What a marvellous title, yet despite her very public divorce and messy management shenanigans, it is hard to sympathise with Mariah.

Like George Michael, she has cried wolf too many times, so it would be easy to hate this album. Lyrically, she is still washing her filthy laundry in public and her constant whingeing is wearing thin. But she has been blessed with one of the finest voices of her generation, and once she gets down to her real job, that of singing, she is still amazingly spectacular.

It's Like That is a great single, and We Belong Together has 'classic' potential. But Mariah really needs to spend some time in the real world.

Updated: 08:46 Thursday, April 14, 2005