Music Videos
Carey directed the music video for "Fantasy". Additionally, she chose the concept and created the idea. The video featured Carey in roller-blades, blading through a theme-park, while enjoying different rides and roller coasters. The video then cut into scenes of Carey dancing on top of a car, celebrating an event with many friends. Carey said her inspiration for the video was to give off a "free and open feeling," trying to portray the freedom she had finally achieved in being allowed to direct her first video. The video for "Fantasy" debuted on September 7, at the "MTV Video Music Awards". Carey expressed how much she enjoyed the video's filming, speaking about the "roller-coaster scenes":
"They did not expect me to get that shot! They were saying, 'How's she going to sing on a roller coaster?...We put a little speaker on the bottom of the car, where my feet where. We built the rig in front of the roller coaster and the lens kept falling off!"
When Carey and Boyz II Men got together to record "One Sweet Day", they didn't have enough time to re-unite and film a video. For this reason, a filming crew was present during the song's recording, and filmed bits of Carey and Boyz recording the song. In an interview with Fred Bronson, Walter Afanasieff made the following statements regarding the video for "One Sweet Day":
"It was crazy! They had film crews and video guys, while I'm at the board trying to produce. And these guys were running around having a ball, because Mariah and them are laughing and screaming and they're being interviewed. And I'm tapping people on the shoulder. "We've got to get to the microphone!" They're gone in a couple of hours, so I recorded everything they did, praying that it was enough."
The video for "Always Be My Baby" was once again filmed by Carey. It featured Carey swinging on a swing in the middle of a dark meadow, showing her frolicking through the woodlands. The video was set as a "peaceful and relaxing" setting, in order to try to reflect the sweet and mellow song's message. "Forever", the album's fifth single, was the final song to be accompanied by a music video. Carey's label used footage from her live performances of the song in New York City and Japan and compiled them into a video. On February 11, 2012, Carey revealed through her Twitter account that a music video for "Underneath the Stars" was actually recorded. Filming sessions occurred in England and France; Carey commented, however, that it "never got released & I don't know where it is!"
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