- 01DaydreamMariah CareyLate in 1995, Mariah Carey released her fifth album, Daydream , which earned her some of the best reviews of her career and also contained some of her biggest singles: “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” and “ …from the chapter
- 02“Fantasy”Mariah CareyLate in 1995, Mariah Carey released her fifth album, Daydream , which earned her some of the best reviews of her career and also contained some of her biggest singles: “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” and “Always Be My Baby.” Daydream was nominated for six Grammy Awards, and early …from the chapter
- 03“One Sweet Day”Mariah CareyLate in 1995, Mariah Carey released her fifth album, Daydream , which earned her some of the best reviews of her career and also contained some of her biggest singles: “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” and “Always Be My Baby.” Daydream was nominated for six Grammy Awards, and early …from the chapter
- 04“Always Be My Baby”Mariah CareyLate in 1995, Mariah Carey released her fifth album, Daydream , which earned her some of the best reviews of her career and also contained some of her biggest singles: “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” and “Always Be My Baby.” Daydream was nominated for six Grammy Awards, and early …from the chapter
- 05Brown SugarD’AngeloDavid Bauder of the Associated Press was typical with his preview: “At the risk of sounding like a broken record (scratched CD), give it to Carey.” (One of the other artists with multiple nominations that year was D’Angelo, with three for Brown Sugar .)from the chapter
- 06“The Roof”Mariah Carey“The Roof,” a 1998 song about a rooftop assignation from her Butterfly album, had always seemed like a kind of fantasy, a Romeo and Juliet update, but the book makes it clear that it was about a rooftop kiss with Derek Jeter in the waning year of her marriage to Mottola.from the chapter
- 07ButterflyMariah Carey“The Roof,” a 1998 song about a rooftop assignation from her Butterfly album, had always seemed like a kind of fantasy, a Romeo and Juliet update, but the book makes it clear that it was about a rooftop kiss with Derek Jeter in the waning year of her marriage to Mottola.from the chapter
- 08RainbowMariah CareyFor the album after Butterfly, Rainbow , Mariah wanted to release the highly personal “Can’t Take That Away (Mariah’s Theme)” as a single.from the chapter
- 09“Can’t Take That Away (Mariah’s Theme)”Mariah CareyFor the album after Butterfly, Rainbow , Mariah wanted to release the highly personal “Can’t Take That Away (Mariah’s Theme)” as a single.from the chapter
- 10HIStoryMichael JacksonThe album was a double, called HIStory , and it was divided into HIStory Begins , which had fifteen of his greatest solo hits up until that point, and HIStory Continues , with fifteen new songs.from the chapter
- 11HIStory BeginsMichael JacksonThe album was a double, called HIStory , and it was divided into HIStory Begins , which had fifteen of his greatest solo hits up until that point, and HIStory Continues , with fifteen new songs.from the chapter
- 12HIStory ContinuesMichael JacksonThe album was a double, called HIStory , and it was divided into HIStory Begins , which had fifteen of his greatest solo hits up until that point, and HIStory Continues , with fifteen new songs.from the chapter
- 13“Your Ways”the JacksonsI’m thinking of two in particular, “Your Ways,” from the Jacksons’ Triumph in 1980 (written by Jackie but sung by Michael) and “Working Day and Night,” from Off the Wall .from the chapter
- 14Triumphthe JacksonsI’m thinking of two in particular, “Your Ways,” from the Jacksons’ Triumph in 1980 (written by Jackie but sung by Michael) and “Working Day and Night,” from Off the Wall .from the chapter
- 15Off the WallMichael JacksonI’m thinking of two in particular, “Your Ways,” from the Jacksons’ Triumph in 1980 (written by Jackie but sung by Michael) and “Working Day and Night,” from Off the Wall .from the chapter
- 16“You Don’t Love Me, Baby”Junior WellsIf you pan up from the white cuffs, you can see the blue collar, and it’s fun to imagine stripping away the songs’ sonic sheen and reworking them as a Chicago blues, maybe something from Junior Wells, sequels to “You Don’t Love Me, Baby” or “You Lied to Me.”from the chapter
- 17“You Lied to Me”Junior WellsIf you pan up from the white cuffs, you can see the blue collar, and it’s fun to imagine stripping away the songs’ sonic sheen and reworking them as a Chicago blues, maybe something from Junior Wells, sequels to “You Don’t Love Me, Baby” or “You Lied to Me.”from the chapter
- 18“D.S.”Michael Jackson“D.S.,” a snarling funk-rock song with guitar courtesy of Slash, takes aim at Tom Sneddon, the district attorney of Santa Barbara County, who had presided over the 1993 investigation into Jackson for charges of child sexual abuse.from the chapter