 Mariah CareyRainbow, Mariah Carey's seventh studio long-player, is something like a concept album. Its theme is the various stages of the "emotional roller coaster," as she puts it, of her divorce and subsequent rebound.Mariah continues to walk the line between streetwise hip-hop soul and adult-contemporary acceptability, with the former not surprisingly offering most of the disc's high points. "Heartbreaker," the first single, is a likeable piece of bubble-gum R&B with grit borrowed from guest Jay-Z; the remix, with Missy Elliott, Da Brat, and DJ Clue on board, is a different enough piece of work that its appearance only a few cuts after the original version doesn't jar. Another groove-intensive track, the Snoop Dogg duet "Crybaby," is so sly that one hopes the two collaborate again. Of course, it wouldn't be a Mariah Carey record without at least one major lapse in taste; here that bill is filled with a cover of Phil Collins's melodramatic "Against All Odds." --Rickey Wright |
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typical mariah except for petals, which has depth. It is the
most sophisticated song on the album. Here she is not concerned
with being perfect but with the emotion. Other tracks that are
interesting are are bliss. This song is very minnie riperton.
It shows mariah's vocal range like never before. As with butterfly,
mariah continues to dab into the hip-hop/r&b genere. THe
best r&b songs are crybaby, heartbreaker (the remix, X-girlfriend,
and how much. The lyrics on rainbow are more complex than any
of her albums before it. On rainbo, mariah uses a whispery voice
instead of a loud one, she understands that we all know she can
sing! The collaborations are wonderful and abundant.
