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Breakdown (live in Perth - footage) (105,854) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

I personally think she looks stunning. The choreography is kinda repetitive but when else will we ever see Mariah in high heels climbing and dancing on a chair without someone holding her.
(Sunday 3 March 2024; 18:58)


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Angels Advocate (105,833) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

No that one didn't leak unfortunately.
(Friday 1 March 2024; 20:35)


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Angels Advocate (105,831) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

I agree they could have just released it together. There was a CD 2 with the original release but it was only Obsessed remixes. Some corrections:
- Obsessed feat Gucci Mane
- Standing O feat Kanye West
- More Than Just Friends feat Fabolous
And instead of this:
- My Love (ft. The Dream)
it's
- Skydiving
- That's A Smash (feat Busta)
- Call Me Now (feat Westlife)
- 100%
And Imperfect was going to be solo.
(Friday 1 March 2024; 20:34)


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Angels Advocate (105,827) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Ya at this point they already have it, might as well just release it. I do enjoy some of the leaked collaborations and would like to see what the others sound like.
(Friday 1 March 2024; 15:23)


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Cardi (105,813) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Her new song is a solo song. No Mariah.
(Thursday 29 February 2024; 04:16)

Controversial (105,799) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

I think Mariah's team consistently fails to market her legendary career. Like regular people have no idea how many, she's not just the artist with the most #1's but she's also one of the few female producers (among mostly male producers) who has a high number of #1's. They also forget that out of 19 of her #1's, 18 were written by her. Her team really fails to promote her artistry. Taylor for example everyone goes nuts over how lyrics and her songwriting and she has a course in uni dedicated to her. She even got a honorary doctorate for it. Mariah literally is ten times the writer Taylor will be and yet people barely know she writes her own music. (Come on this woman literally wrote a whole song about this guy's "honey" and how it tastes and made it sound like a romantic innocent song.) Same for the Eras tour. Taylor's reputation was quite damaged since 1989, people weren't really caring for her until the Eras tour and her strategy for it was to turn the tour into something that's "unmissable" creating FOMO around it so even people who don't like her are splurging to watch her. Taylor took the Scooter Braun feud and turned it into a money making machine while simultaneously presenting it as women empowerment movement. Mariah had a very similar situation with Tommy and Sony. Her team could have angled it at how this young girl who was naïve was systematically almost destroyed by her mentor and how she overcame it. She should have done more high profile speaking events. There's a lot they could have done position to position Mariah in an unsinkable powerhouse way early on in her career that would made her base stronger but instead her team is mostly reactive not proactive. Because of the lazy approach she's mostly now known for her ability to sing in whistle register and her Christmas music. She looks great for her age (which is 12) why is her team turning her into a legacy artist?
(Tuesday 27 February 2024; 19:08)


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Cardi B (105,795) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

That's good news if true. I honestly think if Mariah is taking this year to experiment and primary do collaborations with multiple artists on their projects I'm open to that too as long as it's not something she won't get credit for. I am still salty about Ariana dropping Mariah like that. I am seeing rumors of MC16 being ready almost. Can you tell I'm thirsty and starving for new Mariah material?
(Tuesday 27 February 2024; 18:08)


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Cardi B (105,783) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

If they're collaborating, my only hope is that it's a bop and it's the main version, not the remix. Also another hope that it's actually promoted and not just announced and dropped.
(Tuesday 27 February 2024; 13:42)


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Mariah's just lacking a good collaborator (105,776) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

You're not wrong about Taylor. Her team needs to be studied. They've got the world in a chokehold, she's unstoppable at the moment. Mariah's team hasn't been stable in a long time unfortunately. Thus the messy roll outs.
(Tuesday 27 February 2024; 01:22)


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Cardi B (105,772) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Cardi B blacked out her socials. We’ll probably know soon if the MC collab is true.
(Monday 26 February 2024; 23:18)

TEOM era will probably the last great era (105,770) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Rumor has it Mariah has some sort of release planned before her Vegas residency, if it's a "buzz single" I don't want it haha. All her "buzz singles" are dropped and forgotten within days. I would rather a proper era. Yes it won't be close to the TEOM era but with the right team and planning I hope we get a decent one.
(Monday 26 February 2024; 22:37)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,767) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Boy was really ahead of its time. Also fun fact, the video shot was actually for "The One" but it was later switched to "Boy".
(Monday 26 February 2024; 16:57)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,764) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

If y'all haven't seen already, and maybe it's also in the Archives sorry Eric, but here's an article reminiscing the making of WBT with all the people involved in it.
(Monday 26 February 2024; 04:37)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,763) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

I forgot to add that the DJ Clue remix was also perfection. How she took a song that was already a masterpiece and then elevated it to a faster "rap-sing" version was amazing. It's still so fresh.
(Monday 26 February 2024; 04:28)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,757) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Yes, Brett did some of her greatest videos and then we got this. Same with Joseph Kahn and #Beautiful (also don't get me started on the missed opportunity with that song). Anyways so Joseph Kahn directed some of Taylor's videos and they were all so high quality. #Beautiful was not it. It was so repetitive of Mariah spinning around and the clear as day green screen motorcycle scenes. I really hope in her new projects they have a solid visual team.
(Monday 26 February 2024; 01:12)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,755) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Ugh I wrote a post and then forgot to hit submit and it's now erased (if I did submit and this is a repeat my apologies) but yes that video was so random why was she on a beach crying and looking sexy? HATEU also isn't a song that you can really sing along too. LA was too stuck in his "upbeat" followed by "ballad" formula that worked for TEOM. But why not switch it up and do back to back up beats? I can't believe in a party record like E=MC2 he released "Bye Bye". After "Obsessed" a MTJF single with a few brand affiliations (since she name drops a lot of brands) shot in Italy would have been dope. Even if he wanted a slow song he could have gone with a BGK with a dark moody video. Instead we have Mariah crying on a beach.
(Sunday 25 February 2024; 21:07)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,751) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Obsessed was a great first choice just like TMB was a great first choice for E=MC2, but similar to the latter the next single choices and the cheesy music videos ruined it. MOAIA was going to be an ambitious project with 2 remix projects (one with high profile collabs) and it had an Elle magazine tie in. But at the end of the day what sells an album is how it's introduced to the world and the singles play a huge role in it (in my opinion). So releasing HATEU, which is a great song, don't get me wrong, but not single worthy with that hideous video, was a mess. And then IWKWLI. There were other great options which had catchy choruses and more radio friendly that could have been better choices like MTJF, BGK etc. Also the HATEU remix would have done better than the OG. Don't get me wrong, it could be joint decisions between MC and LA and not solely LA's fault, but as the label executive he should have known better. Also the comments he made when she came to epic implying she has no original hits in her and should just sing covers, I felt was a big insult to someone who puts her songwriting over her singing.
(Sunday 25 February 2024; 17:49)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,750) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Dead haha. Yes I don't have 1 flaw I can find in WBT. It really is a masterpiece in vocals, lyrics, sampling, interpolation, layering, instrumentals and so much more.
(Sunday 25 February 2024; 17:39)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,744) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

So while during TEOM he was magical, I don't think LA still has the same magic. First of all he absolutely botched E=MC2 and MOAIA promo/roll out. Then when Mariah rejoined him in Epic he said she should do covers only and basically become a legacy artist. Telling a woman who considers songwriting her primary talent to just cover other people's song was probably a blow to Mariah. That's my 2 cents so no I don't think he is the right person now.
(Sunday 25 February 2024; 14:01)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,737) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

We need a recording hahah. We Belong Together (RA's late night whisper version).
(Sunday 25 February 2024; 01:45)


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New album (105,735) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

I can so hear Mariah on a song like Snooze. I am here for a collaboration between them.
(Saturday 24 February 2024; 23:56)


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I hope Mariah never releases anything anymore (105,734) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Everyday I thank LA Reid for telling Mariah to go back and record with JD hahah after she had initially completed TEOM without ILT, WBT, SIO and GYN. WBT is the most perfect song, masterpiece that should be studied but would have been a mess if it was just whispers.
(Saturday 24 February 2024; 23:55)


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YAR CD single (105,729) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

This would have been fire.
(Saturday 24 February 2024; 22:23)


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Similarity between Big Energy Remix and yes, and? (105,728) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Haha thank you. I was thinking like ya if they don't have a budget for a music video at least these smaller fun videos could have fed the engagements. Also just giving some context to why they did they song would be nice because a lot of people were confused why Mariah on a song like this and not something like "Positions", "POV" and TUN. So much potential especially in this era of social media where people lose focus and move on from things so fast they should have done more to highlight the song. When I saw the whole them changing profile photos together, having physical CDs ready and the short video of them together I was like wow they'll go all in. Finally something solid haha only for them to drop it like it's hot.
(Saturday 24 February 2024; 22:21)


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New album (105,717) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter

Yes but honestly at this rate there'll be more big name releases and then it'll be Christmas. We all know basically October to December she won't release anything new. So that doesn't even leave us much space.
(Saturday 24 February 2024; 17:08)


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