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Re: Stella. Stop. Please. (58,987) (58,989) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ugh don't even get me started. Ever since Stella took over Mariah's account, she has turned it into a joke with all the meaningless and childish hash tags, hazy unrelated old pictures and all that good stuff, something I don't picture Mariah doing at all. The picture (that I used in my avatar) has the hash tags "Rocky wants Swedish fish" and "Roe Roe wants sour candies". What the heck does it have to do with the picture? Then there is the uber impressive (not) "shake and bake" on the photo of her running. The random "Can't let go" with the Christmas presents picture and the list goes on and on. It's just annoying. This is a legendary pop star's account, not a wanna be instagram model. (Saturday 9 January 2016; 2:22)

Stella. Stop. Please. (58,986) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Stella at it again with the old photos. By the way Stella, this wasn't the last time she went on the show, she was there to reveal a snippet of the "Infinity" music video. This post might be a foreshadowing of her appearing in the Ellen show soon, but "#glam" seriously? Celebs just usually post photos without all the stupid hashtags. Also enough with most of her pics having the "eternally 12" hashtag, or the "pon de" something hashtag. We get it, you know some "Mariahism", no need to put it everywhere. "Hashtag game weak Stella, hashtag game weak". (Friday 8 January 2016; 23:11)

Eric (58,983) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey Eric, hope you are doing well. I seem to be having a little problem with the layout from my laptop. The message board changed so now I have to click on each message to read it, instead of it just displaying all the messages as normal. What I am trying to say is the display now looks like how it looks when I access it from a mobile device. Ok never mind, it's back to normal now. Sorry. (Friday 8 January 2016; 22:34)

New music (58,982) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I am so ready for some new music. I hope we get some soon. Like what happened to the hype that "Superstar" is her next single. Plus what about them Diane Warren collaborations? Come through Mimi. We need a hot song. (Friday 8 January 2016; 22:23)

Re: Oh please, Adele? (58,980) (58,981) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Deedre it's a good thing you brought up the fact that Mariah is a musical encyclopedia. A lot of her collaborators (writers and singers) have talked about how much Mariah knows about music and musicians and that they were blown away by her knowledge. But recently every time they ask her about who she is listening to at the moment, she mostly answers with "I listen to my own material". Except for the last time when she mentioned "The Weeknd". So her saying she only listens to her own material worries me a little because that kinda limits her to her previous work. I would want her to listen to some good current music not so that she jumps on a bandwagon but so that it inspires her to perhaps cook up something new and start a new trend in the process. Because fans have been begging her to think outside the box for a while and she did just that when she went ahead and collaborated with Miguel. I always have a greatest respect for Mariah because she is so hands on with her projects by being in control of writing, producing and singing of course, but I think it would be a change if once in a while she lets in other people to shake things up a little. Not asking her to completely give up control though, because I love me so Mimi writings. (Friday 8 January 2016; 22:15)

YDKWTD (58,978) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ugh so I listened to this song after a long time again and I can't deal with the pain that this song was ignored by Mariah. It's fire. This song with a good 70's inspired video and a few live performances would just blow everything up. Especially if she did it like the one live version she performed at the Today show. I am talking about the part at the end when she sings "You don't know what you do to me" and the back up singers follow suit and it just seems like a girl group chorus. It was perfect. I know a lot of people don't like Wale on the track, but I actually like his parts, I would just like his voice removed when Mariah is doing the acapella intro. The song reminds me of Fantasy for some reason. Another heartbreak that will forever upset me. Right up there with "The One", "Mine Again", "Migrate", "Side Effects", "E=MC2" in general, "Inseparable", "Betcha Gonna Know", "Faded", "Money" and "Thirsty". (Friday 8 January 2016; 19:26)

Re: Oh please, Adele? (58,970) (58,974) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I agree that "Style" is more #1 worthy than "Bad Blood". "Style" is more sophisticated while "Bad Blood" sounds juvenile. I also think "Wildest Dreams" was a beautiful song. Love everything about it. (Friday 8 January 2016; 9:55)

Re: Oh please, Adele? (58,968) (58,973) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Haha there was a lot of news about how Adele's success caused Rihanna to crawl back into a hole because she was scared (and rightfully so) that Adele will overshadow her. But apparently Rihanna has announced a tour in February I guess and she has been teasing fans with snippets of songs through her site in collaboration with Samsung. So she might release it. But oh well, as long as she doesn't collect any number #1's along the way, I'm good lol. (Friday 8 January 2016; 9:52)

Re: As a Latin fan (58,964) (58,972) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Giovanni, probably a very big reason Mariah never had a full Spanish album may be due to the fact that Mariah has always insisted that she will not sing anything that is not written by her. She does not speak Spanish and hence would not be able to write full songs in Spanish. Secondly I think I read somewhere that one of her Spanish versions, I think "Mi Todo" (not sure) had wrong translations and she was very upset with it and that's why she stopped doing Spanish versions of her songs completely up until "Hermosa" a good 16 years later. Even then she probably did "Hermosa" because Miguel was involved and he helped her. I can't be sure but I think she just doesn't want to fully commit to a project she has limited control over and would not want to disappoint herself and her Latin fans. Hope that helps, but again, it's only what I think might have happened. Not sure. (Friday 8 January 2016; 9:49)

Re: Don't forget about us (58,963) (58,966) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter That song is awesome. The video is so simple yet so beautiful. There are quite a lot of MC songs that can be released now and still sound fresh. Shows what a great writer she is. (Friday 8 January 2016; 1:27)

Re: Oh please, Adele? (58,954) (58,965) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter "Bad Blood", "Out Of The Woods", "Shake It Off" are the songs I find lame. I enjoy "wildest Dreams", "Style" and "Blank Space". (Friday 8 January 2016; 1:10)

Re: Swimsuit picture (58,950) (58,953) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It's definitely new. The people saying it's a throwback picture are confusing it with this photo from 2006 and this photo from 2003. That's why they think they have seen it before but it's just that Mariah is posing in a similar way. The photo is new and was possibly take the same day as this photo, judging by the hairstyle. (Thursday 7 January 2016; 17:55)

New photo (58,949) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So finally we get the much requested bikini moment. I have seen some article post the new bikini shot Mariah posted and people are swearing up and down that it's an old picture and they are sure about it. Haha haters having a hard time believe that Mariah has actually lost so much weight. At first even I thought Stella is at it again, posting the 2006 famous bikini shots of her in the emerald bikini. But wow Mariah, she looks gorgeous. I am sure most people are thinking of the 2006 photos or 2003 photo (from Lee TS avatar) when they saw this picture and so they think it's old. Others are saying it is edited but come on it's not like she is stick thin in the pictures. She looks the same size she did in the paparazzi shots. So the queen is back. Now I want a music video. (Thursday 7 January 2016; 16:07)

Re: Oh please, Adele? (58,936) (58,944) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Just to clarify, this is not a post about throwing digs at you Seth, but while you are right about trends and how people vanish after being hot for a second, we can't rule out Adele yet. Mariah is one of the rare celebs who has outlived the success of her contemporaries. Similarly Adele may surprise us and outlive the success of her contemporaries. I am not even a fan of Adele, I mean I don't hate her of course, but I usually don't rush to buy or download Adele songs either but I will admit she is a talented songwriter and singer. As for Rihanna's #1's not being a threat to Mariah, I will have to disagree. It is a big threat. Rihanna's time is not done yet because she is still young. Nowadays every year there is a new "hot artist" who comes in and sweep 2-3 #1's with their album. First came Katy with Prism and took in 2 #1s, then came Miley with Bangerz which took a #1 and #2. Then Ariana (zero #1's still and she is apparently the next Mariah oops). Beyonce with Beyonce. Then of course Taylor and took in 3 #1's, 2 of which were pretty lame songs. Anyways what I am saying is if tomorrow Rihanna drops a highly publicized album which gets popular she can easily scoop 2-3 #1's which will bring her closer to Mariah. She is trying to keep her fans on edge about her new album even though it got delayed, so it can either be a hit or miss. And then another phoned in feature on an Eminem song would get another. In this age and time it's pretty easy to get a #1. So we can't say no one is a threat to Mariah. I will certainly not be happy if someone like Rihanna dethrones her. (Thursday 7 January 2016; 13:08)

New photos (58,921) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter How many times can anyone claim their vacation photos looks like it is a flawless photo shoot worthy enough to be a magazine spread? Look at this woman. How does she look so beautiful? The hair flying, I mean come on, only Mariah. I also love this photo. These are better than some of her recent photo shoot. We need her to wear a monokini and get on that beach and post a couple of pictures on instagram. She'll look straight out of the MIAM/TAOLG cover minus the photoshop. I am happy to see the vacation photos. I think Stella should stop posting the low quality old pictures so much for no good reason. I mean yes I am all for a "Hero" anniversary post or whatever, but no need to put a random picture from the SIO shoot and label it "fringe game strong" like what is that even? Anyways I saw someone mention on another board that Mariah should use a "team account" like the Mariah Alerts account to post these if she absolutely has to and use her main account for more exclusive pictures like the vacation ones and behind the scenes stuff or just day to day updates instead of the old pictures. It doesn't even have to be her picture if she isn't in the mood, she can just post pictures of her surroundings. By the way, her instagram following has increased to 3 million. It's good to see an increase but she can do much better considering the fact that she is such a major star. (Wednesday 6 January 2016; 19:30)

Re: Bye, Bye (58,909) (58,914) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter LA Reid is pretty dumb and I don't know why Mariah trusts him so much but for her sake I hope Sony can do her justice and not just use her to milk her back catalog more for their own interest with all the re-releases. (Wednesday 6 January 2016; 9:45)

Re: Underrated songs with chart potentials (58,892) (58,902) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Thanks Norman. I absolutely love the song. Plus I think it has such a nice narrative that the video would have been quite easy to make. As much as I love "Bye Bye", releasing that song after TMB was one of the stupidest mistakes of Mariah's team if not the whole music industry haha. I mean come on, who does that? (Tuesday 5 January 2016; 18:29)

Re: Underrated songs with chart potentials (58,894) (58,900) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey there. So I am pretty sure she said "I wouldn't" because I read the transcript of the interview. I either read transcript or it was a print interview I can't recall, I just know that I didn't get to see the interview or hear the audio. I think I might have come across the interview in MCA. But I can't remember the name sorry. She says so after the interviewer says that he did not like "Migrate". (Tuesday 5 January 2016; 17:51)

Re: Hello warning 10 weeks (58,884) (58,891) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I think Justin's "Love Yourself" has already taken over Adele's "Hello" on the iTunes chart. So maybe it might dethrone Adele. (Tuesday 5 January 2016; 11:08)

Re: Underrated songs with chart potentials (58,887) (58,890) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mariah has given contradictory statements about Migrate though. In some interviews she has mentioned how she wanted it to be a single but the label wouldn't. But then in another interview she said something along the lines of "of course I wouldn't release Migrate as a single" when the interviewer said something about not liking the song so much. So it's not clear what happened with the single. (Tuesday 5 January 2016; 10:57)

Re: Underrated songs with chart potentials (58,882) (58,888) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I will pick "Side Effects" that song is fire. Of course "Migrate" would probably shoot to #1, "I'm that Chick" would too. Lord knows I have written many posts blabbering over how those were huge missed opportunities, including most of E=MC2. But around that time a lot of songs were in the club banger genre but no one had a song like "Side Effects". It's such a personal song, and also it is like an anthem. I love it. (Tuesday 5 January 2016; 8:55)

Re: What Mariah song brings you to tears? (58,836) (58,861) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter "Bye Bye" makes me bawl like a kid every time because the lyrics fit perfectly for a loved family member. Other songs would be "Looking In" especially during the part "She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all, that she can never be, she wades in insecurity." Others would be "Camouflage" and "Outside". I am sure there are more but these are the surefire crying moments. Wow MC makes me cry a lot haha. (Sunday 3 January 2016; 9:13)

Re: Reinvention (58,834) (58,837) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter "MIAM failed because of the multiple delays and Mariah abandoning the project because of personal and professional issues at the time." So true. MIAM could have been massive otherwise. It had a lot of potential. After releasing #Beautiful, a lot of time was wasted. They were releasing singles at random and not even following through with promotions. I mean they released 2 solid singles "Thirsty" and YDKWTD which had the potential of at least a top ten but they just abandoned it. It was a single only by name because they got zero promo, zero mentions, no video. It's all just sad really. This was the time when people were hyped for a Mariah return and things just fell flat. It's like E=MC2 heartbreak 2.0 because good Lord did Mariah miss a huge, and I mean humongous opportunity when she let E=MC2 die. It had potential to be even bigger than TEOM because at that time Mariah could do no wrong plus E=MC2 was full of potential singles that would burn up the charts. I will never get over this. (Saturday 2 January 2016; 19:01)

Re: Bathing suit (58,724) (58,725) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The MIAM cover monokini was a crocheted monokini. This seems to be her bathing suit from the "Say Something" video. It even has the little bedazzled detailing in front, so I am guessing its the same Louis Vuitton monokini she wore in the music video. (Monday 28 December 2015; 20:01)

Stop playing (58,720) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Guys stop playing with my heart seriously. It can only take so much excitement. I thought we won't get any Mariah music anytime soon so to think there might be a song lurking out there is uber exciting and to top that off, if it is in a genre we never got from Mariah, it's even more exciting. But the report as of now is not that strong so I don't want to get sad later when it turns out to be false. I think an EDM track with Mariah influences can be quite nice. Justin recently has done a good blend of EDM and RnB so let's see. (Monday 28 December 2015; 17:25)

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