I love Mariah Carey. She was my introduction to true Pop music in the early 90s. I enjoyed her inevitable high notes that only dogs can hear at the end of her songs, her use of words she probably got from a thesaurus by her bedside for lyrics, and honestly just the way she lives in a world totally separate from reality filled with like, a lot of butterflies. How else can you explain album titles like Daydream, Rainbow, Charmbracelet and now, E=MC2? The chick is completely delusional. New evidence of this can be viewed below:
This is the music video for the first single off her new album called "Touch My Body." The song is not at all spectacular, but then again, neither was "It's Like That" and The Emancipation of Mimi is one of her best albums. So I still had hope for her. Until I saw this travesty of a video. Here is my brief running commentary:
:00 A VW Bug pulls up in front of a mansion. I wonder who lives there...
:15 Mariah opens the front door in her underwear. CompuNerd gets a little nervous, she's like, so HOT.
:27 ...And she still can't act.
:45 Obligatory ephemeral shots. Look at all that wind, it makes her hair so flow-y!
1:21 What is this video about exactly?
1:38 A wittle spanking for the bad wittle dorky boy
1:46 Hair touching!
1:50 Animal cruelty, anyone?
2:18 ...and cue Star Wars!
2:58 I'm starting to think she has lice.
3:05 Is anyone else hoping she gets hit in the face with that frisbee?
4:02 That Mariah, she's so tech savvy!
It was supposed to be a fun video. Look at all that fun she had! Wow, what a blast that set must have been. It's almost as if she was 12 again...oh wait.
2 comments:
Oh Mariah.
Yes we love her because she was our preteen icon, and at that age we all wanted to exist in a world of horses and butterflies (with undertones of objectified sexuality).
But don't you just sort of love how she makes fun of herself in this video? even she has realized how trite and cliched she is, but that those cliches had/have some definite selling power. i just think the scene with the white horse and the pink tutu is hilarious. humor is always appreciated, even if it is a semi desperate attempt to
"update" for pop culture
Mariah has lost her mind again. I think w/ the big success came a forgetfulness that we don't want to see her crazy 12 year old side. "Emancipation" was much more grown and sexy sounding than her other albums and ALL OF THE VIDEOS were better than this crap.
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