![]() “Always Be My Baby” is a love song, but it’s a breakup song, too. Much of Mariah’s early success had come from using that voice on relatively traditional adult-contempo ballads, but this kind of breezy midtempo jam was where she really excelled, and there’s joy in hearing her locking in and truly hitting her groove.įrom a slightly different perspective, though, “Always Be My Baby” is a song about someone in possession of near-psychotic levels of self-confidence. Instead, it’s her finding a new comfort zone, twirling her wildly virtuosic dip-divy vocal ululations around an easy lope of a hip-hop beat and just letting her voice flow. ![]() The song isn’t exactly Mariah working within her comfort zone. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.įrom a certain perspective, “Always Be My Baby” is one of the sweetest, prettiest, most effortless songs that’s come out of Mariah Carey’s long career.
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