Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register.
She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions".
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Lil Nas X Opens the Gates of Heaven in Video for New Single ‘J Christ’
variety.comLil Nas X is setting new personal bests for provocation with his new song and video, portraying “the man who had the best comeback”: “J.
Christ.” After opening the gates of heaven for celebrity look-alikes of A-list stars including Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Oprah and Barack Obama, Nas sings the beginning lines of “J.
Christ.” Nas tapped his returning choreographer Sean Bankhead to arrange the video’s elaborate dance numbers. From there, the eye-popping video moves through multiple visually dazzling, Biblical-oriented scenes, finishing with Nas as Noah, building an ark and setting sail after the great flood, with the video ending on an end-of-part-one, to-be-continued note.
Loaded with both LGBTQ and religious imagery, it’s Nas pushing buttons with the same style and sensibilities as his earlier videos, notably “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” and “That’s What I Want.” While the song and his delivery are strong, its hook is so reminiscent of Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” that the similarity can he hard to get past.
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