With her unique talent and signature vocal abilities, Mariah Carey commanded the world's attention after she made her musical debut in 1991. In less than a decade, She emerged as one of the most popular and widely acclaimed talents in music. Howevr, as the best-selling female performer of all time, Mariah's career was bottlenecked at the turn of millenium. Firstly, she changed her dressing and music style from the all-American princess to a hip-hopquenn who has too much exposure and is too ebonic for her fans. Besides, she got divorced with her ex-husband, Tommy Motolla, who was the chief of Sony Music Entertainment. Thirdly, she released two albums, Glitter in 2001 and Charmbracelet in 2003, both of which comprehensively suck and are out-and-out disasters, according to the critics. The last and the worst, she broke down and was sent for hospitalization due to "exhaustion".It seemed that Mariah was over. But miracles happened to Mariah and her die-hard fans. In 2005, Mariah released her latest album, The Emancipaton of Mimi. It was a schizophrenic mix of 90's ballands and 21 centurys hip-hop. Mimi dominated the charts for one whole year, and became the best sale in 2005. Mariah Cary's comeback gives me some inspiration: Firstly, you can never say never. In this era when everone is famous for 15 minutes, no one could imagine that the songbird can still fly high and take her shots 15 years afer her debut. Secondly, trains come and go. But a good voice remains. Thirdly, time changes, music changes, the fad changes, and everyone has got to make a change. Not each change is a success. But forsake yourself before the Lord forsake you.
Throughout her career, Mariah has been a lot of things to a lot of persons. With so many imitators all oevr the radio and American Idol, it's hard to recall, sometimes, how pop-soul sounded like before Cary came along. And I do believe, having the ear-shattering voice and pyrotechnic vocal acrobatics, the diva can still blow her army of imitators off a stage.
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