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E=MC2
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews What's this?

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 382 Ratings

  • Summary: The follow-up to 2005's "The Emancipation of Mimi" features T-Pain, Damian Marley, and Young Jeezy as guests.

Top Track

Touch My Body
MC, uh uh uh Any place to be I know that you been waitin' for it, I'm waitin' too In my imagination I be all up on you I know you got that fever for... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    The result is a largely enjoyable mix of flirtatious club jams, midtempo love songs, and emotional ballads anchored by hip hop beats that hansomely showcase the singer's powerful vocal range. [18 Apr 2008, p.63]
  2. Blender
    80
    E=MC2 is Carey's most-fun album, and her best.
  3. The Guardian
    80
    She is on fine vocal form throughout E=MC2, whether belting out massive ballads ('Thanx 4 Nothin') or layering her voice into a swooning bank of a hundred Mariahs ('I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time').
  4. Prefix Magazine
    70
    It’s all pretty cohesive, yet the album relies too heavily on its slick production and lyrical arrangements.
  5. AllMusic
    60
    Like so much of "Emancipation" and E=MC2, which is a virtual replica of its predecessor in almost every way, 'Touch My Body' is all about sound, rhythm, and texture and not so much about song, something that helps sustain Mariah Carey's run at the top the charts, but something that also pushes melodic hooks, and in the process singing, into the background.
  6. NOW Magazine
    60
    There is some insubstantial filler here, but more often than not, E = MC2 hits the mark.
  7. cokemachineglow
    25
    Even the fun disco of 'I’m That Chick' is too little, too late for E=MC²--an album that proves just how easy it is for a well-funded virtuoso and the world’s best hitmakers to create a steaming pile of shit.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 91
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 91
  3. Negative: 17 out of 91
  1. JamesF.
    Apr 17, 2008
    10
    Best album of the year hands down.
  2. HassH.
    May 21, 2008
    10
    The best of all MC albums, and most importantly: the best of all female singers today. Superb album
  4. italoverdade
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    album with great commercial potential as well as mixtures one Mariá more fri and classy, dipping into R & B and hip hop if not for thealbum with great commercial potential as well as mixtures one Mariá more fri and classy, dipping into R & B and hip hop if not for the mismanagement of his label would have been higher than the last.… Expand
  5. GinoD
    Apr 26, 2008
    9
    Not a disappointing follow-up to MIMI. Hip-pop-soul at it best!
  6. ClifC.
    May 30, 2008
    8
    A 8 only because of the overproduction and one or two songs ("O.O.C." & "Thanx 4 Nothin'") that I can hardly listen. Since the Butterfly A 8 only because of the overproduction and one or two songs ("O.O.C." & "Thanx 4 Nothin'") that I can hardly listen. Since the Butterfly album, she has released with E=MC2 her best album.… Expand
  7. AaronM
    Apr 16, 2008
    6
    This album deserves a 6.5. I think this album is mistitled. The title would have you believe it'd be as fun and free as "Emancipation of This album deserves a 6.5. I think this album is mistitled. The title would have you believe it'd be as fun and free as "Emancipation of Mimi" and more! But on the contrary, it is more relaxed. It peaks when it is real and soulful, like I Stay in Love, I Wish You Well, and Love Story. And it falls flat on all pop songs except Touch My Body. It's not an emancipation album, but it's still meaningful and promising.… Expand
  8. JohnnyR.
    Apr 14, 2008
    0
    I could not be any more disappointed!!! I was so bored by the whole thing. Migrate gave me a migraine! It's trying hard to be I could not be any more disappointed!!! I was so bored by the whole thing. Migrate gave me a migraine! It's trying hard to be "Emancipation" but it's really mediocre-annoying-diva at best.… Expand

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