Daydream
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| Release Date: |
November 30, 1994 |
| Label: |
Sony |
| Rating: |
4.5 |
Description: "Fantasy" provides the only real transcendent chapter on this album. Reinterpreting Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" with a percolating dance beat, the single emphasizes everything that makes Mariah Carey great. Her voice swoops, squeals, and careens over the seductive rhythm, while the words capture just the right amount of vulnerability and determination. Unfortunately, the thrill is short-lived, as the multiplatinum singer soon falls back into typical adult-contemporary schlock and pointless vocal gymnastics, particularly on "Melt Away" and the bombastic cover of Journey's "Open Arms."
--Aidin Vaziri
Tracklist of Daydream
Reviews:
AWESOME ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL the songs on this album are AWESOME,I love them ALL!!! My favorite songs on this album are~ Fantasy,Underneath The Stars,One Sweet Day,Always Be My Baby,Melt Away,Forever!!! It's inspiring and uplifting, BUY IT & LISTEN TO IT!!! If I could give this album 10 stars I would!!! ***LOVE YA MARIAH!!!*** ***A MARIAH FAN 4 LIFE!!!***
good bye whitebred music,hello R&B&Soul
aahhh yes the most highly debated album among me and some minor aquaintences of mine.the people in question was these 4 white girls and their token racially confused blck female friend.i usually meet these girls at a gym everynow and then.and the popular consensus was that mariah was trying to be black.i believe they was blunt with me cause they thought i was whit but i wasn't,and just played along lol.so i would hear all types of racial undertones to their criticisim of mariah.as if they was betrayed some how.even the racially confused token black girl pretty much felt the same way(man was she brain washed or what lol).i would laugh my ass off on the way home.like mariah i often get mistaken as being white,by both blacks and whites and i'm not even biracial.so i deffinately understand how mariah feels,and its nice to see her be herself.and whom she wants to be.as far as daydream goes i like this album,i like mariah before but this is what drew in her urban audiences.and alienated non urban listeners like the afformentioned dip sticks i met.colaberations with the late great odb,da brat,and even to a lesser exstent boyz ll men scared off alot of suburbanites and some critics aswell. while others applauded her new none conformest image.one sweet day,fantasy,all ways be my baby are pretty much R&B songs.HOWEVER the whole album isn't quite R&B all the way through.but this is just a peak of whats,to come.if this album drew in the urban listeners then her next one would help her keep them.
Solid, Solid Album
I have to say that I'm a huge Mariah Carey album, I own all of her major releases, her self-titled through her newest "The Emancipation of Mimi" and I have to say that almost 10 years later, Daydream is Mariah's best album. Sure, she's had hits since her 1995 Daydream album but I truly believe that history will look back on Daydream as the apex of her career. The album is very well-rounded starting with the upbeat Fantasy, jumps into a dreamy "Underneath the Stars" followed by the powerfull ballad One Sweet Day. But she doesn't stop there, the keeps going with a cover of Journey's Open Arms and the classic, upbeat and tasteful Always Be My Baby. This album is so beautiful even down to the old school style Forever and the retrospective "Looking In" Ten years later, this album is as powerful, beatiful and incredible as the day I bought it in 1995.
