Daydream
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Daydream is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on October 3, 1995, by Columbia Records. The follow-up to her internationally successful album Music Box (1993) and holiday album Merry Christmas (1994), Daydream differed from the two by leaning increasingly towards hip hop and urban music. Throughout the project, Carey collaborated with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote and produced most of her two previous albums. With Daydream, Carey took more control over the musical direction as well as the album's composition. Carey said she considered Daydream the beginning of her musical and vocal transformation, a change that became more apparent in her sixth album Butterfly (1997). During the album's production, Carey endured many creative differences with her label and husband Tommy Mottola. --Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
You leave Daydream with effervescence in mind—sweet, stirring, and dominant, a tour de force from one of the greats at the top of her game.
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All Music
A few of the songs are second-rate but this album demonstrates that she continues to perfect her craft and that she has earned her status as an R&B/pop diva.
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The Billboard Files
Arguably her most solid piece of work and among the best albums of all time.
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Est. '97
It has everything that makes an album a Mariah Carey album: the sweet Pop records, the catchy hooks, the big ballads, the powerful vocals and that pinch of R&B influences thrown in for good measure.
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Joshua Tonks
The big sound is still there, but the raw, vocal weight of her self-titled debut and sophomore effort, "Emotions", has been replaced by a lighter, more fluttery sound.
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Entertainment Weekly
It’s easily the best collection she has put out since her self-titled 1990 debut.
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The New York Times
Mariah Carey glides into new territory
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
An tremendously entertaining though subdued effort.
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Los Angeles Times
It has the material to silence her detractors.
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