Friday Nite Video (Mariah Carey-Fantasy)

Tonight I thought it would be fun to feature a video from the white persons answer to Whitney Houston (okay, part white, part hispanic, part black) back in the day when Whitney was topping the charts. Whitney was great and I loved her but after Whitney had established herself Mariah Carey came out onto the scene and started stealing some of Whitney's thunder. I thought Mariah had the better voice, a body that would make a grown man cry and just a over all presence about her that flowed out from her. Tonight's video has a little back story to it. During the mid to late 90's myself and the ex had a yearly tradition of attending a Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins football game at the now gone Veterans Stadium. We went with our good friends Wayne and Kathy Jo Johnson from good ole Laurel, Delaware. We always went to the game held in Philly because it was nearly impossible to get tickets in Washington. We would usually leave on Saturday morning, arrive there and check into our hotel, then head out to enjoy our night out on the town. The game was always on Sunday of course and we went to a few of those games feeling pretty bad, depending on what time we got back to the room the night before. Anyway, this one particular year we went we arrived at our hotel and we were quick to get ready to head into the city. We had discovered a fun place the year before called Dave and Busters that was a multi-level building of restaurants, arcade games and different watering holes. We quickly got ready, called a cab to take us into the city and waited for the cabs arrival. Finally the guy show up and we climb in. Wayne up front and me, Kathy Jo and Laura in the back. I'm guessing this guys name should have been Ah man or Ali or something middle eastern because the guy was stone faced and determined to get us to our destination and fast as he could. Us four, being the polite Delawareans we were, attempted to make small talk with the guy, "Do you like driving a cab?" "How long have you been doing this?" "Are the tips good?" Well I guess this guy gets sick of hearing us talk cause the next thing he does is reach down and turns the radio up full blast and guess what song was just starting? Fantasy by Mariah Carey! He certainly offended us when he did that so what did we do? We sang along at the top of our voices, to make sure he could hear us, and danced along to the music. This is when the guy started driving really fast and reckless haha. Every time I would hear that song after that I was taken back to that terror cab ride and how we rocked out with Mariah! Also too when you start watching the video check out the little girl at around the first minute mark. I'm pretty sure that's that girl Sidibe from that movie Precious. Anyway, check it out. From 1995 its Fantasy from Mariah Carey. Enjoy!