For years, Mariah Carey has reigned because the Queen of Christmas.
With that unsnatchable crown, the 56-year-old diva has appeared completely content material to sit back till defrosting herself proper after Halloween to rule the vacation season with “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
However now MC is heating up a special season — summer season — together with her first correct new single since her final studio album, 2018’s “Caution.” And “Type Dangerous” — launched to the delight of Lambs throughout on Friday — threatens to be one of many bops of summer season.
Sure, 20 years after Carey owned the summer season of 2000 with “We Belong Together,” she’s again.
It’s not so onerous to imagine — you may by no means hold diva down.
“Type Dangerous” marks one other comeback for Carey after “We Belong Together” — from her blockbuster album “The Emancipation of Mimi” — put Carey again on high after a interval of relative decline.
Arriving only one week after the twentieth anniversary version of “The Emancipation of Mimi,” “Type Dangerous” sounds as if it might’ve been on that legendary 2005 LP.
Sampling the Eric B. & Rakim traditional “Eric B. Is President,” it pays homage to Carey’s historical past as one of many first pop artists to actually embrace hip-hop and collaborate with rappers, going all the way in which again to Ol’ Soiled Bastard on the “Fantasy” remix.
And with that bumping bass line, it appears like New York within the summertime.
The lyrics may get a little bit foolish for an authorized icon in her fabulous 50s — ought to she actually be coping with a “computer boy toy” who’s “on the web hacking other girls’ files”? — however Carey can nonetheless pull off foolish in addition to sassy.
(And hey, she doesn’t have fun birthdays however anniversaries, so actually she’s ageless.)
Listening to her coo that “I like ’em dangerous” whereas “I don’t have time for the rigmarole” doesn’t must make any type of sense, nevertheless it certain is enjoyable when the beat is that this candy.
Maybe that jolt of pleasure comes from the truth that “Type Dangerous” was co-written by Anderson.Paak, Carey’s rumored new beau — and Bruno Mars’ companion in Silk Sonic. It appears like mama is having time — and so will we.
Whereas it stays to be seen if Carey can nonetheless maintain her personal on the charts with the Sabrina Carpenters of the world — the “Espresso” singer additionally simply dropped a brand new summer season bop, “Manchild” — it’s nice to listen to her sounding fierce and refreshed. And apparently there’s extra new music on the way in which from her upcoming album being teased as “MC16.”
Take into account us obsessed — once more.
