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Originally Posted by bondingo
I agree 100% with your second paragraph, but in reference to the first one, I think Rainbow>Glitter>Charmbracelet>Emancipation. I just personally found Emancipation to be selling out, but that's just because I was so used to the old Mariah, not "Mimi". E=MC2 is actually sounding a lot better than I expected now that I've heard the previews on Amazon, but no tracks seem to be amazing.
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Glitter better than Emancipation?
I love Glitter, I think it was better than Rainbow or Charmbracelet, but it did not have the hit-after-hit feel of TEOM. TEOM wasn't what Mariah was used to doing, but it was a strong, powerful,
quality contemporary R&B record with hit written all over it, which is honestly a rarity today. Most R&B today is one-hit-wonder drivel.
Rainbow is also one of her worst CDs, IMO. It was SUCHHHHH a huge drop after Butterfly, which was easily her best. Half of Rainbow's tracks sound like used up demos rejected by Destiny's Child. And Charmbracelet, as much as I loved "Boy" and a few others, sounded like something you'd expect Toni Braxton or some other washed-up adult-contemporary R&B singer to make.
E=MC2 sounds like a half-step backwards to me, but I'm not mad at her. She's taking this hip-hop thing a little too far, but I still find it really enjoyable.
Oh god, y'all don't even wanna get me started on MC
17 years of fandom right here.