Now what for music's ditsy-est diva?
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Mariah Carey has finally escaped the hold of her controlling manager, Stella Bulochnikov. Congrats to music's ditzy-est diva. But what next for Mariah, who can never be controlled for long by anyone? The tabs say her on again, off again boyfriend, the much younger dancer Brian Tanaka, is now in charge. But the problem is, no one is ever in charge of Mariah. Before Stella, Carey was briefly managed by her pal Randy Jackson, and then by Jermaine Dupri. Neither of them could set her on the right track.
Mariah's career is a roller coaster unlike any other. It went completely off the tracks when her marriage to Tommy Mottola careened. Mottola then set about to undermine Carey at the time of her movie "Glitter". She had a breakdown but bounced back with her monster hit album "The Emancipation with Mimi" in 2005, guided by LA Reid.
But then Nick Cannon happened, and twins, and so on. Mariah hasn't had an actual hit record in a decade. A whole album - a pretty good one = "Me. I am Mariah: The Elusive Chanteuse" had a terrible title. And it stiffed upon release in 2014. The rest, as thy say, is misery including the Cannon divorce, the "romance" with billionaire James Packer, Mariah's cancelled reality show, etc.
What has saved her completely is her 1994 Phil Spector-ish "All I Want for Christmas Is You" co-written with Walter Afanasieff. It's her biggest hit, re-recorded and re-released over the years, a chart hit every holiday season. It's now even got an animated film to go with it.
But Mariah is definitely in trouble. She wasted those years with Bulochnikov, who indulged the star rather than move her career forward. In that time, Mariah's record label savior, LA Reid, has departed the business after a scandal at Epic Records. It's unclear now who would record her, and what they would record. She insists on making hip hop records as she turns 50. Her famous "eight octave" voice has been squandered.
So now what? Who will manage Mariah? And how will Mariah manage? This story is not over.
(ShowBiz411.com)
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Gemma from Australia wrote:
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Sadly I agree with this entire article. Why can't Mariah go back to her older era of music and stop trying to be a black gangster with all this rap/hip hop crap. Her voice is unbelievable and in stuff like Butterfly, Fantasy, Heartbreaker etc was when I was proud to be a lamb. Even the Glitter soundtrack was better than this gangster shit, at least in Glitter she showed us why we fell in love with that voice.  [Webmaster: Please, next time use capitals when you start a sentence or else I won't post your message.]
(Monday 6 November 2017; 07:04)
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Lila from United States wrote:
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The never ending racism.  Mariah hasn't done one thing in her life that shows her as wanting to be anything near to a "black gangster". Which, please explain because I'm quite ignorant on this front. How, exactly, is her having rappers on her soundtrack and loving rap/hip hop equal to Mariah wanting to be a "black gangster"? Also, how does rap/hip hop automatically make someone a "black gangster"? Mariah doesn't have to do anything to "try" to be black because she already is by way of her black daddy though that probably bothers you so you ignore it but a "black gangster"? Hmmm, I can't see how. Maybe you meant she needs to stop trying to be a white gangster and stop making friends with stupid wannabe white gangster women who encourage her to run with every stupid white gangster thought in her mind like publicly shaking down billionaires for millions of dollars that she was never entitled to. Now, there's a thought. 
Oh, and you and anyone else can miss me with any round about posts about how your comments weren't racist when they are instead of admitting you want to make your racist comments you just can't handle being called out for it.
(Monday 6 November 2017; 12:46)
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Robin Elkins from United States wrote:
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Amen.
(Tuesday 7 November 2017; 00:05)
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this_is_qhm from the Philippines wrote:
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Funny how some would always refer to Mariah as a ditzy diva as if that's her defining characteristic. For amassing such net worth, accomplishing everything she has so far and having a career spanning almost 3 decades - sure, that's what ditzy looks like. Yup, that's my takeaway from this article.
(Tuesday 7 November 2017; 11:43)
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