Mariah Carey, Tony Dize, Lil Mama and Madonna

the music press

tue 5/13/2008

Sweet candy. A collage of Mariah Carey, Tony Dize, Lil Mama and Madonna.

R&B and pop diva Mariah Carey releases E=MC2, her eleventh studio album. Blender calls it her "most fun" album and gives it four stars: "Mimi has definitively been emancipated – from her need to decorate every damn song with more octaves than Maria Callas." The Los Angeles Times compares it to her previous album, The Emancipation of Mimi: "E=MC2 is a little better – the songwriting is more consistent, the feel a bit more natural – but it too lacks … artistic vision.”
Reggeatonero Tony Dize drops his debut album, La Melodía De La Calle. The Hard Data blog digs a couple of dance tracks but is annoyed by the boasting and self-promotion: “I hate to break it down to you, but Calle 13 is 500 years ahead of you and all your friends." Billboard en Español says despite some reggaetón clichés, the experimental tracks like "Permítame" will "undoubtedly leave the listener sweaty."
Lil Mama releases her debut album, The Voice Of The Young People. The Associated Press says Lil Mama is not a typical ringtone rapper: “Her lip gloss may be poppin', but she's got more to say than that.” Rolling Stone gives the album three stars for proving "there's more to her than bubble gum," adding, "let's hope she's got a few more years to give us the rest.”
Veteran pop queen Madonna releases Hard Candy, the "kind of album a record company longs for in the current embattled market: a set of catchy, easily digestible, mass-appeal songs by a star who’s not taking chances,” proclaims the New York Times. “[Madonna] doesn't reinvent pop; she defines it,” gushes Pitchforkmedia, before complaining that “nobody involved in Hard Candy is anywhere near their creative peak.”

4 responses to “the music press: Mariah Carey, Tony Dize, Lil Mama and Madonna”

D@m girl got the body of a godess, you got everthing iam looking 4 ... i love mariah carey.. your so dam HOTTTTTTTTTT.. one of these days your going to be mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jo5e

(C@Li)

wed 6/4 10:14pm

i like la melodia de la calle
permitame is a great song and so is descontrol

an2a dEliA

fri 6/27 9:27am

la melodia de la calle is one of the best albums i heard in a while. the way his melody goes with the sounds. i be feeling his music too. i cried to a couple tracks on there like sufriendo and librame senor. una mirada basto, el amor bailando, bien sudao, avisame, and a bunch of others had me sweating at house parties too. i liked his music since i was in elementary school.

zeci_sagi

wed 8/27 12:24pm

Tony Dize is awesome(;