Mariah Carey's "My All," [LIVE on SNL 1998] - SINGER REACTS 

I think this is a virtuoso performance. The falsetto had a couple of tired moments at the beginning, but the rest was such a masterclass of agility, resonance, musicality. So good.

The irritation you’re hearing started coming out visibly in 1997 around when her voice started changing rapidly. I am always fascinated by how throughout her career she sounds different in each era cause she’s adapted her singing style to the changes in her voice. It must not be easy to deal with nodules and not always be able to trust your voice but I think the increasing airiness and hoarseness are linked to that, yet she went ahead and turned this into a signature style, queen.

Mariah Carey is unparalleled !

Your sense of humor is everything 😂. Great reaction. Please react to Mariah Joy to the world live at St. John the divine.

I think this is one of her best performances

Have you ever reacted to Mariah and Luther Vandross singing Endless Love? Please do!! It’s so so beautiful, and their chemistry is *chef’s kiss*. Live your Mariah reactions!!

Totally love all your Mariah's reaction videos. It gives new life and prespective to the way she sings it. Much love from Singapore!

Love your reviews ❤❤❤

17:54 LOL I love your sense of humor. And... love Mariah reactions!

I love your mariah reactions and analysis

Lol i get so excited whenever you pause and explain the techniques and demonstrate/show the differences. I’m such a vocal nerd. And yes!! Please do a deep dive on Mariah’s vocals and this song’s riffs and runs!❤❤❤

I love the way you react!!

Very solid reaction!!! Love you and the energy you bring❤❤❤❤

Your reaction to and vocal explanation of this performance is such perfection 🥹❤️😍

I loved this! This channel and Erika never fail to make me smile. We also get to learn so much. And you chose a true beauty of a record, "My All." - I hope you're feeling better, Erika!

soo good thank u for this 🤍

I love how you dissect every run - because you can! And still paying Hommage to Mariah’s performance. This was fun to watch - looking forward to the next one!

Hi Erika. Thanks for reaction. Very detailed breakdown of her performance. I was able to learn a bit more about Mariah's singing ability. To me she sounded the tone sounded very smooth.

Urgh you make so much sense. So smart! And I love your yapping before the reaction haha.. Anyway let's continue watching this reaction. Sure it's going to be great! 👌🏼😊

Queen Mariah!

I would love for you to do a react on her 2006 GRAMMYS performance, was one of her bests

I just want to say you did a great analysis and breakdown to this song. I am actually trying to find a live performance of her that is closer to what she did in her recording. There are parts that has a long phrases with no rests which is hard that she can't even do in any of her live performances. I believe that's the magic of recording.

As always a masterclass analysis! Sometimes Mariah did things on the record that can hardly be done live.

Thank you; your comments are really helpful for those of us who are attempting to sing this song. I've seen this performance many times and I never noticed all those subtle runs, little flips and other details, until you analyzed them. The hoarseness, airyness and little stops in some phrases are all the result of vocal nodules, but Mariah is a very skilled singer and can make it sound like they're stylistic choices. From this era on the nodules noticeably started to negatively affect her singing. Although she's had many amazing performances throughout her career, I don't think her voice ever fully recovered after '97.

Mariah definitely has the hardest songs ever written for a singer - not considering classical like opera. Emotions, If It's Over, Forever and Outside are vocal suicides!

I love this reaction!! And love how you explained to us (with your own example) at the beginning of the video that so many things can affect the voice. Mariah around this time was going through a divorce and taking over handling a lot of aspects of her career she hadn't before (in terms of business). So there were probably a million things happening in her life that didn't let her rest as much, aggravated by mental turmoil. You definitely should do a video on her voice and nodes but in conjunction with how perhaps her mental state and situation could also affect her voice. Like her miscarriage in 2007-08.

Butterfly Era (1997) was a success time in terms of her career, but quite stressful in terms of her personal life that somehow affected her voice.

I think you'd like to react to her performing on tour. The quality isn't always as good as tv performances, but there's so much worth listening to

Gurl, break down the riffs. Mariah is always top notch.

react to can't let go, pleaseee btw, great reaction

Nice breakdown!! Please react to Mariah Carey Joy To The World live BET 2001.

Incomparable

more mariah!

Amazing performance, OMG that tone, those runs😍 This is clearly not her hardest ballad, Forever, Whenever you call, Just to hold you once again, I'm free, Outside etc...All of them are harder thanks for the reaction Erica, can you react to Mariah performances after her prime? Like "Vision of love live at BET 2005" "I wanna know what love is live at X factor 2009"🙏

She does that to prove she is LIVE!

Yes! !00% want a video on Mariah's voice!

React to her Joy to the World (Live at St. John the Divine), one of her best!

I would love to hear an analysis of her voice

To be the most successful artist during the 90’s is a HUGE thing , she competed with a true artist; boat just singers, ARTIST. Like Celine - Whitney - Alanis - Sarah Mc- Michael - Janet - Björk ……

Hey hey!! Happy Thanks giving! My all is one of the hardest song in the way she does it.. It has almost everything in the way she singing it... whispering,constant register changes,octave jumps, switch between head/chest/falsettos ,run,rifts,super lows,breathy vocals,softness,hardness,intentional lil cracks,vocal fry....ok except whistle register. For me its a very special performance cause it was one of her last completely live performances that aim to sing it like it was on the studio and pretty much mostly nailed it.. it wasn't as good as the studio but the emotional addition made it on par if not even better than studio,which is the last time she did something better than studio and completely live(same goes for that era butterfly). after this she avoided stuff,she changed it way too much or added lipped parts... and all these became a new common for her future live performances becoming the new normal for her and every year those habits became more common till now that she almost prerecord everything and its like 20% live and all others are prerecorded and/or dubbed.. also a new habit she started a few years later (a bit on next album,Rainbow with more noticeable and overdone it at charbracelet) she altered her vocals on studio over pitched them up and it was very noticeable,notes that she never could sing live not even at her peak (like belting A5 + )becoming an obsession with a new vocal style more mixed,very light,bright mimic girly pop sound super lack of vibrato,almost always shouty/screaming the notes earning some higher belts in range but loosing so much quality etc. anyway at 1997 she was still amazing and this was the point she should take a 1 year break and get some rest,instead she overdid it and damaged her voice,her body and her mind... the rest is history.. Anywayyyyyys I enjoyed you video! very good analysis,pointers and great Vibes as always!!

do the mariah voice video plz

I used to think the song My All was one of the easier songs of her to sing, just bc it didn’t have the high notes. Yep, I couldn’t be more wrong.😂

The hardest are My all and butterfly from the butterfly Album which is the most vocally balanced album of Mariah between belts and head voice. Those two songs are masterpieces to me.

Please react to Mariah Carey Vanishing at MSG in 1993. One of the best performances

Give us the Mariah deep dive! Her voice is complicated with her nodules etc but I think you’d give us a lot of insight!!!!

plsss react to her singing if only you knew/somewhere over the rainbow at patti labelle tribute in 1998, already followed you on ig

Heyyy girlll🎉 You gotta check her performance of “Emotions live on tokyo dome 1996” 🥹

Hey ! I would love for you to do a voice analysis on Mariah Carey. We all know she’s always had nodules but what else affected her voice?! What caused so many changes through the years

I think this is one of the hardest ones because of the low notes and the shift to the belting, not necessarily whistle tone but still a vast register change

Reacciona a la versión de esta canción de Gabriel Henríque.😉 Saludos desde 🇲🇽

Erika, can you please react to Mariah Carey Fantasy Live at Tokyo Dome 1996. I just want to learn on that specific video.

React mariah Carey I don't wanna cry Tokyo dome✌️

During 1997 till 2002 she sas always exhausted (overworking and had major sleeping problems mostly sleeping 3 to 4 hours a day for long period of time explaining the exhaustion)

What Mariah song is easy ? 😮 Outside - Vanishing - You are so cold - The One - Vision of love - Emotions - We belong together…… and ……….. she is a legend and amazing songwriter and producer 🎉 🎶 🎼 🎵

Pls try male version of Mariah Carey -Gabriel Henrique. ( I want to know what love is ). His falsetto is absolutely amazing!!!!

Please react to Mariah Carey's Fourth of July

Could you please react and break down her performance of joy to the world at St. John the Divine Cathedral, please?

Also pretty sure I sang this in the car on the way to SH last year and you were shook 😏

You are definitely on the right track. That was really interesting. Maybe look at Ella singing Mr Paganini. She was v young singing it and it used all the shades of her voice. Analyse that. Please.

Question, when someone says someone is airy during singing, is that necessarily a bad thing or just a technique?

😘😀

Can you please react to Whitney Houston singing All The Man That I Need at the HBO's Welcome Home Heroes performance? Besides Whitney's vocals it has great saxophone too! Love your reactions!

Caloy quemada my all version. Please react thank you

Pls react to Arthur Nery- "Binhi" live at wish 107.5 &"Pagsamo"

Butterfly says a petty hi to My All.

Wassuuppp ERIKA! you've just reacted to Mafiah Carey's Versiin how about reacting to MORULISSETTE's Verdion of ' MY ALL ' She's with REGINE V. on a Collaborstions performance Thank You if you do my request!

u should do ariana grande focus at the amas

Please react AINA ABDUL cover I SURRENDER,EASY ON ME,HERE'S YOUR PERFECT,RECKLESS,DRIVERS LICENSE,ALL BY MYSELF😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️

React to Celine Dion Mr Paganini

Hi pls, watch morissete amon, cover song my all

FYI I was the second group of students at USC in Music Industry to graduate with classes by Don Passman and other juggernauts in the business

This is the most difficult song by far, the breathing between phrasing needs to be executed with absolute precision. This performance isn’t her best live of this song, the tokyo dome performance was by far the most accurate execution. My only gripe with it is that the first chorus is lip synced, but I think by that time she realized she needed some space to preserve her voice for the climax of the song, the last two chorus’s.

*the break that you saying is her unintentional vocal breaks due to nodules. she master that and almost everybody is copying it.*

Nah, Whenever You Call is mariah's hardest ballad

Alot of her 97 and 98 performances were like this. She was way overworked

This is the year that her voice started to weaken but I think this performance is the best from that year.

Too much pausing and because u paused too much at critical moments. U missed the great part

Hi Erika. Would love for you to react to Morissette's take on this song, though it's shortened, being the first in a 3-song medley: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2ziTV9EONEw.html

your explanation when it comes of analysis you always point out the comparison between the belted/mixed (or what do you call that) & the head voice (airy whisper tone) then the combination of both. What i'm trying to say the "persistence" you've do that all the time to us viewers. I mean we know it already & it's actually kind of a bit annoying. JUST SAYING.

Not my favourite reaction. Way too much focus on the negative aspects, I was left confused whether she was throwing shade in an otherwise positive reaction or whether she was picking a few positive bits in an otherwise negative reaction. Very puzzling to me.

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annoying … stopping every 3 sec .. sorry i could not finish it