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''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' is the twelfth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey. It was released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After promotion for her previous album, ''E=MC²'' (2008) ended, Carey began to work on a new album, producing songs with Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' would have "big ballads", and that "each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story". Five singles were released to promote the album. The lead single, "Obsessed", became the album's most successful song, peaking at number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and reaching the top twenty in Japan, Canada and Australia and the top ten in Italy and France. The second single, "I Want to Know What Love Is", reached number 60 on ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and topped the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay chart for twenty-seven non-consecutive weeks. Other singles released were "H.A.T.E.U.", "Up Out My Face", and "Angels Cry", with the last two being originally intended for the subsequently-cancelled remix album, ''Angels Advocate''. Upon its release, ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' garnered positive reviews from music critics. They felt that "their team-up with Carey is canny; Stewart and Nash loosen up the diva's sometimes overblown on-record persona", and also "one of her most sonically consistent". Commercially, the album debuted at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 168,000 copies sold in its first week, and peaked within the top ten in other five countries. It has sold an estimated two million copies worldwide. To promote the album, Carey made a pre-show in Madison Square Garden in 2009, embarked on the Angels Advocate Tour (2010), and performed on several television programs, including ''America's Got Talent'', ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' and ''Today''. ==Background and production== In early 2009, singer-songwriter The-Dream stated that he and Carey had already begun working on her next studio album: "I think it's about just writing an album that includes the focus of all the hits that she's had. She can't take a loss; she has to do everything to the T. So it's basically like we're trying to make a greatest hits album without using the greatest hits".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= MTV: Carey Works with Nick Cannon & The-Dream )〕 In February 2009, The-Dream told to MySpace Music that he and Carey had finished seven songs for the album. In May, Carey revealed that she was calling the album ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' because it was going to be "very personal and dedicated to the fans".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: Bcuz I Love U, I want u to )〕 She says that she chose to use three images for the cover art because "there are a lot of different emotions and stories revealed on this album".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: The reason I chose to use )〕 Carey also stated that she loves "the whole album" and she's "completely immersed in it".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: Seriously, this is one of )〕 On June 16, Carey said on Twitter that there will be "big ballads" on the album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: I know everyone has their )〕 Carey also said that she "tried to make something for all who love ''Butterfly'', and even older albums".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: So"Obsessed" is an uptempo )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter / Mariah Carey: .. For all who love Butte )〕 For the first time in her career, Carey worked with American Grammy Award-winning hip-hop and R&B record-producer Timbaland. They worked on a number of tracks, but none were included on the album. Another song, "Imperfect," which was written by Carey and deals with societal pressure on women to "be perfect and look a certain way," also failed to make the track listing.〔 In an interview with BET, Carey said that she worked with Jermaine Dupri, but none of his songs are on the album. Despite the majority of the project being written and produced by Carey, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, the main goal was to avoid having a "redundant or stale" album.〔 In an interview with ''Elle'' Carey described the sound of her new album: "Each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story. But overall, the vibe is R&B hip-hop with a lot of slow jams. () Each song has its own mood; some flow seamlessly into each other, and that was the purpose, and others are very different. The album has a sense of humor, (can hear me laughing out loud at certain points ), but it also has deep and introspective moments."〔(Elle Magazine, Mariah ), September 9, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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