TEOM311 wrote:
MarkyMuzo wrote:
ArabianLamb wrote:
MarkyMuzo wrote:
ArabianLamb wrote:
MarkyMuzo wrote:
I wouldn't "screw those sappy ballads" though. Those "sappy ballads" are what made Mariah and still does.
Correction: WERE what made her, seriously none of her ballads on her last two albums really compared to her 90's ballads IMO.
Man after hearing Migrate I want a whole album of club bangers from Mimi
Three words: We Belong Together
There's just no argument here, everyone knows Mariah's strength has been - and continues to be - her ballads.
Yeah I edited my post and wrote WBT and FLAB, but the other ballads weren't all that TEOM, I preferred the up tempos. Also most of the ballads on
CB I personally hated.
Either way, if you look at the big picture, Arabian, there's still no question. Her biggest hits have been ballads.
It's Like That and Say Something would have gone straight to the top of the charts if that weren't the case.
Preferring a style is one thing, but stats don't lie.
If you were to ask most people (in the general public) about Mariah and what songs they associate with her, more likely it would be Hero,
or We Belong Together, not Honey or It's Like That.
It's true, her ballads are what she is known for. Three of her four signature songs are ballads (Hero, OSD, WBT - AIWFCIY being her other signature
song). Her ballads are usually her best songs, too. Aside from SIO and O&O (which are midtempo jams really), the best songs on TEOM were Circles and
FLAB...but that's not to discredit her uptempos...some of her best songs have been uptempos (Dreamlover, Emotions, Fantasy, Honey, Sprung, and now
Migrate)...but the general public buys Mariah for her ballads...so while I want Migrate to be the second single, it's a song that will spend the most
weeks at the top of the digital songs charts, but probably won't sell the album like Bye Bye probably will. Look at Flo Rida's Low, which was
insanely popular and successful, but it couldn't sustain album sales.
May be so, but why would they celebrate TMB's success by playing Migrate on the radio| right now?If it\s ballads, indeed, that do the sales sustain
trick, they should be giving all push and exposure to Bye Bye and not distract buyers.
However, after the VERY soft TMB, something should hit hard and that's exactly what Migrate is , otherwise the album may look too boring, calm, soft,
mellow, ...etc.