Mariah Carey – The Emancipation of Mimi

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The Emancipation of Mimi doesn’t free the diva from what constricts her: There aren’t any great songs among Mimi‘s club tunes and pop-chart-conscious tracks, and Carey is still suffering from a serious crisis of confidence. The Neptunes tracks — “Say Somethin’,” with Snoop Dogg, and “To the Floor,” featuring Nelly — have beats that make you move, but the songs’ pop hooks don’t stick. Here and elsewhere, the thirty-five-year-old songbird employs the thin and airy warble she’s used since the turn of the millennium with breathy, anonymous results.

However, she wails notes on ballads like “Mine Again” that don’t need to be emphasised, then whispers what would normally be climactic phrases, and the result isn’t emotionally or musically coherent. Although Carey appears to have moved on from her worst moments in her career, Mimi’s A-list hitmakers don’t completely restore her

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