The cover for her album Daydream is a cropped version of the single cover. The cover of the single was shot by top fashion photographer Steven Meisel. "Fantasy" was part of the set-lists on several of Carey's succeeding tours, making its debut during the album's accompanying set of concerts, the Daydream World Tour and is featured on her compilation albums, #1's (1998), Greatest Hits (2001), The Remixes (2003), Playlist: The Very Best of Mariah Carey (2010) and #1 to Infinity (2015). Additionally, it was performed live on British music chart program Top of the Pops and on French television. Carey performed the song at the 23rd annual American Music Awards, held on January 29, 1996. Additionally, aside from topping the Hot 100 chart for eight consecutive weeks, the song topped the charts in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and was a top-ten hit in thirteen additional countries.Ĭarey performed "Fantasy" live on several television and award show appearances around the world.
"Fantasy" became the second song in Billboard history, and the first by a female, to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. The remix for the song features rap verses from Ol' Dirty Bastard, something Carey arranged to assist in her crossover into the hip-hop market and credited for introducing R&B and hip hop collaboration into mainstream pop culture, and for popularizing rap as a featuring act. The song's lyrics describe a woman who is in love with a man, and how every time she sees him she starts fantasizing about an impossible relationship with him. The song heavily samples Tom Tom Club's 1981 song " Genius of Love" and incorporates various other beats and grooves arranged by the former. The song was written by Carey and Dave Hall, both serving as primary producers alongside Sean Combs. Mimi, The Elusive Chanteuse, The Imperfect Angel.or maybe just Mariah." Fantasy" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her fifth studio album Daydream (1995), released on September 12, 1995, by Columbia Records as the lead single from the album. Meanwhile, her melismatic style-a technique that entails singing a single syllable with a long run of notes-redefined our sense of what pop vocals sound like.
Her biggest tracks-from the early, dance- and gospel-influenced “Someday” and “Dreamlover” to the club leanings of “Fantasy” and “Honey” and ballads such as “Forever” and “Always Be My Baby”-stand like mile markers in the culture, capturing a feeling of sweetness and euphoria that straddles pop, hip-hop, and R&B without slotting neatly into any of them. She moved to New York City after high school, cobbling together jobs while working on demos with then-collaborator Ben Margulies at the back of Margulies’ father’s cabinet factory. But few take them in stride, let alone with such style.īorn in Long Island in 1969 or 1970 (she once quipped that she doesn’t acknowledge time), Carey grew up on the classics: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight.
1 singles than any solo artist in history (and second overall only to The Beatles), more writing and production credits on those singles than any other female composer-Carey is one of the few artists who might legitimately be beyond apology, a diva incarnate whose songs bridge the confessional intimacy of singer-songwriters with the mass appeal of pop. The morning after a rough performance at a 2016 New Year’s Eve show, Mariah Carey took to social media to offer her recap: “S**t happens.” What else could she say? What else did she need to say? Thirty-plus years in the business, more No.
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