"Dreamlover" is a song by American singer and
songwriter Mariah Carey, released on July 27, 1993, as the lead single from Carey's third studio album Music Box (1993).
It was written by Carey and Dave Hall, and was produced by Carey, Hall, and Walter Afanasieff. The song incorporates a sample of the hook from "Blind Alley" by The Emotions into its melody and instrumentation. "Dreamlover" helped Carey transition into the pop music market, a choice made following the mixed reception to her previous studio effort Emotions (1991), which featured gospel and 1960s soul influences. Lyrically, the song pictures a protagonist calling for a perfect lover, her "dreamlover," to whisk her away into the night and not disillusion her like others in the past.
This the liric song Dreamlover
ooh
tu tu ru tu tu tu tu ooh, baby
(yea, baby)
tu tu ru tu tu tu tu ooh, baby
(oh yea)
i need a lover to give me
the kind of love that will last always
i need somebody uplifting
to take me away, babe
oh yea, yea
i want a lover who knows me, yea
(ooh, baby)
who understands how i feel inside
someone to comfort and hold me
through the long, lonely nights
till the dawn
why don’t you take me away?
dreamlover come rescue me
(baby)
take me up, take me down
take me anywhere you want to baby now
i need you so desperately
(hmm)
won’t you please, come around
’cause i wanna share forever with you baby
(tu tu ru tu tu tu tu tu, oooh)
with you baby, hey
i don’t want another pretender, na
to disillusion me one more time
whisperin’ words are forever
playin’ with my mind
no, no, no, no, no, no baby
i need someone to hold on to
(ooh, baby)
the kind of love that won’t fly away
i just want someone to belong to
everyday
of my life
always
so come and take me away
dreamlover come rescue me
(yea, ohh babe)
take me up take me down
take me anywhere you want to baby now
i need you so desperately
(i need you so desperately)
won’t you please come around
’cause i wanna share forever with you baby
(share, with you, yeah)
(tu tu ru tu tu tu tu)
baby, ooh, ohh yea
(tu tu ru tu tu tu tu ooh, yea yea)
(tu tu ru tu tu tu tu)
baby come and take me
(away, yea)
dreamlover come rescue me
take me up, take me down
take me anywhere you want to baby now
(ooh, ohh anywhere)
i need you so desperately
(ooh, i need you baby)
won’t you please, come around
(won’t you please, please)
’cause i wanna share forever with you baby
(yea, yea, yea)
(tu turutu tu ohh, ohh ohh)
(tu turutu tu ohh, ohh ohh)
(i need you so, i need you so)
dreamlover come rescue me
take me up, take me down
(take me up, ooh)
take me anywhere you want to baby now
i need you so desperately
(come on baby)
won’t you please, come around
’cause i wanna share forever with you baby
"Dreamlover" received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, many of whom praised the song's incorporated sample, as well as Carey's carefree vocal style. The song was the first of several of her lead singles that sampled older tunes as a musical bed, as seen in "Fantasy" (1995), "Honey" (1997), "Heartbreaker" (1999), and "Loverboy" (2001). It experienced strong worldwide success, becoming Carey's seventh chart topper on the US Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for eight weeks. It peaked at number one in Canada and became a top-ten single in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Carey performed "Dreamlover" live on several televised talk shows around the world, including The Arsenio Hall Show in September 1993, the British music chart program Top of the Pops, and the 1993 Music Fair in Japan. In 1999, following the release of Carey's Rainbow, the song was included in the Mariah Carey Homecoming Special, and her appearance on The Today Show. Additionally, "Dreamlover" was featured in the set-lists of most of her succeeding tours, making its debut on the Music Box Tour (1993). The song was included on Carey's compilation albums, Number 1's (1998), Greatest Hits (2001), and #1 to Infinity (2015).
The song's music video was filmed by Diane Martel in Copake, NY in upstate New York during August 1993. It features a cameo appearance by Carey's dog Jack, and shows her dancing in a flowerbed and field, swimming in a large pond, boarding a hot air balloon, and dancing alongside several shirtless male dancers. According to author Chris Nickson, the video's carefree setting harmonized well with the song's soft instrumentation. Due to the song's strong radio airplay and extended charting, the video received frequent play on several music video channels throughout the summer of 1993.
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