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Re: With You (87,421) (87,423) by B from USA With You was chosen as the first single because it's the perfect song to reintroduce Mariah Carey to casual listeners. Mariah's single being a success on Adult Contemporary and R&B radio is impressive considering LA Reid said just getting her song played on the radio was an accomplishment in 2015. R&B music is no longer considered popular music. Mariah is an R&B artist not a pop artist. She's never been a pop artist, she happened to debut when R&B was considered pop music. (Saturday 5 January 2019; 00:20)

While... (87,422) by Gee from U.S.A. (New York City) While we as a family continue to be a little dysfunctional at times about any and everything regarding MC. She seems to be enjoying some fun and family time which let’s me know she is very much at peace and content with where she is in life. We must remember that the commercial success of MC’s glory days will never happen again because the industry has changed as a whole at this point we should be glad that MC still enjoys making music and just being creative because she can call it day and be fine. (Friday 4 January 2019; 20:30)

With You (87,421) by Gee from U.S.A. (New York City) Was only serviced to A/C and A/C R&B stations as her team was going for rebranding her with that particular audience. Also if anyone has paid attention most of her radio press stops were geared to the older audiences besides a few other than that I believe that her team had a plan going into this era fixing her public image and I feel like that they have done that. The critical accolades is what MC has always wanted and she has finally gotten that so I feel like she is in a happy place right now. (Friday 4 January 2019; 20:01)

#Rescue Caution Campaign (87,420) by Bobby A from United States I want to start a #Rescue Caution Campaign with 8th Grade as the 2nd single on Twitter starting tomorrow. Who is willing to join me? At this point, 8th Grade is the song that can save Caution from being a totally flop. Something has to be done since the very first Caution World Tour show in Dallas has not sold out. I suspect the same for the other dates too. I hope the tour isn't cancelled or downsized. (Friday 4 January 2019; 19:49)

Re: Missing Columbia cassettes (87,409) (87,419) by Bobby A from United States Thank you, Bill. I will look it up later today. (Friday 4 January 2019; 19:38)

Re: With You (87,400) (87,418) by Edward from USA Randy, is your email still r*************20@yahoo.com? (Friday 4 January 2019; 18:44)

Re: With You (87,400) (87,417) by Edward from USA Randy, we're all holding hands drowned in happiness on this board now that "devil" is gone. Real fans are coming back to the board to form a coalition so Mariah could have another #1. Don't be another one of his stans. (Friday 4 January 2019; 18:34)

Re: Mariah's opinion (87,414) (87,416) by MusicfanJ from Germany Great post this_is_qhm. I would love to hear her speak about her voice. All the details and everything what we fans assume. But I also understand that she doesn't like to talk about her "weapon". Because her brand is still the songbird supreme, the voice and of course the diva for the public. Maybe some people would attack her even more, but a lot of people also love honesty. Hmm maybe in her book/the memoirs we will get a little more info. I hope so. (Friday 4 January 2019; 17:44)

Re: Mariah the living legend (87,413) (87,415) by TJ from Norway Do you still have your collection? I thought I was the only one in Norway with a Mariah collection. (Friday 4 January 2019; 15:06)

Re: Mariah's opinion (87,399) (87,414) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines Mariah has never really talked in depth about her voice outside of the following facts: it's sensitivity, the variability of the results when it is uses, and her ability to sing through her nodules. In all her interviews where the subject is touched upon, it's always the same quirks and intricacies that she mentions. When asked about any changes it has undergone through the years, she'd usually imply that it's still the same and then quickly follows it up with the factors that affect its sensitivity. There's one thing that's consistently implied whenever she talks about her voice, though - it's obvious that she's referring to her experience singing in the studio. She almost never talks about the physical act of performing live. All of her lipsynching shows that she still wants people to think she is capable of replicating her vocal acrobatics live. I feel like Mariah chooses to speak less about her voice as possible because she feels that discussing her struggles would be like a star athlete revealing her weaknesses, like a warrior laying down her weapon. We don't know for sure how the world's gonna react if she does. I mean, we all know more than she gives us credit for, and that it coming out of her mouth would just be official confirmation, but perhaps she fears that doing so would only give her detractors the validation they need and even more ammunition to destroy her. The fact that she only records in the presence of her sound engineer tells us that she will probably never open up about her vocal issues. (Friday 4 January 2019; 14:41)

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)

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