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" ... Baby One More Time"—Britney Spears

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Rise and Fall of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey was 21 when her first album the Mariah Carey album came out in 1990 and of course it's fantastic but it's also super adult adult contemporary vision of love I don't want to cry love takes time these are all time great songs. In 1999 she puts out her rainbow album which features Jay Z and De Brat and Missy Elliott and Usher and Snoop Dogg and 98 degrees and a Phil Collins cover  but Phil Collins is timeless what a journey Mariah Carey took in her first decadeWhat a series of journeys including the journey from indefinitely to incessantly so take Mariah's slow motion emancipation starting in 1995 as a major influence on Britney Spears now I

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