Disco de Mariah Carey: “Butterfly (Explicit)”

This is by far Mariah's best album and the album that made me a fan! it's so beautiful and heartfelt.

1. Honey - Great up-tempo song ya all know it, It became her 12th #1 song.

2. Butterfly - A beautiful ballad...I really can't descibe in words how wonderful it is.

3. My All - This is my favorite song on the album, it's classic Mariah.

4. The Roof - Another great song, It has greatl lyrics, soem of the best Mariah has ever written.

5. Fourth of July - This is the only song that I'm not that into, it's kinda like "Underneathe the Stars".

6. Breakdown - Mariah's best song after "Vision Of Love" Mariah and Bone Thugs = The best stuff you ever heard.

7. Babydoll - This song is a really great R&B song.

8. Close My Eyes - A very personal ballad, beautiful melody and great lyrics. This song sometimes brings a tear to my eye.

9. Whenever You Call - Old School Mariah type ballad.

10. Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise) - Nice dance mix

11. The Beautiful Ones - One of Mariah's best remakes...and Dru Hill sounds great on it!

12. Outside - Great ballad for anyone who feels..."On the outside".

Attention: Mariah Carey has changed. No more parent-accepted humble clothing; no more sweet-natured adult-contemporary sound. Instead, she starts to put on sexier outfits (or in other words, she wears considerably less clothes than usual), and she steers her music into hip-hop influenced sound. The result: SURPRISINGLY AWESOME!

After listening to Mariah singing one ballad after another for more than half a decade, you'd think she would remain such a sweet girl forever and ever. Yet on this album, she shows the naughty and seductive side of herself. And it works out really well; you'd wish she has done this earlier. The songs are arguably among her best works. "Honey" is simply outstanding, possibly one of her best up-tempos. The music is hip and sensual, the lyrics seductive, and Mariah sounds sexier than ever. "When you love someone so deeply/ They become your life/ Its easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside/ Blindly I imagined I could/ Keep you under glass..." are the first verses of the beautifully written title track, which she sings so flawlessly, holding back her voice until it explodes into climax on the bridge. "The Roof" also stands out with its sexy lyrics and Mariah's breathy-yet-soulful delivery, while "Fourth Of July" offers one of Mariah most romantic lyrics yet: "...Then you put your hand in mine/ And we floated away/ Delicately lay entwined/ In an intimate daze/ A crescent moon began to shine/ And I wanted to stay/ Tangled up with you among the fireflies/ On that Fourth of July...". On another track, "Breakdown", she offers perhaps the funkiest break-up songs ever; it is actually one of my favorite tracks. Her voice really shines on this yet another really well written track.

Beside the already-famous ballads "Butterfly" and "My All", there are other hidden treasures on this album: "Close My Eyes" and "Otherside". Both tracks are also ballads, but with a different style from her usual ones; they are more mature and simply more soulful (the lyrics of "Close My Eyes" really touch my heart). But the best track on this endless list of classy tracks is definitely "The Beautiful Ones". Perhaps you would feel that this track is slightly too long (like what I felt at the first few listens), but once you get used to the length, you will realize how fabulous this track is. It is arguably her best duet to date. Both Mariah and Dru Hill give us all what they've got to offer. Simply outstanding! But then, this album is so outstanding itself, it is almost difficult to pick a favorite. Regardless of whether you like Mariah Carey or not, you will embrace this album. It IS that good.

While "Butterfly" certainly didn't top the sales of her previous albums in the 90's ("Mariah Carey", "Emotions", "Daydream" to name a few), it still managed to bring her #1 hits and continues to be the best in quality out of all of her albums. She finally got more critics' attention (in a good way) with the amount of experimentation on "Butterfly." Being centred around her (at the time) post-divorce period from Sony CEO Tommy Matolla, "Butterfly" deals with loss and sorrow and contains a multitude of slow tracks. Highlights of those songs include the album's title track, where it is hard not to notice the level of emotion in her singing. The concluding "Outside" shows even more pain and sorrow, as well as a flawless remake of Prince's "The Beautiful Ones" featuring Sisqo of Dru Hill. Fans of upbeat music will enjoy the opening track which gained her yet another number one single. Trackmasters accompanys her on the haunting "The Roof", a failed single. Missy "Misdamenor" Elliot also gives a cameo, co-writing the soul-laced "Babydoll." Techno enthusiests will enjoy the interlude (part of the "Butterfly" remix) of "Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)" which is basically the title track, remixed sampling Elton John's "Skyline Pigeon." As a whole, "Butterfly" tops it off as Mariah's best and most critically aclaimed album. It brought in 2 number one hits and showed sides of her no one else has yet seen. The sad part is doubters think she'll never top it. "Glitter" came close, but with her highly publicized physical and emotional traumas it failed to spend nearly a week at the charts. Overall grade for "Butterfly": A+

I haven't really listened to any of Mariah's older albums, but I know all the singles.From looking at what those albums comprised of you can, you can tell all her sales were based on these massive singles. By no way am i degrading Mariah cause i love her and her voice but she was essentially making the same album over and over again. Butterfly was suppose to symbolize her freedom and emancipation from tommy and it did. You can tell from listening to the older albums how bad she wanted to do R&B. You could almost see tommy standing right behind her in "sing-sing" telling her that she needs to make it more pop. I think this album was beautifully ballanced between pop and r&b and it was great

I loved "the beautifull ones" i know prince fans are gonna hate me for saying this but i like it much better that the oringinal. This was essentially the "the prequel to the emmancipation of mimi" the diffrence is that in butterfly she is being emancipated from controlling figures, but in "emancipation" she is being emancipated from her self

"Butterfly" is Mariah Carey's first album not influenced in any way by Tommy Mattola, except for her songs ABOUT him. On this, her sixth album, she started experimenting with rap, hip hop, and R&B music. Because of this, you expect more uptempo tunes, right? Wrong. Surpisingly, the only fast dance tune on this album is 'Honey', which hit #1 in the U.S. When listening to this CD, I expected a lot more street influenced sounds (ie record scratching, loud obsessive drums etc.) but that's not what dominates this CD. Piano influenced ballads such as the title track, 'Butterfly', 'Whenever You Call', and 'The Roof', which is a mix between up and down beat music, are what stand out. Bottom line: Love the music, but not a good one for a dance party.