The Rainbow World Tour was the fourth concert tour in 2000 by American singer-songwriter

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, and supports her seventh studio album ''

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'' (1999). The tour started in Europe on February 14, in Antwerp, Belgium, also an itinerary that included North America and ended on April 18, in

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. The tour's nine-date North American leg grossed $7.1 million according to ''

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''.

Background

The ''Rainbow Tour'' marked Carey's first tour in the U.S. in seven years since her 1993 '' Music Box Tour'' garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited

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for the first time. 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. On tour merchandise shirts, a date in

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is listed, but was never actually scheduled. The ''

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'' reported that the concert in Toronto was filmed for a future television special, but it never aired. Footage recorded from the tour was used for the music video for " Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)".

Critical response

The tour received generally mixed reviews. Phil Gallo of '' Variety'' said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency", and called the show a visual "mess". While reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, Jim DeRogatis from the ''

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'' said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney", and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom" considering she was "the only artist to have scored a No. 1 hit in every year of the '90s, selling some 125 million records worldwide."

Set list

The following set list is from the February 17 concert in Milan. It is not intended to represent all dates throughout the tour. # "Mariah & Bianca" (Introduction) (contains elements of "Rainbow (Interlude)" and "Butterfly") # "

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" # " My All" # " Dreamlover" # "X-Girlfriend" # "Vulnerability" (Video interlude) # " Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" # " Without You" # " Make It Happen" # " Thank God I Found You" (performed with Trey Lorenz) (contains elements of the Make It Last Remix) # "Make You Happy" (Interlude) (performed by Trey Lorenz) # "

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" (Bad Boy Remix) # " Always Be My Baby" # " Crybaby" # " Close My Eyes" # "Petals" # " Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" # " Money Ain't a Thang" (Dance Interlude) # " Heartbreaker" (contains elements of the Desert Storm Remix) # "

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" (contains elements of the Bad Boy Remix) # " Vision of Love" # "Rainbow" (Interlude) # "

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" # " Butterfly Reprise" (Outro)

Shows

Notes

Personnel

* Randy Jackson – musical director *Eric Daniels – keyboards * Sam Sims - bass *Vernon Black – guitar *Gregory "Gigi" Gonoway – drums *Marquinho Brasil – percussion *Melonie Daniels – background vocals *Mary Ann Tatum – background vocals *Tracy Harris - background vocals *Lloyd Smith – background vocals * Trey Lorenz – vocals, background vocals

References

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