Vocal coach analysis of Mariah Carey singing Emotions LIVE on MTV Unplugged 

Mariah is one of those rare vocalists like Whitney Houston that come along rarely. So powerful and versatile .

I remember hearing *Vision of Love* for the first time back in 1990 and just being completely enthralled. Thanks for sharing your analysis of more wonderful voices!

Omg, this was a great reaction, I love your enthusiasm! Please please more mariah carey

100% accurate. People thought she couldn't sing live like she did on her albums and the unplugged performance blew all the naysayers out of the water. Watched it live and ran out and bought the album.

This live proved she’s GOAT! Good analysis! 🎉❤

She is a Masterclass in singing and songwriting: universities that teaches about music - must include her in their curriculum to be studied. Tone, pitch, range etc just pure class

She is my favorite female singer.

I think Mariah is very smart. She knows how to treat her 'instrument' exactly, and subconsciously.

Truly iconic performance. Her and David Cole on keys always kill me🥶🫠 And if I remember correctly, Kelly Price is one of the back up singers here

Thank you for reacting to this ❤

The Golden Rules of Comping The melody always comes first-your job is to support. If there is any clash whatsoever, then what you are doing might not be helping. Simple is always best. Consideration of register is critical. Low-register melodies can be difficult to implement effectively and often create more problems than solutions. It’s not impossible to make this work, but that’s not where I’d recommend starting. High-voiced chords can put you in the same register as the melody, which can also create issues. Not all comping needs to be melodic. Like anything it is possible to overdo it. Sometimes the musical time in the band isn’t good, so our job would be to lock that in. This could mean playing a riff or just playing a rhythmic pattern. If the music is already too busy, comping melodically could make things worse. The best thing to do is to listen intently and ask yourself, “What can I do to make the music better?” Serve the music, always. Even though we might play something that’s theoretically correct, or might feel good, it could be stylistically wrong or simply inappropriate … or maybe what you are playing is not what the bandleader or soloist wants. Practice and experience will help with making better decisions.

More Mariah, please!

You're correct. Critics were baffled of the vocal abilities she had shown in her first two albums that many don't believe she can sing them and she was just manufacturing her singing through audio technology, etc. They don't believe an unknown pop singer can sing dynamically and otherworldly as she was doing. Hence, she was labeled a 'studio singer' as she doesn't have a full live performance before that Unplugged one. And deym she made those critics cry afterwards. lol

I love mariah carey...she is amazing....and i watch this video ....over and over....i love it...your reactions and how you talk about her vice..i love youuuuuuuuuu

Loved your analysis! Do you think Mariah is actually consciously thinking about implementing all these different techniques as she’s singing, considering she never had formal training, or is it just so natural for her that she doesn’t really have to think about it? I’ve never heard her mention anything about what’s going through her head as she is performing. Thoughts?

2 min in and I love you reaction. You definitely have to do A LOT MORE mariah reactions there are sook many haha. Also you got a new subscriber ❤

I LOVE YOUR NEUTRAL VOICE ANALYSIS! So informative and educational. Is it possible you can do vocal analysis of Tina Turner? ❤ One question. Can male singers produce a whistle tone? 😬

Have you heard Hurt by Christina Aguilera?! You should definitely listen to it!

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I just discovered your channel and love it. I would love to see you analyze Patsy Cline and kd Lang . Thank you.

Id love to see you watch her performance from Tokyo of “Wishout you”, would love to see you break it down!!

this makes me want to hear some Jessie J at The Singer competition, consider reacting to some of those!

What’s crazy is when you hear Mariah Carey talk you’d never think she could sing To be honest she sounds like she’s gettin’ a cold when she talks💯💀😂

מאריה כלכך מיוחדת יש לה כלכך הרבה גוונים בקול שזה נדיר ומדהים . שבנוסף היא מגיל קטן סובלת מכאבים במיתרי הקול שלה ואף על פי כן יוצא לה קול מושלם ביותר ❤

I think this song showcases Mariah's full vocal ability. Of course, she tends to overdo what she can do ... just because she can. Sometimes, less really is more!

'' Emotions' ' Gabriel Henrique, Reaction

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I'm not familiar with your channel. Do you do this for male vocalists too?

Please do Amel Larreieux For Real, I feel her whistle register is smoother than Mariahs

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How in the world according to garp is this "unplugged"? I'm not a fan I find this style of singing IMO it's obnoxious.

What about Alicia Keys 😏 ?

I have listened to Mariah Carey for years. I think she is lousy and her voice is painful to listen to because the pitch is too high for my ears. It actually hurts to listen to. If it wasn’t for the high pitch I would probably be a fan. My ears can’t take her pitch.

I am NOT a Mariah fan. To me, all she does is scream and that's NOT singing. Just my opinion.

Mariah's range was mind-blowing at the time, especially the rare high E (E7) on the original studio recording of this track.

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Also the band is „fire“, the pianist, the bass, the BGB choir! And I love her „flying hands“ with which she paints her runs into the air!

Completely agree with you and share the same thoughts about Mariah's intuitive use of her instrument. The fact that she veered from from traditional vocal training and learned how to sing with nodules always led me to believe that she has this incredible intuition with controlling her vocal cords, larynx, etc all to such a degree that she's entirely gotten 100% out of what she could possibly do. It's evidenced by her ability to control the texture/color of her voice throughout her entire range, her unparalleled ability to phonate in whistle register, and just the crazy idea that she has vibrato in whistle register and can change the breathiness of the whistle tone. It's come at a cost, obviously, but I don't hate on a woman who's stretched her talent to share her gifts and her music. She's already given so much and I'm just here to support her for being the soundtrack to my life.

I'm a Metal guy, but I freaked out when I first heard "Vision of Love".

*laughs at the fangirling* Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for the reaction and have a great weekend.

My favorite thing about Mariah which to her was both a blessing and a curse is her perfectionism, one of the greatest vocalists EVER wasn't satisfied during her prime until her live performances were either as good as the recordings or better, and yes she definitely proved herself with this concert, this MTV unplugged album was one of the series best sellers and one of her classics. I agree with you she is a Diva in the best possible way, loved your reaction 💖

The greatest vocalist to ever pick up a mic 🎤🎶 Her voice is just magic. Can you react to Mariah’s “Without You” live @ Tokyo Dome! They’re legendary performances 💯🔥

Sometimes I have to remind myself she’s human and then I’m even more mind blown cause SHE IS JUST INCREDIBLE! Thanks for the reaction and teaching about the voice and singing!

"All hail and bow to Mariah Carey, The Queen of Divas, Protector of the vocal skills from the realm, Archiduchess of Vocal range/registers, Empress of agility, The unmatched, The Mellisma mother, The Goddess of Songwriting and producing, The one often imitated, but never duplicated, The embodiment of pure success",. My simpleton ears are not worthy of your talent but a simple sung phrase will be enough to heal me for all eternity.

Thanks for this. Undoubtedly one of the great moments in music history, similar to Pavarotti‘s nessun dorma at the three tenors, Whitney‘s „I have nothing“ at the 92 Billboard Awards or David Gilmore‘s second Solo in Comfortably Numb during the Pulse Tour!

Gabriel Henrique sings this song, too. (The unplugged version) It is amazing. Check it out. Great rendition. Billy Boy

Omg I enjoyed your commentary!! You should react to her performance of Vision Of Love at BET in 2005. Its amazing!! And 15 years after its debut! The way she changes up that song everytime is CRAZY!

The greatest vocalist of all time

All Mariah said was that your throat opens when the whistle happens (She never knew how to describe it). Patricia never liked it, but Mariah kept doing it👊🏿👊🏿

My parents bought me this concert on cassette back in the day! So fun to hear this track again!

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Whistle is a tricky one. It is indeed a lot to do with anatomy and how your vocal folds look. Mariah is a special case, her vocal cords don’t stretch and strain at all when she sings in whistle, it’s due to her nodules, so it’s like a second pair of vocal folds which she can switch on from any of her registers. That’s my take on it anyway. That would explain the airy quality to her whistle which I think sounds very pleasant and very different from people who use their vocals folds to produce whistle.

One of my most favorite performances by anyone ever is the time Mariah sang "If It's Over" on Saturday Night Live in 1991........ It threatens to drag my soul from my body every time I see it! When she finished, the look on her face was priceless. She killed it and she knew it...... She is an amazing woman without a doubt!

Never really like her songs, but mother of God the woman can sing.

Mariah Is amazing......AND i love see your face when you talk about her voice..... Mariah Is the best....i love herrrrrrr

Can’t wait to see more Mariah Carey contents!! 😍🥰❤️❤️❤️

I've loved Mariah right from the start of her career and in my opinion her first songs were the best

Happy 30th to this bomb shit and RIP to the genius on piano (The father of Emotions). He played like the track♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👊🏿

The blueprint of a vocalist

Great reaction Bethany. You should check out When You Believe by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey next.

SHE SERVED THE BEST LIVE. Please do the tokyo dome performances as well.

Some of the most unique and beautiful runs. But also can we appreciate the bass for a sec 7:51

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Mariah Carey is diva in the best possible way ever! 😍

Her range is fucking crazy... and on demand too. So talented, gifted whatever. She can fucking sang.

Vision of love is mind blowingly good!

Also loved her vocal range ❤ another inspiration growing to ❤

Hi! I agree 100% with you. She used her instrument in a way that no other pop singer did or does. If she can't do it anymore, well is life. She brought forward a way of singing that was not heard recently (commercially) since Riperton. Of course, other singers had it, like Deniece Williams , but I think, Think, the industry did not care fore it. So, she just said F that, even against her own. Was like Maria Callas, they opened doors for other... Love them or hate them...

The Queen of Vocal, she is the best.

unother level, top of the top, legend of legend,great one top lady singer's. amazing!

She makes it look effortless. That IS the real greatness. I don't know anything about the technique, but she makes it look like as easy as abc. It is an absolute joy to listen.

Great reaction ❤

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Whistle Tone is actually an anatomically diverse physiological Anomaly that is only present in roughly 10% of the Population and is a tiny wisp of muscle tissue with paper thin fibers of vocal chord tissue that has just a sliver of the amount of tissue of the normal vocal chords structure, like a piece of fabric that used to be your favorite shirt but you can't wear it anymore because the material is so worn in some places that you can practically see through it and is so fragile that you are likely to tear a hole in it with your fingers just trying to put it on, and it is located at the very base of the larynx, which is the area where those muscles are normally the thickest in a typically developed individual, which is why I think that it's so odd that I can feel the high notes produced by Whistle Tone being generated at the bottom of my throat as opposed to the place where I am producing a falsetto tone, and without the structure of the throat being formed so delicately by what is essentially a form of genetic mutation, Whistle Tone is not something that can be taught, but it is also Hereditary, and I have passed this ability down to both of my girls who are equally as challenged in fine tuning this rarity of Physiological Divergence that is not something that you can practice without someone else who knows how to do it, and again with it being so limited if I had not chosen to cultivate my own skills and expand my capacity for variations of vocal expression and stretching my own range, I don't think that they would have been as motivated to challenge themselves to hone this skill for themselves and just adorable to hear coming out of the Pre-K Mini ME version of yourself...

LOOVE the reaction! More Mariah Please!❤

Fun fact: David Cole, the co-writer and co-producer of "Emotions", pushed her to use her upper register so much during the albums recording that she lost her voice lol. He showed taught her things she didn't know she was capable of doing. 'One Sweet Day' was written about him.. RIP David Cole.

머라이 캐리 가수님, 훌륭하십니다, 한국 공연 하러 오세요 한국팬들이 기다리고 있을 거예요 mariah carley simger님!great you.Korea going to concert.please. Korea fanship is a endless love you. forget me not Korea's a fandom. God bless you. bye.

This made my day 😊❤️ Hope you do more Mariah Carey in the Future 😊❤️ Btw you have such a gorgeous and luminous smile !! Thanks for the reaction 🦋🦋

This was absolutely incredible! Your knowledge was mindblowing and you can tell you were really having a great time with this.

she's such a good singer, shame she's such an embarrassing person though!

on divadom: i also think it's kind of silly to tell the best of the best what to do. i feel like a lot of the "diva" comments come from people (mostly men) who want to correct other people (mostly women) as a power move, but then they get shut down and their egos take a hit. literally not one person, now or in history, is qualified to tell THE mariah carey what to do with her voice, simply because no one can sing like her. she's the expert of all experts!!! in all honesty though, the way she revered both aretha franklin and whitney houston shows just how humble she actually is. humble doesn't mean self-hating in the same way that confidence doesn't mean arrogance. and let's be real, with a voice like that, a little arrogance would be more than warranted lol.

In the movie Who framed Roger Rabbit Judge Doom did highs when he becomes a cartoon at the end of the movie But he was doing by talking

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September 2024 anyone??

Good old days,Good old songs

what muscle and what muscle??? more technical than im familiar but want to learn please enlighten me

React Gabriel Henrique singing this song, please.

Please react rare video of Michael Bolton and Mariah We are not making ❤ anymore. Sooo goooddd

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Very nice sound!

Hi, yes she was deemed as a "studio..."

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God knows how much I love Mariah singing voice - so much contrast, technique and confidence in executing the highest notes -especially during this unique era !! Just mind blowing

Front row for Linda during Mad Love Tour and one other time. Mariah...12th row...first tour. My favorite song of Mariah's... may just be..." Underneath The Stars." She has soooo many. Rondstadt? She's my original fave of all fave female singers and I have pretty much everything she's put out!!!

You really need to react to something by Jonathan Young. As much as his older work (primarily hard rock and heavy metal covers of other songs, ranging from Disney to Anime and beyond) is... really well executed (his Hellfire in particular), I would love his newer original work to get some good attention. I'm personally very fond of his song "Land of the Living," which (I checked) has him singing in the recording booth in the music video.

More Mariah in the future, mom