Chart flashback
How do 8-year-old songs by Sarah McLachlan, Madonna, and Puff Daddy hold up today? Whitney Pastorek gives 'em another listen. At eight is "My All" by Mariah Carey.
Confession time: I've never been the biggest Mariah Carey fan... but if I had to choose, this is the Mariah I'd want to hang with. She kept the vocal histrionics to a minimum on this ballad - the one that broke Diana Ross' record for most No. 1 hits by a female artist, FYI - just grazing the surface of the accompanying Spanish-tinged guitar as she quietly, desperately begs her lover to come back.
Even when she lets it out ("Cause I can't go oh-oh-oh-aw-ohn / Living in the memory of your song"), she reins it right back in. For a woman whose strong suit has rarely been self-control, this is a major accomplishment. (excerpt from Entertainment Weekly)
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