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Someone’s Favorite Daughter: A Different Type of Mariah Carey Album Ranking

It’s tiiiime again, it seems, to reevaluate my Mariah Carey album ranking. Following the release of her 16th set, many publications have done listicles ranking thee D-I-V-A’s incomparable discography. I’ll be doing it

Mariah Carey and the Catalyst of “Caution”

There comes a time in every iconic music superstar’s career when they must accept they have transitioned from icon to legend. Some do so obnoxiously, others are a little more graceful about it.

Big Purr: The Debut of Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton: The Debut It All Started With a Purr. Not quite the kind of vocal purr that Eartha Kitt famously once possessed. This purr was vastly different: vaguely androgynous, with a fry

FOR THE NOSTALGIA

Beyoncé·For the Nostalgia·In Depth·Music·Retrospectives

Happy B’Day: Celebrating Beyoncé’s sophomore album

September 4, 2016

9/4/06: B’DAY. When she dropped her sophomore album, Beyoncé still had a lot to prove. Hot off the heels of her debut solo album, Dangerously

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The Gift: Beyoncé’s most underrated body of work

July 19, 2020

JULY 19, 2019 Beyoncé has recorded an extensive body of work over the course of her twenty plus year career in the music industry.

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Music Box: Mariah Carey’s first Diamond Moment

August 30, 2018

By 1993 Mariah Carey had established herself as the Pop “It” girl in the United States. With six #1 singles on the Billboard Hot

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Aretha Franklin’s ‘Sweet Passion’ Yielded Mixed Results

May 19, 2022

Very little has been written about Aretha Franklin’s 1977 album Sweet Passion. Of the three most significant written accounts of Aretha’s life, none of

Featured·Mariah Carey·Music·Retrospectives

“#Beautiful,” Mariah Carey’s Summer Hit That Got Away

May 6, 2023

With a musical catalog as expansive as Mariah Carey’s, casual listeners will surely come across a multitude of hits they’ll know by heart. But

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M!ssundaztood: How P!nk Defined Herself by Defying Expectation

November 20, 2021

November 20, 2001, Enter M!ssundaztood Alecia “P!nk” Moore hit the scene in 2000 with Can’t Take Me Home, her debut album that was largely a pop-tinged R&B