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Randy (48,542) by B from USA Thank God I Found You was a hit because of the remixes. Those remixes are still being played on the radio and in clubs and the original video is one of Mariah's best. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 16:32)

Randy (48,541) by B from USA You think MJB's The London Sessions is a better album than MIAMTEC? Seriously? I can't. I don't even know what to say. Did you really claim people don't know the words to We Belong Together? Everyone knows that song and unlike Whitney and Celine, Mariah has more than one signature song that she will be remembered for, lol. I can't. Mary lost her crown when Mariah came gunning for it in 1997. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 16:27)

The O Holy Night video (48,540) by Mara from United States When I watched that video I actually saw a bit of the Make It Happen video MC on stage. Call me crazy but the way her hair looked from that distance, parted on the side (and her color looks great too by the way) looks like it did in the MIH video minus the bangs. The way she moved, and her hand movements. Like stepping back in time. She looks so young. Even her speaking voice was so soft there. I think her look is great and matches the mood of classy, old Hollywood and I love the diamonds and finger waves in the hair. She looked radiant. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 16:22)

Randy are you serious? (48,539) by Otti from Belgium 1. Her hits are not hits? Do you think that We Belong Together is made number one by only the lambs for 14 weeks? I'm sure TEOM was a huge hit because not only of the lambs or fans. To stay 14 weeks at the top of the Hot 100, you need more than fans. The radio has to like you, the listener, people in general has to like your song. 2. Signature song? You can't put Mariah in a box. She sings a ballad, but she also likes to sing hip hop songs. She said once that it's boring if she only sang ballads. I'm sure that a lot of people can sing along with songs like Hero, We Belong Together, Fantasy, My All. The reason she is underrated is that she is youthful, sexy, succesful, the voice. Do you see Celine sing Touch My Body like MC did? Or the late Whitney? (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 15:10)

O Holy Night (48,538) by Lee TS from USA I thought I was the only one that got Daydream live moments from that video. This is like one of the only times she performed O Holy Night live besides the Christmas special back in 2010 (it was so overdubbed though so hard to consider it live). But in the video especially at 1:07 mark when she sang "appeared" and the way she moved her hand it totally brought me back me Daydream, I'm like obsessed over that one little part. So glad she gave us such incredible vocal moments on opening night. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 11:55)

Mariah needs a change? (48,537) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter While I do agree that Mariah needs a few changes here and there, like she needs to work on not being so late to her shows, she needs to actually show the world how intelligent and brilliant she is (because a lot of people just think she is ditzy), her drinking, and that she needs to get a better stylist, however I disagree with people who are trying to change almost everything about her. I do not mind her insisting on being photographed from one particular angle, she isn't the only one who does that, heck even I only take pictures from one side and I will move my friends in group photos to get my "good" side. I do not like how I look from the other side and I am sure many non-celebs do it. So to bash MC for it is silly. Ofcourse she would want to look her best and to top that off she already has enough haters who put unflattering pictures of her on the net and call her "fat", "ugly" and all those. Next comes the use of "dahlin'". I don't see the problem, it's like her signature style. I love it, it's something only she uses. It's like an MC trademark just like her butterfly rings. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 10:32)

Beacon concerts (48,536) by Luke from United Kingdom I love this, I was holding back tears because I was in a public place haha. Does anyone get a 1996 MSG vibe from this? I know she didn't sing Christmas songs there but her dress, vocals and how comfortable she is on stage just reminds me of that. This makes me so happy. I wish I live in New York so I could see her. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 9:48)

Mariah, the queen of shade (48,535) by Manny from U.S. I totally imagine Mariah "throwing shade" to those "fans" that keep criticizing get harshly, like she did to Nikki here. Show business is a business. When anything is televised they're is a lot of planning. People are believing TMZ rumors. NBC never said anything bad about Mariah and she performed. Whateve "she did" was not that bad because she was not fired. People keep posting all these things like her career is over. Maybe some fans haven't heard about her tour this year. They haven't heard how many singers are covering her Christmas single "All I want for Christmas is you". They only focus on anything that could be the demise of Mariah's career. They doubt her legacy. Personally, these are not fans anymore and should move on. She still has thousands of loyal fans that would go see her. That is why she performed in China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and New York. What's the point of dwelling on everything she messes up on. I think Wendy Willians is secretly posting here. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 7:46)

Why Mariah is not respected as a legend, icon in the industry (48,534) by Randy from USA #1. The problem is that her image: eternally 12, lighting, splashes, dahlings, good side, the dresses, lateness overshadows her talent. The woman who wrote Right To Dream, Butterfly, Looking In, Languishing and Petals doesn't even seem like the same person as what she portrays in the media. #2 Her hits are not hits. A lot of her lambs begged radio stations to play her and bought multiple copies of things so songs like Thank God I Found You, Loverboy, I Still Believe made it to the top 5 but in reality no one outside of us know the words or the songs. In addition, what is her signature song? Vision Of Love? Hero? Dreamlover? Fantasy? We Belong Together? And do non-lambs know all of the words? Pretty much everybody in the United States knows all of the words to I Will Always Love You and My Heart Will Go On. #3 Glitter. The thing is anyone can bury a bad movie performance or a flop album. The fact is all of the comics used her as a punchline and many people still think MC is cuckoo. They see her as someone who is fragile and can't accept setbacks. These reasons are why, although she has outsold a lot of people and broken many records, no one but us sees her as the torch carrier for Ross, Streisand, Franklin, Labelle etc. And these lackluster performances and excuses are making things worse. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 6:45)

Mariah Carey is perfect at being Mariah Carey (48,533) by Baby from Dreamville...Where There's No Beginning & There is No End She doesn't need to change one hair on her head, one note in her songs, one lyric in her catalogue, one glove on her hand, one flick of her wrist, one swerve of her hips, one slit of her dress, one heel of her shoe or anything else you seem to hate that makes her 100% Mariah Carey. It's a little late to be giving her advise when she's been doing everything right all her life. Not always perfect, but right. Everything she does, she puts her heart and soul into. That's why she was ever successful in the first place, not because of some algorithm of strategic moves designed to get people to like her. 18 #1's, singer songwriter of "Song of the Decade" twice, writer of the last Christmas classic AIWFCIY, pioneer of the HipPop merger, a favourite amongst her peers, her idols and aspiring singers yet still the one to beat even after 25 years in the business. But somehow Mariah is in dire need of your wisdom? Don't make me laugh, bless your little hearts. Please find time to enjoy the Beacon performances, just a tiny bit, inbetween all your grinching. Merry Christmas Mariah, show them how it's done. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 6:34)

Beacon Theater NYC update (48,532) by Gilles from Malta Here's is the video. We weren't to switch any device on during the show but for the final everybody made one first and formost I want to thank Mariah Carey and her website for having offered to us 2 seats first row in front of her for Christmas special show. Her voice was amazing and flawless tonight and her show was wow. She got a standing ovation for Oh Holy Night and her opening song Hark The Herald Sing In Exisdeo Too. Amazing gospel on Joy To The Works with a powerful performance and other classic songs of her two Christmas albums. Here is the final All I Want For Christmas Is You. It was wow. Playlist: Hark the herald angel sing Oh Santa When Christmas comes Joy to the world Here comes Santa Claus Oh holy night Christmas time is the air All I want for Christmas is you (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 6:31)

Jared (48,531) by Warren from Trinidad & Tobago Thanks Jared. I'm looking forward to it. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 1:36)

!? (48,530) by Andrew from UK So the moral is: "Don't act unlikeable or unrelatable and them people might like you or relate to you." The industry is increasingly geared towards musicians that people think of as "one of them" or representing something they associate with. Mariah harps on with an arrogant attitude throwing out the same rehearsed lines in every interview as if she had nothing to say and is skin deep. Then everyone is exasperated at "people judging her", "not showing her the respect she deserves", etc. What respect does she deserve after her attitude and public behaviour of the past five years? The Rockefeller incident is the beginning of something undoable I think. And the Grammys? It is likely they couldn't give a nomination to an album with vocals so engineered it sounded as if 96 Mariah found a time machine that stopped off to record Loverboy on the way here. The Marissa poster is right (although perhaps somewhat less blunt than I would have said it). This stuff needs to stop or more nails are going in that there career coffin. What happened to the interesting, relatable, glamorous, down-to-earth songstress? Seems she's getting what she deserves and all the "lambs" can do is stick their fingers in their ears. Thousands kept waiting at great personal and financial cost because she had to have a phone call? You make excuses for this? Haters gon hate. Lambs gon bleat. Mariah gon expire. (Tuesday 16 December 2014; 0:53)

Online store (48,529) by Darryle from USA While Mariah's team gave the sight a whole new look they didn't do anything about the online store. Her merchandise isn't gender neutral and most of it's boring in my opinion. When you click a link to buy her CDs it just sends you to Amazon. It'd be really helpful to fans if Mariah or Sony or someone within her team started supplying merchandise. Like the Daydream Tokyo Dome tour, vinyls, or the Thanksgiving special. For a fan like me trying to expand their collection it's especially difficult when the one reputable source offers almost nothing. (Monday 15 December 2014; 23:37)

Diva persona / my resolutions for MC (48,528) by Darryle from USA Marissa you're so right. Mariah needs to cut the mess. It might seem funny to some lambs because we're so used to it but it does have to stop. I'm not saying go back to 1990 Mariah when watching her interview was like watching paint dry. Just clean it up a bit. Stop hiding behind the diva persona. She's said before that she uses it to make it seem as though she's not vulnerable. Which is understandle. Being vulnerable in this business, especially when you're a woman, can make you seem weak. She needs to find that balance between being a diva and being seen as vulnerable. She needs to take it back to 1997-2005. On top of that she needs to let Andre Leon Talley or whoever did ither on American Idol dress her again. And start working with Diane Martlet and Brett Ratner again on her videos. (Monday 15 December 2014; 22:45)

Fan (48,527) by Otti from Belgium I knew Mariah since Music Box, my oldest brother was a big fan, and back in 1993-1994 Without You was a big hit in Europe. But I became a fan since Butterfly. I remember when I was with my cousin, sitting home, watching MTV when the video of Honey came on tv. We were surprised that Mariah, who we know from songs like Without You, Hero, Endless Love, I'll Be There, is sitting with high heels and black short skirt tied in a chair, then jumping in a pool, to reveal that hot body in bathsuit. And I was like wow, singing ballads, then hip hop, she can do it both. And the hip hop community accepts her. What I want to say is, she can stand there in a long dress singing Love Takes Time and change up to a more sexy look and sing Honey, like it's nothing. And that's the reason why she is being hated. She can do it all. Something her generation can't, I'm talking Whitney (RIP), Celine, Janet. (Monday 15 December 2014; 22:35)

Walter and Tommy (48,526) by B from USA This quote sums up my thoughts on Walter and Tommy. "I think Mariah should endorse a brand of Christmas goat cheese made from the milk of those goats," says Afanasieff. "And I would obviously want half of the profits." They only want what they can get from her not what's in her best interest. She co-wrote the music with him and wrote the lyrics by herself so any musician could replace him and she's proven that time and time again. First by working with Warren and Foster and then Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. (Monday 15 December 2014; 22:10)

Thinking has been outlawed (48,525) by nikki from usa That's the way it feels. Mariah has managed to spend nearly 5 years at home and somehow stir up controversy. Most people have to actually do something, but not Mariah. Everything from Kim Kardashian ruining her marriage to hating other celebs. Yet, Mariah has never actually appeared anywhere, made any statements, or said anything. More irksome is people who read this crap and think it's "news" and reputable. People hate Mariah because she's this way or that way and believes this or that. No, 90% of that is BS. When people say, "Did you hear Mariah was late to a pretaping and sounded awful?" Such a diva. I want to say, "Did you hear Mariah sang a concert with broken bones for the sake of a fundraiser?" High maintenance and self obsessed people don't do that. Walter seems to be goading MC. Reading his interviews back to back shows a lot of in discrepancies. There's a lot of switching to "Mariah did" in one interview to "we did" in another. I think he's trying to piss her off so she'll contact him. (Monday 15 December 2014; 21:41)

Hey lambs, watching MC tonight (48,524) by Jared from USA I'm so excited, as I haven't seen her in concert since the TEOM tour. Watching with my husband tonight. Will come back and share details later. I read the message board frequently, but I don't usually post. Can't wait to put all the negativity of the Rockefeller lighting to rest. Mariah has good and bad days like many singers, and she deserves more respect than people give her. Merry Christmas to all. (Monday 15 December 2014; 21:12)

Mara / the article (48,523) by Edward from USA Mara, it is almost Christmas, just don't pay too much attention to some of those articles. As for the article itself, besides the obvious shade at the beggining of the article, most of what it states there is the truth. I know we don't like Tommy, but when I read his book, I got many pieces of information that helped me understand Mariah better, and how things went down between them. The book is not a tell-all book, it is more about his career in the music industry, and Mariah of course has a chapter, but he doesn't viciously attack her or anything like that. I'm not painting him as a saint or anything, we all know what he did, but for me he and Walter are in the past now. Mariah since then vindicated herself, had a wonderful EOMM and two beautiful babies. As for Walter, I used dream of a collaboration, but now he's been acting phony on his interviews. He should work with Celine. (Monday 15 December 2014; 20:57)

Another AIWFCIY article in NY Post (48,522) by Mara from United States Did anyone catch this article? Seems very pro Tommy. Of course it was an interview with WA. Nobody knows the real story behind whatever went on with Walter and Mariah and I don't want to start a whole thing again about him, but since it is MC related. It seems like some shade was thrown with this, in reference to how MC never wanted to record a Christmas album and how she made a comment on looking like Connie Francis. Some of these US fans already know, but I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into it? His interview timing is great with her shows starting tonight. Speaking if which I can't wait for the details of tonight. (Monday 15 December 2014; 19:45)

Mariah Carey is one of a kind (48,521) by Otti from Belgium Last night I was watching some performance Mariah did back in 2010 for Merry Christmas II You. And what came to my mind is how some fans can be unthankful. Mariah spoild us the last 20 years with many albums, 2 Christmas albums. Vocal performance like only she can do. If she is in a good place, then she is in full force. When MCIIY came out, she was pregnant. And I loved how she promoted that album. Her voice was on point, she looks verry happy and healthy. She even gave us a performance with her mom (I really love that song). Also when #Beautiful came out, she did at least 3 or 4 remixes. She did a lot of promo fot that song alone. I hate when people forget all the things she did. And start to hate. I can say, I'm really grateful for what she did in her career already. For me she has nothing to prove. That's the reason she did the Asia and down under tour, because she still enjoys respect in that part of the world, no matter how old she is. (Monday 15 December 2014; 15:26)

Camouflage, Will (48,520) by Jenny from South Africa I also love Camouflage. It's a beautiful song. It's very touching. It's almost too good because listening to it makes me feel depressed on her behalf. I hate that she was so sad. But it's definitely my favourite song on the album. (Monday 15 December 2014; 12:08)

AIWFCIY is back at #8 on Swedish iTunes (48,519) by Baby from Dreamville...Where There's No Beginning & There is No End It's been the top Christmas song this year even though it's the oldest on the chart. Mariah is still the one to beat 20 years in the Christmas game. You gotta love that. (Monday 15 December 2014; 8:20)

MIAMTEC makes iTunes best of 2014 R&B albums (48,518) by Baby from Dreamville...Where There's No Beginning & There is No End Yay. Did you guys catch that? I'm really optimistic Mariah will give this epic LP its just dues before moving on to her next project. It's not right to let it go without people really hearing it. I want a BET unplugged to showcase Mariah's voice because her lyrical artistry as well as her musicianship as it is right now. This is Mariah at her best since I don't know when. But yeah, just wanted to share what I found out on Twitter with you guys. Happy Mariah Carey. (Monday 15 December 2014; 7:24)

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