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Aug 19 12 8:03 PM

mimifan09 wrote:
Mariah had successful era after successful era in the 90's but I have never really heard people say the success of songs like Honey or Fantasy being based on the success of the previous era.

Undoubtedly there was massive hype and interest in what Mariah was going to do next after TEOM but I don't think the success of TMB was solely based on the success of TEOM. I understand what you are saying though. Of course it is a lot easier to have a hit after a successful era but quality music has to play a part too. Say Something didn't do much when it was released so she didn't have the golden touch either.
The 90s were different than the way things are now, though. Really, Mariah was one of the first artists who went after big hype for the lead single of an album. "Fantasy" was big for a lot of reasons, one of which was surely her popularity coming off MB and the holiday CD. But it was a killer single, and there was a lot of promotion behind the release of the single and video. They went for a #1 debut and got it. But that didn't happen until the mid-90s. Now artists go for big debuts all of the time, and riding the success of a previous release helps all artists.

"TMB" would not have been as successful as it was had it followed Charmbracelet.