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  • Not only is she one of the most talented people to ever grace their prescence over the general population/audience (musically, vocally, technically, emotively and lyrically), but she has one of the most beautiful souls possessed by any individual of the human race.

  • I'm compromising with a very tough period in my life at the moment, & Mariah's entire music catalog (especially this song)&the general human being she is just motivates me to recreate a stronger form of living salvation,along with getting over my depression, regaining my confidence and looking at things in a more positive perspective. I have such a high standard of love and admiration for Mariah (: I'm going through similiar circumstances as what she did as a child,& I can just completely relate

  • Ay Dios mio, this song never fails to remind me how strong I can be with God by my side... Mariah is my treasured godsend

  • she needs to perform this live

  • My favorite song of all times. I credit this song for helping me through depression and saving my life. Love you forever Mariah #L4L

  • One of the most deep and meaningful songs in history.......

  • That beautiful soft moment at 4:21 had the me first time I heard it the day the album came out.

  • One of my favorites from the Butterfly album

  • this song says what i feel ..is that bad?

  • I love the way she builds the climax of the song from 2:40 to 3:10. It's like she's about to go off oh wait she scaled it back...NOW she's about to go off. NOPE scaled it back again. 3:10 she goes off and my knees buckle. seriously good stuff. She was so crafty back in the day. Really an amazing artist.

  • This song helps me so much. It's really great to be different, but it's never easy. It's really hard to live in a place where you don't meet a lot of other people like you, either. For me, I don't meet a lot of other gay people. That's not just romantically frustrating, but it's lonely not to have friends you relate to about it, no matter how great your other friends are. And when you do meet another gay person, maybe they just want sex or something stupid. It's hard. Thank you, Mariah.

  • this song got me through everything. my sister is a drug addict & attemps suicide all the time. this song got me through that time in my life. i would just go up to my room lock the door and put my ipod volume high and listen to this.

  • I wish her kids grow up to be talented as her mother. :)

  • This is one of her greatest songs ever for me! I just LOVE how Mariah has so many wonderful, hidden gems on all of her albums. All the albums from the Debut to "Rainbow" are free of filler and contain virtually no duds. This song is gorgeous.

  • Love this song alot Mariah is a true talent the best!!!!

  • This is one of my favorite Mariah Carey songs HANDS DOWN.

  • @jamstrings100 so true. A lot of people can do F5's and G5's, but very few can do it with, as you said, a strong cheast resonance. =)

  • "(12). OUTSIDE

    "The song "Outside" is...I mean, I always hate to get too specific

    because people could relate to it for a lot of different reasons. For

    me, it was about being multi-racial and feeling like I came from

    another planet because I never knew anyone in the exact same

    position as me. The experiences I've had just to make me feel like

    an outsider in a lot of ways."

    one of her best songs. The lyrics cut deeeeeeeep and then some, just so beautiful and vulnerable.

  • the only one Mariah

    

  • this song and "Anytime You Need A Friend" gives me goosebumps every single time I hear them. Both songs contain some of the best G5's that she's ever sung in her career, both are so powerful. She's simply amazing. Thumbs up if you agree :)

  • I was looking at wikipedia, and i read that she once said this;

    "Basically, a lot of you know that the political situation in my professional career is not positive. It's been really, really hard. I don't even know if this message is going to get to you because I don't know if they want you to hear this. I'm getting a lot of negative feedback from certain corporate people. But I am not willing to give up."

    I just got goosebumps and she must have had a really hard time.

    You're amazing Mariah

  • Mariah Carey - Gay Icon :)

  • @Docterphilly Where on earth did you get that silly idea? She's just an icon period.

  • @superx57 Hahaha =3

  • ...and people say christina can sing better than her...wtf are they thinking??!

  • @zblamm2121 Ikr?

  • Someday I hope to hear Mariah sing this song live!

  • @chiwochiwon Me too!

  • this is my comming out song :) <3

  • @Docterphilly: Awww, I love it!!! I felt the same way when I was a teenager and heard this song when "Butterfly" came out.

  • @Docterphilly Choosing your path of evolving is the epitome of living "Outside". Humanity's biggest challenge. We all have our own paths ones we've never traveled before-growing old is "outside", making difficult choices is "outside", losing a loved one-outside, opening your heart after devastation is "outside", sharing dark secrets=oustide, feeling powerless is outside. Humanity is outside because we don't know how to simply accept ourselves and each other. We get there 1 step at a time.

  • The end of the song gives me EVERYTHING! Crying, goose bumps ... wow!

  • Love this song. I wish she would have sang it live.

    Well I'm mostly just happy she wrote it:). (I think I'm slowly turning in to a lamb) lolz

  • she is truly and easily the best female artist ever....she writes, composes and sings her own songs, there's only one artist that can make me cry from emotions all over happy sad mad...God put Mariah Carey here on this earth to inspire people and she has and is going to continue to do so <3 i love you...i hope to work with you some day....LAMBILY FOR LIFE <3

  • omg I love this song so much .....its crazy the comments people put up so much anger in the world .......God Bless them all

  • She is amazing, BUT she didn't hit G#5's at the peak of this song. They were actually F#5's slid up to G5. [still VERY impressive]

    Check your keyboard folks... the notes she belts aren't impressive. It's the WEIGHT with which she belts that's the kicker.

    ;) -Mariah Fan.

  • @chawlaybua Precisely, I mean both things are impressive, there aren´t many singers hitting G5, but I must agree that, is the quality and projection of those notes that makes it so impressive, and unique. Most singers hit F5, G5 in a very mixed voice whislt Mariah has a lot of chest ressonance on her mixed voice making it totally different from anyone else.

  • Love this song. Mariah Carey has beautiful voice.

  • Oh, and God knows

    that you're standing on your own --

    blind and unguided

    Into a world divided

    you're thrown

    Where you're never quite the same

    although you try -- try and try

    to tell yourself

    you really are THIS IS MY FAVOURITE PART.

  • When the Butterfly album came out i was 15 and didn't understand English all that well. Years later when i learned more English, this song finally hit home. I don't believe i've ever cried so hard.

  • @Missvis damn, i got alittle teray eyed reading that, not sure why, but yeah mariah's lyrics are touching

  • This song deserves the same amount of attention and praise as the other inspirational songs Mariah did like Make It Happen, Hero and Through the Rain D: This song is literally what I am.

  • so meaningfull, love you mariah

  • no one can sing this except her ..

  • No one will ever match her touch and perfection... She's incredible...

  • One of my fave Mariah songs, next to Close My Eyes

  • Well I think that this song was made at the transitional period of Dayfream-Butterfly era because it has a lot of the Daydream characteristics!!Especially listen carefully at the melodic and super soft mellismas!!Love that song it's so powerful!!!

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  • God i just love my queen. No other female singer can do what Mariah does. She writes her own music so that means it comes straight from her. My fav song from the "Butterfly" album.

  • I was just watching gaga's new vid then I came here to clean my ears.

  • @DaydreamButterfly2 LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!1WELL UR N THE RIGHT PLACE

  • @DaydreamButterfly2 LMFAO I actually like some of Gaga's stuff but damn, that shit was funny as hell.

  • @DaydreamButterfly2 LOL!!! that is the funniest comment ever

  • I love this song! I'll be cover this song soon. But for now take a look at some of my recent covers: I don't wanna cry, Without you, Vision of Love, Emotions. People say I sound similar to Mariah, Leona, Kelly Clarkson, and a few others. I guess it depends which songs I'm singing. I really love Mariah's songs though, so I'll be recording more of them soon. If you have any requests, let me know, I have most of them on karaoke/instrumental now! :)

  • @CrystalMurphyMusic please go away...

  • THANK GOD I FOUND mariah for without her i dont think i can get THROUGH THE RAIN,,,

  • am sick of see,ing lady gaga's name everywhere she didnt invent music or fashion! it invented her!

  • the words and message of this song are so powerful. i'll take this inspirational masterpiece any day over lady gagme's crappy born this way!

  • Wow the G#5 note she hit was flawless

  • This song helped me through my childhood years and now...damn life can throw you stones...Foster care...Drug addict parents... I am crying now......

    OMGG Mariah Carey 's music saved my life and I don't think I would have been as happy and successful as I am without it

  • I feel this song. I don't think that any song have made me cry so much as i do to this one. I mean when she starts the bridge i literally cry every word out of my body. I have never heard a song like this before. It touches me so deep.. Good no words can explain what i am feeling!! Ooh she is such a gift to the world!

  • Nobody does the beautiful song with the epic grand finale better than miss Mariah Carey. What a songstress!

  • Theres no other song like this in the world. Its amazin but sad. Feel every word.

  • when I first heard this song on the butterfly album, I instantly connected to it. For most of my life I've always felt different from everyone else. even when I'm hanging with friends or family, I never feel completely apart of the group, and often find myself drifting off into my own world. yes, she did write it about her experience growing up biracial, but the song is universal and can be embraced by anyone who feels like they don't fit in.

  • @vidlvr99 : you are sooo not alone. i get what you are saying from your 1st sentence right down to the period after "fit in". i feel the same way totally. probably why this is my all time favorite mariah carey song.

  • nobody fucks with the old mariah this is my FAVORITE mariah when she used to take herself seriously

  • I know this song all too well. I can totally relate because I always feel like the outsider or the misfit that will never be anything more than the outsider looking in

  • From our hearts to her lips....... Thats what i always feel like when i listen to her music.....

  • 2 thumbs up for Mariah.. what a high note!!!

  • thumbs up if you feel like you'll always be somewhere on the outside

  • You know what tho? I'm starting to think that being an outsider has it's advantage. It allows for one to be observant just watching the mindless flock of sheep all leading, or should I say FOLLOWing, themselves to the slaughter house. Ha, I love being a lamb. :)

  • @MariahYanez thats a good point!!!!and i agree but sometimes you kinda want to know what it feels like to be part of the the group ,, although i would rather be on the outside 2

  • mariah carey is the best singer in the world. no one can sing like her. nobody compares to her!

  • two words: "Just Beautiful"

  • I love this song cause even though she wrote it about being bi-racial,, everyone can relate,, those who are overweight, gay, unattractive, disable, or any other thing that makes them always have to stand outside of everyone else around them and just wish they could be...... AMEN

  • @mmoran3 cuz this song is so universal...Anyone who feels like an outsider in some way can really relate. I love it!

  • That huge note she hits is amazing...:D a clear G#5

  • this is her best song for me........I love her....she keeps me going....

  • ugh i love her.. this is on my video for top mariah songs.. i love this girl.. greatest voice

  • I love you Mariah!

  • Fuck all the newbies singers of today Only Mariah Can bring this kind of Magic...

  • The one and only MAriah Carey....

  • @welshangel13 blah blah not wasting my time reading your replies.Race Obsessed Kiss Ass Loser

  • @2scales But you'll reply to every one of them ;)

  • i love her voice she is a reel singer

  • lots of great singers but there is only one that gives me goosebumps whenever I listen. this song is simply amazing...

  • @dbossmx Amen to that!

  • Mariah is a legend, so brilliant, so amazing! A blessing for the world that she excist!

  • @welshangel13 still talking I see.This is only one of your favorites so you can start telling everybody who comments about her race.You don't really like this song.Just another race obsessed person who likes kissing ass instead of being their own person.Go ahead and be that I'm just glad I'm not you.

  • @2scales How do you know it's one of my favourites? Thought you weren't reading my comments? Get over yourself sweety. The only race obsessed person here is clearly you.

  • Yeah...around 3:12 it took me away. I was just reading comments and comments about 3:12 and I wasn't really paying attention...and then boom...I just had to listen. :] Great song.

  • @welshangel13 still haven't read one of your replies and I'm not going to.I'm right your wrong get over it.

  • @2scales yeah sure sweety ;) have a good day now xxx

  • @welshangel13 damn I thought you gave up by now but you still keep coming trying to defend the fact that you are a blatant kiss ass.I still have NOT read any of replies because I don't need to.I know what you and everybody else who post this song on youtube are and instead of enjoying a song.You use it to kiss ass.America is in a sad state now and days with people like you.I'm right DEALWITH IT.The fact that you keep responding shows just except what I said and GET OVER IT.

  • @2scales I'm not even American lmao! Sweetheart the whole 'if you keep replying it proves blah blah' is really childish and it's pretty obvious your 'not' reading my comments because you know your full of shit. Damn your head is soooo far up your own ass it's hilarious. I posted the song because it's one of my faves. Theres no massive conspiracy here, no ulterior motives. Seriously mate take a breath and swallow that groundless ego of yours and read the damn comments or stop commenting :)

  • This is one of My favourite MC songs... She is so human... MC MC MC MC MC MC MC MC MC MC MC addicted!!!

  • Just block 2scales his pathetic rep lie of "im right your wrong" is pathetic, he needs a big woop ass

  • @DanielAvilaAGT Yeah i know i should have blocked this fool after she/he left their first ridiculous comment but i'm too stubbon to just let things go LMAO!

  • Mariah is an abslute Goddess. Everytime I listen to this song it takes my blues away. Bless her!:)

  • @welshangel13 see that's another thing.You race obsessed people can't take a hint to just quit.I still haven't read one word of what you put.Your so obsessed with these people you keep on coming back and running your mouth.Shut up and deal with it, I'm sick of all you race obsessed people thinking just because you say this word, that makes you so above people, come back down to earth.I was right and your wrong GET OVER IT.Responding just proves my point.

  • @2scales Sweety you need psychiatric help. If your not reading my comments then why take the time and reply to them? Your just a childish little attention seeker aren't you. Grow up.

  • @welshangel13 bitch just quit because I ain't reading none of your replies.So there's nothing you can say because I have no idea what your putting back.But facts are facts and what I said in my previous post about you and all of Youtube is true.Your all race obsessed especially with people like Mariah Carey.Get a life and quit kissing these people's asses its not a good look.Im right your wrong so deal with it.I absolutely hate people who kiss ass and thats what you and everybody else are doing.

  • @2scales Mate i don't think you realise how pathetic you actually sound. If you hate youtube and the people on here then why the hell do you have an account? Your a complete hypocrit. Oh and sweety it's blatantly obvioulsly you DID read my previous comment because you took the time to reply to it. But of course you 'won't' read this comment will you? ;) As i said before, grow up. You sound like an angry little 12 year old LMAO!!

  • @welshangel13 didn't even read what you said I just clicked on the video.Fact is I'm right and people like you are the problem not the solution.Whatever you said to me just get over the fact that its fact what I said.Maybe if you people would get a life and quit obsessing over these people maybe we could move forward but thanks to losers like you youtube has been ruined with all this race talk from these people and losers who like to kiss ass like yourselves.Thanks a lot!

  • @2scales What did i say that was remotely rude or insulting about anyones race? Nothing! How about you actually read the comments before making stupid assumptions huh. 'Fact' is your right? Right about what? I don't even understand what your making this pathetic fuss about. Nothing at all negative has been said here so wtf is your problem? The song is about Mariah's struggles growing up bi-racial and i was explaining that to someone who didn't know what the song was actually about.

  • @2scales Get a fucking clue and read through the comments before drawing conclusions on people. It's people like YOU who make youtube a negative place. Making unsubstantiated judgements about me when you didn't even read my damn comments properly . What the hell is wrong with you? Seriously mate, grow up. Pathetic.

  • @2scales I know this is WAY after the fact, but GOD, you are pathetically and idiotically nonsensical. What a waste of screen space !!!!! Fuck!!!~

  • @welshangel13 damn people like you are so obsessed with that word and the people.I bet you have an orgasm every time someone says it.I'm watching a video about Mariah Carey's greatest belts and someone mentioned this song and I've never heard this so I just happen to click on yours and there one of you losers go talking about race.I bet the only people that upload this song do it just to put the word bi-racial GOD why don't you get a life.

  • @2scales WTF is your problem! We're talking about race because thats what the song IS about! If you'd taken the time to actually listen to any of the lyrics you would have realised that. Take your clueless ass somewhere else because you have no idea what the hell your talking about.

  • All time favorite song...

  • really love listening to this one...it gives me another layer of hope and faith whenever i feel down and troubled. she can easily ease the pain and burdens that bothering me at times...the runs, the high notes is like a breeze of wind that comforts me

  • This is the song of my life :'-(

  • My ALL TIME FAVORITE SINGER since I was just a kid! The world is so thankful for God sending us another talented angel! Idk why all these people talk about Mariah when SHE HAS THE GRAMMYS, THE MOST HITS IN HISTORY, AND A VOICE NOBODY IN THE WORLD WILL EVER GAIN!, A BODY, GREAT HAIR, and the list goes on... This song should've been a #1..well ALMOST ALL OF MARIAHS SONGS SHOULDVE BEEN #1! She can make you dance, make you cry, make you sing along, or make you relate to her music!

    -Terrell

  • I remember when my boyfriend broke up with me, I was 17, I had this song on repeat. I made me cry thinking about the memories! To this day, it still tears me up a lil. I can feel her in this song. This is such a classic, break up of memories that will not go away from a breakup, "in his house, in his care" Awwww :(

  • I love her voice so much

  • I loved her albums back then...don't get me wrong lyrically she has a lot of good songs now days but I think she has gotten lazy with her vocals and over produces them...everyone already knows she can sing so she doesn't always have to do the whispery voice and whistle register all the time.

  • Shes beautiful I love her soooooo much =]

  • really love this song

  • im bi racial I really feel this song !

  • mariah carey and walter does a great songs...

    and i terribly missed those days...

  • I love when Mariah does gospel!

  • @MissJayG This is not gosepl sweetheart.

  • @eternalsilverlight I know but the ending certainly has a gospel influence!!

  • this song is not like but mariah is the best

  • I was so depressed as a teen when this album came out. This is one of the songs by Mariah that was my rod and staff that comforted me. Gotta love Mariah. :)

  • amazing.........amazing

  • @aharieebayybee16

    actually she wrote this song for ANYONE who feels ambiguous and invisible like an outcast or an outsider not just bi-racial people because she knows that are all kinds of people out there of all races that feel this way.

  • I disagree. Mariah wrote this track for herself, from the heart, about the way she felt growing up being bi racial. Yes the song can be applied to numerous other things like homosexuality etc. but the true subject of the song is M's experience growing up on the outside aka being bi racial.

  • @welshangel13 Agreed...she even says this all herself in an interview that can be found pretty easily on Youtube. You're spot on. :-)

  • @welshangel13 She may have wrote this song for herself, but I think she would want everyone to interpret this song the way they see fit, that is what is amazing about music, you can find your story in the stories of others. I am biracial, but I identify with this song more so because of other trials and tribulations that made me feel on the outside...

  • @welshangel13 spot on darling!

  • @Piper2525 yeah there's actually a video of mariah talkin bout this song specifically stating her multiracial background and how hard it was for her. that's what I thought too til i saw the video. =) but anyway this a great song no matter what it's about to be honest

  • SANG

  • OMG that climax. So pure, raw, emotional. I have no words. How can describe that? She belted her heart out. OMG. Speechles man. I wonder if she listen this song and cries.

  • @mcdamian17 - totally agree

  • what a range! Love it. I love Mariah's inspirational songs. Loves it when she does the gospel choir thing.

  • This song brings back such strong emotions. I grew up feeling like an outsider but couldn't really relate how I felt with anybody. then i heard this song when i was like 17 years old. my mom is from a different country, which put me in a weird position growing up in such a homogeneous society. I felt I wasn't the only one and it is ok to be me after hearing this song.

  • Dont u love that mariah can write music that Touches us all... I think she need to put out Music like that in Singles.. so everyone can see what she can do..

  • I agree!

  • I couldn´t agree more! Love her.

  • The greatest voice of all time

  • @dan1818dan AGREED!!!

  • I remember that Butterfly album was the only one that could bring me hope when life wasn't very nice with me...it really helped me and now when i'm listening is just...emotional! Thank u Mariah!

  • I really hope all people can listen to this song and relize how brilliant she is :(

  • this is an amazing song... beautifuly written

  • Mariah, you'll never know how much this song means to me. I've cried many nights while listening to this song. "Outside" is how I've been feeling lately. This song is very important to me. Thank you for writing such a personal song and singing it perfectly. I'm really thankful.

  • This applies to everyone that is an outcast for one reason or aonther

  • <3 this song

  • I am constantly replaying the climax - love it! This is the best emotional/relatable song Mariah has made :)

  • The emotion is so pure!

  • Classic MC...

    Love it...

  • she did her thing on this song. whatever emotion she felt that day, she got it all out on this song. thats what i was used to. the whole butterfly cd is still great. her debut and butterfly are the best ones. she knows it

  • love it! the lyrics are so memerizing.

  • very emotional song.make me cry everytime.i love mariah mariah TURKİSH FAN ERDEM.

  • This song is BEAUTIFUL and so is Mariah.

  • i guess this one really explains how i feel right now...uncomfortable to hide and too eager to prove my worth as someone faraway to what i wanted to do and to be...

  • I Choose Butterfly.

  • this song is more then about being mixed race...its about being homosexual as well it relates more close to home to that then anything..i used to listen to it as a lil boy..

  • Mariah says, people can relate to the songs how they feel applies to them so it could be about your issues, but in mariahs case its about being mixed raced. but depeding on who u r it can be about anything

  • i wander can she still sing like this

  • The first verse of this song is simply outstanding...The musicality plus the lyrics really makes you believe her.

  • I've never been able to choose, Daydream or Butterfly. It's impossible for me. Every single song is great on Daydream however Butterfly is emotioanlly and lyrcially great it hurts.