Chris Schulz: Mariah Carey - Here For It All

Mariah Carey is back – and it’s not for Christmas. 

‘Here For It All’ is the sixteenth studio album from the American superstar and her first album since the release of 2018’s ‘Caution’.  

The album blends pop, R&B, gospel, and hip-hop, celebrating and building on every era of Carey’s iconic career. 

Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to give his thoughts on the album. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's Mariah Carrey. Her new album is Here for It All.
That's called Type Dangerous. Christ Shaltz has been listening and
he's with us this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Got a good morning, sir, Kilder Jack. How are you.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm very well, thank you. Yeah. But new Mariah, first
new Mariah in a while.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's yeah. The biggest thing she did most recently was
a memoir actually in twenty twenty, yeah, right, came out
and started COVID kind of a twel all. So this
is her first big new album. Very brave move to
release an album right now. We're six days away from
the biggest album of the year coming out. That is,
of course, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Show.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, I am locked into the listening party with my
eleven year old daughter. We have a route to pick
up her friends we're doing. So you're either very brave,
very silly, or you just don't care at this point
if you're releasing an album now, Mariah Carey doesn't have
to care. She has spent nearly two years at the
top of the charts. Ninety weeks I believe she's been
at number one nineteen number one songs. This is her

(01:22):
sixteenth album. She doesn't have to switch things up at
this We need to prove so this is very much
in her wheelhouse. This is schmoltzy R and B. It's soul,
it's got a little bit of funk. There's a couple
of party songs in there that sort of nod to
her roots. They're the ones my years went to. Like

(01:43):
the song you just played, type dangerous. I prefer it
when she's dabbling in hip hop. That's how she first started.
Her big first song was Fantasy and it had Odib
from the Wu Tang clan, and she did a lot
of that early in her career. So that singles based
on a sample from Eric B and Raking the eighties
hip hop greats, and that's kind of about all she does.

(02:06):
That's why I sent you that song to play. The
rest of it's it's just kind of a mixed bag.
There's love songs, there's R and B ballads. She's The
surprising thing is is just how muted it all.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, right, so we don't get there are none of that.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, it's very hush hush A lot of whispered kind
of vocals. Yeah, but I mean, look, she's fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Four, she's gone under the proof.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
She made All I Want for Christmas is you. Her
house is stocked with personal chefs and butlers for the
rest of her days.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, she's doing okay, she's doing the cost of living
crisis is and pinging at Mariah's place too much.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
The one black mark I would give her is that
she's about to tour Australia. She's doing the Friday's Live festival.
She's not coming here. Yeah, one of the many artists
isn't visiting us this year, So I definitely give her
a black mark. Friday's Live is a festival, like a
throwback hip hop, R and B festival that has always
come here. This is the first year it's Australian only,
and she does Actually, what's a show she canceled at

(03:07):
twenty eighteen?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
True, I remember that?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah, so she does.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
She does.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, so she's doing for Australian shows. Okay, on that
is it? That is a bit of a shame, all right,
So it sounds sort of okay, But she's not taking risks.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, she's very much at the legacy stage. Of her career.
If it came on at a moll, I think you'd
probably just be like, this is fine.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
If it's right, there's a line if it came on
in a moll, it's just fine. Yeah, I yeah, she doesn't.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Need to do anything else. I don't hate it for
that though, Like I'm not like mad at her, but
there's a world where she could do like the Madonna
or the Sheer Thing, where she releases these kind of
like eurotrash bangers versions of songs that sort of play
and ibetha and and get beloved by a new generation.
But she doesn't seem like someone wants to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay, alright, so what did you give here for it all?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's two and a half, that's all, no more, no okay.
If you like Mariah Kira, you'll love her. If you don't,
it's not gonna win you want.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Thank you A nice honest review from Chris this Morning.
You can, of course, find all of Christian's work on
a substack. Just look up boiler Room on subset and
you'll be able to find that.

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