This video is my favorite so we'll start here. This video and song, the first track from her 1993 album "Music Box", captures the bubblegum-sweet romanticism of my childhood so well. Dreamlover come rescue me! At least until dreamlover shows up Mariah gets to hang with 2 dozen super foxy dancers and her best friend rockin' a pixie cut. This is the 90's at it's best & most innocent. Beautiful flowing curls, flowers, denim shorts, flannel shirts and fine black dudes doing the butterfly and the crybaby. This was also released in the time just after Mariah married Columbia records executive Tommy Mottola. "Always be My Baby" skips ahead to 1995. 5th grade Lauren was heavily influenced by the album "Daydream". If this isn't an iconic 90's song I don't know what is. I swear pretty much any woman around my age can sing the hell out of this song right down to the vocal noodles present through ought (in typical Mariah-fashion.) This ...
