this made me cry within like 3 seconds after the song started. I don't know what it is about this song because no one has died close to me in a while. I think everytime I hear it, I think about how I WOULD feel when/if my dad passes away or my mom or my siblings or someone close like that. I love the words to this... it's so touching. Beautiful..Thanks for posting. She was great!
Wow no one can beat mariah carey's voice her vocals are just amazaing i love her singing live i enjoy each and every second of it love you mariah you show what a real person is and a real singer
At 3:42 that backup singer, no matter how good or LOUD she was, STILL can't fuck with Mariah. That woman's voice was still overwhelmed by her, and she wasn't even trying that hard.Try as you may bitch, I'm sorry, you aint got shit on her. And this was an amazing performance by the way. When I see her in this kind of vocal shape, it makes me so proud of her and I fall in love with her all over again and again.
@fukiwow - She was a demo singer around 87' missing classes in high school... and about 88' she probably worked on her debut album. Her first album was out in 1990. Some of the info I gave was from wikipedia(dot)org, some I just know such as when her first album came out.
@Crzymofo69 you noticed it too. she did it also almost all of her angels advocate tour, where she needed to lypsnyc the belting parts because maybe she's exhausted from the tour or whatever. it's not a bad thing she lypsnyc. shes already a diva and we all know what she can do right? ;P
@stevendjie Mariah was also the one doing the whistle notes during the belt. I know it's strange but it all happened because of her vocal nodules. Watch the Japanese TV performance of Touch My Body and you can also see her doing whistle/belt at the same time at the very end of the song.
@TheXwatts impossible? no. It's called multiphonic singing and Tuvan throat singers do it all the time (sometimes 3 or 4 pitches). It happens when a singer constricts their throat a lot, which is probably what is happening here, but inadvertently in this case.
Since it seems EVERYBODY is talking about the background singer. I will give my two cents. I think she actually sounded pretty good. Her voice may not have blended EXTREMELY well like some of you peeps thinks she should, but all in all, if she was singing by herself, I'm sure she'd sound real good.
Did anyone notice that Simon, Paula and Randy gave a standing ovation even before Mariah started to sing?? I didn't ever see someone get a standing ovation before they perform, at least on Idol
That back up singer needed to PIPE DOWN. If she wasn't one of Mariah's long time friends she probably got her ass fi-yad. Mariah was nailing it, 100% live and sounded like the album. This was a good era for live.
sexy body... soulful voice... let's accept it.. her voice is deteriorated already... but she doesn't have to prove anything to us and for those haters.... her voice was the biggest and the greatest voice before but she's only human... we have to just treat her as a legend and not to criticize her flaws... for me her voice is one of the most beautiful voice nowadays even if it is not perfect but it is very magical
whats that squeaky high pitched noise when mariah sings 3:56 - 4:10 ?? someone please tell me... I've heard it in a few of her performances from around this time
@OKzs no. if you had read in some articles. if you have a vocal nodule and try to speak or sing. you will hear the hole of the voice. but not always . try to read it at wikipedia :D and some other website
@SwEeTcLoE I couldn't agree with you more. Leona doesn't have Mariah's range in voice. Mariah is a LEGEND full stop and unlike Whitney Houston, she's maintained her voice. With all the money and fame, it must be tempting to just go to the wrong path and get lazy but she is a hard worker and that's why she is still standing as a true and one and only DIVA.
@OKzs it is not. that sound is the hole of her voice. watch the fly like a bird live 2005 shelter from the storm. her voice is like that too. you can hear the hole of her voice at the high parts :DD
that screeching sounds was mariah herself.that was the time when she actually miming.so the sound engineer should hv been off the mic automatically.but it failed.cause she just wouldnt reach those notes like we know all this time.but its all forgiven cause mariah we're talking about.
the backup singer actually screws up before the song hits the bridge. i know that's what everybody here's the most, but there are several times in the first couple of minutes where mariah looks back a warning look because she's singing too loudly
the last part was totally lipsynced. you can hear her "shrieking voice" at the background, ready, just in case the tape goes wrong.;P she's a great singer, hope to see her sing the song live. . .;P
Sounds like a screetching eagle or something in the background! And you should see the other performances of this song! The same backing singer does the same thing, trying to out sing mariah.
she also warned her Bvocals @ 4:14 where she said "HEY!" .. that Bsinger is ruining it!! I smell sum Firing baby.. ahahha!! MC is the best!! and not even a hight note can beat her!!
@JamieCleaton1 lmao! I don't know...it seems like she's singing in her chest voice and then there's this screetching noise at the same time haha especially at 4:01-4:03??
@ybaby1990 : It sounds to me like they turned her mic up during that point in case Mariah couldn't hit the note and they just had her mic too high...more of a mixing problem than the background singer trying to out-sing Mariah.
@PreciousMariah22 What you are saying not only does not make sense it is 100% wrong "hole of her voice" does not make sense. Lots of people have nodules. Nodules just make you hoarse, and why would it only be from 3:51 -4:13 if it was "the hole of her voice" and not the whole ending... the rest of the performance is fine right? trust me, its the mic, feedback happens from mic alot, just search "mic feedback"
MC almost squeaked, i think she warned her bvocals @ 2:17 a little before the 2nd Chorus started [notice that they adjusted their volume and w/e right after she made a signal] , altho they didnt handle it well either.
@candyblinggg haha, ur obviously not friends with her, I've met her like 7 times and it doesn't mean we are "friends"......that is not her backup singer, the backup singer is off key, off melody etc...mariah wouldn't allow her to sing like that and make mistakes
