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MC (44,010) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The beautiful picture of Mariah lying down on the beach should have been the cover of the deluxe edition. It's gorgeous. She thanks Brett Ratner in the thank you note, so maybe he'll work with her on some of her videos? *fingers crossed* (Thursday 22 May 2014; 21:11)

Supernatural and dembabies (43,991) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I would just want to start off by saying that song is beautiful. The lyrics, the production and the vocals, everything is perfect. Mariah has mentioned many times that it is a song she wrote for the twins. So that was sweet, the song is way better than the song Blue by Beyoncé. Anyways I know a lot of people are complaining over dembabies giggling throughout the track, but I honestly feel that their voices in the record makes it so personal. It's like Mariah is giving us a part of her life, showing us how she spends time doting on her babies. The song feels like a lullaby and I keep imagining the scene as Mariah putting the kids to bed singing this lullaby and they are giggling and singing along with her. It sounds really sweet. Another thing, Mariah keeps saying she started singing since the age of 4 and she also says that her kids have already started showing musical talents so maybe this was her way of showcasing/showing off her kids, proving she so proud of them. Also Mariah may have wanted to create a song, a special one, just for her twins and she included them on it so that years later they can look back at this song and cherish the memories. I think it was a great idea. People may not enjoy it but I loved it. (Thursday 22 May 2014; 12:06)

MIAM (43,970) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I gave the album a couple of more listens and I must say I loved it. At first listen, I honestly skipped some songs, but after 3 plays I loved it. I need some time to get used to OMT, Meteorite and Heavenly. Although I already partially like Meteorite. All the songs in the album are pure perfection. Shows how much emotion and attention she put in every line of every song. Flawless. Some people are complaining about her voice sound hoarse or whatever but I think it adds depth to her emotional songs, I like it when her voice sounds raw instead of super polished in the more emotional songs because that shows she is feeling every bit of it. This album is truly a masterpiece. A mash up of Daydream, Butterfly, TEOM and Memoirs. Now all she needs is to promote the hell out of it because otherwise such a gem would go unnoticed. Can't wait to see her on WMAs. (Wednesday 21 May 2014; 20:54)

MC and MJ (43,901) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah's song Camouflage seems to remind me of an old MJ song, but I can't remember which one. Maybe Butterflies? (Tuesday 20 May 2014; 21:41)

iTunes chart (43,870) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The album is slowly rising up the iTunes chart. Currently sitting at number 22. Seems like a lot of people liked it. By the way, Supernatural is so precious. So adorable. And the lines that Monroe sings at the end and the little conversation between Mariah and dem babies sound so natural. I am glad she recorded this song. I adore it. (Tuesday 20 May 2014; 16:44)

Single or not? (43,772) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Both the songs are great, and the theories suggesting that Mariah is performing new songs without releasing them to boost album sales. I don't understand why there was an official cover art for Thirsty ready the first time it was debuted? Was it the plan that it would be released as a single but then she decided to instead use the buzz as a way to boost her album? Like someone else mentioned, maybe she will release singles after the release of the album, and if fans have ideas about video concepts Mariah should be open to it because a good video attracts the YouTube views and can really help her achieve a #1 single. Although that might really be hard these days because Beyonce's much hyped lead single couldn't reach #1 even with the help of Jay-z and the weird remix with Kanye. (Saturday 17 May 2014; 22:29)

Multiple covers (43,740) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I was wondering if anyone else noticed it but the 3 different covers of Elusive seems to resemble some of Mariah's previous ones. Like obviously a lot of people noticed that the Japanese/Target edition is like Charmbracelet. But then the standard edition is very TEOM (with the golden hues around her and her outfit and the similar pose with her entire body in view). Finally the deluxe edition is very Mariah Carey (the first album I mean) as in the same pose, head shot (left side of the face), and strands of hair blowing over her face slightly. I don't know, just thought it was fun. I liked it when Mariah re-shot some of her previous photoshoots for Memoirs (although the innocence of the original Butterfly album shoot was replaced by the over sexualized outfit and a huge fake smile if that makes sense). (Saturday 17 May 2014; 2:17)

iTunes chart (43,718) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It seems like everytime Mariah performs a song or previews a song from the new album, her album steadily rises up the iTunes sales charts. Currently it's at 29 on US charts. A few days back it had fallen off the top 200 but as soon as the hype with Thirsty came about, it shot straight up to 39. Then it started falling again and today it's at 29. So MC should take note and promote the hell out of this album. Release YDK or Thirsty, keep attending shows and her album will stay in the top 10. Oh they also changed the picture for the banner. (Friday 16 May 2014; 23:14)

Bill / buzz singles (43,626) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Lol well JD's words not mine. Infact I agree with you, I wrote several days back that everytime a single doesn't do well (and mostly due to lack of promotion) it is labelled a buzz single by Mariah's team. Like TAOLG, Triumphant. I mentioned before, if TAOLG wasn't meant to be a proper single, why bother with making a "unprecedented" worldwide same day release and give it a better cover than all the other covers of the album and singles. Even YME didn't get a good cover. Now that YM didn't perform upto mark, JD said it's a buzz single. Which is silly. They are trying to make it that #B is the first single, Thirsty (with a potential to crack top 10) is the second, so that all the under performing singles do not bring down the image of the overall album. So yes, I am with you on this topic. But I did love all the singles she released. (Wednesday 14 May 2014; 20:56)

Target exclusive (43,622) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Good news for all the American lambs wanting the Japanese edition cover. Target will hold the version of the album with the Japanese cover and America the Beautiful. (Wednesday 14 May 2014; 20:33)

Thirsty (43,618) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't care what people say, Thirsty combined with the new iTunes banner got Mariah's album back in the iTunes top 40 US album charts. So imagine if this song is properly released and promoted, how great it would be for the album. I'm a little worried though that is Mariah not going to release this a proper single. JD did say that this is the second official single, the first being #B. The rest are buzz singles. So I do hope there is a proper release and a banging video to accompany it. Like somebody else wrote, the video should be matured and hot like it's like that and get your number. I think TEOM has some of her best videos along with Butterfly. I also agree with Gilles, Triumphant is hated collectively by lambs whereas many non lambs love it. I really like it too. It is a great song and had a great video. The only thing disappointing was that it was released then as a lead single and was Mariah's first single after Memoirs and yet she had little parts. So maybe it's not great for a lead single after waiting for 3 years, but in all I really like the song. (Wednesday 14 May 2014; 18:53)

Divalamb (43,543) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I completely agree. If I remember currently half of this board was begging Mariah to release the hit boy track. There were numerous posts asking for Thirsty to be released since the day Mariah mentioned it on the radio interview. People were well aware that this was a club banger and has been trashing Mariah for not releasing a up beat song to take over summer, followed by mourning the non-release of Migrate. So now when she finally does what you all ask for you just can't be satisfied. One can't claim that she has been releasing the same type of songs from this album and say that this album will suck, she has bad songs. Nope, on the contrary, she has been releasing different types of songs. The raw ballads, the 70s throwback, the rnb and now the club banger. I don't think anything she releases will satisfy some people here. I liked both versions of the song. Others complaining about the production, well it's a club song, obviously we should expect heavy production. It's frustrating to hear lambs dissing everything she releases. You guys can't decide whether you want a ballad, a club song, an rnb/hip hop track or whatever. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 18:57)

Thirsty cover (43,535) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The cover art for Thirsty (which I saw on Mariah Carey Network) I guess is from the You're Mine music video. She's wearing the same cloth covering the lower half of her body and has a chest covered. I think I noticed the top in the video too but she pretended she was topless. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 17:43)

Thirsty post 2 (43,519) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I heard the song a couple of times. It's what she need. A club banger. It has flavours of Migrate, which almost all the fans wanted at this point so I hope people don't go complaining now and say they wanted a ballad. JD also apparently said that this is the official second single of Elusive. TAOLG and You're Mine were apparently buzz singles. Poor Triumphant has not been mentioned since 2012. Anyways I hope this song gives the necessary boost to Mariah's album and I hope this single rises up to the top. Her banner is finally up on iTunes. Thank God for that, hopefully will attract more buyers. I had to listen to the song multiple times because it's just a snippet and I like hearing a song from start to finish to decide if I like it. I hope the full version is released soon. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 15:53)

Thirsty (43,517) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I just heard the radio rip of thirsty. It's a club song. It has a featured guest artist. The featured artist wasn't mentioned in the tracklist. makes me think if there are more artists that are featured but not named. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 15:40)

The other title (43,503) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So remember JD said that MC is choosing between two album titles? This was after the leak of TAOLG. So I would like to know what the second title she had in mind. I love the one she chose, but I am interested to know the other one too. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 9:56)

Manny / parody (43,502) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I have watched many parodies of Mariah, just for fun. There were some by Madtv, particularly the Heartbreaker remix video parody called Love Muffin, and there was one of Glitter called Gutter I think, and another of Through The Rain featuring Whitney called Not Insane. Again, these videos are just for fun. I love MC and respect her, but heck I think even Mariah wouldn't mind some of the spoofs. (Tuesday 13 May 2014; 9:49)

WMA (43,493) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah will be opening WMAs and will be honored with the Pop Icon Award. I am sooo excited. It's gonna be a perfect setting. She can sing her new songs. And since WMA's are watched by people from different age groups especially the younger generation, she can attract the attention from them. This will help boost her CD sales. Again, I do hope she sings new stuff and not her old hits medley .Please Mariah don't let this opportunity go to waste. (Monday 12 May 2014; 22:14)

Covers (43,438) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Why is Mariah using old photos for most of the covers? That bugs me. She should have done new shoots. The weight must not have been an issue since it will be edited either ways. Using pictures from 2008 and the shape magazine shoot is not fun anymore. I want new shoots. Like Emancipation and E=MC2 eras. (Saturday 10 May 2014; 21:27)

Opinions on opinions (43,437) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter 1) To those saying that Mariah's recent album cover looks like nothing her and that shows she doesn't like living in reality. Show me one celebrity who chooses to not photoshop themself. Did you look at JLo's new album cover? She's been photoshopped so much she looks like she has demon eyes. Britney being so young is photoshopped so much that her real face looks nothing like her album covers. Madonna anyone? Even the gorgeous Ms Jolie. You can't expect MC to put a flawed picture for a cover. That's just not Hollywood and then their will be trolls talking about the flaws and picking her apart. 2) I don't know if Mariah is hung up on Luis or not, but it has been stated many times that the name Moroccan was chosen because that's where Nick proposed to her. 3) Mariah's face was really swollen on Letterman. Usually her face looks somewhat swollen in pics without her makeup on, but on Letterman she had full makeup and still it looked really bloated. I hope it goes back to normal. 4) I am not a fan of the Japanese cover, I never really liked the Charmbracelet cover and as someone pointed out her arm have been messed up. I mean how is that angle even possible? (Saturday 10 May 2014; 20:52)

Love in this club Part 2 (43,372) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't know if you all knew this, but Usher wanted Mariah to do the female vocals for this song. But for some reason she ended up not doing it. Which is sad, because I really liked the original and Part 2. Mariah would have sounded beautiful on the track and her vocal chemistry with Usher is great. Anyways so Beyonce ended up doing it. (Thursday 8 May 2014; 23:04)

Japan tracklist (43,350) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I found it really weird that America the Beautiful was on the deluxe CD. I was looking forward to some new songs in the international release. Mariah had 4 years, and she gives that song on an international release? No offense to Americans, I am not judging anyone's nationality, but I think a lot of US lambs are also wondering the same. Yes it's true that American culture has inspired more or less every nation, even here in my country, but come on really? (Thursday 8 May 2014; 13:36)

Mariah (43,349) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter From the little portion of the interview I saw, Mariah is again talking about how she doesn't care about the single, she wants the album to be heard as a whole. I love and respect Mariah but I call bull**** on that. Come on Mariah, you attempted 3 separate singles (I am excluding TAOLG as it was "for the fans") to launch this album, and everytime it didn't hit #1 she kept delaying the album. Let's not kid ourselves, she's been trying to release the album since 2012 with all the MC Summer 2012 campaign and what not. However as soon as triumphant bombed, Mariah vanished and the song was later dubbed vaguely as "a song for Nick" or "buzz single". Then came a string of other singles, and apart from Beautiful each time a single didn't do well it was called "for the fans" and what not. Moreover she keeps talking about how she has 18 #1s, which in all honesty she should be proud of. So why pretend that you don't care for a hit single, when you really do. Mariah could have had a hit from atleast one of the 4 singles (including TAOLG) if only she would have promoted it more. Triumphant even had potential eventhough lambs hated it, but it was catchy and nowadays catchy sells. TAOLG, often cited as for the fans, wasn't for the fans. If that was the case she would have just released it on fb and announced it on twitter and whatever. She instead did multiple radio interviews, Fallon and even had a better cover photo than her official singles. Something went wrong and it got abandoned. (Thursday 8 May 2014; 13:32)

The appearances / single (43,305) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So Mariah doesn't have a single ready in time for her letterman appearance. I do hope she has one for the Today show concert atleast. Otherwise all these appearances would not be of much use. Had she released the album right after #Beautiful, it would have gotten a lot of attention as the song was completely fresh. But like it or not her latest singles didn't do well in the charts (although I personally loved them) so to kind of relaunch the album, she really needs a new single. What can she possibly talk about in the Letterman interview that we didn't hear of already? I hope she performs new songs on the Today show concert, I really want this album to do well. (Wednesday 7 May 2014; 8:29)

Left over songs / promotion (43,245) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I so hope that what you all are saying about Mariah releasing a part 2 of this album is true. It would be awesome. She was working on this album for 4 years and must already have loads of songs in it, especially ones that was on the original version of the album - TAOLG. She did mention she added 3 songs so that means she probably scrapped off 3 other songs. So yes, the thought of a sequel excites me. Secondly, I was thinking what if Mariah has surprises planned for us for each day of the month. She creating one buzz after another since the end of April. Starting with the surprise Billboard cover, then all the other magazines. Then she drops the big bomb - album details for which we lambs were dying. It doesn't stop there, she practically shuts down Times Square. She is taking over Fuse on the 6th along with being featured in CNN's leading women. She will be on Letterman on the 7th. Today Show concert on 16th. But who is to say she will not have more surprises in between these appearances? I think Mariah realized how some of her awesome singles didn't perform the way it should have since she didn't promote it and so now she is coming out in full force. I hope she announces a new single too. I am being greedy but hey can you blame me? I love me some Mimi. (Saturday 3 May 2014; 3:09)

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