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Re: Acoustic album (45,111) by jaker20 from US MC is capable of not only a full acoustic album, but a full acoustic concert. Something like MTV unplugged. She did AIWFCIY on Fallon live so effortlessly, and that's just a year and a half ago. Surely 5 songs like that, with interludes and breaks in between, can't be that difficult. I kept imagining her in an acoustic set and I"m there front row. I will pay top money for that. But this feels more and more like wishful thinking. In fact, she's hardly even promoting the album. (Thursday 26 June 2014; 2:58)

Re: Image... to Lee (45,110) by jaker20 from US Why are you obsessed with the topic involving child molestation, sex books and crack? No one brings up these topics, but you seem very interested in this topic. Also, how is MC's image even related to MC's kids getting shipped to her mothers? Did I say MC's career sunk after she met and married Nick? Yes. Did I say MC's career sunk because of Nick? No. Huge difference. If you had actually wanted a decent discussion, you probably would know that artists need to be inspired, and Nick is clearly not one of MC's artistic inspirations. Personal and private inspiration. Maybe. Artistic. No. I still don't know what that subject has to do with sex books, crack and child molestation though. Maybe you can enlighten us? (Thursday 26 June 2014; 1:44)

Must watch - Lego Mariah Carey "Honey" video (45,109) by Bill from the UK Guys, you have to check this out. It's a Lego version of the Honey video. It is absolutely hilarious, literally a frame by frame replica. (Thursday 26 June 2014; 1:41)

Another thing (45,108) by Lee from USA How could Wendell Williams complain about how our girl dresses but spent thousands of dollars trying to look like her? (Thursday 26 June 2014; 0:47)

Relevancy (45,107) by Carlos Belizário from Brazil Why are we still talking about Mariah being relevant or not? Let's take a look in today's pop music. Katy Perry has a rapper called Juicy J on a #1 song with a hip pop influenced record. Ariana Grande is doing her thing and is getting even bigger. If that's not Mariah's relevancy being shown then I don't know what it is. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 22:04)

Image (45,106) by Lee from USA Jaker, according to you she should break up with Nick and ship the kids to her mother's. When I read people bitch about her image, I start to think about the artists that have done worse than our girl and still are defended. Mimi never was accused of child molestation, smoked crack, abused or chased off any of her spouses or boyfriends, or made a sex book. No federal investigations at Camp Mariah had been launched, and yet she is being bashed about a single cover. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 19:02)

Acoustic album (45,105) by Billy from England, UK I was thinking the other day, wouldnt it be amazing if she made an acoustic album with some of her big songs, I would love that. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 17:32)

Me I am Mariah (45,103) by B from USA Memoirs and Mariah's image are to blame for the disappointing sales. MC and Def Jam dropped the ball with the promotion. I hope Mariah and Def Jam work overtime to promote YDKWTD. #Beautiful proved MC's still relevant she just needs a good song and YDKWTD is a great song. Another reason for these sales figures: illegal downloads. Why buy something when you can get it for free? (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 15:44)

No lyrics (45,102) by Martyn from England, UK Nice theory about the lack of lyrics on the inlay, but I think we all know the reason they weren't included is because the album was a rush job at the end. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 15:07)

#Beautiful (Acoustic Version) (45,101) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter This is amazing. Check it out if you already haven't. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 13:24)

Bill / MOAIA remixes (45,100) by juan from Dubai I believe since the label spent on bringing in superstars like MJB and R Kelly, they chose to put the duets on the Chanteuse album as features, before they go to waste. It's Mariah's album on this label. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 12:49)

MOAIA remixes (45,099) by Bill from the UK Don't forget you all that these were held back from the Angels Advocate album from 2010. They didn't draft in R Kelly and Mary especially for the deluxe version of MIAM, these remixes were from years ago. I still don't get it myself. They make the deluxe version slightly disjointed. I would have added Almost Home and Triumphant instead. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 9:09)

Lee UK (45,090) (45,098) by Lamb_O_Chop from Australia That video was hilarious. The little hand movement thing she keep doing had me crying laughing. Seriously I think Mariah hides behind the "diva" image that mostly everyone has grown to hate so much nowadays. I think it may be a defense mechanism to protect the real "vulnerable Mariah" from the scrutiny of the world. Almost like "I'm playing a character, so if people hate or criticize this character, it doesn't really bother me because its not really who I am". I imagine its a world of pressure having the career that she's had especially with all ups, downs, and expectations. So escapism can be way of copping. Just my theory. Even though she was playful is this video, you get a little insight to the pressure she's always been under to act a certain way. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 3:21)

Hits Daily Double (45,097) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands According to Hits Daily Double, Me. I Am Mariah... only drops one spot and sells another 5,699 copies (-28%). (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 2:06)

Dreamlover (45,096) by OGmattyICE from US I did some research and in case any of you (love Dreamlover as much as I do) and were wondering, the location where she's swimming in the music video was filmed at Bash Bish Falls, just east of Copake New York. You can Google it. Yes I am this obsessed I wanted to know where, I might take a road trip and visit the falls myself. Anyways just thought I'd share. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 23:29)

Photoshop (45,095) by Gilbert from USA Hey peeps, so I was reminiscing back through some photo galleries of Mariah and man how times change and how I seen her grow throughout the years. Then I stopped and wondered well I'm going to make a post and see what fellow fans think. I'm going to take a hunch and say I think she started with Photoshop back in 2000. Her photos before all the Photoshop are real beauty. I don't see why she needs all that extra glamor. A touch up yes, anyone of us here if we were famous would want that. So that was all, just wanted to check with other fans to see if they noticed the change little but little with Photoshop starting around the year 2000. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 23:21)

Carlos Jaramillo (45,094) by Will from England Don't Forget About Us remix; H.A.T.E.U. remix with Gucci Mane/JD; Triumphant remixes; #Beautiful remixes; You're Mine remixes, just to name a few remixes that she has resung recently. True, she doesn't re-sing all her remixes anymore, but to say that she doesn't re-sing at all is a bit of a stretch. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 22:33)

Why are there no lyrics in the CD insert, Wel (45,093) by Carlos Jaramillo from USA Think about it, if the words were in there, you would simply read over them while you hear the album, understand them and move on to your next venture. Mimi is making us "research" her lyrics and, in its transgression, we end up researching a lot more information related to her project. Reading up more on her craft and projects. Now, for instance, there is the "Mariah Network" which does detail all the lyrics of the song along with additionally contributing information. Everything is a gimmick now, weather we are keen enough to understand the undercurrent or not, it's there. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 21:21)

Hasn't te-sung vocals since WBT? (to Carlos) (45,092) by TR from USA Uhm. She re-sang the vocals for the HATEU remix, two of the #Beautiful remixes, and at least one of the Triumphant remixes. Also, she is constantly resinging vocals for AIWFCIY. She pretty much re-releases a new version of that song every year. I'm actually surprised she didn't issue the Jimmy Fallon version to radio lol. I think the copying/pasting thing with BGK and IAW (and Angels Cry for that matter) is probably because of busy schedules, where one or both of them aren't in the same spot long enough to really get it done. Weak excuse, I know, but I honestly don't feel it's because the landscape of radio nowadays won't help. So what if it sounds like a different song, that's what makes it a great remix. ISB had some of the best remixes of her entire career. She did at least five versions all resung and none of them sounded alike. Same with My All and Make It Last, and folks still go crazy over them. I feel like she always picks and chooses which remixes are resung because then it's not overdone to the point where she's always issuing two or three different versions. It's great when it's a surprise. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 20:49)

YDKWTD impacts top 40 July 1 (45,091) by nikki from usa So, don't expect Mariah to promote until the song drops. George M. tweeted his pleasure at MC covering his track and loving her new album. A statement also shared by Donatella Versace who shared her favorite tracks from the album. Not bad for the whole world hating her and all. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 20:27)

Off topic (45,090) by Lee from UK I know this was just before the "breakdown" but this is the Mariah I like in interviews. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:14)

For the record (45,089) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter This song is so underrated. I love how in one para she mentions some of her old hits/personal favorites. I wish Mariah does a video where she does some throwback moments of her famous videos. Like a little bit of Honey, a little ABMB, a little WBT and all those. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:06)

Carlos Jaramillo (45,088) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey man, yes I know about the change in Billboard rules. But thing is in this case Mariah could have re-sung the entire song and change it as much as she wants because BGK and IAW remixes were not to promote the original tracks as singles, but rather these were bonus tracks on a completely new album 5 years after the original. So basically it wasn't added to support any singles, these are basically going to be considered album cuts for Chanteuse. Could I explain myself? I don't think they are even labelled as "remixes" on the tracklist for Chanteuse. They are listed as normal songs with featured artists. Secondly she still does change up songs somewhat, if not completely, like the #Beautiful Jeezy remix where she re-sung vocals and there was another re-sung remix which wasn't released after they abandoned #Beautiful. Oh and I don't know if you know this already but there are about 2-3 completely different re-sung remixes for Say Somethin' (one with Dem Franchize Boys and the other without any guests), then there is the DFAU re-sung remix, and the H.A.T.E.U completely re-sung remix. You should definitely check those out, although you might already know about these, but just in case you didn't. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:03)

Bonus tracks - "re"-mix the song (45,087) by CMC from NY,NY Most of us do know the rules now about the resinging of a track and the remix if changed not tracking on the chart as the same single. That's is why this particular situation is so frustrating. Betcha G'on Know and It's A Wrap could have been just that, completly remixed tracks and all new vocals being that they were MOAIA cuts and obviously she would not be releasing these as singles for MIAM. Now that yes would have been a bonus for the fans. Instead it comes of as just lazily slapping them on to the end of the album when ideally this was the perfect chance to give us an oldschool redone version of the originals. Oh and she actually did completly remix and resing the H.A.T.E.U. single. And "Say Something". WBT wasn't Mariah's last resung effort. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:03)

No "re-sung vocal" explanation (45,086) by Carlos Jaramillo from USA Hey guys. A lot of people have been talking about how much it sucks that she no longer re-sings any of her vocals when "she" drops any remixes. Hey, I'm 35 year old so, I'm from the days when Mariah would re-sing a song 4 or 5 times and put it on "side b" of the cassette tapes. Glorious were those days (Dreamlove is an awesome remix). What's happening now is that the music industry changed the rules. As of 2005, if you change up the song too much, its melody beyond a certain point, its then considered a whole "other/new song" and won't assist in ranking in the artists desired chart numbers. That's why, pretty much the last re-sung vocal remix that we got was from MC was We Belong Together. It has nothing to do with her really, though I'm sure she takes advantage of that situation to not have to overuse her voice but, yeah that's why it's done that way now. Think of other artists also, the re-sung vocal remix era has collapsed. If it's not for the club remixes that are structured by the awesome DJ's out there, we'd get nothing but the album cuts. Mariah is not going to waste her time and voice singing something that isn't going to net a profit for her, unless it's personal and we're not gonna hear it anyway. Lol. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 17:34)

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