Concert review: Mariah Carey at Chicago Theatre
View more Mariah Carey concert photos. (Tribune photo by William DeShazer/ Feb. 13, 2010 )
The singer, who has sold more than 62 million albums in the U.S. in a career that spans two decades, has always had a prodigious voice. But now she’s developing a personality to go with it, and that made all the difference in a concert in which the singer both played up her cartoon image and undercut it.
Mariah Carey was doing that diva thing Saturday in the first of two shows at the Chicago Theatre: Poured into a gleaming, silver gown; eyes closed; self-absorbed in the moment of singing how her lover had done “The Impossible.” All the while, a male dancer a few feet off her left shoulder was bumping, grinding and eventually popping his pectorals like a circus act.
Carey didn’t break stride, but then as the song wound down, she cracked up. “Did you enjoy that?” she asked the audience with a laugh, as if to let everyone know she was in on the joke all along.The singer, who has sold more than 62 million albums in the U.S. in a career that spans two decades, has always had a prodigious voice. But now she’s developing a personality to go with it, and that made all the difference in a concert in which the singer both played up her cartoon image and undercut it.
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