Rainbow
A pivotal blend of high-gloss R&B and intimate ballads. Whistle-register gymnastics meet street-ready hip-hop loops in a record defined by newfound creative freedom.
October 15, 1999 · Columbia
A pivotal blend of high-gloss R&B and intimate ballads. Whistle-register gymnastics meet street-ready hip-hop loops in a record defined by newfound creative freedom.
October 15, 1999 · Columbia
A bright, expensive sheen of late-90s luxury coats this seventh outing, which plays like a hard-won victory lap captured in the middle of a storm. Recorded rapidly in Capri, the production fully integrates street-level hip-hop into a polished pop blueprint, balancing colorful, chart-topping energy against some of the most fragile, autobiographical ballads in her catalog.
How does Rainbow sound next to the rest of Mariah Carey's catalogue?
Vulnerable saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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