poll Taylor or Mariah?

[Stepfon]

Butterfly is better than any Taylor album and I LOVE them both. 

[suburbannature]

2 minutes ago, Stepfon said:

Butterfly is better than any Taylor album and I LOVE them both. 

They're honestly both queens, shade aside.

 

Music wouldn't be the way it is today without either one of them. Mariah's musical impact, Taylor's impact on the business/industry. 

[Mariya Takeuchi]

Mariah for all. I don't listen to Miss Tepid Seltzer 

 

[SoulfulWings]

taylor

[xfreshkidxx]

 

Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey

Fearless or Emotions

Speak Now or Music Box

Red or Merry Christmas

1989 or Daydream

Reputation or Butterfly

Lover or Rainbow

Folklore or Glitter

Evermore or Charmbracelet

Midnights or The Emancipation of Mimi

 

I enjoy Taylor but Mariah>>

 

[Frappucino]

IKYFL...

[Aethereal]

Mariah. 

[Nightingale]

Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey

Fearless or Emotions

Speak Now or Music Box

Red or Merry Christmas

1989 or Daydream

Reputation or Butterfly

Lover or Rainbow

Folklore or Glitter

Evermore or Charmbracelet

Midnights or The Emancipation of Mimi

 

Couldn’t choose for half of the match ups

[Jamie Starr]

Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey

Fearless or Emotions

Speak Now or Music Box

Red or Merry Christmas

1989 or Daydream

Reputation or Butterfly

Lover or Rainbow

Folklore or Glitter

Evermore or Charmbracelet

Midnights or The Emancipation of Mimi

[Blue Skies]

Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey

Fearless or Emotions

Speak Now or Music Box

Red or Merry Christmas

1989 or Daydream

Reputation or Butterfly

Lover or Rainbow

Folklore or Glitter

Evermore or Charmbracelet

Midnights or The Emancipation of Mimi

 

 

[jdanton2]

Mariah for all. 

[Devin]

Mariah Carey >>>>>>>

 

[Mandalay]

11 hours ago, Scott Borchetta said:

Not this convenient excuse when other MPGs with worse narratives were adored by critics when they actually released a decent album in those days. How do you get worse reviews than JLo who is widely believed to be making the most bottom-of-the-barrel trash music?

 

Anyways, the actual reviews in question:

 

APPARENTLY, THE BEST thing Mariah Carey can do to put her career back on track is to cover Def Leppard. The catchiest cut on Carey's eighth album, Charmbracelet, is a fascinatingly overblown orchestral remake of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." The rest of the album is strangely muddy: On songs such as "Yours," Carey's lead vocals blend into choruses of overdubbed Mariahs cooing overlapping phrases. Circling these are choirs of more Mariahs singing harmonies and countermelodies. Topping it off are generous sprinklings of the singer's patented birdcalls (on "You Had Your Chance"), wails, sighs and whispers. The mostly skeletal musical instrumentation is insignificant: Charmbracelet is nearly wall-to-wall Mariah. Tempos plod, and hooks are few. Carey needs bold songs that help her use the power and range for which she is famous. Charmbracelet is like a stream of watercolors that bleed into a puddle of brown.

- RollingStone

 

Who needs anti-depressants when you have Jesus and schmaltz? - NME

 

Her voice is damaged, and there's not a moment where it sounds strong or inviting. That alone would be disturbing, but since the songs are formless and the production bland -- another reason why the hip-hop announces itself, even though it's nowhere near as pronounced as it has been since Butterfly -- her tired voice becomes the only thing to concentrate on, and it's a sad, ugly thing, making an album that would merely have been her worst into something tragic. - Q Online

 

A plodding collection of ballads carefully designed to show-off her jaw-dropping vocal range to the fullest.

 

 

She has a fine technical voice but the emotional resonance of a car park.  - Q magazine

 

And you can't even pull the retrospective acclaim card with this one since it is filled with awful sappy dated vocal-heavy 90s songs that everyone is glad we left in the 90s.

They never got the brilliance of Charm bracelet. The reviews were frankly dumb.

[Funnyfatty]

 
The answer is obvious. 

[rejovanation]

Both are legend with each gifted in their own ways. Mariah is the better singer while Taylor is the better musician, at least critically.

I observed that both share some parallels in their career, at least for their first decade:

Fearless / MC
Both cemented themselves as pop music's A listers
TS - won multiple Grammys with Fearless and released 2 of her signature classics.
MC - launched her career with 4 consecutive number 1 hits and won Best New Artist.

Speak Now / Emotions
Continued success from their previous album

Red and 1989 / Music Box and Daydream
Both achieved their first commercial peak and were at the top of their game
2012 - 2015: TS scored 4 number one hits and was inescapable during the 1989 era
1993 - 1996: MC scored 5 number one hits and also released her classic Christmas album

Reputation / Butterfly
Both reinvented their personas following personal hardships

Lover / Rainbow
The beginning of a decline, although one could argue that Taylor lost her radio darling status during Reputation. 
TS - won Woman of the Decade for 2010s

MC - won Artist of the Decade for 1990s

Folklore and Evermore / Glitter and Charmbracelet
Pivotal moments in their respective career, although in different directions. 

Midnights / TEOM

The glorious comeback to the forefront of pop music and their second career peak.
 

Edited October 16, 2023 by rejovanation

[Mr. Duff]

Both because they both have been legendary.

[lonnie]

I personally prefer Mariah.

[Ron Ng]

Taylor, but I accidentally voted Mariah

[1989]

Taylor, easily. 

[littlebodybigheart]

both are too good. can’t choose

[adylovestaylorandjb]

Taylor for me as it is more of my taste music. There is no denying mariahs vocal talent but it isn't my cup of tea

[Alldeezy]

I Prefer Taylor's music but I liked The Emancipation of Mimi   if it was compared to MC later albums then it woulda been close

[Sailor Moon]

love them both but taylor 

[Feanor]

Taylor Swift or Mariah Carey

Fearless or Emotions

Speak Now or Music Box

RED or Merry Christmas

1989 or Daydream

Reputation or Butterfly

Lover or Rainbow

Folklore or Glitter

Evermore or Charmbracelet

Midnights or The Emancipation of Mimi

[AxelFox]

So disrespectful