Daydream (Mariah Carey album)
Daydream ( Engl.: " Daydream " ) is the fifth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey. It was released by Columbia Records on October 3, 1995. As with the previous albums, Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff mainly, but also took over more and more control over the songwriting. Daydream is Carey's second best -selling album to date.
Formation
The album has been very co-designed by Carey personally, it reinforces contains influences of Contemporary R & B and hip hop. The record label gave her greater freedom, but came to doubt, as Carey worked on a remix of Fantasy with rapper Ol ' Dirty Bastard. In an interview, Carey said: " Everybody was like ' What, are you crazy? ' They're nervous about breaking the formula. It works to have me sing a ballad on stage in a long dress with my hair up " ( "Everyone said, 'What, are you crazy? ' They were nervous about breaking the formula for success It worked to let me sing a ballad in a long dress with hair piled high on a stage.. " ) At the same time the new musical course led tensions with Carey's then-husband Tommy Mottola, who was label boss of Columbia 's parent company Sony Music at the same time and had been mitgeplant Carey's career in detail. The more Carey took the music into their own hands, the more the marriage began to break down. Carey took for the album and the song Open Arms Journey of 1982 in a cover version on. It was released as the third single.
Criticism and success
The album received positive reviews. On About.com, it received 4 out of 5 stars. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. In Entertainment Weekly, it was rated B, which corresponds to a grade 2. The album debuted at number one in the Billboard 200. Also in Germany Carey was more successful, the album became even there the top position in the charts, but could not quite repeat the extraordinary success of Music Box (80 chart weeks) with 43 chart weeks.
Awards
With Carey Daydream two American Music Awards could win, " Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist " and "Favorite Soul / R & B Female Artist. " At the World Music Awards she received four awards, "World's Best Selling Female R & B Artist", "World's Best Selling Overall Female Recording Artist ", "World's Best Selling Pop Artist" and "World's Best Selling Overall Recording Artist ". "Fantasy " became " Song of the Year " at the BMI Awards and " Favorite Song " at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. The latter won Carey also the "Top Pop Female". There were also at the Billboard Music Awards prices for the "Hot 100 Singles Artist of the Year ", " Hot 100 Airplay ( Always Be My Baby ) ", " Hot Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year " and "Special Award for 16 weeks at # 1 for One Sweet Day ", the latter the price of One Sweet Day, the 100 was the longest in the Billboard Hot to square one. At the Grammy Awards in 1996, however, Carey was disappointed. Although the album was nominated for six awards and One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men aufführte live, they did not win any of the Trophies. The cameras showed her face in close-up, the disappointment was obvious. Until the album The Emancipation of Mimi, for which she won three Grammys, they did not occur there.