Reacting to BUTTERFLY Live Performances!
Added 2024-09-25 02:38:51 +0000 UTCSomething changed with this album cycle...
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I totally get that you don’t feel The Roof. That is a song that was a skip for me. I didn’t appreciate it until months or even years after listening to the Butterfly album.
Joshua Sanders
2024-11-23 03:28:50 +0000 UTCYou really have to do her live duet with Micheal Bolton before she was known to the public. It’s called We’re Not Makin Love Anymore’
Justin
2024-10-10 15:12:14 +0000 UTCIf I'm honest my favorite version of the roof is the newer version with her and Brandy on the backgrounds you can understand the lyrics more and Brandys backgrounds and runs just made me fall in love with it even more so maybe check out the remake of the roof before the final verdict lol
Sean
2024-10-02 18:52:35 +0000 UTCThe best part of “the roof” was the crackle of your candy bag. 🤪
Powder Blue
2024-09-28 05:22:37 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday! Also you have to react to My All SNL performance and Butterfly from Letterman
Adrian
2024-09-25 06:23:23 +0000 UTCHonestly The Roof is a snooze fest live lmao
Daniel Carey
2024-09-25 04:27:00 +0000 UTCJust to explain the meaning of her next song "Petals" in Rainbow album which her most personal & vulnerable What I really want to talk about are the lyrics, because this song is by far the most honest I have ever heard by Mariah. She starts off by talking about how she has always "sought stability" and wonders if "there's ever been a perfect family". This is referencing her parents' divorce when she was very young, and how her family has been separated since she was just a little kid (Mariah and her brother lived with her mom, her sister with her father). She then talks about how a "flower" (her sister, Allison, who was a drug addict and prostitute at one point) changed and started "flailing in the wind". She then says that she misses the dandelion, and even loves her; however, she wishes that there was a way to trust her sister and how it hurts to touch her. Now comes the part that talks about her first husband, Tommy Mottola. She calls him a "patriarch", implying that he was an older male figure rather than a real lover, and says that she was "resigned to spend my life within a maze of misery". She was able to bond with his children from a prior marriage (even going as far as to call them "little sis and little brother"). She then admits that she "stayed so long" but she "fled to save my sanity", referring to her escaping from Tommy Mottola. These two verses show how much she cared about those two children, who she befriended, but ultimately, her own sanity and well-being was more important to her. This part is where she starts to get a little darker. She states that "So many I considered closest to me/Turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully". She also says, "Although that knife was chipping away at me/They turned their eyes away and went home to sleep". This verse explains how when Mariah decided to do what she wanted, people she was close to decided to sell her out and ignored her, even when she was at her lowest (which wasn't even at this point in her life, yet). This next part of the song talks about Tommy Mottola again, admitting that Mariah has "lost a lot of life, but I'll recover". This is referring to Mottola controlling her whole career and having a grasp over her entire life for the years where most people grow dramatically and explore life. This next part is directed towards Mottola specifically, almost like a message: "Though I know you really like to see me suffer/Still I wish that you and I'd forgive each other/'Cause I miss you, Valentine, and really loved you". Mariah is claiming that her ex would like to see her not do well in life, but she still has strong feelings for him and really did love him. She even calls him by his former production name, "Valentine". The final part of the song has Mariah saying that "I tried so hard/But you drove me away/To preserve my sanity". She wanted to stay in the relationship and love him, but his excessive control and stranglehold over her life caused her to split from him, so she wouldn't go crazy and live a terrible life. The outro is kind of symbolic of the theme of petals flying away from their original home/flower. Mariah sings, "And I found the strength to break away", and finally says "Fly". While some people flying away from their "flower" (e.g. Alison) got into bigger problems, Mariah flew away from her "flower" and is now in a much better place.
Mil
2024-09-25 04:19:15 +0000 UTCMariah re released Whenever You Call as a duet with Brian in 1998.
Daniel Carey
2024-09-25 04:05:16 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Mil
2024-09-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTCI believe close my eyes is also about growing up in a toxic/abusive family in her book she said there was a lot of fighting that's y she loves Xmas cuz she never really had a good one growing up
Johnnyg543
2024-09-25 03:40:34 +0000 UTC
