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Memorable Christmas performances (40,026) by Eternal from Italy I think both Christmas albums were equally good, but the first one, IMHO, just had a more timeless selection of songs. The second was more creative in its song choices, like incorporating hip hop into "Here Comes Santa Claus". Both albums get me into a very festive mood. Since Christmas is less than a month away, I thought this unforgettable performance of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" could be a good start to the countdown. Her vocals in this 1991 performance was killer, classic MC. Warm, low yet soaring at the same time. It really showcases her talents. I actually prefer this live version than the one she recorded for her Merry Christmas album. What do you guys think? (Thursday 28 November 2013; 10:07)

Merry Christmas II You (40,025) by Tyler from USA It's that time of year again to start bringing out the MC Christmas catalog. I wanted to see if I'm the only one who prefers the second Christmas album over the original. For the last 3 years MCIIY has been my go to album for the holidays. Mimi's voice is amazing on this album between the subtle soft register ( First Noel, CTIITAA) to insane belting moments (When Christmas Comes, OCAYF). I really cannot pick out a favorite track but Little Drummer Boy always seems to get the most plays. That track is so beautiful from the strings, the choir, to Mariah's breathtaking built up.This album flows effortlessly from song to song and there is not one song I skip. I know the original is a classic but it's all over the place at times. While I love the original, I feel it lacks the cohesiveness, maturity and production as the latter album. In my opinion, MCIIY is one of Mariah's best albums yet. (Thursday 28 November 2013; 4:49)

Randy (40,024) by Stephen from London, United Kingdom Very interesting interpretation, and if you're right, it's a hilarious way for MC to introduce the album if you ask me. Such a classy way to take a dig at the useless fuckers over at IDJ. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 22:31)

Randy (40,023) by Will from England That's such an interesting interpretation and certainly changes the way that the song can be understood! It hadn't crossed my mind either that it could have been about IDJ. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 22:01)

Randy / R Kelly / Mike Will Made It (40,022) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Oh wow, I never thought of it like that. That letting go can be about the label and not just a person. Makes sense that way too. Nice interpretation. I guess Mariah did indeed succeed in keeping this song open to different meanings. I'm excited about the R Kelly collaboration. Might be a sultry duet. There are rumors MC also worked with Mike Will Made It, he seems to be working with a lot of people currently. I wonder what he cooked up with MC. A dream collaboration for me would be Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey (I know they did the charity single, but not like that, I mean like a romantic song or something upbeat I don't care). MJ and MC are the greatest singers ever. Alas this is something that won't happen. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 21:53)

TAOLG (40,021) by Randy from USA It came on my playlist and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. This song is not about Nicki Minaj. It's not about Tommy Mottola. This is a thinly veiled goodbye to IDJ. I am no longer under your dominion. Watching you fall (down the charts). I feel like such an idiot. That it took me so long to realize this. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 18:47)

R. Kelly and Mariah (40,020) by Licia from USA All I can say is yes to this. R. Kelly is like Babyface to me, he's magical when it comes to song writing. I wonder if they did a grown and sexy song or an inspirational one. I hope their song makes it to the album. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 18:40)

Autotune (40,019) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah hardly uses autotune. She doesn't need it, but even in some rare cases when she does, I don't mind it. I mean come on the woman can sing! And pretty darn great at that. So she's got nothing to prove, that's why the occasional autotune in songs like Migrate, I'm That Chick, Obsessed doesn't bother me. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 18:24)

R. Kelly (40,018) by B from USA He's a talented writer. I hope they write together. I hope she writes with Bruno Mars and his team, as well. Bruno's When I Was Your Man proofs he can write a killer ballad. Fingers crossed! (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 18:08)

Gilbert (40,017) by enwar00 from usa Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Thanks again for the CD. That's festive right? Lol. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 17:15)

Holiday season (40,016) by Gilbert from USA Hi everyone, I just want to wish my MC family a wonderful upcoming Thanksgiving. Have fun, enjoy the time with your family and friends. Much love to everyone. I can't believe another year has gone by. It's time for Mariah Carey holiday music again. Take care everyone. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 16:26)

Autotune (40,015) by B from USA Her voice isn't autotuned on TAOLG. Obsessed was the only single I noticed its use on. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 15:58)

Underrated Songs (40,014) by Will from England These are my personal underrated favs from each of her albums: 1 - Mariah Carey: Prisoner and Alone In Love 2 - Emotions: Till The End Of Time 3 - Music Box: Everything Fades Away and Just To Hold You Once Again 4 - Daydream: Looking In and When I Saw You 5 - Butterfly: The Roof, The Beautiful Ones and Close My Eyes 6 - Rainbow: After Tonight, X Girlfriend, Petals and Crybaby 7 - Glitter (yeah, I know it's a soundtrack album, but I still love it): Reflections, Lead The Way and Never Too Far 8 - Charmbracelet: I Only Wanted, Yours and You Had Your Chance 9 - The Emancipation Of Mimi: I Wish You Knew 10 - E=MC2: Migrate, Side Effects, For the Record and Love Story 11 - Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel: Languishing and Ribbon (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 14:03)

Underrated songs (40,013) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter These are my favorite underrated songs, and my list includes songs that most people (as in non hardcore fans) don't know about and songs that didn't reach number 1 and/or wasn't released. 1) Mariah Carey: All In Your Mind, Prisoners (she kinda raps in it, I found it supercute) 2) Emotions: And You Don't Remember, Make It Happen 3) Musicbox: ATYNAF , Never Forget You 4) Daydream: When I Saw You, Long Ago, Melt Away, Forever, Looking In 5) Butterfly: Butterfly, The Roof, Looking In, Babydoll, Breakdown (and the remix, both amazing), Fly Away, Close My Eyes, Outside, Whenever You Call 6) Rainbow: Bliss, How Much, After Tonight, Vulnerability, Crybaby, Petals, Rainbow, Bliss 7) Glitter: If We, Lead The Way, All My Life, Reflections, Twister 8) Charmbracelet: TTR, The One (and remix), BOTH, You Got Me 9) TEOM: I actually love all the songs in this one 10) E=MC2: Again all of them here 10) Memoirs: Ditto Others: I Still Believe (and Pure imagination remix), Slipping Away, Gotta Thing For You, I Know What You Want, Miss You, 100%, Almost Home, Li'l Love, My Love, Endless Love, Imperfect (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 8:00)

Star magazine (40,011) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I wouldn't take Star magazine seriously. I heard Star and National Enquirer come up with ridiculous stories about celebrities, especially couples, all the time. Their other favourite target being Brangelina. But what worried me is the Barbara Walter and the recent radio interview. I watched the Walters interview with Dembabies when it first came out, and I kinda forgot about it, but yesterday I came across a snippet where when Barbara asked if MC trusts Nick, she said "sometimes". Then MC went like when he is nice, he is great. So Barbara asks like is he bad at other times, and MC is like "he's a man Barbara". And in the recent interview also she seemed a little upset about Nick. I really hope I am wrong, because I think they are an adorable couple, and have two adorable kids. If anything is wrong, which I hope is not, I hope they work it out. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 7:44)

Buzzfeed article (40,010) by Jessie from USA Thanks for reading. I'm also writing an article about how underrated Glitter is. I love that album. The only thing that worries me is that similar things in this era are happening that happened right before Glitter came out during her "emotional breakdown". The Facebook manifesto is similar to the voicemail messages she left during the Glitter era etc. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 3:07)

Star magazine (40,009) by Lee from USA What can we do about this magazine? They have tried to break them up since 2008. (Wednesday 27 November 2013; 1:24)

Mimi L. / favourite song off the catalogue (40,008) by R&B Junkie from Poland I agree about the underrated songs. Here's a list of my favourite songs by MC (the feeling as of November 26, 2013, it changes as the time goes by). Mariah Carey: All In Your Mind Emotions: So Blessed and Make It Happen MTV Unplugged: Someday Music Box: Dreamlover Merry Christmas: AIWFCIY Daydream: (exception) Slipping Away from the ABMB single Butterfly: The Roof, Breakdown, Babydoll Rainbow: Heartbreaker tied with Crybaby Glitter: Don't Stop, If We Charmbracelet: TTR, Irresistible TEOM: Shake It Off and Stay The Night E=MC2: Cruise Control, I Wish You Well and O.O.C. Memoirs: Betcha Gon' Know, Ribbon, It's A Wrap MCIIY: Here Comes Santa Claus Other songs I'd like to attach to this list are: Lil' L.O.V.E., Sweetheart, and remixes: Fantasy, MyAll/StayAwhile. You can see this list has also songs that aren't widely recognizable by the publicity. Current work didn't hit this chart because I am still impressed and that could make me less objective (beause I love them all). What is the point: the success of e.g. WBT doesn't make me love the song more than I'd do without all this crazy 14 weeks at #1. It's like we musn't love rich people just because they are so. Just a piece of advice. Love to you all everybody! (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 21:20)

Lyrics (40,007) by B from USA I wrote the lyrics so that anyone and everyone could relate to them. The lyrics in the verses are personal to her and not everyone can relate to them. This has been the problem which her lyrics these days. If the lyrics were relatable, more people would connect with them. This has been going on since E=MC2. She needs to write simple lyrics like ABMB, WBT, and Hero. If she did so, she'd have another smash. The last song written by her that was close to her past writing style was #Beautiful and Side Effects. (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 21:16)

Will (40,006) by Deedre aka MiTodoChop @HBF from Canada That is my take on TAOLG as well. I think Mariah drew upon many experiences to write the song, but it isn't autobiographical in the sense that she set out to write about one person or situation. It can be about the end of a romance, a friendship or even just something you feel done with that isn't serving you anymore. (The relationship metaphor is just such a natural choice when writing songs.) Yes, she referenced Tommy during the inpomtu Fallon fan concert, but that is a widely public example of the process of "letting go" that has been talked about for years. She's not revealing anything new there. That's just one account that's pretty obvious because really what's left to say that hasn't been said? I think she intended for the song to be ambiguous. Perhaps not her strongest lyrical achievement as others have mentioned, in comparison to her other work. For example, the bit about possessions outside the "kitchen window", I get the feeling it might not be as literal as it might sound. Not everyone who has chosen to let of something would throw things out the window, but it is one way of expressing the emotion behind needing to purge or clear things from your life that don't need to be there. I don't get the feeling she sat down and was like "I am gong to write a song about this person at this time in my life." I think it's more about getting in touch with a personal process that often happens repeatedly as you evolve and change which is why it "ain't easy". (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 19:12)

I don't know and neither do you (40,005) by Lamb_O_Chop from Australia Mimi L. Bangladesh, I will calm down after you calm down, you quoted me first, remember? I really wanted to just drop this subject with my last post, but there was so much ridiculousness in your last post that I just couldn't. How could you compare Mariah's fourth or fifth single from Music Box not having a video to TAOLG not having a video. Even you know that was a reach. I said "second" lead single which would be more like Love Takes Time, Can't Let Go, Hero, One Sweet Day, Butterfly, TGIFY, Boy I Need You, WBT, Bye Bye, and IWKWLI not having videos. Get my drift? It just hasn't happen before. IMO it's evident that Mariah knew that this raw old school throwback ballad wasn't going to top the charts like Vision Of Love. She knew it wasn't the most radio friendly song in her arsenal. Even lambs like myself that absolutely adore the song knew it wouldn't. So evidently she just want to connect with the fans and perhaps regenerate some buzz for the album since #Beautiful died down. None of us are in her inner circle so ofcourse we don't know for sure, but I just putting two and two together she has yet to mention a video or any further promotion for this song and Christmas is around the corner so you know she will be getting her AIWFCIY on every chance she gets. Anyway I'm over it moving right along. (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 18:59)

Licia / Glitter (40,003) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I am from the 90's. And I still really like Glitter. Most, if not all the songs are great on that album and the ballads are really heartfelt. And the 80's remake with a modern touch was pure genius. That album was way ahead of time. People didn't appreciate it. They were too busy trying to make fun of Mariah's mental state and hence overlooked the album. And a lot of people writing articles on Mimi have a habit of saying stuff like "oh she's the biggest selling female artist except for a hiccup - Glitter, or a disappointment Glitter". I am sure most of these writers didn't really even listen to the album, they just went with what others said. I think some of her most underrated work are some of her best. People talk about her well known singles, which are definitely great, but she also has some really amazing album cuts. (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 15:17)

Question (40,002) by B from USA Isn't it odd that an artist once accused of following trends is now not following them. Buzzfeed is right, #Beautiful was the song of the summer. Who cares if Robin Thicke has a big... (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 14:58)

Open to interpretation (40,001) by Will from England I know I may be a bit late with this "two cents" about how to interpret TAOLG, but better late than never! The song could be just about anything you want it to be, depending upon your situation. It could be about letting go of a loved one, it could be about letting go of a relationship that just isn't working anymore, it could be about letting go of a situation that still hurts you to this day or it could be about letting go about somebody who was a nasty piece of work in your life. She left the song so open lyrically, and never went into specifics, that you can flip it onto your own life at any point. From her point of view, yes, I do think it is about Tommy and why not? "Cause somebody you used to know, is flinging your world around, and they watch as you're falling down." To me that is a clear reference to 2001, where everything went wrong. For her, she could be talking about letting go of TEOM era and trying to replicate that success ("Go to Mimi on your contacts, press delete"). That one is a long shot, I know. Could some of it be in reference to Nicki? Maybe a line or two, but nothing more. I said when the song first came out, that I was on the fence, but now, after having my own little moment, and having the song on solid repeat, I love this song. I don't care if it doesn't chart, because to me, it doesn't need validation on the charts. It's a simply great, heartfelt, moving song that is a wonderful relief from the horrors that is considered a) music and b) popular. (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 14:00)

Mimi L. (40,000) by Licia from USA Glitter is my second favorite album. I'm a late 70s baby so I have an appreciation for the songs she remade from the 80's and the original songs. Sad that this album got over shadowed. (Tuesday 26 November 2013; 13:10)

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