Love Story

This was produced by Jermaine Dupri whose contributions to Carey's 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi helped revitalize the New Yorker's career. Carey said of the producer: "I love Jermaine Dupri as a person and I love him as a fan, I'm a fan of his work. One of the funny things about Jermaine is when I say something to him, he just runs with it. I said on the beginning of 'Love Story' - I really want this beat to be hard, like do not make this too soft. I wanna stay true to what I love most which is Urban music and R&B music, and I feel it's the same thing that JD loves, and so basically, Jermaine did his ad-libs on the beginning of 'Love Story' before we mixed it, and he said 'MC said 'JD you gotta make it knock!'' right? and then he waits a few beats and goes 'You hear that?' So basically, what I asked him was 'make it really hard', like it's almost like a rap record, but it's a ballad, and I think that's where our success comes from because we understand each other on that level and because we grew up on the same type of music."

This is featured on Carey's 11th studio album, E=MC2, the sequel to The Emancipation Of Mimi. The album debuted at #1 in the US with first-week sales of 463,000 copies - the most successful opening week of her career.