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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)

Minx (43,211) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Any snippet you may have heard on YouTube is most likely a fake one. There are many files on YouTubes which are basically combining the ringtones that Mariah recorded for Pepsi back in 2005-06 exclusively. Mariah has been guarding the materials to the new album very closely and I am sure not many people have heard them, apart from those close to her and obviously the label. She didn't even play the new songs at the conferences she had so the chances of leaks are pretty slim. (Friday 2 May 2014; 14:57)

Me. I am Mariah (43,210) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The album is now at #6 on the iTunes USA charts. I hope it steadily climbs to number 1. This album has to be big for Mariah because lots of people are just writing her off and she doesn't deserve it. She is one of the most talented vocalists in the world and people need to be reminded of it. I am glad Mariah has started to promote the album pulling over the top stunts that only a diva of M's caliber can pull. She's got the articles buzzing about her magazine covers and her album cover and album name. Whether they are praising her or cringing at the photoshop overload, it doesn't matter. No publicity is bad publicity (well unless it's really very bad). I don't mind the photoshop. M is, as we all know, naturally gorgeous, but if they decide to make the covers more "magical" I see no problem with it. I loved the album cover. A lot of people are talking about how weird the name is. And I am like whatever, it's perfect. As long as people keep talking, the general people will start getting curious, and that will give the album a chance to fly all the way to number 1. I also hope she picks up atleast one if not multiple number 1s from this album. We gotta aim for The Beatles' record now dahlin' and only Mimi can do it. (Friday 2 May 2014; 14:36)

Just another one (43,120) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so Dembabies are mentioned. Anyways I agree with the other person who wrote below that apart from Fabulous we heard about all the other guests. So who is the surprise guest that she isn't supposed to talk about? Can't be dembabies because she mentioned that song and in the same interview said that there is one more guest she can't talk about. So is it Mary J Blige? But didn't we know about it from 2010? Can't be Fabulous either because they posted a picture in the studio together. I wonder who she was talking about. (Thursday 1 May 2014; 10:57)

Lee (43,118) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The origin of the title is actually legit. This same picture was featured in one of Mariah's interviews years back. I can't remember which one, but it was there and the description was there too. I can't remember whether it was a TV interview or whether it was a magazine spread, but I definitely did see that picture before. So it's not a publicity stunt. Please don't just hate on her just because you don't know about it. (Thursday 1 May 2014; 10:50)

Me. I am Mariah (43,116) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Wow to finally have a name and tracklist with the covers just very well got me speechless for a while. Yes, yes the release date tucked nicely at the end of the video did make me momentarily sad but hey I think it's for the best. Will give Mariah enough time to pull together her promotion strategy, be everywhere (in caps lock) so that everyone knows she's back. I loved both the covers. I would love to see the outtakes from this shoot, I think it's one of her best (the cover of Billboard and TAOLG is from the same shoot). Now that she announced the details, people will probably shut up about Mariah copying Beyonce. M is so smart, while she made us all think she was talking about Marilyn's piano, she instead went and took out a personal belonging. I personally like this titlte of the album than TAOLG. TAOLG sounded like she's giving up, where as Me. I am Mariah sounds like hey b**** (to all the other female artists) I am back to reclaim by throne. Moveover. It's simple, yet it sounds bold and confident. "The elusive chanteuse" adds a little mystery element to it. I noticed that Roc and Roe are not mentioned as featured guest on Supernatural. I am glad she included the 2 remixes from MOAIA, I already got to hear the other leaked remixes from that album and I loved them, and I was interested in these 2 versions. People may hate MOAIA but I loved it. It I never skipped even one track on that album. Now that release is pushed, she has time for a new single. *fingers crossed* Thirsty. (Thursday 1 May 2014; 10:34)

Carly (43,072) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey Carly, where did you get the other pic of MC and the mini quiz thing? It was fun to read. (Wednesday 30 April 2014; 22:49)

Random thoughts (43,054) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah looks really good on the cover of Wonderland, although I do wish she didn't feel the need to take off her clothes so much. But hey, whatever, it's her choice to make. So yes, she looks hot but does the cover layout seem a little amateurish to anyone else? I really didn't hear about this magazine before (we don't get it here) but are the layouts always like this? It seems like someone just put random things on it. And although M looks good, something is missing, maybe the stark white background is a little bland? I don't know, something just seems missing. But moving on, so Mariah is listed to be on Letterman, CNN's Leading Women and the Today show concert. I hope we see a lot of her in starting from the first of May. If she wants her album to do well, she obviously needs to show up almost everywhere to let people know about it. I am sure a lot of people, even some fans are not aware of the album. She needs to really promote it and not leave it midway like she did with the singles. Beautiful was such a lost opportunity, it reached number 15 with almost no publicity, and had the potential to crack top 10 if not top 5 had she promoted it more. Same with You're Mine. Some lambs didn't like it (but I loved it and a lot of non lambs loved it too) so that song doesn't deserve to be at 88. It was just due to the lack of promotions. So I hope Mariah doesn't repeat the same mistake. (Wednesday 30 April 2014; 10:54)

Magazines (43,037) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter In the last 4 days Mariah has been on 4 magazine covers. I'm happy so see that she's getting covers again. I hope she's on the cover of more magazines leading upto the album release. But she should seriously do some photoshoots. Apart from the wonderland cover all the others are old pictures. Just a few more days untill May 6th. I don't know whether the album will be released on schedule or not but I sure am excited. I may get annoyed every now and then but I love Mariah dearly, her songs have really helped me through many times, be it happy or sad, so I'll always support her. I don't care when she releases it, but I am sure when she does, it'll have great songs, her albums never disappoint. (Tuesday 29 April 2014; 21:40)

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