Mariah Carey, “Vision of Love” | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

On the 11^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2022), we recollect and reflect on “Vision of Love” by Mariah Carey.

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he vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome – we don’t discriminate ‘round here! On the 11^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2022), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Vision of Love”, performed by 🎙 Mariah Carey.

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Theme & Lyrics ✍ 

“Treated me kind / Sweet destiny / Carried me through desperation / To the one that was waiting for me.” Those memorable lyrics hail from the iconic 🎙 Mariah Carey record, 🎵 “Vision of Love”. Carey continues, “It took so long / Still I believed / Somehow the one that I needed / Would fine me eventually.” Sigh! “Vision of Love” appears on the 🏆 Grammy winner’s 1990 debut album, 💿 Mariah Carey. It’s a marvelous opening statement, setting the tone for a truly illustrious career.  Furthermore, “Vision of Love” spent four weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of many hits by Mimi.

The brilliant “Vision of Love” was written by Carey and 🎼✍ Ben Margulies.  The record finds Carey singing about an infatuated heart that is ultimately fulfilled.  “I’m so thankful that I’ve received / The answer that heaven / Has sent down to me,” she proclaims.  Woo, that’s deep Mariah!  Also, divinely romantic! Carey sings angelically, flaunting her anointed pipes.  Her tone! Those runs! The famous whistle tones! Producing this utterly sublime, big-voiced, high-flying ballad are 🎛 Rhett Lawrence and 🎛 Narada Michael Walden.  Given the time (again, 1990), “Vision of Love” sounds slick.

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Final Thoughts 💭 

In the 2020s, more than three decades after it was released, “Vision of Love” remains a crown jewel.  This is one of the best songs in the Mariah Carey catalog, period. R&B doesn’t sound like this anymore mind you, but still, the moment this record comes on, it’s instantly recognizable.  It totally feels right, particularly given those love-driven vibes!

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🎙 Mariah Carey • 💿 Mariah Carey • 🏷 Columbia • 🗓 1990
Mariah Carey, “Vision of Love”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 11 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Columbia, cotton bro,  The Musical Hype]

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