Mariah Carey - Shining Through The Rain MTV Special - 2002

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The "Shining Through The Rain" MTV special was taped on October 15, 2002 in New York and aired on December 3. It was a part of her promotion for her album Charmbracelet. The Set list contains many songs from the album. Set List: 0:00 Intro 1:15 Vision of Love 3:11 Interview Part 1 12:48 Boy (I Need You) 14:52 Interview Part 2 18:31 Yours 20:31 The One 24:14 AMAZING WHISTLE!!! 24:33 Interview Part 3 27:27 Heartbreaker (Remix) 30:56 Interview Part 4 33:07 Through The Rain 38:41 Make It Happen Mariah Carey - blond, fresh-faced, a happy weight - visited each of her famous five octaves on MTV on Tuesday night, when she performed a small studio concert on a triumphant special called Shining Through the Rain. On several of the slight songs from her new album, Charmbracelet, Carey laddered confidently up and down her scales on odd phonemes, gesturing, as she went along, at places in the air that seemed to have musical corollaries. This she is known to do - a pool shark calling her shots. In her interview with John Norris, in contrast, she stuck close to middle C. The interview, which was spliced into the concert, was Carey's opportunity to come off as cool, brave, and normal, in spite of having in the past year lost her label (to a failure of corporate confidence), her father (to cancer), and her bearings (to what her camp has called "an emotional and physical breakdown"). Now Carey is well-rested and smiley. To extenuate her past eccentricity, she copped to little more than exhaustion. She was tired, it turned out, when she did a strange striptease on MTV's Total Request Live; she was tired when she checked into a hospital; and she was very tired when she left what is invariably called her "rambling message" to fans on her Web site. Strikingly, the message, read now, doesn't seem to ramble much: "I just want you to know that I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music. I just can't trust anybody anymore right now, because I don't understand what's going on." Having satisfied her MTV fans that she now trusts people, she understands what's going on, and she should be doing music, Carey dutifully sounded the same note for Matt Lauer on Dateline NBC, immediately after Shining Through the Rain. Wearing a half-zipped hoodie and an indeterminate silver pendant, Carey blamed her exhaustion, in part, on her racial heritage. "I never felt like I belonged, or fit in, because I'm the product of an interracial marriage," she explained, her diction a little stiff, as Dateline helpfully produced archival photos of her handsome parents (her father an aeronautic engineer; her mother an opera singer). As she had on MTV, Carey excused her flop film Glitter as a mistake, plain and simple, adding, "There were some cute things in it." This was endearing. She denied having had an affair with Eminem ("I can count the men I've been with on less than one hand, and he's not on the hand"). At the same time, she implied that they'd spent some unclassifiable, mind-bending time together. In the end, Carey seemed OK to me - shrewd, fun, in good voice - and I was persuaded that she'd gotten her rest. Source: http://www.mcarchives.nl/index.asp?id=2597 Copyright: Mariah Carey - The One (Album Version): UMG