem, but the producers seem to think that we need to be reminded every few seconds that we are listening to a Mariah Carey album and as such they shove as many harmony vocals and different vocal lines into the mix as is humanly possible. I find the songs on this album particularly unmemorable because I have genuine trouble trying to focus on what the melody or the chorus is supposed to be, with the literal chorus (ha-ha) of Mariah Carey’s all vying for my attention. I do not understand the appeal of this music. Outside of the vocals, which I can appreciate from a technical standpoint, even if I don’t enjoy them, this is a badly written, badly produced, collection of what is essentially anti-feminist slop. It’s not a good Pop album, because I couldn’t identify the intended singles if you put a gun to my head, it isn’t a good Hip-Hop album, because I couldn’t identify any of the non-Mariah artists if you paid me, and it ain’t good R&B, mostly because it doesn’t have any rhythm but also because it doesn’t have any soul. Possibly not the epitome of soulless commercial music overtaking anything with any actual ideas, and I’ve certainly come across music I hated more for political or even aesthetic reasons. But I’ve rarely come across music that bored me to this extent. And that is, I think, the ultimate sin

In the brightly colored pop world, you can't escape Mariah Carey. She may have an incredibly good singing voice. But her music gets on my nerves so much that I only played 2 tracks on the album and it's a shame to waste my time listening to more of it. Similar to Beyoncé, I would have to give the album an extra point for Mariah's good voice. However, similar to Taylor Swift - whose voice is not as remarkable - I don't feel like doing that. 1/5

Kai tämän arviointiin voisi käyttää jotain teoreettista tulokulmaa joka korostaisi laulun teknisyyttä tms mutta siis onhan tää ihan hirveetä. 1/5

NOOOOOOPE For albums this bad, youtube in an icognito browser is the way. Like hell i'm gonna let this mess up my YT or Spotify algorithms. Get ready skip button, you're getting a workout today my boy. Great singer. Awful, awful songs.

Gargh. Dramatisch - süß?

Fiquei com impressão que ia aparecer alguma da época da mtv, mas não reconheci nada.

Slow R&B/pop. Felt like I was listening to the same song 12 times. She had a nice voice, but didn’t really get the chance to show it off until maybe the last song. Definitely not my thing.

Man I have always despised this type of singing. This album did not change that. 2/10

Awful

5/29/24. I typically like Mariah, but this one just felt flat to me. Predictable songs, although I can't deny the vocals.

Fuck Mariah Carey

Paska, kuuntelin joskus samaa biisiä..

Hate it

Ooooohhhh

So over done

Boooooring!

Struggled to finish. Nothing against Mariah Carey's singing ability. It just doesn't work for me.

Pish. Just pish. Almost every song is over-sung and under-written, sounding like a half finished effort with phoned-in guest rappers. Production is all over the shop, lyrics are odd and rubbish and very very bad. There are a couple of ballads which stand out like corn in crap, but this record is one of the least deserving of its place on this list. Still better than Nico though!

No a fan.

Definitely not my cup of tea, and I don't get the appeal tbh

Meh.

I just can’t listen to

At one time, yodelling was very popular for some reason. Ditto with dramatical Divas singing musical scales in a high pitched voice. It might be impressive to certain people, it might take a lot of practice, but that doesn't necessarily translate into listenable. Nice sexy cover art though.

This caused me pain in the lower abdomen.

Are you taking the piss?

Just terrible.

Awful album, I had to keep skipping tracks, far too much vocal warbling, made me feel queasy. I feel slightly mean giving this a 1, probably coz I fancied the pants off Mariah Carey when I was 14.

Not for me - good production

I think I can make it through life without ever listening to this record. I have no desire to play this and can spend my time actually listening to music I enjoy. I have yet to discover many good records on this list that either I have never heard of heard of but never listened. Another terrible pick! Eleven Stars!

Ich kannte MC nur von so einem unsäglichen Weihnachtslied. Und ich wusste, dass sie sich vor Interviews die Titten von einer Assistentin zurechtrücken lässt. Ok, es gibt also ganze Alben, die sie besungen hat. Ich frage mich, wer - außer Mädchen, die von einer Karriere in einer Casting Show träumen - hört sich sowas an? Für mich bis jetzt der Tiefpunkt von ca. 30 gehörten Alben.

Pop, da wird es immer etwas schwierig für mich. Balladen sind ok aber definitiv zu sulzig.

*Mariah*: This SUUUHUHUHACKKSS UHUHUAAHHHSSSHooooAAHHSS” *Puff Daddy “rap” break*: “This sucks. She is saying “this sucks” but stretching the words out way longer than is necessary because that’s what good singing is? Also I’m a rapist.” *”Rap” break over, back to Mariah*: “This really SUUHAACCCKS ooooo UHUHUAHHSSSSAHHooooAAHHSS!” This “album” is just that for almost an hour. No amount of yass-slaying this queen is going to make this anything other than disposable 90’s pop garbage. No one should ever listen to this, much less have to listen to it before they die. 60% of the “lyrics” are “AAAAAAHHHHHH” Ooooooo” “EEEEEEE” and a high-pitched squeaking sound. This is a paper plate of an album. Meant to appeal to what was popular at that exact moment, sell a bunch of copies and then be discarded and forgotten. Its existence is a net negative for humanity. My day, and my very life, are worse for having had to endure this “music.”

Shit floating. Still better than Whitney. 0-1-0

Würg.

A lot of this I’ve heard before, my sister used to love this stuff and played it in her room next to mine. Wondering if Babyface produced this, might be him doing harmonies. Obviously a great singer but not for me, the album I mean.

Kann die Stimme und den Gesangsstil nicht ab

Not my genre

I am not a fan of Mariah Carey and never have been so did not listen to this album. Not sure why it was included in my list.

Nothing I find very interesting. It is well produced and has all the slickness one expects from dance oriented pop (now with hip-hop styling added in). And it has the never ending message via innuendo that sex is a golden thing and perhaps even includes love and transformation. (Go away caterpillar. Come back when you are a butterfly. No--not a beetle!) The vaporousness of the lyrics really highlight how much the formulaic music methods try to make you feel something important is happening. Which is not to say that the music itself is entirely throw-away. It is heavily produced but has some phrases, beats, and moments that something more interesting could have been done with. The underlying theme that a woman is an object that needs someone else to validate her is both sad and terrifying. Could this music become the soundtrack to a a first person game of some sort that is not porn? I do not know. This sits squarely in a space where mass marketing grinds talent into granulated sugar, bags it, and sends it out to rot your teeth. Everything is behind a mask of sameness, nothing daring, nothing personal. God forbid one develop a pimple while listening.

Shir

Thanks I hate it

This is an infuriating and unsatisfying listen. I stopped this down halfway through to do something else and I don't see any reason to continue to the end.

Ah bordel. Je pensais bien que ce ne serait pas forcément ma came mais j'y allais l'esprit léger et prêt à être surpris. Mais c'est insupportable. Je souffrais physiquement à beaucoup de moment. Ses minauderies, la musique, les choeurs, tout est insupportable de kitsch, ça en fait des caisses sans déclencher aucune émotion. J'en soufflais et frissonnais par moment. Horrible. Plus jamais. Même "My all" ne rattrape rien, mais sa relative simplicité fait un peu de bien.

Not a fave of mine way to smoochy

Don't get it. Der var et enkelt nummer som havde lidt en house vibe og et fedt nummer som samplede Shook Ones, men ellers synes jeg fandme det var noget ligegyldigt bralderværk. Skip.

Meget meget langt album, fyldt med bralderværk!

Did not enjoy.

Deep breath. I can do this. Be objective. Take it for what it is. Let's not be judgmental. Who am I kidding. I can't. Sorry. I can't devote 57 minutes of my life to the melodious human dolphin. Not going to lie. I've skipped through. The production is tight. Mid 90s Bump and Grind in full effect ... but meeeeeeh. It's not for me. It's fine for other people to like it. I get it. Well, no, I don't get it it. But I respect it. A bit.

If this album can show up here, then clearly us humans are capable of the most horrendous acts

Not a Mariah Carey fan, her style of singing is really off-putting for me, I had a hard time to sit through a whole song from this album. She is talented, that's for sure, as is the recording studio, but I'm not the target audience for this album.

not my thing.

Boring

People listen to this kind of bland music?

🤷‍♂️

There are albums in this book that make you appreciate other albums.

This style of music is aggressively boring.

1/5 Best: Breakdown (feat. Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone) Worst: Butterfly

She annoys the hell outta me and can't stand to listen more than one song. No thanks.

Favourites: • The Roof

I know Mariah has had dozens of hits and I was hoping there was something along the lines of Britney’s “One More time” in this collection. The first song was promising, with its funky synths, but the rest was unbearable.

Oh Lord I really did try to listen to this but I couldn't finish it. As most of the reviewers here have mentioned she does have a good voice but she just moans scales in order to show off her vocal range. Not much substance here as all the songs sound the same. It's a sad commentary on our society that such mediocrity and lack of imagination is so popular.

I’m trying, but I dislike this as much now as I did in the 90s.

Oh my. There are a couple of songs here that sound different - the first one for example - but otherwise there's nothing at all to redeem this. I was tempted by 2 stars just for the odd note that was in any way interesting, but fuck it, this is a nailed on 1 star disaster zone for me.

Honey and My All low key bangers. The Roof (Back In Time) - samples the Shook Ones Pt. 2. Didn't finish

Clearly, this album was written for someone, but unfinished emotion and the technical ability to hit a wide vocal range of notes does nothing for me. I am firmly in the camp that feels that Mariah has some, but not enough ability to create music that is intellectually and creatively important.

Oof not a fan. Airy, breathy voice over boring R&B/pop beats really made this an annoying listen.

would rather 2023 jodie marsh.

Human Caviar

It‘s just not mine - like guitarists who like their solos extended beyond the Van Allen Belt it‘s these soul divas I cannot digest without making a hard workout face.

Trash. Mariah is obviously a talented vocalist, so it's not WHOLLY without redeeming qualities, but I'd still have preferred listening to construction noises for the duration. Pretty much all of the songs sound alike (and that sound is late 90s high school slow dance). No fuckin' thanks. 1.5 rounded down.

Bland, R&B/pop. We all know that she can sing, it's just... well, do we really need to hear this before we die? I'm going to say NO. Best Tracks: Honey; My All; Breakdown (feat. Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone)

Hard to even consider this an album. It's just an exhibition of her vocal range, which gets old after about 10 seconds

Always wanted to give one to Mariah Carey, and here it is 🌟 👍🏾

There is absolutely nothing less interesting than a pop album whose only focus is the artist's voice. Actually, there is: a pop album whose only focus is the artist's voice, and the artist proceeding to hardly even sing lyrics. It's literally just her voice over generic beats. What am I missing here. At least Breakdown has Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on it

Yeah this wasn't too good at all. Honestly kind of disappointed with her voice too considering I thought she was help in high regard vocally

I went into this thinking it would be bad, but decided to approach it with an open mind, and… it’s terrible. At its best it’s boring, but more often the vocals are either mumbled or shrieked and the lyrics are riddled with cliches. The music itself is generic enough to be in the background of a YouTube commercial. Nope.

Fucking horrible

Nope

Hmm nope

Truly this is one of the worst things I've ever listened to. She may have a good voice but why does she have to warble away like that? Truly terrible.

All the soft loud, trilling, whispering and cheesiness I’ve always disliked about Mariah for a whole album

😥

Deserves a 0. every song sounds the same. and that sound is just a woman moaning in a microphone. 0/5 album. trash. trash. i hate it. trash

Didn't strike my fancy

Over produced, overly-selfindulgent shit

so painful i feel trolled

Nah not for me.

Late 90s pop RNB diva sound. One of the worst musics ever to have gained popularity. All I want for Christmas is this godawful warbling to stop. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Honey Date listened: 30/11/22

I just can't do it. I really tried to find the positives, but after 4 songs I just had to turn it off. Started it up again the next day at song 5 and it was another half-hearted R&B light with more vocal acrobatics than actual lyrics. I tried, but I just really dislike this.

Ooooooohhooohhh it is a bad album. This is unfortunately my second listen of this album. My sister had this CD and I chose to listen to it in the car. I skipped a lot of songs then and I should have skipped songs this time too. Two notes: the Bone Thugs beats were interesting. I realize there is a Prince cover, but it does not save the album and not a good cover.

I really dislike this. I dislike all the ad libs, I dislike how nasal/breathy she sounds, I dislike the length of this album. Nope.

Though the vocal circus is proficient, it is still somewhat void of true meaning and the music is so predictable is boring

It's fine, I guess. I'm just not really into it. 1/5

This bunch of very long overproduced vocal stretches without any melodic or lyrical content was a real waste of my time.

No

Vem fan tycker att denna platta tillhör denna lista. 57 minuter jag aldrig kommer få igen. Hon kanske kan sjunga men förstör varenda låt med att waila. Det är så jävla dåligt.

Come on man. This album blows. I had this whole thing typed out and thought I'd soften up a bit but no. I don't like the vocal runs that litter every inch of the track list. She just cant stop with these God damn scales. And her voice sometimes has this little boy quality that I loathe. I will never come back to this. I do have a never ending hatred for her Christmas bullshit but maybe that was just cause that holiday sucks. No it's her 100%. Hate it. Congrats Mariah you get to be my 1st one star.

Ненавижу.

Things I would rather do than listen to this album again: 1. Stick my hand into a nest of murder hornets 2. Eat Taco Bell for 24 meals in a row 3. Binge-watch Joanie Loves Chachi Yes, it was that bad to me. The only positive thing I'll say is that, while I've never found Mariah Carey to be at all attractive, she does look sort of hot on the album cover. 1 star.

Awful. Okay if yo like this sort of thing I suppose, but I cannot stand her voice.

My wife knew every word

Waarom deze zoetsappigheid van die zangvibrator nu tot beste albums ooit moet horen, is mij een raadsel

Really really hated it. And I like everything.

Reading the Wikipedia page for this I was hoping for at least some Missy Elliot, but that track is not even on the album. Skipped through this. Mariah couldn’t Carey less, for me.

Refused to listen. Played some Crass instead.

Voy a escucharlo, pero es lo más alejado a mi interés solo un poco por detrás de mi odio/miedo a Michael Jackson & family. ¡Qué pérdida de tiempo escucharlo! ¡qué de gorgoritos y rollo aburrido de diva de la canción! Entiendo que haya quien le guste, pero está muy lejos de mí.

I was never really a fan of 90’s R&B, and this album does not change that fact. It’s probably a quintessential album for the genre (at least I can only assume so - why else would it be on this list?). The melodies and harmonies never really interested me as they seemed too breathy and slow. To add onto that, there wasn’t any part of this album (or songs) that made me want to listen to more as it’s mostly just more 90’s R&B sounds. If you like that sound, more power to you, though.

Ouf, ça dégouline la pop ça! Après une première pièce qui a attiré ma curiosité, l’album s’enfonce dans une ballade r&b sans, malheureusement, le génie d’un Stevie Wonder. Nous serons captifs de ce sirop qui ne prend pas aux tripes mais finit par tomber sur le cœur. Très léger, très superficiel, racoleur à fond. Les rythmes hip hop qui parsèment l’album sont une appropriation honteuse pour vendre de la copie. Ce n’est pas de la musique facile pour autant, mais les vocalises de la diva, toutes virtuoses soient-elles, me tapent sur les nerfs. Je les accuse aussi, ces vocalises, d’avoir pavé la voie à une tradition de chanteuses s’égosillant à tout crin. Serais-je victime de mes préjugés à l’encontre de la musique commerciale? Sans doute. J’accorderai une étoile pour le bénéfice du doute.

Sorry Puff but you're wrong. This is one personality void that can't be filled by any amount of moneyed production. Such a stupid inclusion that I kind of feel sorry for Mariah.

Mariah Carey's voice is an amazing instrument. But this album sucks hard. It's boring and lazy on just about every front. Krazie Bone is cool though.

I wanted to do this properly - give the album a good listen, dissect the good and bad, try to dig out why this merits being on this app. However, and with all due respect, this is absolute dog. The one thing I will say is that I can hear echoes of Carey in a slew of artists who trailed in her wake, so its influence is not to be doubted. The music itself is crap - without the vocals, it's what you get when on hold to your car insurer. Surprisingly, the vocals are rank, too. Carey is no doubt a supreme technical singer, but her primacy of technique over feeling leaves this a real mess of melisma. With some more judicious choices the ballad 'Butterfly' could be a lovely song. And by 'judicious', I mean 'restrained'. Even that husky, breathy ersatz sotto voce (her greatest legacy) fails to sound sexy when it's pumping and heaving against a wall of similar vocals, trilling and gushing to fill every last corner of the soundscape. It has the potential to harrow. Hell, there's even a bit in my favourite track where Carey sounds like she's struggling to breathe properly. I'm sure someone can correct me on her breath control, but much of the time it's as if she's about to sneeze.

90s pop r&b just really isn’t good

No. Too many notes.

Butter-shit.

I wanna stan but no way I can

Oh dear

'Honey' is decent off-kilter pop, but after that it was as I feared - schmaltzy ballads and aimless R&B. Good voice but boring music that drags on too long. Not irredeemably bad, but In the context of the 1001 most essential albums, for my particular tastes, this is near the bottom. 1.5

Boring

Nah, you're alright thanks.

Nah

Nope

Into the second song I wasn't sure I'd get through it. Not my bag at all really. I can't do all the vocal gymnastics. Yes I listened to it all. Don't imagine for one minute I'll listen to it again. God knows what it's done to my spotify algorithm.

A lot of whining and moaning not much else

J'ai écouté deux chansons et j'ai craqué. ça me fait relativiser d'avoir mis 1 à Metallica

Not my thing at all. Death by melisma.

Just can’t ….

Reaaally boring

Jesus Christ - this is dreadful. I thought there might be some hidden gems on here, but it's dreadful from start to finish.

Ei iske tää R&B sitten yhtään. Nuori Mariah levyn kannessa oli se levyn paras osa, mutta ei pysty pelkästään sillä meriitillä nostamaan arvosanaa ykkösestä ylöspäin. Kaksi kertaa tuli levy kuunneltua läpi ja pitkältä tuntui, enkä muista diggailleeni erityisesti missään kohdassa.

Not my style

No never, straight up no

Not possible - I hate her

Terrible

Blah.

Definetly not my jam.

I knew this day would come. Shame there’s decent pop songs under her insufferable voice.