While Carey began developing new ideas for Daydream, she thought of the song Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club. 7 She had always been a fan of the song, and presented Dave Hall with the idea of sampling the songs hook. 7 Hall incorporated a groove that he felt complimented Careys voice, while she composed some of the other beats and wrote the lyrics.The follow-up to her internationally successful album Music Box (1993) and holiday album Merry Christmas (1994), Daydream differed from the two by leaning increasingly towards hip hop and urban music.Throughout the project, Carey collaborated with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote and produced most of her two previous albums.With Daydream, Carey took more control over the musical direction as well as the albums composition.
Carey said she considered Daydream the beginning of her musical and vocal transformation, a change that became more apparent in her sixth album Butterfly (1997). ![]() It was also the first time she had worked with Boyz II Men, an RB group consisting of four male vocalists. Together, they wrote the concept and lyrics for One Sweet Day, a song that Carey co-produced with Afanasieff. With his assistance and the addition of a few contemporary producers, she was able to make a subtle transition into the RB market. Daydream was nominated for six Grammy Awards at the 38th annual ceremony, during which Carey performed live. Due to the albums critical and commercial success, critics believed Carey would be one of the nights big winners. However, to her dismay, she was completely shut out, causing the subject to become very public and controversial. Its lead single Fantasy became the first single by a female artist to debut at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and went on to top the chart for eight weeks, and became the second best-selling single of 1995 in the country. The song topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and became a top-five hit in Finland, France, and the United Kingdom. The second single One Sweet Day topped the Billboard Hot 100 for sixteen weeks and became the longest-running number one single in Billboard history, holding the record for 23 years. In addition to its success in the United States it also topped the charts in Canada and New Zealand, and peaked within the top five in Australia, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Jointly, the singles from Daydream spent a combined six months at the top of the Hot 100. To promote Daydream, Carey embarked on the short but successful, Daydream World Tour, visiting Japan and Europe. It was Careys second album to be certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of ten million copies in the United States. The album made the top five of the best-selling albums in Japan by a non-Asian artist, with 2.1 million copies sold. Daydream remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide. For the first time in her career, Carey was able to make music that she truly related to, RB and hip hop. While Columbia allowed Carey more leniency with the music she recorded, they became hesitant when she featured Ol Dirty Bastard in the remix for Fantasy. They feared the sudden change was completely left field for her music, and worried it would jeopardize the albums success. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Carey openly spoke of her issues with Columbia: Everybody was like What, are you crazy Theyre nervous about breaking the formula. It works to have me sing a ballad on stage in a long dress with my hair up. Since the time of Careys debut, Mottola had controlled nearly every aspect of her career, keeping her sound carefully regulated and insisting that she continue recording middle-of-the-road pop music, despite her interest in hip hop. This time, I had more time, and I focused more on what I wanted to do. As Careys career and work continued to reflect her views on how it should sound, her marriage to Mottola continued to deteriorate. It reminded me of growing up and listening to the radio and the feeling the song gave me seemed to go along with the melody and the basic idea I had for Fantasy. ![]() ![]() Hall incorporated a groove that he felt complimented Careys voice, while she composed some of the other beats and wrote the lyrics.
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