Loverboy was a bad first single. Mariah herself acknowledged this in an interview where she said that Virgin didn't know what to do or how to handle a star
of her magnitude and that another label or CEO would have went to plan B...but clearly they didn't have one. I don't think the review started the
breakdown but I think its more so the fact that she had the odds stackked against her and someone hell bent on preventing her from succeeding in future
endeavors.
Has Mariah ever even performed Loverboy? I have never seen one performance of the song. I'm sure it would have been borderline pornagraphic though so maybe
that's a good thing.