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To Randy in USA (54,998) by CMC from NY,NY Hey I just saw your message, I'm almost positive that the message about Mariah not mentioning she was black is from "Mariah In conversation". It's a cd release from the early 90's not authorized by Sony. I have it in CD but it's currently on YouTube wich I discovered recently. She doesn't however deny it but I'm pretty sure she doesn't mention it. Which I thought was odd. Most likely the "powers that be" told her to do so. (Wednesday 1 July 2015; 5:45)

Emancipation of Mimi (54,997) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I wanted to add something to the last part of my last post but I hit "submit" before that and the message went before I could change it. Anyways I was changing it to: TEOM wasn't a success just because of Reid, the songs were on point, Benny Medina got Mariah everywhere, the label financed a proper album roll out and the promos, Andre Leon Talley had Mariah looking like a billion dollar babe (which she is), Mariah got the best directors to shoot her music videos in sets of 2 each (Brett for "ILT-WBT", Jake Nava for "SIO-GYN" and Paul Hunter for "DFAU-SS") which lead to her having 6 gorgeous videos for 1 album, her remixes were on point (both urban and dance), ILT already caught public attention before getting released, Mariah sounding classy-matured-funny during interviews and Mariah being uber confident and owning the stage during her performances and her tour. So basically the stars aligned for Mariah to have her comeback, she is mistaken to think it's only Reid and that only he can save her. (Wednesday 1 July 2015; 4:18)

Randy / BET (54,995) by Ms. Giselle from U.S.A I get what you're saying and I agree with a lot of what you said. But my problem is, I feel in our community (black community), There's way too much of a divide and it's still based on Jim Crowe era color racism. A good majority of blacks don't accept Mariah as "black" because like you said she doesn't look like Halle, President Obama, Alicia Keys, Faith Evans (BTW looked like Mariah growing up before she dyed her hair). I can't help but still see posts after posts on black sites still alluding to this mystery interview she did where she claimed she wasn't "black" or how people are quick to write how she never claimed to her black side until ODB remix. My BF lust said that same line to me. Throughout the 90's on black shows they use to clown her about it like on an episode on Moesha. But, even with all that, I still feel like because she's a fair skinned black woman I feel like Mariah's had to always prove she's "black", I hate that. As far as her "singing" Randy, Mariah did plenty of that during her early career and I can post many up until now where she still does. Lets not forget those same people hated Whitney in the 80's because they thought she was "soul less" and out of rhythm. Go watch the Toul Train Awards or in Living Color. Oh and this part you wrote "I did find was MC in 1991 at the Soul Train Music Awards winning an award and thanking the black community for embracing her. She has separated herself by holding onto the label biracial. Racist America has never had a biracial pre Civil Rights Era'' is a contradiction, if we go by your logic which btw is again from the Jim Crowe era of racism the "one drop rule" and when Mariah said this on TV to Ms. Walters, I fell out my chair and wanted to die. I hate that she said that, as a biracial person myself, if she says "I'm black", how is she embracing all her races? What about her white side? She was raised by her white mother on Long Island and loved guidos. Saying she's biracial is correct, she's racially ambiguous that's why she's so gorgeous and why grown men grew up as little boys lusting after her lol. I just hate that she like most fell into the "European beauty" standard trap when she was younger. She was like no one you'd ever seen before. She still is beautiful but with European features now. (Wednesday 1 July 2015; 3:34)

Randy (54,994) by Licia from USA That interview your friend is talking about I finally got to see it a few years ago. What she said was I'm not black, I'm not white, I'm me. I don't understand why people only repeat half of what she said. A lot of black people hate her because of that one incomplete statement. I do agree with all that you said though. (Wednesday 1 July 2015; 2:50)

M (54,993) by B from USA Mariah is clearly working hard to get back in shape and she looks stunning in that skimpy black bikini. (Wednesday 1 July 2015; 1:53)

Mariah without a label (54,992) by nikki from usa MC's already well established and spent 25 years around labels, their distributors, and how they work. It wouldn't take much to find the right people to hire and consult with to bring out the best of the best that Mariah Carey has to offer. She's rich enough to put out her own music, but she doesn't need to because she's a major celebrity. She could use endorsements for promo money and even feature new music in them. She could contact top designers and agree to wear their brand new clothes to award and talk shows as free promo if they simply give them to her. I'd love for her to be the face of a charity and maybe skim some off the top of single sales for it. Mariah could contact Clear Channel and set up another 24 hour on the hour song test for radio like she did for Beautiful. We could get a concert special on TV with behind the scenes footage like back in the day. There are so many options open to her. Ahhh, a lamb can dream. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 22:05)

Mimi hit the nail on the head (54,991) by nikki from usa Those are my sentiments exactly. I didn't want Mariah to go back to work for LA. I wish she would've gone out on her own and just used him for consultation. I've noticed the same people that want to blame Mariah for everything are the same people that thank someone else for her success when things go right. Dismissed. There's a reason why stars have managers, publicists, and stylists. Mariah's responsible for the music and even that is subjected to label approval. If Mariah refuses to promote like the EMC2 era (instead of not being promoted a la MIAM) than you can blame her. If the entire album is crap than you can blame her. Management, publicity, and ad promotion isn't her job. That's why she pays people. I think lately Mariah has been tempering what she wants to do with what the label wants her to do and coming up with so-so as a result. I'd love to hear what Mariah comes up with when she's not abiding by a label's version of what "Mariah Carey" is. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 21:44)

Finally (54,990) by Joyce from USA Nice, he finally got her to stop flashing her boobs. He seems to be classing her up like she use to be. Sexy Mariah with side boobs, and barely there bottoms was nice for the last 14 years but Classy M is warmly welcomed. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 21:25)

#1 To Infinity still big Japan (54,989) by NHYTG from nyc #1 To Infinity is well promoted in Japan: now #14 in the Japanese iTunes album top 100 while it was #45 yesterday. Nice to see the album doing so well over there. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 21:12)

BET (54,988) by Giovanni from USA Is so boring. Who even watches that channel? They have absolutely nothing going on on it that it's surprising it's still on. Award shows are crap now a days. Nothing but lame, untalented people. That's why I'm so grateful for artists like Mariah. Still hoping for another great piece of work. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 20:35)

"Lamb, I'm gonna call you" (54,987) by Billy from Greece Aww, Whitney. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 19:35)

Lee / Mariah's blackness (54,986) by Randy from USA This is just my opinion. I think the black community doesn't embrace MC because she has never really come out and said she's black. My best friend explained that she doesn't look like Halle Berry, Faith Evans or Barack Obama the other mixed celebrities who are considered black. My other close friend said she remembered MC saying early on in her career, during an interview, that she wasn't black. I searched and could never find such an interview, however what I did find was MC in 1991 at the Soul Train Music Awards winning an award and thanking the black community for embracing her. She has separated herself by holding onto the label biracial. Racist America has never had a biracial pre Civil Rights Era, everyone who had any black heritage was just that, black. MC should embrace all of her races. The final nail in the coffin, in my humble opinion, is while she has soul, Mariah's achilles heel is always going to be her live performances. If she "showed off" more like a Patti, Whitney, Chaka Khan, instead of standing still and singing the songs like the record and in some cases lip syncing the high full voice belts, she would have gotten a lot more respect from the black community as a vocalist because of the impromptu belting, scatting, riffs and runs that go along with singing live R&B and Gospel. I don't want to argue with anyone, this is my humble opinion. I answered a question and did not attack MC. It's sad that I have to end with a disclaimer to post here. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 19:33)

Infinity (54,985) by Ms. Giselle from U.S.A Ain't none of my business, it's tea though. "I'm not racist, I have many black friends, so I can say these things about Beyonce." (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 18:05)

Bikini Riah (54,984) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah finally in a bikini and looking great in this picture. Finally she is ditching the wetsuits. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 17:55)

Bet Awards (54,983) by Lee from USA I understand that we as black folks need our own awards shows. My gripe is that Mariah is not really that embraced by BET or any other black media outlets. How come that Whitney won a BET Honor and a Lifetime Achievement Awards, but Mimi just got a Bet Honor? How's that fair? They treat her like a mistress: loved in private, but ignored in public. It took Mariah 15 years to grace the cover of Essence whereas Mary J Blige was on the cover at least twice a year. The black media doesn't stick up for Mimi when she is in trouble as much as they do for MJ, Janet or Whitney. Two radio show hosts got suspended for poking fun at Whitney, but when it comes to Mimi being ridiculed, there's is no outrage, suspensions or terminations. Where's Al Sharpton? The NAACP? Jesse Jackson? (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 17:20)

L.A. Reid (54,981) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter When Mariah releases another album, I hope she doesn't rely completely on Reid's opinions and direction. Reid is given a lot of credit for TEOM, and while it is true that he has a big role in its success, sometime Mariah gets too grateful and gives him all the credit. For single choices especially, she needs to be really careful. Reid isn't really great with single choices. Mariah shouldn't choose them either, they should get a group of young individuals to choose a song if they want a radio hit. Plus I hope the standards album thing is not a plan for the next album. I'd like to hear few more original MC recordings before she starts covering songs for full albums. Butterfly and E=MC2 were two big chances Mariah lost to get more hits. I think even Memoirs could have been bigger had Reid pushed the UOOMF remix and the Angels Cry remix and dropped his beef with JD and released the H.A.T.E.U. remix, which was an awesome one. Inseparable would also make a good single. Now someone or the other will jump up and teach me how we blame everyone but Mariah, so I'll just clear this out, yes Mariah is to blame to a big extent especially since she dropped promo on E=M2 and in many other things, but I am specifying Reid because Mariah believes Reid is her savior. TEOM wasn't a success just because of Reid, the songs were on point and all the stars aligned for Mariah to make her comeback. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 17:03)

Marissa (54,977) by B from USA I didn't take it personally. I just don't think Mariah or us need to worry about who wins what (with the exception of being inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame). I'm happy Janet is being embraced. I've always loved Janet. I still hope that one day that rumored collaboration between MC and Janet comes to fruition. I'm still upset that Sony/Columbia didn't give Butterfly, The Roof, and Breakdown commercial releases because of creative differences and Tommy's manipulations. I think we all agree that Reid really dropped the ball with E=MC2. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 16:30)

Mariah and JP (54,976) by darrian liu from taiwan The spiritual advisor thingy wasn't that exciting lol, but it's better than all the negative stuff last year. Team MC is doing a good job at damage repair and building up MC's image back. Btw I just listened to E=MC2 and Butterfly and got a bit frustrated for all the potential that have been wasted. We all agreed Migrate should've been a huge hit but I think all the other released singles could've been hits as well but they're not released properly. Butterfly has at least 3 other hits in it that wasn't released due to the conflict. Ugh why should they put a leash on Butterfly? It could've been Mariah's third consecutive Diamond album but no, they just had to limit its success due to personal conflicts and creative differences. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 13:53)

Recent news and Vegas shows (54,975) by Amber C from USA I don't for one bit believe any lamb who says they don't care about Mariah's personal life atm. If you really didn't care then you wouldn't have cared a couple months ago or five years ago when you obviously did, because you never ceized to. Not to mention, you're a lamb so have several seats. However I'm annoyed by these "spiritual advisor" rumors. Absolute bs and they need to end now. This marriage baloney can wait until after Vegas, Mariah. But I thnk Mariah is in love with life right now. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 6:53)

B / BET Awards (54,974) by Marissa from USA As a black woman, I'm offended that the BET Awards in particular is seen as "not important". This is a particularly hot button issue for me because the "ethnic" awards are always the first to be written off as irrelevant. Those awards are sometimes the only validation that black artists can get for their work. If they are lucky enough to get to the Grammy's they'll most likely be nominated for an award category that isn't even televised. The BET Awards, Soul Train Awards, etc. are the only places where we can get recognition without having to wonder if it's just because we're a token black person. Nor would you have people like Rihanna mindlessly being nominated for "soul" categories in other mainstream award shows just because she's black. It just bothers me that people seem to have the mentality that if millions of white people aren't tuning in, it doesn't matter. B, this isn't an attack on you, it just prompted me to vent on something that's been bothering me for a while. Nothing personal. If your main point was that after all that Mariah's done we don't need awards to validate Mariah's artistry anymore, then I agree. (Forgive the tangent.) (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 5:59)

Hey Mimi (54,973) by MIAM from United Kingdom I'm not too keen on Mariah's antics lately so I won't comment on them, but I do have to say she is looking damn amazing, and I'm loving the current look she is going with. She looks stunning, really looking forward to her return to Vegas. Hey Mimi. (Tuesday 30 June 2015; 3:07)

BET Awards (54,972) by B from USA The BET Awards are not important. None of these awards really matter anymore. Even the Grammy Awards have lost their credibility by awarding artist with little or no talent and playing favorites. (Monday 29 June 2015; 22:57)

Lucia (54,971) by Lee from USA She won the best smile award. Mariah has done more in the last 7 years than Janet and Whitney. She resurrected her acting career and built her (and Nick's) empire up. If that is not much, then I don't know what is. The woman put two platinum-selling singles without help from a label. You said that BET would not associate with her when things are going tough, but they had no problem giving Whitney hardware while she was abusing drugs. (Monday 29 June 2015; 17:04)

Recent news (54,970) by B from USA I've enjoyed the recent media coverage. (Monday 29 June 2015; 16:43)

All hail the queen (54,969) by M from UK Hey Lamily. I've been keeping up with YouTuber Flannibal and he just uploaded a short video of "Mariah thoughts". I love these videos of younger fans getting they're thoughts out. Mariah slays all day, so let's support, share and like. (Monday 29 June 2015; 16:28)

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