🎤 THE VOICE OF THE 90s?This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave turns the volume up, attempts absolutely no whistle notes whatsoever, and takes a huge Dangerous Deep Dive into the incredible 1990s career of...MARIAH CAREY!From arriving seemingly out of nowhere in 1990 with Vision of Love to ending the decade with Heartbreaker, we're following Mariah through one of the most successful runs in 90s music.The albums.The number ones.The ballads.The R&B.The hip-hop collaborations.That extraordinary voice.And yes...Eventually we're going to have to mention that Christmas song.⏰ WHAT HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN? – 1990First, Dangerous Dave fires up the Retropodshow time machine and heads back to 1990, the year Mariah Carey's debut album arrived.In music we're remembering Depeche Mode's “Enjoy the Silence,” Sinéad O'Connor's “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Madonna's “Vogue,” The Charlatans' “The Only One I Know” and MC Hammer's “U Can't Touch This.”At the cinema we're revisiting Goodfellas, Home Alone, Total Recall, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Edward Scissorhands.And on television it's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Twin Peaks, Keeping Up Appearances, Law & Order and Dream On.Then Retro Headlines takes us back to Italia '90, Margaret Thatcher's resignation, the Channel Tunnel breakthrough, the arrival of Mr Bean, Hubble heading into space, Bartmania and more.1990 was packed...And right in the middle of it, a new singer called Mariah Carey was about to become a superstar.🎙️ DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – MARIAH CAREY IN THE 90sThen it's time for the main event.Dave goes back before the fame to explore Mariah's early songwriting, demo recordings and the story of how her tape reached Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola.From there...It's album by album through the 1990s.💿 MARIAH CAREY – 1990What a way to start.Mariah's debut introduces that extraordinary voice to the world with Vision of Love, before Love Takes Time, Someday and I Don't Wanna Cry help turn her into an almost immediate chart phenomenon.But Dave also looks beyond the vocals to something that sometimes gets forgotten...Mariah Carey wasn't simply singing these songs.She was writing them.⭐ Dangerous Dave Album Rating: 4.5/5💿 EMOTIONS – 1991Album number two pushes further into soul, gospel and R&B.The title track gives Mariah an opportunity to show off that ridiculous vocal range, while Can't Let Go and Make It Happen reveal different sides of her music.⭐ 4/5Then MTV Unplugged gives Mariah the opportunity to silence anybody wondering whether she could really reproduce those vocals live.Her performance of I'll Be There provides the answer.Yes.She bloody well could.💿 MUSIC BOX – 1993Then comes the album that turns Mariah into an even bigger global superstar.Dreamlover.Hero.Without You.Anytime You Need a Friend.Dave asks whether Music Box was perhaps a little too polished and safe...But when the songs are this strong, it's difficult to complain.⭐ 4.5/5🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS – 1994Sleigh bells incoming.Yes...It's time.ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU.Dave looks at why Mariah's Christmas monster has survived for decades, while also remembering Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), O Holy Night and the underrated Miss You Most (At Christmas Time).⭐ 4.5/5And Gaz would like to remind everyone that it isn't Christmas yet.💿 DAYDREAM – 1995Now things start changing.Daydream retains Mariah's enormous pop appeal while pushing further towards the R&B and hip-hop sounds she increasingly wanted to explore.There's Fantasy and its hugely important remix with Ol' Dirty Bastard.One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men.Always Be My Baby.And the beautiful Underneath the Stars.For Dangerous Dave...This is where Mariah reaches another level.⭐ 5/5🦋 BUTTERFLY – 1997And then comes Dave's favourite Mariah Carey album of the decade.BUTTERFLY.More personal.More confident.More R&B.More hip-hop.And increasingly reflective of Mariah's own musical identity.Dave dives into Honey, Butterfly, My All, The Roof, Breakdown and Close My Eyes.This is the album where the superstar voice and the songwriter come together with a greater sense of freedom.⭐ 5/5And Dangerous Dave ranks...BUTTERFLY AS MARIAH'S BEST ALBUM OF THE 90s!🌈 RAINBOW – 1999Finally we reach the end of the decade with Rainbow.Heartbreaker with Jay-Z leads the way alongside Thank God I Found You, Crybaby with Snoop Dogg and Can't Take That Away.It may not quite reach the heights of Daydream or Butterfly...But it's another reminder of how far Mariah's sound had evolved since 1990.⭐ 4/5🏆 DANGEROUS DAVE'S TOP 10 MARIAH SONGS OF THE 90sAfter working through the decade, Dave somehow attempts to narrow the catalogue down to ten favourites.The countdown includes Emotions, Dreamlover, Hero, One Sweet Day, My All, Always Be My Baby, The Roof, Vision of Love and Fantasy...Before Dangerous Dave's number one goes to...🍯 HONEY!For Dave, Honey represents everything ...
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