![]() I was on the cusp of adolescence, that in-between time most susceptible to the spun-sugar sweetness of “Fantasy” and yearning ballads like “When I Saw You” and “Melt Away,” where Mariah softly sings “you and me, in a cloud of reverie” and rhymes “rhapsodize” with “if you were mine.” I don’t remember credit being given to Mariah in the 1990s for being a hit-making songwriter in the same way that we would rightly celebrate Bey or Taylor for a decade or so later, but I always loved how Mariah rhythmically bedazzles her lyrics with multisyllabic words like “euphoric” and “incessantly” (in Rainbow’s “Heartbreaker”).Įven now, Daydream sounds like summer to me, so much so that I was surprised to see it was released in early October. And I did, along with filling the CD changer with rap and R&B and making mix tapes by recording songs off the radio, perfecting the technique to hit ‘stop’ just before the DJ cut in with radio call letters. ![]() I was excited to have a stereo with a remote control, a stereo my parents bought me so I could listen to Martha Argerich playing Mozart sonatas to prepare for piano competitions. ![]() Daydream reminds me the click and whir of my five-disc stereo changing CDs.
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