Mariah Carey, Obsessed | FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘

In the 17^th edition of FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘, we highlight “Obsessed” performed by R&B/pop extraordinaire, Mariah Carey.

Bring on the bold, FIERCE tracks! FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 provides background information and insight into pop, rock, and metal songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 17^th edition of FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 (2023), we explore 🎵 “Obsessed” performed by 🎙 Mariah Carey.

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🎙 Mariah Carey has a legitimate question: “Why you so obsessed with me? Boy, I wanna know.” WOO! Throughout the course of 🎵 “Obsessed”, a no. 7 pop hit from her 2009 album, 💿 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, she lays out the case for his obsessiveness.  It begins in the first verse, where Carey states he asserts, “All up in the blogs saying we met at the bar / When I don’t even know who you are.” Oh, snap 🫰! She goes on to blame pills for his obsession. Of course, the source of Carey’s diss on this brilliant 🎛 Christopher Tricky Stewart / Terius “The-Dream Nash-produced  track is NOT anonymous. It would seem shots are being fired at 🎙 Eminem, who Carey has feuded with for years.

Both Eminem and Mariah Carey have fired shots at one another to be fair. Carey just happened to turn “Obsessed” into a multiplatinum single.  Those shots are endless, with Carey boldly proclaiming, “You a mom and pop, I’m a corporation / I’m the press conference, you a conversation.” Da-yum! Of course, the centerpiece is the chorus, with magnificent lines like, “Lying that you’re sexing me when everybody knows / It’s clear that you’re upset with me,” as well as “Got you all fired up with your Napoleon complex.” Gah-day-um! Besides the entertaining low blows, the backdrop with its hip-hop driven beat and synth brass is ear-catching to the nth degree.  You might say, it’s quite the OBSESSION!

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🎙 Mariah Carey • 💿 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel • 🏷 Mariah Carey / The Island Def Jam Music Group • 📅 2009

Mariah Carey, “Obsessed”: FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 No. 17 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Conna Lee, Madelin Berry, anna-m. w., Johan  Duran, RODNAE Productions via Pexels; Pete Linforth via Pixabay]