Mariah Carey - Obsessed

Random Lyric:

All up in the blogs

Say we met at the bar

When I don't even know who you are

So here you have the diva, the icon, Mariah Carey. She's beautiful. She's perceived the be just crazy enough to keep the gossip bloggers interested. She's a cougar in the sexiest sense of the word. She's singing a song that seems to be aimed squarely at Eminem, whom she may or may not have had a date with a bunch of years ago.

She's an alto with a 5 octave vocal range and is one of the few (possibly the only one) who can sing in the "whisper register." Various sources have named her among the greatest voices in music.

And now it's time for a new album so what is the one thing a producer can do to try to give her a hit sound? There are those that would put some music together and let the butterfly sing. Looking for the next banger, and we're always looking for the next banger, we checked out the first single from Mariah's coming album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel."

Red flag number one: it's produced by The-Dream. Red flag number two: he puts the Auto-Tune on the voice of a generation. Yes, we know that's the hot copycat sound for an artist or, in this case, producer who is so lame as to have run out of ideas. But this is Mariah. Terius, what the hell were you thinking? Mimi doesn't need all that.

But despite The-Dream's best efforts to ruin the song and perhaps kill Mariah's career, she takes over the song and shines through. She's been in the game too long to have a simplistic producer destroy her fantastic body of work. Through all of the above challenges, she's still Mariah Carey.

Banger or booty: banger

Previously by Mariah Carey:

My Love (with The-Dream)
I Stay In Love
Just Stand Up (with Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Ethridge, Natasha Bedingfield, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Carrie Underwood, Keyshia Cole, Leann Rimes, Ashanti, Ciara)