Monday 1 September 2008

"I'll Be Lovin' You U Time" review number 3

Halt! Do not panic! Yes, this is a Mariah review, but I can confirm that this is officially a warble-free zone. I repeat: A warble-free zone. You may proceed without the fear of a warbling, vocal-scaling ambush. And I know this because after much deliberating, I decided that, to write this review, I did actually need to listen to Mariah Carey's new single.

You see, I'll be honest: with "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" for a title, I wondered if it was even necessary to hear the R&B princess' latest offering. I mean, grammatically, it makes me want to vomit, and, bearing in mind this is the sickly-sweet Ms Carey we're talking about, I figured that this vomiting sensation was probably a good indication of how the single would make me feel. But I was wrong.

Okay, when I say "wrong", I don't mean that it isn't terribly cheesy (it is), or that it doesn't sound like something from 1997 (it does), but that it is not a bad pop song. Well, minus the guy (T.I) rapping about "all your booty and your cutey". In the same way that her recent single, "Touch My Body", saw a slick, well-crafted approach to R&B, this does much the same. This song sounds summery, it sounds carefree... and the lack of Mariah's oh-so-famous "scales" means that it is very sing-a-long-able.

Basically, as long as you don't listen to the lyrics, it is pretty inoffensive and very catchy; the only thing I haven't quite figured out yet is just how you're supposed to dance to it. Trust me, I'm working on that. So, I guess that, in light of Mariah's toned down vocal-scaling stunts, it is only fair I forgive her those (terrible) grammatical inaccuracies and pronounce that: Mariah, when it comes to your songs, I have no furhter use for the sick bag by my side.

Please note: I wrote this line before I watched the video.

(BBC's Top of The Pops - Mariah Hero)



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