Need a special song to make your Valentine's Day date great? Mariah Carey is back, timed the release perfectly and brings the sexy to Valentine's Day with all her diva glory in the breathtaking music video for her new love-themed single "You're Mine (Eternal)," and it just in time for the holiday of love. Perfectly crafted Valentine's Day treat, the understated love ballad is the third single to be released ahead of her upcoming album, "The Art of Letting Go," her first album in five years, out May 6.
"We wanted to make a modern classic that made you have an emotional response and yet was still something that could play on radio now," Carey told MTV's Sway of the ballad, which she wrote and produced with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. The mid-tempo tune is a breathless, throbbing quiet storm of a song that relies more on its hypnotic charm than Carey’s vocal pyrotechnics. Instead, she's fairly subdued throughout much of the song relying on a very deliberate delivery to draw in the listener. Listen carefully the impressive whistle at the end of the song. This is a reminder that no one can outrun the supremacy of Mariah Carey in the high notes.
It's a gaseous, breathy, enjoyably straightforward fluffy ballad that feels like a direct descendent of the song that rang in her mid-career renaissance, 2005's mega-hit "We Belong Together:" plinking piano melodies, a typically fluttering Carey vocal take, and a very similar beat. It also fits right alongside the effortlessness of "Beautiful." While not as immediately catchy as that song, this one's got a nice, lilting beat and should keep fans satisfied about the direction she's going in for this latest era. The 43-year-old R&B songstress proves why she's still the fiercest diva in the game.
The Indrani-directed clip finds a topless and glitter-covered Carey embracing the outdoors and lounging near a waterfall in the Puerto Rican rainforest. Whether it's straddling a rock alongside a babbling brook, taking a dip in brilliant blue water or sitting beside an abundance of foliage, fog swirling behind her, Carey travels all across the terrain to sing the praises of her lost lover, played by a shirtless Trey Songz, who is posing for a photo shoot back in New York City, and only looks mildly happy about life, clearly missing his Carey. At night, Songz goes to bed alone. "I want you to take away from this any romantic moments you're having this Valentine's Day and eternity," she said about the video.
"We wanted to make a modern classic that made you have an emotional response and yet was still something that could play on radio now," Carey told MTV's Sway of the ballad, which she wrote and produced with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. The mid-tempo tune is a breathless, throbbing quiet storm of a song that relies more on its hypnotic charm than Carey’s vocal pyrotechnics. Instead, she's fairly subdued throughout much of the song relying on a very deliberate delivery to draw in the listener. Listen carefully the impressive whistle at the end of the song. This is a reminder that no one can outrun the supremacy of Mariah Carey in the high notes.
It's a gaseous, breathy, enjoyably straightforward fluffy ballad that feels like a direct descendent of the song that rang in her mid-career renaissance, 2005's mega-hit "We Belong Together:" plinking piano melodies, a typically fluttering Carey vocal take, and a very similar beat. It also fits right alongside the effortlessness of "Beautiful." While not as immediately catchy as that song, this one's got a nice, lilting beat and should keep fans satisfied about the direction she's going in for this latest era. The 43-year-old R&B songstress proves why she's still the fiercest diva in the game.
The Indrani-directed clip finds a topless and glitter-covered Carey embracing the outdoors and lounging near a waterfall in the Puerto Rican rainforest. Whether it's straddling a rock alongside a babbling brook, taking a dip in brilliant blue water or sitting beside an abundance of foliage, fog swirling behind her, Carey travels all across the terrain to sing the praises of her lost lover, played by a shirtless Trey Songz, who is posing for a photo shoot back in New York City, and only looks mildly happy about life, clearly missing his Carey. At night, Songz goes to bed alone. "I want you to take away from this any romantic moments you're having this Valentine's Day and eternity," she said about the video.
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