Emotions (Mariah Carey album)

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Emotions is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. Columbia Records released it on September 17, 1991. Emotions is a synthesized R&B and dance-pop album featuring piano, keyboards, and electric guitar, with influences from soul, jazz, gospel, and disco music. Ranging from upbeat dance tracks to slow, sentimental ballads, the songs explore love and heartbreak and, to a lesser extent, perseverance and grief. Carey began work on Emotions in 1990 and wrote the lyrics to every track. She had greater control over the creative process compared to her debut studio album, Mariah Carey (1990), where seven out of eleven songs were co-composed with Ben Margulies. With Emotions, she was able to work with a larger variety of artists; she principally composed the ballads with Walter Afanasieff—with whom she had worked on Mariah Carey—and the dance tracks with David Cole and Robert Clivillés, who formed the production duo C+C Music Factory. Carey composed one song, "If It's...

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