{"id":2441687,"date":"2019-03-13T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=807115"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:16:43","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-mariah-carey-a-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-mariah-carey-a-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Mariah Carey, \u2018A No No\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mariah-carey-syntk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>For all the vocal gymnastics she\u2019s justly known for, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mariah-carey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mariah-carey\" data-tag=\"mariah-carey\">Mariah Carey<\/a> also has a clever, biting sense of humor that not nearly enough people appreciate. You know (or maybe you <a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/nope-mariah-carey-wIRvHEm7vf8w8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>don\u2019t know<\/em><\/a>?) all the memes she\u2019s inspired, and her Instagram is full of hilarious and aspirational examples of her dedication to being 200% glamorous at all times. On her new single \u201cA No No,\u201d Carey continues to show us that she can translate her quick wit into pop gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA No No\u201d was an immediate fan favorite from her latest LP, <em>Caution \u2014<\/em> a diss track deliciously set to a sample of Lil Kim\u2019s \u201cCrush on You\u201d as Carey details all the way she has said \u201cno\u201d to the song\u2019s unspecified subject. As the song progresses, she spells out extremely over this person she is, delivering insults in acrobatically sung runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnakes in the grass, it\u2019s time to cut the lawn\/Ed Scissorhands, a.k.a. I cut you off,\u201d she sings on the track\u2019s first verse, airily dismissing her newfound enemy. She goes on to shout out to her real-life entertainment lawyer, Ed Shapiro, and even compares herself to Ginger from <em>Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em>. By the end, in one of Carey\u2019s more astoundingly perfect moves, she says \u201cno\u201d in a slew of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese and Japanese. It\u2019s a *chef\u2019s kiss* of a note to end on, especially when she slaps an exclamation point on her sentiment in the form of a series of whistle-register runs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sap-GTtCiU?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mariah-carey-a-no-no-caution-807115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the vocal gymnastics she\u2019s justly known for, Mariah Carey also has a clever, biting sense of humor that not nearly enough people appreciate. You know (or maybe you don\u2019t know?) all the memes she\u2019s inspired, and her Instagram is full of hilarious and aspirational examples of her dedication to being 200% glamorous at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:36:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}