Mariah - Up Out My Face (2024 reappraisal)

[Jark]

one of her most underrated singles post-Emancipation, I fear



let's gloss over the unfortunate feature. I love the unhinged, almost stream of consciousness middle 8 - are the Harvard University graduating class of 2010 too old to make this viral now please?

AN MC CLASSIQUE?

 

[KindaCool]

So look who's crying now, boo hoo hoo
Talking about u missing your BOO HOO HOO
.

 

[KindaCool]

I love the song simply cuz it's peak petty Mariah.

 

[Funky]

It’s so BASIC!

I mean I’m the biggest fan of mid tempos you’ll ever meet, but this is just PLODDING…

 

[POP!]

I did like that she committed to hip hop/R&B when everyone was going EDM and dance pop. But this is cute, not a career highlight. HATEU, Betcha Gon Know and Candy Bling are stronger.

 

[Jark]

HATEU is a really good song but the chopped up vocal takes take me out of a bit. but a Memoirs highlight 4real 4real.

 

[KindaCool]

What y'all MEANT to say was that INSEPARABLE is the highlight.

 

[POP!]

What y'all MEANT to say was that INSEPARABLE is the highlight.

I hate that song, which is unfortunate because I love the sample.

 

[Jark]

Inseparable is LUSH

 

[Pipo]

It’s so BASIC!

I mean I’m the biggest fan of mid tempos you’ll ever meet, but this is just PLODDING…

Imagine it being the highlight of a clickety-click, plodding, middling ALBAM. She shouldn't have limited herself to work exclusively with The-Dream.

Weren't the singles from this campaign anyway? Aside from Obsessed which went Top 10 HATE U, UOMF (Boy) and I Wanna Know What Love Is ( ) were just randomly thrown out as singles with a video no less, to ZERO impact.

 

[Pipo]

Standing O and It's A Wrap should have been singles too :Oi: