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Retrospective moments (111,854)
by Lambi from USA
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Not a set up at all. Just painting a very clear picture on how hard Mariah banked on and pushed this album.
My point was simply Mariah got more "brand new" artist treatment than an actual relatively new artist and still tanked.
(Tuesday 14 October 2025; 02:11)
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Retrospective moments (111,849)
by jaker20 from US
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That is unfair to compare Mariah, who is a legacy act with 35 year career, to Morgan Wallen. You are basically setting her up.
And of course they will hype the album. They won't actually say "we'd be happy if it does better than Miley Cyrus, Shania Twain and Katy Perry's last albums" which are all signed to major labels.
(Monday 13 October 2025; 18:51)
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Retrospective moments (111,830)
by Lambi from USA
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Out of all I wrote, that's the one thing you choose to bring up? They do not have the same Gamma backing and treatment and they're not in the same caliber as MC, in terms of songwriting. Never have been. So yeah, they are bound to flop.
(Monday 13 October 2025; 03:18)
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Retrospective moments (111,826)
by Lee from USA
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I disagree. Janet and Mary J Blige go hard on stage. Yet their new music still flopped. Besides, she still gets rave reviews in her Asian concerts. You can't top the Hot 100 for 7 years straight and sell venues without putting in some effort.
(Sunday 12 October 2025; 19:04)
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Retrospective moments (111,820)
by Lambi from USA
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Morgan Wallen only did SNL, one festival, a couple of radio interviews, and a few YouTube acoustic sessions. He still pulled 493,000 units in his debut week. The timing of his tour helped, but the rollout was minimal. But do you know how much more Mariah did?
• BET, iHeartRadio, the VMAs. • Ridiculous amount of podcast and radio interviews. • A jam-packed week of TV appearances close to release date. • In-store events, magazine covers. • Huge international festivals. • An Apple Music special. • A high-budget video for T:D. • Stripped versions of the album's songs. • Collaboration with other artists. • Three singles released.
This is why we can confidently say her numbers are indeed pathetic. I don't fault Bobby A. for assuming something is suspicious. It's actually pretty valid.
People keep saying, "Oh, she doesn't have to chart. Let's just enjoy it." But that's not what she said. Mariah made it clear, this was her goal. To finish strong. Had she not prefaced it like that, maybe the numbers wouldn't sting so much. She obviously didn't join a 400 million dollar company for a $39k debut. For the first time in a while, she was genuinely fired up about her career. She was locked in on pursuing a tangible goal.
Part of me believes there's some truth in Bobby A's claim (deep in my dive right now), but another part of me believes the public has actually just checked out on her. The big promotional opportunities actually just backfired. People saw the VMAs. They saw how stiff, uninterested and lazy she was. Why in the world would anyone spend money on that? The free market will blatantly always tell you.
The caricature of Mariah, the "lip-syncing phony" seems to have won. On one hand, I feel bad, but on another hand, I hope this truly wakes her up. She can post these fleeting weekly Billboard numbers to soften the blow, but we know she's embarrassed. And to be fair, who wouldn't be?
Nonetheless, I am grateful Mariah truly doesn't let go. "They chase me down but I'm still rolling, something in me cannot be stolen, I will not break, I won't be broken, it's deep, can't you see?" I believe these are the words that echo in her mind as she journeyed this album. No groundbreaking single, but very solid songs. Nothing Is Impossible and Here For It All are on repeat. A good body of work indeed. And I believe she will get that 20th number one. This flop will just make her go harder. She's fully lost her ability to perform on stage, but the creativity is still as strong as ever. And it's really her creativity that always lands her at #1.
(Sunday 12 October 2025; 14:09)
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Article: Mariah Carey debuts in Billboard's top 10 (111,766)
by Lambi from USA
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I agree with this. It really is pathetic. Mariah is objectively a legacy artist, but she still benefits from the kind of exposure usually reserved for brand new acts. She's on the biggest award shows, getting crazy levels of visibility. She's booked for major festivals, top podcasts, radio shows, and late night appearances, everything.
She put in three solid months of organic promotion. Real, thorough, hard work, the kind you can't fake. That alone deserves better numbers. It makes me wonder if there's any leg to Bobby A's claim.
Let's be honest: Mariah has been flopping since MOAIA. She's had more than enough trial and error to know what doesn't work. I agree that HFIA doesn't have a groundbreaking single, but I think they did a lot of things right with the promo.
Maybe it's time to put my investigatory hat on.
(Wednesday 8 October 2025; 11:42)
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Article: Mariah Carey debuts in Billboard's top 10 (111,750)
by Travis from USA
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I don't want to come off rude to the Lambily, however, these sales are pathetic and unfortunately lower than her first week sales of Caution. Mariah currently has 14.5 million followers on Instagram, 12.3 million subscribers on YouTube and 20.8 million followers on X and only managed to sell 39,000 physical copies of "Here For It All" plus the lousy streaming numbers that only made up the rest of 51,000 total album units. It's been almost 7 years since she's released a full album and then this disaster happens. I understand that people aren't going to like everything on any album that she releases, but it's all about support for your favorite artist and she's just not receiving that. I honestly wouldn't be surprised now if it was another 7+ years before we even get another album. This is why other countries like Brazil and Japan get more of Mariah than we do in the United States. The lambily needs to do better, please.
(Tuesday 7 October 2025; 04:07)
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The numbers are not matching up (111,719)
by Lambi from USA
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Is this the post Edward is talking about? "Seems like a powerful entity has its hand in keeping HFIA's true numbers hidden and distorted."
Bobby A. What was your estimate on the HFIA debut number?
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 03:56)
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The numbers are not matching up (111,692)
by Bobby A from United States
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HFIA is projected to sell 51,000 copies for its first week and debut at number #7 on the Billboard 200. Caution sold 51,000 and had a #5 debut with less promotion and no hit singles before its release. Seems like an powerful entity has its hand in keeping HFIA's true numbers hidden and distorted.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 02:32)
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Ya'll are not to bash Mariah or Gamma (111,718)
by Lambi from USA
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I agree, it's really not that deep at this point. She launched it with It's Like That as the introduction, so I'm assuming she wanted to have another Emancipation moment. I love how she also promoted it organically: radio shows, late-night shows, award shows, podcasts, festivals. Mariah absolutely delivered on that front. She's quite literally everywhere.
I'd say the numbers (if not manipulated) are indeed disappointing, but I'm also not shocked. There was no big song on this record. They're all just really good album cuts. NTI is a great movie song though, it could be a good launchpad for her to skyrocket. But it probably won't translate into sales. Like you said, no one buys music anymore. People inevitably prefer free shit, especially in this economy.
HFIA would be radio-friendly if cut in half. Brazil and Asia will eat it up. This will probably happen. She could literally do anything now, maximize the moment, and just enjoy it. Mariah did really well being on an independent label. I know she wants to prove she's worth being banked on because money was definitely put behind this. I'm predicting they'll change gears for the next release and rethink the promotional strategy. Trial and error.
Nonetheless, it's good music, and I don't think they regret investing on MC. With this album kind of flopping (hopefully it picks up), it'll just push her to produce stronger songs on the next project.
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 03:34)
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Ya'll are not to bash Mariah or Gamma (111,716)
by Randy from USA
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This is what we're not going to do. Mariah has been on every show and every podcast promoting this for the last month. She put out a quality project. These numbers are because she is in the same career decline that Diana Ross and Aretha were in during the 90s. Taylor Swift will experience this someday too. And besides, this album was free the day it came out on YouTube. No one's buying music anymore. Streaming is a joke. And what do numbers matter anyway? Geesh, I don't know what yall want from MC. What's more important, the music or the bragging rights behind the numbers? Y'all wanna pressure her into dependency? Because until the day he died Michael was determined to make another Thriller. And Whitney kept telling Clive "ima get my high notes back". Stop this right now.
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 01:43)
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Tommy again? (111,717)
by Lambi from USA
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Literally where? Over here? Or on X? Lambs on this board have been the opposite and have been rather understanding and accepting on where she will land number-wise. No one is pressed about charts. Bobby A. seems to be the most obsessed with numbers here, but even I can't find a post of his (at least recently) where he's insinuated MC is being sabotaged.
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 02:42)
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Tommy again? (111,715)
by Edward from USA
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Are you serious? That kind of stuff gets thrown around all the time. It's always "the industry is against her", "radio is blocking her", "they didn't want her to pass The Beatles", like, come on. At some point it just sounds ridiculous.
Mariah is a legend. She's broken records most artists could only dream of, and she's about to break and set an unmost impossible record to break. But not every setback or chart miss is some big conspiracy, it's not always the label not doing their work. Trends change, the industry evolves, and artists have ups and downs, it's normal. Nobody stays at the top for ever, it is ridiculous to assume she would be as successful as she was in her prime. Making excuses every time just takes away from her legacy. She doesn't need a victim narrative to prove how iconic she is.
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 01:39)
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Tommy again? (111,713)
by Lambi from USA
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Has anyone here actually insinuated that Mariah is being sabotaged?
(Sunday 5 October 2025; 00:09)
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Tommy again? (111,706)
by Edward from USA
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"HFIA" is a great album and we should all be happy about that. Some people need to realize that Mariah's longevity itself is something to celebrate, 35 years in the business and still this relevant is no small feat. At this point, the conspiracy theories are just exhausting, there's not a one-eye man with crooked teeth and twisted fingers trying to sabotage her. Back in the 90s and 2000s, adults bought CDs and singles, which boosted sales. Today, everything revolves around streaming, and teens are mostly the ones driving that now, it's a completely different game. You don't even have to buy "HFIA", it's available on every streaming platform. But to match a single album purchase, you'd have to stream it over 1,500 times, which is nearly impossible for the average fan. Other than the holidays, when she reigns supreme on all streaming platforms, unfortunately, she doesn't benefit as much from the streaming-heavy system.
So, as I stated here before the album even dropped: don't stress over "HFIA" on the charts. Don't let numbers distract you from the fact that Mariah has given us something precious with this album.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 14:56)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,697)
by Lambi from USA
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Yeah it's already an existing classic and Mariah basically just "sprinkled it with her brilliance" as Ari would say. I'm curious what uptempo song it is.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 03:46)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,694)
by Edward from USA
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This is how part of that interview went down. Andy: Did you write it? Mariah: No, it's one of his classics, and I sang along with him and did new background vocals and did... Judging by the way she's saying, this wasn't a duet post mortem.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 02:47)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,691)
by Lambi from USA
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That too but IBT is more of a ballad in her own arranged key. I feel she's talking about more of an uptempo record. Mariah said something along the lines of "I added background vocals and sang over him", and I feel I'm That Chick is closer to that.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 01:58)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,684)
by T from USA
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Mariah covered MJ in I'll Be There back in 1992.
(Friday 3 October 2025; 15:09)
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So... thoughts on the VMA performance? (111,690)
by Lambi from USA
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I got this one correct again about Mariah's dancing trauma as a little kid. I called it before she even referenced it on WWHL. I don't have enough fingers for all these rings.
(Saturday 4 October 2025; 01:50)
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So... thoughts on the VMA performance? (111,040)
by Lambi from USA
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To the real Lambilies, this was expected. I was honestly just smiling the whole time, I felt like her bestie hyping her up: "Go girl. Project." But yeah, to the casual viewer at home, this probably came off as stale and a little sad to watch, with her age in context. I thought the general public's sentiment would probably be, "It's time to retire." But I checked the YouTube comments, surprisingly passed the vibe check, it sounded like they are openly just accepting Mariah: "Only Mimi could walk across the stage like a robot and make it iconic." "She gives me everything and nothing at the same time, I love it." LMAO.
I know Mariah is mortified of dancing because when she was a little girl, her aunt once used it as a determining factor if she was black or not. (It's so f***ed up) But I wish she could move past that. Heartbreaker-era Mariah doing choreography was so cute. I actually think she's a decent dancer, she has natural rhythm. Obviously not a showstopper but still entertaining to watch. People are accepting of her giving that little now, but maybe she can give a tiny bit more on the stage presence department.
(Monday 8 September 2025; 23:51)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,683)
by Lambi from USA
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It's okay, the "There ain't no rules, it's up to you, party on right through the night" from I'm That Chick is straight out of Michael's Off The Wall. Just in case you wanna have a reference of how Mariah would sound doing MJ's background vocals. At least we have that.
(Friday 3 October 2025; 12:17)
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"It's one of his classics" (111,667)
by T from USA
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She was talking about the cover song that was supposed to be HFIA, she wanted to keep some of his vocals on it but didn't get permission. So instead she covered the next best guy, Paul McCartney and also wanted him on the song in some capacity but he wasn't available. My only gripe with these people not fulfilling her creative vision is that if it were Beyonce I'm sure they would all say yes. Anyway, I'm glad we got a solo My Love because it fits in line with all her other white guy covers from those decades. I don't know if I would want her Butterfly Lounge voice on an MJ classic. My Love sounds really good.
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 16:01)
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Here For It All lyrics (111,664)
by Lambi from USA
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I've tried to decipher it and now I've arrived at thinking some of these are Patricia's words to her, Mariah just flipped the POV and turned it into an ode for her babies so they have something to heal with when Mariah's time come. It's also maybe healing for Mariah hearing her mother's own words. I think this is why she sheds a tear every time it's played on interviews.
"Just whisper something softly to the wind you want Mariah to hear" could've been "Just whisper something softly to the wind you want Patricia to hear" I know this has something to do with Pat because it's a direct reference of "They Called The Wind Maria" [sic] which is where her mom got her name.
The next line, "Just stay with me a while and helped me laugh through the tears til I'm gone" is probably what Pat told Mariah during the last week of her life.
Red carpet in Cannes sent me to the film festival and it's literally just Lenny and Lee near her. Maybe they were comforting her while grieving or that line could totally just be something Mariah thought sounded catchy and well-fitting for the chorus.
Anyway, I really love this ballad. Mariah finally took us back. It feels classic.
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 14:26)
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Here For It All lyrics (111,650)
by Bobby A from United States
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I think MC wrote HFIA while taking care of Patricia. They reconnected and caused MC to reflect on her during her last months. The glory was how Patricia supported MC early on during her career. The shakes were how MC felt about her mother during the her breakdown. The withdrawals are how MC felt when she disconnected herself from her mother.
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 02:24)
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HFIA remix album (111,662)
by Lambi from USA
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Fun concept. I hear SZA in Mi, as well as Ariana Grande. It's the type of song she'd do. I Wont Allow It with Bey would also slap. It sounds like it has the same beats per minute as Cuff It. Paul McCartney is obviously the perfect choice for My Love. I hear Toni Braxton for Nothing Is Impossible. If Aretha was alive, she'd be perfect for In Your Feelings. So we'll give it to J-Hud.
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 13:15)
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HFIA remix album (111,656)
by Haiji from United States
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If she or the label decided on taking the Angel's Advocate route but actually release a remix album, this is what I'd want it look and sound like. Each song would be remixed in vain of how My All/Stay Awhile was mixed, sampled with an older track, completely reworked. Keeping the 70s groove, soul and funk with each track.
1. Mi (feat. SZA) 2. Play This Song (feat. Silk Sonic) 3. Type Dangerous (feat. Eric B & Rakim) 4. Sugar Sweet (feat. Rema) 5. In Your Feelings (feat. Lucky Daye) 6. Nothing Is Impossible (feat. Miles Canton) 7. Confetti & Champagne (feat. Brandy) 8. I Won't Allow It (feat. Beyoncé) 9. My Love (feat. Paul McCartney) 10. Jesus I Do/You Brought The Sunshine (feat. The Clark Sisters) 11. Here For It All (Disco Revival Mix feat. Purple Disco Machine)
What are your thoughts?
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 05:39)
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I Won't Allow It (111,660)
by Lambi from USA
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IWAI is part 2 of YDKWTD. I love how real Mariah is. "He can just be in his own world" is nothing but the truth. Short, honest, and classy. She kept it real without being messy. Yet still very considerate about what she puts out to the media regarding her kids' father. She basically said, "If we keep talking about him, I'm going to end up saying something I shouldn't, so let's just not."
Nick is unbearably selfish. It really does take a narcissist to frame it as "all love" in interviews. There's no real co-parenting going on. He pops in and out, at best. There's simply no way to be emotionally or physically present for 12 children living in different homes and give each one the stable life they deserve.
Narcs thrive off the image of being the fun, loving parent while living reckless, chaotic lives and not caring who gets hurt in the process. Mariah not only raised her kids well, but she was smart enough to separate herself from his dysfunction and not let his degeneracy taint her wholesome image.
He can virtue signal all he wants and keep performing the "at the end of the day, it's all love" talk, but the kids will become adults one day and eventually see it for what it is. They'll realize just how much of a selfish piece of sh*t their father truly is.
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I Won't Allow It (111,655)
by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter
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Something must have recently gone down between Nick and Mariah because Mariah flatly refused to talk about co-parenting with Nick and honestly I don't blame her because he brings the drama, six baby mamas. But I wonder what happened because even post divorce they were amicable for the kids and now it's like she just tolerates him. Makes sense he has gotten progressively more annoying and her kids are now a bit older so she probably doesn't feel the need to put on a show with Nick.
(Thursday 2 October 2025; 03:57)
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Decipher the ad lib in HFIA (111,630)
by Lambi from USA
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There are subtle talking noises after she sings "Someone said that that's tough". I'm hearing "Oh (pause) that's deep" (or oh, MC). It sounded like a guy's voice. What do you hear? Anybody else hearing it too?
(Wednesday 1 October 2025; 01:53)
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The multitudes (111,568)
by Lambi from USA
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The avalanche of reviews are crazy. It's so cool to see everyone come out of hibernation and be united. I truly didn't realize how many lambs are actually here. It almost feels like a pep rally where you see every single student in your class that you won't normally coincide with anywhere, until the rally. I love how we all show up for our girl, Mariah. It's simply beautiful.
(Sunday 28 September 2025; 01:44)
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An ode to all of us (111,532)
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"Rainbows will always remind you of me Please remember to look for them diligently And save a prayer, cause covenants are real, believe in things unseen But if you leave, just whisper something softly to the wind you want Mariah to hear"
Are we nearing the end? What is this MC? I cried with the thought of Mariah saying her final words. I genuinely feel so unsettled.
(Friday 26 September 2025; 23:38)
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Article: Album review: Mariah Carey is Here For It All (111,476)
by Lambi from USA
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I'm glad we finally found common grounds, Randy. Even though I felt I already did a long time ago, I've agreed with a lot of your opinions.
But yeah, definitely don't let these journalists gaslight you. The whole agenda is to present fair but actually there's hatred behind their articles. It's so unbelievably fake and predictable.
(Friday 26 September 2025; 02:32)
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Article: Album review: Mariah Carey is Here For It All (111,475)
by Randy from USA
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Lambi, this scares me. We have never agreed on anything. When he pulled out Save the Day and Heavenly as hits to compare her current songs to, I threw the whole review away. And now you and I have agreed on something.
(Friday 26 September 2025; 02:05)
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Queen of discretion (111,472)
by Lambi from USA
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I thought Mariah would be more candid and talk openly about her life since she's released a whole memoir, literally everything is already on the table. But maybe the lawsuits, the guilt and all the emotions that came after releasing it, made her go back to just not saying much.
It's always middle of the road. We really kind of just get surface level answers. It's starting to be uninteresting and predictable.
I was really expecting more raw interview answers like these. I thank God I downloaded the full hour interview before it got taken down.
(Friday 26 September 2025; 00:33)
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Article: Album review: Mariah Carey is Here For It All (111,470)
by Lambi from USA
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I almost fell for it because the writer seemed like a lamb. He even knows Mariah's lingo "just for laughs" or "just for the nostalgia". But the main giveaway that he's actually a hater is him randomly referencing Save the Day and Heavenly (her worst songs). Like, girl, why would you do that? Out of all the phenomenal songs in Mariah's catalogue, those are the two you choose to highlight? LMAO.
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Article: Album review: Mariah Carey is Here For It All (111,464)
by BFF from United States
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That's such a strange criticism because, to me, the songs seem more solid than the ones on "Caution". The ballads "Nothing Is Impossible" and "Here For It All" sound much stronger than "Portrait" based on the clips I have heard. Other writers are complaining that she seems "too relaxed", as if that's a bad thing? Maybe Mariah's tired of the drama and just wanted to put together an album that was fun and healing for her? She's been working like a dog the last year or so, and she's clearly exhausted.
But ultimately nitpicking is what critics do to line their resumes and earn their living, so we really should take it with a grain of salt. The reviews for "Butterfly" on its initial release in 1997 were not amazing, but it went on to be considered her best album by many. I know we don't like Tommy, but he was right when he said "don't pay so much attention to what they write because it will be used to wrap fish the next day".
(Thursday 25 September 2025; 16:58)
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Article: Mariah Carey was the "worst" celebrity guest on Mafiathon 3 (111,440)
by Lambi from USA
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They're probably mad Mariah didn't give them the lambo or what ever they requested. Lol.
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Article: Mariah Carey was the "worst" celebrity guest on Mafiathon 3 (111,436)
by Stacey from USA
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Seriously the whole notion is ridiculous. Why else would MC do the interview if it wasn't to promote her new album? These people were absent when brain cells were handed out, lol.
(Thursday 25 September 2025; 00:46)
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Excerpts from GQ (111,418)
by Lambi from USA
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"In another class from those ladies... you couldn't walk a mile in my shoes" over a taut hip-hop beat on the opening track "Mi".
I wonder if she had Nick's out-of-wedlock baby mamas in mind.
"Seemed like I'd never rise again... haunted by desperation and long harrowing nights" on the ballad Nothing is Impossible.
My gosh, she is rather raw and real on this one. I cannot wait to hear. Probably will be my new anthem.
(Wednesday 24 September 2025; 01:31)
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Recent falsetto (111,416)
by Lambi from USA
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Very true. Some singers can be technically perfect but lose quality in certain registers. Mariah in her tired, dried, hoarse voice is still somewhat palatable. Her tones are uniquely hers and truly a godsend.
(Wednesday 24 September 2025; 00:21)
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Recent falsetto (111,414)
by Tony Lorenzo from UK
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This is what is going on with Mariah's voice. Firstly, her pitch is as always, technically perfect which enables her to sing in different keys while staying melodious.
Her problem in her latter years has been breath control. She doesn't take in enough oxygen (and wears tight clothes that constrict her chest) these days to sustain notes and sing with power. I think she just needs to do lots of breathwork to improve her oxygen capacity and she'd be back to normal.
Mariah's "loss of breath control" is still leagues above the vast majority of singers though. She's lucky her voice just sounds nice too. Many people can technically sing but their voices don't sounf pleasant. Thinking of for example Christina Aguilera.
(Tuesday 23 September 2025; 23:38)
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Recent falsetto (111,415)
by Lambi from USA
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Great observation. I get exactly what you're talking about. To me, she's always gone back and forth, not just with falsetto, but overall. Her tone on Music Box (especially in Without You) was deep, rich, and mature. Then on Daydream, you suddenly hear a brighter, more developed tone, subtly more feminine. By Butterfly, she fully embraced that feminine sound.
Then you get those deep, rich tones again in 2003 (You and I), and by 2005 (Stay the Night), she's hitting those stratospheric, bright belts.
With this upcoming album spanning seven years in the making, it'll be interesting to see which facets of her voice show up. I have a feeling it'll be a mix of MIAM and Caution, and I'm already hearing hints of E=MC².
This is why I think her instrument is such a freak of nature. You just never know what you're going to get.
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This may have already been discussed here but I haven't seen it in my search. What is up with Mariah's falsetto this era? Like on Sugar Sweet; the few lines before the chorus that begin "Hate it when you have to leave..." sound so unpleasant, especially on the pre-recorded live vocals version she used at Brighton, Sandrigham, VMA and iHeart performances. I have said this before but even on non-falsetto notes, there is something about her vowel sounds on the upper notes that sounds painful. Mariah's voice used to sound full and mature, she used to sing like a woman beyond her years with resonance, now she has gone the opposite way. There is something child-like about how she sings now and it doesn't sound as full as it once did. I'm not describing this at my best but I'm hoping there are vocalists here who understand what I'm trying to say and can hazard a technical explanation of the difference i'm hearing as a non-singer. It sounds like all the vocals are coming from her throat/nose area as opposed to her chest and when she is belting, it sounds the same just louder.
(Tuesday 23 September 2025; 10:47)
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