Mariah Carey 2001 - 2004: The Years Of The Crisis
After to have received the Billboard prize like “artist of the decade” and the World Music Award like “feminine artist of the millenium”, the Carey rescisse the contract with Columbia Records and of it signed an other from 80 million dollars with the Virgin Records. In the July of the 2001 many sources they brought back that the singer was to the taken ones with the physical exhaustion and moves them. Sul its official site left messages in which it was complained of own “overwork”, and that its relation with same Luis Miguel finishing. A year after, to an interview, Mariah answered: “I have to that to make with people that does not know to me seriously, and I do not have some personal assistant. I have had interviews for all the day, and have only passed two hours of the night to sleep.”. During an apparition to the program of MTV Total Request Live, the Carey began to distribute ghiaccioli to the public and it was undressed. At the end of the month it was lead in hospital, and it was announced that it would not have taken part to public apparitions for some time.
The critics demolished us Glitter, semiautobiographic film on the singer, that he failed also to the botteghino. Also the album of the same title it, inspired from music of years eighty, had turned out many negatives in the USA, Glitter toed make one's debut to number 7 and remained hardly in top 20 two weeks, went a little more better in Europe and in Japan, where however the sales were not comparable to those of its precedence work. Altogether, it has sold 3 million and half copies in world and hardly 1 million in the USA and is clearly the album of minor happened of its career. Also the critics demolished us the album: the St. Louis accused it to Post-Dispatch of being “a sonorous chaos that will blot its career, seppur thus fortunate”, while Blender said: “After years to make the fused one for the radius, the Carey has lost thickness.” “Loverboy” caught up wireless number two of Hot 100, although passages many lows, probably thanks to the reduced price, hardly 99 cent, but the others two single ones, “Never Too Far” and “Don't Stop (4 Funkin' Jamaica)”, did not succeed not to enter in Hot 100, were before the time that a its single one did not enter in classify USA.
Quickly after Glitter, Columbia published Greatest Hits, that it obtained of the discreet data of sale, although did not contain some unknown one, selling 3 million copies in world and 1 million and half in the USA. At the beginning of 2002, the Virgin liquidated the contract with the Carey for 28 million dollars, damaging its publicity. The singer said that its time with the Virgin had been “stress total… I have made a decision immediate and based on the money, what that I had not never made before. A beautiful one po' of lesson is served me.”. In the same year, it signed for 20 million dollars with the Island Records and founded the MonarC label. In that period, a hard blow reached but also: its father, with which he had had little contacts, died of cancer.
After an apparition in the WiseGirls film, the Carey published Charmbracelet.Il disc toed make one's debut to number 3 in the USA, but after hardly 3 weeks it exited from Top 20, altogether has sold 4 million copies in world and 1 million and half in the USA, discreet, advanced data of sale to those of “Glitter”, but the times in which Mariah it scaled the classifiche of all the world and established a record behind the other seemed ended by now. The critics were decidedly negative, and little did not judge the album the worse one of its career: the Boston Globe considered the album “the worse one of its career, with a voice more able than large acute or of melodie not to read”. Rolling Stone commented: “Carey has need of audacious songs help that it to still use its classic style. Charmbracelet seems a wake of colors to watercolor that alter in a mud pool.” “Through the Rain” failed in the classifiche and radius POP, not succeeding to catch up Top 40. The album single ones, “Boy (the Need You included others two)”, in collaboration with rapper the Cam'ron, and the cover of the Def Leppard “Bringin' on the Heartbreak”, but both did not enter not even in Top 100.
“The Know What You Want”, single of 2003 of Rhymes Envelope, executed with to the Carey, had turned out in classifies decidedly better, catching up number 3 in the USA. In séguito, Columbia the included ones in the collection The Remixes. On the credit side age the Charmbracelet World Tour taken the way, and Mariah received the World Music Chopard Diamond Award in order to have sold more than 100 million than discs all over the world. The book reviews were generally positive, although the press often was concentrated rather on the nourished one entourage of the Carey, the many suitcases, the whims in the hotels and the small rooms, and other attitudes from diva.
In 2004, Wanna collaborated with Jadakiss for single “U Make Me”. To November, the new song “Say Somethin'", in which the Snoop Dogg and Pharrell collaborated rapper, came diffused in advance payment on Internet, but it met a lukewarm acceptance. Also an other production of the Neptunes, “To The Floor” (at first entitled “Tonight”), in collaboration with rapper the Nelly, was diffused via Internet before the official publication. The night of the last one of the year, the Carey introduced in preview the new disc, produced from Jermaine Dupri, to the inauguration of the Pure Club, to Las Vegas. The song “It's Like That” had a positive answer and marked the return of Mariah in American Top 20, after 4 years of absence, catching up number 16. The average greeted the song as a return prevails them for the Carey. Billboard wrote: “After single years of undertone, Mariah Carey returns finally with a great piece…”, it inserted and it in the list of the best ones of the week. Also the old “All the Want for Christmas Is You” gave to the Carey a meaningful presence in the radius, towards the end of the year, between the many stations with exclusive programmings of christmas musics. This had had probably to the fact that the song was included in the sonorous column of the British film Love Actually, happening to the botteghino, exiting at the end of 2003.
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