http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20818390,00.html 全文关键字：That Voice Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse Reviewed by Melissa Maerz on May 20, 2014 1.当专辑封面看起来像那种画在休旅车上面的爱神(大家可以去google看看)，标题又是 Me又是I的，实在很难认真看待The Elusive Chanteuse这个副标。 2.虽五年未发片，却处处可见咪咪：上电视卖香水、聊小孩(产房播Fantasy)，以及AI不 愉快的评审经验。 3.听到专辑开场曲"Cry."使人振奋，玛咪咪搭配钢琴的演出，我们终於再度专注於她的 音乐。 Let's start with that subtitle: The Elusive Chanteuse? It's hard to take it seriously when the first two words in Mariah Carey's new album title are Me and I, and she's standing right there on the cover in a crocheted swimsuit like a vision of Aphrodite that somebody airbrushed on the side of a van. And although the singer hasn't released a proper studio full-length since 2009's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, she's been everywhere: claiming she needed ''a fragrant moment'' with her perfume on HSN; telling 20/20 that she gave birth to her now 3-year-old twins while blasting her own song, "Fantasy," in the delivery room; having a hold-my-hoops showdown with Nicki Minaj on American Idol. (Her time as a judge on Idol, she told Billboard, "was not festive.") So it's genuinely exciting that she opens her new album with "Cry," an emotional Mariah-at-the-piano ballad that could make people start to care about the music again. 新专辑大量展现咪咪最棒的资产：That Voice！ "You Don't Know What to Do"让人想起Dreamgirls里面"biang-biang叫(台语)"的 Jennifer Holliday，而"Dedicated"则是对嘻哈黄金时期的致敬。 Working with longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, Carey front-loads the track list with midtempo R&B and soulful torch songs that spotlight her best asset: That Voice. She comes on strong with Jennifer Holliday-in-Dreamgirls bravado on "You Don't Know What to Do." ("You'd better SING IT, girl!" yelps guest Wale appreciatively.) And she's whistle-toning all over the end of "Dedicated," a fun, Wu-Tang-sampling tribute to hip-hop's golden age, featuring Nas. 1.「复古怀旧」是专辑另一个主题，包括词曲。Stevie Wonder更在"Make It Look Good" 大秀口琴solo，传奇再现。 2.还是有太多感伤情歌，其中包括以竖琴伴奏的"Supernatural"。 3.在唱诗班和已故牧师James Cleveland的强力感染之下，你真的很难不被福音大作 "Heavenly"打动；这首歌是近年来最能让我们回到”Vision of Love”的歌曲。 Nostalgia is a big theme here, both lyrically (she's looking through old photo books on "Faded") and musically, with arrangements that borrow from Inner Life's disco rave-up "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)" and the O'Jays' Philly-soul classic "Let Me Make Love to You." Stevie Wonder even whips out a harmonica solo for "Make It Look Good" that could've been unearthed from the crates. There are still way too many slow, generic love songs and too much schmaltz, like the harp-strumming "Supernatural" (featuring the giggles and babblings of "DemBabies, a.k.a. Ms. Monroe and Moroccan Scott Cannon, a.k.a. Roc N' Roe," according to the album credits). But it's easy to get nostalgic yourself during the gospel epic "Heavenly (No Ways Tired/Can't Give Up Now)," backed by a full choir and samples of the late Rev. James Cleveland, with Mariah trilling like crazy. This might not be the "Vision of Love" Mariah, but she sounds more like that girl than she has in a while. 你可以听到这个声音所经历过的风风雨雨， 虽然专辑里有些高音听起来像科技产物。(不太会翻，sorry) 然而在电音和Auto-Tune的包夹之下，还有谁能像她这样继续飙高音？ 虽然有新咪咪Ariana Grand，但我们依然需要旧咪咪。 而且这次玛咪咪要告诉你：she's not going！ That Voice has been through a lot, and you can hear it. There are times on The Elusive Chanteuse when she's trying to power through a note where it sounds like digital technology might be holding her up by the straps of that crocheted swimsuit. But who else has survived EDM and Auto-Tune and still climbs her way up the octaves like this? Ariana Grande may have been christened the "new Mariah," but we still need the old one. And she is telling you that she's not going. B --

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