★ 알 림 ★ ※경축※ 머라이어 캐리 BUTTERFLY 발매 10주년!!

[MariahDaFire]

10주년 축하해요, 버터플라이!!

10년전, 1997년 9월 16일, 머라이어 경력상 역사적인 앨범 BUTTERFLY가 발매되었습니다. 여러 머라이어 팬 싸이트들이 일제히 버터플라이 발매 10주년을 축하하고 있네요. ^^ 왠지 감동적이기까지... ㅠ.ㅜ  버터플라이 발매 10주년 기념으로 새 앨범이 딱 이번주에 나왔으면 좋았을텐데...ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 올해 나올 새 앨범이 버터플라이 이후 10주년에 나오는 앨범이라는 점에서 머라이어도 뭔가 의미를 부여하지 않을까 하는 망상을 해보기도 합니다. 

아래 소식은 머라이어데일리저널에 올라온 축하 소식이구요... 넘 길어서 해석은 구찮아서 그냥 올림다...ㅋ 사진만 봐도 좋아요~ㅋㅋㅋ

출처: http://www.mariahdaily.com/news.shtml

Happy 10th Year, Butterfly!

10 YEARS AGO TODAY. September 16, 1997, Mariah released her 6th studio album, "Butterfly." The release of this album is in hindsight one of the (if not the) biggest turning points in Mariah's career.

For the first 6 years of her musical career, Mariah has established herself as a successful pop artist, a great vocalist who was known for her wide vocal range, her ability to hold long notes during her famous power ballads, showcasing big belts and vocal acrobatics in her recordings and live performances, and releasing radio-friendly hits with sugary lyrics and catchy pop hooks.

At the downside, Mariah was critically attacked for being formulaic, and was often criticized for the use of "melisma" in her singing. Extreme naysayers went as far as accrediting her success to her discoverer (and then husband) Tommy Mottola and song-writing partner/producer Walter Afanasieff.

"Butterfly" changed everything.

"Butterfly" came out two years after the release of one of Mariah's biggest selling albums to date - "Daydream" (20 million records sold worldwide). During the break between the albums, Mariah endured several personal changes which would later affect her public image and career.

Mariah, who everyone thought of as "the girl next door" decided to finally reveal who she really was. At the risk of losing a great deal of her target audience (and as a result, a good portion of her record sales), Mariah reinvented herself both musically and personally.

"I've definitely gone through a lot of personal changes and a lot of professional changes throughout the course of...process of recording this album, much more so than on any other record that I've done."

In 1997, Mariah set herself free from her marriage (which was later only referred by her as "the situation" for years) by separating from her then husband Tommy Mottola. The move was extremely brave of her, considering the fact Mottola was the head executive of her record label Sony and had a considerable influence on Mariah's releases under the label. In addition, she replaced her professional team including her manager, lawyer and publicist.

Mariah also went through a public image change which was noticeable particularly in her clothing choices, new friends in the industry and seeming much more comfortable and outspoken in interviews. Fans surely remember Mariah's Entertainment Weekly cover story, her MTV's VMA appearance, and the premiere of the "Honey" video in August 1997.



Mariah best described her change when talking about the "Honey" video: "This video is actually much more of my personality than any other video I've done. I'm Mary Poppins in every other video and this time I'm... who am I this time? I'm the bond girl. But compared to what a lot of other people do, I think it's still pretty mild, you have to give me that. I didn't suddenly become a freak overnight."

The biggest and perhaps the most important change however, was in Mariah's music. Inspired by her favorite Hip-Hop acts and going back to her urban roots, Mariah teamed up with established as well as up and coming Hip-Hop artists and producers to work on "Butterfly." Though she had previously worked with O.D.B ("Fantasy" remix), Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat ("Always Be My Baby" remix), never has a heavily oriented Hip-Hop track appeared on a Mariah album before.

"Butterfly" more than made up for it. While its credits show a very extensive list of names (Sean "Puffy" Combs, Q-Tip, Stevie J, The Trackmasters, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Missy Elliott, Dru Hill), "Butterfly" remains a perfectly cohesive and a wonderfully sequenced album. If you ask yourself why, the answer is easy: the consistency is in its theme and more importantly, in its quality.

Among fans, the album is known to have some of Mariah's most personal and detailed lyrics. She writes about love – lost, fulfilled, desired ("My All", "The Roof", "Honey"), she yearns for her lover in "Babydoll" ("Zoning out, thinking about you and me between the sheets"), she exposes stories about her tough childhood and difficulty fitting in ("Close My Eyes", "Outside") and sings about a metaphorical butterfly in the ever appropriate title track.



It isn't just the lyrics that make "Butterfly" so varied and enjoyable. This album introduces Mariah's "whispery" vocals ("Fourth of July") which would play a big part in her future recordings and yet she still delivers her powerful belts and the admired ballads ("Whenever You Call"). In "Breakdown," Mariah effortlessly adapts the staccato singing style of "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony" as she sings about getting over a breakup; and in the cover to Prince's "The Beautiful Ones," Mariah gives us her soulful interpretation of the song.

"Butterfly" may not be Mariah's best selling album but many of her fans consider it more than just a turning point, but an important milestone in her career. Mariah lets us know her as deep as one can by listening to music. She invites us to experience her journey and celebrate her freedom. 10 years after their release, the songs from "Butterfly" are still popular and relevant to today's music which makes it easy to call "Butterfly" a timeless album and in retrospect say it was ahead of its time. THANK YOU, MARIAH!



CHARTS, SINGLES & MUSIC VIDEOS
• "Honey" debuted straight at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 13, 1997 and became Mariah's 12th #1 record. "Butterfly" debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 on October 4, 1997, selling 236,000 copies in its first week of release. It is now certified 5x platinum in the US.

• Out of all of Mariah's studio albums that were released in the 1990s (when physical CD singles were still popular), the "Butterfly" album saw the least commercial single releases in the US. Only "Honey" and "My All" were released on CD singles. Both went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

• Eight music videos from "Butterfly" were released, more than any other album to date, and they are:

» Honey (Dir: Paul Hunter)
» Honey Remix ft. Mase & The Lox (Dir: Paul Hunter)
» Butterfly (Dir: Mariah Carey & Daniel Pearl)
» My All (Dir: Herb Ritts)
» My All/Stay Awhile ft. Lord Tariq/Peter Gunz
» The Roof ft. Mobb Deep (Dir: Mariah Carey & Diane Martel)
» Breakdown ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Dir: Mariah Carey & Diane Martel)
» Whenever You Call (Live from Hawaii)

AWARDS WON
• American Music Awards: Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist
• Billboard Music Awards: Special Billboard Hot 100 Award for the most #1 singles ever by a female solo artist
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Top Pop Female
• World Music Awards: World's Best Selling Female R&B Artist, World's Best Selling Recording Artist of the 1990s
• Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards: The Aretha Franklin Award for Female Entertainer Of The Year
• International Achievement In Arts Awards: Entertainer Of The Year
• Long Island Music Awards: Best Female Singer
• Gold Disc Awards [Japan]: International Pop Album Of The Year ("Butterfly")
• Bravo Magazine Awards [Germany]: Silver Otto Award for Best Female Artist
• [Nominated Only] Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female ("Butterfly"), Best R&B Vocal Performance - Female ("Honey"), Best R&B Song ("Honey").

TOUR & LIVE PERFORMANCES
• The very limited "Butterfly" tour took place in January and February of 1998. Mariah made four stops at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, one stop in Taiwan, six stops in Australia (excluding a cancelled stop in Melbourne) and performed her final show in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ironically, this was (and still is) the only time Mariah performed in Taiwan, Australia and Hawaii. The tour was originally meant to be longer and include stops in the US, but those were cancelled because Mariah was asked to appear in a Chris Tucker movie. The movie ended up being scrapped as well.

• Some of Mariah's most memorable live performances, which will be available to download here on Mariah Daily Journal were given during the "Butterfly" era. Mariah stopped to perform the "Butterfly" songs at: Saturday Night Live, VH1's Divas Live Concert, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Rosie O'Donell talk-show, World Music Awards and many more!

MAGAZINE COVER STORIES
• Entertainment Weekly, September 1997
• Blues & Soul, UK, October 1997
• Cosmopolitan, December 1997
• Rolling Stone, February 1998

SELECTED MARIAH QUOTES

"For the first time since the first album, it feels like I'm letting a piece of myself go." Entertainment Weekly, 1997

"I think that the album reflects a lot of different moods. I don't think it's just all of a sudden ‘Wow, here I am, wild sexy chick!'" MTV, 1997

"Butterfly was about leaving one section of my life and moving on to another. The title track was a wish list of things I hoped somebody would say to me, but I wrote it as though I were talking to someone else. The lines 'Spread your wings and prepare to fly/ For you have become a Butterfly/ Fly abandonedly into the sun' is like someone saying, 'Do your thing.' There's another line: 'Wild horses run unbridled/ Or their spirit dies.' You can't restrain a free spirit - either you're going to break them or they're going to leave and never come back." VH1, 2003

"It was '97 and I was leaving my marriage [to Tommy Mottola] which encompassed my life. I was writing the song 'Butterfly' wishing that that's what he would say to me. There's a part that goes, 'I have learned that beauty/has to flourish in the light/wild horses run unbridled/or their spirit dies/you have given me the courage/to be all that I can/and I truly feel ...[sings] and I truly feel your heart will lead you back to me when you're ready to land.' At that point I really believed that I was going to go back to the marriage - I didn't think I was going to leave forever. But then the things that happened to me during that time caused me to not go back. Had it been, 'Go be yourself, you've been with me since you were a kid, let's separate for a while,' I probably would've." Interview Magazine, 2007

[So it's since you wrote 'Butterfly' that the creature has been this icon in your life?] "Before then we would be in places and all of sudden butterflies would land on my shoulder." Interview Magazine, 2007

[Looking around Mariah's home, there is plenty of symbolism. For example, the ornately hand carved fireplace was one of the few things she took with her from her home with ex-husband Tommy: its motifs include flowers, hearts and butterflies, 'all sorts of references to her life.'] "I love it because of what the butterfly represents: freedom." Hello Magazine, 2007

ALBUM REVIEWS & LISTINGS
• Slant Magazine
• Rolling Stone
• Entertainment Weekly
• More album and single reviews can be found here.
• "Butterfly" was picked by VH1 to be featured in their series of "Ultimate Albums." The show was completed and ready to be broadcast but Mariah's management declined to approve it for airing. While the show never aired on television, VH1 dedicated an online page for the album with an unaired clip of Mariah talking about "Close My Eyes."
• The album is included in the book "1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die."
• The album is one of Slant Magazine's "Vital Pop: 50 Essential Pop Albums."

THE BUTTERFLY SYMBOL
Butterflies indeed follow Mariah wherever she goes. Mariah uses the butterfly symbol in her clothing accessories, shoes, CD covers, fan-club name and even painted tattoos. She even named one of the guest rooms in her house "The Butterfly Room."



FAN FAVORITES
• In July 2003, Mariah's official site conducted a poll in which fans were asked to pick their favorite songs that they wanted Mariah to perform in her "Charmbracelet" tour. Other than "Charmbracelet," "Butterfly" was the album with the most songs represented in the final top 30 songs that were chosen by the fans. The songs were: #3 Honey, #5 Butterfly, #8 My All, #23 Whenever You Call, #30 Breakdown.

• In September 2003, Mariah Daily asked the fans which song from the "Butterfly" album they would most like to see performed live on the "Charmbracelet" tour. "Breakdown" came in at #1, followed closely by "Outside" and "Butterfly."

• In October 2006, Mariah Daily conducted a poll asking the fans which song would they most like to see performed in "The Adventures of Mimi" tour. "Breakdown" was at #4 with 8.06% (3,048 votes) while only 1,951 fans (5.16%) voted for "The Roof."

[♡딸기♡]

역시 퍼와주셨군요 ㅋㅋ 전 너무 길어서 그냥 포기했는데....그러고보니 제가 나비 앨범때부터 미미팬 이였는데..저도 팬 데뷔 10주년 인거? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 나비 앨범은 정말 완소앨범 이에요....한곡 한곡 들어보면 서로 다른 이질적인 음악인데...앨범 전체를 들어보면 정말 한 곡 같은 그런 앨범이죠 ㅋ정말 완소 앨범 저의 완소곡 웬 에버 유 콜!!!

[mczzang]

저도 갠적으로 가장 좋아하는 미미 앨범 중 하나가 butterfly이고 가장 좋아하는 발라드 중 하나 역시 butterfly에요. 처음에 cd사서 butterfly만 진짜 무한 버닝했었는데

[☆..항상좋은..☆]

머랴의 엄청난 변신이 있었던 앨범이기도 하고, 본인이 하고싶은 음악을 본격적으로 시작한 앨범이기도 하며, 많은 팬들이 머랴 앨범중 최고로 꼽기도 하구요..그래서 10주년 기념하고 그런걸거에요 ㅋ

[☆..항상밝은..☆]

10년이구나, 왠지 최근앨범처럼 느끼고있었는데ㅎㅎ

[Brandy -ㅂ-]

아아아아앙 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ 정말................... 나의앨범 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

[MiMi]

오늘 다시 한번 들어야겠구나

[never too far ~]

완소 나비앨범ㅋㅋ

[창환이]

이 앨범은 10년이 지난 지금 발매해도 손색 없을걸요~!!

[러벵거버]

날도 꿀꿀한데 함 들어줘야겠네 ㅎㅎ

[Hoop]

벌써 10년이 지났구나 그때가 고2였는데 ㅋㅋ

[MariahDaFire]

오늘 같은 날씨엔 THE ROOF 딱이네요....

[through the rain]

벌써 10년이라니..ㅠㅠ

[Eleven-Hero]

그냥 음악만 들어보면 10년이란 세월이 전혀 느껴지지 않는 주옥같은 곡들ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 특히 요즘 브레익다운에 빠져살고있는중ㅋ

[문님]

흐아~ 경축!