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Re: Mariah the living legend (87,412) (87,413) by Joachim Agerup Løkkevik from Norway I totally agree. I have been a fan of Mariah since the Butterfly album, but very soon started to collect her earlier work. Over the years, been a fan for 21 years now, I must say, I also prefer Mariah's early 90s music. But I do listen to her music after 2000 just as much. If I had been stranded on an island, I would also have brought the first disc of Greatest Hits. (Friday 4 January 2019; 13:19)

Re: Mariah the living legend (87,407) (87,412) by Bill from the UK It's not that she didn't like them per se, it was more that for Portrait she'd rather listen to Looking In. Dreamlover over 8th Grade. She summed it up by saying if she was stuck on a desert island her CD would be disc 1 of Greatest Hits. Vision of Love through to Fantasy. (Friday 4 January 2019; 11:09)

Re: Andrew gone (87,402) (87,411) by Bill from the UK I was just playing, it's a great album. Except for Boy. (Friday 4 January 2019; 11:07)

Re: Missing Columbia cassettes (87,396) (87,410) by Joachim Agerup Løkkevik from Norway I have bought only one cassette of Mariah's, and the only reason was so I could listen to Mariah in the car of my summer crush during a vacation in Barcelona 15 years ago. That was the Rainbow cassette. (Friday 4 January 2019; 08:50)

Re: Missing Columbia cassettes (87,396) (87,409) by Bill from the UK Try discogs.com. eBay is a rip off. Discogs has virtually everything you could want, and for regular releases like cassettes and CD albums, they are very cheap. For instance I wanted another copy of Merry Christmas on CD for the car and picked one up for £1. Unplugged starts from 49 cents. Rainbow starts from $8. #1s starts from $6. Prices vary depending on the condition of the item etc., so read the description carefully. Good luck finding what you're missing. (Friday 4 January 2019; 07:14)

Caution / re-branding (87,408) by Darryle from USA Does anyone think the entire Caution era is being used to re-brand Mariah, and that a big single or another album will follow closely after? It seems unlikely that she'll release new music soon after Caution considering the long wait for her last two albums, but she's also in a much better place now. (Friday 4 January 2019; 04:33)

Re: Mariah the living legend (87,389) (87,407) by B from USA She likes Butterfly but didn't like Caution, Giving Me Life, 8th Grade, or Portrait? (Friday 4 January 2019; 03:24)

Re: With You (87,397) (87,406) by B from USA Eric, discard my previous responses and this one. I was just trying to see the positive. (Friday 4 January 2019; 03:13)

Re: With You (87,398) (87,405) by B from USA I believe the deal was only for it to be played at the top of every hour the day of it was released. (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:59)

Re: Caution vinyl and cassette (87,379) (87,404) by B from USA I also ordered the Caution casette and haven't received it. (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:58)

Re: Missing Columbia cassettes (87,396) (87,403) by B from USA There were a lot of cassettes manufacturered for MTV Unplugged and Butterfly but by 1999 record labels basically ceased manafacturing cassettes so finding a copy of Rainbow on cassette is probably going to be extremely difficult but finding the other two shouldn't be. Have you checked Amazon? (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:57)

Re: Andrew gone (87,393) (87,402) by B from USA Are you implying that Charmbracelet is a bad album? Personally, I consider The One, Yours, I Only Wanted, Clown, My Saving Grace, You Had Your Chance, Lullaby, Subtle Invitation, and Sunflowers for Alfred Roy to be some of Mariah's best songs lyrically and melodically. (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:51)

Re: With You (87,397) (87,401) by B from USA US Adult Contemporary #11 Adult Top 40 #33 US Hot R&B Songs #15 US R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay #27 It's been on the Adult R&B Songs chart since its release. (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:29)

Re: With You (87,397) (87,400) by Randy from USA I appreciate you webmaster for saying this. I've been biting my tongue for a month. All of these false celebrations. Singles on Urban AC do not mean she's having success. An album dropping off the chart in four weeks hardly counts as a success and yes the critics love it but where are her fans? I bought the album even though I knew I wouldn't like it, because of With You. I didn't even like MIAMTEC, which I also bought despite the horrible first single. But where are all the Yes Queens and the people that buy 5 copies? No I'm not always negative. No I'm not stuck with 90s MC. In fact, I love Memoirs. But frfr I just think post baby-divorce MC is not meant for me. Ima wait until she's 49 and has to start singing music geared towards people her age and stop wearing Jessica Rabbit ensembles before she's a joke to the general public. Oh wait. That's coming soon isn't it? Well, I've got a right to dream, there's more than this for me. And finally, for a bunch of people who couldn't stand Andrew, conversation about him went on a little long, didn't it? (Friday 4 January 2019; 02:02)

Mariah's opinion (87,399) by Ricardo Edwards from New Zealand Wouldn't it be interesting to hear Mariah's opinion on her current voice/singing style? I've seen her in at interview with Oprah, when Vision had recently been released, where Mariah said she just goes for the notes and they appear. It's apparent these days that those notes sometimes are just not there anymore for her. I've heard other great vocalists, such as Celine and Barbra, say similar things. Celine actually admitted she "sings around" notes if she knows she will miss them. I wonder what these singers, the real singers, who have had these extraordinary instruments at their disposal, feel when those instruments start to deteriorate? I watched a very recent performance of Patti Labelle, Over the Rainbow, and I was disappointed. She just didn't have the ability to soar into those high notes anymore. But Patti at Mariah's age was still singing like she was 20 years old. It would be really intriguing to hear Mariah speak of this. After all, it was the voice that captured a lot of us fans, and even non fans. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:57)

Re: With You (87,394) (87,398) by Bobby A from United States I am surprise too that it did so well. I think Urban AC played it in rotation so much because of the Epic radio deal. If the A No No remix didn't happen, I hope Epic releases 8th Grade. It would be most logical 2nd single release for Valentine's Day and the Caution World Tour promotion. If we don't get a 2nd single by January 25th, Caution will fade into eternity. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:54)

Re: With You (87,394) (87,397) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I know you're trying to see the positive, but With You is a big flop. It never entered Billboard's Hot 100, and the only country where it entered the regular charts is Hungary. No 8 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs is not impressive, nor 12 weeks on that chart (Queen Naija is 19 weeks on the chart and is currently at No 1; H.E.R. is 38 weeks on the chart and is currently at No 5). (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:50)

Missing Columbia cassettes (87,396) by Bobby A from United States As I anxiously await my Caution cassette, there are 3 Columbia cassettes that I don't have in my collection. They are MTV Unplugged, Butterfly, and Rainbow. They are the only ones I haven't been able to find in thrift and used music stores. I refused to pay some of the prices listed on Ebay. Does anybody have those 3 cassettes? It seems like not too many were manufactured. I can't find them at all in stores. I have #1's on cassette. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:47)

Re: Andrew gone (87,393) (87,395) by Licia from USA The disrespect. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:40)

With You (87,394) by B from USA After peaking and holding steady at #8 for weeks on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart it fell to #9 this week. It's spent the last month 12 weeks on the chart. Far from the failure some seem to think it is. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 23:29)

Re: Andrew gone (87,391) (87,393) by Bill from the UK Where were you when Charmbracelet dropped (ducks Licia's swipe) hehe. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 22:56)

Re: Mariah the living legend (87,381) (87,392) by Deedre aka MiTodoChop @HBF from Canada I remember Maria. Glad she's well. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 22:08)

Re: Andrew gone (87,383) (87,391) by B from USA Mariah has never released a bad album in my opinion. Memoirs is my least favorite album but it still has moments of brilliance like H.A.T.E.U.. (Thursday 3 January 2019; 22:03)

Re: Andrew gone (87,383) (87,390) by Bill from the UK I do agree it is great that MC is still making amazing music. Caution is a brilliant album and something new and fresh, and we're luckily she's hasn't spiralled down into cult irrelevance. But maybe it's a sign of my tastes, and as much as I love Giving Me Life and think it's one of the best things she's written in years, I'd rather play The Roof you know? (Thursday 3 January 2019; 21:51)

Re: Mariah the living legend (87,385) (87,389) by Bill from the UK What a great post, and I agree age doesn't account for taste. I'm only 30 (only, ha) but Mariah is the only current artist I listen to. I lost interest on everything beyond the late 90s when chart music took a downward spiral. In my day the top ten would be a ballad, a disco song, a club tune, a rock song, a goofy song etc. and it would be evenly distributed amongst current acts, established acts from decades earlier, and one hit wonders - the majority of whom were very talented in their genre. Now it seems to be all the same people releasing an endless array of singles with a guest rapper thrown on top (thanks Mariah lol). I really admired Maria for taking the stance she did. And don't get me wrong, she's of course listened to Caution and all the others to see what she's up to, but as she said to me when I last saw her, "it's no Vision of Love". (Thursday 3 January 2019; 19:19)

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