High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fantasy is a song co-written and co-produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Dave Hall, and recorded for Carey's fifth album Daydream (1995). It is built around a sample of the Tom Tom Club's single "Genius of Love" (1981), which was written by Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Steven Stanley and Adrian Belew. It was released as the album's first single in 1995. The urban remix of "Fantasy" features Ol' Dirty Bastard. For the sixth year in a row, Mariah Carey received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The cover of the single was shot by top fashion photographer Steven Meisel. The cover for her album Daydream is a cropped version of the single cover. The song was number 1 for eight consecutive weeks and is one of Carey's signature songs.