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Dem babies dancing to new MC music? (36,361) by Will from England Very cute! But on another note, is that new Mariah music that they're dancing to? The voice sounds very Mariah, plus, it would make sense since the music was muffled/covered over. (Monday 24 September 2012; 16:05)

What I'd like to hear on the new album (36,359) by RadChad from United States After watching the club performance, I would love for her to do a jazzy soulful piano remake of "Summer Time". I think with this album she should mix energetic uptempos with vocals (modern day Emotions/To Be Around You) and strong soulful ballads where she's using her lower register (Vanishing/Never Too Far, but something new sounding). Her signature gospel/inspirational songs, a introspective song always leaves me fulfilled (FLAB, I Wish You Well, Languishing). I just want her to write and sing from her heart. So to sum up the album, I would say it should be a throwback yet has a fresh sound. (Friday 21 September 2012; 19:23)

Mo' Mariah (36,358) by nikki from usa I don't think I want to hear music that sounds "like" anything else. I have to give MC kudos for trying different things, even for her, but I really did like her jazz performance. I'd like to hear somethings sung in her lower register. It's soulful and sexy. As long as it's catchy - no belting required. More melody and rhythm experimentation and less volume. I'd like an all acapella song, maybe even a lullaby. A few songs with signature vocals would be appreciated, I just hope she plays more with the music. She has such a versatile voice and yet with each album it's almost like she sticks with one version. All belting, all soft singing. Lately, Mariah sings more externally - about topics going on around her. But, I think her internal songs are far more classic - UTS, CME, MB, Inside, Outside, EFA, even Slipping Away. She owns such an array of musical genres, the albums where she incorporates them all the most are the albums that sell the best. Variety and Versatility is Mariah Carey... and Mariah Carey sells. (Friday 21 September 2012; 4:08)

The return of The Voice (36,357) by T from USA Remember in 2005 when Mariah re-branded herself as the return of The Voice? Well 2013, she has a golden opportunity to re-brand herself again. With American Idol concentrating on "the voice", she will get to reach an audience that loves good voices and songs. I really hope they take this route with her. This era can be all about The Voice. And if they market it right, she will hit the roof with sales and success. That being said, songs like Obsessed, Touch My Body and Triumphant cannot be the model for upcoming material. It's time to rebrand yourself MC. Go back to basics, go back to the first two albums as inspiration. Songs with great melodies that are easy to sing along to, in a full voice that we can understand. Hopefully a little Walter Afanasieff will be present. (Thursday 20 September 2012; 15:03)

Butterfly (36,354) by Lainsky from Philippines I cannot believe it has been 15 years since my all time favorite MC album was released! I don't know for some reasons, none of her album can top this one considering the songs and music videos... at least for me. They are simply the best! (Tuesday 18 September 2012; 11:12)

Nikki (36,353) by RibbonB from USA Mariah has already said today that there is no feud (yet), lol. We already know she and Nicki have worked together before. We can expect lots of silly press stories and theories from now until the show airs and even more when it does hit the TV screen. Comes with the territory. (Tuesday 18 September 2012; 2:37)

Butterfly (36,352) by Randy from USA I'm glad some of you mentioned the anniversary of this masterpiece. I will never forget that day 09.16.97 when I brought the CD home and opened the cellophane. I already loved Honey but then I heard Butterfly, My All and the rest of the tracks in secession and I was amazed. I couldn't believe an album had been made that had no filler tracks. Everything was different and yet belonged and connected. This album set her apart from Celine and Whitney at the time because wow they had great albums, neither have had anything that compared to this one. This was also the first time I took MC seriously as a songwriter and her themes of alienation and loneliness apparent on Close My Eyes and Outside made me feel like there was someone who felt the way I did about my family and how society treated me for being different. I love this album and though I still love MC and have loved Rainbow, Glitter, E=MC2 and Memoirs, I am still waiting for Butterfly's true follow up. (Tuesday 18 September 2012; 1:43)

Fantasia and Karen Clark Sheard (36,351) by Special K from USA Oh my goodness. Their musical tributes to Mimi at BMI were outstanding. (Monday 17 September 2012; 22:42)

Stevie J (36,350) by Special K from USA Wow Mimi is working with Stevie J again. Despite his character flaws, he has produced some real good music with Mimi. This could be interesting. (Monday 17 September 2012; 22:26)

Nobody knows (36,349) by nikki from usa I can't believe these reports I'm reading about so-called experts in the entertainment industry. Is TMZ so dense that they don't realize that Nicki and MC have already worked together, because MC thought she'd be the next big thing before anyone knew who she was? And NM was a big fan of hers? MC replaces J.Lo? Please. Mariah's last "hit" was last year with Beiber, while everyone and their brother did a remake of her classic Christmas song. Since then she's been fulfilling offers from HSN lines to Jenny to nailpolish. Mariah's going in with a full swing career, J.lo went in to get one. Both MC and Nicki would be representing the urban/R&B element. My guess is they will be far more highlighted this year. Gospel may have a better chance too. If MC gets comfy enough, she may show some of that "chatty man" action she does for the UK show. Then things will get really interesting... (Monday 17 September 2012; 21:47)

Lyric/Nicki (36,348) by Licia from USA I read somewhere that they picked Nicki because she represents urban music. Um no she doesn't. She's a popular gimmick right now that AI wanted to appeal to the younger crowd plain and simple. Names like Diddy, Pharrel Williams, Toni Braxton, and Kanye were thrown out and the best they could do was her? I understand why they picked her, but I don't like it. (Monday 17 September 2012; 12:20)

Nicki Minaj (36,347) by Lyric from USA What are everyone's feelings on Nicki joining AI? Obviously, she's hardly qualified to judge a singing competition and Fox is desperate for ratings. It'll be interesting to see if she and Mariah will have good chemistry on the judging panel. I won't be watching AI, but I'd feel more inclined to watch if it were just Mariah, Keith and Randy. (Monday 17 September 2012; 10:20)

Licia (36,346) by Stacey from USA Random thoughts are good since a lot of folks here tend to take things way to seriously. My family thinks I'm obsessed with MC since I traded and collected her CDs for 5 years. I told them they have no idea, lol. I'm quite tame to many fans out there. But seriously, I don't need to defend why I like MC. Her success speaks for itself. Numbers don't lie. Further, I like MC and see no need to defend that. It's as simple as that. Her music uplifts me, gets me in a good mood, etc. (Monday 17 September 2012; 8:10)

RibbonB (36,345) by Licia from USA It just irks my soul when I see that. Lol. I'm not wasting my time trying to convince anybody of anything. If you like her, fine. If you don't like her, I could care less. Some of us care too much about the opinions of people who shouldn't matter. (Monday 17 September 2012; 2:01)

Licia (36,344) by RibbonB from USA Lol. I'm with you on that, particularly to defend why I like MC and her music. All that fan wars stuff gets kind of over the top. If people don't put her on a pedestal, they don't have to worry about keeping her on it, or knocking her down when she doesn't meet their ideal or fantasy. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 20:48)

Happy anniversary Butterfly (36,342) by Stella from Greece Happy anniversary to Mariah's best album ever! Mariah was at her peak with this album. I love the songwriting, her poetic vocals and the cohesion of Butterfly. I'm afraid Mariah won't ever make an album stronger than Butterfly. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 19:00)

Random question / thought (36,341) by Licia from USA Am I the only person who never felt the need to defend Mariah or justify why I like Mariah to other people? I see a lot of fans who say that they had to work to try to convince people who don't like Mariah to like her or they try to explain why they like her. Why do you all do that? I'm just curious to know everyone else's thoughts . I know I'm random lol. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 16:22)

Happy 15th anniversary (36,340) by Geezy from USA by way of NYC On this day September 16th, 1997, Mariah released her 6th studio album Butterfly which many fans and critics consider Mariah's career defining album from professional and personal standpoint. The album saw Mariah venture into an Urban direction more then ever before. Even though it predecessor saw Mimi take a dip into the urban pool, Butterfly saw her bathe in it from top to bottom with its co-producers being some of the biggest names in Urban music at the time. Butterfly spawn two #1 singles in the US, Honey and My All gave Mimi her 12 and 13th #1 single respectively. Also, the album went to become a multiplatinum smash in the US and an international smash worldwide. Happy 15th anniversary Butterfly. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 15:54)

Congrats to Triumphant (36,339) by RibbonB from USA To MC on her video, for being voted number 1 two days in a row on 106 & Park. I can't wait to hear the ballad that's supposed to be on the way. It's also nice that MC promises to share some new video clips of dem babies bigger than ever, walking and talking. They are so blessed. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 2:21)

Remembering 1994-1996 (36,338) by Edward from USA Watching the "Dreamlover", "Without You", "Hero" and "Endless Love" videos. In those videos Mariah looked innocent but with such confidence, I would say effortless, it was about her instrument. I remember getting my walkman and listening to her for hours. At times I'd play some recordings of her I had made from the radio, and my mother would come and say: Here you are again, listening to this woman nobody understands what she's saying, lol. My mom didn't speak English, and I was learning secretly mostly by listening to her songs and reading the lyrics that came with her CD's. Word like relinquish, rhapsodize, emblazoned and thee were all introduced to my vocabulary through her lyrics. I guess what I miss most from her is the way she would sing a song effortlessly, without head turning, hand waving or recordings. It was as if she was saying: Oh, you thought this was only in the studio, look at my face and let the voice reach your soul. That's how I killed the haters back then, I used to play her live performances and look at them open mouth, then I would say: Can Whitney or Celine do that? I don't think so. "Underneath The Stars" and "Open Arms" were food to my soul, I could say those were magical moments in her career. Even though I don’t want Tommy in her career whatsoever, I thank God things happened the way they did. You have to take the good with the bad, life is not perfect. She lived it, benefitted from it, found her voice, punished him and kind of moved on. (Sunday 16 September 2012; 1:37)

Re: M&M - songwriting (36,337) by nikki from usa Just an example, MC describing her songwriting process: "The way I usually work is I do an untitled song. We'll grab the hook, whether sampled or created, and use it as the working title. I wrote the verses first, as well as the melody and the inclusion of several instrumentals. Sometimes I'll have an idea for lyrics. If I'm collaborating with someone, I'll direct them in the direction that I'm going chord wise, because I get all these melody ideas and then I lose them if I don't have someone really good with the keyboard with me. That's why I tend to collaborate because I lose the ideas by the time I figure out the chord. All these melody ideas just go." This was describing the creation of Dreamlover specifically, it went on to say that Walter added in 3 instruments to this song which is why he's also listed under producer, even though the majority was already done by MC and Hall. The majority of a song is done by Mariah herself, but because she's more trained by ear than hands-on, it'll be rare when she's not collaborating. (Saturday 15 September 2012; 21:03)

Morocco concert (36,336) by enwar00 from usa I started last night and I'm watching the rest of the concert in Morocco from earlier this year. I love it. Plus I think she's hilarious, as usual, making up songs on the fly and all. (Saturday 15 September 2012; 19:33)

Nattalie (36,335) by Stephen from London, United Kingdom I was thinking the same thing. I've been wanting Mariah to do a jazz album for years. (Saturday 15 September 2012; 12:22)

BMI/ASCAP (36,334) by RibbonB from USA Note that these companies do the same thing, it just depends on which of these licensing agencies an artist signs with to monitor their music airplay. They don't affect songwriter credit. (Friday 14 September 2012; 17:38)

Mason (36,333) by RibbonB from USA I wasn't even trying to be mean to you, it just seemed as if you were asking such a basic question. But there is no formula to determine percentage of writer credits. It's determined by the co-writers and how they work together. Famous writing teams like Bachrach and David (RIP Hal David) had a distinct way of writing. Bacharch wrote the music compositions and David wrote the lyrics and Elton John wrote music and has had a long time lyricist. Other artists write differently. In today's music industry, many producers make beats and the artist might write their own lyrics and on so forth. (Friday 14 September 2012; 17:17)

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