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Emancipation & Daydream (108,426) by TJ from Norway
I'm so old that Music Box always trumps both Daydream and Emancipation. I'm old.
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 16:46)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,425) by Randy from USA
Daydream: Underneath The Stars, Always Be My Baby

Emancipation: Circles, Don't Forget About Us

P.S. Eric were my jokes really that mean? [Webmaster: Yes, I thought they were racist.]
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 16:23)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,424) by Edward from USA
Dear Stacey, you of all people should understand what happens when one is in a Daydream state of mind. I had the album playing and as I was typing my two favorites for TEOM, "When I Saw You" kicked in. Let’s just call it a "mental lapse", a "slip of the keyboard", or most likely, "a glitch in the matrix" . My guilty pleasure from TEOM is "To The Floor".
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 16:19)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,423) by Rashidi Rahim Rick from Malaysia
Daydream 1995 and The Emancipation 2005 were two big eras for Mariah. Too bad that she can't have another big eras in 2015 and 2025, or else the number 5 in a calendar year would be a good luck charm for her. As for my pick; I choose Forever (Daydream) and I Wish You Knew (The Emancipation).
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 14:45)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,422) by Carlos from Brazil
Daydream: Forever / Slipping Away (yes it counts)
TEOM: One and Only / Mine Again
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 13:34)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,421) by Lainsky from Philippines
Daydream: Fantasy & Always Be My Baby (Remix)
TEOM: Stay The Night & Fly Like A Bird
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 05:02)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,420) by Bobby A from United States
Let me jump in this great topic.

Stay The Night/Fly Like A Bird

Fantasy/When I Saw You
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 04:30)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,419) by Stacey from USA
Daydream is a thing of beauty. I can listen to that whole album beginning to end. No skips. I love every song. Looking In is my favorite track. It's my life's theme song. "It seems as though I've always been; somebody outside looking in." Oh wait, I can choose another song. Hmmm let's see, ABMB. That song sounds as current today as it did 30 years ago. Guilty pleasure: Melt Away.

TEOM had me jumping for joy 20 years later after Daydream. I thought the whisper from CB was MC's current trend. However, when I got a hold of an mp3 containing snippets of all the songs before the album's release, I couldn't contain my excitement. The voice was back. I have to choose only 2 songs? Fly Like A Bird, Circles. Guilty pleasure: Your Girl.
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 03:36)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,418) by Stacey from USA
Oh Edward dear, When I Saw You is on the Daydream album.
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 03:25)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,417) by BFF from United States
TEOM:

Sprung
Fly Like A Bird
honorable mention: Say Somethin'

Daydream:

Slipping Away
One Sweet Day
honorable mention: Melt Away
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 00:36)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,416) by Edward from USA
Daydream:
Fantasy
Underneath the Stars
(guilty pleasure: Melt Away)

TEOM:
One & Only
Get Your Number
(guilty pleasure: When I Saw You)
(Tuesday 25 March 2025; 00:21)
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Love letter to MC (108,415) by BFF from United States
Amen. Mariah, we love you unconditionally and support whatever you decide to do.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 23:17)
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Emancipation & Daydream (108,414) by Jamie from UK
Ok while it's the 20th Anniversary of Mimi and 30th Anniversary of Daydream. Choose your two favourite songs from each album. Mine are:
We Belong Together/Get Your Number
Fantasy/Looking In
I'm interested to hear people's choices and thought I'd bring some fun to the board.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 18:14)
Ribbon (108,413) by Jamie from UK
I love Ribbon. Radio killer.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 13:48)
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Overreacting (108,412) by Zachariah from Croatia
My head is spinning from of all these conspiracy theories that I see here. Give a woman some rest.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 13:45)
Love letter to MC (108,411) by Edward from USA
Beautiful message to MC.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 08:22)
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Ribbon (108,410) by Edward from USA
I love myself some Ribbon. Actually, Mariah was in a better place vocally on E=MC2 and Memoirs than what she was on TEOM.
(Monday 24 March 2025; 08:12)
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Ribbon (108,409) by Bobby A from United States
I think Ribbon is the best song that MC, The-Dream and Tricky Stewart have ever written together. The song is probably a favorite among Dream fans. Plus adding Ludacris on the remix was genius by MC. By the way, I am wondering if Angels Advocate will ever get an official release one day.
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 23:40)
Love letter to MC (108,408) by Baby from Dreamville...Where There's No Beginning & There is No End
To Mariah, whom I love, cherish and adore (more than some of my own blood relations) and wish, hope and pray will humble yourself and let go of anything holding you back from being happy and at peace, where you have always belonged but for some reason you feel unworthy and don't believe is for you.

Mariah, nobody "deserves" or earns love, it's a gift from our creator. Rejecting love is not where it's at. God wants you to be happy. Grief comes and goes in waves, let it happen. Lean into it, move through it. Don't bottle all your struggles up. Your disappointment. Declare yourself free and unburden yourself from the wounds you carry. We all have to mourn our dead. But let's celebrate the living too, why grieve and eulogize loved ones who still draw breath?

We'll be okay, we don't really need new music or any of the other things we always bitch about. We care about you. You are not somewhat loved, you are loved, period. Don't martyr yourself for the fandom, the public and strangers that care or know nothing about you. We'll live and we'll be happy because you're genuinely happy. Why won't you choose happy, is it fear? Well that's not of the Lord and you know it.

So whatever had you running scared, run towards that. Because faking it until you make it isn't working. It also reads inauthentic and that's not good because even as someone who loves you and means you well, always, I can misread you as someone who doesn't care when I also see that you're trying very hard. Let go of your pride. It's not doing you any favors. Handle your business girl and I'm not talking music or showbusiness. Go off grid if you have to. Be Garbo for a minute or two. Let God lead the way and follow Him. You don't need to go on an exploitation/explanation tour on anyone's primetime tv-couch. Go be with the people who love you, 4 real 4 real. It's time you stop self sabotaging. Reject dysfunction once and for all. Stop rejecting stability in favour of familiarity of chaos and uncertainty.

Go where you're loved and accepted wholely and truly. That's what you should keep building on. Love is the only thing that we take with us, given and received, when we leave this earth. Let's not take it for granted and waste time on frivolous things and hollow relationships. Stop feeding the trolls.

"4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." 1 Corinthians 13.
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 22:27)
Just makin' the most of life (108,407) by MusicfanJ from Germany
Again on point Jamie. I absolutely agree with your thoughts. "But my main concern is Mariah herself at the moment." Yes, that's also my concern. Someone wrote on this board, she is so rich and famous, she dosen't care about anything. That may be true, but I do care. A lot of other fans/lambs do care. The question is, is she happy and healthy? All the money in the world can't buy it. There are many exsamples. I just hope she's okay. Next week is celebration week.
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 16:30)
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It's divas week (108,406) by BFF from United States
You're putting a rush on us, Randy.
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 12:42)
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Just makin' the most of life (108,405) by Jamie from UK
I'm under no illusions that she will never be as she was. Being nostalgic doesn't mean you're not aware of the present. My concern is that she's now at a point where she's even far removed from that person than she has ever been, and not even musically. I loved Caution, I even loved I Don't, obviously not the video though lol. I'm concerned and rightly so that something isn't right with her right now. Whether it's medical or something else, who knows, but from an outsiders point of view something is off. My criticism only comes from a place of caring about Mariah, I've remained loyal throughout the years, and have enjoyed all her music. My point is that for the general buying public she became to far removed from the Mariah they fell in love with, I'm personally as a fan not saying that her new music isn't good, she's got some amazing tracks later on in her career. But my main concern is Mariah herself at the moment.
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 07:45)
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Just makin' the most of life (108,404) by Boy from The Netherlands
I mean indeed, when artists receive such a specific award, it's usually based on their accomplishments and achievements throughout their career, anyways. I don't think you understand me nor my intentions. That you miss something or wish for her to navigate and present herself as an artist the way she did back in the day is just knowingly wishing for something that will never happen again. In the '90s, she was on a leash, whitewashed and her image was heavily controlled. Now, she's a prisoner of her own set standards and the expected demands of her fanbase. She simply can't and won't live up to those standards anymore.

As an eager and ambitious artist, she has plateaued multiple times throughout her career. Like you said, she is relevant now because of the musical legacy she created in the past. A lot of you will probably never admit it but Mariah has been a legacy artist for the past decade or so. Maybe that's where some of the disappointment comes from.

Reality is exactly what she presents us. From her Drew Barrymore interview to the two guys she gave an interview. For more than a decade now, she can't walk on her own and wears clothes that make everyone wonder how she even moves or breathes. She has created this world, this cocoon, Mariah World one she probably resents but also feels comfortable and safe in. She's probably frustrated and disappointed, too, because for an artist like Mariah who clearly had a lot of excess, privileges, and label support due to her personal relationship with Tommy it must be a hard pill to swallow that she can't even get a proper push or budget anymore. Her label just wants to profit off her catalog and Christmas shtick.

For more than a decade now, she's had a couple of wins for her standards. And in her current situation, she's just trying to enjoy the respect and recognition she gets while she's still here. But just because she talks about lighting or eternal 12 doesn't mean it's over for her or that she needs to stay home. I'm not saying, don't have expectations, I'm just saying at least let them be realistic.

"She smiles through a thousand tears and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be she wades in insecurity and hides herself inside of me."
(Sunday 23 March 2025; 01:32)
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It's divas week (108,403) by Randy from USA
Uh-oh, break out the hairspray, sequins, booze. It's divas week. Birthdays: 3/23 Chaka. 3/25 Aretha. 3/26 Diana. 3/27 Mariah. 3/31 Celine. But today we start with our original Dorothy from The Wiz - Stephanie Mills. Now you all say I'm mean, so this week Ima be kind. Did y'all know that she has another talent besides singing?
(Saturday 22 March 2025; 23:57)
Just makin' the most of life (108,402) by Bobby A from United States
Jamie, your post is spot on. Where will MC be in 2026? I believe the nostaglia is going to fade soon without some type of new project. She is going to need to release some type of project next year. Maybe not a new album, but some type of compliation project with something from her vault. MC is a legend who can break the internet with the right complilation and goodies included. I am thinking about something like what Garth Brooks did with Wal-Mart to sell his first ever anthology boxset. I am still in awe of everything she has accomplished in her career. Give me one of her remixes on a new vinyl pressing and I am a very happy queen.
(Saturday 22 March 2025; 22:00)
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