Messageboard

About Andrew from the United Kingdom: Banned forever!

Re: Article: Mariah warns her staff against April Fool's Day pranks (93,491) (93,492) by Andrew from the United Kingdom JK Rowling is a great example. But this goes to the heart of what it is to be woke and the total and utter failure of logic that props up left-wing dogma. "We love everyone," Mariah will say often. And most people here would gladly regurgitate it. Yet, you cannot love everyone. This outlook determines that if you are denying someone something you are a "hater". But you cannot give everyone everything they want. Therein lies the rub (to quote another famous British writer). So champagne socialists will often champion any cause which signals that they would not deny someone of, or critically question someone on, something by which they identify in a moral way. But it almost always ends up in contradictions which can easily be pointed out. And when the argument is almost certainly lost, the only way they or their supporters can shut that down is to shout "hater", attempt to de-platform and/or throw a milkshake in the face. As this example shows, mega mega rich people telling the very not wealthy to donate money when they alone could sort out a huge chunk of the problem is the contradiction. And actually quite an obscene one. Look at the Make Poverty History concerts in Hyde Park and elsewhere in 2005 (good performance by Mariah, btw). Every star under the Sun hopped on the bandwagon whilst everyone watching knew it was most pointless [censored] exercise ever but, whatever, free concert to watch. Virtues were signalled, everyone sang Hey Jude for the umpteenth time (despite the lyrics having no relevance to anything) and then went home to sleep. All the artists that day could have pledged millions, hundreds and hundreds of millions. Did they? Did they [censored]. They told *you* to give up what little disposable income *you* have whilst their back catalogue sales went through the roof and their royalty payments enjoyed a massive spike. Don't get me wrong, I think the iHeart thing was a lovely idea and Mariah did very well (the BSB skit was embarrassing pap, be honest). And people highlighting other people's desperation can be a good thing. But the contradictions still exist and they cannot be explained away. People on normal incomes get by. People on mega incomes walk by. So, Mariah would do well to stop virtue signalling as would most celebrities. The hypocrisy is just infuriating sometimes. (Friday 3 April 2020; 02:20)

Article: Mariah warns her staff against April Fool's Day pranks (93,490) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "[Mariah] also urged her fans to 'please support Feeding America and 1strcf by donating to these incredible causes'." Instead of the rich and famous preaching platitudes from their pedestals, why don't they all donate, say, £10million to these causes? It would hardly even dent their bank accounts and would, in all actuality, lead to a lot of money being raised. Sure, things like the iHeart broadcast raised $8milliion. But $8million is pittance compared to the wealth that is being sat on by the very people who preach to the poor to put their hand in their left pocket and transfer the coins to the right one, as if that ever helped anything. Elton John and Mariah Carey have a combined net worth of almost US$1billion. Add in all the other rich and famous people in the Western World, including sports stars and you are talking the equivalent of the nominal GDP of a country. There is enormous wealth that could be transferred easily that would make massive difference, save hundreds of thousands of lives, if not millions, and help to get this over with much faster so that the people who do survive aren't unemployed and homeless. You may say that it's their money and they should do what they want with it, free from reproach. And I am very much normally inclined that way: "You earned it? You do what you want with it." But please don't tell the little people to donate while the interest in your bank account is going up faster than the number of deaths. It just obscene. (Thursday 2 April 2020; 18:39)

Congratulations Jade (93,481) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Congratulations, Jade. Gonna have a beautiful baby. (Wednesday 1 April 2020; 11:41)

Re: Article: Mariah Carey delivers intimate "Always By My Baby" (93,475) (93,478) by Andrew from the United Kingdom andrewjamesgold@gmail.com email me with your number and we can whatsapp. (Wednesday 1 April 2020; 10:10)

Re: Article: Mariah Carey delivers intimate "Always By My Baby" (93,458) (93,469) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I am really glad Mariah ended the song that way. It was intimate, and short and sweet and didn't require histrionics. I am rather impressed. And thanks for the compliment, buddy. I did actually write you a response back in German (weil ich ziemlich gut Deutsch sprechen kann ) but it was too much on the side of fun to make it through the filtering 'round 'ere. (Tuesday 31 March 2020; 15:35)

Re: Vote for Mariah's ABMB iHeart performance (93,467) (93,468) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I must be having a very special day because I can't find anything anyone is talking about. Where is the link to vote? And where can you see the results? All I see is an article. I want to vote. I thought she did really well. [Webmaster: I also can't vote. I thought that maybe it was a browser problem, but I tried with Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and even Opera. Maybe only Americans can vote.] (Tuesday 31 March 2020; 15:31)

Re: Article: Nick calls Mariah's hospital trip "nerve-racking" (93,465) (93,466) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Where is this article? The latest news article on my feed here is about the performance. (Tuesday 31 March 2020; 13:13)

Article: Mariah Carey delivers intimate "Always By My Baby" (93,445) by Andrew from the United Kingdom That. Was. Frickin'. Awesome. For the first time in a long time I'm about to WhatsApp my friends a Mariah Carey performance. (Monday 30 March 2020; 10:17)

Re: So Cold (93,431) (93,435) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I have written about it before but I have a theory that almost everybody romanticizes music of the time when they were 13-17. And I am not sure you ever really let go because it instantly transports you to that time. Your early teens were the time when you became more mature and open to the world, when you began to identify who you are before you became an adult, when the music, movies and books you liked were harbingers of your emerging personality. It was the time of photographs of your friends on the wall; of emoting over verbose teen dramas (looking at you, Dawson); of staring out the window and dreaming of your crush, hoping they were listening to the same song and thinking of you; of hanging out at the beach all summer, going to the cinema and hanging out with your friends on hot nights under the glow of moonlight and streetlight because it was exciting, new and edgy. Listening to music from when we were those ages reminds us of those perfect, fragile, precious moments in time we can never go back to. I take it back. It has to be Daydream. Daydream was perfect music at a perfect moment in time. Well, for me, and I guess you, at least. But, as the adage goes, you can never go home again. (Monday 30 March 2020; 00:35)

Re: So Cold (93,420) (93,430) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I think it's been said before that Daydream was a different sound altogether. It seemed there was a compromise: the almighty bellowing gave way to elasticity of range. However, the range snapped after Daydream so both the power and the elasticity were gone. Rather than the sound effortlessly floating out of Mariah's throat, she was having to push it out. It is clearly evident now as Mariah can be visibly seen to strain her bottom jaw. Evidently not a good technique. It's as if her throat is telling her to stop singing and she's adamant she's gunna. But, as a question, do you prefer the Daydream Mariah or Merry Christmas Mariah? I do not know if I could answer it. I love them both. Now Rainbow... that's something difficult to get through without reaching for the Scotch. (Sunday 29 March 2020; 12:28)

Article: Mariah Carey celebrates milestone birthday in the studio (93,416) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Apologies for the influx messages but it occurs to me: Is the reason Mariah says "anniversary of my 12th birthday" because not to do so would be to have to say her actual age, which, if the stories about the Mottola 69/70 manipulation are true, would mean her actually lying. And as far as I know, Mariah uses smoke, mirrors, hints and deflection, but I am not certain she has ever actually lied. (Saturday 28 March 2020; 18:39)

Re: So Cold (93,409) (93,415) by Andrew from the United Kingdom See, my brothers and I fell in love with Mariah because of Music Box (stemming from stealing the Proctor's Theatre VHS from the neighbours). So my eldest brother, Jonathan, went and bought the Emotions CD. We were all left a little flat. There were no stand out tracks except for TTEOT. Make It Happen was a very smooth, subdued affair compared to the live version. Emotions is a CoBoWo (Cohesive Body of Work lol) if you want to go there but is not timeless, perhaps? That being said, Emotions was a massive improvement on Mariah Carey but nothing compared to Music Box. I would go so far as to say that every new Mariah Carey album was a massive improvement on the previous (I'm even counting Merry Christmas being better than Music Box) until Butterfly, where. instead of getting better and moving forward, she sort of side stepped onto a different path, but the same distance on the journey to excellence. Rainbow was when she sat down in a field and took some mushrooms for a bit. With Glitter she was spinning out on said mushrooms, Charmbracelet was the comedown and TEOM was when she realised she was once heading somewhere and decided to haul ass. E=MC2 was the migration to the after-party and Memoirs was when she realised she was too old for this shit and went home for a bath. (Saturday 28 March 2020; 18:29)

Re: Flowers (93,410) (93,413) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Randster, you don't by me flowers, no mo', bro. Email me with your numero. I changed phones. (Saturday 28 March 2020; 18:19)

Re: Late to the party (93,408) (93,412) by Andrew from the United Kingdom The global pandemic has not highlighted disparity between the haves and have nots. Quite the opposite. What it has done is highlight that we are, for the most part, equal. We are equally susceptible to catch a virus, and, though not equally at risk from dying from it, we are affected equally by the collapse of our health services, the collapse of our economies and the collapse of our way of life. To make this about wealth suggests a narrow way of viewing the world. Many business owners, once well-off, now face imminent financial ruin. Everyone stood outside here at 8pm the other night to clap the workers of our (frankly excellent - and socialist) health care system which we are all staying indoors to protect. There is unity amongst the rich, the middle man, and the poor. If one thing can be taken from this, it is that the west will quickly rethink its dealings with the rest of the world until it can sort its shit out. Which doesn't seem like any time soon. (Saturday 28 March 2020; 18:18)

Re: Mariah's benefit contribution (93,391) (93,401) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Agreed, Hero is a song about self-identifying, loving yourself and boldly being true to who you are, which is a theme that has nothing to do with what is going on at the moment. I think Anytime You Need A Friend is her song that may more closely follow the theme of the time. "Keep the faith" - "even though you're miles away", and so on (maybe change "take my hand, take me into your heart" to "wash your hands, for twenty seconds" lol). It doesn't have to be the full blown affair but something more subdued, acoustic so that its beautiful and sombre and not bombastic and sketchy. It will be interesting to see what she comes up with as she is isolating and I assume she has no backup singers with her. Mariah alone singing a song for the world is just anathema to her career now. (Friday 27 March 2020; 19:19)

Re: Happy birthday, Mariah (93,395) (93,400) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Perhaps you're right. A bit miserable, even by my standards. Happy birthday, Mariah. Perhaps it's just thinking of Mariah as a 50 year old. She was 23 when I first fell in love with her. I hope everyone is staying safe and staying positive. (Friday 27 March 2020; 19:08)

Happy birthday, Mariah (93,394) by Andrew from the United Kingdom 50, now, eh? About time this anniversary stuff stopped. (Friday 27 March 2020; 12:56)

Article: Elton John hosting virtual all-star benefit special (93,379) by Andrew from the United Kingdom This is a nice idea. But, please, America, when this is all over, no Hollywood movie(s). *cue deep 80's movie trailer voice* "In a year where coronavirus has decimated the global population, one man stands alone to smash the shit out of everything. And save his little girl. This year, Dwayne Johnson is: THE VIRUS KILLERRRRR" I bet they're planning it already. Maybe Mariah can have a part as his pissed off therapist who won't cut him a check. (Thursday 26 March 2020; 12:56)

Re: Article: Mariah Carey fans aren't impressed with singer's vocals (93,376) (93,378) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Come on, it was weird. For the life of me I do not understand why Mariah just cannot stand still and sing a bloody song the way it's supposed to be sung without making it some sort of skit. The whistle register section was not pleasant to listen to, the head voice slowing the song down to new levels of awkwardness, and the low notes produced by some sort of guppy fish mouth. She could have just sung the few lines she had to in a normal voice and the world would have moved on. Only modern Mariah could [censored] up He's Got The Whole World In His Hands. Jesus wept. (Thursday 26 March 2020; 12:48)

Re: Net worth (93,369) (93,372) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Easy. The left one cost 90 million. And the right one cost 110 million. Because it's slightly bigger. (Tuesday 24 March 2020; 21:09)

Re: Correct, you didn't think (93,347) (93,355) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "The fact that the virus first appeared in China is indeed, a fact. I never denied that." The virus did not just "appear" in China, it was *caused* by China and the true situation *covered up* by China at a time when assistance to limit the spread could have been given. "'But one thing is for sure: we should ban all flights from that country forever. And not trade one single grain of rice with them. Forever.' is what I consider the part that's racist." I am sorry that not wanting to continue to import avoidable mass-killing viruses from your country offends your moral sensibilities. But I would rather that we were not all on lockdown with people dropping dead left, right and centre. "If the first infected patient is a black person, and you say something like 'we should ban all flights from taking black passengers', you know what you'll be facing with." Chinese is not a race; it is a nationality. And if you really think that the world is going to continue with China as normal once this total and utter disaster is over (whenever that is) you have another think coming. The world has gone to shit and when people point out the route cause you cry "racism". So yes, [censored] China. And you, too. (Monday 23 March 2020; 00:35)

Correct, you didn't think (93,345) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Read this. And then take your attempt at collective victimhood and shouts of racism and do one. Something is very wrong in that part of the world and it keeps [censored] up the rest of it. Facts are not racist and they don't care about your feelings. However, as an individual, I hope, like I do everyone else, that you get through it. Because millions will not. (Sunday 22 March 2020; 13:12)

Re: We're in this together (93,334) (93,336) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Non Mariah related but j have to day I absolutely agree with your sentiments. The Chinese culture is far removed from what we would consider normality. Hacking away at exotic animals without hygienic practices and consuming the things when we have no immunity against what's inside them is frankly mental. (Someone sent me a video the other day of people being served live mice in a restaurant in China eating them live with forks.) That this Chinese Flu is yet another if not the most serious pandemic we will have faced because of one country's weirdness is not on. Business collapsing, mass unemployment, people will be homeless and starving and the end to modern civilization is near. Nothing is going to be the same ever again. But one thing is for sure: we should ban all flights from that country forever. And not trade one single grain of rice with them. Forever. And they had the cheek to try to blame the Americans. The word probably won't get through the censorship here but - [censored] China. (Friday 20 March 2020; 18:42)

Re: Pandemic (93,300) (93,308) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Agreed. Nice one. (Tuesday 17 March 2020; 00:40)

Re: "Everything Fades Away" (93,292) (93,307) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Yes, Greek William, yes. Everything Fades Away is to pop/RnB what the Moonlight and Pathetique sonatas are to classical. It sounds like it always existed. It sounds like it should always exist. It is definitive and constant, for want of less dramatic terms. Mariah has perhaps a few masterpieces (in that they are songs that are not reasonabky possible to criticise - I'm looking at you Eddie). Mariah's masterpieces are possibly... well, everyone may have an opinion. But a masterpiece must surely be the definition of perfection. EFA is absolutely one. (Tuesday 17 March 2020; 00:36)

MORE MESSAGES