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Glitter (soundtrack)

October 21, 2023

Glitter is the soundtrack to the 2001 film of the same title and the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released in the US on September 11, 2001 by Virgin Records. Mixing dance-pop, funk, hip hop and R&B, the album was a departure from Carey's previous releases, focusing heavily on a 80's post-disco sound to accompany the film which was set in 1983. The singer collaborated with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and DJ Clue, who also co-produced the album. The album several musical acts such as Eric Benét, Ludacris, Da Brat, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, and Ja Rule.

Glitter
Studio album / Soundtrack album by
Mariah Carey
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2001
RecordedNovember 2000–March 2001
Genre
Length51:45
LabelVirgin
Producer
Mariah Carey chronology
Rainbow
(1999) 		Glitter
(2001) 		Greatest Hits
(2001)
Singles from Glitter
  1. "Loverboy"
    Released: June 5, 2001
  2. "Never Too Far"
    Released: August 14, 2001
  3. "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)"
    Released: September 11, 2001
  4. "Reflections (Care Enough)"
    Released: September 27, 2001

Upon release, both the album and its accompanying film were panned by critics. Retrospective reviews, however, have been largely positive, with many saying the album was unfairly maligned. Despite this, Glitter was universally viewed as a commercial and critical failure, leading to Virgin Records dropped Carey from the label and bought her out of their $80 million contract. While the album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, it marked Carey's lowest first-week sales at the time. Internationally, it topped the charts in Japan and Greece.

Several singles were released, including "Loverboy", which served as the lead single from the album and quickly became Carey's lowest-charting lead single globally and peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Subsequent singles failed to make much of an impact on prominent global charts. Nearly two decades after its release, Glitter began to attract wide praise from mainstream critics and has developed a cult following. On May 22, 2020, Carey announced the album's release on streaming services.

Background and development Edit

"I had worked myself very very hard for many many years and I never took a break, and last year, I had just become very very exhausted and ended up just not really in a good place physically and emotionally. I learned a little more about how to work hard but also how to be healthy and take care of myself, and now, in general, in my life, I'm in a really good, happy place."

—Carey, The San Diego Union-Tribune.[1][2]

Following the release of Carey's album Butterfly in 1997, she began working on a film and soundtrack project titled at that time as All That Glitters.[3] However, Columbia Records and Carey were also working on a greatest hits album to be released in time for Thanksgiving season in November 1998.[3] Carey put All That Glitters on hold and her greatest hits album #1's was released in November 1998.[3] Carey put the project on hold again to record her album Rainbow (1999). After the album ran its course, Carey wanted to finish the film and soundtrack project. But by this time, Carey and her now ex-husband Tommy Mottola, head of her record company Columbia, did not have a good working or personal relationship. Mottola wanted Carey off the label and Carey wanted to leave; however, she still owed Columbia one more album to fulfill her contract. Virgin Records stepped in and offered to pay Columbia $20 million to let Carey out of her contract early so that they could sign her for a $100 million deal.[4]

Carey signed with Virgin and aimed to complete the film and soundtrack project. As part of her contract on her $100 million five-album record deal with Virgin Records, Carey was given full creative control.[5] She opted to record an album partly mixed with 1980s influenced disco and other similar genres, in order to go with the film's setting.[5] As the release date grew nearer, the film and album title were changed from All That Glitters to Glitter.[6] In early 2001, Carey's relationship with Latin singer Luis Miguel ended, while she was busy filming Glitter and recording the soundtrack.[7][8] Due to the pressure of losing her relationship, being on a new record label, filming a movie, and recording an album, Carey began to have a nervous breakdown. She began posting a series of disturbing messages on her official website, and displayed erratic behavior while on several promotional outings.[8]

Composition Edit

Genres and themes Edit

Musically, Glitter was notably different from Carey's previous work as she drew influence from the 1980s.[9] Due to the parent film taking place in 1983, the soundtrack harbored on recreating an older sound, while incorporating the usual pop-R&B ballads for which Carey was known.[9][10] While some critics favored the album's retro style, and inclusion of several sampled melodies, many felt that Glitter lacked originality, and its excess of guest artists overpowered Carey's artistry.[9][11][12] In an interview with MTV News, Carey described the album's content and influences noting,

There are songs that are definitely going to take people back and make them go, 'Oh, man, this song from the '80s — I loved it growing up'. Or people who never heard the songs before might be like, 'This is cool.' When you see the movie, you're gonna see the uptempo songs and the songs that are remakes in there as they would have sounded in the '80s, but the album is the way that I would make the record now, and the ballads can stand on their own as songs from a Mariah Carey album.[13]

Music and lyrics Edit

To me, Glitter is one of my best albums. A lot of people got confused, not knowing whether it was a soundtrack or an album or what.

—Carey addressing Glitter in 2000 during promotion for her Greatest Hits album.[14]

The album beings with a remix of "Loverboy" featuring a sample from Cameo's "Candy", which interpolates its instrumental and its melody into the song's chorus.[12] Sarah Rodman from the Boston Herald compared it to Carey's previous lead singles, and described its production as "another in an increasingly long line of glitzy, candy-coated, creatively stunted Carey songs".[15] The song's lyrics and vocals were described as "super-sexed" by Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine when put into comparison with Carey's previous work.[16] The remix featured rap verses from Ludacris, Da Brat, Twenty II and Shawnna.[16] This was followed with "Lead the Way", originally conceptualized for Carey's 1997 Butterfly album.[17] The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff.[17] The ballad marked the last song composed by the pair, as they halted work with one another shortly after its completion due to their growing creative differences.[17] Recorded in 2000 when Carey began producing Glitter,[17] the song begins with a classic and simple piano introduction with Carey starting the song off with soft and breathy vocals.[17] This eventually leads into a vocal climax, in which she belts an 18-second note, the longest from any of her recordings.[17] Carey has since called the song one of her "best vocal performances", as well as one of her "favorite songs."[17][18]

"If We" featured rapper Ja Rule and Nate Dogg and garnered comparisons to Ashanti and Christina Milian.[19] "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" is a cover of the 1984 Cherelle song of the same title.[20] Carey produced the song alongside Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and added keyboard notes and synthesizers to enhance the songs club appeal.[20] In the song, Carey sings "I was only trying to be nice / Only trying to be nice / Sooooooo, I didn't mean to turn you on", indicating a woman who is weakly apologetic over fooling a man over intimacy.[20] "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" was composed by Carey and DJ Clue, and interpolates "Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" by Tom Browne.[20] Featuring guest verses from Mystikal, with the former declaring "Ain't nothin' you could do with the man / Except for shake your ass and clap your hands", while Carey responds "Don't stop baby, its ecstasy / Turn me up a little."[15]

"All My Life" was penned by Rick James and was called the "album standout".[19] This is followed by "Reflections (Care Enough)" which was written by Carey and Philippe Pierre.[21] Lyrically, the song's protagonist "laments the end of a relationship", while also confronting her mother regarding her early abandonment.[21] Additionally, during the song's bridge, Carey "eerily" refers to the option of abortion over abandoning a child.[21] Cinquemani felt the song was reminiscent of Carey's earlier ballads during her career, and described the song as a "simple beauty".[16] In a review for the album in The Free Lance–Star, a writer called the song an "emotional and heart-wrenching ballad".[21]

Carey's cover of the 1982 Indeep song "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life" was club-themed.[12] The song featured rappers Fabolous and Busta Rhymes, and was composed and produced by Carey and DJ Clue.[12] The song received generally mixed reviews with Michael Paoletta from Billboard called it a "painful low" on Glitter, and commented how Carey seemed detached and over-powered on the song, due to the inclusion of several male guests.[22] "Want You" featured American singer Eric Benét while lyrically implying and suggesting the "exploration of bedroom fantasies."[20] "Never Too Far" was written and produced by Carey and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and was described as an "adult-contemporary, slow-jam love song".[20] It features "a bed of synthesized strings, gentle drums and Spanish-style guitar" as its primary instrumentation, and incorporates violin and keyboard notes prior to the first verse.[20]

This was followed by "Twister", another ballad which was called "quietly heartbreaking", in reference to its lyrics which talk about the suicide of Carey's friend and hairstylist, Tonjua Twist.[23] According to Carey, Twist took her own life in the spring of 2000, and was known for her joy of life and her ability to put people at ease.[23] She was "child like and effervescent", but behind her mask of happiness was "a well" of lifelong and deep-rooted pain.[23] In "Twister", Carey described the hidden inner-struggle of her friend, and tried to find "closure"; her "way of saying goodbye".[23] Chris Chuck from Daily News described its lyrics as "an airy requiem for a friend lost to suicide" and felt it was "the only memorable song on the album."[12] With lyrics reading "Feelin' kinda fragile and I've got a lot to handle / But I guess this is my way of saying goodbye", David Browne from Entertainment Weekly felt that Carey was possibly referring to her own suicide rather than her friends, especially in light of the events that were taking place during the album's release.[11] The album ends with the original version of "Loverboy" featuring Cameo.[12]

Singles Edit

"Loverboy" was released as the lead single from Glitter on June 18, 2001. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with many both criticizing and praising the inclusion of the "Candy" sample.[11][12][15] It became Carey's weakest charting lead single at the time, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100.[24] Following Carey's publicized hospitalization and breakdown, as well as Virgin's price reduction on the single, "Loverboy" managed to attain a new peak of number two on the chart.[24][25] Although being propelled by high sales, radio airplay was still weak, due to many radio DJs feeling tepid towards its 1980s retro sound.[26] Accompanied by little promotion from Carey, due to her hospitalization, "Loverboy" quickly descended the Hot 100.[26] Outside the United States, the song attained weak charting, peaking inside the top ten in Australia and Canada, and within the top twenty in Italy and the United Kingdom.[25][27][28][29] The music video for "Loverboy" features Carey dressed in a variation of revealing outfits, while patrolling a large race track as her 'loverboy' wins the race. The video was notable for portraying Carey in a more sexually oriented manner than before.[30]

"Never Too Far", the album's second single, was released on August 14, 2001.[31] It failed to impact the main Billboard chart, and achieved weak international charting. Carey was unable to film a music video for the single, as she was still recovering from her collapse.[32] Instead, a video was created using a scene taken directly from the film Glitter, where Billie Frank (played by Carey) sings the song at Madison Square Garden during her first sold-out concert. Frank's performance of the song in the film omits its entire second verse, and the song's development runs in parallel with the film's love story.[32]

The album's third single, "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)", released on September 11, 2001, the same day as the September 11 attacks,[33] mirrored the same weak charting as "Never Too Far", although receiving more rotation on MTV due to its video.[30] Directed by Sanaa Hamri, it features the theme of southern bayous and lifestyles, and presents Carey and Mystikal in "southern style" clothing and hairstyles. Some shots feature three versions of Carey singing into a microphone on the screen at one time.[34]

The fourth and final single released from Glitter was "Reflections (Care Enough)", which received a limited release in Japan on September 27, 2001.[35] Following its limited promotional push from Virgin, and the absence of a music video, the song failed to make much of an impact.[36]

Critical reception Edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100[37]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [9]
Billboard(Mixed)[22]
Boston Herald(Mixed)[15]
Daily News     [12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [38]
Entertainment WeeklyC[11]
Los Angeles Times    [39]
Rolling Stone     [40]
Slant Magazine     [16]
USA Today    [41]

The website Metacritic, which averages professional reviews into a numerical score, assigned the album a score of 59/100, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[37] AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album two and a half out of five stars, calling it an "utter meltdown -- the pop equivalent of Chernobyl" and wrote "It's an embarrassment, one that might have been easier to gawk at if its creator wasn't so close to emotional destruction at the time of release."[9] Michael Paoletta from Billboard was less critical, citing it as a "minor misstep in a stellar career that has earned the singer a few free passes.[22] Editor Sarah Rodman from The Boston Herald gave Glitter a mixed review, praising Carey's song-writing and voice, although panning the excess of secondary musical guests.[15] While criticizing the album's roster of appearances, Rodman wrote "the artists contribute mostly distracting, self-promoting jibber jabber all over what could have been Carey's best, most emotionally mature record to date."[15] Daily News editor Chuck Campley rated the album two and a half out of five stars, writing "Maybe this was the best Mariah Carey could muster under the circumstances, but 'Glitter' needed more work."[12] David Browne from Entertainment Weekly gave Glitter a mixed review, criticizing the abundance of rappers and describing Carey's vocals as "barely there" on several tracks.[11] Concluding his review on a poor note, Browne wrote "'Glitter' is a mess, but its shameless genre hopping (and Carey's crash) makes it an unintentional concept album about the toll of relentless careerism."[11]

Heather Vaughn from The Free-Lance Star gave Glitter a positive review, complimenting both the dance-oriented tracks, as well as the ballads.[21] In reference to their weight on the album as a whole, Vaughn wrote "Sounds like Mariah's other albums, but with more of an 80s twist. The ballads really let you hear how stunning her voice actually is."[21] Los Angeles Times critic and writer Natalie Nichols gave Glitter two out of a possible four stars, writing how Carey let the album "reflect the synth-driven robo-funk of that wretched decade."[39] Nichols called the album's covers "tepid and pointless", while agreeing that Carey was overwhelmed by the many guest rappers, calling her voice "semi-disguised".[39] Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, criticizing the ballads as "big and goopy, with zero melodic or emotional punch."[40] Aside from the ballads, Sheffield felt Glitter failed to deliver the success or quality that Carey needed on her debut film and soundtrack.[40] He concluded his review of the album with a comparison to Whitney Houston's massive The Bodyguard (1992), "Mariah still hasn't found her theme song, the one people will remember her voice by. Glitter is good enough to make you hope she finds it."[40] Slant Magazine editor Sal Cinquemani awarded Glitter three out of five stars, writing "Carey's edgier tracks are inundated with so many guest artists that her sound ultimately becomes muddled; her pop tunes are so formulaic that it's difficult to distinguish one from the next."[16] USA Today's Edna Gunderson rated the album one and a half out of four stars, criticizing Carey's overall image for the project, as well as the many guest artists on the record.[41] She described Carey as "cheapening her image" and wrote "The whiff of desperation grows more pungent on 'Glitter' in Carey's gratuitous coloratura and transparent enlistment of street-cred boosters such as rappers Ja Rule and Mystikal.[41]

Commercial performance Edit

Glitter became Carey's least commercially successful album to that point. It debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 116,000 copies, but far from the first-week sales of 323,000 with her previous release, Rainbow, in 1999.[42] Glitter became Carey's lowest-peaking album in the United States, alongside her second album Emotions (1991), coming in at number four.[43] It remained in the album's chart for only eight weeks, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of 500,000 units; and as it fell from the charts, received platinum certification, denoting shipments of 1 million in the US.[42][44] As of November 2018, Nielsen SoundScan estimates sales of the Glitter album at 666,000 copies in the United States.[45][46] In Canada, the album peaked at number four on the Canadian Albums Chart.[43] Glitter entered the Australian Albums Chart at its peak position of number thirteen, during the week dated September 9, 2001.[47] Remaining in the chart for only three weeks, the album made its exit at number forty on September 23.[47] Similarly in Austria, Glitter peaked at number fourteen, remaining on the albums chart for only four weeks.[48]

In both the Flemish and Wallonian territories in Belgium, Glitter peaked at numbers ten and eleven, respectively, while charting for a total of four weeks.[49] In France, Glitter peaked at number five on the albums chart, during the week dated September 15, 2001.[50] Following seventeen weeks fluctuating in the chart, the album was certified Gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP), denoting shipments of 100,000 units.[51] On the Dutch Albums Chart, Glitter debuted at number twenty-six, during the week dated September 22, 2001.[52] Reaching its peak position of number twelve the following week, the album remained a total of six weeks in the albums chart.[52] In both New Zealand and Norway, Glitter peaked at number eleven, staying within the chart for four and one weeks, respectively.[53][54] In Switzerland, the album peaked at number seven, and stayed within the chart for ten weeks.[55] The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) certified Glitter Gold in Switzerland, for shipments of 20,000 copies.[56] On the UK Albums Chart dated September 22, 2001, the album made its debut at number ten.[57] The following week, Glitter fell to number twenty-seven, staying in the chart for one more additional week.[58] British sales of the album are at 55,080 units as of July 2014.[59] In Japan, Glitter saw particular commercial success, debuting atop the albums chart and selling 450,000 units within a month of release.[60] The album has sold over two million copies worldwide as of 2002.[61]

In November 2018, the album became the subject of a campaign by Carey fans and reached number one on the iTunes albums charts in several countries worldwide, including the United States.[62][63][64]

Controversies Edit

"Loverboy" sample Edit

Throughout 2000, Carey had already been writing and recording material for Glitter and during this period, she developed the concept for "Loverboy".[65] Originally, Carey had sampled the melody and hook from the 1978 Yellow Magic Orchestra song "Firecracker", using an interpolation of it throughout the chorus and introduction.[65] In early theatrical trailers for Glitter, the original version of "Loverboy" was still featured. As Carey had ended her contract with Columbia Records, Jennifer Lopez was signed by Tommy Mottola, and had begun recording material for her album J.Lo (2001).[65] According to record producer Irv Gotti, Mottola knew of Carey's usage of the "Firecracker" sample, and attempted to have Lopez use the same sample before her.[65] At the time, Carey had become increasingly paranoid over outside executives being informed about Glitter, especially following news of Lopez's "theft" of the song.[65] When the music publishers for "Firecracker" were questioned, they admitted Carey had licensed usage of the sample first (and was in fact the first artist to ever request a license for a sample of that song), and Lopez had signed for it over one month later, under Mottola's arrangement.[66] Ultimately, Carey was unable to use the original sample, as Lopez's album was to be released far earlier than Glitter.[66] She subsequently changed the composition of "Loverboy" and incorporated a new sample, "Candy" by Cameo.[66] The "Firecracker" sample was eventually used by Lopez on her song "I'm Real" and according to Gotti, Mottola contacted him with instructions to create the Murder Remix of "I'm Real" to sound exactly like another Glitter track he produced, titled "If We" featuring rappers Ja Rule and Nate Dogg.[66] The original version of "Loverboy" with the "Firecracker" sample was later included on Carey's 2020 compilation album The Rarities.[67]

TRL incident Edit

Following commencement for Glitter and the release of the soundtrack's lead single "Loverboy", Carey embarked on a short promotional campaign for the song and its parent album.[68] On July 19, 2001, Carey made a surprise appearance on the MTV program Total Request Live (TRL).[69] As the show's host Carson Daly began taping following a commercial break, Carey began singing "Loverboy" a cappella from behind a curtain.[70] As he questioned the audience, she came out onto the filming stage, pushing an ice cream cart while wearing a large men's shirt.[71] Seemingly anxious and exhilarated, Carey began delivering individual bars of ice cream to fans and guests on the program, while waving to the crowd down below on Times Square, and joking that the event was her "therapy".[71] Carey then walked to Daly's platform and began a striptease, in which she shed her shirt to reveal a tight yellow and green ensemble, leading him to exclaim "Mariah Carey has lost her mind!"[69] While she later revealed that Daly was aware of her presence in the building prior to her appearance, she admitted that he was meant to act surprised in order to provide a more dramatic effect for the program.[71] Carey's appearance on TRL garnered strong media attention, with many critics and newspapers citing her behavior as "troubled" and "erratic".[68]

Hospitalization Edit

In the days following her appearance on TRL, Carey began displaying what was described as "erratic behavior". On July 20, Carey held a record signing for the CD single of "Loverboy" at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island before fans and the media. As a camera crew covered the event, she began rambling on several subjects before finally discussing radio host Howard Stern and how his jokes about herself on his program bothered her greatly and how everything general in life should be positive. At that point, Carey's publicist, Cindi Berger, grabbed the microphone from her hand, and asked the news crew to stop filming. Berger said later, "She was not speaking clearly and not talking about what she had come to talk about: her record."[72] Only days later, Carey began posting irregular voice notes and messages on her official website:

I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now. What I'd like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video. All I really want is [to] just be me and that's what I should have done in the first place ... I don't say this much but guess what, I don't take care of myself.[69]

Following the quick removal of the messages, Berger commented that Carey had been "obviously exhausted and not thinking clearly" when she posted the letters.[71] Two days later, on July 26, she was hospitalized, citing "extreme exhaustion" and a "physical and emotional breakdown".[73] News websites and programs began reporting how Carey threatened to commit suicide by slitting her wrists the night before, and how Patricia, Carey's mother, hastily called for help.[73][30] When questioned regarding Carey's suicidal rumor, Berger claimed Carey had broken dishes out of desperation, and as a result, accidentally cut her hands and feet.[30] Following her induction at an un-disclosed hospital in Connecticut, Carey remained hospitalized and under doctoral care for two weeks, followed by an extended absence from the public.[30]

In April 2018, Carey revealed in a People magazine interview that she was diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder during the hospitalization.[74]

Project delay Edit

Following the heavy media coverage surrounding Carey's publicized breakdown and hospitalization, Virgin Records and 20th Century Fox delayed the release of Glitter, as well as its soundtrack of the same name.[75] The announcement was made on August 9, 2001, that both the soundtrack and the film would be postponed three weeks, respectively from August 21 to September 11, and from August 31 to September 21.[76] When asked regarding the motives behind the delay, Nancy Berry, vice chairman of Virgin Music Group Worldwide, addressed Carey's personal and physical condition:

Mariah is looking forward to being able to participate in both her album and movie projects and we are hopeful that this new soundtrack release date will allow her to do so. She has been making great recovery progress, and continues to grow stronger every day. Virgin Music Worldwide continues to give its absolute commitment and support to Mariah on every level.[75]

When discussing the project's weak commercial reaction, Carey blamed the terrorist attacks of September 11.[77] Carey made specific remarks regarding the album's commercial failure, stating: "I released it on September 11, 2001. The talk shows needed something to distract from 9/11. I became a punching bag. I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1. The media was laughing at me and attacked me."[78] Vulture writer Matthew Jacobs noted that, "two dynamics were working against [the film] at once: post-9/11, Americans simply weren't going to the movies, and certainly not to see what had been framed as a slice of celebrity fluff".[79]

Departure from Virgin Edit

Glitter performed poorly at the box office. Following the poor sales of the album as well, Virgin invoked a clause in its contract with Carey that allowed the label to remove itself from the $100 million deal for approximately $28 million.[70][73] Subsequently, Virgin dismissed Carey from the label roster. These decisions were brought on due to the low sales of the album, as well as the negative publicity surrounding her breakdown.[68] While the two sides were laying out the terms for her exit from Virgin, Carey's team requested that the two parties just use the word "canceled" when asked by the media regarding the failed venture.[80] Less than 24 hours after the settlement was made, Virgin released a statement that they had "terminated" the contract with Carey, and paid her $28 million to do so.[80] Carey's lawyers threatened to sue, with her attorney Marshall Grossman calling their behavior in the matter "deplorable".[80] Virgin replied that in terms of Carey's payout, they only listed the money they gave her for departing, not including the $23.5 million they already had paid while under contract for the first and only album they released by her.[80] Additionally, Virgin stated they would counter-sue Carey for "defamation" following Carey's press release.[80] The matter was resolved outside of court, with Carey and Virgin opting not to take the matter to the judicial system.[80] Soon after, Carey flew to Italy for a period of five months.[68] After several months, Carey signed a new $20 million deal with Island Records, which also included Carey's own vanity label, MonarC Entertainment.[68]

Legacy and cultural impact Edit

 
Carey (pictured) signing a vinyl of the album in 2018, during the #JusticeForGlitter campaign.

Almost two decades after its release, Glitter began to attract wide reappraisal and praise from mainstream critics and has developed a cult following.[81][82][83][84] Kara Brown of Jezebel praised Glitter and cited: "Mariah was ahead of us all and the time is now".[85] Mike Waas of Idolator commented that Glitter was "a misunderstood [record]" and called it "the biggest pop music injustices of the 21st century".[86] Daniel Welsh of MSN gave the album a positive feedback and felt that "the brilliance of Glitter has gone unappreciated for too long".[87] In a later article for Complex, Michael Arceneaux described the album as "the perfect '80s tribute".[88] In a Vulture article, Dee Lockett described this record as "undeniably ahead of its time even despite it being an homage to disco."[89]

In 2017, Everett Brothers of Billboard ranked "Lead the Way" as the second most underappreciated song of Carey's discography, while "There for Me", a B-side track of "Never Too Far/Hero Medley" 2001 single, was picked as the third best song out this rate. Brothers argues that "Lead the Way" shows Carey's "strongest vocal performance of the 2000s."[90] Rich Juzwiak of Gawker ranked "Loverboy" as the eighteenth best single of Carey's career.[91] In 2014 article for MySpace, Steven J. Horowitz praised a remix version of "Loverboy", which was included to Glitter tracklist: "Mariah invoked the ‘80s and relatively played the background to satiating verses from hot-right-nows and longtime friends.". He placed this version on the 11th place of Carey's all remixes rating, while Mark Graham of VH1 ordered this remix as the thirtieth best song of her catalog.[92][93]

In October 2020, after 19 years, the original version of "Loverboy", with the "Firecracker" sample, was released as part of the compilation album The Rarities.[94] In an article celebrating 20 years of Glitter's release, Billboard writer Jon O'Brien stated that,

"Glitter was heavily criticized at the time for overloading its ten tracks with guest rappers. DJ Clue, Busta Rhymes and Fabolous essentially relegate Carey to supporting player on a perfunctory cover of Indeep's club classic "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life," while Nate Dogg and Ja Rule compete for attention on the anachronistic turn-of-the-century hip-pop of "If We." Yet look at any given top 10 from the last decade and you could argue Carey was simply foreshadowing a time when every other hit has a featuring, vs or x credit".[95]

PopMatters writer Peter Piatkowski called it one of the "best dance-pop albums of the last 20 years.[96]

#JusticeForGlitter Edit

In November 2018, the album became the subject of a campaign by Carey fans as part of the build-up to her fifteenth studio album, Caution. Promoted on social media with the hashtag #JusticeForGlitter, the campaign resulted in the album reaching number one on the iTunes albums charts in several countries including the United States, and top 10 in several countries worldwide.[62][63][64] Carey herself acknowledged and praised the campaign through social media and interviews. She eventually added a medley of songs from the album on her Caution World Tour as a thank you to her fans.[97]

Track listing Edit

Glitter – Standard edition[98]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Loverboy" (remix) (featuring Da Brat, Ludacris, Twenty II and Shawnna)
4:30
2."Lead the Way"
3:53
3."If We" (featuring Ja Rule and Nate Dogg)
  • Carey
  • Damizza
4:20
4."Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
  • Carey
  • Jam
  • Lewis
4:54
5."Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" (featuring Mystikal)
  • Carey
  • DJ Clue
  • Duro
  • Thomas Brown
  • Toni Smith
  • Michael Tyler
  • Carey
  • Clue
  • Duro
3:37
6."All My Life"Rick James
  • Carey
  • James
5:09
7."Reflections (Care Enough)"
  • Carey
  • Philippe Pierre
  • Carey
  • Jam
  • Lewis
3:20
8."Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (featuring Busta Rhymes, Fabolous and DJ Clue)Michael Cleveland
  • Carey
  • Clue
  • Duro
6:43
9."Want You" (featuring Eric Benét)
  • Carey
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Wright
  • Carey
  • Jam
  • Lewis
4:43
10."Never Too Far"
  • Carey
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Carey
  • Jam
  • Lewis
4:21
11."Twister"
  • Carey
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Wright[b]
  • Carey
  • Jam
  • Lewis
2:26
12."Loverboy" (featuring Cameo)
  • Carey
  • Blackmon
  • Jenkins
  • Carey
  • Kent
3:49
Glitter – Japanese edition[98]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Loverboy" (MJ Cole main remix radio edit)
  • Carey
  • Blackmon
  • Jenkins
  • Carey
  • Kent
  • MJ Cole[a]
4:13

Notes

  • ^a signifies an additional producer
  • ^b signifies a co-producer
  • "Loverboy" and "Loverboy (Remix)" both contain a sample of "Candy" by Cameo.
  • "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" is a cover of Cherrelle's "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". The cover is produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who produced Cherrelle's original song. Mariah sang over the original instrumental as well.
  • "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" contains interpolates of "Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" by Tom Browne.
  • "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" contains a sample of "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes and is a cover of "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life" by Indeep.

Personnel Edit

Credits for Glitter adapted from AllMusic.[99]

Charts Edit

Certifications and sales Edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Brazil — 60,000[137]
Canada — 34,437[132]
France (SNEP)[51] Gold 100,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[138] Platinum 450,000[60]
South Korea — 59,057[139]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[140] Gold 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[141] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom — 55,080[59]
United States (RIAA)[142] Platinum 695,000[46]
Summaries
Worldwide — 2,000,000[61]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history Edit

Release dates and formats for Glitter
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Australia September 1, 2001 CD EMI
[143]
Japan September 3, 2001 Sony Music
[60]
United Kingdom September 10, 2001 Virgin
[144]
United States September 11, 2001
[145]
Various May 22, 2020 Streaming
[146]

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Glitter is the soundtrack to the 2001 film of the same title and the eighth studio album by American singer songwriter Mariah Carey It was released in the US on September 11 2001 by Virgin Records Mixing dance pop funk hip hop and R amp B the album was a departure from Carey s previous releases focusing heavily on a 80 s post disco sound to accompany the film which was set in 1983 The singer collaborated with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and DJ Clue who also co produced the album The album several musical acts such as Eric Benet Ludacris Da Brat Busta Rhymes Fabolous and Ja Rule GlitterStudio album Soundtrack album by Mariah CareyReleasedSeptember 11 2001RecordedNovember 2000 March 2001GenreHip hopfunkR amp Bdance popLength51 45LabelVirginProducerMariah Carey Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis James Big Jim Wright DJ Clue Duro Clark Kent Damizza Rick James Walter AfanasieffMariah Carey chronologyRainbow 1999 Glitter 2001 Greatest Hits 2001 Singles from Glitter Loverboy Released June 5 2001 Never Too Far Released August 14 2001 Don t Stop Funkin 4 Jamaica Released September 11 2001 Reflections Care Enough Released September 27 2001Upon release both the album and its accompanying film were panned by critics Retrospective reviews however have been largely positive with many saying the album was unfairly maligned Despite this Glitter was universally viewed as a commercial and critical failure leading to Virgin Records dropped Carey from the label and bought her out of their 80 million contract While the album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 it marked Carey s lowest first week sales at the time Internationally it topped the charts in Japan and Greece Several singles were released including Loverboy which served as the lead single from the album and quickly became Carey s lowest charting lead single globally and peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 Subsequent singles failed to make much of an impact on prominent global charts Nearly two decades after its release Glitter began to attract wide praise from mainstream critics and has developed a cult following On May 22 2020 Carey announced the album s release on streaming services Contents 1 Background and development 2 Composition 2 1 Genres and themes 2 2 Music and lyrics 3 Singles 4 Critical reception 5 Commercial performance 6 Controversies 6 1 Loverboy sample 6 2 TRL incident 6 3 Hospitalization 6 4 Project delay 6 5 Departure from Virgin 7 Legacy and cultural impact 7 1 JusticeForGlitter 8 Track listing 9 Personnel 10 Charts 10 1 Weekly charts 10 2 Monthly charts 10 3 Year end charts 11 Certifications and sales 12 Release history 13 References 14 Bibliography 15 External linksBackground and development Edit I had worked myself very very hard for many many years and I never took a break and last year I had just become very very exhausted and ended up just not really in a good place physically and emotionally I learned a little more about how to work hard but also how to be healthy and take care of myself and now in general in my life I m in a really good happy place Carey The San Diego Union Tribune 1 2 Following the release of Carey s album Butterfly in 1997 she began working on a film and soundtrack project titled at that time as All That Glitters 3 However Columbia Records and Carey were also working on a greatest hits album to be released in time for Thanksgiving season in November 1998 3 Carey put All That Glitters on hold and her greatest hits album 1 s was released in November 1998 3 Carey put the project on hold again to record her album Rainbow 1999 After the album ran its course Carey wanted to finish the film and soundtrack project But by this time Carey and her now ex husband Tommy Mottola head of her record company Columbia did not have a good working or personal relationship Mottola wanted Carey off the label and Carey wanted to leave however she still owed Columbia one more album to fulfill her contract Virgin Records stepped in and offered to pay Columbia 20 million to let Carey out of her contract early so that they could sign her for a 100 million deal 4 Carey signed with Virgin and aimed to complete the film and soundtrack project As part of her contract on her 100 million five album record deal with Virgin Records Carey was given full creative control 5 She opted to record an album partly mixed with 1980s influenced disco and other similar genres in order to go with the film s setting 5 As the release date grew nearer the film and album title were changed from All That Glitters to Glitter 6 In early 2001 Carey s relationship with Latin singer Luis Miguel ended while she was busy filming Glitter and recording the soundtrack 7 8 Due to the pressure of losing her relationship being on a new record label filming a movie and recording an album Carey began to have a nervous breakdown She began posting a series of disturbing messages on her official website and displayed erratic behavior while on several promotional outings 8 Composition EditGenres and themes Edit Musically Glitter was notably different from Carey s previous work as she drew influence from the 1980s 9 Due to the parent film taking place in 1983 the soundtrack harbored on recreating an older sound while incorporating the usual pop R amp B ballads for which Carey was known 9 10 While some critics favored the album s retro style and inclusion of several sampled melodies many felt that Glitter lacked originality and its excess of guest artists overpowered Carey s artistry 9 11 12 In an interview with MTV News Carey described the album s content and influences noting There are songs that are definitely going to take people back and make them go Oh man this song from the 80s I loved it growing up Or people who never heard the songs before might be like This is cool When you see the movie you re gonna see the uptempo songs and the songs that are remakes in there as they would have sounded in the 80s but the album is the way that I would make the record now and the ballads can stand on their own as songs from a Mariah Carey album 13 Music and lyrics Edit To me Glitter is one of my best albums A lot of people got confused not knowing whether it was a soundtrack or an album or what Carey addressing Glitter in 2000 during promotion for her Greatest Hits album 14 The album beings with a remix of Loverboy featuring a sample from Cameo s Candy which interpolates its instrumental and its melody into the song s chorus 12 Sarah Rodman from the Boston Herald compared it to Carey s previous lead singles and described its production as another in an increasingly long line of glitzy candy coated creatively stunted Carey songs 15 The song s lyrics and vocals were described as super sexed by Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine when put into comparison with Carey s previous work 16 The remix featured rap verses from Ludacris Da Brat Twenty II and Shawnna 16 This was followed with Lead the Way originally conceptualized for Carey s 1997 Butterfly album 17 The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff 17 The ballad marked the last song composed by the pair as they halted work with one another shortly after its completion due to their growing creative differences 17 Recorded in 2000 when Carey began producing Glitter 17 the song begins with a classic and simple piano introduction with Carey starting the song off with soft and breathy vocals 17 This eventually leads into a vocal climax in which she belts an 18 second note the longest from any of her recordings 17 Carey has since called the song one of her best vocal performances as well as one of her favorite songs 17 18 If We featured rapper Ja Rule and Nate Dogg and garnered comparisons to Ashanti and Christina Milian 19 Didn t Mean to Turn You On is a cover of the 1984 Cherelle song of the same title 20 Carey produced the song alongside Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and added keyboard notes and synthesizers to enhance the songs club appeal 20 In the song Carey sings I was only trying to be nice Only trying to be nice Sooooooo I didn t mean to turn you on indicating a woman who is weakly apologetic over fooling a man over intimacy 20 Don t Stop Funkin 4 Jamaica was composed by Carey and DJ Clue and interpolates Funkin for Jamaica N Y by Tom Browne 20 Featuring guest verses from Mystikal with the former declaring Ain t nothin you could do with the man Except for shake your ass and clap your hands while Carey responds Don t stop baby its ecstasy Turn me up a little 15 All My Life was penned by Rick James and was called the album standout 19 This is followed by Reflections Care Enough which was written by Carey and Philippe Pierre 21 Lyrically the song s protagonist laments the end of a relationship while also confronting her mother regarding her early abandonment 21 Additionally during the song s bridge Carey eerily refers to the option of abortion over abandoning a child 21 Cinquemani felt the song was reminiscent of Carey s earlier ballads during her career and described the song as a simple beauty 16 In a review for the album in The Free Lance Star a writer called the song an emotional and heart wrenching ballad 21 Carey s cover of the 1982 Indeep song Last Night a D J Saved My Life was club themed 12 The song featured rappers Fabolous and Busta Rhymes and was composed and produced by Carey and DJ Clue 12 The song received generally mixed reviews with Michael Paoletta from Billboard called it a painful low on Glitter and commented how Carey seemed detached and over powered on the song due to the inclusion of several male guests 22 Want You featured American singer Eric Benet while lyrically implying and suggesting the exploration of bedroom fantasies 20 Never Too Far was written and produced by Carey and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and was described as an adult contemporary slow jam love song 20 It features a bed of synthesized strings gentle drums and Spanish style guitar as its primary instrumentation and incorporates violin and keyboard notes prior to the first verse 20 This was followed by Twister another ballad which was called quietly heartbreaking in reference to its lyrics which talk about the suicide of Carey s friend and hairstylist Tonjua Twist 23 According to Carey Twist took her own life in the spring of 2000 and was known for her joy of life and her ability to put people at ease 23 She was child like and effervescent but behind her mask of happiness was a well of lifelong and deep rooted pain 23 In Twister Carey described the hidden inner struggle of her friend and tried to find closure her way of saying goodbye 23 Chris Chuck from Daily News described its lyrics as an airy requiem for a friend lost to suicide and felt it was the only memorable song on the album 12 With lyrics reading Feelin kinda fragile and I ve got a lot to handle But I guess this is my way of saying goodbye David Browne from Entertainment Weekly felt that Carey was possibly referring to her own suicide rather than her friends especially in light of the events that were taking place during the album s release 11 The album ends with the original version of Loverboy featuring Cameo 12 Singles Edit Loverboy was released as the lead single from Glitter on June 18 2001 The song received mixed reviews from music critics with many both criticizing and praising the inclusion of the Candy sample 11 12 15 It became Carey s weakest charting lead single at the time reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 24 Following Carey s publicized hospitalization and breakdown as well as Virgin s price reduction on the single Loverboy managed to attain a new peak of number two on the chart 24 25 Although being propelled by high sales radio airplay was still weak due to many radio DJs feeling tepid towards its 1980s retro sound 26 Accompanied by little promotion from Carey due to her hospitalization Loverboy quickly descended the Hot 100 26 Outside the United States the song attained weak charting peaking inside the top ten in Australia and Canada and within the top twenty in Italy and the United Kingdom 25 27 28 29 The music video for Loverboy features Carey dressed in a variation of revealing outfits while patrolling a large race track as her loverboy wins the race The video was notable for portraying Carey in a more sexually oriented manner than before 30 Never Too Far the album s second single was released on August 14 2001 31 It failed to impact the main Billboard chart and achieved weak international charting Carey was unable to film a music video for the single as she was still recovering from her collapse 32 Instead a video was created using a scene taken directly from the film Glitter where Billie Frank played by Carey sings the song at Madison Square Garden during her first sold out concert Frank s performance of the song in the film omits its entire second verse and the song s development runs in parallel with the film s love story 32 The album s third single Don t Stop Funkin 4 Jamaica released on September 11 2001 the same day as the September 11 attacks 33 mirrored the same weak charting as Never Too Far although receiving more rotation on MTV due to its video 30 Directed by Sanaa Hamri it features the theme of southern bayous and lifestyles and presents Carey and Mystikal in southern style clothing and hairstyles Some shots feature three versions of Carey singing into a microphone on the screen at one time 34 The fourth and final single released from Glitter was Reflections Care Enough which received a limited release in Japan on September 27 2001 35 Following its limited promotional push from Virgin and the absence of a music video the song failed to make much of an impact 36 Critical reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic59 100 37 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 9 Billboard Mixed 22 Boston Herald Mixed 15 Daily News nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 12 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 38 Entertainment WeeklyC 11 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 39 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 40 Slant Magazine nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 16 USA Today nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 41 The website Metacritic which averages professional reviews into a numerical score assigned the album a score of 59 100 indicating mixed or average reviews 37 AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album two and a half out of five stars calling it an utter meltdown the pop equivalent of Chernobyl and wrote It s an embarrassment one that might have been easier to gawk at if its creator wasn t so close to emotional destruction at the time of release 9 Michael Paoletta from Billboard was less critical citing it as a minor misstep in a stellar career that has earned the singer a few free passes 22 Editor Sarah Rodman from The Boston Herald gave Glitter a mixed review praising Carey s song writing and voice although panning the excess of secondary musical guests 15 While criticizing the album s roster of appearances Rodman wrote the artists contribute mostly distracting self promoting jibber jabber all over what could have been Carey s best most emotionally mature record to date 15 Daily News editor Chuck Campley rated the album two and a half out of five stars writing Maybe this was the best Mariah Carey could muster under the circumstances but Glitter needed more work 12 David Browne from Entertainment Weekly gave Glitter a mixed review criticizing the abundance of rappers and describing Carey s vocals as barely there on several tracks 11 Concluding his review on a poor note Browne wrote Glitter is a mess but its shameless genre hopping and Carey s crash makes it an unintentional concept album about the toll of relentless careerism 11 Heather Vaughn from The Free Lance Star gave Glitter a positive review complimenting both the dance oriented tracks as well as the ballads 21 In reference to their weight on the album as a whole Vaughn wrote Sounds like Mariah s other albums but with more of an 80s twist The ballads really let you hear how stunning her voice actually is 21 Los Angeles Times critic and writer Natalie Nichols gave Glitter two out of a possible four stars writing how Carey let the album reflect the synth driven robo funk of that wretched decade 39 Nichols called the album s covers tepid and pointless while agreeing that Carey was overwhelmed by the many guest rappers calling her voice semi disguised 39 Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars criticizing the ballads as big and goopy with zero melodic or emotional punch 40 Aside from the ballads Sheffield felt Glitter failed to deliver the success or quality that Carey needed on her debut film and soundtrack 40 He concluded his review of the album with a comparison to Whitney Houston s massive The Bodyguard 1992 Mariah still hasn t found her theme song the one people will remember her voice by Glitter is good enough to make you hope she finds it 40 Slant Magazine editor Sal Cinquemani awarded Glitter three out of five stars writing Carey s edgier tracks are inundated with so many guest artists that her sound ultimately becomes muddled her pop tunes are so formulaic that it s difficult to distinguish one from the next 16 USA Today s Edna Gunderson rated the album one and a half out of four stars criticizing Carey s overall image for the project as well as the many guest artists on the record 41 She described Carey as cheapening her image and wrote The whiff of desperation grows more pungent on Glitter in Carey s gratuitous coloratura and transparent enlistment of street cred boosters such as rappers Ja Rule and Mystikal 41 Commercial performance EditGlitter became Carey s least commercially successful album to that point It debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 116 000 copies but far from the first week sales of 323 000 with her previous release Rainbow in 1999 42 Glitter became Carey s lowest peaking album in the United States alongside her second album Emotions 1991 coming in at number four 43 It remained in the album s chart for only eight weeks and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA denoting shipments of 500 000 units and as it fell from the charts received platinum certification denoting shipments of 1 million in the US 42 44 As of November 2018 Nielsen SoundScan estimates sales of the Glitter album at 666 000 copies in the United States 45 46 In Canada the album peaked at number four on the Canadian Albums Chart 43 Glitter entered the Australian Albums Chart at its peak position of number thirteen during the week dated September 9 2001 47 Remaining in the chart for only three weeks the album made its exit at number forty on September 23 47 Similarly in Austria Glitter peaked at number fourteen remaining on the albums chart for only four weeks 48 In both the Flemish and Wallonian territories in Belgium Glitter peaked at numbers ten and eleven respectively while charting for a total of four weeks 49 In France Glitter peaked at number five on the albums chart during the week dated September 15 2001 50 Following seventeen weeks fluctuating in the chart the album was certified Gold by the Syndicat National de l Edition Phonographique SNEP denoting shipments of 100 000 units 51 On the Dutch Albums Chart Glitter debuted at number twenty six during the week dated September 22 2001 52 Reaching its peak position of number twelve the following week the album remained a total of six weeks in the albums chart 52 In both New Zealand and Norway Glitter peaked at number eleven staying within the chart for four and one weeks respectively 53 54 In Switzerland the album peaked at number seven and stayed within the chart for ten weeks 55 The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI certified Glitter Gold in Switzerland for shipments of 20 000 copies 56 On the UK Albums Chart dated September 22 2001 the album made its debut at number ten 57 The following week Glitter fell to number twenty seven staying in the chart for one more additional week 58 British sales of the album are at 55 080 units as of July 2014 59 In Japan Glitter saw particular commercial success debuting atop the albums chart and selling 450 000 units within a month of release 60 The album has sold over two million copies worldwide as of 2002 61 In November 2018 the album became the subject of a campaign by Carey fans and reached number one on the iTunes albums charts in several countries worldwide including the United States 62 63 64 Controversies Edit Loverboy sample Edit Throughout 2000 Carey had already been writing and recording material for Glitter and during this period she developed the concept for Loverboy 65 Originally Carey had sampled the melody and hook from the 1978 Yellow Magic Orchestra song Firecracker using an interpolation of it throughout the chorus and introduction 65 In early theatrical trailers for Glitter the original version of Loverboy was still featured As Carey had ended her contract with Columbia Records Jennifer Lopez was signed by Tommy Mottola and had begun recording material for her album J Lo 2001 65 According to record producer Irv Gotti Mottola knew of Carey s usage of the Firecracker sample and attempted to have Lopez use the same sample before her 65 At the time Carey had become increasingly paranoid over outside executives being informed about Glitter especially following news of Lopez s theft of the song 65 When the music publishers for Firecracker were questioned they admitted Carey had licensed usage of the sample first and was in fact the first artist to ever request a license for a sample of that song and Lopez had signed for it over one month later under Mottola s arrangement 66 Ultimately Carey was unable to use the original sample as Lopez s album was to be released far earlier than Glitter 66 She subsequently changed the composition of Loverboy and incorporated a new sample Candy by Cameo 66 The Firecracker sample was eventually used by Lopez on her song I m Real and according to Gotti Mottola contacted him with instructions to create the Murder Remix of I m Real to sound exactly like another Glitter track he produced titled If We featuring rappers Ja Rule and Nate Dogg 66 The original version of Loverboy with the Firecracker sample was later included on Carey s 2020 compilation album The Rarities 67 TRL incident Edit Following commencement for Glitter and the release of the soundtrack s lead single Loverboy Carey embarked on a short promotional campaign for the song and its parent album 68 On July 19 2001 Carey made a surprise appearance on the MTV program Total Request Live TRL 69 As the show s host Carson Daly began taping following a commercial break Carey began singing Loverboy a cappella from behind a curtain 70 As he questioned the audience she came out onto the filming stage pushing an ice cream cart while wearing a large men s shirt 71 Seemingly anxious and exhilarated Carey began delivering individual bars of ice cream to fans and guests on the program while waving to the crowd down below on Times Square and joking that the event was her therapy 71 Carey then walked to Daly s platform and began a striptease in which she shed her shirt to reveal a tight yellow and green ensemble leading him to exclaim Mariah Carey has lost her mind 69 While she later revealed that Daly was aware of her presence in the building prior to her appearance she admitted that he was meant to act surprised in order to provide a more dramatic effect for the program 71 Carey s appearance on TRL garnered strong media attention with many critics and newspapers citing her behavior as troubled and erratic 68 Hospitalization Edit In the days following her appearance on TRL Carey began displaying what was described as erratic behavior On July 20 Carey held a record signing for the CD single of Loverboy at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island before fans and the media As a camera crew covered the event she began rambling on several subjects before finally discussing radio host Howard Stern and how his jokes about herself on his program bothered her greatly and how everything general in life should be positive At that point Carey s publicist Cindi Berger grabbed the microphone from her hand and asked the news crew to stop filming Berger said later She was not speaking clearly and not talking about what she had come to talk about her record 72 Only days later Carey began posting irregular voice notes and messages on her official website I m trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don t feel that I should be doing music right now What I d like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video All I really want is to just be me and that s what I should have done in the first place I don t say this much but guess what I don t take care of myself 69 Following the quick removal of the messages Berger commented that Carey had been obviously exhausted and not thinking clearly when she posted the letters 71 Two days later on July 26 she was hospitalized citing extreme exhaustion and a physical and emotional breakdown 73 News websites and programs began reporting how Carey threatened to commit suicide by slitting her wrists the night before and how Patricia Carey s mother hastily called for help 73 30 When questioned regarding Carey s suicidal rumor Berger claimed Carey had broken dishes out of desperation and as a result accidentally cut her hands and feet 30 Following her induction at an un disclosed hospital in Connecticut Carey remained hospitalized and under doctoral care for two weeks followed by an extended absence from the public 30 In April 2018 Carey revealed in a People magazine interview that she was diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder during the hospitalization 74 Project delay Edit Following the heavy media coverage surrounding Carey s publicized breakdown and hospitalization Virgin Records and 20th Century Fox delayed the release of Glitter as well as its soundtrack of the same name 75 The announcement was made on August 9 2001 that both the soundtrack and the film would be postponed three weeks respectively from August 21 to September 11 and from August 31 to September 21 76 When asked regarding the motives behind the delay Nancy Berry vice chairman of Virgin Music Group Worldwide addressed Carey s personal and physical condition Mariah is looking forward to being able to participate in both her album and movie projects and we are hopeful that this new soundtrack release date will allow her to do so She has been making great recovery progress and continues to grow stronger every day Virgin Music Worldwide continues to give its absolute commitment and support to Mariah on every level 75 When discussing the project s weak commercial reaction Carey blamed the terrorist attacks of September 11 77 Carey made specific remarks regarding the album s commercial failure stating I released it on September 11 2001 The talk shows needed something to distract from 9 11 I became a punching bag I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1 The media was laughing at me and attacked me 78 Vulture writer Matthew Jacobs noted that two dynamics were working against the film at once post 9 11 Americans simply weren t going to the movies and certainly not to see what had been framed as a slice of celebrity fluff 79 Departure from Virgin Edit Glitter performed poorly at the box office Following the poor sales of the album as well Virgin invoked a clause in its contract with Carey that allowed the label to remove itself from the 100 million deal for approximately 28 million 70 73 Subsequently Virgin dismissed Carey from the label roster These decisions were brought on due to the low sales of the album as well as the negative publicity surrounding her breakdown 68 While the two sides were laying out the terms for her exit from Virgin Carey s team requested that the two parties just use the word canceled when asked by the media regarding the failed venture 80 Less than 24 hours after the settlement was made Virgin released a statement that they had terminated the contract with Carey and paid her 28 million to do so 80 Carey s lawyers threatened to sue with her attorney Marshall Grossman calling their behavior in the matter deplorable 80 Virgin replied that in terms of Carey s payout they only listed the money they gave her for departing not including the 23 5 million they already had paid while under contract for the first and only album they released by her 80 Additionally Virgin stated they would counter sue Carey for defamation following Carey s press release 80 The matter was resolved outside of court with Carey and Virgin opting not to take the matter to the judicial system 80 Soon after Carey flew to Italy for a period of five months 68 After several months Carey signed a new 20 million deal with Island Records which also included Carey s own vanity label MonarC Entertainment 68 Legacy and cultural impact Edit nbsp Carey pictured signing a vinyl of the album in 2018 during the JusticeForGlitter campaign Almost two decades after its release Glitter began to attract wide reappraisal and praise from mainstream critics and has developed a cult following 81 82 83 84 Kara Brown of Jezebel praised Glitter and cited Mariah was ahead of us all and the time is now 85 Mike Waas of Idolator commented that Glitter was a misunderstood record and called it the biggest pop music injustices of the 21st century 86 Daniel Welsh of MSN gave the album a positive feedback and felt that the brilliance of Glitter has gone unappreciated for too long 87 In a later article for Complex Michael Arceneaux described the album as the perfect 80s tribute 88 In a Vulture article Dee Lockett described this record as undeniably ahead of its time even despite it being an homage to disco 89 In 2017 Everett Brothers of Billboard ranked Lead the Way as the second most underappreciated song of Carey s discography while There for Me a B side track of Never Too Far Hero Medley 2001 single was picked as the third best song out this rate Brothers argues that Lead the Way shows Carey s strongest vocal performance of the 2000s 90 Rich Juzwiak of Gawker ranked Loverboy as the eighteenth best single of Carey s career 91 In 2014 article for MySpace Steven J Horowitz praised a remix version of Loverboy which was included to Glitter tracklist Mariah invoked the 80s and relatively played the background to satiating verses from hot right nows and longtime friends He placed this version on the 11th place of Carey s all remixes rating while Mark Graham of VH1 ordered this remix as the thirtieth best song of her catalog 92 93 In October 2020 after 19 years the original version of Loverboy with the Firecracker sample was released as part of the compilation album The Rarities 94 In an article celebrating 20 years of Glitter s release Billboard writer Jon O Brien stated that Glitter was heavily criticized at the time for overloading its ten tracks with guest rappers DJ Clue Busta Rhymes and Fabolous essentially relegate Carey to supporting player on a perfunctory cover of Indeep s club classic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life while Nate Dogg and Ja Rule compete for attention on the anachronistic turn of the century hip pop of If We Yet look at any given top 10 from the last decade and you could argue Carey was simply foreshadowing a time when every other hit has a featuring vs or x credit 95 PopMatters writer Peter Piatkowski called it one of the best dance pop albums of the last 20 years 96 JusticeForGlitter Edit In November 2018 the album became the subject of a campaign by Carey fans as part of the build up to her fifteenth studio album Caution Promoted on social media with the hashtag JusticeForGlitter the campaign resulted in the album reaching number one on the iTunes albums charts in several countries including the United States and top 10 in several countries worldwide 62 63 64 Carey herself acknowledged and praised the campaign through social media and interviews She eventually added a medley of songs from the album on her Caution World Tour as a thank you to her fans 97 Track listing EditGlitter Standard edition 98 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 Loverboy remix featuring Da Brat Ludacris Twenty II and Shawnna Mariah CareyLarry BlackmonThomas JenkinsDa BratLudacrisTwenty IIShawnnaCareyClark Kent4 302 Lead the Way CareyWalter AfanasieffCareyAfanasieffJimmy Jam a Terry Lewis a James Wright a 3 533 If We featuring Ja Rule and Nate Dogg CareyDamion YoungHowie HershJeffrey AtkinsNathaniel HaleCareyDamizza4 204 Didn t Mean to Turn You On James Harris IIILewisCareyJamLewis4 545 Don t Stop Funkin 4 Jamaica featuring Mystikal CareyDJ ClueDuroThomas BrownToni SmithMichael TylerCareyClueDuro3 376 All My Life Rick JamesCareyJames5 097 Reflections Care Enough CareyPhilippe PierreCareyJamLewis3 208 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life featuring Busta Rhymes Fabolous and DJ Clue Michael ClevelandCareyClueDuro6 439 Want You featuring Eric Benet CareyHarrisLewisWrightCareyJamLewis4 4310 Never Too Far CareyHarrisLewisCareyJamLewis4 2111 Twister CareyHarrisLewisWright b CareyJamLewis2 2612 Loverboy featuring Cameo CareyBlackmonJenkinsCareyKent3 49 Glitter Japanese edition 98 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length13 Loverboy MJ Cole main remix radio edit CareyBlackmonJenkinsCareyKentMJ Cole a 4 13 Notes a signifies an additional producer b signifies a co producer Loverboy and Loverboy Remix both contain a sample of Candy by Cameo Didn t Mean to Turn You On is a cover of Cherrelle s I Didn t Mean to Turn You On The cover is produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who produced Cherrelle s original song Mariah sang over the original instrumental as well Don t Stop Funkin 4 Jamaica contains interpolates of Funkin for Jamaica N Y by Tom Browne Last Night a DJ Saved My Life contains a sample of Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See by Busta Rhymes and is a cover of Last Night a D J Saved My Life by Indeep Personnel EditCredits for Glitter adapted from AllMusic 99 Mariah Carey arranger executive producer producer vocal arrangement vocals background vocals Eric Benet performer Elliott Blakey assistant Lee Blaske string arrangements Busta Rhymes performer Cameo performer Da Brat performer Damizza producer Dana Jon Chappelle engineer vocal engineer mixing DJ Clue producer background vocals Fabolous performer Tony Gonzales assistant Kevin Guarnieri assistant engineer digital editing Fernando Harkless flute Michael Herring guitar Steve Hodge engineer mixing Ja Rule performer Jimmy Jam arranger executive producer producer production assistant John Kennedy violin Clark Kent producer Anthony Kilhoffer assistant Terry Lewis arranger executive producer producer production assistant Bryan Loren keyboards Trey Lorenz background vocals Ludacris performer Bob Ludwig mastering Brenda Mickens violin Mystikal performer Jon Nettlesbey assistant Pete Novak assistant Tim Olmstead assistant Derek Organ drums Alice Preves violin Alexander Richbourg drum programming David Rideau engineer Torrel Ruffin guitar Leslie Shank violin Pitnarry Shin cello Ryan Smith assistant Xavier Smith assistant assistant engineer mixing Jason Stasium assistant Tamas Strasser violin Mary Ann Tatum background vocals Bradley Yost assistant assistant engineer mixingCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2001 2002 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 100 13Australian Urban Albums ARIA 101 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 102 14Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 103 10Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 104 11Canadian Albums Billboard 105 4Danish Albums Hitlisten 106 12Dutch Albums Album Top 100 107 12European Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 108 5French Albums SNEP 109 5German Albums Offizielle Top 100 110 7Greek Albums IFPI 111 1Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 112 37Irish Albums IRMA 113 28Italian Albums FIMI 114 5Japanese Albums Oricon 115 1Malaysian Albums RIM 108 6New Zealand Albums RMNZ 116 11Norwegian Albums VG lista 117 11Polish Albums ZPAV 118 23Scottish Albums OCC 119 39Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 108 3Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 120 30Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 121 10UK Albums OCC 122 10UK R amp B Albums OCC 123 1UK Soundtrack Albums OCC 124 30US Billboard 200 125 7US Soundtrack Albums Billboard 126 1US Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 127 6Chart 2018 PeakpositionUK Album Downloads OCC 128 26UK R amp B Albums OCC 129 5UK Soundtrack Albums OCC 130 9Monthly charts Edit Chart 2001 PeakpositionSouth Korean Albums RIAK 131 1 Year end charts Edit Chart 2001 PositionCanadian R amp B Albums SoundScan 132 51French Albums SNEP 133 110Japanese Albums Oricon 134 88US Top Soundtrack Albums Billboard 135 14Chart 2002 PositionCanadian R amp B Albums Nielsen SoundScan 136 159Certifications and sales EditRegion Certification Certified units salesBrazil 60 000 137 Canada 34 437 132 France SNEP 51 Gold 100 000 Japan RIAJ 138 Platinum 450 000 60 South Korea 59 057 139 Spain PROMUSICAE 140 Gold 50 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 141 Gold 20 000 United Kingdom 55 080 59 United States RIAA 142 Platinum 695 000 46 SummariesWorldwide 2 000 000 61 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Release history EditRelease dates and formats for Glitter Region Date Format s Label s Ref Australia September 1 2001 CD EMI 143 Japan September 3 2001 Sony Music 60 United Kingdom September 10 2001 Virgin 144 United States September 11 2001 145 Various May 22 2020 Streaming 146 References Edit The Glitter May Be Gone But Mariah Carey Is Coming Back Strong U T San Diego November 29 2002 Retrieved June 13 2011 permanent dead link Japanese Fans Mob Mariah Video Shoot Billboard November 26 2002 Archived from the original on January 18 2017 Retrieved January 12 2017 a b c 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