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Re: Albums (74,932) (74,936) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines I feel the same way about the Emotions and Music Box albums. Emotions fell short of the greatness it was supposed to achieve on paper because although some of its songs rank along Mariah's best (CLG, The Wind, MIH), the rest weigh it down, making it sound even more dated than Mariah's debut. My issue with Music Box is that of all her albums, it's her most Celine-esque (read: MOR, safe, consciously calculated to reach the widest audience possible). I don't begrudge that, as it did work really well for her, but you just can't put Music Box up there with Daydream, Butterfly, TEOM, or even Mariah's debut album, despite having one epic cover and great songs such as Dreamlover, NFY, AYNAF. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 13:52)

Re: Dinner / LV cake (74,924) (74,935) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It's beyond lame and beyond my comprehension. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 13:17)

Re: Ankle tattoo? (74,930) (74,934) by Will from England Here you go. Look under the sparkle strap. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 13:09)

Top 5 Mariah Carey albums (74,933) by Terna from Nigeria Speaking of albums, I gravitate towards some of her work much more than others, and very rarely play the rest. And I can honestly say this is my top 5 favorite Mariah albums of all time. In this order: 1. Butterfly (this one made me a lamb) 2. The Emancipation of Mimi 3. Mariah Carey 4. Daydream 5. Me. I am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse To me this [sic] records are a true reflection of Mariah. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:58)

Re: Albums (74,918) (74,932) by Terna from Nigeria "I've also finally listened to TEOM in its proper sequence, and surprisingly I also didn't really like it." Gasp. (Aims cannon of bricks permanently shooting at you.) Lol. Funny enough I find Emotions very bland and boring and way too dark and that mirror flipped album cover doesn't help matters, but I nitpick a few songs I love like "Make it Happen", "Can't Let Go" and "To be around you" and "The Wind". I also so same with Music Box. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:46)

Re: Bruno gets his 7th number one (74,926) (74,931) by Licia from USA Bruno definitely deserves this number one. That's What I Like was the first song from his album I listened to three times before I moved on to the next track. Lol I would love for Versace On The Floor or Calling All Lovelies to be released as singles. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:45)

Re: Ankle tattoo? (74,928) (74,930) by Licia from USA From the one picture of her feet posted on this site it looks like the strap of her shoe. Where did you see more pics? (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:42)

Re: Dinner / LV cake (74,924) (74,929) by Lila from United States We arrived at lame a long while ago. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:34)

Ankle tattoo? (74,928) by Will from England Looking at the pictures from her label launch (she looks great), I noticed that she has something on her right ankle? Is that another tattoo? It's visible in some photos, others not so much. Looks like a phrase or something along those lines. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:15)

Magazine article (74,927) by Marissa from USA Stumbled across one of my favorite magazine articles on Mariah. She is 10 times more candid in print than on camera. I get all types of juicy information that she normally wouldn't even utter. Do you all have a favorite magazine interview on Mariah? (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 10:52)

Re: Bruno gets his 7th number one (74,916) (74,926) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines That's What I Like deserves to be #1, especially if placed side by side with that Ed Sheeran track. In fact, it's the only song in the top 10 right now that is listenable for me. Although at first I was kinda iffy when they released it. I thought they would capitalize on the momentum that Versace On The Floor generated as a promotional single. I hope that song gets released next. It would be a waste not to. If any male artist in mainstream pop right now deserves to challenge Michael Jackson's record of #1s, it's Bruno. And it looks like he's well on his way. Congrats. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 08:45)

Re: Albums (74,922) (74,925) by Licia from USA You all know I'm tickled pink with the CB love. Lol I hardly ever see or hear fans say they don't absolutely love Music Box. I'm shocked you darn goats. Lol. Like Lila the only three songs I listen to are AYNAF, Dreamweaver, and Never Forget You. I occasionally listen to Without You. It's not a bad album. It just was boring to me. Like how some of you are bored with the rap collaborations. That's how I was when Music Box came out . I felt myself moving away from Mariah during that era then Daydream pulled me back in. I agree Emotions is very underrated. It's third on my list of most loved MC albums. With the exception of one song I can listen to Emotions all the way through. The song I don't care for just so happens to be at the very end. Lol. With TEOM there's only one song I don't listen to and I never listen to the album in order. I would have liked To the Floor to be thrown in the garbage because that song is garbage. Other than that misstep TEOM is cool by me. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 03:33)

Dinner / LV cake (74,924) by SM from Citizen of the World What's up with going out to dinner every night and being photographed? I don't think anyone in America cares that Mariah is out to dinner and TMZ is their [sic] to take pics lol. And on another note that Louis Vuitton cake for Stella's daughter is ridiculous, it's like hey we have money lets flaunt it. Mariah's life is getting lame. What do others think about this? (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 03:00)

Re: Albums (74,918) (74,923) by Manny from U.S. Speaking of "Emotions", I have these memories of when it was released. My art teacher in junior high would always [listen to] an adult contemporary radio station. I remember always anticipating the whistle note on "Can't Let Go" when they played it and it didn't have it. I couldn't believe they cut that out for the radio. When I saw the video, I was disappointed also. That whistle note is everything. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 01:03)

Re: Albums (74,918) (74,922) by MusicfanJ from Germany Yes, it's easy to fall in love with "Emotions". It's such a wonderful album, music that makes you dream and Mariah's voice were out of this world. With "TEOM" it's like you said, I also do enjoy the singles each one, but the complete album doesn't work for me like other albums from her. I don't know why. "Charmbracelet" is just a fine piece of art. I love the story/songs from the beginning to the end. It feels like a journey trough Mariah's diary. Music Box is perfect if you're in the "right" mood, there are times in life where you need pure Mariah ballads. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 22:49)

Re: Albums (74,918) (74,921) by Lila from United States A bit? I'd say highly saccharine. I still like it but as long as I can keep Dreamlover, Anytime You Need A Friend, and Never Forget You I can live without the rest of that album. To a certain extent, I can definitely see what you mean about the track listing for TEOM. When I listen to the album as a whole, going in order, I always wind up skipping around on hyper speed once I get to Mine Again. I definitely feel like Say Something should come after We Belong Together but that's probably because I love the song more than Mine Again and I feel like it should follow my other faves lol. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 21:40)

Re: Albums (74,918) (74,920) by Bill from the UK Emotions is probably my most listened to and favourite album of Mariah's, not counting Unplugged of course which for me is in its own league. It's a moving, beautiful album made with sincerity which is now sadly missing. Her look during that period was incredible. The embodiment of "classic Mariah", the videos were great, great single choices and promotional appearances too. The only album other than the debut that completely showcased her amazing range. The numerous producers on the first album made it lack coherency but this album had a continual mood and delivery. The C&C numbers were great, not to mention the Carole King collaboration (and the SNL/Grammy performances of If It's Over have got to be in almost every fan's top ten), and then the beautiful ending of Till The End Of Time and the haunting jazz influenced The Wind, I have no words. I gush about this album so much because it never comes up in convo. Everyone's always Butterfly this, TEOM that, but Emotions is a true underrated gem and an album I have loved from first listen to the current day. I play it daily. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 21:28)

Re: Hard out here (74,913) (74,919) by Jono from USA The difference is Mariah's commercial success completely dwarfs Mary J Blige's. So people are always going to compare to the height of her popularity. Same goes for the voice, there's no secret that she possessed one of the greatest voices to ever exist. It's the unbelievably high standards that Mariah has to deal with, whereas other artists do not. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 20:00)

Albums (74,918) by darrian liu from taiwan I think I posted a similar thing to this a few months ago, but I've recently listened through Emotions and Music Box in its proper sequence, without any shuffle or cherry-picking songs, and I fell in love with Emotions. It's such a stunning album, from the vocals to the lyrics. Music Box, however, didn't do really much for me. I think it was a bit too saccharine and a bit too watered down for me? (Hides from the incoming bricks thrown at me.) I've also finally listened to TEOM in its proper sequence, and surprisingly I also didn't really like it. Now, I love the songs in TEOM when I listen to them one by one, like stand-alone songs, but strangely, when put together in its proper tracklist, it didn't do much to me. It's almost the opposite for Charmbracelet for me, although to a lesser extent. I enjoy the songs in Charmbracelet, but feel like they sound better as a whole in its original sequence. (I'm still obsessed with Glitter and don't know when it would stop.) (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 16:16)

Re: Bruno gets his 7th number one (74,916) (74,917) by B from USA She looks good and she's been sounding good so if she hires a manager with actually industry connections and credentials, a stylist, and releases a great album with great songs she could easily score a comeback. The public has forgotten about NYE (which wasn't that bad when compared to the Rockefeller debacle) and Mariah's World (barely a million people watched the premiere and less than 400,000 watched the finale) so if she starts giving honest straight forward answers instead of playing up the diva act and goes on GMA and gives an amazing performance of say TGIFY like she does in Vegas she'd remind people why they love... She should have done this in the weeks following the NYE debacle but Stella saw it as her chance at her 15 minutes of fame since it was oblivious by that point Mariah's World was D.O.A. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 16:10)

Bruno gets his 7th number one (74,916) by darrian liu from taiwan Finally That's What I Like crowns the Hot 100. I'm sick of seeing Shape of You on no. 1, it was annoyingly cute at first but it's just plain annoying. I'm happy that a song with actually great vocals tops the Hot 100. And JR, I also noticed how there's a lack of female artists in the top 40 currently. There's only one female artist in the top 10 currently and the artist is just a featured artist. Mariah could definitely make another comeback, with Gaga and Perry struggling, and with Bey still pregnant. The thing is, she has a really long way to go. She needs to retrain those vocals to at least 2004/2005 quality, hire a new stylist, fire everything and anything related to Crustella, and take some time off to freshen up, be inspired by things again and rethink about her career. Not to mention the damage repair she has to do to be likeable in the GP again. I think she could score a top 20 hit, with the right collaborators, or at least R&B hits. Also, wouldn't it be a great idea for her to include acoustic unplugged performances in her promo cycles (again, I'm being redundant)? It would re-establish her as one of the top vocalists in the industry. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 14:57)

Re: Empire (74,912) (74,915) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Nick said what he had to say keeping in mind that he can't make the mistake he did before of oversharing. He knew Mariah would not like it if he goes bashing Stella on Wendy so he didn't say anything but if you listen to his words he said something around the lines of "I'm not going to pull down a woman in this business because it's a very tough business for them", of course that's not the exactly quote but this was the gist. He never said "Stella is massively talented and is going to do anything to get Mariah to the top". If he thought she was good enough, he would say she is talented. He just refused to make fun of a woman in the business, so I'm taking it as if it was a man he'd spill the tea hahah kidding. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 13:54)

Re: Empire (74,911) (74,914) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't think so, I mean when you want to promote a song, you go to different shows, try to get performances at awards, do multiple interviews with the press, have several live performances. She just went on Kimmel and then talked to a few radio people but that went nowhere. The GP had no idea she had any music coming, only the fans who really keep up with her or follow her on social media knew that. And she can't get a hit just with the lambs, if the GP doesn't know, she won't get a hit. She released the song and then she went silent and then resurfaced weeks later to host 2 parties for radio personalities. It was already late by then, it had already fallen off the charts. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 13:49)

Hard out here (74,913) by RibbonB from USA Mariah gets a lot of flack even when she has a number two release, because it wasn't a number one etc. Mary J. Blige's new release has been promoted, and even life changes have come into play with her divorce but her release is being touted as a top ten, vs. wow, what a flop of MIAM or Memoirs. Billboard projects MJB will move 60,000 to reach the top ten and there is no negativity to most posts about her release. MIAM was somewhere around that in its first week, I believe. Memoirs actually had some great songs too, and an even better first week, for top three, but Mariah got more pummeling than praise. Millions of M's fans know about her releases, she is just not going to sell like the 90's or pre-2008 even, because it is just harder to sell music, plus her fan base is all over the place on what we like or don't like. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 12:05)

Re: Empire (74,909) (74,912) by RibbonB from USA Nick has said a couple of times that Mariah manages Mariah, meaning she makes the final decisions. I do feel she likes working with yes people, or in Stella's case someone who talks fast and comes off like she is doing what is best for Mariah, but it really looks like she is doing what is best for her and her family. Nothing is going to change, until Mariah makes that change as it is very unlikely that Stellar is going to jump her gravy boat. IMO it seems like Nick is trying to be constructive, but not to shake the boat too much, for the sake of his kids and of course, their mother. (Tuesday 2 May 2017; 11:48)

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