VISION OF LOVE
MARIAH CAREY
SONGWRITERS: Mariah
Carey & BEN MARGULIES
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
Album: MARIAH CAREY
LABEL: COLUMBIA.
RECORDS
GENRE: r&b
YEAR: 1990
"Vision of Love" is the debut
single by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey.
Written by Carey and Ben Margulies,
"Vision of Love" was released as the lead single from Carey's self-titled debut album on May 15, 1990. After being featured on Carey's demo
tape for Columbia, the
song was re-recorded and produced by Rhett Lawrence and Narada
Michael Walden. "Vision of Love"
features a slow-dance theme tempo and backing vocals sung by Carey herself, and
introduces her usage of the whistle register.
Lyrically, the song
describes both a past and present relationship with a lover: Carey describes
the "vision of love" she dreamed of, as well as the present love she
feels for him.
The accompanying music video for
"Vision of Love" was filmed in April 1990. It features Carey in a large
cathedral, where she meditates and sings by a large picture window. "Vision
of Love" was performed on several television and award show ceremonies,
such as The Arsenio
Hall Show, Good Morning
America, and the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. It has
been performed at almost every one of Carey's concerts and tours, and is
featured on Carey's live álbum MTV Unplugged(1992)
and on many of her compilation albums including #1's(1998),
Greatest Hits(2001)
and The Ballads(2008).
"Vision
of Love" received universal acclaim from music critics. While
the song's production was typical of late 1980s pop, the vocals were not, being
much more showy and expressing a wider range than artists popular at the time
such as Paula Abdul and Debbie Gibson. It has
been credited with popularizing the use of melisma in contemporary popular music and for inspiring several artists to
pursue a music career. The New Yorker named "Vision of Love" the "Magna Carta of
melisma" for its and Carey's influence on pop and R&B singers and American Idol contestants. Additionally, Rolling Stone said that "the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs
like "Vision of Love," inspired the entire American Idol vocal
school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer
since the nineties." The song topped the singles charts in Canada, New
Zealand, and the United States, where it spent four weeks atop the chart.
Treated me kind
Sweet destiny
Carried me through desperation
To the one that was waiting for me
It took so long
Still I believed
Somehow the one that I needed
Would find me eventually
I had a vision of
love
And it was all that you've given to me
Prayed through the
nights
Felt so alone
Suffered through alienation
Carried the weight on my own
Had to be strong
So I believed
And now I know I've succeeded
In finding the place I conceived
I had a vision of
love
And it was all that you've given to me
I had a vision of love
And it was all that you've given me
I've realized a dream
And I visualized
The love that came to be
Feel so alive
I'm so thankful that I've received
The answer that heaven has sent down to me
You treated me kind
(yeah)
Sweet destiny (yes, you did)
And I'll be eternally grateful (oh)
Holding you so close to me (prayed through the night)
Prayed through the nights (so faithfully)
So faithfully (faithfully)
Knowing the one that I needed
Would find me eventually (he would find me)
I had a vision of
love
And it was all that you've given to me
I had a vision of love
And it was all that you turned out to be, yeah, mmm.
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