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Slant is counting down their top 100 singles of the 90s all week. They are doing 20 a day and have thus posted 61-100. "Fantasy" comes in at #61:
I could see "Breakdown" or something making this list as well as Slant has touted it and some others before.
http://www.slantmagazine....es-of-the-90s/247/page_4
61. Mariah Carey, "Fantasy." Mariah's "Fantasy" remains one of the finest examples of reworking an extensive sample into a fully realized pop masterpiece. The funky, warbling strains of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" come ringing through immediately, and there's no great effort to disguise any of the borrowed elements. And though the stripped-down remix, which brilliantly entwines the bridge portions with O.D.B's absurd rap ("Japan, are you in the house?"), is considered by some to be the definitive version, the original is escapism perfected, a summer bubblegum gem with a sweet, flawless vocal line driven by a diva in her prime. KLI like how the writer notes the reworking of the sampling and how he calls the original version "escapism perfected."
I could see "Breakdown" or something making this list as well as Slant has touted it and some others before.
http://www.slantmagazine....es-of-the-90s/247/page_4
