Anything But Gray

If you could care less about Mariah Carey, move along…there is nothing for you to see here. 🙂 LOL

This is me and J's thing….it's what we do..I LIVE for this…for both of us pouring over every note and every lyric and oooh and ahhhhing over this note with that word….it's just us. A Bon Jovi or Mariah album doesn't feel TRULY out until J and I do this…and I love how much we love that winds up being alike, and yet, almost always there are songs that she doesn't care for and I just LOVE and vice versa….what that means is, between the two of us, we adore the ENTIRE. FRICKIN'. ALBUM. LOL

For you J…..thanks for sharing this with me, it truly is one of my most favorite things in the world and I am so happy you like doing it just as much as me! LOL 🙂

Memoirs of an imperfect Angel…

First of all, I love the record
name…very different for Mariah and I’m hoping it’s a trend that started with
Emancipation of Mimi….really was not fond of the one word record names. 

Betcha Goin’ Know

I really like this!  I love how visual the lyrics are and I love
the way she’s singing the verses, it’s very conversational….like she’s telling
a story.  The lyrics are so visual and
couple that with the beat…the show, hard beat and it really draws you in and makes
you feel the moment that she’s talking about…

So I bolted out the door, jumped right into the
car
it's too dangerous to be in the vicinity of where you are
Rolled down all the windows just so I could breath
can't believe you just actually did that shit to me…

And this is just heartbreaking….

. Been too good to you, I've been virtuous and
true
to have something like this happen in my own bedroom..

The
chorus is so good! I love the anger in it…it conjures up quite the image,
knowing she is capable of  being patient
and waiting, waiting to make the one who hurt her, hurt. The La, la, la
laugh…so mean and full o f spite and to me it screams strength and
control.  Someone able to keep their
emotions in check until the time is right….control.  Love it!

And
I love this line…the way she sings it..so utterly intimate, honestly like she
is telling you about this…..

You’re
like, “ you OK?”
I'm like, “mmm, I’m alright go to sleep and i'll be fine”

And
this line is really cool too….

So
I pulled to the side of the road to fix my face
but I can't cover with make up with what my tears want to erase…

So
visual and so have been there a thousand times…..wish I wrote it…..

The
music is perfect for this song…love the slow but hard beat….and there are
moments that sound movie-ish to me.  Like
you can hear it in a scene of a movie. Sometimes movies music is what literally
MAKES the scene…and there are some moments in this song that feel like
that….that those little details make the song PERFECT.  

Over
all a really good song…

 

Up out My Face

LOVE.
THIS. SONG.

I
really love the music it’s fun, playful…totally a sing along kind of song….it
reminds you of a hot summer night and sitting on a car with your girlfriends
and just bouncing to the beat and singing to the boys….and it makes it even
more of a sing along song because of her voice throughout….not high, not
low…right in the middle.  Which means you
CAN sing it! LOL

It’s
almost got a Caribbean feel to it…that kind of music. …it’s a little bit
“rougher” than that…but it’s kind of the same vibe, for me.  And the lyrics are so, so fun!

Love,
love, LOVE this…wish I wrote it….this is seriously one of my favorite lyrics
one the whole record….

“I thought we had somethin’
special/ that we had something good/but I should’ve had  another mechanic under my hood”

Love
this line too and the way she sings it makes it even sassier…

“So look who’s crying now /boo hoo-hoo /talkin’
‘bout ya missing your boo-hoo-hoo”

 The end is so fun! I love all the metaphors…so
funny and the laugh makes me laugh!

Definitely
one of my favorites right off the bat…..

More
Than Just Friends

This
is cool. Don’t love it, don’t hate it….I have a feeling it will grow on me. The
music has some big drum beats and there’s an almost “big band” feel to it, ever
so slight…more like influences. Her voice isn’t anything spectacular on it, I
like it and it’s really singable (I know that’s not a word…my blog, I can make
up words…LOL) just nothing really stands out…but it’s fun, I do like it but
really it’s the lyrics that make me keep listening to the song…if I didn’t dig
the lyrics so much, I think I would fast forward…but the lyrics are so fun, I
have to listen!

“thought I’d be with you but
ya never tried to hollla / We can spend a couple milly actin’ silly in Milano /
Boy hit your horn beep, beep I’ll follow/ have your whip in my  driveway by tomorrow / secretly I know you
wanna hit it like the lotto “  

and
I love this line in the chorus….”Stepping
in my Jimmy Choos /got it all cute for ya baby”  That’s so fun!

A
few of my favorite lines from the second verse…

“Got me spinning round for ya
like a little model” 

“Love me down till ya hit the
top of my soprano”  (SO LOVE THIS LINE!!!!
Another wish I wrote it line….)

Fun
song!

Candy
Bling

This
is a cool song….totally old school…like really old school to me….romantic,
wistful and sweet….her voice is mesmerizing on it…..I find myself not even
wanting to try to sing along because I want to hear every breath she
takes….it’s a fanciful, fun song…

This
part really stands out to me…

“Now
I wish I could go back and make time stop
I would take this love throwback from the top
Go DJ play my song
And I'mma think about you all night long

Love it!!!

And of course I love the first line and the hazy
September….I love that it made J think of me…..:-)

Won’t be a favorite and I can see me skipping
over it….but I do like it.

Inseperable

Another one that is just so so for me. I like the
lyrics though…wish I liked the music better….lol. There’s some cool parts….but
overall just meh for me….a little boring. 
This one, even the lyrics won’t keep me from skipping over it …I can see
me once in awhile, listening to it….that’s about it.

But I do LOVE this…it’s a time after time
sample! J mentioned it and I could NOT find it, but just now, listening, I’m so
hearing it!!!  Right here…

“The first text
I ever got from you still saved in my inbox
And I read it back time after time
Boy I’m lost, can’t you look, won’t you please find me/I’m down to my last tear
come rescue me”

Very
cool!

Ribbon

I like this… It’s smooth and mellow….and a good
song to just chill to.  I love that some
parts and lyrics are so “tough”.  It’s
fun to hear Mariah singing it and in a sweet way….lol. So Mariah!  Nothing 
spectacular stands out, lyrically…

The
Impossible….

The
music is too slow for me…it reminds me of Janet Jackson’s Anytime
Anyplace….except not cool. LOL   Janet’s is edgy and hot…this is “sweet” which
is so Mariah and nothing wrong with it, but just too slow and sweet for me. But
I LOVE THE LYRICS!!!! Very cool lyrics!

This
is one of my favorites from the whole record…

“love you like you like a milkshake/ love ya
like a high school girl on a first date”

And
I love her singing over that old song at the end…I can’t think of the name of
the song, but I know I know it….it’s cool!

Standing
O

I
like the tough sound of this song….I like the message in the song, too. I wrote
something once and this actually reminds me of that…..which is striking me as
funny…..mine was something along the lines of a guy being “the best” and
congratulating him for hurting a girl “the best”. Anyway…this reminded me of
that and I like the concept and I LOVE the nod to her song “my all” in there….

“As
you embrace her in your arms give her my all / give her more than you gave to me.”

Love
when songwriters do that…

H.A.T.E.
U

LOVE.
THIS. SONG.

I
needed this song so many years ago and although I am not in that place with
Kirk anymore…man, this song just takes me to that time. ..it’s crazy but it
truly makes me think why couldn’t she have wrote this YEARS ago! LOL

The
music, her voice…it feels truly pained….to me this is such an emotional
vocal….to the point that it makes me think this song is really personal to
her…..

And
the way the music starts off so utterly sweet…almost like a lullaby or a music
box….it’s got a very old school melody to it and then it gets so very
modern….very “hard”.  It’s got a hard
back beat that changes the tone of the song in an instant. Although her vocal
is still very emotional the beat of the song makes it harder…it reminds you
that the song is about hurt, about angst and regret and heartbreak….

The
lyrics are amazing…truly amazing. Wish I wrote it.  This will be a favorite….

“We went round for  round till we knocked love out/ we were
laying in the ring not making a sound/ and if that’s a metaphor of you and I /
why is it so hard to say goodbye/ I can’t wait to hate you/ make you pain like
I do/ still can’t shake you boy/I can’t wait to 
break through/ these emotional changes/ seems like such a lost cause/I
can’t wait to face you/  break you down
so low/there’s no place left to go/ I can’t wait to hate you”

And
this part is so incredibly sad to me….maybe because at one point I felt it? I
don’t know…

“and I wish, I could press reset and feel that
feeling again
I sit and press rewind and watch us every night/wanna pause it, but I can't
make it stay”

And
I so love this….the music gets subtle and it makes her voice really stand
out…and it makes the words and her voice the focus ….

“no need to
call my phone cause I changed my number today
a matter fact, I think i'm moving away (away) /sorry, the frustrations got me
feeling that way and I just keep having one last thing to say…

And then the music rises
again and she goes into her falsetto and as much as her falsetto drives me nuts
when she uses it a lot, it really works for the emotion of this song…REALLY
works.

“and I just
wanna hold you, touch you,
feel you, be near you, i miss you baby baby baby..
i'm tired of try'na fake through, but there's nothing I can do..
boy I can't wait to hate you..”

This
is just an amazing song…..cannot say how much I love this…..

Languishing

Mariah and a piano…..okay and
a snap in this case…..but really, does there need to be anything else? Nope…..this
is amazing. It’s like she’s writing one of these songs every album and I LOVE
IT.

 So much I can relate to this song, especially
given my issues right now with someone that I thought really loved ME, all of
ME and believed things had gotten okay only to find out how very, very wrong I
was.  Why I don’t say who it is, I
honestly don’t know because the person my issues are about could care less
about my blog….<sigh> And honestly, they are so friggin’ oblivious I
doubt they would think it’s about them, even if they read it…given all
that…it’s my blog and I’m doing a review and I can damn well say what I damn
well want about whatever song I want.

if you could only see

That I was not put here for you
To judge me and dispute my inner most
truth

And after all these years of enmity,
envy and tears
It's a shame you don't know me at all

I was wondering
Would you cry for me?
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
If I was drowning, suffocating
If I told you that I couldn't breathe

Those ancient buried recollections
We transform them and select them
You have yours, I have mine
That's fine
While we're too torn to heal
Our stitch has never disappeared
I have mine, you have yours
I'm sure

I was wondering
Would you reach for me
If you saw that I was languishing
I was wondering would you cry for me
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
If I was drowning, suffocating
If I told you that I couldn't breathe

 

Effin’ PERFECT….

Angel’s
Cry

My favorite, favorite, hands down, favorite song
off this record…..

Musically….subtle yet powerful, beautiful.  Vocally….intimate and just PERFECTION.  Her voice makes you FEEL the heartbreak…  Lyrically…heartbreaking and goose bump
inducing…I can’t get through it without tearing up…..

And I can review this…I can tell you about
it…but YOU HAVE TO HEAR IT, to get it…

Lyrically….

I shouldn't
have walked away. / I would have stayed, if you’d said /we could've made
everything okay,

Like she took a page from my
diary…..

And lightning
don't strike the same place twice.
When you and I /Said goodbye
I felt the angels cry.
True love’s a gift. /But we let it drift /in the storm.
Every night, /I feel the angels cry.

That first line…and lightning
don’t strike the same place twice…..

That is beyond amazing…so
utterly sad, in the context of this song. So incredibly sad…it truly makes you
feel this song. That one line….the power of lightning…the implication of
“chance”….the truth in that it DOESN’T strike the same place twice. It is such
a simple, simple, we’ve heard it all a thousand times before, yet used in the
context like THIS….and the way she sings it…..oh. my. God. It honestly makes
you want to hug her….it is so, so sad and exactly where I start crying…lol.  

Limitless
omnipresent kind of love /couldn’t have guessed It would just stop
and disappear in a world / when here I am
walking on this narrow road /Wobbling but won't let go.
Waiting for a glimpse of the suns glow.

I know I can stand just pull me back up /Like there ain’t a hurricane it’s just
us.
I'm willing to live and die for our love /Baby we can get back that shine.

UGH! How can you NOT feel
this??? The shock in realizing that a love that like that can end.  Can be done. Over.  Maybe you have to live it, to get it….?? And
then the sadness in going on…alone, struggling.  And I love the begging for help…saying if you
help, I can do anything….the outside crap doesn’t matter, if you help me up…ugh…so
amazing!

This is an INCREDIBLE lyric…

And the end…the music fades a
bit, so you can hear her…no, so you can FEEL her because THAT VOICE makes you
FEEL those words…

I just honestly cannot talk
about this song enough….and that one damn line…THAT’S where I lose it….lightning
don’t strike/ in the same place twice….and now I”ll never be able to hear that
saying without thinking of this song! LOL You have to hear this song. HAVE TO.

I
wanna know what love is….

I LOVE that she redid this!!!! This is me and
Zak’s very first song and I am so ridiculously happy she did it! I love it….I
would’ve liked it a bit more powerful, right from the get go, but I do love it……the
end is just amazing and I cannot WAIT for the video….I hope it’s amazing!!!!

This will definitely get played at me and Zak’s
22^nd anniversary wedding….I already can’t wait….:-)

It’s
A Wrap…

Another favorite, hands down!!! Love the do-wop
feel….this is the kind of song that makes me so MAD that I can’t sing!  This is such a FUN song to sing!!!! You can’t
sing this and NOT sway your hips and feel the song take over you….I so love if
she would do more of these…..it’s the “So Cold” kind of song that really
showcases her voice and I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!! 
Now, don’t get me wrong…I truly love the more “modern” Mariah, I really
do…but man there is something about this kind of bluesy, loungy music that
makes you devour every note, every beat, every word……and makes you want to hear
it again and again and you discover something new every frickin’ time!  I hope she does this live….would love to see
her sing this…..

And I am SO LOVING that she says “effed up” (literally
“effed up” I’m not sounding out “fucked up” here, people….) in such a smooth
song…..you just really don’t expect and I love it!!!!  The word is SUCH a contradiction to the music,
it’s brilliant!!!  And this whole thing
is just awesome!

“So get out of my face it's
over
Been sitting here all night leave me alone.
Since 1 o'clock A.M. been drinking patron
Let the credits role, its a wrap”

Drinking
patron?? Atta girl!! Smooooooth……LOL

All in all, I love this record and will be listening to it nonstop!!!!!!

🙂

And now that I feel incredibly guilty for blogging about this before my son's 6th birthday…I will BE SURE to get it done later today! LOL