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Dec 30 11 1:29 AM

Mimi era Definately

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Dec 30 11 5:29 AM

Commercially: 1993-1996
She was truly a GLOBAL music act then, she sold an insane amount of albums worldwide and racked up some of her biggest worldwide hits to date.

Critical Acclaim/Accolades/Public Image: 2005
"TEOM" is her most critically acclaimed album to date, she won 3 Grammy's and her public image was quite possibly the best it ever was.  



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Dec 30 11 5:58 AM

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Dec 30 11 6:19 AM

carlos b fly wrote:
allthewayray wrote:

And every big star has a time when everybody write you off: Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, Diana Ross, Cher, Tina Turner, Britney Spears... But they all hit back hard one time or another. It's not that special IMO.

  



Scoring one of the biggest hits of her career and one of the most successful songs in American radio history isn't 'that special'? Particuarly from an artist who had turned into a commercial failure with zero radio support? 
  
Of course it's special. What I meant: it wasn't as special as her riding high globally like she did in the days of Music Box. Every big star seems to get a huge comeback one day or the other.

  

 

 


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Dec 30 11 6:26 AM

MrSpice wrote:
carlos b fly wrote:
allthewayray wrote:

And every big star has a time when everybody write you off: Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, Diana Ross, Cher, Tina Turner, Britney Spears... But they all hit back hard one time or another. It's not that special IMO.
  

Scoring one of the biggest hits of her career and one of the most successful songs in American radio history isn't 'that special'? Particuarly from an artist who had turned into a commercial failure with zero radio support? 
  
None of their comebacks amounted to Mariah's. 
Maybe that's true for the US. But although Get Your Number and Don't Forget About Us were (small) hits, I think Cher did amazingly well with Believe/Strong Enough. Tina did even better with Private Dancer. Madonna's Ray Of Light is one of the biggest albums in history. Looking back now, it seems (at least in Europe) that Ray Of Light and Private Dancer contained more classics. For me Mimi is the best album by far out of all these, but it was nowhere near as huge as Music Box or Daydream.

  

 

 


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Dec 30 11 6:43 AM

I see your point, it's definitely a matter of location. I don't live in the US but I still consider TEOM to be her biggest moment. It's just that she was basically done there, and managed to come back not only bigger than ever- But with one of the biggest achievements of all-time. It's unheard of.

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Dec 30 11 7:14 AM

it is probably 93-96 and '05 as Michael pointed out. Though i wasnt aware of her back then, through 1990-91 she was huge as well, the Grammys, Vision of Love, high notes and a set of #1's.

I think she was also huge during the #1's era, especially overseas. My All was still huge in Europe and Asia, When You Believe and I Still Believe were popular. Sony did a great job promoting the album internationally - approximately 12 million excluding US i believe.

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Dec 30 11 11:45 AM

winning billboards artist of the decade was such a defining moment of her career. definitely consider it a major "moment"

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Dec 30 11 5:22 PM

allthewayray wrote:
MrSpice wrote:
carlos b fly wrote:
allthewayray wrote:

And every big star has a time when everybody write you off: Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, Diana Ross, Cher, Tina Turner, Britney Spears... But they all hit back hard one time or another. It's not that special IMO.
  

Scoring one of the biggest hits of her career and one of the most successful songs in American radio history isn't 'that special'? Particuarly from an artist who had turned into a commercial failure with zero radio support? 
  
None of their comebacks amounted to Mariah's. 
Maybe that's true for the US. But although Get Your Number and Don't Forget About Us were (small) hits, I think Cher did amazingly well with Believe/Strong Enough. Tina did even better with Private Dancer. Madonna's Ray Of Light is one of the biggest albums in history. Looking back now, it seems (at least in Europe) that Ray Of Light and Private Dancer contained more classics. For me Mimi is the best album by far out of all these, but it was nowhere near as huge as Music Box or Daydream.
I agree. "TEOM" was only massive (i.e. her biggest album after "Music Box" and "Daydream") in the US and UK. The performance of the album in Japan is still odd to me. smiley: grin Globally, "Music Box", "Merry Christmas", "Daydream" and "#1's" (like Can wrote) were her biggest moments.



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Dec 30 11 11:18 PM

THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI IN STORES APRIL 12TH.

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Dec 30 11 11:57 PM

While I agree she was big with TEOM, I think career-defining era was probably Fantasy with ODB. That is the stake she put in the ground for changing pop culture. That's what people remember. Who can forget "me and Mariah, go back like babies and pacifiahs?"

This is coming from someone who first became a fan right before Daydream came out. I remember the hype and how people were crazy for her without the underlying negative perceptions people now have of her.

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Dec 31 11 3:15 AM

mariahfan150 wrote:
allthewayray wrote:
MrSpice wrote:
carlos b fly wrote:
allthewayray wrote:

And every big star has a time when everybody write you off: Mariah, Whitney, Madonna, Diana Ross, Cher, Tina Turner, Britney Spears... But they all hit back hard one time or another. It's not that special IMO.
  

Scoring one of the biggest hits of her career and one of the most successful songs in American radio history isn't 'that special'? Particuarly from an artist who had turned into a commercial failure with zero radio support? 
  
None of their comebacks amounted to Mariah's. 
Maybe that's true for the US. But although Get Your Number and Don't Forget About Us were (small) hits, I think Cher did amazingly well with Believe/Strong Enough. Tina did even better with Private Dancer. Madonna's Ray Of Light is one of the biggest albums in history. Looking back now, it seems (at least in Europe) that Ray Of Light and Private Dancer contained more classics. For me Mimi is the best album by far out of all these, but it was nowhere near as huge as Music Box or Daydream.
I agree. "TEOM" was only massive (i.e. her biggest album after "Music Box" and "Daydream") in the US and UK. The performance of the album in Japan is still odd to me. smiley: grin Globally, "Music Box", "Merry Christmas", "Daydream" and "#1's" (like Can wrote) were her biggest moments.

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Dec 31 11 11:08 AM

It's funny because even tho I'm in the US, and Without You wasn't as huge here, it was actually the song that made me "notice" Mariah. I was on the school bus home, and it was on the radio. Some girl was singing it and I actually turned around and made fun of her LOL... I said wicked sarcastically, "you LIKE this?" ... I think I secretly liked it too and was just feeling guilty because it wasn't "cool" to like Mariah Carey when you are an 11-year-old boy.

Then when I got home and put the tv on, MTV was ALWAYS on. I remember on my TV, you would hear the volume first and the picture would fade in for some reason. Probably broken. Anyways the same song was on and I remember standing there watching the video and thinking she was just amazingly beautiful and what not.

From there it was just discovery after discovery... VH1 would do these "back2back" things where they played two-three videos by the same artist, and that's when I discovered Dreamlover and became OBSESSED with that song.

I remember "discovering" the videos and songs to all of her previous singles, but I'm not going to explain them all here. I'll just say that after I didn't see the "Vision of Love" video until I bought the "First Vision"...

And I remember being SOOOOOOOO ANNOYYYEDDDDDDDD because I knew there was an "I Don't Wanna Cry" video out there but they NEVER PLAYED IT on any of those specials. I finally saw it on a top female countdown where she was #1 and they wanted to make it cute by using the #4 a million times talking about how her first album had four number one singles and the jackson 5 and blah blah blah... and here's Mariah's FOURTH #1 song, "I Don't Wanna Cry". I remember ltierally shouting OMG!!! and had my finger on the VHS recorder lol.... oh the days before youtube and DVR

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Jan 1 12 12:02 AM

LegendaryShade wrote:
LOL.  Actually, this might not be such a bad moment to choose.  It certainly made the public look at her differently and probably gave her a level of humanity in the public eye that was missing before when many people just wrote her off as the snobby pop princess.

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