Mariah is still on track to release her remix album, tentatively titled Angels advocate. We've pretty much heard the whole thing already. So many of the remixes have leaked now, that Def Jam should just release the shit on iTunes and save the CD ending up in bargain bins and being used as door stops in stock rooms.
Candy Bling featuring T-Pain
Angels cry featuring Ne-Yo
Up out my face featuring Nicki Minaj
Inseparable featuring Trey Songz
The only song out of all of these that I like over the original out of all the remixes I've heard so far is "Angels cry". I'm probably alone in what I'm about to say, but I think Ne-Yo outshines Mariah. He puts it down so well that I'm hard pressed to tell the song was Mariah's originally. I still think "Angels cry" is just a re-hash of "I stay in love", but the remix is nice. Everything else is just sub par. Nicki Minaj does nothing for "Up out of my face". The only thing that could make "Up out my face" better, would be an inclusion of the awesome reprise. "Candy bling" got ruined. And "Inseparable" sounds a mess now. The mixing and editing sounds like it was done badly by a fan.
Tricky Stewart said he'd been working on some remixes from scratch for this Memoirs remix album. He either lied, or he got busy working on a project that actually mattered. Because nothing that I've heard so far has made me eager to buy this upcoming remix album. If anything, Mariah should have taken some extra time, and released Memoirs of an imperfect angel in two editions: a regular edition, and a two CD deluxe edition featuring some of the remixes. I'm sure fans would have preferred this, instead of that disc featuring rubbish remixes of "Obsessed".
It's a shame Memoirs of an imperfect angel got so mishandled by L.A Reid, because it was actually a damn good album that deserved better single choices, better live performances and an actual fuck to be given.
Give it a read: Memoirs of an imperfect angel album review
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