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Article: Bryan Tanaka can't keeps his hands off Mariah Carey (79,992) by Will from England I am loving this green dress. She should wear this shade of colour more often. (Thursday 21 December 2017; 21:05)

Social media / new team (79,860) by Will from England My, what a world of difference a new team has made in just a few short weeks. Everything that has been posted on her Instagram and InstaStory has been on point and focused. No more odd glamour or drunk shots. Just straight up promo for AIWFCIY and the tour. Her new stylist (and I do believe that there is one) is clothing her well and suitably, making her look like a legend. The staging for this tour is perfect, and I'm delighted to see that they've reinstated the screens. I did not go to this tour, primarily because of the lack of screens during the SSFT but I'm kicking myself now. The costumes are also appropriate: no more body suits. And she's got her first Golden Globe nomination under this team already. Go team go. (Thursday 14 December 2017; 01:12)

Re: TMZ (79,298) (79,318) by Will from England Probably because Stella whispered all the right things in Mariah's ear, she came with the recommendation of a friend and Mariah is too trusting, despite whatever she says of having her guard up. It's sad that Mariah has to learn this lesson the hard way. (Wednesday 8 November 2017; 22:34)

Re: I'm featured in Say Somethin' (So So Def Remix) (79,238) (79,252) by Will from England What? (Monday 6 November 2017; 17:51)

Re: Karl Lagerfeld dinner (78,991) (79,005) by Will from England Ok, I am so so happy to see this change in her. Recently, when it has come to lipping that climax, she has been doing it with no effort. Here, she's pulling expressions, she's actually making it look like she's singing live. And I love that. I really do hope this means that Stella and her coven has gone, and Mariah can be happy now. (Tuesday 24 October 2017; 20:31)

Sad love songs (78,846) by Will from England It's a pity that Mariah has so very few happy true love songs. Most of her catalogue is "sad love" songs, "wishing for love" songs, "beginnings of love" songs or "jilted love" songs. And to me, it's sad that she has never really let happiness into her writing. It's almost as if she needs sadness in her life, to be able to write deep personal songs. She's not written a true love song, from her own life experience yet. The only exceptions I've ever found are TGIFY and The Impossible but you could hardly call them her best work lyrically. All the other "happy" love songs have come from her imagination, of what she deems love to be like "Sent from up above", "Emotions" etc. What do you guys think? (Tuesday 17 October 2017; 00:01)

Re: Unforgettable (78,239) (78,248) by Will from England The one thing that is stopping me from fully liking it, is the echo/fade thing on the vocals. (Saturday 2 September 2017; 19:46)

Article: Mariah Carey performs in final Las Vegas residency show (77,299) by Will from England Ooph, those photos are beyond unflattering. (Wednesday 19 July 2017; 22:56)

Vegas (77,014) by Will from England I've never seen her look so sad, so more restricted vocally on stage, than she does right now. It's like she's on stage but she's somewhere else in her head, as if something else is on her mind. Even when she's lipping the climax's, to We Belong Together and DFAO the energy is not there. She's dodging every high note she can and taking the songs lower. (Monday 10 July 2017; 09:33)

Re: Adele canceling tour (76,803) (76,836) by Will from England Take into account that the majority of Adele's popular songs require her to belt more than half the time. Mariah may record her songs in a higher key, but her songs are a mixtures of belters to softer sung ones, which on occasion can give her voice a little break. Plus you are talking about two very different voices. Adele is a powerful singer, but she can't do soft tones like Mariah (like whisper singing etc). Adele's voice is more or less permanently in full voice so it constantly is working hard. Now, Mariah has lost power to her voice, and for the most part, can't hold a long note like she used to without help or proper warm ups and rest, there is no denying that. But she can, if and when she chooses, sing softly as that doesn't take much effort for her to do and she has the option to play with the range that she uses. Adele can't. (Sunday 2 July 2017; 21:50)

Re: When you get that check up front (76,753) (76,775) by Will from England At least she somewhat hit a whistle note live. (Friday 30 June 2017; 01:20)

Re: Mariah Carey doesn't want to be interviewed - 2017 (76,631) (76,636) by Will from England Of all the news outlets Stella said no to it was Sky. This woman. If it was Gossip Cop or whatever it would've been a sit down interview with lighting and candles galore. (Monday 26 June 2017; 00:15)

Celine / mixed feelings about Mariah (76,508) by Will from England So, I went to see Celine's show at the O2 yesterday. And it was fantastic. And what I saw on stage, should have been what Mariah should be doing now. Confident in herself to sing live and seamlessly lip sync when needed, commanding the stage by herself and interacting with the audience with ease, funny about herself and funny in general, she made you feel comfortable watching her, with no backing dancers and had a mini orchestra to boot. Best of all, there were screens so you could actually see her. All the focus was on Celine and what made her who she is: her voice. There was no "do you know this one?" or "I'm not sure if you know this". Everything that Celine brought to that stage, Mariah should be capable of bringing herself now in any setting. To walk in and let them know who they've paid to come and see without any doubt. But reflecting on the brilliant performance of last night, to the last Mariah crash and burn, made me feel so sad for Mariah because it's sad that Mariah is not where close to where Celine is performing wise now, even though she writes the songs and has few-and-far good days with her voice. It made me sad and frustrated because the woman with God-given voice, is no longer there and last night did make me feel a bit disenchanted with Mariah Carey the singer. All the stupidity surrounding her with the reality show, feuds, that Tanaka guy etc. is just needless and making her so much less than what she should be: a legend. Last night, I saw a legend who owned it in every sense of the word. Mariah was good, but she was a 46 year old woman trying to be 30. It's bad when she had more dignity, elegance, mystery and class at 20 than she does near 50. (Wednesday 21 June 2017; 22:07)

Re: One Love Manchester, no MC after attacks Brussels (76,054) (76,070) by Will from England The only difference here is that Ariana/her concert was specifically targeted and it was the people from her concert killed. Not to take away the horrors of the Brussels bombings or the lives that were lost, but Mariah/her concert/lambs was/were not directly involved. Plus Ariana's team, by comparison, is far more professional at getting things done and getting them done quickly and right, unlike Mariah's team, who for lack of a better word: can't. Something on that sort of scale would be far beyond Stella's capabilities and if she (Stella) had tried to set something like One Love Manchester up, she (Stella) would have called out all the artists who didn't sign up, because that's what she does. She wouldn't have seen it as "profitable". (Monday 5 June 2017; 22:51)

Re: MTV Unplugged article (76,009) (76,025) by Will from England I think Kylie Minogue did something like that a few years ago, and changed quite a few of her older songs. I really liked it, so it would be fantastic if Mariah could do that as well. (Sunday 4 June 2017; 10:55)

That soda ad (75,417) by Will from England Are we not going to talk about how stupid that soda ad was on her Twitter account? What are her people thinking at this point? Also, none of those tweets came across as Mariah tweeting them. They used her Mariah-isms but none of those read as Mariah herself. SMH, calling her team sh.t is an insult to actual sh.t. And that stupid FBF post on her Twitter account? Just shows how ridiculous having a child run your account is. (Saturday 20 May 2017; 15:23)

Re: Ankle tattoo? (74,930) (74,934) by Will from England Here you go. Look under the sparkle strap. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 13:09)

Ankle tattoo? (74,928) by Will from England Looking at the pictures from her label launch (she looks great), I noticed that she has something on her right ankle? Is that another tattoo? It's visible in some photos, others not so much. Looks like a phrase or something along those lines. (Wednesday 3 May 2017; 12:15)

WWHL After show (74,649) by Will from England Mariah's after show moment with Andy was literally just posted on YouTube for all to enjoy. Why bring up Derek as the first question though? (Friday 21 April 2017; 17:30)

Disneyland (74,462) by Will from England Mariah looks great in that new insta pic. Looks like she's losing weight again, and almost back to her Idol look. (Thursday 13 April 2017; 10:05)

Article: Mariah Carey fires back at publicist (74,358) by Will from England I think this was the first time Stella's name ever came up. Little did we know back then how we'd come to dislike that name. (Tuesday 11 April 2017; 00:15)

New label (74,345) by Will from England I wonder if this could be tied to her plan to release stand alone singles, even well beyond the current album that has been announced. So instead of releasing singles through Epic, and catching them by surprise, she can do so through her own label. Could be a term that was part of the new contract negotiations that they won't release, so Epic is protecting themselves from any more single flops, and can focus funding her new album alone. (Monday 10 April 2017; 21:03)

Re: Busta collab (74,272) (74,276) by Will from England Really wish that they didn't do that (i.e. calling it a IKWYW pt. 2). Lord knows that it will set our expectations too high, and anything less than that will prove to be a disappointment, as proven in the past when anyone has said "oh it's like Vanishing/VOL pt 2 etc.". Mariah has way too high a standard when it comes to collabs and singles that whenever critics or people around her try to hype it up, anything less will fall flat and the song/album flops. Wish we could all go into a new song with no expectations for it to be like anything she's done before, so we're not comparing it straight away. We usually do that after we've heard the song anyway lol. (Saturday 8 April 2017; 21:47)

Good press (74,109) by Will from England I'm glad that she is getting good press for her OMT performance. Personally I think that it was 99% sung live. The only teeny tiny thing that I would have changed is to have not put "heartfelt performance" in the description. That's for others to write, not for the performer (or teen for that matter) to self-praise a performance. (Sunday 2 April 2017; 22:04)

What I miss (73,806) by Will from England I miss it when Mariah wrote sad songs over upbeat music, but you didn't realize it was a sad or depressing song at all. Dreamlover, Breakdown, Heartbreaker etc. (Sunday 19 March 2017; 19:03)

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