Should say Mariah Carey gives a more sympathetic impression than you might fear.
Mariah Carey
Oslo Spektrum
audience: Ca. 5000
News album, “Me. I Am … Mariah. The Elusive Chanteuse “
In a story that is often told in the old days (oh, that it was told in the old days), and that may not be hundred percent true, it was said that Mariah Carey, when she visited one or another TV show, declined to take the stage for its own steam with the immortal diva words: “I do not do stairs.”
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When she gets carried up lying by his six male dancers, it is tempting to conclude that some things never change. You can insert your own “diva on divan” -Know here. But the fact is that there is a chaiselong .
Whatever. Waning popularity and / or life itself may have made her more humble. For sure is does not give Carey a simply sympathetic impression this evening in Oslo’s grand hall.
House version of what is still the purest pop song her, “Fantasy”, remixed by David Morales played from box. Carey lined it more than she sings it, with cute “oohs” and coquettish “sweets”, before the first high tone inserted at the end, and convinces people that she still has the voice intact.
Trust she “dog whistle”? The highest, whistle-like vocal sound that she heard Minnie Riperton singing, and so did to its own brand – musikkekvivalenten of the Hollywood calls “the money shot”? Whoever tunes våryrt birds chirping and buds bursting?
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Track number two, “Emotions”, answers: Yes. She holds my hand above the left ear and let it rip. It’s fine.
The band sounds relatively small live that, but competent enough, and the singer must be regarded as stunning forthright. “How ya’ll doin ‘,” she says, still with traces of the New York accent, and sits down for the first of many ballads, “My All.”
Mariah Carey was not alone on stage in Oslo.
Mattis Sandblad VG
Scene Rigged is not much to brag , actually. Quite ribbed, with video screens that shearwaters off his cheesy postcard images and / or Mariahs old music videos. The dancers are good enough. But she could not have chosen a few well-trained? (NB. There was an attempt at a joke).
She has with him Trey Lorenz, which she originally sang the verdenserobrende duet “I’ll Be There” with the “MTV Unplugged.” It takes the course in the evening too, even “with” Michael Jackson himself, and The Jackson 5, on the screen. Well blown, but not one hundred percent a fireworks display.
Lorenz, who is wounded in the foot, follow up the track with a version of Jackson’s immortal “Rock With You”. Carey is out and switch to a black catsuit.
A brave male audience member comes up to be affected – primarily by the dancers – under “Touch My Body.” Vanilla-hip hop party is astonishing fun but regrettable hectic. “Obsessed” (which swings Eminem), “It’s Like That,” “Loverboy,” “Shake It Off” and “Heartbreaker” reminds us that Carey, in what we get call from her period, was tired of only singing schmaltzete ballads and instead turned himself into a b-boyprinsesse.
Too bad that these are incorporated into a stressed medley, and that the old videos on display are disturbing. Carey even do not dance anymore, by the way. That I had not done either, on the heels.
Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)” introduces the great balladeathonen which will take us in goal. Carey has shifted to evening gown with slits.
She lacks some force, perhaps, saving up to melisma-O-Rama at the end. She sings impeccable, but one can notice that she strive more to do it – it does not go by itself anymore. This is not just an inconvenience. I imagine that it was a more authoritarian virtuoso experience to see her 20 years ago. It feels more human, this here.
“One Sweet Day”, the hit she had with Boyz II Men, is tiring in its Hallmark sentimentality, but it is only in the old Whitney Houston duet “When you Believe “that the undersigned bluferdighetsgrenser violated. There is one thing that she performs the “together” with the deceased Houston on the video screen. There is something else, and worse, the song is a means for self service ballad of the shallowest “carpe diem” -slaget.
Speaking of such. “Hero” will tonight’s warmest welcome. So what do I know? Just that I breathe a sigh of relief when “We Belong Together,” from the most satisfying her album ( “The Emancipation Of Mimi”, 2005), replaces it.
(We do not get to hear the first major hit her , “Vision Of Love.” that she skipper “All I Want For Christmas” also allows us smooth forgive her that).
A ekstremostete dance performance begins tonight caramel. Namely Careys version of Badfinger “Without You.” It has she never shamed. Carey’s edition has a gospel drag the bottom of Harry Nilsson’s silver boy-ish hitversjon 1972 only hint at. And the song is dødsfin, to the fullest something for her voice to work with. It is the first time tonight I honestly can say that I am genuinely moved.
What you touched off, and what is shaken off, of course individually. But entertaining was Mariah Carey scaled Las Vegas hit parade throughout. No one can argue that her career is on the rise. But that nostalgia considered this was ideal: We met her just at the point where she has almost all the extrasensory powers intact.
And so nice she seemed ‘ a given!
MORTEN NILSEN STÅLE
