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About Andrew from the United Kingdom: Banned forever!

Re: Evergreens (93,078) (93,090) by Andrew from the United Kingdom It's not cool to like Mariah. And whereas it isn't exactly "cool" to like Whitney or Madonna songs, it's not *not* cool. This is a result of Mariah acting like a clown to be mimicked and mocked for the best part of 2 decades. Joe Public does not respect that. As for Celine, she was only ever mainstream "cool" for about 4 years and then she went to Vegas. The divas, while similar are not really comparable. That being said, I have tickets to see Celine in London this year. As uncool as it may be, I am psyched. I will have seen Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion. I can die happy. Any Celine fans wanna come with? (Saturday 29 February 2020; 12:44)

Re: Hair (93,076) (93,079) by Andrew from the United Kingdom If I dressed like Lady Gaga at a Halloween party having got my hair cut in dim light by a one-eyed ketamine addict I would still look good. (Friday 28 February 2020; 19:20)

Hair (93,074) by Andrew from the United Kingdom The flat ironed hair looks shit. The hair at Billboard for the Icon Award was amazing. Why does Mariah insist on straightened hair, clown make up and hideous outfits? Is she so lost as to think this looks good? (Friday 28 February 2020; 01:48)

Re: What career achievement makes you most proud? (93,072) (93,073) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Summer 2008 was also the time of my life. E=MC2 is the best album because of that. Can't nobody can't nobody tell me nuttin'. (Friday 28 February 2020; 01:46)

Re: Slipping Away on IG (93,064) (93,066) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I demand a large recent excerpt from said log. Honestly, I need to see this. William O. C Davies. (Wednesday 26 February 2020; 22:35)

Re: Slipping Away on IG (93,061) (93,063) by Andrew from the United Kingdom William, wait up. You don't *actually* log and rate everything you watch and read? Do you? You're kidding, right? (Wednesday 26 February 2020; 14:19)

Re: Slipping Away on IG (93,045) (93,057) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I have a list; all the times I have seen Mariah Carey in person: Rainbow Tour, London 2000 Dorchester Hotel, Glitter/Greatest Hits era G-A-Y, London 2002 (think that's when it was) So Graham Norton Show, London 2003 Charmbracelet Tour, London 2003 Dorchester Hotel, TEOM era* Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour, London 2016 All I Want For Christmas Is You Tour, 2017 *Fun fact. I felt really unwell waiting for her that night. And we had to go to queue up through the night for entry into HMV the next afternoon to meet Mariah and have CD's signed. It was dark and rainy and the line was massive but nothing was going to stop me meeting her one-on-one. So I waited, for hours in the dark... and felt increasingly unwell. And I almost made it. I really did. Until around 8am someone called an ambulance and I was carted off to hospital and diagnosed with meningitis and told I was a couple of hours away from death. So there's a fun story. Either you're thinking "Wow, he really does love Mariah." Or you're thinking, "If only that guy hadn't called that ambulance..." (Tuesday 25 February 2020; 20:38)

Re: Slipping Away on IG (93,045) (93,055) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Only someone on this board would have a list of the best days of their life. (Tuesday 25 February 2020; 20:04)

Re: #Beautiful should have been the 19th (93,028) (93,034) by Andrew from the United Kingdom No, it is not. #Beautiful is not perfection. It's about two minutes too short and Mariah sounds like a featured artist on her own track. It's good. But it's not the one. And it has a hashtag. It could have been an absolute smash. It had all the hallmarks. But it seems initially bold then lacking in any sort of confidence. (Tuesday 25 February 2020; 00:05)

Re: Slipping Away on IG (93,019) (93,033) by Andrew from the United Kingdom It's a shame nobody here ever went to the European dates of Daydream. (Tuesday 25 February 2020; 00:02)

Re: Non-single favourites (92,989) (93,008) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "So I wondered, if you were being honest - and I mean absolutely honest and not just trying to associate yourself with a track because you think it makes you seem cool or saying two or three tracks because you're such a lamb and "ohhh you just cant decide" - to what non-single track do you *actually* honestly listen and go to the most?" I can not stop laughing. Well done to Bill and Dove for actually naming the *one* non-single track they listen to the most in real life. To people writing lists: I literally asked what was the *one* non-single you listen to the most - the honest answer. I tell people my favourite Mariah Carey song is Hero. It probably is as it always meant a lot to me and I sing it in karaoke (Mariah Carey-oke) if there's vodka involved. But I don't listen to it much anymore - if at all - even if I say it's my favourite. The song I listen to most is actually Always Be My Baby. But it's not what I would tell people is my favourite. And not what I would tell people is her best song. Fantasy is a better song than ABMB, for example. And so with non-singles. If I was going to play just one non-single to a non-fan I would probably play Lead The Way. I think it's amazing; it's a masterpiece Yet it occurred to me I don't listen to it much. But I tell Alexa to play Languishing *all* the time. I love the melody and vocal. And so there's the point of what I thought would be an interesting survey. To ask people the one song they *actually* listen to the most that is - perhaps - not what they'd put in a random meaningless list of songs that popped into their head for that they think signals something about their deep souls. I was also thinking about singles that I absolutely do not like listening to. Songs that I would tell people are amazing but honestly never actually listen to. I haven't listened to We Belong Together in 10 years. I actually cannot stand listening to it anymore. Maybe because, out of a catalogue of hundreds of songs, that song, like My All, is constantly shoved down our throats (or into our ear holes). But if someone asked me I would run over liberally about what a perfect ballad it is. It's almost the same with My All, but despite not listening to the single version in about 15 years, the remixes are too juicy to never play. "Don't leave, don't don't leave..." Bet that's stuck in your head all day now. (Sunday 23 February 2020; 13:13)

Non-single favourites (92,989) by Andrew from the United Kingdom On a lighter note, I just listened to Languishing for perhaps the thousandth time and it occured to be it may be the non-single track I listen to the most. It used to be All I've Ever Wanted or Till The End Of Time when I was younger but it's probably definitely Languishing, now. So I wondered, if you were being honest - and I mean absolutely honest and not just trying to associate yourself with a track because you think it makes you seem cool or saying two or three tracks because you're such a lamb and "ohhh you just cant decide" - what non-single track do you *actually* honestly listen go to the most? (Saturday 22 February 2020; 14:06)

Re: A joke (92,979) (92,988) by Andrew from the United Kingdom People really need to stop saying Mariah "just scored another number one". No, she did not. 1994 Mariah scores another number one. 2020 Mariah doesn't have a hope in hell. (Saturday 22 February 2020; 13:59)

Addictions (92,987) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Mariah is an addict. But addicts aren't really defined by the extent to which they do something but more so the inability to resist the initial impulse. Mariah clearly has behaviours which are detrimental to her life - things that harm her image and her career, things that affect her voice, her size, her actions. Smoking drugs and drinking copiously when you have one of the most beautiful - and sensitive - voices in the world is like winning the lottery and then pissing your money up the wall. Having a hot body and beautiful face then over eating and slapping on clown make-up is exactly the same thing. I do not think I will ever understand why Mariah drove her image and her career like a freight train through the tunnel walls. I have long argued that people need to tell her the truth and have been screamed at on here by the emotionally frail teen fangirl-like lambs. But I am glad people finally accept something is quite wrong and has been for quite a while. (Saturday 22 February 2020; 13:58)

Article: Mariah shut down in $5 million battle with ex-assistant (92,953) by Andrew from the United Kingdom This picture is grotesque. (Wednesday 19 February 2020; 22:55)

Re: Mariah needs to recover her voice and stop touring (92,897) (92,902) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Self-professed lambs" What other type of lambs are there? Annointed ones? Lmao is there a Grand High Shepherd and some sort of ceremony? Does Mariah observe everyone having an MC written across their forehead in Tommy Mottola's blood? "Funny how people are talking about how good she sounded" On a few songs, yes. But the inference would be that on everything else... not so much. Better, sometimes, to just take the win and keep a lid on it, Brandon. (Monday 17 February 2020; 14:24)

Re: To Die For - Sam Smith (92,891) (92,901) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Chin up, mate. You'll find someone eventually. But best not to listen to songs like To Die For around St Valentine's Day. Listen to Fantasy or something like that. (Monday 17 February 2020; 09:38)

Re: No vocal audit (92,880) (92,883) by Andrew from the United Kingdom A healthcare professional that doesn't actually understand what schizophrenia is? And one who calls people they believe to have a mental illness a "wrongun"? You're as much of a healthcare professional as I am a ballet dancer. But well done for trying. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the argument still stands. Mariah should save what voice she has left, stop with endless touring. But the medley was good yesterday. And Endless Love. We enjoyed them. (Sunday 16 February 2020; 00:52)

Re: Bill (92,868) (92,877) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Perhaps the way to actually approach these whackjobs who literally care more about getting a Mariah fix than Mariah's actual voice, career and legacy is to ask them direct closed questions: Do you think Mariah's voice is bad? Do you think Mariah's voice is getting worse? Do you like that Mariah uses lip sync for all high andsustained notes? Do you like it when Mariah's voice cracks? Do you think it's awkward when Mariah avoids uneasy party's of songs by using deflection through mumbling or audience participation? Do you think that Mariah should keep touring and straining her voice? Do you like that Mariah's bad performances online now outnumber her good ones? Are you happy that Mariah's reputation as a great vocalist is increasingly called into question the worse the issues get? Do you want Mariah's legacy to be the-singer-who-lost-the voice? Let the delusional people answer those questions "yes" or "no". The aim here isn't to be horrible to Mariah at all. It's to actually say to her we know something is very wrong and perhaps you should calm down with all this touring because it's too much now. If she lip syncs or cracks at Brighton Pride the gays will eat her alive. Game over. (Saturday 15 February 2020; 12:25)

Re: No vocal audit (92,834) (92,876) by Andrew from the United Kingdom It is typical of delusional people here to completely ignore the point, to try to make it about something else and ridicule it. That's one's called Argumentum ad absurdum and is also the reserve of the galactically stupid. Repeat all you like that you would not buy a ticket to my show. It's a good job, really, as security would be stopping whackjobs from coming in so you would have wasted your money. Whilst on stage I plan on standing still, singing a few low notes and then lip syncing everything above normal speaking range and anything with a sustained note. More's the pity, sounds like you would have enjoyed it. (Saturday 15 February 2020; 12:03)

Re: Bill (92,850) (92,851) by Andrew from the United Kingdom It's called Argumentum ad hominem - if you don't like what someone is saying, attack them for saying it, make the argument about them. It's a great deflecting tactic for the galactically stupid who have required cradling ever since mummy and daddy sllit up. Mariah continuing to tour is unhealthy and bizarrr as it's not fooling anyone and its ruining what voice she has left. If anyone here actually loved Mariah's voice, they, too, would prefer a once-in-a-while good performance to day-in day-out bad ones. She is clearly struggling and the internet now filled with bad performances vs a couple of good ones. Is this how she wants to be remembered? Is this how anyone wants to remember her? (Friday 14 February 2020; 15:29)

Thumbs up (92,838) by Andrew from the United Kingdom If you are not worried in the slightest about the state of Mariah's voice right now, you'd have to be mad. (Friday 14 February 2020; 00:13)

Re: No vocal audit (92,831) (92,837) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Give it a rest" by Mariah Carey (featuring The Smeezingtons and Bruno Mars) (Friday 14 February 2020; 00:10)

Re: No vocal audit (92,823) (92,826) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Strangers feel entitled to a report on Mariah's vocal health when those very strangers pay her bucket loads of money to hear her sing and come away feeling let down and perplexed. Are those strangers entitled to a refund? The comparison of Mariah's voice to a model's skin is not a fair one. Naomi Campbell did not start wrinkling at age 27, did not look very rough by age 40 and can still crack a smile at age 50. Mariah's voice isn't aging as a matter of course. I can sing exactly the same as I did 20 years ago and I belt out about 6 Mariah and Celine songs in the shower per day, stretching my voice to the limit, without fail. I bet most people here do and probably moreso than Mariah since she belts nothing anywhere, anymore and has not done so for a long time. A long time. So I don't really care if Mariah tells us what happened. The simple observation was that something has really gone wrong recently and is getting worse. She cannot physically sing and it doesn't look like she enjoys it. These concerts should stop. Period. She has knackered her voice out. For her own sake, she needs to stop touring and try to hopefully recover what little she has left so that the odd good televised performance is possible. Any fan painting a gloss over this is acting with selfishness. (Thursday 13 February 2020; 14:35)

Re: I Had a Vision of Love (92,784) (92,802) by Andrew from the United Kingdom If Mariah still wants to release an album or two then she should go for it. But touring should probably stop. I would miss being able to go hear Mariah songs super loud in an arena and have a party but I can take it on the chin. You are correct that there are now more bad performances than good ones and that's an embarrassing shame. Her voice is getting even worse. I fail to see how she can take any pleasure in singing when it looks like she is trying to swallow gravel between bursts of "eh". Think back to when you thought Mariah's voice had slightly declined. For me it would be Charmbracelet (when I realistically longed for Butterfly voice) or then again at Memoirs (when realistically I longed for TEOM voice). Relatively speaking she sounds brilliant in both of those eras compared to now. Now I long for Memoirs voice. Expectations and standards fall away each year. It's getting worse. (Tuesday 11 February 2020; 09:05)

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