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About Bill from the UK: I love Mariah more than you do. London Daydream Tour Attendee.

Re: Faded (98,504) (98,505) by Bill from the UK I love the opening line "It was overcast that day, and I was feeling some kind of way". Almost as poetic as The Roof's opening. My favourite from MIAM is Make It Look Good. Stevie's harmonica harmonising with Mariah's upper register is brilliant. Should have been a single and would have been another #1 like Migrate. (Tuesday 10 August 2021; 16:27)

Re: Music Box album cover (98,495) (98,498) by Bill from the UK Yes agree, it is a beautiful cover. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere it was inspired by a Marilyn Monroe shot. It does exude that sort of silver screen look, and her face is lovely. As for the London date of the Daydream tour, glad to have a fellow attendee in my midst haha. Whereabouts were you seated? I remember crying my eyes out when my dad said he managed to get tickets, he was on hold for hours hah. I took my Talkboy (remember those?) so I have a terrible cassette recording, but I did manage in the later years to get my hands on some better recordings and some video footage. Unfortunately, that's all stored in my parent's attic at the moment so not sure when I will be back there to find it. I do intend to stick it all on YouTube one of these days, and this group will be the first to know of course. (Friday 6 August 2021; 14:09)

Re: MC's sexiest album cover (98,482) (98,484) by Bill from the UK Mariah should have used the self portrait for the Me I Am Mariah cover, and also should have used the pink Caution tape with the blue eye staring through it as the Caution album cover. That said, I did like the black cover with the M. Just please not another full body shot of Mariah with her arms raised and legs akimbo. (Monday 2 August 2021; 12:06)

Re: MC's sexiest album cover (98,473) (98,475) by Bill from the UK Yes agree. I always felt the pic of Mariah holding the microphone would have made the better album cover, though zoomed in a bit (like the VOL cover). (Saturday 31 July 2021; 14:27)

Re: MC's sexiest album cover (98,471) (98,472) by Bill from the UK See if preferred the snow bunny look of Merry Christmas and think the red Santa suit is the sexiest look she did, in a subtle way. That and Emotions, as it emphasises her great figure. (Saturday 31 July 2021; 12:12)

Re: American Idol performance (98,459) (98,461) by Bill from the UK The biggest tell for the Late Night WBT remix is her headphone wire switches from side to side throughout the video. Whoever was in charge of continuity should have got sacked lol. (Wednesday 28 July 2021; 12:35)

Re: Albums ranked by heavy rotation (98,456) (98,460) by Bill from the UK I'm so here for this. Rather than by rotation (I play the CDs/vinyl rather than stream as it sounds better), I'll just do my ranking: 0. Daydream tour London (I was an attendee) 1. MTV Unplugged EP 2. Merry Christmas 3. Emotions 4. Mariah Carey 5. Daydream 6. Music Box 7. Butterfly 8. Glitter 9. Emancipation 10. Rainbow 11. Charmbracelet 12. Caution 13. Me I Am Mariah 14. E=MC2 15. Memoirs 16. Merry Christmas II You (Wednesday 28 July 2021; 12:30)

Re: Twitter Spaces audio link (98,444) (98,445) by Bill from the UK Lol. It's odd that MC seems to have issues with Caution. Critically it was lauded and it's one of her most concise, succinct and snappy albums she's ever done. I still love it. (Monday 26 July 2021; 23:41)

Pure love (Eternally) (98,442) by Bill from the UK This fan made mash up is really worth listening to. (Sunday 25 July 2021; 22:43)

Re: Will they have their mum's talent? (98,423) (98,424) by Bill from the UK If Supernatural is anything to go by, it didn't lol. (Friday 23 July 2021; 17:38)

Re: Mariah (98,411) (98,417) by Bill from the UK 20-something years from now they will all be suing each other for various reasons I've no doubt. (Thursday 22 July 2021; 04:45)

Re: Morgan is pathetic / Parasites (98,391) (98,396) by Bill from the UK I don't disagree with what you or anyone has said about Morgan, but it might have been better from MC to have not even mentioned it at all. She didn't mention Stella, James P and Walter got a line or two, she could have quite easily written of her troubled upbringing without writing what she did about her siblings and mother. (Monday 19 July 2021; 14:53)

Re: Someones Ugly Daughter's voice (98,380) (98,387) by Bill from the UK She also went on a massive gruelling tour between Daydream and Butterfly, which many signpost as her last consistent, great, and flawless performance. That said, she had a week's rest in between each stop on the European leg. By the way, I attended the London Daydream tour and it was one of the greatest spectacles I ever beheld. I took it all for granted at the time, but I am so grateful to have seen her at her absolute vocal and commercial peak. (Sunday 18 July 2021; 17:01)

Re: Someones Ugly Daughter's voice (98,363) (98,373) by Bill from the UK Like any part of the body, you need to keep yourself and the particular vessel you utilise in top condition, just as you would a car. If you mistreat it, then you will see the consequences. An athlete cannot perform living off soda and junk food, and equally alcohol and smoke are two of the absolute worst things for a voice, both of which Mariah indulges in, some would say to excess. Yes, stress would have also been a factor, but she's not still stressed about Tommy and Columbia records 25 years later, so you have to look at the other factors. It does amaze me sometimes that so many fans overlook what is right under their noses. (Saturday 17 July 2021; 20:18)

Article: Mariah Carey announces limited-edition Christmas crate (98,369) by Bill from the UK $50 for a plate, twine, and some stickers? Yeh I'm okay thanks. (Saturday 17 July 2021; 13:25)

Re: Morgan is pathetic / Parasites (98,360) (98,361) by Bill from the UK Playing devil's advocate here (or angel's advocate, as the case may be), but Morgan will indeed find it quite difficult now to "make his own way", given how he was depicted in a #1 New York Times best-selling memoir. This is the reason he is seeking damages. (Friday 16 July 2021; 22:12)

Re: I miss Stella (98,341) (98,342) by Bill from the UK I've never even watched an episode of Mariah's World, and I don't think I ever will. One of her most ill advised career moves ever. I mean it's up there with not releasing Migrate as a single. (Monday 12 July 2021; 00:07)

Re: I miss Stella (98,333) (98,336) by Bill from the UK Like many here (and Mariah herself going by her book), I like to pretend Mariah's World and The Nightmare Era never happened. Let's look ahead and move on. Somewhat Loved will be #1 across the globe in a couple of weeks so we have that to celebrate lol. But seriously the Glitter anniversary is around the corner so hope MC brings out the Glitter vinyl and that rumoured Prince duet. (Friday 9 July 2021; 20:37)

Re: Fourth Of July (98,317) (98,318) by Bill from the UK Personally I prefer "boy you're acting so corny like Fritos" and "how 'bout you get the smurf out" over "then you put your hand in mine, and we ran from the rain, tentatively kissed goodnight, and went our separate ways, and I've never truly felt the way that I, felt that fourth of July". (Monday 5 July 2021; 20:20)

ABMB withdrawn picture sleeve (98,298) by Bill from the UK This is something I've been mulling over for, ooh I don't know, about 15 years now. In the UK, Always Be My Baby was released in the following formats: cassette single, two CD singles, and a 7" and 12" single. This site's discography has item 2397 listed, which is the second CD single (the club mixes), with a different cover to what was released. Other pics are available on the release page on Discogs. As we know, this CD was issued with the beautiful cover of Mariah in the snake skin shirt, and this original picture sleeve was withdrawn from sale, thus making it somewhat impossible to ever find. What I find curious, is that the UK CD single is the *only* release with this cover, Mariah in the snake skin shirt. The withdrawn picture sleeve, an alternative shot of the regular picture sleeve (from the remix video), is issued on several releases worldwide, and even in the UK itself for the 12". So, I sometimes wonder in the dead of night as I'm collecting my thoughts for the day, if the *wrong* picture sleeve was withdrawn? I find it so odd that only one release across the globe uses the snake skin picture sleeve, and the withdrawn sleeve was issued in every other territory in the world. (Tuesday 29 June 2021; 20:57)

Re: RibbonB (98,261) (98,262) by Bill from the UK So um. I really like Hero. (Thursday 24 June 2021; 16:18)

Re: Nick, why oh why? (98,225) (98,227) by Bill from the UK Wow, that lyric from Cruise Control. Life imitating art. (Monday 21 June 2021; 12:35)

Re: To be honest (98,220) (98,222) by Bill from the UK I really hope Glitter gets issues on vinyl, it's the 20th anniversary this year so maybe she has something planned, but without being insensitive to the other 20th anniversary we'll all be remembering. (Sunday 20 June 2021; 09:07)

Re: Worst song ever made? Triumphant (98,214) (98,215) by Bill from the UK Yes I've no beef with Triumphant either. It was a bit different to have MC only sing the hook and then appear for the bridge, but I love the energy of the song and how Mariah looks like she's made of solid gold on the picture sleeve. I wish that and Almost Home were the bonus tracks on MIAM rather than the Memoirs copy and paste duets. (Saturday 19 June 2021; 11:12)

Re: New Mariah Carey era (98,209) (98,211) by Bill from the UK I love how concise and brief Caution was though. It's an album I play so frequently because of that. If I want to listen to Charmbracelet I have to schedule it into my calendar lol as that album never seems to end. I listen to Caution far more frequently than her other albums because it is so easy to listen to. It's fine tuned, to the point, and every song packs a punch. (Friday 18 June 2021; 23:11)

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