| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
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]
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| 80 |
Observer Music Monthly
The production is glossed to within an inch of its life, the mood is cheerfully upbeat--or 'festive' as Carey might put it herself--and the entire confection rings out with bold, sassy, brutally executed intent.
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| 80 |
The Guardian
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').
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| 80 |
Billboard
Carey's made a pop album with equal parts levity and gravity.
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| 80 |
Blender
E=MC2 is Carey's most-fun album, and her best.
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| 70 |
Dot Music
It's still very much a Mariah album--and a very slick and stylish one--with all the sweetness and swagger that entails.
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| 70 |
New Musical Express
A strident, self-assured album.
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| 70 |
Prefix Magazine
It’s all pretty cohesive, yet the album relies too heavily on its slick production and lyrical arrangements.
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| 70 |
Boston Globe
As sequels go, E=MC2 is better than most, boasting a higher, and more consistent, quotient of slinky, dance-floor charm and stronger ballads than "Mimi."
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| 60 |
All Music Guide
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.
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| 60 |
Rolling Stone
Nearly every song confines Carey to four-note verses, offering little room for her glorious range, and the six ballads are drenched in yearbook-quote lyrics that never quite work themselves into the froth of "The Emancipation of Mimi."
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| 60 |
Hartford Courant
That leaves the expected collection of highly buffed beats, a dozen producers deep, which occasionally generates material that ranks with Mariah's best.
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| 60 |
NOW Magazine
There is some insubstantial filler here, but more often than not, E = MC2 hits the mark.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
E=MC2 is a little better--the songwriting is more consistent, the feel a bit more natural--but it too lacks a ruling temperament or artistic vision.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
It is in the same vein [as "The Emancipation of Mimi"], but much less good.
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| 40 |
PopMatters
At the end of the day, however, E=MC2 is nothing more than a shallow imitation of its predecessor, the unexciting kid cousin of an arena-sized R&B watermark.
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| 25 |
cokemachineglow
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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