MUSIC VIDEO: Mariah Carey – I Want To Know What Love Is
Mariah Carey turns up the cheese in the CGI-heavy video for her single “I Want To Know What Love Is”. Check out my official breakdown of the clip below.
0:07 – Camera zooms into a computer generated stadium that looks like it’s from the Sim City video game.
0:27 – Mariah, complete with her 90’s curls, stands in the middle of a butterfly to remind everybody of the “classic Mariah”.
0: 39 – The audience sway back and forth like a group of hypnotised zombies entranced by Mariah’s powerful performance.
0:45 – A gay couple embrace.
0:58 – The camera zooms in on a feeble young woman in a wheelchair as Mariah sings “In my life, there’s been heartache and pain…”
1:09 – The gay couple gaze proudly at Mariah.
1:18 – A sinister looking child stares up to his father, and then into the camera. His eyes have no soul.
1:41 – More fathers and their young sons look lovingly at one another.
1:55 – A lonely looking security guard searches for love. And fails.
2:08 – The wheelchair bound young woman returns at the exact same moment as last time. “In my life, there’s been heartache and pain…”
2:18 – A middle-aged mother who looks like she’s on welfare tears up and rests her hand on her heart, swaying in unison with her two grown daughters.
2:42 Everybody starts smiling and is filled with hope as Mariah sings the chorus.
3:00 – A gospel choir are magically cut and pasted into the video behind Mariah. The stadium still looks like it’s from Sim City, as does the grass.
3:25 – Everybody is happy. Mariah has saved the day.
All in all I’d say it was a hot mess. NEXT!
Tags: Mariah Carey
did you say yes to the guy that asked you out or what??
LOL! They’ve removed the video, but your description of it was enough to make me lmfao! Oh Mariah, will you ever learn…
Haha. I haven’t spoken to him since.
LMFAO that I didn’t know that Mariah eveb had a video coming out b/c of all the RiRi/Chris crap not to mention your DETAILED summary of it !
The stadium still looks like it’s from Sim City, as does the grass.
LMAO. Love it.
Just watched it…omw – Mariah’s really outdone herself – this is the WORST music video – ever!
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P. you just killed my soul with your review!
Where’s m.i.k.e. I have to laugh at him right now! This whole era is a hot stankin mess!
Hype Williams should be ashamed of himself! I guess you can’t do too much tho when you’re given a $10 budget and a stiff robot that u have to film.
I actually thought the video was kinda cute, made me tear up a lil LOL………they needed to do a lil more with it tho they focused way too much on the kids……but thats prob because Mariah wants a family really bad
LMFAO AT YOUR REVIEW AND ROTFLMFAO AT THIS VIDEO!! WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO BE IN THAT POOR EXCUSE OF A STADIUM. IT LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS TRAPPED INSIDE A VIDEO GAME. LORD HAVE MERCY I CANT STOP LAUGHING LMFAO!!
lulz that was bad. Only good thing was that she looked good.
Was the gay couple those fans on Oprah?
LMAO! Hopefully, H.A.T.E.U. will be better
haha Den yea it is! i was laughin! its a pretty bad video..
LMFAO I JUST WATCHED THIS VIDEO FOR THE 3RD TIME AND I NOTICED IT SAID “YANKEE STADIUM” YANKEE STADIUM MY ASS MORE LIKE “SIM STADIUM” HAHAHA
Oh Ma God! Mariah! WHAT THE HELL WERE U THINKING?! now i know u didn’t want this to be ur single.. but that didn’t mean u had to go and.. do this.. *sigh* i don’t even know how to discribe what she did.. but one thing i know.. this is BAD! This Is SuperBAD! This is Adrienne Bailon SuperBAD! OH Mimi WHYYYYY? *sobs*
on the bright side! she did look Stunning!
THIS IS THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO IN THE WORLD
THIS IS THE CHEESIEST THING EVER! OMG MY EEEEEEEEEYS!!!!!!!
Why Mimi Why???
Prophet… I DIED with your review! ahahahahahahahhahahahahahah it was the funniest thing u’ve done in weeks! ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
….I think this could have been amazing had it looked REAL!
I feel like this was a commercial for something like “Rockband – Mariah Carey edition”
Was anything in this video real? O.o
I’m confused lmao
That’s one of the funniest reviews I’ve read in a long time. If you budget is small, your idea should be small too. An intimate setting would’ve been much better.
WATCH and Listen to the sugarbabes SANGIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXNeOtvimE&feature=related
now yu know proph that Mariahs camp was not happy with this video, i am so upset at this, this has to be the worst Mariah video ever. The song is great , vocals & all but hype really did fuck her over. this video could have been better, there should have been a diffrent single choice & with that said, mariah didnt want this released as a second single either. UGH.
What is this MESS?
mimi my dearest go take a long year of rest
*laid out in my Wal-Mart Casket*
To. The. Corner for that “breakdown”======>
That video is lame. Why did they even release it? It has to be the cheesiet video from a star evah! They need to go back to Hype for a refund…ewwww!
A good director could have done more with a low budget…see Whitney’s ‘I Look to You’ video- low budget but it doesn’t appear that way based on the conviction and emotions on her face that the camera catches.
mariah looked great, they could have just focused on her singing with cut way scenes of a loved one or something. I don’t even get the concept of the video with the people smiling looking wack.
Dead @ Prophet’s description!!!!
The song is dead at radio so why even bother releasing it. I hope that they don’t use this video for the international market…
Sad that she can’t even have a voice over what single is released. Guess she’s no DIVA.
Terrible way to finish off her music career. Yes this is only her 2nd single but lets not kid ourselves here she’s not recovering from this mess. Too many other hot female artists coming out with better music and a sense of fashion. Apparently she’s lost both.
Don’t feel bad for her at all. She deserves this.
LMAO @ your review…you need to do more reviews like that
and dead @ the walmart casket comment
i cant stop laughing
just had to listen to 100 percent a few times to get overr this , I’m okay now.
Oh c’mon, guys! It wasn’t THAT bad… or was it? LOL
wow! its am amazing video! LOL!