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To The Floor (44,346) by enwar00 from usa That is so funny, I was just listening to The Emancipation Of Mimi the other day and repeated To The Floor a couple times because I was enjoying it. I even thought about how it used to be called Tonight. Made me miss the old Neptunes sound. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 7:00)

Single choices / promotion (44,345) by Skip from United States Good points and observations, Bill from UK and PJW. You're both right. There were sometimes good reasons for the single changes at IDJ, and there were definitely times on Columbia where single choices were scuttled for various reasons. I suppose the difference I see with Mariah's current label and the incidences brought up from the Columbia years is that, even when a choice is ultimately made now, it still doesn't feel like a 100% commitment. And I don't necessarily think Mariah is always right in what she thinks should be a single. (Personally, I think "Against All Odds" would've been a smash here in America over "Can't Take That Away", but who knows for sure.) What I'm saying is Mariah and the label need to come to a consensus and then spend equal energy promoting the heck out of that chosen song. If either half of that equation doesn't believe in the selection, it's never gonna see its full potential. And when the whole team isn't working together towards a common goal, it feels like the engine doesn't have enough horsepower, when it totally could otherwise. Considering Mariah's social media savvy, I wonder why she doesn't get creative and start doing more to promote her music that way. For example, if she had performed YDKWTD while riding that subway car last night and posted that YouTube, that would've gone viral and exposed the song. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:57)

Houston KPRC (44,341) by TR from USA Hi. Uhm I might be in theinorotu here but I do feel the UNCF might be a bit more important than an MC special that you will probably be able to find online the next day. I'm sorry of that sounds harsh but the UNCF is a charity organization. I'm sure Mimi would agree. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:43)

Funny story (44,340) by Nicole from US Today I left my spotify on in my computer in my classroom. My last class came in and girl saw spotify with MIAM up. She then told this other kid to put it on Thirsty. That girl was singing it like she already knew the song. It played and my students liked it. Of course, my school is labeled "ghetto" in North Carolina but then again, I see that if Thirsty gets played in Urban stations, it would be catchy. This girl might have heard it from the radio station. I was amazed how seniors in high school loved the song. They were like, "Who sings it?" And then I heard someone says Mariah Carey. Lol. Just wanted to share. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:40)

Please help me ask Houston KPRC channel 2 to air NBC special (44,339) by JJ from Good Times from USA Houston's local NBC channel has the UNCF concert airing at the time the Mariah special was supposed to be on. Please help me ask them to air Mariah. I created a template to use. "Hello KPRC. I noticed that on May 31, 2014 you are scheduled to air UNCF concert. The Today show reported that a special with Mariah Carey would be airing at the same time but it's not on your listing. Will you be airing it? Please air the show as there are plenty of Mariah fans that watch KPRC and would like to watch the show." Follow link, select programming and then copy and paste Thanks everyone. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:12)

MIAM - Top 5 (44,338) by Enrique from Argentina Hi everyone, long time visiting this site, first post. Can't stop listening to it. My top 5 (really difficult thankfully): 1) Cry. 2) Faded 3) YDKWTD 4) Camouflage 5) Meteorite Unfortunately I was disappointed as many of you with the "Deluxe" song selection, I was hoping that new songs would be included. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:12)

J.Lo (44,337) by enwar00 from usa J.Lo is Jennifer Lopez. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 2:02)

Mariah the visionary (44,336) by Isabelle from USA I wish Mariah would have done something similar to that #Beautiful single disc to her album. I think people would have bought the album physically because of that. I haven't bought a new Mariah physical album since E=MC2. I was kinda disappointed about the lack of input in her booklet. I still have mixed feelings towards MOAIA, I felt as an album it didn't feel like a solid record and basically there was no song that stood out the most even though the songs were great. I'm happy I opted to buy the digital format of MIAMTEC. I can't understand how the media tends to downgrade Mariah's work. They keep putting her down, saying things like she is trying to follow trends just to keep up with other artists. Lets be honest Mariah has been working for the last 4 years on this album and started reworking this album just last year. Before Talk Dirty/Problem were hits she already worked on Money, before we ever knew about Beyonce's songs Blue and Yonce, she already recorded Supernatural and Dedicated. I feel radio has abandoned Mariah due to the fact they don't want her to break the Beatles record even though she is the best artist to do so, that's why YME never took of in radio and #B couldn't make it to the top ten. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 1:51)

Speaking of vocals and Make It Look Good (44,332) by TR from USA Are you all as obsessed with her adlibs at the end of MILG? I mean the whole song is incredible and her "harmonicanizing" with Stevie is out of this world. But when she goes soft and bluesy at the very end right after her high note and she says something like "Fantasize about the way you lick your lips. Oh it's gooder than them other guys?" (No idea Mimi, I need your lyrics babe.) (Saturday 31 May 2014; 1:48)

Cry is giving me Vision Of Love more than anything (44,331) by TR from USA Especially the run she does on "break" and "and" at the end. I love when she stretches herself to pull out something different vocally. The way she sings "might" in "might as well tell the truth about the matter" sounds just like a note she'd hit on Emotions. And I've never heard her wring emotion out of a word like "tonight" in "but tonight I just wanna hold you til we...". Closest thing would be the climax "to where we used to be" in I Don't Wanna Cry. This entire vocal is like listening to water cascade in a brook. It's smooth, soft, powerful, and ragged in all the right places, and it just cuts its way through you more and more with each listen. It's on par with Lead The Way in my book. And LTW is always in my top 5 MC songs. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 1:38)

Make It Look Good (44,330) by Lee from UK I can't stop playing Make It Look Good. In my opinion, this needs to be a single at some point. It is such a refreshing song. Mariah was going for a fresh sound with #Beautiful and I feel she continued it with MILG. I love hearing these two tracks back to back. At certain parts in MILG I love how Mariah makes her vocals sound like a harmonica. My partner is not a fan but even he enjoys this song. (Saturday 31 May 2014; 0:00)

Stephen (44,329) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Yes, yes I know she is not even close to Mariah's level, but her album seems to be going in with a smooth, more organized manner than someone who actually deserves it. Mariah has a solid album, her vocals, the production, the lyrics, everything is just out of this world but I just hate to see how unorganized everything is. I don't remember if you were one of the lovers or haters of YME, but I loved the track and it only peaked at 88 because of no major publicity. And now her album sales are also low. Excuse my rants, I am one of those people who wants Mariah to burn down charts again. I understand some fans don't really bother about chart positions anymore. (Friday 30 May 2014; 23:55)

Mimi L. (44,328) by Stephen from London, United Kingdom Who's J.Lo? (Friday 30 May 2014; 23:34)

To the floor / PJW (44,327) by Bill from the UK To the Floor was indeed known as "Tonight" when it was initially leaked after Say Somethin'. I still often refer to it as Tonight by mistake, probably because I think it's a better title. I do love that song to pieces, one of my faves from TEOM. (Friday 30 May 2014; 23:19)

YDKWTD (no rap version) (44,326) by Loris from Italy Here. Password: DarinDarin. (Friday 30 May 2014; 23:16)

Michele re the punctuation after Money (44,325) by TR from USA Hahahaha, my friends and I decided the ($*/...) is the drunk title, LMAO. She was wasted with the "nostalgia" banter on Dedicated. It's hilarious. (Friday 30 May 2014; 22:49)

To The Floor, OOC, Money, etc. (44,324) by TR from USA I feel like maybe post-Butterfly there's been that one song on each album that bothers me, and TTF was it on TEOM. I just omitted it completely from my TEOM playlist. I forget that it's even on the album now lol (I've also omitted OOC from E=MC2, Did I Do That from Rainbow, Last Night A DJ... is fine, much better than these other ones I'm listing, but it's the one I probably like least on Glitter, You Got Me from CB, and Inseparable from MOAIA). Get Your Number came close to being that way too. I'm still not very crazy about it. And I'm thinking Money is going to be the one I omit from this one. But I appreciate that there are fans who love those tracks, and it supports that MC tries to put something on her albums for everybody. These are just more often than not the tracks that are borderline-underground hip-hop edgy, whereas I prefer to get a certain residual pop feel from her urban tracks - Thirsty and Migrate being great examples. When she goes to the edge of where I expect her sound to go, (TTF, OOC, etc.) I just don't go with her haha. I personally was just never attracted to the beat/melody of TTF and OOC, which is often my first draw followed by vocals then lyrics. But again, I appreciate that they're "marmite", and not for everybody. She's multi-dimensional, I'm not gonna expect every song to be Migrate, Dreamlover, or WBT (I'm not the biggest fan of Last Kiss, Love Story, or I Stay In Love - except her notes at the end). (Friday 30 May 2014; 22:38)

Album promo (44,323) by PJW from The U.K. Me again. Lol. I was thinking about the album promo, how there doesn't seem to be enough, disgruntled fans, etc, but as people have said on here a) she doesn't even have a single right now and b) this album is a slow burner. So taking both into account, wouldn't it be wiser anyway if Def Jam waited a while? The album will be a top seller this week anyway (despite low sales) but once YDKWTD is released, has a video, people are taking notice of the track (I have absolute faith they will) and the album starts to simmer they can then invest some more into it. There's obviously a lot of hope in this theory and it's a strategy that could backfire but the albums so good that it's unlikely to do hardcore flop. And if it ends up a flop then really, what can you do? It's a fantastic album that speaks for itself, is acclaimed and I think at this point I'm beyond really caring if she doesn't do well chart wise, she's wealthy enough to provide us with music forever. Viva Mariah Carey. Viva MIAM. (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:43)

Yes! YDKWTD (44,322) by Jono from USA According to Def Jam president, You Don't Know What To Do will be released as the next single. This is really great news - of all the tracks on this album, it is the most commercial. It isn't the best song on the album, but it is the one that will get people to buy the album. If all goes according to plan and this song gets a radio and digital release, as lambs we need to do our part in supporting her. It doesn't mean just buying the single, it also means calling in to the radio stations and requesting this song. Radio is probably one of the biggest outlets for music to get heard, and this song could be a monster summer hit and really stand out, as nothing sounds like YDKWTD right now. Forget the fact that this could be a hit, the main focus is that this song will bring attention to MIAM and expose Mariah to a new generation. (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:40)

Sales? (44,321) by Nicole from US Where did these sale numbers come from anyway? Is it just based on the numbers shipped or demanded? I'm confused because I went to Target and saw a few left of the CD. I'm sure the other lambs have seen the demand as well. Even MariahDaily states they can't buy anymore due to large demand. I need explanation of these numbers. (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:28)

Thirsty (44,320) by G.G. from USA Does anyone know where I can find a HQ version of Thirsty with the rap verse in it? I found one, but the radio announcer talks in parts of it. (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:19)

Next single (44,319) by G.G. from USA I read that You Don't Know What To Do is the next single and will be released at the beginning of June. I guess that means there will not be a video for Thirsty. (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:18)

Clarification / To the floor (44,318) by PJW from The U.K. I just realised that in my last post I called "To The Floor" a marmite track, by which I meant that people either love it or hate it. Just wanted to give some context. Also, does anyone remember what we used to call "To The Floor" before we knew it's actual title? Was it "Tonight"? (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:13)

Singles (44,317) by PJW from The U.K. The two singles I'll always be annoyed about are "Sweetheart" and "If We". Sony pulled "Sweetheart" after it had been released (big mistake) and obviously "If We" was cancelled after the I'm Real/Loverboy/If We drama, which I still maintain was a silly move. I think both were really defining moments in her career and had Mariah gone ahead with these releases, I think things would've turned out differently and we'd have had TEOM, MOAIA and MIAM a long time before we did. Another totally silly single was "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life". That's basically been erased from history. Talking about "To The Floor", I've always found it strange how this is such a marmite track. I personally love it and have since the day it leaked. It's sleek, sexy, different, fits nicely where it sits on the album. Why is it that people don't like it? (Friday 30 May 2014; 18:09)

JLo (44,316) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It's painful to see JLo's mindless song "I Luh Ya Papi" peak above Mariah's YME. And now JLo released her second single along with the video. (Friday 30 May 2014; 17:17)

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