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MC clocked part 2 (106,901) by Brandon from USA

@TJ Compare this performance and the performance in my first comment that I added to her last performance and tell me [you] don’t see a difference. Anyone else see a difference?
(Wednesday 17 July 2024; 19:21)


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Infinity video (106,900) by Robert-Anthony from United States

I think it is a fun video. I guess my expectations for a video are really low. Videos that are simple live performances like Madonna's Dress You Up or MJ's Dirty Diana keep my attention more than high budget videos.

(Wednesday 17 July 2024; 18:52)


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Mariah's been mum of late ... oh no please no (106,899) by Robert-Anthony from United States

MC must have gotten a burst of energy to get MC16 completed before her Vegas shows start again.

(Wednesday 17 July 2024; 14:40)


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Infinity video (106,898) by Zachariah from Croatia

Infinity video is ridiculous. It's cheap, tacky and just awful. The recent good-ish video was With You and little bit far away - We Belong Together. Before that - Through The Rain and Honey. Everything else: not worth of mentioning.
(Wednesday 17 July 2024; 09:03)


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Infinity video (106,897) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

While the video looked like it had good budget, it's not a video that I particularly revisit. It at least has a small plot though hahah unlike some of her recent videos. I am craving some decent budget creative videos from Mariah like her TEOM, Butterfly era days also TMB (that video is perfection).
(Wednesday 17 July 2024; 00:52)


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MC clocked part 2 (106,896) by TJ from Norway

Where is the energy you are talking about? I can't see it.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 20:35)


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MC clocked part 2 (106,895) by Robert-Anthony from United States

If MC could just get back to these type of performances.

(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 20:11)


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Infinity video (106,894) by Robert-Anthony from United States

The various live performances shots, different model/actor scenes, and the Touch My Body reference mansion scenes made Infinity a great video. It was a playful video just like Touch My Body. Don't you see that way?

(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 18:41)


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MC clocked part 2 (106,893) by Brandon from USA

I loved how her energy was here and how she had small choreographed parts with the dancers. You could tell she was having fun, trying new things performance wise and really feeling herself. I hate that the SSFT didn't come to the US and more people didn't experience this show. She would have killed it.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 18:31)

Infinity video (106,892) by Brandon from USA

It's Like That, WBT, Honey, Heartbreaker, Get Your Number, Shake It Off are some of MC's most well thought out videos. I totally disagree that Infinity (the song and video IMO) were well thought out. She was in Vegas so she shot a quick video. Infinity and I Don't belong in the same category if u ask me, forgettable.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 18:15)


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MC clocked in (106,891) by Brandon from USA

This is the type of performance I like to see from MC. Her energy, excitement, engagement with the crowd was magnetic this night (and the entire SSFT imo). She was definitely clocked in and happy to be on stage enjoying what she was doing. She was ad libbing like crazy and the crowd ate it up. She actually took time to hype the crowd up and worked the stage. She didn't walk like her feet hurt because her heels were too high or stand in one spot like a statue. She didn't look lost on stage. She was fully alert and performed. I need this type of energy and confidence from MC in 2024. Is that too much to ask? Yes I'm happy she's still with us and out there but I need her to start clocking in on these performances.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 18:02)

MIH in Manila 2003 (106,890) by Shezz from Pk

Thank you for sharing that. I absolutely love it.

(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 05:34)


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MIH in Manila 2003 (106,889) by Robert-Anthony from United States

MC is at her best here. Now I understand why the Charmbracelet tour really showcased how great her voice was during this tour.

(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 03:23)


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Mariah saved me (106,888) by Jamie from UK

I hope you're ok. Life can be difficult at times. You've got this though and you will only be stronger from it.

(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 02:34)


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Infinity video (106,887) by C from United States

What about the video was great in concept? The scenes that were in the teaser that didn't show up in the final video would have been better than the live shots.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 01:46)


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MIH in Manila 2003 (106,886) by Xavier mariohmix from Spain

What about this concert and this performance in particular? The drive, the energy, the looks, the sweat, the voice, the charisma. Everything.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 00:17)

Mariah saved me (106,885) by Xavier mariohmix from Spain

Hey, Joaquim. Same here, kind of. I hope you're feeling fine now. Sometimes we take things for granted, even Mariah's music (our favorite), because we tend not to value what we have and only seek for what we don't have. We need to make ourselves remember that her music and her message is just right there when we need it the most.
(Tuesday 16 July 2024; 00:12)


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Infinity video (106,884) by Robert-Anthony from United States

You can't deny that the video for Infinity is one her most well thought out videos. Probably better than GTFO and With You. Those two videos received mediorce video treatments.

By the way, Tayla Parxx, Infinity co-writer, made me watch the video today because she is hotter than a firecracker at Normani for not giving her proper album credit for the song Insomina which she co-wrote with Normani, Victoria Monet, Brandy, and Stargate. However, Normani delivers Tayla another low blow by giving her songwriting credit in a interview this week and said that she hadn't seen Tayla in awhile.

(Monday 15 July 2024; 23:44)

What’s left? (106,883) by C from United States

For Daydream30, what's left unused/unreleased/in the vault that we want? I wouldn't mind a hybrid album of Daydream and Ugly Daughter, it could be sequenced in the order the made the songs or a thematic paring. For example, if she was working on ABMB during the day and Dememted during the night, those songs can be sequenced together. Call the hybrid project "Maladaptive Daydream".

Daydream rehearsal footage. We're more likely to get tour footage from this show because she would be less critical of the vocals (why I believe we will never get [Rainbow] or [Charmbracelet] tour footage).

She will likely make Looking In the acapella release like she did with Outside on [Butterfly] or [Music Box] on MB. However, I'd love to have the album version of Fantasy be released acapella. There is so much going on in that song that it needs to be fully appreciated.

Have we ever understood why the full Daydream photoshoot has never been released? Why was only 1 picture used for artwork and a single? We need to see the whole shoot. There are lq outtakes that suggest there are several pics in the shoot

I'd love to hear some [Daydream] demos or different takes of songs.

If indeed the OSD video is the actual recording of the song, release the entirety of the footage so we can see how the song came together in real time.
(Monday 15 July 2024; 21:55)

May Céline inspire Mariah? (106,882) by C from United States

Why do lambs do this? You said, "Mariah's not interested in selling out stadiums anymore." How do you know that? Are you on her team? Who books a venue to perform and doesn't want it to sell out? You all say these counter-intuitive things to make Mariah seem so above it all. To paraphrase Whitney, "It's called show business." Mariah isn't getting on stage because she loves performing (her last few years on stage show us that). She needs the money. She has bills to pay like we all do.
(Monday 15 July 2024; 21:43)


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Mariah's been mum of late ... oh no please no (106,881) by C from United States

None of those sites are ever accurate. Everyone knows that. Regarding MC16, "hopes and prayers".
(Monday 15 July 2024; 13:41)


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Mariah's been mum of late ... oh no please no (106,880) by C from United States

You said everything that needed to be said. I wish someone on Mariah's payroll would sit her down and tell her this. What it says to me is that commercial, general public, chart success is important to her (like it is to any performer). It's also important to the lambs - look how crazy and braggadocios they get in December. So the whole "she's done everything", "Mariah doesn't care about charts/has nothing to prove" argument is a pure lie. If she would put the same energy into new, smart, collaborations and her dead stage performances, she would be on the right track.
(Monday 15 July 2024; 13:39)


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Mariah's been mum of late ... oh no please no (106,879) by Shezz from Pk

I think she's quiet because she's finishing MC16. She already celebrated the 25th anniversary of Christmas so I don't think 30 will have a big celebration lined up but I'm sure she will do something. Whether we like it or not, that is where she earns her money now. And the fact that it still goes to number 1 every year shows a large majority of the general public has come to embrace it as an annual tradition. You bring out the tree, put up the lights and you play AIWFCIY. She will do her Christmas concerts for sure. I do believe she is going to focus on non Christmas projects in the near future as well though.

(Monday 15 July 2024; 12:57)


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E=MC2 off on the beaten path (106,878) by whisperingmisunderstandings from USA

I agree and I think the problem with the label's single choices after TEOM is that they always felt they had to stick to a formula (i.e. having the 2nd single be a ballad, which had usually worked for Mariah in the past) rather than shifting to where the popular culture was at. Following TMB with Bye Bye, a ballad at a time when slower songs (particularly non-love songs) were few and far between on the top 40, made absolutely no sense when you had Migrate, a killer song with a A-list feature and a song that already had the public stamp of approval (debuting on BB Hot 100 when it wasn't even a single). Maybe the label was stuck in the past, not fully understanding that in the iTunes era consumers were now setting the trends that labels needed to chase, not the other way around. Personally I think "For the Record" would have done well on the charts (in the vein of MJB's "Be Without You"), and even "Cruise Control" could have been a modest chart hit with its Caribbean sound, considering Rihanna had debuted just a few years earlier. And that's not even touching Bye Bye's subject matter - a topic that no pop song during the frivolous 2000s era would have ever dared to touch. In terms of sales idk if E=MC2 could have done any better than 1,000,000 in the States (considering that point in Mariah's career and the fact that its not her strongest album) but certainly had the label been willing to look forward with Mariah's career, rather than sticking to their tired guns, I think it would have had longer legs.
(Monday 15 July 2024; 01:13)


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Mariah's been mum of late ... oh no please no (106,877) by Robert-Anthony from United States

Lol. Randy it is an easy way for her to make a lot of money in a short amount of time. MC is going to do something to celebrate 30 years of AIWFIY and Merry Christmas this year. By the way, has anyone noticed that her net worth has decreased from 500 million to 350 million according to various websites? Not releasing an album in 6 years, has really affected her net worth. I hope MC16 is one of the biggest sellers of 2025. It is going to be very interesting next year for album sales if Taylor Swift does not take a break from releasing new music after her Eras Tour.

(Monday 15 July 2024; 00:53)


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