Dearest Mimi,
Mimi is Mariah Carey's fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. Her self-titled debut spent 11 weeks on top in 1991. Two years later, her Music Box CD had an eight-week reign. In 1995, Daydream ruled for six weeks. Adding in the one week Butterfly spent at No. 1, this is Carey's 27th week on top of the album chart.
Not only that, Ms Scary thinks that you have finally done justice to The Voice in all its five octave glory and returned to being the vocal scaling First Lady of Pop who once ruled the airwaves with her iron lungs in the 1990s! Any music fan would surely concur with yours truly once he or she takes a listen to tracks like "Circles" and "I Wish I Knew" where you trilled away at frequencies deadly to navigating bats and aspiring Idol contestants.
In my opinion, whether you are warbling your heart out on classic ballads such as "Fly Like A Bird" and "Mine Again" or grooving to slick urban dance ditties such as "It's Like That," "Get Your Number" and "To The Floor," you sound absolutely divine on all 14 tracks! (Now remember to thank your assembled army of A-list collaborators including Nelly, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Twista).
With The Emancipation of Mimi, Ms Scary daresay that you have finally succeeded in resuscitating your fledging pop career and shown the pop world that nothing can keep a true diva down for long - not even the release of the universally derided Glitter, your unceremonious boot from Virgin Records and your much publicised public breakdowns!
Welcome back Mimi.
From
Ms Mariah Scary
Your Number One Fan who doesn't "do" stairs too.
Scary's Selected Spins: "It's Like That," "Fly Like A Bird," "Get Your Number," "Say Something," "To The Floor," "Circles," "One And Only," "Shake It Off" and "Mine Again."
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