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E=mc2 | 
| Artist: Mariah Carey
Label: Universal Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1358
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001027202
UPC: 602517507586
EAN: 0602517507586
ASIN: B000UMKCYC
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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Condition: Brand new factory sealed. Ships fast out of Toronto !!
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| Tracks:
| | Migrate featuring T-Pain | | | Touch My Body | | | Cruise Control featuring Damian Marley | | | I Stay In Love | | | Side Effects featuring Young Jeezy | | | I'm That Chick | | | Love Story | | | I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time | | | Last Kiss | | | Thanx 4 Nothin' | | | O.O.C. | | | For The Record | | | Bye Bye | | | I Wish You Well |
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 Mimi's Latest Disc May 31, 2008
After the large success of TEOM, high expectations were set for this album. After the triumphant pose and feel of TEOM, I did not expect this CD.
Album Cover: 1/5
Okay, I'll admit it, I absolutely hate this album cover. The cover of TEOM took Mariah's artwork to new heights, but this just made it crash down again. Mariah looks thin, even anorexic, on this cover, doubtless due to extensive photoshop because of the recent criticism of her weight. When I first saw this cover, it was on a website, and it only showed the top half of the cover. I was very disappointed, but I did not really hate it. Then I scrolled down and saw the giant L.A. style letters and I was like, WHAT? Overall, this might be the worst album cover to come out this year.
1. Migrate: 3.5/5
This song is about migrating from place to place, and is actually quite catchy. Her signature throat howl is there, and the beat blended with it almost perfectly. Then the T-Pain rap came on and destroyed the whole song. If an edited version of this was released without the rap, it could easily become a Top Ten hit.
2. Touch My Body: 4.5/5
Despite of some people, I actually really enjoy this track. It is so cheesy and nerdy that I cannot help but laugh out loud. However, like this rest of you, I did cringe when I heard "YouTube" in the lyrics, but the bridge is so catchy that it doesn't matter.
3. Cruise Control: 3.5/5
The idea of this song is to blend driving and love together, which might have been interesting if Janet had not released "LUV" a few weeks before. Janet's was better and catchier, and did not feature another horrible rap.
4. I Stay In Love: 4.5/5
This song's great lyrics and melody makes this song quite enjoyable, and its ending featuring signature Mariah vocals had me imagining what this song could be like if Mariah still had the voice from "Vision Of Love".
5. Side Effects: 4/5
This song has such a catchy chorus that I cannot help but sing along, but the auto-tuning in this track is so obvious that I would be embarrassed if anyone caught me listening to this. Yet again another horrible rap. The day Mariah stops featuring rappers is the day she will sell tens of millions.
6. I'm That Chick: 3.5/5
Mariah compares herself to ice cream on this track, but the auto-tuning is still too obvious. The owee-owees sound forced, and I do not blame her. The uh-huh at the end could have been louder with more spunk. This is a great song with great potential, and at least no rappers are on here.
7. Love Story: 4/5
This song has Mariah putting on her reading glasses and reading an old romance novel. Overall, the idea is good, the lyrics are good, the singing is good, and there are no rappers. (YAH!)
8. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time: 4/5
This is the 2008 reincarnation of "Always Be My Baby". The beginning is very catchy, and the rest are just okay. But it is nice to here some optimism on this otherwise bleak and soulless album.
9. Last Kiss: 3/5
Not the best, not the worst. A very well-crafted filler.
10. Thanx 4 Nothin': 2/5
A really boring track with too many "Oh"s.
11. O.O.C.: 2/5
It's nice to see some creativity in the song titles, but this song is just not good!
12. For The Record: 2/5
This song has Mariah quoting old songs and singing that she was faithful and awesome. YAWN!
13. Bye Bye: 3.5/5
Finally! After three filler tracks, here comes a good song. However, by making it less personal to make it more mainstream, it becomes less personal. This makes me feel like Mariah wants to pull something off like "Loverboy" again. She sounds soulless and detached, and it left me feeling cold and lonely. But at least it has a good melody.
14. I Wish You Well: 1/5
Okay, this is really sad. This reminds of TEOM, after the track Say Somethin', everything was boring. This song quotes the bible, which is original, I guess. Overall, this album gave me a bittersweet, midlife crisis feeling. This record could do some much better by destroying tracks nine to fourteen, which is almost half of the album.
Overall Rating: 3/5
SInce its release, it has sold over 1,400,000 copies worldwide.
A formulaic sampler of mainstream commercial craft. May 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"E=MC2" is certainly no "Daydream" or even "Butterfly" - it's not even anything special from Mariah, which is a shame. It just seems that ever since she has been experimenting with the hip-hop beats it just sounds all too familiar.
The album is typically 21st Century Mariah and all the tracks seem to have the R 'n' B larger-than-life Diva, touch rather then the big belter Mariah stroke, which made us all fall in love with Ms Carey.
If you are not overly impressed by Mariah music then you probably won't be jumping up and down to this album. Conversely if you are a Mariah fan and enjoyed the "Emancipation of Mimi" album then you may be satisfied with this attempt. While if you prefer the power ballad Mariah, its best to stay away from this formulaic release.
There may be something about Mariah but it certainly isn't obvious in "E=MC2".
Carey is a phenomenal singer, which is hardly news. (Happily, she doesn't spend as much time trying to prove it these days, though that could mean her voice is not what it once was.)
A great voice does not automatically make a great record, of course. But it certainly helps Carey dress up the dross.
"E=MC2" is already being hailed as some sort of creative masterpiece but, try as I might, I can't swallow the plentiful chicken bones in such a suggestion. If this is genius, then we're all in real trouble.
Here's what it actually is: well-produced dance music with some catchy choruses, interesting (mildly) cameo appearances (T-Pain, Young Jeezy, Damian Marley) and plenty of sickeningly sweet lip gloss globbed on its lips. The record is a cheap strumpet, not a dignified lady.
The formulaic album title is apt because it does run the full gamut of her manipulation. That means she splits the time hangin' with the boys and being lovesick over them with cliché ballads. In both instances, Carey sacrifices any possible addictive groove for her tepid vocals. Yes, she no longer floods every track with her high-octave vocals but its minimalist use isn't exactly working wonders either. Besides she is more concerned with safe song structures to dare taking a risk with both her sound and lyrical content. Unless her American fans finally tire of her adolescent pandering, she'll stick to such formulae and continue to churn out irritating tracks like "O.O.C", where she at least admits that she's "out of control".
Sadly being a massive Mariah Carey fan alone is not enough to enjoy this album!
Don't get me wrong; there are few crystal-clear hits on this album but the rest seem to just be fillers. On the other hand, most of the tracks are commercially infectious with a few ladies anthems, a number of club bangers but disappointingly a minority of soppy numbers.
It's a savvy sampler of mainstream commercial craft, plush aural lounges designed and furnished by such producers and writers as Jermaine Dupri, Timbaland associate Nate "Danja" Hills and hip-hop's Swizz Beatz.
That often leaves Carey sounding like an ersatz Beyoncé, and she never approaches the cathartic soulfulness of Mary J. Blige or the auteur credentials of Alicia Keys.
There may be many single hits on the charts...but will anyboby remember them in six monts?
All numbers are pleasant but forgettable.
The sounds is "designed to be fashionable, but like so much fashion, it's tied to the time and dates quickly. Which is why it's misleading to judge Mariah based on her new record of possessing the most number one singles, as she's not about longevity, she's about being permanently transient, a characteristic E=MC2 captures all too well".AMG.
There is no doubt "E=MC2" will sell well and fly off the shelves, however after having listened and skipping through most of the tracks "E=MC2" is destined to collect dust more then anything else.
 I Still Love this Album April 22, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just the bought this Album, my favorite songs are Love Story, Bye Bye and I Stay in lOve along with Touch my Body.
 MC= Major Crap April 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I find this album quite boring. She needs to get out of her element a little bit and do something different. Skip this record, save your money.
What Einstein really meant April 17, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Emancipation = Mariah Carey to the second power, and sure enough her energy and talent ensures that this album will sell masses of copies at the speed of light.
Released on the same day that American Idol Season 7 featured her music, Mariah's appearance on the elimination show clearly showed the difference between the diva and the debutantes, Davids and dreadlocks. Heck, she even had Simon Cowell on his feet applauding.
With writing and production credits on every single song, the versatile MC delivers an album equal to "The Emancipation of Mimi", with a mix of R&B, pop, reggae, hip hop, soul and gospel. Lyrically the album seems very personal, especially the tracks "Side Effects" and "Bye Bye", but there's something here to appeal to every listener.
First single "Touch My Body" has already hit the number one spot, with second single "Bye Bye" hot on its heels. (The latter is the song she performed on American Idol.) Other first class tracks are "Cruise Control" (the reggae track featuring Damian Marley, and my favorite); "I Stay in Love" (a classic Mariah Carey track); "I'm That Chick" and "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" (bouncy retro-disco-pop tracks which sample music by Michael Jackson and DeBarge); "O.O.C." (meaning out of control); and the perfect album closer "I Wish You Well".
This album is recommended for any fan of popular music. There are no bad tracks, and singles will be coming from this album for quite a while.
Amanda Richards
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