Mariah warns her staff against April Fool's Day pranks
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Mariah Carey isn't into the April Fool's games. The singing diva has warned her staff against pranking her on April 1 by bringing up her old tweet from a decade ago, in which she jokingly threatened to fire those who tried to "april fool" her.
In the 2010 tweet, the "Always Be My Baby" songstress wrote, "Be clear. If anyone who works for me (even if we're kool) trys to 'april fool' me they are so fired." She added in her new post, "FYI, this still applies."
Back in 2010, Mariah specifically directed her warning to British producer/director Jasmine Dotiwala. "For the benefit of the saucy at Jasmine Dotiwala, this includes you because technically you've worked for me as a director/producer before. Lol," she added at the time.
Sharing the sentiment with Mariah about April Fool's day, one person Me either. "I warned everyone very early I will smack the f**k outta somebody." Another agreed with the "One Sweet Day" hitmaker, writing, "Damn! You shouldn't play jokes in your boss anyway."
Some others, meanwhile, took Mariah's tweet seriously. "I can't imagine you saying this, it's such a Cruela De Vil type of tweet," one commented, comparing her to the "101 Dalmatians" villain. Another added, "Mariah over the top diva attitude is the biggest joke. She can sing but her attitude makes her beyond ugly."
A fan, however, has defended the mother of two, explaining, "It's a joke she clearly knows people poke fun at her when she says she's going to fire everyone."
While Mariah isn't in the mood of fooling around on April Fool's day, she has been using her social media accounts to share some positivity amid the coronavirus pandemic. She was one of the artists who performed in the iHeart Radio Living Room Concert for America on Fox last Sunday, March 29 and tweeted after the special,
"Thank you for watching me from my home to yours on iHeart concert on Fox. Sending love to all the local heroes, health care workers and everyone on the frontlines in fighting this pandemic. Hope we brought a little bit of happiness to your day."
She also urged her fans to "please support Feeding America and 1strcf by donating to these incredible causes."
(AceShowbiz)
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Andrew from the United Kingdom wrote:
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"[Mariah] also urged her fans to 'please support Feeding America and 1strcf by donating to these incredible causes'."
Instead of the rich and famous preaching platitudes from their pedestals, why don't they all donate, say, £10million to these causes? It would hardly even dent their bank accounts and would, in all actuality, lead to a lot of money being raised. Sure, things like the iHeart broadcast raised $8milliion. But $8million is pittance compared to the wealth that is being sat on by the very people who preach to the poor to put their hand in their left pocket and transfer the coins to the right one, as if that ever helped anything.
Elton John and Mariah Carey have a combined net worth of almost US$1billion. Add in all the other rich and famous people in the Western World, including sports stars and you are talking the equivalent of the nominal GDP of a country. There is enormous wealth that could be transferred easily that would make massive difference, save hundreds of thousands of lives, if not millions, and help to get this over with much faster so that the people who do survive aren't unemployed and homeless.
You may say that it's their money and they should do what they want with it, free from reproach. And I am very much normally inclined that way: "You earned it? You do what you want with it." But please don't tell the little people to donate while the interest in your bank account is going up faster than the number of deaths. It just obscene.
(Thursday 2 April 2020; 18:39)
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Bill from the UK wrote:
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I'm of the "they earned it, they decide how to spend it" camp. If Mariah and others want a life of luxury over donating it all, that's their prerogative. But I agree, don't then tell people like you and me to donate. It reminds me of J K Rowling, the epitome of a champagne socialist, telling everyone to take in refugees, back when that was a celebrity's flavour of the month (before Greta and climate change appeared), from one of her many multi-roomed mansions. All the while not opening her doors to a single one of them. It's the old adage, practice what you preach, isn't it.
(Thursday 2 April 2020; 21:29)
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Andrew from the United Kingdom wrote:
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JK Rowling is a great example. But this goes to the heart of what it is to be woke and the total and utter failure of logic that props up left-wing dogma. "We love everyone," Mariah will say often. And most people here would gladly regurgitate it. Yet, you cannot love everyone. This outlook determines that if you are denying someone something you are a "hater". But you cannot give everyone everything they want. Therein lies the rub (to quote another famous British writer).
So champagne socialists will often champion any cause which signals that they would not deny someone of, or critically question someone on, something by which they identify in a moral way. But it almost always ends up in contradictions which can easily be pointed out. And when the argument is almost certainly lost, the only way they or their supporters can shut that down is to shout "hater", attempt to de-platform and/or throw a milkshake in the face.
As this example shows, mega mega rich people telling the very not wealthy to donate money when they alone could sort out a huge chunk of the problem is the contradiction. And actually quite an obscene one.
Look at the Make Poverty History concerts in Hyde Park and elsewhere in 2005 (good performance by Mariah, btw). Every star under the Sun hopped on the bandwagon whilst everyone watching knew it was most pointless [censored] exercise ever but, whatever, free concert to watch. Virtues were signalled, everyone sang Hey Jude for the umpteenth time (despite the lyrics having no relevance to anything) and then went home to sleep. All the artists that day could have pledged millions, hundreds and hundreds of millions. Did they? Did they [censored]. They told *you* to give up what little disposable income *you* have whilst their back catalogue sales went through the roof and their royalty payments enjoyed a massive spike.
Don't get me wrong, I think the iHeart thing was a lovely idea and Mariah did very well (the BSB skit was embarrassing pap, be honest). And people highlighting other people's desperation can be a good thing.
But the contradictions still exist and they cannot be explained away. People on normal incomes get by. People on mega incomes walk by. So, Mariah would do well to stop virtue signalling as would most celebrities. The hypocrisy is just infuriating sometimes.
(Friday 3 April 2020; 02:20)
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this_is_qhm from the Philippines wrote:
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I agree that it is quite hypocritical of celebs to urge their fans (99% of which are much poorer than they are) to donate when they can contribute more to get to the goal faster. However, I also believe in using their considerable clout to influence their followers for good. If anything, at least that raises awareness at the very least. Now if that awareness actually translates to donations is a whole other story.
This practice would be slightly less obscene if they tweaked it a bit. I remember John Cena's fundraising initiative to help the first responders during the California wildfires last year. He did encourage everyone to donate, but to kick things off, he started by donating half a million dollars for the cause and that on top of that donation, he challenged his potential donors that he was going to match whatever money they can raise and add it to the total donations. He even went as far as using his scheduled Entertainment Tonight co-hosting stint to announce it. Still not as good as dropping a ton of money himself without asking his supporters for any help, but definitely much more encouraging and less cringeworthy than what most celebs do.
(Friday 3 April 2020; 10:35)
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MusicfanJ from Germany wrote:
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Perfectly written. Every single word.
"As this example shows, mega mega rich people telling the very not wealthy to donate money when they alone could sort out a huge chunk of the problem is the contradiction. And actually quite an obscene one."
That ist so true. I do believe when this pandemic will end, the world won't be the same. And the people who are normal will think twice for what they spend their money. (Exlude expensive concert tickets and so on.) The new 20ies are definitily not golden at all. But people will realize that this superficial, highspeed life is the wrong way and not healthy.
(Friday 3 April 2020; 11:41)
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