Has anyone heard Maria Carey's new song? It's called It's Like That

I heard it in the car the other day. Very "R&B" with a "J-Lo feel" to it. I wasn't overly impressed. If you have access to AOL, you can listen to it here;

http://music.channel.aol....stid=62404

Any comments?

Jlo feel! bite ur tongue
The track is released to radio end of January, but has already debut on BIllboard r&b singles chart at #54 this week and will debut next week on the hot 100 and the song is only avaiable to major stations at the moment and has already picked enough airplay to make the charts


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[Edited 1/13/05 22:16pm]

I thought the song was called "Livin My Life"?

Either way,it's a crap song
[Edited 1/14/05 4:58am]

It's a poopfest. DOOK, the official org poopmaster, endorses it.

DavidEye said:

This is about Mariah Carey...not J-Lo.

Awful song. But at the very least, I can say that her voice here sounds better than it has on most of her songs from the past few years. Unfortunately, she has totally disbanded the "Mariah Carey" sound, and is now satisfied with whatever producers' vision of who she should sound like.

jtgillia said:

I agree.
She lost her unique "sound".
This latest offering could just as well be "Ashanti" or "Monica" or any one of those "wannabe-divas".

I still have high hopes for the album, The album is mostly backed by a live band and is described by billboard as a cross between Gladys Knight and DeBarge This track was recorded a few weeks ago at the request of the label to find a "radio friendly first single" after Say Something failed to get any interest and leaked. anyway we'll wait and see.

Here is an article about the album in next weeks EW:
In Entertainment Weekly, January 21st issue with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell on the cover, page 52, 2005 Forecast in Music: When Island Def Jam chief L.A. Reid invited EW over to preview tracks from the new Mariah Carey album, The Emancipation of Mimi, he danced around his Manhattan corner office, fists raised in the air in celebration. “I don’t know if you can tell,” he grinned, mid-spin, “but I’m really happy with it.” So is Carey, whose previous two discs suffered on the sales rack (her doomed Glitter soundtrack led to EMI buying her out of her contract for a reported $28 million in 2002). With her 10th studio CD, the five-octave singer is trying to refocus her vision of love with the help of superstar producers like Neptunes, Jermaine Dupri, and man of the moment, Kanye West. Carey hopes the upbeat disc, which includes guest appearances by Snoop and Twista, among others, will have a broad appeal. “I know that my hardcore fans will have the ballads that they can cling to,” she says, “but people who haven’t been fans in the past will be able to pick out songs they like as well. It’s not formulaic. I’m one of those people who likes to stay with what’s familiar, but what was cool with this project was stretching.” That newfound sense of liberation is reflected by Emancipation’s title (“Mimi” has long been a nickname used by Carey’s closest friends and family). When the name of the album leaked to the press late last year, tongues wagged that Carey was pulling a P. Diddy. “A lot of people were like, ‘Uh-oh, is she changing her name!?’” she laughs. “There was this whole big drama. I’m like, It’s really not that deep. It’s what I felt like expressing at that moment

twink69 said:

...so long as she doesn't change it into a SYMBOL...