Mariah Scary in "Obsessed"

I became a fan of Mariah Carey in 2005 with the release of, what i consider to be, one of the greatest RnB/Hip-Hop albums of all time - "The Emancipation Of MiMi". Although i was never really a fan of Mariah - I had to admitt that she sounded amazingly fresh on that album, with the mix of club bangers and soulful ballads.
E=MC2, the follow up to TEOM was a huge dissapointed for me, and again i began to question whether TEOM was a pure fluke. I only really enjoyed one song from that album, that happened to be the Swizz Beatz O.O.C [Track 11].
A couple of weeks ago I read that her new album would be titled "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel", funny as i thought that was - i still had hope for the album - but now that i have heard the lead single "Obsessed" i can tell u that things are not looking good.
Now Mariah is known, if for one main thing, her amazing vocal range - therefore using a vocoder is not such a great idea. She did it with the Track "Migrate" [Track 1] on E=MC2, and it was easily passed as a one off. But this obviously seems to be a new Mariah trend - which kind of puts her on the same level as T-Pain, Lil Wayne and Jaimee Foxx. Speaking of Mr. Foxx - Mariah has obviously had his latest smash "Blame It" on replay - because on "Obsessed" she attempts her own "a-a-a-a-alcohol" - again not too many points for originality.
Now lets talk about the lyrics and instrumental. The instrumental could well have been from E=MC2 because it sounds awfully similar to "Migrate" and a few other tracks from that album [which i really cant be bothered to recall because they all sounded the same]. The music is too edgy and aggressive for Mariah's vocals, and was obviously made for a male vocalist [hense the vocoder she uses]. It is the simplest most predictable beat that Mariah could have gone for - again no marks for originality.
Lyrically the song starts off with "Like... Why Are You So Obsessed With Me.." Need i really say anymore? She definately does push her song writing abilities with a few drug references though !
Fans of Mariah will buy into this nevertheless, because lets face it, it is still Miss Carey. Personally i don't think Beyonce has anything to worry about anymore. Unless the album turns out to be 100 times better than this song - i think Mariah may meet the same fate as a certain Miss Janet Jackson - who i cant even recall the name of her last album.

* [1/10 Stars]

K-Mat