Saturday, February 13, 2010

Song #74: Boyz II Men featuring Mariah Carey - "One Sweet Day"


Eugh, remember that awful cheesy I'll Make Love To You song? Boyz II Men did that, and apparently did a lot more. That's fucking scary. Read this shit:

Based on sales, Boyz II Men is the most successful R&B male vocal group of all time. They recorded five number 1 R&B successes between 1992 and 1997 and have sold more than 60 million albums.Three of its number 1 hits, "End of the Road", "I'll Make Love to You", and "One Sweet Day" (with Mariah Carey), set and exceeded records for the longest period of time a single remained scored at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; "One Sweet Day" still holds the record.
That's from their Wikipedia page. Frightening how successful this crap was, man.

Anyway, I heard their other "hit" with Mariah Carey (god, she was even more of a joke in the nineties than she is now) whilst watching a top 10 on Vh1. For best funeral songs! Who makes these fucking things?
The point is that they could all sing incredibly well. Any record exec with his hands down his pants could tell you that. But there's no soul to this, despite that supposedly being in the title of their freakin' genre. It's all commercially-vying warbles and cheesy production. Next plz.

FINAL RATING (/10): 2.5

x
David

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  3. Wow. This is an interesting take on the most successful song of the last decade. What makes you think they don't sing with "soul" in this song? This song is definitely not devoid of emoting or soul. You seem to have taken the route that every aspiring "writer" would, by bashing something commercial successful for the hell of it. Go back and listen to this record again, read up on how it came about and it's impact on songs thereafter. Boyz II Men and Mariah actually wrote this song. They didnt hire super writers or producers to craft this to be a hit. They also wrote it about very real deaths in their lives. That's part of being a writer, doing your homework. As Far as the Mariah comment, stick to the music reviews. You're calling the most successful artist of the last 20 years a joke....again I say go back and do your homework and see how Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men both redefined the Genres of Pop/RnB/Soul, spearheaded New Jack Swing and laid the foundation for Pop/Rnb/Hip Hop music as we know it today

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  4. I don't know, man. Mariah is only popular in sales numbers. I think she only sold so much because of how many copies of her albums that Columbia House shipped to people in the 90s.

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