Album review: Mariah Carey, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel
MARIAH CAREY Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel * * Mercury 27159270 £12.72
More creativity has clearly gone into airbrushing Mariah on the cover than the vapid and uninspiring musical content. She may think drug references and ripping Eminem on her latest hit Obsession lends her lumpen R'n'B a modern frisson, but it is tired and bland.
Candy Bling aspires to urban savvy but the gooey groove is too sickly for seduction, while Ribbon is lame lyrically, irritatingly adorned with Minnie Ripperton-like trills.
After the consolidation of her last album, E>MC2, this is a retrograde step, summed up by the hammy Foreigner cover, I Want To Know What Love Is.
Download this: Up Out My Face
• This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 22 November 2009.
Email to a friend
Print this page- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Friday 25 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 10 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 14 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: North east
