What Would Happen If Mary J. Blige & Celine Dion Had A Baby?
It must be nice to be Mariah Carey. After all, the woman is one of the most successful recording artists of all time. Every studio album she’s released since her 1990 debut has gone Platinum. As of this writing, she is only three songs away from tying The Beatles as the artist with the most #1 singles in history (and only a couple of days away from moving one closer to that record). In. History. Aside from a brief period when she decided she wanted to be an actress and then went nutso, she’s had a successful and consistent run. While I certainly have no shame in admitting that I enjoy Mariah’s work, I can also say that she’s never made that one classic album that turns mere success stories into legends. Her debut and 1995’s Daydream come close, but on the whole, her albums are maddeningly inconsistent. 1997’s Butterfly found Mariah in a transitional period. In the process of divorcing her husband Tommy Mottola (who also happened to be the president of her label), she was also in the pr