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Grammys (72,608) by Dennis from Miami, FL I've watched Adele's tribute a few times. I don't believe that we are practicing the same religion. I'm not impressed by her tribute. Although I like her song choise, that it wasn't from Faith album. PS All the ladies, even Celine, wore revealing dresses at the red carpet. (Monday 13 February 2017; 19:21)

Adele, just wow (72,607) by Edward from USA I just saw Adele's acceptance speech and how she didn't let pride get in the way of praising Beyoncé. This woman is like the biggest star right now, yet she's so effing humble, it's beyond me. I haven't listened the Lemonade album, but I'm going to buy it, those words, coming from such a humble and graceful person, were enough for me to give it a try. Mariah, we miss you, stop with the act and bring back that person we all know still lies in you. That beautiful, thoughtful, humble, caring person couldn't have faded away just like that. We do really love you. (Monday 13 February 2017; 19:20)

Re: Rihanna's diamond encrusted flask (72,597) (72,606) by RibbonB from USA Ken Ehrlick produced the Grammy's not DCP and it was on CBS not ABC like the NYE debacle. Snafus definitely happen, but it is how a star responds to it that will make or break the moment even further. (Monday 13 February 2017; 19:17)

Re: Mariah on Kimmel (72,604) (72,605) by RibbonB from USA He does all kinds of parodies, staged moments. He has a running thing with Matt Damon. I just mean some kind of silly moment vs. her actually performing the song with YG. (Monday 13 February 2017; 19:08)

Re: Mariah on Kimmel (72,596) (72,604) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter But Kimmel doesn't even do any skits. Aren't his interviews just sit-downs? It's Fallon and Corden that do the skits and sometimes Conan. (Monday 13 February 2017; 18:54)

Adele and the lessons learned (72,603) by Sheila from United States Dear Mariah, Adele has taken your gowns, swag and stand there and sing stance and turned it into sales and Grammy gold. No one wants to hear you be Rihanna. Be Mariah. Learn from Adele. (Monday 13 February 2017; 18:51)

Bowling dress massacre (72,602) by RibbonB from USA Someone, anyone on Mariah's team should have told her that the dress she was "bowling" in was oh so wrong. The visual in the butt shot pictures is so unfortunate. The comments are sad on Daily Mail. Yikes. (Monday 13 February 2017; 18:32)

Re: Adele (72,571) (72,601) by Deedre aka MiTodoChop @HBF from Canada I love Mariah but as someone who loves George I loved Adele's tribute so much. Yes, she started over, but I just found her performance so moving it brought tears to my eyes. She owed what happened and moved on. She was humble and vulnerable and that inspires and teaches to be accepting rather than condemminhg so much of the time. If they realeased the tribute on iTunes I would buy it. Not saying I wouldn't have loved Mariah too. Just saying Adele really touched me with that performance. (Monday 13 February 2017; 17:35)

Re: Mariah doing George Michael tribute / Grammys (72,594) (72,600) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Yes I understand, this is why I wrote in a previous post that Mariah's image and career now is basically at a position worse than what it was during "Glitter". The moment they went with the "sabotage" story I just knew she has burned down a lot of bridges. A lot of these TV channels are sister concerns of ABC and the producers behind the DC New Year's event also produces some major award shows so these people can get her snubbed too. As it is, Mariah is already not being played on the radio and now her TV opportunities are limited too. I don't understand how even after being in the business for so long Mariah still made such a mistake. It's just so easy for her and her team to go around everyone and their dads but never look within themselves and see what mistakes they are making. Day by day she's limiting her opportunities and if it goes like this Mariah will have nowhere to go. You are right when you said she brought out the humble Mariah during that time. "Charmbracelet" era showed the humble and sweet Mariah, who was trying hard to win back the people, and she did that successfully. Then came the TEOM era where she was still humble and nice with a touch of "I am a legend". Which was a great balance. Recently her image is such, I can understand why it might rub people the wrong way and that's why people are less forgiving of her. That's why when she messes up people go all in on her because they think she's all about the shade, the extravagant life and the arrogance. This has to change. Like Andrew said, this isn't Mariah, I don't buy that "this is the real her". There is something going on and I hope it's not the start of a breakdown. (Monday 13 February 2017; 16:52)

Underneath The Stars (Acapella) (72,599) by Billy from Greece This is pure magic. (Monday 13 February 2017; 16:20)

Re: Mariah doing George Michael tribute / Grammys (72,579) (72,598) by B from USA I highly doubt she'd be willing to work with DCP again. Ever again. After the Metallic and Lady Gaga technical snafu it seems Mariah was wrong, they didn't have their [censored] together. (Monday 13 February 2017; 15:20)

Re: Rihanna's diamond encrusted flask (72,595) (72,597) by B from USA After Metallica had technical problems I guess Mariah's been vindicated. DCP can't even get it right on music's biggest night. (Monday 13 February 2017; 15:09)

Mariah on Kimmel (72,596) by RibbonB from USA This should be interesting. Hopefully they will take my advice and do a parody of "I Don't" while on the show. Good luck to her. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:55)

Rihanna's diamond encrusted flask (72,595) by RibbonB from USA Rihanna is a mess, her with her flask and sipping throughout the show is hilarious and yet everything. Now if Mariah had the balls to bring a diamond butterfly encrusted flask to an award show and sip from it, she definitely would have been flogged and dragged through the blogosphere. Now that is unfair, but her not being invited to the Grammy's or not even being there this year is to be expected, IMO. She has said that she does not like award shows anyway, especially when she is not up for one. She also "needs" way to many people to get ready, to walk around with etc. so it is best she stayed away. Sarcasm aside, Mariah comes across as very insecure at awards shows. That is not a good way to go into a major award stage fresh after a major debacle or two. At least she was not the butt of Grammy show jokes like she was on a couple of shows right after the NYE thing happened. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:53)

Re: Mariah doing George Michael tribute / Grammys (72,586) (72,594) by Edward from USA Mimi L., as Eric said, maybe since NYE, big event organizers don't want to work with Mariah and the way the situation was dealt with. Mariah took Stella's wonderful advice and went with her "they sabotaged me" version of the events, knowing very well that it would have future consequences. When she got a spot for the national anthem, she didn't have the diva reputation she has now. She was working to rebuild her career with humbleness. Mariah didn't have to complain directly to anybody, she used her music for that, it was the beauty of it. So, don't be surprised if we don't see Mariah on these big events as much as we would like to. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:42)

Re: Adele (72,564) (72,593) by RibbonB from USA But if Adele had panicked, pranced the stage without singing for minutes and all the other things Mariah did or didn't do during her debacle, then Adele's performance would have been an even bigger disaster than Mariah's was. Adele had the nerve to stop and restart and sing her face off. I understand Mariah was confused, couldn't hear the playback etc, but she had options to not go on until the equipment worked, or to go on with the show in a more creative way than she did. The way Mariah has been performing live these days missing the Grammy's was probably a good thing. It takes a village for her to perform on late night TV, or morning talk shows and she does not seem nearly ready for a major even like the Grammy's. She needs to work her way up to that by appearing on a few shows and flawlessly, humbly and graciously passing out a few awards to others. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:42)

Re: Grammy's (72,582) (72,592) by RibbonB from USA Taking green notes. Hilarious but true and sad at the same time. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:29)

Mariah Carey is about a decade behind (72,591) by T from USA There was a time in Mariah's career that she was all about the music. In a way it could've been perceived as boring, but that's who she was. Part in part because of Tommy but also that's what her peers like Celine Dion and Whitney Houston were also doing. But something started to change in the industry. Madonna was becoming more and more in your face, the Spice Girls up'ed the music marketing game and Britney Spears made being sexy the thing to do. At the turn of the new century Paris Hilton and Britney were the most talked about "celebrities" but not because of their voices in music but because of their antics. And I remember a picture of Mariah at a party with Paris Hilton and it looked like Mariah wanted to fit in so badly. Here we are now in the year 2017 and something has happened. The industry has switched back to being about talent and voices. Just look at Adele and Beyonce at the Grammys. This alone should mean Mariah can shine again, but unfortunately she still stuck in the idea that you have to be overly sexualized and controversial to sell records. In a way Mariah was the one who brought it back to being about the talent with TEOM. But in recent years she's regressed to that early 2000's/Glitter thing where she seems so unfocused about the music and more focused about being a celebrity. The only thing I can think of is her voice really is gone and she has no other choice. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:18)

Re: Grammy's (72,585) (72,590) by Malcolm from Asia Another thing is that people still mentions and pokes fun at Mariah whenever there's a technical issues on the show, like on what happened to Adele, a lot of people said things like "Do you see that Mariah Carey? That's how you handle messing up on stage." I still believe that Mariah could've been handle the situation better but give her a break, first of all it was New Year's Eve, you can't just re-start like that, New Year will not start at 12:05. They mentioned her again during Beyonce's performance, they said that a pregnant Beyonce looks like a normal Mariah, how rude these people are. Because of that Stella's unprofessional management and wrong career decisions for Mariah, look what she did, Mariah just earned more hate. A new management is just the only hope for Mariah from all of this. It's heartbreaking. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:09)

Re: Major events (72,572) (72,589) by Lila from United States I agree. If nothing else, in my opinion, attending award shows and other events can be a good and easy way of keeping in the public eye, attached to music/entertainment and most likely make for good networking opportunities also. She should go to these events. (Monday 13 February 2017; 14:04)

Re: Mariah doing George Michael tribute / Grammys (72,586) (72,588) by Licia from USA The difference in the Glitter era and now is that the Glitter team didn't accuse a major network and company of trying to sabotage her career. Yeah there was a rumor that everyone thought Tommy was doing it, but he's one man compared to a huge company. I agree with Eric. There's a chance she just simply wasn't invited. We really don't want to believe that, but it's a huge possibility. It would have been a nice surprise for her to be a part of both Prince and George's tributes, but I knew not to expect it. (Monday 13 February 2017; 13:34)

Re: Major events (72,572) (72,587) by Malcolm from Asia But Benny seems very happy with JLo and really have a friendship beyond work and I think JLo's record sales don't matter to Benny anymore because she has other major side projects, and successful ventures at that. On a side note, seeing JLo on the Grammy's earlier seems weird to me, I don't know if this is the effect of the JLo vs. Mariah lol but whenever the spotlight is on her, she acts so gullible and I can feel the vibe that she wants the spotlight so much that she acts so extra. There's this one skit where James Corden invites JLo and other "real" singers to join him in a carpool karaoke, and I can't remember who it was but there's someone that giving the mic to Ms. Lopez for her to sing along but she refused and just do some poses and act beautiful instead. (Monday 13 February 2017; 13:14)

Re: Mariah doing George Michael tribute / Grammys (72,579) (72,586) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter They definitely won't be willing to take her but if they were persuasive enough or maybe pay up a little they could have accomplished that. Didn't her previous team get her to sing the National Anthem at the SuperBowl when her career was at an all time low during "Glitter" era? Now her team got her a little spot on Jimmy Kimmel, which is not even popular anymore, what with Fallon and Corden blowing up. (Monday 13 February 2017; 13:04)

Re: Grammy's (72,577) (72,585) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter We usually separate a Mariah performance from a Beyonce one because Beyonce is an all out performer while Mariah's sole selling point is her voice. But this Grammy performance is a perfect example of all the things Mariah should have tried and didn't. Beyonce basically did what Mariah usually does (minus the self touching) which is barely move yet she compensated with top class production and amazing choreography and visuals. Like who would have thought? She just walked around and yet seemed so powerful and extraordinary. While for Mariah it's always the shirtless dudes doing the usual moves and a little "pick me up, twirl me around" moment with zero vision really. (Monday 13 February 2017; 13:02)

Re: Major events (72,576) (72,584) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Haha I'm actually scared of the day Mariah will fire Stella because Stella won't take it easy. Her contour will become extra muddy with rage and her mess of a smokey eye will give out real smoke. You are right about the points though, every day I'm surprised at all the missed opportunities. Even some of her lambs have much stronger ideas and plans to get Mariah on track. Yet she employs this wannabe thug. (Monday 13 February 2017; 12:58)

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