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Disco de Mariah Carey: “Emancipation of Mimi [Bonus Tracks/DVD]”
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Emancipation of Mimi [Bonus Tracks/DVD] |
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Fecha de Publicación:2005-11-14
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Tipo:Desconocido
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Género:Pop, R&B, Soft Pop
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Sello Discográfico:Mercury
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Letras Explícitas:Si
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UPC:0602498880586
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The titular "{%Mimi}" of {^The Emancipation of Mimi} is, by all accounts, an alter ego of {$Mariah}, a persona that captures {$Carey}'s true feelings and emotions. In case you didn't know what "emancipation" means, {$Mariah} helpfully provides a dictionary definition of the word in the opening pages of the liner notes for her eighth proper album: it means "to free from restraint, control, oppression, or the power of another" or "to free from any controlling influence" or "to free somebody from restrictions or conventions." So, on {^The Emancipation of Mimi}, {$Mariah} frees herself from the constraints of being herself, revealing herself to be -- well, somebody that looks startlingly like {$Beyoncé}, if the cover art is any indication. {%Mimi}, or at least the sound of her emancipation, sounds remarkably like {$Beyoncé}, too, working a similarly sultry, low-key, polished club groove. And that's the main story of {^The Emancipation of Mimi}: since the reserved, tasteful {\adult contemporary} {\pop} of 2002's {^Charmbracelet} failed to revive her career, she's done a 180 and returned to {\R&B}, in hopes that maybe this will create some excitement. It's not a bad idea, particularly because {$Mariah} could use any change at this point, and it's not executed all that badly either, as all 14 tracks -- heavy on mid-tempo cuts and big {\ballads}, with a few harder {\dance} tunes featuring big-name guest rappers scattered along the way -- all follow the same deliberately smoky, late-night template. While {$the Neptunes} provide the best {\dance} cut here with {&"Say Somethin'"} (featuring a cameo by {$Snoop Dogg}), especially welcome are some nice old-school '70s {\smooth soul} flourishes, best heard on {$James Poyser}'s deliciously sleek {&"Mine Again"} and such {$"Big Jim" Wright} productions as {&"I Wish You Knew"} and {&"Fly Like a Bird."} As good as those {$Wright}-helmed cuts are, they are also the times that the mixes slip and don't hide the flaws in {$Mariah}'s voice, and it sounds as airy, thin, and damaged as it did on {^Charmbracelet}, where her ragged vocals dealt a fatal blow to an already weak album. Here, apart from those {$Wright} tracks, the producers camouflage her voice in a number of ways, usually involving putting the groove and the sound of the production in front of the vocals. While the tunes aren't always memorable, it does make for a consistent album, one that's head and shoulders above the other LPs she's released in the 2000s, even if it doesn't compare with her glory days of the '90s. Ironically enough, a big reason why {^The Emancipation of Mimi} doesn't sound as good as those '90s albums is that {$Mariah} never sounds like herself on this record. When she's not sounding like {$Beyoncé}, she sounds desperate to be part of the waning bling era, dropping product placements for Bacardi, Calgon, and Louis Vuitton, or bragging about her house in Capri and her own G4, all of which sounds a little tired and awkward coming from a 35-year-old woman in her 15th year of superstardom. Disregarding these two rather sizeable problems, {^The Emancipation of Mimi} still works, at least as a slick, highly crafted piece of {\dance-pop} -- it might not be as hip as it thinks it is, nor is it as catchy as it should be, but it's smooth and listenable, which is enough to have it qualify as a relative comeback for "{%Mimi}" {$Carey}. [In November 2005, seven months after {^The Emancipation of Mimi} was released and after it turned into a comeback success for {$Mariah}, the album was reissued as a deluxe edition -- billed as the "Ultra Platinum Edition" -- containing four bonus tracks. These were: {&"Don't Forget About Us,"} which was released as the new single from the album; {&"Makin' It Last All Night (What It Do),"} which features {$Jermaine Dupri}; {&"So Lonely (One & Only, Pt. 2),"} which features {$Twista}; and a remix of {&"We Belong Together."} (For the record, it does not contain {&"Sprung,"} which was on U.K. editions of {^Emancipation} as a bonus track.) There was a separate edition of this Ultra Platinum Edition that contained a bonus DVD containing the music videos for {&"We Belong Together,"} {&"It's Like That,"} {&"Shake It Off,"} and {&"Get Your Number."}] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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