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Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel

Mariah Carey

Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel

More melodramatic pop and R&B, co-produced by Tricky Stewart and The-Dream

ADM rating[?]

4.9

Label
Mercury
UK Release date
29/09/2009
  1. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    "Love me like a sugar daddy, love me like a pimp Caddy," she pleads on the feather light Candy Bling. You can't help but do so
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  2. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Carey's most sonically and tonally coherent release
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  3. 6.0 |   The Independent

    It's all pretty much the same drum sounds, the same tempos, the same keyboard textures, fronted by the same downy vocal timbre expressing the same small range of emotions.
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  4. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    A closing trilogy of ballads sends us crashing back to the Carey of old. Her robot alter-ego is more fun
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  5. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Even at her most aggressive, Carey sounds like she might lick you to death
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  6. 5.0 |   NME

    ...a penchant for exhuming the sickly-sweet memory of Minnie Riperton’s ‘Loving You’ and setting it to 17 different slow jamz drenched in studio gloss
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  7. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    Memoirs could have done with some variation. Our advice? Next time, get out the jewel-encrusted Blackberry and give Kanye West or Pharrell Williams a call, and mix it up a bit
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  8. 4.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    ...this is a retrograde step, summed up by the hammy Foreigner cover, I Want To Know What Love Is
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  9. 4.0 |   The Times

    In spite or perhaps because of the countless televised car crash auditions she has inspired , the vocal pyrotechnics of yore are mostly gone.
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  10. 2.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Carey should take a long vacation; it isn’t as if she wouldn’t know where to go, or what to pack.
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  11. 2.0 |   The Scotsman

    ""You're a mom and pop, I'm a corporation, I'm a press conference, you're a conversation,"" she trills with a little airbrushing from Auto-Tune. Take that, Shady!
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