only Mariah and Whitney in the 90s had this transition, while Mariah changed from raw, chesty powerful (1990) to sweet, smooth (1995) then raspy, soulful (1997), Whitney also changed from sweet light of spinto soprano (1985) to Super Bold dark and Rumble (1990) to even darker but raspier (1995 to go). That's why they are the most interesting voices in the 90s.
@@las28314 Do not forget the sweetness and smoothness in Bodyguard Era from Whitney. Her black vocal tone is always a bit raspy but the sweetness in 1992-1994 is SUBLIME
One of the reason why her voice is the best to me is exactly because of the change of tones over the years. You can hear many voices all different but in their own way all beautiful and all with different strengths
@@ce3540 I noticed that too. It's like she's trying to have a darker tone but in her live performances, you can hear her voice naturally lighten and sound girly
the fact you're not being biased and having a well balanced opinion on each era and you are being VERY RESPECTFUL! Is just phenomenal. truly well done!
3:15 I've heard that 1993 was when she started to sing "from the mask" in terms of the placement of her resonance, which ties into the heady and chesty mix. If I have this correctly, I believe that a chest mix and resonance results in the sound being placed forward in the mouth, and vibrations can be felt in the chest (hence the names associated with the mix and resonance type). The resonance in head mix is placed in the nasal cavity, with vibrations felt around the maxillary sinuses (just around the nose) and near the temples. Mask resonance occurs generally around the face, especially above the lips, and originates from a vocal placement in the oral pharynx Because Mariah practiced singing from the mask when she started doing more pop music with Music Box, her tone cleared up in comparison to the first two albums, and it only got clearer going into the Daydream Era. It really is incredible to see just how quickly she was able to change her sound in accordance to the music she was making!
Emancipation of Mimi era is also one of my favourites. It seems to me, she went through another different singing style here. Very aggressive, powerful, phenomenal, and even more vocally suicidal if you will😆
I feel like part of Mariah's shift in tone could also be due to Tommy and his influence. I feel like leading up to and especially after the marriage, Tommy hired a voice teacher for Mariah which might be part of the reason why she dubbed her mansion 'sing sing'. Based on how Mariah described Tommy in interviews and her book, he definitely seemed to want Mariah to sing in a more pop style than anything too soulful or 'black' which could be why Music Box was such a 'vocally perfect' era. I feel like Mariah might've gotten sick of that cookie cutter way of singing as time went on and it could be why her tone continued to change in every era slightly after that but also never go back to her debut era sound.
❗️MARIAH’S BEST ERAS BASED ON HER VOCAL TECHNIQUE❗️ 1st - Merry Christmas era (best technique, awesome agility, perfect vibrato, resonance, full and creamy belts) 2nd - Charmbracelet / Music Box eras (Charmbracelet was extremely consistent in every register, her belts were light and easy but still VERY resonant and powerful, strong low notes and whistles, but her voice wasn’t as flexible here and she didn’t use much vibrato) (Music Box was amazing era, bright and light tone, perfect vibrato and agility, strong lows and resonant head voice, but she wasn’t as consistent as Charmbracelet or Daydream era, she sometimes pushed her voice and her upper belts sounded tense) 3rd - Daydream era (her biggest strenght was her chest voice, even tho her mid belts didn’t sound as full, she was still very consistent and her upper belts were supported and resonant up to F#5/G5. Her voice was extremely agile, she had magical falsetto and head voice, her vibrato was pleasant and consistent,her lower register was solid but she had some airy lows, her whistles were accesable and controlled but sometimes weaker and shaky)
6:41!!!! yes definitely! I 100% agree with this, daydream was incredible but unfortunately she should've tooken a long rest after daydream because the tour was very demanding, the SONGS were very demanding and it would've been better for her to rest because she wouldn't have had so much fatigue.
1993 musicbox and 1994 musicbox are different in my opinion. 1993 musicbox is like the better version of 1990-1992 mariah. 1994 is the transition. The way she sang endless love , anytime you need a friend and joy to the world sound similar to what she sang during daydream era.
1994 is different than 1993. But I believe the way she sang that hear was like a mixture of 1990-1993 and 1996. In the lower belts you can hear that beautiful rich timbre from her voice in 1990-1993, but as she went higher you can hear the tone from her voice in 1996. Her voice in 1994 was what she recorded the Christmas album with, it was a balance between both vocal periods.
I LOVE YOUR OPINIONS! THANK YOU FOR BEING VERY RESPECTFUL AS WELL! Mariahs voice is and will always be incredible, it's just fascinating to dissect her voice and see the beautiful elements it withholds! I am super excited for pt. 2!
generally speaking, I think her technique just got better in years and had reached it's peak on Glitter. but due to unknown reasons, her chest voice, or the function of TA muscles, just got very lost. That's why now she can do whistle and breathy mix perfectly, which only require thinner vocal chord mechanism, but can't keep her depth and weight up through her first bridge. Looking back to her residency in LV, especially in 2016 and 2017, we can still see some amazing performances when her chest voice is back in shape, she definitely still knows how to belt out those notes, but it really depends on her vocal chord situation. It doesn't sound damaged to me at all, but just overused and untrained. I wish she could go to some vocal training session to get those muscles working again.
I actually Love her raspy voice in teom era. 💕 And beside her early years, i'm a huge fan of her voice in the glitter and charmbracelet eras. She was fabulous. Her voice always give me chills in those eras.
Her voice from 1990 - 1996 changed so much. More so than any singer I've ever seen. I can only guessing it was due to the nodes. 1990 Mariah sounds bizarringly more mature than 1996 Mariah when it should be the opposite lmao.
her voice changed a lot from 1990-1996 because she incorporated nasality and more of a higher larynx to create that girlier sound, and her voice got more thin. (getting farther away from her natural voice in 1990-93). She had no vocal damage then.
Nice video! Personally I don’t think that the Daydream era is what caused her vocal decline. My best guess is that during the Butterfly recording sessions in 1997 she picked up a minor vocal injury (which is common, even singers with incredible technique like Natalie Weiss/Julie Andrews have had this happen). Mariah probably pushed through instead of resting and properly rehabilitating her voice, causing it to get progressively more damaged and hoarse.
@@rosemont2283 That’s also a contributing factor. Mariah mostly relied on raw talent and whatever felt natural to her but overall she still had a really solid technique for a pop vocalist. Some issues she had are: -She doesn’t use a mixed voice technique in her belting register; I don’t think this in isolation was super damaging because she only belted to G5 at highest. Nonetheless, it would’ve been less taxing on her voice to have developed more of a mix. It also would’ve given her more consistency and stamina. -Disconnected registers: She didn’t utilise or develop her head voice that much, instead opting to whistle (which she seemed to do healthily most of the time). She also liked to play with dynamics using a whispery falsetto rather than doing so with a mix (kind of related to the first point). This is a lot more tiring on the vocal chords. I don’t think these issues alone are severe enough to have caused the huge decline in her voice in 97/98. I speculate that between the end of the Daydream era and the release of Butterfly she picked up some kind of injury to her voice which she didn’t rehabilitate properly. For example, if an athlete were to injure their knee but continued using it like nothing had happened then their knee would get progressively worse and more sore. You can kind of see the same kind of thing with Mariah’s voice. Lives performances in 1996 > 1997 > 1998 > 1999.
@@rosemont2283 what are you talking about? Mariah had a vocal coach and she said so herself. The alcohol abuse during her divorce and label/money feuds is what damaged her voice along with lack of rest.
Great video, love how you explained everything. It’s very similar to how @black music archives, explains vocal technique in his videos, very easy to understand
Overworked, stressed & depressed; that is what it all boils down to when it comes to the abrupt change we witnessed from Daydream to Butterfly. 7:38 The "heady placement" isn't what damaged her voice, if anything it was a way of protecting her voice... think about this, Celine Dion has been using that more and as she has gotten older to preserve her voice. Being overworked (recording an album full of difficult songs with countless takes, then going on tour, then recording a whole album around the same time with countless takes will wreak havoc on any voice let alone one that is already damaged). Add that to the stress & depression from her marriage and divorce with Motorola and the issues with her family and it's even surprising that her voice wasn't absolutely wrecked by then.
I feel like people often forget that Mariah has stated she used to smoke for years before she was signed, that affect on the voice was prob why her voice was dark n got light…her voice was prob always light but smoking darkened it.
This is a really cool video breakdown, and I especially anxious for the later eras since I am not as familiar with them. I was a huge fan during her prime, and then kinda left her, and rediscovered her. (I was very vanilla pop in my teens, but when her autobiography came out with her 30 music anniversary, I listened to everything I hadn't heard before...basically everything post-Columbia, and was quite delighted to discover I still loved her). Her voice had changed but I'm still surprised by what she can do, in spite of aging, nodules, and vocal damage. I do miss that heavier tone. I have come to appreciate the nasally, breathy tone but the heavy, full tone just had a magic to it. Ironically I never realized she was so inconsistent in her first two years. Would you say it was nerves since we know she had stage fright? Or was just lack of formal vocal schooling training (like what all the Broadway and opera singers do, go to school to learn how to control their voice and learn good techniques)? Or a combination of both? (I actually find the incosistency charming through given that her voice is that powerful and her range so vast.)
A part 2 is coming, answering your questions, I would say in her earlier years she was inconsistent because she needed more experience and stage fright was a bit there as well, it couldn't be training since Sony "trained" Mariah for 2 yeas since she was 18 to 20 to become a well rounded performer (singer and stage presence), to correct you there weren't inconsistencies only in the first 2 years, I would say they were all in her prime, but from 1993-1995 they were less visible, then in mid/late 1996 inconsistencies started to show in Tv performances, tour dates sounding weaker in the upper register (Rotterdam) and her having a more hit or miss dynamic than any of her other years before, basically her voice was getting thinner, but the songs remained demanding which only further caused her to thin and that lead to 1997.
Finally someone pointed out the fact that she overused the heady placement for the upper belts during daydream. She went for it so much that sometimes she sounds pitched up. Such a shame she didn't realize this was going to cause some vocal damage she's still struggling with today.
It may be a stupid question but I was wondering just now like when did she start sounding "worse" than her debut from a technical point of view. Im wondering because some people have the nerve to say she lost her voice in 1997 but I think she still had better technique than her debut, she was just overworked and stressed
In Butterfly era she was overworked and inconsistent, but her technique didn’t change that much from her previous years. She still had supported belts up to F#5. In Rainbow era she wasn’t tired. She was EXHAUSTED. So her vocals were even more inconsistent than in Butterfly era. But her technique still haven’t changed and when she was rested, she attempted awesome high belts (Milan show for example) In Glitter era she rested and she sounded extremely nice. In Charmbracelet era Mariah got a nose job so her approach changed. She became more nasal but that’s not a bad thing. Quite opposite actually. Her voice sounded lighter and brighter than in previous years and her technique was probably the best one she had (Music box/Merry christmas/Daydream eras were the only eras who could compare to Charmbracelet) In TEOM era she was more raspy and when she was in TAOM tour, she often sounded pretty throaty and fatigued. So i would say her “bad” technique year is 2006.
Mariah has never been inconsistent in that case every single vocalist in the music industry is as they all strain past the fifth octave. You can’t be inconsistent when you’re belting resonant F5s, unmatched agility and still hitting 7th octave whistles with ease.
I think she's struggling in F#5s in 1990-1991 because she didn't have a developed head voice (that's the soprano passaggio on this note). As she developed her voice in her head (this is noticeable by the fact that she started to use it in the songs and the mix became more balanced) these notes got better and supported (English isn't my first language, i hope yall understand :D)
Your English is actually great! And you have a fair point,but in later years even in songs like Dreamlover (in live versions) it wasn’t that more powerful, i think that she just used a too chesty mix for a mezzo soprano to reach high notes like F#5 ,it wasn’t difficult but it was not easy as well, what changed was that it got *easier* , I wouldn’t say it ever got easy
Your English is perfectly fine. Her head voice was the same those couple of years. Her singing better F#5s doesn't have anything to do with head voice development/changes.
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@@ce3540 no vocal technique is “necessary,” it is subjective. The headier placement, though, did allow her to hit higher notes with more ease, and, she continued to use headier placement for high belts on her later albums, so I feel like there’s a reason she stopped doing it live.
Are you talking about The tone or about technique and belts? You didn't show the lower parts of her voice, how she sounded singing out of the highly parts of songs. I don't get it.
Try to sing a song hundert and hunderte of times..and see what happens to you.. you got tired of it.. you just can’t sing a song thousand of times evry time the same and that ever and ever again..what u thinking? and the other point is.. we all grown.. we get older and we change.. the voice changes to.. that’s all and no more..
@@WhitneyElizabethHouston. But she overworked her voice during the years with the hardest songs that's why her voice changed every year and she always had nodules, her original voice was when she sings with Michael Bolton and it was the closest thing to the pristine condition but then she started to sing professionally and in 1991 her voice was already different .
@@WhitneyElizabethHouston. If someone has nodules her voice will inevitably weaken over time, especially if you can do the incredible things that Mariah has done because it means that you are gifted with vocal skills and an out of this world range but you also have a fragile voice.
@@theshowmustgoon4287 Exactly! Very well said. Someone without technique and with a damaged voice wouldn't be singing as exceptionally as Mariah, and sitting with the likes of Whitney Houston and Celine Dion (actively supporting notes and all). Technique can only go so far, if one is singing at their extremes, being overworked and not resting.
Her tone change almost in every era, that's the uniqueness of The Songbird Supreme Mariah Carey 🔥❣️❣️❣️
only Mariah and Whitney in the 90s had this transition, while Mariah changed from raw, chesty powerful (1990) to sweet, smooth (1995) then raspy, soulful (1997), Whitney also changed from sweet light of spinto soprano (1985) to Super Bold dark and Rumble (1990) to even darker but raspier (1995 to go). That's why they are the most interesting voices in the 90s.
@@las28314 I agree 100%
@@las28314 Do not forget the sweetness and smoothness in Bodyguard Era from Whitney.
Her black vocal tone is always a bit raspy but the sweetness in 1992-1994 is SUBLIME
One of the reason why her voice is the best to me is exactly because of the change of tones over the years. You can hear many voices all different but in their own way all beautiful and all with different strengths
4:12 "the rasp is gone FOR NOW" 😅🥵
Daydream’s mixed belts were perfect. How she did the riffs and runs, both in head and in chest were insanely wonderful too.
It is truly something to marvel at!
Her belts had more unnecessary tension than previous years.
@@ce3540 I noticed that too. It's like she's trying to have a darker tone but in her live performances, you can hear her voice naturally lighten and sound girly
i admire mariah truly, literally has released album every freaking year from 1990-1999. man has she worked very hard! a true legend!
the fact you're not being biased and having a well balanced opinion on each era and you are being VERY RESPECTFUL! Is just phenomenal. truly well done!
Thank you!❤️
@@TheQueenOfLambily 🤍🤍
😂 the fact you are saying this to a fellow lamb
Shows how desperate lambily is
My favorite tone was 1990-1993
3:15 I've heard that 1993 was when she started to sing "from the mask" in terms of the placement of her resonance, which ties into the heady and chesty mix. If I have this correctly, I believe that a chest mix and resonance results in the sound being placed forward in the mouth, and vibrations can be felt in the chest (hence the names associated with the mix and resonance type). The resonance in head mix is placed in the nasal cavity, with vibrations felt around the maxillary sinuses (just around the nose) and near the temples. Mask resonance occurs generally around the face, especially above the lips, and originates from a vocal placement in the oral pharynx
Because Mariah practiced singing from the mask when she started doing more pop music with Music Box, her tone cleared up in comparison to the first two albums, and it only got clearer going into the Daydream Era. It really is incredible to see just how quickly she was able to change her sound in accordance to the music she was making!
Her Daydream voice was incredible.
It's amazing how powerful and full her voice sounded during 1993-1994
The tone changes are one of my favourite things about her. ❤️🦋
She's soooooo amazing that she even gave us so many MARIAH's throughout the years...💕
7:38 Daydream did not hurt her voice, it was the recording of butterfly, the lack of rest and her alcohol consumption that affected her voice in 1997
After 1997* her voice didn’t really change that much in 1997 performances after recording Butterfly, she was just winded.
The alcohol abuse really played a huge part.
I personally loved the deeper daydream tone
It was touring, the Music Box tour damaged her voice and the Daydream tour continued it. There is a reason why Celine Dion lip sings on tour.
@@jant4385 I think it was the lack of rest considering between 1994 and 1997 Mariah put out 3 albums and went on 2 tours
Daydream era was when that nasal quality really creeped in.
Mariah's music box tone is the most beautiful tone ever
Emancipation of Mimi era is also one of my favourites. It seems to me, she went through another different singing style here. Very aggressive, powerful, phenomenal, and even more vocally suicidal if you will😆
I feel like part of Mariah's shift in tone could also be due to Tommy and his influence. I feel like leading up to and especially after the marriage, Tommy hired a voice teacher for Mariah which might be part of the reason why she dubbed her mansion 'sing sing'. Based on how Mariah described Tommy in interviews and her book, he definitely seemed to want Mariah to sing in a more pop style than anything too soulful or 'black' which could be why Music Box was such a 'vocally perfect' era. I feel like Mariah might've gotten sick of that cookie cutter way of singing as time went on and it could be why her tone continued to change in every era slightly after that but also never go back to her debut era sound.
I had a big smile on my face during the whole time !!!
my fav tone of all: 1990-1993 (not so sweet and not so raw)
the most soulful tone: 1997-1999 (raspy era)
the most effortless: 1995-1996.
97 wasn't more soulful than 90 she sounded like a black chruch women in 90
@@brandonthomas5563 exactly
❗️MARIAH’S BEST ERAS BASED ON HER VOCAL TECHNIQUE❗️
1st - Merry Christmas era (best technique, awesome agility, perfect vibrato, resonance, full and creamy belts)
2nd - Charmbracelet / Music Box eras
(Charmbracelet was extremely consistent in every register, her belts were light and easy but still VERY resonant and powerful, strong low notes and whistles, but her voice wasn’t as flexible here and she didn’t use much vibrato)
(Music Box was amazing era, bright and light tone, perfect vibrato and agility, strong lows and resonant head voice, but she wasn’t as consistent as Charmbracelet or Daydream era, she sometimes pushed her voice and her upper belts sounded tense)
3rd - Daydream era (her biggest strenght was her chest voice, even tho her mid belts didn’t sound as full, she was still very consistent and her upper belts were supported and resonant up to F#5/G5. Her voice was extremely agile, she had magical falsetto and head voice, her vibrato was pleasant and consistent,her lower register was solid but she had some airy lows, her whistles were accesable and controlled but sometimes weaker and shaky)
where is debut?😒
@@daydreamera1996 Debut technique isn’t as good as these eras. Plus Emotions and Butterfly eras had better technique than Debut ;)
Where is Fishriah?🤨
@@mariahcareydaydreamera2526 💀
Not people mentioning lipbracelet... This girl was singing 3 songs live and lipped most of climaxes. No wonders her voice was in good shape
1. Glitter
2. Music box/Merry Christmas
3. Rainbow
4. Butterfly/#1s
5. Daydream
What I always found interesting is her tone during Daydream is so complex, it's nasal yet silken. Music Box was more buttery and full.
I like music Box, Merry Christmas tone
6:41!!!! yes definitely! I 100% agree with this, daydream was incredible but unfortunately she should've tooken a long rest after daydream because the tour was very demanding, the SONGS were very demanding and it would've been better for her to rest because she wouldn't have had so much fatigue.
1993 musicbox and 1994 musicbox are different in my opinion. 1993 musicbox is like the better version of 1990-1992 mariah. 1994 is the transition. The way she sang endless love , anytime you need a friend and joy to the world sound similar to what she sang during daydream era.
Never Forget You sounds like a daydream album cut to me.
what about her Anytime You Need A Friend performance in 1993?
1994 is different than 1993. But I believe the way she sang that hear was like a mixture of 1990-1993 and 1996. In the lower belts you can hear that beautiful rich timbre from her voice in 1990-1993, but as she went higher you can hear the tone from her voice in 1996. Her voice in 1994 was what she recorded the Christmas album with, it was a balance between both vocal periods.
This serious has officially pushed you over the top. This is SO damn well done and in depth I keep replaying portions. You are an artist!
1993 had her most natural tone of the 90s.
I LOVE YOUR OPINIONS! THANK YOU FOR BEING VERY RESPECTFUL AS WELL! Mariahs voice is and will always be incredible, it's just fascinating to dissect her voice and see the beautiful elements it withholds! I am super excited for pt. 2!
Love her change from daydream to butterfly tone
I think to add as well…. During daydream the beginning of divorce with tommy had a huge impact on her voice as well..
Her upper belts during the first two years sounded pushed and tensed, unlike during the Daydream era.
ironically her belts were more tense in daydream era
@@ce3540 lol! No at all!
generally speaking, I think her technique just got better in years and had reached it's peak on Glitter. but due to unknown reasons, her chest voice, or the function of TA muscles, just got very lost. That's why now she can do whistle and breathy mix perfectly, which only require thinner vocal chord mechanism, but can't keep her depth and weight up through her first bridge. Looking back to her residency in LV, especially in 2016 and 2017, we can still see some amazing performances when her chest voice is back in shape, she definitely still knows how to belt out those notes, but it really depends on her vocal chord situation. It doesn't sound damaged to me at all, but just overused and untrained. I wish she could go to some vocal training session to get those muscles working again.
I actually Love her raspy voice in teom era. 💕
And beside her early years, i'm a huge fan of her voice in the glitter and charmbracelet eras. She was fabulous. Her voice always give me chills in those eras.
SO EXCITED FOR PART 2
This production is stunning dahling!
Her voice from 1990 - 1996 changed so much. More so than any singer I've ever seen. I can only guessing it was due to the nodes. 1990 Mariah sounds bizarringly more mature than 1996 Mariah when it should be the opposite lmao.
her voice changed a lot from 1990-1996 because she incorporated nasality and more of a higher larynx to create that girlier sound, and her voice got more thin. (getting farther away from her natural voice in 1990-93). She had no vocal damage then.
@@ce3540 She's claimed herself to have nodules since childhood. Considering how unreliable her voice always seemed to be, it seems plausible to me.
I LOVE THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS. KEEP 'EM COMING!
Nice video! Personally I don’t think that the Daydream era is what caused her vocal decline. My best guess is that during the Butterfly recording sessions in 1997 she picked up a minor vocal injury (which is common, even singers with incredible technique like Natalie Weiss/Julie Andrews have had this happen).
Mariah probably pushed through instead of resting and properly rehabilitating her voice, causing it to get progressively more damaged and hoarse.
Plus immense stress, lack of sleep, poor self-care, overworked
Maybe it’s also due to the fact that Mariah wasn’t trained and wasn’t really knowing what she was doing with her voice?
@@rosemont2283 lmao pls leave the internet. her technical awareness was second to none in pop singers. She just didn't take care of her instrument.
@@rosemont2283 That’s also a contributing factor. Mariah mostly relied on raw talent and whatever felt natural to her but overall she still had a really solid technique for a pop vocalist.
Some issues she had are:
-She doesn’t use a mixed voice technique in her belting register; I don’t think this in isolation was super damaging because she only belted to G5 at highest. Nonetheless, it would’ve been less taxing on her voice to have developed more of a mix. It also would’ve given her more consistency and stamina.
-Disconnected registers: She didn’t utilise or develop her head voice that much, instead opting to whistle (which she seemed to do healthily most of the time). She also liked to play with dynamics using a whispery falsetto rather than doing so with a mix (kind of related to the first point). This is a lot more tiring on the vocal chords.
I don’t think these issues alone are severe enough to have caused the huge decline in her voice in 97/98. I speculate that between the end of the Daydream era and the release of Butterfly she picked up some kind of injury to her voice which she didn’t rehabilitate properly. For example, if an athlete were to injure their knee but continued using it like nothing had happened then their knee would get progressively worse and more sore. You can kind of see the same kind of thing with Mariah’s voice. Lives performances in 1996 > 1997 > 1998 > 1999.
@@rosemont2283 what are you talking about? Mariah had a vocal coach and she said so herself. The alcohol abuse during her divorce and label/money feuds is what damaged her voice along with lack of rest.
Our queen in her Music Box era was CONSISTENT while she was sick the entire tour. Legend right there
Say it louder for the people who can't realize!
This video is so well explained!!
Cool concept ❤️ I love your creativity
It’s the result of vocal damage. Soprano singers start dropping keys and changing tones over time
Great video, love how you explained everything. It’s very similar to how @black music archives, explains vocal technique in his videos, very easy to understand
black music archives did a terrible job in explaining artists' voices and going into depth.
Amazing informative video. I learnt so much from you.
This is a phenomenal video
Overworked, stressed & depressed; that is what it all boils down to when it comes to the abrupt change we witnessed from Daydream to Butterfly.
7:38 The "heady placement" isn't what damaged her voice, if anything it was a way of protecting her voice... think about this, Celine Dion has been using that more and as she has gotten older to preserve her voice.
Being overworked (recording an album full of difficult songs with countless takes, then going on tour, then recording a whole album around the same time with countless takes will wreak havoc on any voice let alone one that is already damaged).
Add that to the stress & depression from her marriage and divorce with Motorola and the issues with her family and it's even surprising that her voice wasn't absolutely wrecked by then.
Let's talk about the alcohol abuse, that's where the biggest issue was.
@@bohlalenchabeleng1370 👀 You not lying
@@bohlalenchabeleng1370 What's your source for that? I'm curious
@@Morning404 Mariah Carey herself and Eminem.
@@bohlalenchabeleng1370 Where did Mariah say this? I'm not using Eminem as a source because he talks lots of shit.
nice juicy new amazing video!!!!!
I feel like people often forget that Mariah has stated she used to smoke for years before she was signed, that affect on the voice was prob why her voice was dark n got light…her voice was prob always light but smoking darkened it.
I can’t wait for part two
This is a really cool video breakdown, and I especially anxious for the later eras since I am not as familiar with them. I was a huge fan during her prime, and then kinda left her, and rediscovered her. (I was very vanilla pop in my teens, but when her autobiography came out with her 30 music anniversary, I listened to everything I hadn't heard before...basically everything post-Columbia, and was quite delighted to discover I still loved her). Her voice had changed but I'm still surprised by what she can do, in spite of aging, nodules, and vocal damage. I do miss that heavier tone. I have come to appreciate the nasally, breathy tone but the heavy, full tone just had a magic to it. Ironically I never realized she was so inconsistent in her first two years. Would you say it was nerves since we know she had stage fright? Or was just lack of formal vocal schooling training (like what all the Broadway and opera singers do, go to school to learn how to control their voice and learn good techniques)? Or a combination of both? (I actually find the incosistency charming through given that her voice is that powerful and her range so vast.)
A part 2 is coming, answering your questions, I would say in her earlier years she was inconsistent because she needed more experience and stage fright was a bit there as well, it couldn't be training since Sony "trained" Mariah for 2 yeas since she was 18 to 20 to become a well rounded performer (singer and stage presence), to correct you there weren't inconsistencies only in the first 2 years, I would say they were all in her prime, but from 1993-1995 they were less visible, then in mid/late 1996 inconsistencies started to show in Tv performances, tour dates sounding weaker in the upper register (Rotterdam) and her having a more hit or miss dynamic than any of her other years before, basically her voice was getting thinner, but the songs remained demanding which only further caused her to thin and that lead to 1997.
love these videos very much :)
thank you
EASE during DAYDREAM ERA STILL GIVES ME CHILLS GWORLLLLLL-
Love this!!!!
I just love it
Finally someone pointed out the fact that she overused the heady placement for the upper belts during daydream. She went for it so much that sometimes she sounds pitched up. Such a shame she didn't realize this was going to cause some vocal damage she's still struggling with today.
1996 for me is mariah's best era/vocal
same
True
atrophied. (jk)
Me encanta su voz en todas las épocas. Es maravillosa
The rest of Music Box Tour was more like Debut Era, though..
I think the Mariah's nodules were soft in Daydream Era
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0:15 daydream you get a pass today!
U wouldn't know that Mariah is a natural alto it u ain't heard her early voice
alto is a choral part. Mariah is a Soprano.
But the introooo!!!!! WOWWWW, the best intro everr
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It may be a stupid question but I was wondering just now like when did she start sounding "worse" than her debut from a technical point of view. Im wondering because some people have the nerve to say she lost her voice in 1997 but I think she still had better technique than her debut, she was just overworked and stressed
i think TEOM was the start
In Butterfly era she was overworked and inconsistent, but her technique didn’t change that much from her previous years. She still had supported belts up to F#5.
In Rainbow era she wasn’t tired. She was EXHAUSTED. So her vocals were even more inconsistent than in Butterfly era. But her technique still haven’t changed and when she was rested, she attempted awesome high belts (Milan show for example)
In Glitter era she rested and she sounded extremely nice.
In Charmbracelet era Mariah got a nose job so her approach changed. She became more nasal but that’s not a bad thing. Quite opposite actually. Her voice sounded lighter and brighter than in previous years and her technique was probably the best one she had (Music box/Merry christmas/Daydream eras were the only eras who could compare to Charmbracelet)
In TEOM era she was more raspy and when she was in TAOM tour, she often sounded pretty throaty and fatigued. So i would say her “bad” technique year is 2006.
@@mariahcareydaydreamera2526 very nicely said. Thank youuu
By this I mean that if it wasnt for how toxic Tommy was Mariah wouldnt have felt the need to overwork herself that much
2006
Daydream whistles were fantastic, though. Only first Tokyo undubbed whistle was shaky.
Mariah has never been inconsistent in that case every single vocalist in the music industry is as they all strain past the fifth octave. You can’t be inconsistent when you’re belting resonant F5s, unmatched agility and still hitting 7th octave whistles with ease.
What a lie
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I saw an analysis where a guy said "When her belts went up her whistle went down, & vice versa".
Sorry but Mariah Carey and music box hats off!!!
this the only tone, the world can't imitate
I think she's struggling in F#5s in 1990-1991 because she didn't have a developed head voice (that's the soprano passaggio on this note). As she developed her voice in her head (this is noticeable by the fact that she started to use it in the songs and the mix became more balanced) these notes got better and supported
(English isn't my first language, i hope yall understand :D)
yaaa her mixx was headyyyy
Your English is actually great! And you have a fair point,but in later years even in songs like Dreamlover (in live versions) it wasn’t that more powerful, i think that she just used a too chesty mix for a mezzo soprano to reach high notes like F#5 ,it wasn’t difficult but it was not easy as well, what changed was that it got *easier* , I wouldn’t say it ever got easy
Your English is perfectly fine. Her head voice was the same those couple of years. Her singing better F#5s doesn't have anything to do with head voice development/changes.
So basically her tone became more nasal-sounding and more and more bright.
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I miss the headier placement of the daydream era; I will always wonder why she stopped.
because it isn't really necessary
@@ce3540 no vocal technique is “necessary,” it is subjective. The headier placement, though, did allow her to hit higher notes with more ease, and, she continued to use headier placement for high belts on her later albums, so I feel like there’s a reason she stopped doing it live.
Where is part 2?
Also Mariah is a Mezzo or 2nd soprano. So that plays a big role.
😭 Mariah is a Soprano
1:52 i need the name of the performance rn
So disappointed that she never surpassed her studio performances live.
She did surpass some like with Vision of Love, Love Takes Time, Someday, Vanishing, Emotions, Can't Let Go, and Hero
Are you talking about The tone or about technique and belts?
You didn't show the lower parts of her voice, how she sounded singing out of the highly parts of songs.
I don't get it.
The low notes will have a special place in the video all by their own
i think she slashed some of her nodules between 97 and 98. lol
nonsense. if anything, she must have gotten nodules within that period
You must have been living underneath a rock because she has had nodules since her childhood so she started with damaged cords.
The better the belts are, the weaker the whistles are. haha
Try to sing a song hundert and hunderte of times..and see what happens to you.. you got tired of it.. you just can’t sing a song thousand of times evry time the same and that ever and ever again..what u thinking?
and the other point is.. we all grown.. we get older and we change.. the voice changes to.. that’s all and no more..
So Daydream.... Ruined her vocals.....
not really😜
@@WhitneyElizabethHouston. " Without an actual technique? lol
@@WhitneyElizabethHouston. But she overworked her voice during the years with the hardest songs that's why her voice changed every year and she always had nodules, her original voice was when she sings with Michael Bolton and it was the closest thing to the pristine condition but then she started to sing professionally and in 1991 her voice was already different .
@@WhitneyElizabethHouston. If someone has nodules her voice will inevitably weaken over time, especially if you can do the incredible things that Mariah has done because it means that you are gifted with vocal skills and an out of this world range but you also have a fragile voice.
@@theshowmustgoon4287 Exactly! Very well said.
Someone without technique and with a damaged voice wouldn't be singing as exceptionally as Mariah, and sitting with the likes of Whitney Houston and Celine Dion (actively supporting notes and all).
Technique can only go so far, if one is singing at their extremes, being overworked and not resting.