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The Emancipation of Mimi is the tenth studio album by American R&B singer Mariah Carey, released through Island Records on March 30, 2005. The album was considered Carey's "comeback album" by critics and became her highest-selling release in the US in a decade. [2]
Feb 18, 2024 · At 35, Carey was primed to write The Emancipation of Mimi, named for a long-fought spiritual liberation and a nickname from her childhood. Though she had always considered herself a...
Apr 10, 2020 · However, 15 years into her illustrious career — and following something of a rare commercial downturn — Mariah Carey dropped the best-selling album of 2005: The Emancipation of Mimi.
Apr 24, 2015 · The Emancipation of Mimi, which turned ten this month, marked a definitive shift for Mariah Carey. It’s an album that found Mariah embracing a more light-hearted version of herself, one that...
- Record-Shattering Achievements
- Hard-Fought Freedom
- Ahead of The Pack
Both songs were composed with Dupri and among the last cuts to be completed for the album. “It’s Like That” was picked as The Emancipation Of Mimi’s first single and returned Mariah to the US Top 20 on its release in January 2005. Later nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Performance, it had replaced the shuffling “Stay The Night” on the rel...
Released just a few weeks after “We Belong Together,” on April 12, 2005, The Emancipation Of Mimi (a fitting title, given that Mimi was a name Mariah used among her closest circle, and creative emancipation was certainly the order of the day) earned Mariah the best opening-week sales of her career to date. If anything, the album’s 14 songs liberate...
Rapper Twista joins Mariah on “One And Only” and Nelly appears on “To The Floor,” both effective album cuts that position Mariah as a credible urban draw when the out-of-the-park success of “We Belong Together” could have easily drawn her back towards the MOR heartlands she was obviously keen to visit, but not remain stranded in. “Say Somethin’” (w...
Apr 5, 2005 · Though she’s been “emancipated” before (first with Butterfly, then with Charmbracelet, her first album recorded free of Sony’s watchful eye), Mariah Carey claims she titled her new album The Emancipation Of Mimi because she finally feels free to be who she really is, no apologies. And who is Mariah Carey exactly?
Mar 28, 2006 · Pop diva Mariah Carey talks to Ed Gordon about her early rise to superstardom, her highly publicized emotional meltdown, and her return with a Grammy-winning album.
