Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” appeared on The Best Of NOW That’s What I Call Music! 10th Anniversary alongside other hits like Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’.” Looking for more stories behind music’s biggest hits? Check out the Now! That’s What I Call Music page. “I get goosebumps thinking about it because it really was such a special time in my life when we did that record.”ĭespite the circumstances that led up to it, Carey proved she was an unstoppable force with “We Belong Together.” From the annual, inevitable chart climb of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” to 2020’s acclaimed memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey Carey’s reign continues to this day - and it’s all due to her emancipating herself from the music industry’s expectations. It was Mariah’s 16th No.1 single, reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 non-consecutive weeks, and eventually was named Billboard’s “song of the decade.” “I don’t know that we’ve ever actually been able to top it,” Carey explained in 2018. “He came to me and he said, ‘I need you to come up with one of those verses that I know you could do.’ I threw the Bobby Womack line out there, and it was received pretty well.” Jermaine wasn’t blown away,” Austin told Vogue in 2015.
For a while, “the second verse was different. Blige’s “Be Without You” and Aaliyah’s “Miss You”). She worked with longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri and Johntá Austin (whose songwriting hits include Mary J. It’s clear that Carey was in her comfort zone while recording.
But in the end, Carey runs away from the wedding to reunite with an ex-lover. The accompanying Brett Ratner-directed music video shows Mariah getting ready to wed an older man, a rumored allusion to real life. It’s a perfectly structured ballad: built around a delicate piano melody, “We Belong Together” finds Mariah longing for her lover to return while utilizing every bit of her iconic five-octave vocal range. Released as the second single from The Emancipation of Mimi on March 29, “We Belong Together” had all the elements to lure the naysayers back under her spell while giving her fans, the Lambs, what they’d come to love from her. Listen to Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” on Apple Music and Spotify. The singles showcased all different facets of her personality: There was the club-ready “It’s Like That,” the feisty “Shake It Off,” the nostalgic “Don’t Forget About Us,” and a reunion with Snoop Dogg on “Say Somethin.” But it was “We Belong Together” that served as the pinnacle of her renaissance. The Emancipation of Mimi, released in 2005, was the songbird’s tenth and most personal album. The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.Carey took a brief hiatus to regroup as both an artist and person, only to return three years later with a grand comeback. Benatar discovered she was pregnant during filming of the video, and gave birth to her first child, Haley Giraldo on February 16, 1985.
The music video uses the 7" version of the song, which contains some additional vocals in the 4 bar introduction that aren't present in the album version. It was awarded a Gold certification in Canada for sales in excess of 50,000 units. We Belong Together A college professor recovering from alcoholism tries to put his life and family back together, but he meets a seductive new student who quickly becomes obsessed with him. The song earned Benatar a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance alongside Linda Ronstadt, Tina Turner, Madonna, and Whitney Houston. It was also successful in the United Kingdom, where it peaked number 22 in the charts, nearly matching the popularity of "Love Is a Battlefield" which is her most recognized song there. It reached #3 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart and #34 on the Adult Contemporary. It matched the success of "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, peaking at #5.
It was made popular by American rock singer Pat Benatar after being released as the lead single from her sixth studio album, Tropico (1984). "We Belong" is a song written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro.
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