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May (46,521) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Sorry I didn't make that line clear when I meant "out of her comfort zone". I meant like Mariah never does duets with female singers (except Whitney, which was way too long back). She includes female rappers but never a female singer. So that is what I meant, that I hope she comes out of it and records with a current female artist. I realized the mistake after posting it. But I agree with your points nonetheless. (Sunday 31 August 2014; 14:27)

Up Out My Face (46,514) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I know many fans hate this video, but I was watching it again today and honestly I don't mind it, it's actually fun to watch. While I will admit, they could have had a much better scenery/set, I enjoy it. Here's why: (1) It's one of those rare videos of Mariah where she is really animated. Like I know there are many where she dances around and all, but how much does it really happen nowadays? (2) Instead of trying to be the "always perfectly poised diva", MC goes on to poke fun at herself. Like the shot where when Nicki and MC try to break out of their doll boxes and Nicki comes out perfectly poised, but MC loses her balance and falls down. Also the part at the end where she is trying to pull that part popper type thing and confetti burst from two sides and she gets scared. I think both these shots were super cute and funny. (3) There is not a single shot of her lying down with her hair fanned around her face and the camera shooting from above (don't get me wrong, I think she looks extremely gorgeous from that angle but hello don't we already have WBT, DFAU, Obsessed, Li'l Love?). (4) She seems to be having a lot of fun instead of sitting in one place, staring at the camera trying to be sexy but coming off as uncomfortable. (5) MC is actually running around in the video, like I don't remember that happening very often. (Sunday 31 August 2014; 6:35)

The next album (46,512) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So MC did mention she is "back in the studio" and we still don't know whether it is for a relaunch of Chanteuse or a new album. If it is a new album, I would love it if Mariah would do the following. 1) A cover of "You are not alone" by MJ. 2) Get out of her comfort zone and have atleast one duet with a current artist (Beyonce, Rihanna or Adele). I don't really care for a duet with Ariana, only because I want an artist with a style different from Mariah. (Yes Ariana is deviating from it, but still.) 3) An anthem with a strong social message. (She has many but a new one wouldn't hurt.) 4) A duet with Justin T, Usher or Chris Brown. 5) Give me one more MC-Jay Z moment. And probably also another with Drake. 6) For videos, hire Brett Ratner, Jake Nava and Paul Hunter. (I loved the over the top sets used by Nava in videos like SIO and GYT.) 7) Completely re-sung remixes. I would have loved another "Heartbreaker-IYSEBL" or "My All-Stay Awhile" or "TGIFY-MIL" type remixes but I know Billboard rules changed and she may not want to waste time recording remixes that will not help boost a single so a remix with re-sung vocals (keeping the song same yet changing the vocals) would be great. 9) Single release. Summer song (up beat), a mind range, followed by a classic over the top Mariah ballad. 10) Changed up versions for live performances. That's what I have thought of so far, may add a few more if I get more ideas. (Sunday 31 August 2014; 3:31)

May (46,511) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Haha I laughed at the word "Mariahnoia". I get what you mean, we all can sit here and say MC should do this and that (which we do out of love because we want her to remain at top) but if Mariah every comes infront of me, I'll probably be a little "yes man (ok girl)" immediately. She has been such an influence in my life, I don't thik I will have the courage to say "Mariah you are doing this wrong" infront of her. Nevertheless, I hope if MC or her team does check out forums, she can look past the criticisms and see the suggestions we give here. Many people here have put down such great points and suggestions for MC, I am sure if implemented, they will be of great help to her. We all just have a common desire and that is for MC to always remain the queen, and to get back to the top to shut off all the people who have written her off. Yes, we react to it in different ways, but I believe we all really want the same for her. (Sunday 31 August 2014; 3:12)

Mariah's eyes on us (46,499) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So, I see that there has been times where things discussed on this board (or probably other Mariah fan boards also) are followed by Mariah. I mean either that or it's just a coincidence. I don't remember all the instances but one would be where a lot of us were complaining about Mariah talking non-sense during interviews and right after that there was an interview which showed MC being calm, composed and with a sprinkle of humor, just the way we wanted. Then there is now the influx of posts with fans sharing their dream set lists here and most of us want Mariah to deviate from the (more or less) same set list she has been performing for years, and now we see she is taking it seriously and asking fans to choose songs she hasn't performed live or rarely performed. (Saturday 30 August 2014; 8:14)

Michael (46,446) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah should do a cover of You Are Not Alone by MJ. The song is beautfiul. It's a lot like the pattern Mariah does with her ballads nowadays, starting slow and soft, and building it up to the point where the emotions are bursting out of the song. What wouldn't I give to have a proper duet of Mariah and Michael. But oh well now the cover will suffice. (Wednesday 27 August 2014; 18:53)

The non-elusive chanteuse (46,434) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah has been out and about in the open three days in a row starting on the 24th at Central Park. This is the most I have seen of her in years. She is basically being photographed every single day the last 3 days. And another common thing is in all these 3 days she has no makeup on, her hair is not done (she has the natural spiral curls and they are just tied loosely) and she is wearing slightly less comfortable clothes although the sky high heels remain intact (come on, you can't expect the woman to give up everything). She is probably trying to send a message that she is doing just fine. (Wednesday 27 August 2014; 13:24)

Bill (46,427) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Not only were the song choices on point, I liked the sequencing. Plus the list was fairly sized. I know a lot of us would love for Mariah to sing a lot of songs, but there are physical limitations. Some of the lists posted were really long. That would not be possible, and we all know Mariah has a condition where if she would try to sing too much, it would affect her voice. Plus it's not a one night gig, she'll be flying to several countries and have to do the same routine multiple times and that would really strain her voice. It's hard enough to do it, but its harder when one is singing Mariah songs. (Wednesday 27 August 2014; 8:50)

Random thought (46,426) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So Mariah was spotted wearing a long red gown in France around June. This is around the time we were all jumping up and down thinking YDKWTD video was being shot. She had a white towel covering her chest, while she is entering a building. I wonder what was going on. If it was a random candid she obviously would not have a towel on her in public. It seemed more like she was either coming from or going to a shoot. I guess we won't really know now that it has been over 2 months. (Wednesday 27 August 2014; 8:43)

Mariah out again (46,425) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah as out and about on the streets again. With that fabulous hat she was career around the first time. Miss Mariah what are you up to? I am just glad she is not holed up at home being miserable. (Wednesday 27 August 2014; 7:23)

Mariah not commenting (46,400) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I get angry when Mariah doesn't comment regarding her professional stuff like album and all, but I am actually fine with her not hitting back at people talking about her divorce. Hollywood is a bad place, they will put people on pedestals and then they will try to tear them down. It's better not to comment on the rumors about her personal life because it's nobody's business. I respect her for not going on throwing mud. Even Beyonce and Jay Z has been attacked with divorce rumors and the rumor mills went back and forth with "his fault her fault" situation. But they don't comment on it at all. What saddens me however is that I see many comments and gossip pages say it must be tough and exhausting to be married to Mariah Carey. That's sad, because we don't know her personally. We don't know how she is behind closed door when the makeup and the glamorous clothes and the big hair comes off. For all we know, she must be very normal and quiet and not demanding towards her family. I mean she may demand this and that at hotels, but she may be completely different with her family and close friends. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 20:13)

MimiLamb (46,394) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I didn't say that, I just meant that I am letting you know in advance that when I say unstable, I mean emotionally not mentally, so that in the next post you don't say it. But anyways, I'm sorry if the post came across as harsh, bad day today. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 16:28)

MimiLamb (46,388) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I said she is either all smiles because she is genuinely happy or a "little" out of it. I don't see what's so offensive about that. The "little out of it" part is because some people here were saying she might go back to the Glitter era (which I said earlier will not happen). And during that time she had huge smiles on her face but we now know she wasn't really stable at that time. Now by not stable I meant emotionally so please don't go like "are you calling Mariah mentally unstable" because no, that's not what I meant. Sometimes I feel even the tiniest observation draws out the claws of people. I don't expect Mariah to make any comment, especially on TMZ. This is not her job, it's her personal life and if she chooses to never talk about it, I am more than fine with it. She owes us no explanation as to what happened in her marriage. And to the other person who said Mariah looked really good, yes, she did. She looked fresh and much thinner. And the no entourage moment also took me by surprise. I hope she is happy, that's all that matters. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 11:53)

VMAs (46,370) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I was watching the VMAs and thinking how amazing it would have been if Mariah could have performed. She could have done a mash up of Thirsty-YDKWTD-Money. Beyonce did a 20 minutes performance singing each and every song from her album. I would have loved for Mariah to perform. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 1:38)

Bill (46,368) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Out of all the "dream set lists" I have to say, I love yours the most. And I think you are the only one who mentioned Money. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 1:35)

Mariah on TMZ (46,365) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Did you guys see the clip of Mariah on TMZ? She is walking down the street with her nephew and no entourage this time. She was all smiles and putting on her hat, and the person asked if the split rumors are true, she kept walking but at one point she goes like "it's too hot to talk" and then the person is like we just want your comment and she is like "I never comment". Now she is all smiles, but I can't figure out if she is genuinely happy or if she is a little out of it right now. (Tuesday 26 August 2014; 0:02)

Lee (46,331) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I do hope that these are just rumors. It would be really sad if Nick's "statements" are really true. Whatever may be the cause of the divorce, they should not throw dirt at each other because at one point of time they made each other really happy. So I hope these rumors are fake. I would hate it if it turns out that Nick married Mariah for the fame/money because seeing them so in love kind of made me think (contrary to my initial doubts) that he did love her. Another thing may have happened is that he married his idol and got tired of the "human" Mariah, the real person. Which sucks, I think Mariah despite her flaws is a great person. (Sunday 24 August 2014; 6:34)

The censors (46,299) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ah, now my post makes no sense. I understand the webmaster probably had to censor the parts because they were really offensive towards Mariah. Just to clarify, no bad words used on my part. (Saturday 23 August 2014; 17:17)

What on earth? (46,298) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so I found the quotes. Is this man for real? He claims they are not about Mariah and he mentions a hundred times that the quotes are from his book from 2011. So either the man is using the MC-NC divorce controversy to gain publicity for his book (judging by the 100 times he mentions "my book, the calling") or the man is directly attacking Mariah. (Since all the quotes are painting the woman in a bad way while making the husband almost innocent. The "wife wants 2 kids", [censored] all seems to directly hit Mariah where it hurts the most.) Someone before me posted some of the quotes, I found 2 more so thought of putting them together. "Here's a thing to talk about if the wife love sex and the man can't stand making love to her. What should that woman do?" "Here's a thing, if the husband says no lies, and the wife lies all the time, what should that man do?" [censored] "Here a thing, if a husband wants to have ten children and his wife only wants two children then what should that man do?" (Saturday 23 August 2014; 17:03)

Nick's dad (46,297) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Can anyone tell me where they found the quotes from? He claims it's not Mariah yet his point about wife wanting 2 kids and husband wanting 10 kids is exactly the things Mariah and Nick said. MC keeps saying she won't have any more kids because this pregnancy was very painful for her and Nick keeps saying he wants a big family with 10 kids. And did the father say that what happens when the wife wants sex and the husband can't bear to look at her? Um excuse me? "What happens when a man's father is a little too interested in his son's sex life that it gets disturbing?" "What happens when this man's career was taken to new heights when he bagged Mariah Carey and the woman's career went downhill playing house with him?" Honestly I said before that I won't blame any one of them (MC or NC) but these quotes from Nick on TMZ and his dad, if proven true, I won't feel bad about hating on Nick. (Saturday 23 August 2014; 16:35)

Nick on TMZ (46,296) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so the dirt throwing has begun? So "allegedly" Nick said that he was the one who ended the relation because he is concerned about Mariah's mental state and the well being of his kids since apparently the kids have shown that signs of being emotionally upset while living with Mariah. TMZ further claims that Nick is apparently playing a passive role in the divorce and asked his lawyers "to take the path of least resistance to end things possible". He says it's "toxic" to live around Mariah. Dear Lord, I hope to God this statement is false and made up and that Nick didn't say anything because if he did, it paints a very bad image of Mariah and innocent image of himself. I really hope for both of their sakes that Nick actually didn't make that statement. (Saturday 23 August 2014; 16:27)

Mariah the lyricist (46,268) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Can we just take a moment and be in awe of Mariah's talent as a lyricist? How does this woman go from mature heartfelt, pain filled lyrics like "I cry and cry while you laugh and laugh at the question, but I need to know" to dissing the crap out of a worthless lover "If we were two Lego blocks, even the Harvard graduating class of 2010, couldn't put us back together again". Then she'll get mushy enough to give teenage girls a run for their money (or well "mushy-ness") with a nice "got photos of us on my refrigerator, videos on my phone, boy I can't erase them, the first text I ever got from you still saved in my inbox and I read it time after time". Then she'll unleash the sexy on you "Tonight I'm gonna need all your attention, close the door, I wanna do things I probably shouldn't mention". The she'll make you cry remembering the loved ones you lost "And I assume that you have reached a better place, still I'd give the world to see your face" (that gets me every single time). She'll teach you that even if it's hard you sometimes need to let go of a loved one to see if they loved you enough to come back "Now I understand to hold you, I must open up my hands and watch you rise". And after you are down crying up a mess over lost love, "You'll change your mind and call my name, soon as you find they're all the same and when you find yourself alone, don't come back crying you should have known". When you are feeling super fabulous "them chickens is ash and I'm lotion" and when you are feeling like crap after looking at the mirror "Just be perfectly imperfect". And when you doubt yourself because people say you are not good enough "trying to get me down, but I won't face the ground, I will rise steadily, sailing out of their reach, oh lord they do try, how to make me feel that I, don't matter at all, but I refuse to falter in what I believe" while you spinning around in the apartment like Mariah. (I love CTTA, way more than Hero, it just raise my spirits everytime.) Anyways, I can go on, but my point is, this woman has such diverse songs and especially lyrics, it's like she has so many sides to her, while all the others just talk about how big their booty is and how they would like to be violated (hello Nicki). (Friday 22 August 2014; 21:38)

Jonathan (46,253) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Well let's just hope she goes down path number one (I don't care about the skinny part, but hoping she'll get stronger). As for path number two, it may not be something Mariah would do. Apart from 2001, I think Mariah kept her problems really private and dealt with it internally. Also, I think 2001 was a really bad year for her, not just for one but multiple reasons (the after effects of the problems with Rainbow, next, she just left Sony and had a lot of pressure to prove that she doesn't need a music mogul husband to stay at #1, followed by Tommy playing around with her project, then Glitter the movie, with which she probably wanted to make an impact in the movie business, was not going according to plan because she said she got scripts on the day she got to the set and apparently everything was really messy). These are reasons we know, there might have been plenty more. Plus she was young and not thinking straight when she went public with it hoping people will understand but it backfired. She learned her lesson, Mariah is smart enough not to repeat mistakes. But most importantly she is now more matured and has her babies to think about so she won't take any steps to cause them pain or embarassment. It's no longer just about her. (Friday 22 August 2014; 18:27)

Twisterman (46,252) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Twisterman, oh wow it should be interesting to see if she will actually do it. The timing is bad I admit, but Mariah has known about it for months now (while we just got to be sure yesterday) and while it may still hurt as much as it did in the beginning, she might be in a little more stable state of mind right now than she was when the separation actually happened, especially now since she is ready to go on a tour. I would love it if she does it, and imagine how stunned people will be because they think she is so high-maintenance. But hey, even if she doesn't do it, I don't care, all that matters is that she is healthy and happy. Nick just took the challenge recently, so did a host of big names. (Friday 22 August 2014; 18:15)

AIWFCIY (46,237) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I was watching a promo for a currently popular TV show, it's called Pretty Little Liars with a main target audience of teens and young adults I suppose. And in their next episode which will lead on to their Christmas episode to be aired later this year, in the background there was AIWFCIY the original version playing. I am happy to see that. I wish more of Mariah's music was featured as background songs for shows like this so that would get Mariah the attention of the younger audiences (who are the people that mostly buy music nowadays). I saw many artists like Gaga and Beyoncé and many others let shows use their songs because once it gets into the heads of the teenagers they will locate it and buy it and in the process look for more songs in that artist's catalogue. Mariah, God bless her, has an incredible talent that even after 24 years in the business, still manages to write songs that can easily match up and set up trends. She can use shows and movies to get her songs to a more diverse group. Memoirs for instance would have been a teenagers go to album, it's so cute and mushy and romantic. I love Memoirs, it is mature at the same time there is an innocence throughout the album. Other Mariah songs would be equally popular with the younger generation of only they would know about it. E=MC2, Emancipation, Rainbow, Butterfly, Chanteuse. Come on. (Friday 22 August 2014; 16:09)

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