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Mariah Carey. Where did all go wrong
Robertfitz
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Its undebatable that Mariah's career has seen a steady decline in recent years and its a question worth raising. Will she ever see success again? Recent albums have showcased lack lustre songs, a rather under whelming vocal ability and a musical direction that's not pushed her to the top of charts. Is it further downhill from here?
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No, she will never be able to have the success that she had in the 90s or in 2005, even with American Idol. This is because she hasn't done anything 'new' with her music since 2005.
She hasn't reinvented her music since the Mimi album, which is a shame as parts of her voice are still there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=sbit9LDnQf4).
e=mc2 was exactly like The Emancipation of Mimi, and Memoirs was a very relaxed rnb album that had no stand out songs except Obsessed which stuck out for all the wrong reasons. Merry Christmas 2 U was a good album though, I like Oh Santa! and When Xmas comes.
IMO,her marriage to Nick Cannon has also affected her sales.
Talk about defensive? I merely suggested that she hasn't seen the success recently since the early days. Geeeeeeeez chill out pal
though god knows where shes going with this new era, the 'triumphant' dance remix is pretty good, but otherwise its got flop written all over it.
which is a shame...
Back in 2005 her Emancipation album was very cool, the R&B clubs were playing songs like Its Like That, while commercial radio was all over We Belong Together....since then her material has been weak, and Dance has come back in to fashion.
Her choices are to either go and do Dance/Pop songs, or (more likely) ride out this trend and wait for R&B to make a comeback.
The woman is one of the most successful female artists, she doesn't even have to continue making music.
Even if Mariah released the best R&B song of all time, she'd still flop. Quality of music isn't the problem, her personal life is not the problem. The problem is external, pop radio DJs not playing urban songs anymore. This is the same reason why rock songs are never hits, even if they're absolutely brilliant, because they never get played on the radio anymore.
Have to agree, Usher is only getting hits because he's turned to dance, and while Beyonce's last album kind of came and went without the impact of her previous albums.
It will change at some point though, but it is probably Rock's turn to be back in the spotlight next, we haven't had a Rock 'era' since the Indie days of the Libertines, Keane, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand etc of the early 00s.
I don't think rock will ever come back to mainstream success. Rock music can't really thrive in a music industry like today's imo. It's too modern and manufactured, which goes against the whole principles of the rock culture.
But it is looking like indie/guitar-pop and alternative is starting to dominate.
However, I am wondering at this point, if dance-pop fades away, and urban music remains practically dead as it is now, what on earth are artists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Usher, Chris Brown, Beyonce, etc. going to do?
It's going to be interesting for the next few years I think lol.
Well, we're talking about the US specifically. The UK (and the rest of Europe) will always have dance songs doing well in the charts. We even did back in 2004, when it had practically disappeared from the upper reaches of the US chart. And likewize, now R&B and hip hop are non-existant in the US charts, we've still got a fair few doing well in the UK charts.
In the US it really looks to be starting to disappear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxshE43LP7w
It was even worse than the Loverboy fiasco and this is where everything started to go wrong imho.
I think the power vocal divas have it harder than the rest because their voices decline. This is completely natural. Mariah seems to be in denial about how much her voice has changed. She isn't 21 anymore. She needs to stop trying to sound like she is. In some ways its very sad because its age what has caused her problems. Nothing else.
Plus she has her beautiful babies son Moroccan and daughter Monroe.:)
That's it. She and Whitney came at a time when their style was nonexistent. Now it's so hard to be a balladeer and get radio on side.
She has done it all, she's a worldwide superstar, she's never been a famous 'touring' artist, obviously though with the strain that her vocals have to go through in each performance it would be hard to maintain that night after night in cities all over the world for many months. Kudos to Celine who has managed 200 shows per year in Las Vegas for all these years.
This.
And this.
Music changed. She didn't.