Rainbow World Tour
The Rainbow World Tour was a worldwide arena concert tour in the year 2000 by American pop/R&B artist Mariah Carey.
History
Carey had released her ninth album Rainbow in November 1999 and decided to go on tour to promote it. Unlike her previous outing, the Butterfly World Tour, marked Carey's first tour in the U.S. in 7 years since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited Singapore for the first time.
The tour grossed $17 million from the North American dates alone, according to Billboard. Critical reaction was mixed at best, especially in the United States. A lot of people reproached her of having a tired and hoarse voice during this tour. Of the debut American performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Variety said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency." Of the United Center performance, and reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, The Chicago Sun-Times said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney," and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom."
The final three dates of the tour were pushed back a bit (Boston from April 4 to April 13, for example) after Carey got food poisoning from eating raw oysters after the concert in Atlanta.
The Show
During this tour, Carey debuted new songs from the Rainbow album such as: "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)," "Heartbreaker," "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest hits.
Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer.
The Toronto concert was filmed and scheduled to air on the U.S. television, but that never happened. Carey even mentioned during the show it was being filmed.
Missy Elliott made a special appearance at the New York show during Heartbreaker
Set list
"Petals/Rainbow" Intro
"Emotions"
"My All"
"Dreamlover"
"X-Girlfriend"
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
"Without You" (Europe only, except Madrid)
"Make It Happen" (Europe only, except Madrid)
"Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last Remix) (with Trey Lorenz)
"Make You Happy" (Trey Lorenz)
"Fantasy" (Bad Boy Remix)
"Always Be My Baby"
"Crybaby"
"Close My Eyes"
"Petals"
"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
"Heartbreaker Remix/Heartbreaker"
"Honey"
"Vision of Love"
"Rainbow (Interlude)/Hero"
"Butterfly" (Outro)
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Japan only)
Additional songs
"Sweetheart" (Belgium only)
"I Still Believe/Pure Imagination" (Damizza Reemix) (Singapore and Los Angeles only)
Personnel
Vernon Black
Eric Daniels - keyboards
Sam Simms
Gregory Gonaway
Marco Oliveria
Michael McKnight
Trey Lorenz - backing and featured vocals
Melonie Daniels - backing vocals
Lloyd Smith
MaryAnn Tatum - backing vocals
Tracy Harris
Translation
The phrase "Rainbow World Tour" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish, Italian.
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