Mariah Carey Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Popularizing remixes ==== The impact of Carey's artistry has helped popularize rappers as a featured act in pop music through her post-1995 songs. She has been called the "[[Honorific nicknames in popular music|Queen of Remixes]]" by multiple media sources,<ref name="Staff">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/3114152/mariah-carey-remixes-a-no-no/|title=12 Essential Mariah Carey Cuts That Prove She's Queen Of The Remix|publisher=MTV News|access-date=June 16, 2019|archive-date=June 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617114815/http://www.mtv.com/news/3114152/mariah-carey-remixes-a-no-no/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vh1.com/news/n5wfr5/mariah-carey-greatest-remixes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629102553/https://www.vh1.com/news/n5wfr5/mariah-carey-greatest-remixes|url-status=live|archive-date=June 29, 2022|title=10 Songs That Prove Mariah Carey is Queen of the Remix|access-date=June 5, 2021|website=VH1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-10-greatest-mariah-carey-remixes/|title=The 10 Greatest Mariah Carey Remixes|access-date=June 5, 2021|website=Slant Magazine|date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=June 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605035551/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-10-greatest-mariah-carey-remixes/|url-status=live}}</ref> with [[MTV]] writer, Princess Gabbara, noting that it is "no secret that [Carey] goes to great lengths to deliver a spectacular remix, often re-recording vocals, penning new lyrics, shooting new music videos, and recording different versions to satisfy pop, R&B, hip-hop, and EDM audiences".<ref name="Staff"/> Speaking to [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] in 2019 for a profile of Carey's career, [[David Morales]], who first collaborated with Carey on the ''Def Club Mix'' of her 1993 single "[[Dreamlover (song)|Dreamlover]]", commented on Carey's revolutionary role in the popularization of remixes: "Mariah opened up a whole other door, and not many people at that time were capable of that. When other big artists saw what I did with Mariah, they wanted that. She's how I got into the studio with [[Toni Braxton]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Seal (musician)|Seal]] and [[Donna Summer]]."<ref name="Staff"/> Sasha Frere-Jones, editor of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' commented, "It became standard for R&B/hip-hop stars like [[Missy Elliott]] and Beyoncé, to combine melodies with rapped verses. And young white pop stars—including [[Britney Spears]], [[NSYNC|'N Sync]] and [[Christina Aguilera]]—have spent much of the past ten years making pop music that is unmistakably R&B." Moreover, Jones concludes that "[Carey's] idea of pairing a female songbird with the leading male MCs of hip-hop changed R&B and, eventually, all of pop. Although now anyone is free to use this idea, the success of ''The Emancipation of Mimi'' suggests that it still belongs to Carey."<ref name="newyorker"/> Judnick Mayard, writer of ''The Fader'', wrote that in regarding of R&B and hip hop collaboration, "The champion of this movement is Mariah Carey." Mayard also said that "To this day ODB and Mariah may still be the best and most random hip hop collaboration of all time", citing that due to the record "[[Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)|Fantasy]]", "R&B and Hip-Hop were the best of step siblings."<ref name="thefader.com">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/14/suite903-rb-rejected-and-betrayed/|title=Suite903: R&B, Rejected and Betrayed|magazine=[[The Fader]]|last=Mayard|first=Judnick|date=January 4, 2009|access-date=November 10, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911150131/http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/14/suite903-rb-rejected-and-betrayed/|archive-date=September 11, 2011}}</ref> Kelefa Sanneh of ''The New York Times'' wrote, "In the mid-1990s Ms. Carey pioneered a subgenre that some people call the thug-love duet. Nowadays clean-cut pop stars are expected to collaborate with roughneck rappers, but when Ms. Carey teamed up with Ol' Dirty Bastard, of the Wu-Tang Clan, for the 1995 hit remix of 'Fantasy', it was a surprise, and a smash."<ref name="autogenerated7">{{cite news|title=The Summer Buzz: Cicadas and Mariah Carey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/arts/music/04note.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 4, 2005|access-date=November 5, 2010|last=Sanneh|first=Kalefa|archive-date=May 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510132505/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/arts/music/04note.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). 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