Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

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共21首歌曲

艺人: Mariah Carey
语种: 英语
厂牌: Island Records
发行时间: 2009年09月28日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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美国流行天后玛丽亚·凯莉（Mariah Carey）已经确定将在8月25日发行她的第20张音乐专辑《Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel》，首波主打歌《Obsessed》已通过电台播出。这首歌由玛丽亚·凯莉、The-Dream和Tricky Stewart共同创作。之后这首由布雷特·拉特纳（Brett Ratner）指导的MV也将播出。

玛丽亚·凯莉在5月份就通过微博网站Twitter透露了自己的新专辑名称，她写道：“因为我爱你们，所以我想让你们首先知道我新专辑《Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel》的名称，这是非常个人的，献给你们。”接着玛丽亚·凯莉在6月9日通过Twitter谈到了自己首波主打歌：“老实说，这是我最喜欢的歌之一。我喜欢这整张专辑——我完全沉浸在其中了。真等不及让你们能早点听到它。”自从今年早些时候开始录音以来，玛丽亚·凯莉一直通过Twitter频率较高地更新关于新专辑的消息，目前她在该网站已经有了60万名跟随者。

Island Def Jam唱片公司的Anotnio &L.A.& Reid仍然担任新专辑的执行制作人，而Stewart和The-Dream 则制作大部分歌曲。这一张专辑紧随玛丽亚·凯莉在2008年发行的专辑《E=MC²》，《E=MC²》当时取得了130万张的销量，同时其中的单曲《Touch My Body》也成为玛丽亚·凯莉的第18首Billboard Hot 100榜的冠军单曲。这让她超过了猫王（Elvis Presley），成为拥有第二多冠军单曲的艺人。

首波主打歌《Obsessed》不免让人联想到玛丽亚·凯莉和说唱歌星阿姆（Eminem）的口水之争，“你为什么对我这么着迷？”当然歌曲空中对战在现在的歌坛是司空见惯的事。无论如何，玛丽亚·凯莉肯定在接下来数周成为媒体新闻，一直她新专辑8月25日发行，这也是为了能方便获得晋级格莱美参赛资格的时间。

玛丽亚·凯莉的曲风也在改变，更具现在的时尚感，你能听到不少电子混音，这也是现在不少流行歌曲的标签之一，你不用担心玛丽亚·凯莉无法飙出海豚音，制作人可以轻松让玛丽亚-凯莉的很多歌打造成热门歌，就像Lady Gaga那样。

这次《Obsessed》电台首播拉回了歌迷的注意力，也提供给了新闻媒体一些材料，看来玛丽亚·凯莉会巧妙处理新闻的制造，一直从现在开始到11月中旬。

不过，新歌中玛丽亚·凯莉的听上去比较平静，上张专辑《E=MC²》的最大卖点之一就是玛丽亚·凯莉飙出超高音，然后在一般音域控制较好。而这一次，玛丽亚·凯莉似乎更加偏向保持契合的节奏了。

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Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Mariah Carey, released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After Carey's previous album, E=MC² (2008), Carey began to work in a new album, producing with The-Dream and Christopher &Tricky& Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel would have &big ballads&, and that &each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story&.

Three singles were released to promote the album; the lead single, &Obsessed&, became the most successful among the three, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and reaching the top twenty in Japan, Canada and Australia and the top ten in Italy and France; the song was subject of controversy, because many people thought that Carey was indirectly referring to American rapper Eminem, who claims having a relationship with Carey. The follow-ups, &I Want to Know What Love Is&, reached number 60 on Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Brazilian chart by twenty-seven non-consecutive weeks and &H.A.T.E.U.& was the fiftieth Carey's single to enter on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Upon its release, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel garnered positive reviews from music critics. They felt that &their team-up with Carey is canny; Stewart and Nash loosen up the diva’s sometimes overblown on-record persona&, and also &one of her most sonically consistent&. Commercially, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 168,000 copies in its first week. Internationally, the album peaked within the top 10 in five countries, including Canada and Denmark. To promote the album, Carey made a pre-show in Madison Square Garden in 2009, before embarking on the Angels Advocate Tour (2010), and performed in several programs as America's Got Talent, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today. (wiki)

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by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Like many big-budget albums of the last years of the 2000s, Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel faced shifting release dates, all as the final product was tweaked in light of disappointing reactions to early singles, particularly the Eminem-baiting &Obsessed.& Unlike many of those big-budget albums, including several made by Mariah herself, Memoirs isn't the product of a stable of producers and collaborators; it is almost entirely the work of The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, the team best known for their tracks for Rihanna. Certainly, there are echoes of &Umbrella& to be heard on Memoirs, just as there are elements of the gauzy &Touch My Body,& The-Dream and Tricky Stewart's previous single for Mariah, although working with mainly one set of producers does give Memoirs a cohesion that can sometimes lapse into sameness, but not in an unpleasant fashion. Even if it doesn't smack of the confessional autobiography of the title, there's no denying that Memoirs is an album, not a collection of tracks, possessing its own flow and mood, which gives it a personality the slightly desperate E=MC2 lacked, even if it never manages to kick out a song that is all that distinctive on its own terms. Nevertheless, what it also lacks is the pandering, heavy-handed sexuality Mariah has relied upon too heavily this decade -- and in doing so, it feels age appropriate in a way she hasn't in a long time, despite a collection of silly, jumbled lyrics. All Memoirs needs to push it over the edge is a great pair of singles, and their absence does hurt the album a bit, but not enough to prevent it from being her most interesting album in a decade.

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

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