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Dear Foxlife
It amazes me that Roger Friedman actually has a degree in communication, because
his credibility as a journalist is increasingly damaged with every article he writes.
He is contradictory, ill-informed, prone to hyperbole, biased, and dare I even say
scorned when it comes to writing about certain celebrities?
Take Mariah Carey for instance. Friedman was always a "hater" - writing false information
and negative comments about her for years - until Carey's publicist Cindi Berger
allowed Friedman to meet Carey at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. Since then, he
has been spewing nothing but positive remarks and had apparently completely changed
his previous conceptions. That was, of course, until Carey fired Berger earlier this
year and now Friedman is back to his old ways.
His latest Carey article, "Songwriters Get Permission to Sue", is yet another piece
of one-sided, erroneous fodder. It is filled with so many untruths that one simply
cannot take anything in the article seriously. Friedman states that Jermaine Dupri
is credited as a producer on the song in question ("Thank God I Found You"), which
is untrue. He states that the singing group Xscape performed background vocals on
that same tune, which is untrue. He calls Xscape group member Kandi Burruss a "regular
Carey back-up singer", which is also untrue. The two have worked together only on 2
songs, out of nearly 200 available in Carey's repertoire. If Friedman cannot even
get these basic facts about the song correct, how are his readers supposed to believe
anything else in the article - let alone his general writings?
Friedman also makes the suing songwriter Seth Swirsky out to be some prolific writer
(probably because Swirsky granted Friedman an interview). Friedman does this by saying,
"[Swirsky's] got 30 gold and platinum records". Naturally, he failed to mention Carey
has over 100 gold and platinum records. "I don't consider [Carey] a bona fide songwriter",
he states - despite the fact that she has written 14 highly-influential number one songs,
and Swirsky has written, well, none. And in all truthfulness, the composition Swirsky
is suing over ("One Of Those Love Songs") is in itself, nothing but a rip off of the
1994 Regine Velasquez and Jacky Cheung duet "In Love With You".
Perhaps Friedman should get a job at the National Enquirer. His "work" would likely be
better appreciated there.
(Mariah Daily)
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