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Re: The Rarities 2 - CD2 (97,711) (97,712) by LEOlamb from USA Make It Happen Live 8 Bringin' on The Heartbreak Today Show Would have loved those on an official release. (Monday 29 March 2021; 20:23)

The Rarities 2 - CD2 (97,711) by Andrew from the United Kingdom My suggestion for CD2 of The Rarities 2: 1.America Th e Beautiful - NBA Finals 1990 2. Anytime You Need A Friend - Proctor's Theatre 1993 3. One Sweet Day (feat. Boyz II Men) - Madison Square Garden 1995 4. My All Remix - World Music Awards 1998 5. Chain of Fools (Duet with Aretha Franklin) - Diva's Live 1998 6. If Only You Knew/Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Essence Awards 1998 7. Hero (Duet with Pavarotti) - Pavarotti & Friends 1999 8. When You Believe (Duet with Whitney Houston) - Academy Awards 1999 9. Heartbreaker Remix (feat. Missy Elliot & Da Brat) - MTV Europe Music Awards 1999 10. I'll Be There (feat. Trey Lorenz) - A Home for the Holidays 2000 11. Star Spangled Banner - NFL Superbowl 2002 12. Joy To The World - Disney Christmas Parade 2004 13. We Belong Together - Live Aid 2005 Feel free to add onto it anybody - after 2005 I gave up. I'm sure there are good performances somewhere. (Monday 29 March 2021; 17:45)

Re: Happy 52nd Birthday, Mariah Carey (97,707) (97,710) by Mirage_Nunez from America Well Pat said Mimi arrived in 1970 in the Oprah interview from 1999, so I'm just gonna go ahead and believe them. Happy (belated) 3/27 "Treat it as a holiday." (Monday 29 March 2021; 03:28)

Will it ever ey-end? (97,709) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Here we go around again and what to say? I wish I understood? Wonder why you even try? Wish you'd changed your mind? The beginning, middle and end of that was iffy? (Sunday 28 March 2021; 21:09)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,673) (97,708) by Andrew from the United Kingdom My first album was on cassette and it was Music Box, also. I remember feeling very annoyed that the paper was of such low quality that I could see lyrics through Mariah's face. I was also quite amazed, when I opened it up, that the bigger picture was so much better than the close up of her facial features. The cover has no identity. I think Music Box for its 30th anniversary (which should be a big event as it's her best selling record) should get a different album cover, and have the Proctor's Theatre live show as a second CD. And the in-depth collectors booklet should have decent quality paper. (Sunday 28 March 2021; 20:46)

Happy 52nd Birthday, Mariah Carey (97,707) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Hands up if you think that Mariah was born in 1969 and the "Anniversary of her 12th birthday" schtick is simply because she gets to avoid the lie. (Sunday 28 March 2021; 20:36)

Joyce Wrice (97,706) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines If you haven't heard of her, it's probably because she's an indie R&B artist. She's very much a lamb who released her debut album Overgrown over a week ago. She was one of the acts in that video of Mariah reacting to fan covers of her songs. She did the Heartbreaker remix. Also, she posted on her Instagram that her album was inspired by Butterfly, down to the cover image, while greeting Mariah on her day. I wouldn't make the comparison, but she actually has some good songs in there. She has a nice, clean tone to her voice. Not distinctive, but really pleasant. The production on many of the songs are great, particularly on Chandler and You. It's just nice seeing a lamb working towards achieving her dreams in a brutal industry. (Sunday 28 March 2021; 19:01)

Get Your Number "behind the scenes" (97,705) by T from USA JD talks a little behind the scenes about Get Your Number. I did not realize it is Mariah's idea to have him talk over the tracks at the beginning. (Sunday 28 March 2021; 14:49)

Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,704) by Mara from United States Thank you for being in my life since I'm 15 years old. You have no idea how many times you have helped me through points in my life without ever knowing. Thank you for always being my style inspiration drom the Levi's to black bodysuits to the curls and jewlery. Mostly, thank you for your immense talent, your songwriting skills, harmonies, vocal layers, whistles, just everything. We love you MC. Hope today was all you wanted it to be and more. (Sunday 28 March 2021; 04:49)

Happy anniversary (97,703) by Gee from U.S.A. (New York City) Happy anniversary to the incomparable musical genius that is Mariah. Wishing you many more blessings, and continued success. I pray that you are around positive energy that brings you peace and joy. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 20:33)

Happy birthday Mariah (97,702) by John john from UK Many happy returns Mimi. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 20:07)

Re: Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,698) (97,701) by Aliya from Canada Happy Anniversary Mariah! Thank you for sharing your voice with us, and using it to lift our spirits, brighten our days and touch our hearts. I hope you and your kids stay healthy and happy. You will forever be the best singer of all time. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 19:55)

Happy bday Mimi (97,700) by RibbonB from USA Happy day to Mariah. I hope she and the kids have an awesome time. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 19:25)

Happy Anniversary (97,699) by Jono from USA Happy Anniversary Mariah! Thank you for all these years, and here's to many more. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 17:10)

Re: Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,696) (97,698) by MusicfanJ from Germany Happy Birthday Mariah. Yes, I Know you don't count numbers but I wish you all the best for your day. Stay happy and healthy and enjoy the festive "anniversary". All the lambs around the world will celebrate you and your wonderful music. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 16:14)

H.Anniv (97,697) by Lady B from USA Happy Anniversary, Mariah. I hope you're enjoying it with loved ones. Your Lambs love you! (Saturday 27 March 2021; 15:48)

Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,696) by Special K from USA Happy Anniversary Mariah. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 14:16)

Mimi's Anniversary (97,695) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Happy Anniversary to the greatest musician of all time. Thank you for gifting us with your masterpieces, for being the soundtrack of my life, for being a trendsetter and a trailblazer, for those diva moments that I live for and for being an inspiration. Thanks for also enriching my vocabulary with your lyrics haha. You’re a gem Mariah, keep shining. Stay triumphant my hero. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 09:01)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,686) (97,694) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines First off, happy anniversary to the legend, the reason we're all here. Love Jimmy and Terry. They're very versatile producers. Just look at Janet Jackson's post-Control output (except Discipline - they had no hand in that); it shows their versatility as producers; dabbling in and mixing different genres to the expected brilliant R&B and pop fare and how they go into rock, bossa nova, country, opera and even canto-pop and middle-eastern sounds from Asia when they're feeling experimental. Their production is very textured, layered and really meticulously done - not even their least impressive work ever sounds lazy. Also, no one else pulls off rainy, thunderous quiet storm tracks like they can. My issue with them, though, is that they seem to always (and at times, only) work the best with Janet, and that all of their collaborations with other artists, while competent, usually fail to live up to what they do with her. Now this isn't to diminish Janet's input at all - if anything, she's most probably the reason why their team works so well together, like Givenchy's partnership with Audrey Hepburn in fashion terms. It's just that Janet seems to get the best of the heap, and whatever isn't used is repurposed for other artists. Even at the height of their popularity as producers, their most effective usage of new jack swing (and that genre as a whole) was with Janet. Michael himself was inspired by the hard-edged industrial sound of Rhythm Nation 1814 that it influenced him to shift gears with Dangerous and his future output, even sampling one of her tracks in their duet Scream. Whatever new sound they have is usually premiered to the world through Janet's material before it is redone for someone else. Take their work with Mariah for example. None of the tracks they've done with her sound innovative, let alone measure up to Miss You Much, That's The Way Love Goes, When I Think Of You, Runaway, If, I Get Lonely, All For You, All Nite, No Sleeep, Together Again, Come Back To Me, etc. Their work on Rainbow and Charmbracelet not only sound too similar (that they basically can be interchangeable if not for the difference in Mariah's vocals) but also more noticeably sound dated compared to their work in The Velvet Rope and All For You, respectively, despite the Janet albums being 2 years older than the Mariah ones. I hope they give Mariah something fresh this time around. And if they give her Janet's (or their other muses') scraps, then they better be damn good outtakes. But hey, anything over a predictably faceless JD collaboration is a much more preferred these days, right? (Saturday 27 March 2021; 08:50)

Re: We Belong Together 2022 (97,688) (97,693) by Warren from Trinidad & Tobago You meant the level of success of WBT right? Because she has tried to recreate that too many times over. She should go for something totally new, fresh and that would surprise and make people talk, while still keeping that "Mimi" sound and vocals. Just my 2 cents. (Friday 26 March 2021; 20:17)

Dream (97,692) by Lafa from Sweden Dream: Mariah's entire catalogue is released acapella for public for remixing. It would be an era of nothing else than art. Just look what We BeLamb Together on YouTube did for an album. Nice try woman, but there's little out go gasp for in terms of this. Sadly. (Friday 26 March 2021; 20:07)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,684) (97,691) by Horacio from United States The first album I heard was Butterfly because it was part of my father’s massive CD collection; I was 13 years old. It was mid-1999. Second time I had heard of Mariah (I was an immigrant from a non-English speaking country). My first CD that I purchased from MC was #1s. I was astonished that this woman had so many no. 1 hits. I was hooked. I purchased Rainbow in November 1999, and from then on worked my way backwards Daydream > Music Box > MTV > Emotions > Mariah Carey. I can’t recall when exactly I purchased Merry Christmas, but I know for sure I already owned it by December 2000. (Friday 26 March 2021; 18:11)

Re: Mariah "Care One Child" (97,682) (97,690) by Edward from USA "One Child" was also an instant favorite for me. Her writing on it was reminiscence of her old school stuff. It was evident she was working with a real musician. (Friday 26 March 2021; 14:16)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,686) (97,689) by T from USA I agree with JD. I think that ship has sailed, unless it's one track that is undeniably good, the rest should be left off the album. Does anyone know why Mariah has never been in the studio with Dallas Austin? He seems like the cooler producer version of JD. His ties with LA Reid and the fact that he's done incredible work with TCL, Boyz II Men, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Janet make me think he would be right up her alley. He's also from her 90's generation. The only thing I can think of is that maybe when he was at the height of producing Mariah's husband didn't want her in the studio with him (although she did have JD in 1995). On a side note, Mariah's second husband starred in a movie based on Dallas Austin's life, Drumline. (Friday 26 March 2021; 14:03)

We Belong Together 2022 (97,688) by Bobby A from United States I am sitting here thinking who could collaborate with MC this year and give her WBT 2022. I could only think of two songwriters who would nail it. Jazmine Sullivan and Finneas are the only two songwriters. I hope that she is trying to recreate the magic that TEOM gave her but with a more current sound. (Friday 26 March 2021; 03:33)

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