Mariah Carey - Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (2009) {Special Edition} CD-Rip

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Artist: Mariah Carey
Title: Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Island Records #B0013226-02
Genre: R&B, Soul, Dance, Pop
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 2CD (00:58:12 + 00:14:09)
Total Size: 530 / 175 Mb (Full Scans ~ 176 Mb)
WebSite: Album Preview

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the twelfth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After promotion for her previous album, E=MC² (2008) ended, Carey began to work on a new album, producing songs with Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel would have "big ballads", and that "each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story".

Five singles were released to promote the album. The lead single, "Obsessed", became the album's most successful song, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and reaching the top twenty in Japan, Canada and Australia and the top ten in Italy and France. The second single, "I Want to Know What Love Is", reached number 60 on Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay chart for twenty-seven non-consecutive weeks. Other singles released were "H.A.T.E.U.", "Up Out My Face", and "Angels Cry", with the last two being originally intended for the subsequently-cancelled remix album, Angels Advocate.

Upon its release, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel garnered positive reviews from music critics. They felt that "their team-up with Carey is canny; Stewart and Nash loosen up the diva's sometimes overblown on-record persona", and also "one of her most sonically consistent". Commercially, the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 168,000 copies sold in its first week, and peaked within the top ten in other five countries. It has sold an estimated two million copies worldwide. To promote the album, Carey made a pre-show in Madison Square Garden in 2009, embarked on the Angels Advocate Tour (2010), and performed on several television programs, including America's Got Talent, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today.

Like many big-budget albums of the last years of the 2000s, Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel faced shifting release dates, all as the final product was tweaked in light of disappointing reactions to early singles, particularly the Eminem-baiting "Obsessed." Unlike many of those big-budget albums, including several made by Mariah herself, Memoirs isn't the product of a stable of producers and collaborators; it is almost entirely the work of The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, the team best known for their tracks for Rihanna. Certainly, there are echoes of "Umbrella" to be heard on Memoirs, just as there are elements of the gauzy "Touch My Body," The-Dream and Tricky Stewart's previous single for Mariah, although working with mainly one set of producers does give Memoirs a cohesion that can sometimes lapse into sameness, but not in an unpleasant fashion. Even if it doesn't smack of the confessional autobiography of the title, there's no denying that Memoirs is an album, not a collection of tracks, possessing its own flow and mood, which gives it a personality the slightly desperate E=MC2 lacked, even if it never manages to kick out a song that is all that distinctive on its own terms. Nevertheless, what it also lacks is the pandering, heavy-handed sexuality Mariah has relied upon too heavily this decade – and in doing so, it feels age appropriate in a way she hasn't in a long time, despite a collection of silly, jumbled lyrics. All Memoirs needs to push it over the edge is a great pair of singles, and their absence does hurt the album a bit, but not enough to prevent it from being her most interesting album in a decade.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List CD1:

01. Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue) [0:04:00.35]
02. Obsessed [0:04:02.15]
03. H.A.T.E. U. [0:04:27.47]
04. Candy Bling [0:04:03.11]
05. Ribbon [0:04:21.03]
06. Inseparable [0:03:33.54]
07. Standing O [0:04:00.02]
08. It's A Wrap [0:04:00.56]
09. Up Out My Face [0:03:41.19]
10. Up Out My Face (The Reprise) [0:00:51.32]
11. More Than Just Friends [0:03:37.35]
12. The Impossible [0:04:00.38]
13. The Impossible (The Reprise) [0:02:25.49]
14. Angel (The Prelude) [0:01:04.15]
15. Angels Cry [0:04:01.65]
16. Languishing (The Interlude) [0:02:33.47]
17. I Want To Know What Love Is [0:03:27.10]

Track List CD2 - Obsessed:

01. Obsessed (Cahill Radio Mix) [0:03:22.30]
02. Obsessed (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Radio Edit) [0:03:14.04]
03. Obsessed (Jump Smokers Radio Edit) [0:03:21.21]
04. Obsessed (Friscia And Lamboy Radio Mix) [0:04:11.39]

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