Cry. by Mariah Carey Song Info
‘Cry’ is the opening track of Mariah Carey’s fourteenth studio album Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse (2014). With vocals suspended over a soft cloud of pianos, Mariah sings about the end of a relationship and her desire to get back together (or have a better outcome) with her loved one. The song was described by Billboard Magazine as probably being one of the album’s most heaviest moments. In an interview w/ Matt Lauer for the NBC special ‘Mariah Carey at Home in Concert’, she said: I guess I just… because that… those were the backgrounds parts that ‘cry’ (singing), like that was the part that I… that was consistent and it was just sort of like a retrospective on maybe this is why this relationship didn’t end up working, you know? And, it says, you know, ‘i just need you till we both break down and cry’. And it wasn’t about… a woe is me, I’m crying… It was about I need us to have this moment together to mutually just have an emotional release.
