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Jody Rosen

4

Emancipation of Mimi

She’s curbed her showboating instincts, reined in her signature melisma and for the first time treated songs as something other than dragons to be slain.

4/5

blender.com

4

E=MC²

Solid pop splendor.

4/5

2

Amarantine

2005

New York, NY, USA

December 27, 2005

4

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

New York, NY, USA

The result is Carey's most sonically and tonally coherent release, a mix of love ballads ("Inseparable") and sassy breakup anthems ("Standing O") that might have been her best album had it been several songs shorter.

3.5/5

September 28, 2009

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