something-to-remember: A Divas Dance

Mariah Carey is in Europe with her Sweet sweet fantasy tour.

As fate wants to I was able to get a ticket for the concert in the Globe in Stockholm.

I am not a big fan of her, but I like many of her songs and acually had no big expectations.

I knew as I saw it in the past and heard about it too, she is capable of doing great shows and also had her lows when she did not catch the notes.

Well, the show startet with a big bang and went right throug your body with the first song, while she had been carried on the sofa to meet the fans. Thought the music was so loud that you had hard to hear her voice. Luckily the next songs like -Emotion- and -My All- have been in good quality and music and voice have been in balance.

So Mariah Carey started with a mix of her hits and it soon was clear that she is having a more or lesseon -Best of Tour-. Mariah Carey also had a small talk between her songs - nice, harmless, bit funny and took also a fan on stage for a half song, like many artist used to do these days, thought she better had not done it as she is a Diva and she did not really come near the fan. That she is in fact a Diva, she let no doupt in that while doing the show- in a funny way.

Of course Madame did change her clothes a several times and thanks to her very good background singers, it did not went to be boring while she was away. Her dancers on the other side have been lame. Not much dance anyway but the choreo was all but hard and in no way special and they danced it bad.

Another thing was actually a nice idea. Mariah sang -I'll be there- and made a respectful bow to Michael Jackson and sooner to Whitney Houston with their duet -When you believe-.

But it took about an hour before Mariah really got the audience. It started when she hade her Medley Part with dance and hip hop songs. Many of those already forgotten, so it was a reminder how many songs she had in her baggage.

But the thing is, Mariah did her show in a way like- I sing my songs and that's all. No emotion, nothing special, no surprises and it felt much like a -I just do my work- thing. No wonder that some people left the concert.

But let's be honest, Mariah Carey can sing. Technically she is great if she wants and cares, but she is commercial and nothing more.

The concert was kept simple which is not a bad thing itself, but then I expect that you give your songs something which let the people feel you are for real, you touch them.

She did not.

Then came the ballads session. It started with -Against all odds-.

Here you had the first time the feeling this song means something to her. She told exactly this to the audience and it felt true.

This ballads session showed her talent in singing and that she is a ballad women. It's her thing but after some ballads, when her last came, her voice let her down a bit. So when the break came before she did her extra song, it was a good thing.

The the last song was apart from -Against all odds- her best one. Strong and it was a classic. Thought the rage of different ballads is not big. The structures are very similiar and this makes it a challange to sing them as good as possible as it otherwise will be soon boring.

She managed to keep us awake and touched us with her technical standard.

All in all it was a Best of, a simple concert, but sadly without much more. I had more fun on other - simple- concerts and have been touched more and deeper by others. For Swedish people is has been for sure not much of a delight as she has not been there for 13 years.

I would give her 3 of 4 stars as she has done a good job but there was more then one thing missing.

But don't worry, when I saw Whitney with her Bodyguard Tour it was worse. I nearly slept in.

But now some pics and a clip.