emotions ─ the growls music box ─ the richness / fullness music box tour ─ the creativity daydream / daydream tour ─ the BELTS (ex. london !!) butterfly ─ the rasp
93 and 95, my lord the control was out of this world. Everything was so effortless, it’s like she knew exactly what was going to come out of her mouth at any given moment
In a sense butterfly tone fits this song the most because of the rasp which gave more meaning to the song since it became more soulful however daydreams ease was amazing for this song.
1993 - 1996 definitely is the best era for this song. She could easily interact with the fans without struggling with the high notes. Meanwhile, the Butterfly era one sounded really hurt, it likes she was damaging her voice unintentionally with those notes.
Proctors and MSG>>>> Love the fullness and resonance on E5 from proctor and MSG has the most perfect F#5’s! Overall I feel like 95’ fully transformed the studio and fleshed it out more
1998, Beacon's Theater. I don't care for the others as I don't care for light, youthful, girly voices, and Mariah sounded like a girl trying to sound like a grown woman in those earlier performances. She came into her own vocally during the Butterfly era (although Emotions is my favorite album of hers; severely underrated).
1996 / Rotterdam Ahoy performance left me GOOPED- I still don't get how she got her voice to sound so light and girly yet powerful that year...and the agility and resonance was insane !!! its different compared to 1995 vocals even...It would've been interesting if we got an album with this sound, I know most people would point to Butterfly but even to me the vocals on Butterfly are still different then what she was performing live the majority of 1996. Her voice will forever have me in awe and I love how it always changes heh.
I hope one day she speaks openly about her different approaches to singing in these years and how she got them to sound the way they did and her reasonings as to why she kept changing it up :D
