Billboard's Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, Mariah Carey parted from
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Mariah Carey Naked Personal Life
Critics panned Glitter, Mariah Carey’s much delayed semi-autobiographical film, and it was a box office failure. The accompanying soundtrack album, Glitter, was inspired by the music of the 1980s and featured collaborations with Rick James and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; it generated Mariah Carey’s worst showing on the U.S. chart. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dismissed it as "an absolute mess that'll go down as an annoying blemish on a career that, while not always critically heralded, was at least nearly consistently successful", while Blender magazine opined, "After years of trading her signature flourishes for a radio-ready purr, Mariah Carey left with almost no presence at all." The lead single, "Loverboy" (featuring Cameo), reached number two on the Hot 100 thanks to a price cut, but the album's follow-up singles failed to chart.