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About Bobby A from United States: I have been a Lamb since 1990. I know Mariah. I love her music. I breathe her music.

Sugar Sweet (110,213) by Bobby A from United States
I listened to Honey yesterday and wondered why a song like Honey wasn't released as 1st single or 2nd single. I know it may be difficult for MC to sing high and low notes with riffs and runs with ease now, but there are ways around it with letting the beat of a song standout more letting her voice "ride along to the beat". Songs like Take Your Time by the SOS Band and Call Me by Sky are examples of female singers letting their voices "ride along to the beat". I remember hearing these two songs on the radio growing up and instantly was hooked by the female singer's voice on top of the beat. Here is Sky's Call Me.
(Wednesday 30 July 2025; 01:19)
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The evolution of Mariah Carey (110,207) by Bobby A from United States
No, I am. I am the OG that keeps the board together. Lol. I am enjoying the conversation this week. We can agree to disagree. Hopefully, we all will be celebrating when MC drops the tracklisting and producer credits. I feel we are in for some surprises to help carry the album for some strong streaming and physical sales. I am hoping Tricky Stewart produced the Paul and Linda McCartney track. Tricky Stewart had some great praises to say about working with MC.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 21:47)
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Sugar Sweet (110,206) by Bobby A from United States
I can't believe Sugar Sweet is currently #83 on iTunes. This is not good. I don't think radio adds and the video next week will help Sugar Sweet debut on the Hot 100. I sure hope there are other songs that will carry the album after it drops on September 26th. I hope there are some features and samples that will be revealed to us soon. It is Mariah Carey vs. Morgan Wallen, Alex Warren, Teddy Swims, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Beiber right now on the iTunes chart right now and probably will be that way in late September.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 20:48)
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Random thoughts (110,195) by Bobby A from United States
The music industry is a beast anyway. We all can agree on that. We no longer have labels like Motown Records developing artists. What we have today are a bunch of artists who sign a contract and the record label connects them with a popular producer to make them into a pop or R&B hit machine. Sometimes it works on both sides and sometimes it doesn't work. One example, when an artist from 2023-2025 became a hit machine because of a popular and successful producer is Tate McCrae. Tate McCrae had moderate success with her debut studio album, but her whole trajectory changed when Ryan Tedder co-produced and co-wrote multiple songs on her 2023 and 2024 releases. Also, he was her co-executive producer on both albums. Ryan Tedder promotes the heck out of Tate McCrae on his X and Instagram pages. Whenever Tate had a successful milestone for her singles and albums, he posted about it. She is successful today because of one hit producer promotes her every chance he gets to celebrate her successes on the pop charts.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 16:42)
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The evolution of Mariah Carey (110,189) by Bobby A from United States
It wasn't just Tommy making his star singer sing more pop songs. Clive did it to Whitney as well. Whitney actually said to Clive that she wanted her 3rd album to be an R&B album. She heard the rumblings from the African-American community that she was catering too much to the pop audience and that bothered Whitney a lot. So, that is the reason why I'm Your Baby Tonight was a R&B album and subsequent albums after too. In both Clive's and Tommy's mind back then, if Whitney and Mariah sang pop songs both would reach a broader audience and maximize their album and single sales. It doesn't happen like that in today's music industry because great singers like Whitney and Mariah are non-existent today. You can sing anything, sing badly and still get a recording contract today.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 14:12)
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The evolution of Mariah Carey (110,158) by Bobby A from United States
Yes, MusicFanJ. People always point out to me my deep southern accent and I hate it. I hate the question: Where are you from? I guess that is definitely why I am able to detect an individual's accent from New York, Boston, Chicago, East Tennessee or Europe.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 05:10)
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Yall got me reminiscing (110,157) by Bobby A from United States
Great interview. Shout out to the Butterfly era. Her New York accent was really strong during the interview. Maybe I notice New York accents so much because my former co-worker Lorraine in the early 90s was from New York and she found herself transplanted in the heart of the south in Memphis, Tennessee. I adored her New York accent. Of course MC's New York accent isn't as thick as Lorraine's New York accent.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 04:58)
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Yall got me reminiscing (110,152) by Bobby A from United States
Butterfly was a beautiful and stellar era. Everything was on point from the album cover, single choices, videos, the remixes, the lyrics, and the public's fascination with the new Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey officially became MC on the Butterfly album.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 03:31)
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Article: The making of Mariah Carey (110,151) by Bobby A from United States
I agree absolutely with you, Eric. I think last Thursday on Jimmy Kimmel was just a poor wardrobe choice. MC looks stunning in the photograph. I am getting from this photo a new Mariah Carey is about to emerge with Here For It All. 60 days until the new Mariah Carey is revealed to the world. I feel MC is going to be on TV and magazine covers a lot starting September 14th for the HFIA promotional blitz.
(Tuesday 29 July 2025; 03:15)
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The evolution of Mariah Carey (110,137) by Bobby A from United States
Have you noticed a change in MC's speaking voice in the past 2 months during interviews? I wonder if it is because she is just getting older or a direct correlation to her vocal decline. Her speaking voice is very raspy now and she has lost her New York accent. I noticed it first during the Apple interview when she said 11 or 12. And I noticed it again during the New Music Daily interview.
(Monday 28 July 2025; 17:09)
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New song (110,116) by Bobby A from United States
Sugar Sweet is still in the Top 30 on the iTunes chart on Sunday. Is that good for a new song after its initial Friday release? We need a JD remix with new lyrics, a R&B sample, and a rap feature from Wiz Kid or Burna Boy like next week. I think a call and response remix from Jagged Edge would be a hot remix too illustrating a man's reaction to MC taking her time to look beautiful for her man. Also, I hope Sugar Sweet receives radio ads next week too. Hopefully, some high school cheerleading squads will use Sugar Sweet during their Friday night footbball game half-time shows in mid-August.
(Monday 28 July 2025; 02:10)
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Andrew (110,114) by Bobby A from United States
Thank you Shezz and Mimi. I am trying to be a stronger man. It is hard sometimes when I know I should speak up for myself and not take on the nice guy persona.
(Monday 28 July 2025; 01:51)
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Sugar Sweet promotion (110,102) by Bobby A from United States
I feel Gamma is just waiting on the video to drop and radio adds to hype up the promotion. We should see in August a late night or daytime TV performance and remixes before MC's festival performances in the UK and Brazil. I hope she and the ladies perform at the VMAs too.
(Sunday 27 July 2025; 02:30)
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Mariah's charting power (110,100) by Bobby A from United States
Chap GPT said it is possible that Apple allowed MC and Gamma to have a staggered release of full songwriting credits if it aligned with the label's marketing strategy. Well, I believe the Stereotypes, Harv, Roget Chahayed, and Bongo ByTheWay tracks may have features or samples on them like Bryson Tiller or R&B/Hip Hop samples. Who knows Drake or Brandy maybe featured on a couple of tracks. And we don't know who producers are for each song yet. I feel we are in for some surprises when the song titles and full credits are released in September. We may even see an increase in streaming numbers that day for TD and Sugar Sweet.
(Saturday 26 July 2025; 22:19)
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The evolution of Mariah Carey (110,088) by Bobby A from United States
I hope MC wins 100% with Here For It All. I want Sugar Sweet to be at least in the top 10 on the Hot 100 when her album drops. That would be so sweet for MC. I hope The Clark Sisters collaboration becomes a huge gospel radio hit and people start talking about it on social media. I hope one of the ballads on the album becomes a LTT moment for MC. September 26, 2025 is going be a huge day for MC filled with good reviews and TV appearances and a hopefully a GMA or Today Show performance.
(Saturday 26 July 2025; 12:28)
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Jimmy Kimmel (110,085) by Bobby A from United States
Oh, I thought that was Andrew posting. I hope he is well too.
(Saturday 26 July 2025; 12:08)
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Mariah pairs leopard print slipdress with throwback hair (110,076) by Bobby A from United States
MC is in love. I have to admit that the lyrics from Sugar Sweet suggest that they are about someone very special in her life. I guess when we when hear their duet, we will know extent of their relationship. I don't think MC has ever used "baby" so many times in her lyrics. It seems like she wants the ring to get married again.
(Saturday 26 July 2025; 01:21)
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Jimmy Kimmel (110,071) by Bobby A from United States
No, I saw him post something in the spring. He did say something nice. Andrew and I had a love and hate history that some of the newbies don't know anything about. I can laugh about it now, but that time was constant reprimanding that I wanted to leave the board. He just didn't like my ecentric personality. Lol.
(Friday 25 July 2025; 22:28)
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Mariah's charting power (110,060) by Bobby A from United States
Based upon the #5 charting postion of Sugar Sweet on iTunes today and Type Dangerous still rising on the radio airplay charts, I feel Here For It All is going to do very well during the first sales week. And we still haven't received the full tracklisting with features and full writing credits. I feel some writers were deliberately left off the Apple songwriters credits list that we saw to keep their feature status a secret.
(Friday 25 July 2025; 17:50)
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Sugar Sweet (110,045) by Bobby A from United States
I love it, but I was hoping for more lyrics, especially in the pre-chorus part, to carry the song more. Overall, great improvement over TD.
(Friday 25 July 2025; 13:25)
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Jimmy Kimmel (110,043) by Bobby A from United States
I wanted Jimmy to show up and take over. I felt bad for MC when she was really being overly flirtatious at the beginning of the interview. MC became very uncomfortable in the middle of the interview when she kept flirting with MC. Jimmy would have shown some class.
(Friday 25 July 2025; 13:17)
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Here For It All (110,017) by Bobby A from United States
No maam, I never skipped a single track on TEOM. MC sequenced the heck out of TEOM perfectly. I think that is what she has done for HIFA. I have already analyzed the potential genre of the songs which we don't know the titles of yet.

1. The Stereotypes produced song is an uptempo jam.
2. Here For It All ft. Anderson .Paak
3. Type Dangerous positioned perfectly here so the album can start paying homage to every era of MC's career.
4. Sugar Sweet ft. Shenseea and Kehlani
5. The Roget Chahayed song is an uptempo jam.
6. The Daniel Moore produced song is a ballad.
7. The Harv produced song is a midtempo jam.
8. The Bongo ByTheWay song is definitely midtempo or a ballad.
9. The Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney song could be Dear Boy or My Love or Live and Let Die.
10. The Clark Sisters gospel song is described by Nostradamus on X as Amazing Grace and Ain't No Way.
11. This Daniel Moore produced song has explicit lyrics. So possibly it could be Clown 2.0 or Did I Do That? 2.0.
12. Hoping for that Bryson Tiller feature on the Amazon Exclusive CD.
(Friday 25 July 2025; 01:46)
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Here For It All (110,009) by Bobby A from United States
I understand better today the reason why just 11 tracks because of the hype statement on Record Store Day's website. The hype statement says:

"Here For It All is Mariah Carey's new forthcoming project with Gamma. This album marks the start of a bold new era for Mariah. It balances her legacy with fresh cultural relevance and pop significance."

MC hasn't had an album you can listen to without any skips since Butterfly. Here For It All is going to be that no skips album.
(Thursday 24 July 2025; 17:13)
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Shenseea (110,002) by Bobby A from United States
Yes, we will. Kehlani has a beautiful voice and her song Folded is her biggest streaming song of her career right now. I like Shenseea's song Work Me Out with Wiz Kid. By the way, Halle Berry just posted lyrics from Sugar Sweet for a call-and-response from Lambs. It would be cool if Halle Berry is in the video. Tomorrow is going to be a huge day for MC.
(Thursday 24 July 2025; 15:35)
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Shenseea (109,998) by Bobby A from United States
Do you think Shenseea will sing her part first after Mariah's first verse and then Kehlani? I thought it was odd that Shenseea's name is first before Kehlani's name.
(Thursday 24 July 2025; 14:02)
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