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Caution (2018)

Where the lyrics of Caution take you, and where it was really made.

The album was first titled Portrait. The title track 'Caution', recorded in August 2018, led Carey to rename the record.

Key places

Recorded at Westlake Recording Studios (2018)

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Recorded at Studio at the Palms (2018)

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Recorded at Electric Lady Studios (2018)

Recording site Electric Lady Studios — Electric Lady Studios in New York City is listed as one of the recording locations for Caution. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Caution: fifteenth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey
• Released 16 November 2018 by Epic Records, her only studio album on that label
• Her first studio album in four years
• Collaborators include Ty Dolla Sign, Slick Rick, Blood Orange, and Gunna
• Musically an R&B, pop and hip hop record
• Ten songs, plus two tracks exclusive to the Japanese issue
• Singles 'With You' and 'A No No', plus several promotional singles

Background

• January 2018: Carey confirmed that work on a new album had begun
• August 2018: the album was finished when the title track 'Caution' was recorded
• The title track led Carey to change the album's original title, Portrait, to Caution
• To promote the album, Carey toured with the 35-date Caution World Tour across Europe, North America, Asia, and South America

Recording

• Recording locations linked to the album: Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas, and Electric Lady Studios in New York City

Cover

• Art direction and design credited to Anita Marisa Boriboon
• Photography credited to An Le

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born March 27, 1969 in Huntington, New York, on Long Island.
• Youngest of three children of Patricia Hickey, a former opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer.
• Began singing at age three; graduated from Harborfields High School in 1987.
• Worked as a demo singer and backup singer, including for Brenda K. Starr.

Career

• Signed to Columbia Records after Tommy Mottola heard her demo tape in December 1988.
• Debut album Mariah Carey (1990) topped the US Billboard 200 and won Best New Artist at the Grammys.
• Became the first artist whose first five singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Music Box (1993), Merry Christmas (1994), and Daydream (1995) achieved major global sales.
• Later albums moved toward hip-hop and R&B, including Butterfly (1997) and Rainbow (1999).
• Comeback album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) was her fifth number-one album in the US.
• Known as the 'Songbird Supreme' and 'Queen of Christmas'; one of the best-selling artists in history with over 220 million records sold.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos summarised it as 'pure hip-hop-leaning pop bliss'
• Pitchfork's Maura Johnston felt the record represented a celebration of Carey's ultimate-diva status
• The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber stated that the album shores up the idea of Carey as a wit, a craftswoman, and a game player
• Billboard's Bianca Gracie stated that the record signposted Carey as a crafty songwriter and inimitable singer
• Metacritic average of 82 from nine reviews, indicating universal acclaim, the highest Metascore for any Carey album

Reappraisal

• Several year-end music lists of 2018 included the album
• Paper magazine ranked it atop its year-end list
• At the end of 2019 it appeared on Rated R&B's list of the 50 best R&B albums of the 2010s

Records

• Debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 51,000 album-equivalent units, including 43,000 pure album sales
• Carey's lowest first-week sales for a studio album to date
• Debuted at number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart
• Debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart
• Debuted and peaked at number 40 on the UK Albums Chart
• Peaked inside the top-forty in Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title track 'Caution' led Carey to change the album's original title, Portrait.
• The music video for 'With You', directed by Sarah McColgan, premiered on Carey's YouTube account on 10 October 2018.
• The 'A No No' video, also directed by McColgan, featured cameos from Carey's children and her then-boyfriend Bryan Tanaka.
• Carey performed 'GTFO' for the first time when she headlined the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival on 21 September 2018.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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