Mariah Carey

Music Box is where Mariah's music starts to get more interesting than the Whitney Houston-aping of her first few albums. A slight hip-hop feel starts to crop up here, with heavier beats, tighter verses and more groove than ever marking the opening cut, "Dreamlover." Her impressively reverent cover of "Without You" was a huge hit.

With a voice that could stop a truck, a husband (Sony Records chief Tommy Mottola) who
runs the store and only the hottest songwriting and producing collaborators going (Walter
Afanasieff, C+C Music Factory and Babyface), Mariah Carey is the closest thing to a sure bet
in pop music right now. And at 23, she has years to go before having to face a generation
gap in taste. Every song on Music Box, an album dominated by huge soaring balla... More >