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Isaac / ILT (41,809) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter You are so right about the dresses. Both the outfits were so gorgeous and sexy and classy. The first one had that beautiful stone work and the second was casual yet fun and flirty. I remember M breaking down the story behind the video and said that the video shows she's attending two parties, one which is put together by her aged fiance and it's supposed to be formal and boring (the one with the peach-golden gown) and then she changes into a more relaxed dress (the black one) and attends her own party where her friends are and that's where she's seen having fun. I loved the subtle yet cute/sexy moves M pulled in that video. As for "Time of your life", I enjoyed that song too. Although I am not sure if there is a full version of it, it was part of the ringtones set, but I think there is an extended version, not sure though. Those ringtones had some good songs too, there was a jazz-like one there, plus many fun ones. (Thursday 27 February 2014; 6:59)

Lamb_O_Chop (41,786) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I happen to agree with everything in your last post. There were several parts of the song which were different from the studio version so I really don't get how anyone can think it's the same. If some hears the song at least twice, they'll know it's different. Now whether the song was pre-recorded, half/full lipped or dubbed is anybody's guess. I think she did atleast sing parts of it live because she kept adjusting her ear piece and people who are saying that she didn't do her "hand movements" which is like uber proof that she wasn't singing live, I'd like to say, when you are sitting on a piano with a dress so tight and risky, I think you'd be pretty nervous enough to forget a lot of things, even if it's a habit. MC usually does that when she's standing on a flat ground. It's fine to hate a song, don't go around bashing it. I'd also back up the Isaac part, he was one of the first to say he didn't like the song much, but that's it, no negativity was spread. Also, someone wrote about having their boobs out and cougar hair on trying to attract boys when they are 44 like M. Are you suggesting that's what M does? Please don't turn a classy performance into a cheap show. (Wednesday 26 February 2014; 19:10)

Celine duet (41,761) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter No, no and no. What good will it do? At least definitely not as a single. Album cut is tolerable but still I don't really care for Celine. If Mariah does perform with another female it should be current. And I see no reason for Celina and Mariah pulling another MC Whitney moment. That concept is done and over. A new female duet has to be fresh. (Wednesday 26 February 2014; 9:57)

It's Like That (41,760) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I always loved this song but I haven't heard it in a while and I was playing it today and I went woah. It's such a great song, it just makes you wanna get up and dance, especially at the "let's go now here we go now" part, but even the rest of the song kinda makes you get on the floor with your gals. I am not even talking about the club mixes, I am referring to te original version. Please MC give me a song like that again. It's fun, flirty, sexy and classy while throwing shades at them chicken's ashy skin all at once lol. You can come up with a bigger club hit than all the Gagas and Perrys and Beyonces. (Wednesday 26 February 2014; 9:53)

MC and Nicki (41,731) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Appreciate talent? What talent does Nicki have that Mariah will need to perform with her and/or chat with her just for image? If Mariah needs any change, it's only to appear less "untouchable" which she is already doing with the recent interviews. We can't expect her to now become totally un-diva-ish beceause a) that is almost impossible for MC, b) it would make her boring and not let her sense of humor shine through. This industry is so unpredictable, it's hard to pin down a formula to achieve success, at least nowadays. But I do think that Mariah can gain more younger audiences if she duets with people who are current favorites. Like Gaga (although her last album didn't do great) or Katy Perry, but most importantly Beyonce. Nicki has got nothing to offer to Mariah. (Tuesday 25 February 2014; 19:34)

Blake (41,724) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter No hate or anything, and you are entitled to your opinion, but I would rather have Mariah actually move and do something on stage instead of standing with a mic and just singing like a robot. She's an average dancer (I mean it's not like she can't move at all, that's unfair to claim because she had some cute moves in Honey, Heartbreaker and ILT), and usually if someone just stands and sings, it kinda bores people. I loved the piano concept and even though that dress was risky as hell I think she managed to look classy instead of tacky. I would honestly have a "moving Mariah" than a "stationary Mariah" (does that make sense? well I am a lamb and I like making up words like MC so bear with me). And since for YM(E) you can't really dance, or do much else on stage, I think the concept was great. And attention worthy. The dress was fine in my opinion, not the most flattering, but it was perfect for the whole concept as a whole. (Tuesday 25 February 2014; 17:49)

BET Honors (41,720) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter All I can say is wow. Mariah looked great. She had the whole Jessica Rabbit thing going on. And I loved how she held the mic like Elvis and it was different than her usual mic (although hey I love MC's signature stone studded mics). The way she moved around the piano so gracefully without freaking out and getting a weird expression was amazing. A true diva. Shows that MC may not be able to dance but she can put on a hell of a show. I loved the videos playing in the back and as I have written in posts before the music video release, I thought it was going to be the music video (especially for the remix because trey songz was in the pictures with her when she was shooting for it). When I saw the little mermaid theme, I thought the remix video will have a flashback moment of her and Trey dancing at a ball or whatever to keep in line with most Disney themes. She looked so gorgeous both on stage and on the screens. It was spectacular. She changed her vocals a little which is good, but yes she could have done some major ad-libs. But I won't even complain, the day I can sing and maneuver on top of a piano with a dress like that, I will come back and judge the legendary Mariah Carey (and I don't see that happening in the near future). (Tuesday 25 February 2014; 16:04)

Edward (41,675) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Your tracklist was amazing lol. The track "They Cry" (Dem babies interlude) made me laugh for 5 minutes straight. You should tweet it to MC. You are right about the thumbs down though, I sometimes read posts which are actually good things about MC and bam bam bam there are people who thought it deserves a thumbs down. (Monday 24 February 2014; 17:44)

Mariah/Monroe nailpolish article (41,670) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter That article is so wrong and should be corrected before people scream "child labor" and "diva making kid work". (I say child labor, because recently a famous Indian actress was attacked for posting a picture of her nieces tying her shoe laces and everyone went over dramatic and accused her of child labor, come on.) Monroe is clearly not holding a heat lamp, it's a normal stand lamp or floor lamp, which does not need to be held. What Monroe is actually holding is a purple nail polish bottle. I don't know who was stupid enough to think such a tiny kid will be holding that lamp. Secondly, Mariah isn't the one in specs and that head/hair isn't hers, it's obviously her manicurist or friend or whatever who is painting M's nails. It can easily be seen from the picture, and also come on, who can sit at that impossible angle. Unless you have some crazy spine surgery. (Monday 24 February 2014; 16:03)

Tracklist (41,649) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Out of the rumored tracklist, which song would you all like to be the next single? I think my choice is obvious: Mr. Operator or Hurricane. (Sunday 23 February 2014; 19:54)

BET (41,647) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter First ever performance of YME (not counting the Eiffel Tower one) is almost here. So excited. I hope the performance brings positive (and no negativity due to the alleged lip synch) reviews and more attention to the song. Finally the infamous black dress performance only a diva of Mariah's level can pull off. I hope this isn't the last of YME performances we see though. After the BET one she should go ahead and perform it everywhere. (Sunday 23 February 2014; 19:51)

Stevie collab (41,639) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't think that's a good idea. Even though the collabo will be epic and all, but Mariah really needs the next single to be upbeat and the type which sounds like a party starter. Only then the radios will pick it up, the newer generation will get curious about the album and it can also be a club hit. The next single needs to definitely be a more club friendly song, something she collaborated on with people who are currently hot favorite writers/producers. I am rooting for Hit Boy and Mike Will collabos to come next. (Sunday 23 February 2014; 8:03)

Mariah's to-do list (41,619) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah has been working hard and doing her rounds of radio interviews, and this time around she's being the Mariah I know and love, that is she is keeping a good balance of seriousness and humor in her interviews along with providing tid bits about the new album. What she should gear up for now is to take over major television talk shows and use it for both interviews and performances. She can tape a little one hour special about the CD, like she did for the Emancipation era, or release something like Britney's documentary. She should drop a serious dance number, which she collaborated with people from the newer fresher lot like Hit Boy and Mike Will and burn down the radios. A catchy upbeat song will attract the newer generation right before the album release. I am interested in the song Thirsty as it reminds me of Migrate. Any song with clever lyrics like ITL (them chicken is ash and I'm lotion, or I ain't gonna let nobody's drama bother me) or Migrate (face body and Lamborghini outside, obviously boy you qualify, otherwise migrate bye). All these topped with the amazing voice and I think she's all set. (Saturday 22 February 2014; 8:48)

Thoughts on the hair / makeup / dress (41,615) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Everyone has a right to their own opinion, according to me, Mariah's hair is perfect for her. The longer locks looks lovely especially since our diva darling loves using her diva fan in the videos and it flows around nicely. The only thing, if any, that she can do is maybe recreate the color she had on during Butterfly era, but keep the long locks. Makeup. I love it. I am 23 (yes I debuted the same year as Mariah) and I absolutely adore and often recreate her makeup looks because she always has the flawless healthy glowing face and gorgeous yet simple eyemakeup. She alternates between a very toned down dreamy eye look (like WBT, DFAU) and a darker smokey eye (like the one on the Ralphie interview). The makeup actually makes her look more youthful than old. The day MC will start wearing yellow lipstick and sing songs with lyrics "Give you a hard night, so tight, ready to go" I'll probably just leave. (Yes JLo I'm looking at you, stop trying to recreate On The Floor with Pitbull, it wasn't a great song to start with eitherways.) I actually like it when M wears elegant gowns and dresses. As long as they are not too revealing, it's great. She does have some really amazing outfits. I would rather have her wear those and act her age than desperately try to look 20, hello Madonna. Or something outrageous like Gaga. Oops I think I find M to be near perfect. She's been my role model, and I am glad I grew up inspired by her rather than some other people who are called stars nowadays. (Saturday 22 February 2014; 2:04)

Licia (41,588) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter You are absolutely right, I thought the same. During the radio interview and 106 & Park interviews Mariah tried to bring JD into the conversation but he was either being shy or just wanted Mariah to have the whole attention. Which is very nice of him too. I like Mariah's friendship with JD. She was saying in the Ralphie interview that JD is very understanding and encourages her to work with and release singles which she wrote with other writers (like TMB). So that's sweet. Webmaster, am I exceeding the limit of posts I can write in one day? Lol because I just wrote multiple but it's Mariah dahlin' and I'm addicted so I keep chiming in. So forgive me if I am wasting your time. *lowers head and let's hair cover the face in mock shyness* (pulling a Mariah move) (Friday 21 February 2014; 17:41)

Billy / gloves (41,586) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It's a fashion statement. I think Mariah wants to make it her new statement accessory for this era. It's very elegant too. I would prefer if she leaves the fingerless ones (both long and short) though. (Friday 21 February 2014; 17:20)

JD (41,585) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I really don't get why people are attacking JD. He is actually a pretty good songwriter and like L A Reid said, him and Mariah really work well together. And JD didn't even write or produce YME, so why hate on him? About everyone who is saying that Mariah is trying to make WBT part 2 happen, I disagree. Just because a song's theme is similar, it does not make it a copy. The theme of YME is yearning to be with an ex, which was WBT's theme too, but hello it's the theme of like more than half of Mariah's songs, even pre-TEOM (Butterfly, CLG, DFAU). Writing love ballads is M's specialty and there are only limited storyline you can write a love ballad with - being in love, looking for love, and yearning for your lost love, telling your ex you'll be fine without them. What I mean, it's the people and articles that are comparing YME to WBT (in case of articles it's mostly because WBT is probably the only big love song from M they heard about, not everyone is a lamb). M never compared it to WBT, infact in the interview with Ralphie I believe she somewhat cleared it up a little. She just said that she leaves her song open to different interpretations like for her YME is a sad song but people take it as a happy song and she said it's similar to WBT as well because WBT is a sad song but some take it as a song about being together with your lover. I don't know if I am making sense, my point is, YME and WBT both have same theme, but they are not copies. (Friday 21 February 2014; 17:16)

Isaac / interviews (41,584) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Yes, she did look really uncomfortable and went completely quiet. It's not her team's fault either because Mariah has to do multiple interviews per day and it's the team's job to tell interviewers when their time is up. I am sure if Tabitha would have asked nicely, Mariah would have just answered her. The woman wasted a couple of minutes just shouting at the publicist, instead of utilising the time politely and smartly. About the JD thing though, I think they don't ask JD anything because he is there as her manager and not collaborator, but yes I agree they could ask him just a few questions out of respect as he is a pretty hot shot producer and songwriter with many hits under his name. (Friday 21 February 2014; 16:56)

MC interview (41,576) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Did any of you watch the old interview of Mariah with Tabitha Soren, during the Butterfly era? Everything was fine and all, MC was being a total sweetheart, but at the end, when her people told Tabitha that the interview time is over, Tabitha goes into a major mean diva mode and starts yelling and poor MC is like sitting there helpless and looking horrified. I wonder how she would tackle a moment like that now, when she is more confident and sure of herself. (Friday 21 February 2014; 14:32)

Mariah's hair (41,567) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so what on earth is cougar hair? I didn't even know cougars have a specific hairstyle. I don't think Mariah stayed the same in any era. Even after TEOM. During TEOM she had the golden blonde stick straight bum length hair (as seen in ILT and parts of SIO) and loose curls to wavy locks WBT, DFAU). During E=MC2, she had much shorter hair, a little longer than shoulder length, with darker blonde-brown hair, which was almost always just simply blow dried and soft straight. During Memoirs she had longer hair, waves and the old school Mariah tight curls. This era she's sporting straight hair again. Mariah actually changed her hair style and cut so many times, one haircut/style every era, that I can just look at a pic and identify which era it is from. As for her dresses, she has gone from flirty short dresses, to jeans and leather jacket moments to glamorous gowns, so that's not the same either. And I love her makeup, it's so natural yet glamorous, that's her signature style just like Jolie has her signature cat eyeliner look from which she hardly deviates. (Friday 21 February 2014; 7:05)

Proud MC fan (41,565) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter A friend of mine, a complete non lamb (I don't think she ever heard an MC song, before I made her hear some), is a fan of the current music scene, the likes of Rihanna, Chris Brown. Lady Gaga and all. I have been playing her some MC songs every now and then and over time she started admiring her voice. She is not a complete lamb yet, but the fact that she told me the other day that she woke up at 5 am and really felt like hearing Mc's voice so she looked for her songs online, on 2 different occasions in one week, or that she really likes Mariah's voice because it's so beautiful, or that she sat and read M's entire biography online because she was interested, really makes me happy and proud. I was like R Kelly sounds good on the TMB music, and she is a R Kelly fan, but she was like, no I prefer M's solo fluttery voice over the remix. Mind you, this is someone who completely doesn't like ballads and yet listens to TAOLG. So my point is, the current generation would love M's music if only they knew more about it. M has such a beautiful voice, so captivating, it would impress anyone who takes the time to listen to her diverse range of songs (the woman did everything from ballads to rap, come on). To top that off she has the glamour and elegance and I am glad she didn't go down the "crazy hair/dress/makeup" trend like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Minaj, Riri and the others. M, I might be critical of you every now and then but I truly love you, and I'm proud to call myself a true MC fan. (Friday 21 February 2014; 6:18)

TAOLG / Triumphant (41,546) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I wish articles would just stop calling the album TAOLG already, I mean come on. The legend herself has confirmed it's no longer the title. On another note, so I know many people, mostly lambs, did not appreciate Triumphant and said it was a bad song or whatever, but honestly I really love the song, it's upbeat, the lyrics of the chorus are uplifting and motivating, and the song has a nice beat. To top that off, the video was great, with M being the perfect glamor girl/diva and all the golden accents throughout the video. Yes, I will agree it wasn't the greatest choice for the lead single (at that point it was the supposed lead single), because people waited since 2009 to hear Mariah's new album and when they heard the rappers taking center stage, and M being the hook girl, it pissed off people, especially since M's signature/brand is her outstanding vocals. But keeping all those aside, I personally think the song isn't half as bad as people make it out to be, infact it's one of my favorite tracks of Mariah, the original and the vintage remix. Had Rihanna or JLo done the same, it would have been considered a great song because people don't really expect powerhouse vocals from them. It's just unfair to Mariah. (Thursday 20 February 2014; 21:09)

Performance (41,491) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so now it's almost a week and I think it's about time Mariah starts performing. Go on Fallon, Kimmel, Ellen, heck she should go to neighbor's roof with a loudspeaker and sing it until everyone is hypnotized by the song and shoots it to #1. Also I am excited about the upcoming BET performance. I can't wait to see how she performed in "that dress". (Wednesday 19 February 2014; 14:39)

You're Mine (41,433) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I disagree with anyone who says that it's a low quality song, or whatever. I loved it from the very first time I heard it. There have been many times when I needed to let a song grow on me after listening to it repeatedly, but this one pleased me from the start. I think most lambs also loved it, and I can say for a fact that many non-lambs loved it too. I made some non-lambs listen to it, and from the start they liked it, whereas non-lambs are usually critical of Mariah's style. A lot of people posted similar experiences with non-lambs when they made them hear the song. So no this song was good enough. Why it's not selling as much as it should is a mystery, but I would say this is my favorite single off this era so far. (Tuesday 18 February 2014; 10:17)

Carlos / dem babies (41,420) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It's just wishful thinking dahlin'. Because a lot of big names are collaborating, like Bey and Shakira, RiRi and Shakira, Britney also collaborated with Madonna long time back and even recently I think she collaborated. So yes, although it's never going to happen. There were rumors about a promised Mariah-Janet duet when JD was dating her but that never happened. She can always just do an easy dance song. Ah well let's see what she has in stock. Moving on, I wonder how Mariah has featured dem babies on a track. I hope it's something different than what has already been done. (Monday 17 February 2014; 18:11)

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