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"Heartbreaker" is a song recorded by American singer Mariah Carey for her seventh studio album, Rainbow (1999). Written by Carey, the track features a guest appearance from American rapper Jay-Z. The singer wrote the song, initially planning for it to be featured in a movie project. However, the project was postponed, making Carey include it on her then-upcoming album.
The track was released on September 21, as the album's lead single to mixed reviews from music critics. Nevertheless, it was another commercial success for Carey, reaching the top ten in most major markets, while achieving the top of the charts in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. In the United States, the song became Carey's 14th number 1 single and brought other new feats to her career. Its music video portrays a cinematic plot where the singer is shown as two different women. It is one of the most expensive ever made, with a cost of US$2,500,000 and remains as one of her fan favorites to date.
Background
During the 1990s, Carey had recorded several albums revolving around pop and adult contemporary genres.[1] This was due to the fact that her husband at the time, Columbia Records CEO Tommy Mottola, was controlling of her career and the music she recorded.[1] Carey's fifth studio album, Daydream (1995) was the first time that Carey took the initiative and chose the direction she would take the album. For the album's lead single "Fantasy", she recorded a remix featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard.[1] This idea was viewed with nervous eyes from Columbia executives, as many were afraid the transition and hip-hop influence would taint Carey's imge and "break the formula."[2] The remix however, became a critical success, and was regarded as one of the pioneering songs that began the fusion of pop and hip-hop collaborations. After her divorce from Mottola however, Carey began taking even more control over her musical styles and creative ideas, pushing her future work into a more R&B and hip-hop background, the kind of music she felt more connected to personally.[2] Butterfly was her first real push into the R&B market, working with different and younger record producers and songwriters.[2] In an interview with MTV News, Carey spoke of the song before its official release in August 1999:
"It's pretty much [in] the classic style of my up-tempo classics like 'Fantasy' or 'Dream Lover,'. But it's kind of fun and has a new edge to it, I think, and definitely having Jay-Z takes it to a whole 'nother level. And Clue makes it really fun and stuff. Having them both definitely enhances the range and depth of the song."[3]
After the album's success, and the following release of her first compilation album #1's (1998), Carey began to work on her seventh studio album, Rainbow (1999).[4] Her main focus on the album was to continue on the same path she began on Butterfly, only including a hip-hop star on the album's lead single.[5] This would be the fist time in Carey's career that another artist would be featured on one of Carey's lead singles, something that Mottola always enforced, not allowing Carey many collaborations. Out of the three months in Capri, Italy, that it took to record the album, Carey claimed to have spent most of the time developing what she felt to be a strong lead single.[5] Originally, "Heartbreaker" was intended to be part of Carey's debut film soundtrack Glitter, only being used on Rainbow after the films delay.[4] Prior to the song's radio release, Carey spoke of the song in an interview with MTV News: "It's pretty much [in] the classic style of my up-tempo classics like 'Fantasy' or 'Dreamlover,' [...] But it's kind of fun and has a new edge to it, I think, and definitely having Jay-Z takes it to a whole 'nother level. And [DJ] Clue makes it really fun and stuff."[6]
Recording and lyrics
In the midst of Carey's development of Rainbow during the summer of 1999, she began producing several ideas, lyrics and melodies for the yet untitled and written lead single.[7] After writing the song's core lyrics and producing the main idea and melody, DJ Clue, one of the earlier producers in the project, told Carey of the idea of sampling the hook from "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw.[7] After agreeing to it, they incorporated Carey's lyrics and melody to the hook, and began recording the song. However, after completing "Heartbreaker", Carey felt the song needed a strong male verse, hoping for a rising hip-hop artist. She chose to work with Jay-Z and began arranging the song as he wrote out his verse.[7] Jay-Z wrote his entire verse, and helped produce some of the song's core instrumentals. In an interview with Fred Bronson, Carey spoke of her experience working with Jay-Z:
"It's fun when you can find someone that you can relate to and that you respect. Jay-Z is someone I admire as a writer and as an artist. We could be sitting in the studio, and he can freestyle a rhyme that would be incredible just off the top of his head. He doesn't need a pen and paper. I equate that to a singer who can pick up the mike and riff and ad-lib over a song and take you to a totally new place."[7]
Aside from her work with Clue and Jay-Z, Carey's longtime friend and background singer Trey Lorenz also took part in the song. He provided the back-up vocals in the song, and took part in several small areas of the development of Rainbow.[7] When interviewed by Bronson, Carey spoke greatly of Lorenz, "He's an amazing writer and singer, he's so influenced by the old school stuff, yet he's so current. He's known me since before my first album, and he's a great, loyal friend."[7] Aside from the use of the sample and Jay-Z's verses, "Heartbreaker" contained strong female-empowering lyrics, which Carey wrote as a sort of anthem, especially because she felt that she personally has been in that predicament in the past.[7] She spoke of the inspiration behind the lyrics when interviewed by Bronson:
"It was from the standpoint of girls that keep going back to that same guy and they can't help themselves. They know they are going to continually get hurt, and the situation won't change or improve for them as long as they continue with the guy. I've been one of those girls, so I know theres a lot of them out there, and they need to gather strength and move on and past it."[7]
Composition
"Heartbreaker" is a moderately slow dance track, with hip-hop and R&B influences.[4][8] Written in the key of D♭ major,[8] the beat is set in common time and moves at a moderate 92 bpm.[8] The song has a "midtempo" and a "percolating beat" over which Carey sings with a nasal, silken and declarative voice.[9] The verses are melismatic, meaning, there are multiple notes sung per word or syllable with rapid yet seamless transitions. For example, the beginning of a word may start in a mid-belt and descend into a whispered coo. The song also features a singing style developed in the studio, where Mariah, along with the other background singers, sing the main melody and chorus and Mariah whispers, hums or mumbles above it. "Hearbreaker" samples R&B—dance singer Stacy Lattisaw's "Attack of the Name Game". The lyrics are constructed in the verse-pre-chorus-chorus form. Carey starts with the hook "Gimme your love, gimme your love," repeated eight times.[8] It follows the verse-pre-chorus-chorus-hook-verse-pre-chorus-chorus and then giving way to the Jay-Z's rap—with most of his lines beginning with "She wanna".[8] Carey repeats the chorus four times, ending the song with a final "Gimme your love, gimme your love."[8]
Critical reception
"Heartbreaker" received mixed reviews from music critics, some of whom compared it to heavily to Carey's previous lead singles. Dara Cook from MTV called the song "airy ditty" and wrote "[On the song] Mariah exudes as much sentiment as hollowed-out driftwood."[10] Cook continued onto the song's production, writing "By texturing it into the song, producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have finally found productive use (other than song closing spectacle) for Mariah's high octave shriek."[10] Editor from Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine named "Heartbreaker" as one of his top three choices from the album.}[11] Danyel Smith from Entertainment Weekly called the song a "delectable confection" and wrote "she smartly uses Jay-Z's droll rap about a bratty girlfriend as tart counterpoint to her creamy tones," however calling it a recycled version of Carey's previous songs "Dreamlover" (1993) and "Fantasy" (1995).[12] Elysa Gardner from the Los Angeles Times called the song "breezy" and commented how Carey "brings a similarly light, sensuous touch" to "Heartbreaker". Additionally, Gardner complimented Jay-Z's rap verses, calling them "sly."[13] Editor from Rolling Stone Arion Berger, called it "nasal, silken and declarative" while "riding the percolating beat."[9] Additionally, Berger also compared it to Carey's "Fantasy", for its similar usage of a sampled hook.[9] Tom Sinclair, another editor from Entertainment Weekly reviewed the song individually, giving it an F. He called it a "rehash" of "Fantasy" and wrote "What self-respecting artist would have the gall to recycle the Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love (the source of Fantasy) for a second time in four years? It's a given that pop will eat itself, but this sort of self-cannibalization should be illegal."[14]
Remix
The song's main remix is the Desert Storm Remix which features female rappers Da Brat and Missy Elliott. It is the first Mariah Carey remix that was produced by Desert Storm Records producer and rapper DJ Clue, who made an introduction on the remix. The remix is the seventh track of the album. The remix and Da Brat's first verse was sampled from "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" by Snoop Dogg. In an interview with MTV News, Carey spoke of the song's remix before its official release in August 1999: "And then the remix. I'm so excited about the remix. It's also gonna go on the album, and it features Missy Elliott and Da Brat, and it's kinda like a girl-power answer record, and it's to the loop of Snoop [Dogg]'s 'Ain't No Fun.' They're not ready for that one!"[3] A separate music video was filmed for the remix, shot in black and white and featuring a cameo appearance by Snoop Dogg. The remix received mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose the song as one of the top three cuts on Rainbow, alongside the original.[11] Danyel Smith from Entertainment Weekly called it "[an] overblown [...] miscalculation" and wrote "Missy Elliott's and Da Brat's bad sexual politics sink the tired Heartbreaker [Remix]."[12]
Chart performance
"Heartbreaker" became Carey's fourteenth chart topper in the United States, spending two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.[7][15] It extended Carey's lead as the female with the most number one singles in the country, and made Carey surpass Michael Jackson, who had thirteen, for more chart toppers.[7] The only acts still ahead of Carey were Elvis Presley with seventeen and The Beatles with twenty. The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over 500,000 units.[16] Additionally, "Heartbreaker" finished number thirty-five on the Billboard Year-End of 1999. In Canada, the song peaked at number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, becoming Carey's tenth chart topper in the country.[17] In Australia, it entered the Australian Singles Chart at number eleven, on the issue dated October 10, 1999.[18] The next week, the song ascended to its peak of number ten, where it stayed for one week, before fluctuating inside the chart for a total of seventeen weeks. "Heartbreaker" was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), denoting shipments of over 70,000 units within the country.[19] In New Zealand, "Heartbreaker" was met with strong success, debuting at number four on October 10, 1999, and topping the singles chart the following week. After spending eleven weeks inside the chart, the song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ).[20][21]
In Europe, the song charted throughout several markets. In Austria, it debuted at number thirty-seven on the singles chart, eventually peaking at number seventeen. In total, "Heartbreaker" spent twelve weeks charting on the Austrian charts.[22] In the two Belgium territories, Wallonia and Flanders, the song peaked at numbers nine and twenty-seven respectively, charting for a total of eighteen weeks.[23] In France, the song entered the singles chart at number seventy-seven on October 9, 1999.[24] Eventually, it peaked at number four, becoming Carey's highest charting single there since "Without You" (1993), which peaked at number two.[24] After charting for thirty-four weeks, "Heartbreaker" was certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP), denoting shipments of over 400,000 units.[25] In Germany, "Heartbreaker" peaked at number nine, spending twenty weeks inside the singles chart.[26] On October 2, 1999, it entered the Dutch Top 40 at number sixteen, eventually peaking at number seven, and spending a total of eighteen weeks in the chart.[27] In Norway, the song's success was limited, only peaking at number fourteen and spending only four weeks charting in the countries chart.[28] "Heartbreaker" entered the Swedish Singles Chart at number thirty, on the issue dated October 7, 1999. After charting for a total of fourteen weeks, the song managed to attain a peak of number eighteen.[29] In Switzerland, it spent twenty-three consecutive weeks in the singles chart, attaining a peak position of number seven, where it stayed for two weeks.[30] On the UK Singles Chart, "Heartbreaker" debuted at its peak position of number five, during the week of November 6, 1999.[31] It spent a total of thirteen weeks charting inside the chart, exiting on January 9, 2000.[32] Sales in the United Kingdom are estimated at over 190,000 units.[33]
Music video
[[:Image:Heartbreaker screenshot.jpeg|thumb|200px|right|A brunette version of Mariah Carey is Bianca, a woman who had stolen the "heartbreaker" boyfriend from another version of the singer, this time blonde.]] Directed by Brett Ratner,[34] the song's music video was reported to be the 7th most expensive ever made, with a cost of U$2,500,000.[35][36] Furthermore, it remains a fan favorite.[37]
The music video puts the singer in two roles: an innocent and sweet blonde Carey and an "evil" brunette Carey, named Bianca. Located in a movie theater, the blonde Carey is convinced by her friends to catch her boyfriend (played by Jerry O'Connell) cheating on her, then discovering that he is in a date with the brunette Carey. When the blonde one tries to confront the brunette about stealing her boyfriend, the two end up with a catfight in the theater's bathroom inspired by 1973 American martial arts film Enter the Dragon.[37] The story ends with the blonde Carey pouring a drink in the lap of her former boyfriend.
During the part of the song where Jay-Z raps, an animated sequence featuring cartoon versions of Carey and her friends was shown instead—an idea decided by the singer herself and Brett Ratner. The part where Carey and her friends have fun on the bed was inspired by the 1978 musical film Grease. It happened because the rapper was contractually obligated to restrict video appearances during two weeks.[38] The version of "Heartbreaker" video, which included Jay-Z himself, premiered on the MTV show Making the Video on August 30, 1999.[38]
There is another version of the video with alternate scenes and Jay-Z in the video as he is in a hot tub smoking, with Mariah dancing in the background.[39]
Live performances
Track listings
- U.S. CD single (667868 9)
- "Heartbreaker" (album version) – 4:48
- "Heartbreaker" (remix) – 4:37
- U.S. vinyl single (44 79261)
(Released: September 21, 1999)
- "Heartbreaker" (album version) – 4:48
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" – 4:37
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Club Mix) – 10:18
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" – 10:12
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Hard Mix) – 10:19
- U.S. maxi single (44K 79261)
(Released: September 21, 1999)
- "Heartbreaker" (album version) – 4:18
- "Heartbreaker" (remix) – 4:36
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Club Mix) – 10:18
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Club Dub) – 10:11
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Hard Mix) – 10:20
- European 12" vinyl (COL 667868 6)
Side A
- "Heartbreaker" (album version) – 4:18
- "Heartbreaker" (remix) – 4:36
Side B
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Club Mix) – 10:18
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior's Club Dub) – 10:11
- Australian/UK CD maxi-single (667899 2)
(Released: September 21, 1999)
- "Heartbreaker" (album version) – 4:18
- "Heartbreaker" (remix) – 4:36
- "Heartbreaker" (no rap version) – 3:20
- "Heartbreaker/If You Should Ever Be Lonely" (Junior Heartbreaker Club Mix) – 10:14
Credits and personnel
Charts
Peak positions
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End of year charts
Sales and certifications
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References
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Further reading
- Argenson, Jim (2010), Mariah Carey Concert Tours, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 1155562046
- Bronson, Fred (2003), The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, Billboard Books, ISBN 0823076776
- Shapiro, Marc (2001), Mariah Carey: The Unauthorized Biography, ECW Press, ISBN 978-1550224443
- 1999 singles
- Mariah Carey songs
- Jay-Z songs
- Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
- Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
- Canadian Singles Chart number-one singles
- Dance-pop songs
- Music videos directed by Brett Ratner
- Music videos directed by Diane Martel
- Songs written by Mariah Carey
- Songs written by Jay-Z