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One More Try (45,497) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I just want to start off by saying that I really found the theory of it being about her pregnancy quite amazing. I would never have landed on that. So whoever thought of it, really good point. However I personally don't think it's about the miscarriage. 1) She said this album is a journey since she last left (that will be Memoirs). Her miscarriage was in 2008. 2) Mariah has given special mention to songs like Cry, Thirsty and all but never really talked abt OMT. If it was about the baby she would have atleast said the song is close my heart or something. 3) The lyrics can't be taken literally, it's not written by her so maybe there actually is no hidden meaning, she's just doing her version of it. 4) She had a miscarriage but after that had two beautiful babies, now I may be wrong here but I think two beautiful healthy children is like to have helped her get over her previous tragedy (like I said, I may be wrong). So these are just my two cents. Also Money may be about Nick but it's not in a negative way because she sings "They don't mean a thing because I come home to you at the end of the day." So it's a happy song, talking about how she doesn't need money because she comes home to her lover or maybe dembabies. So yes it's not negative. Also if it was something as sensitive as her miscarriage, I think Mariah would have penned her own song, instead of using another singer's song for it. (Tuesday 22 July 2014; 19:35)

Shelly (45,456) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter That is such a sweet message. Thank you so much. I am glad we all get to interact here and talk about a common interest/love which is the lovely Mariah Carey. This is the first and only message board I bother writing in. I am really glad you like my posts. I got a big fat smile on my face as I read it. Lol. *big hug* (Sunday 20 July 2014; 4:34)

Bone Thugs N Harmony (45,439) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Will apparently release an double CD album, which will have just 1 copy and will be auctioned off for at least $1 million. They'll have old hits in one disc and the new disc will have collaborations with people they worked with before, and one of them is Mariah. I am so excited. I loved both breakdown and Li'l LOVE so I want to see what they have cooked up now. And hey new Mariah song. (Friday 18 July 2014; 21:34)

Record deal (45,434) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Although I enjoyed Glitter, Chanteuse and Triumphant, I don't think it's a good idea for MC to go on without a deal. There is no denying the woman is a musical genius, 24 years in the business and still coming out with new sounds every era, however I agree with jaker20 that she isn't really a great business person. If Mariah wants her music to sell (which no matter how people argue that she doesn't care about, but she does), then she'll need a label to back her up, a whole team to guide her from promotions to videos to styling. Yes the Chanteuse era was a disaster however who is to know what really happened? Up until Chanteuse all other albums were promoted heavily, shows lined up, great promo shots, good styling blah blah. Yes some bad single choices but hey you lose some you get some. Even the Christmas album was promoted a lot. So a label can really benefit her. Mariah can take control of the creative side but if she wants to stay in the business she will need help with the rest. (Friday 18 July 2014; 1:01)

Photoshop (45,426) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Every other Google news hit while searching for Mariah is screaming "this is how Mariah looks without photoshop" or "Mariah's shameful pictures" and all. That gets me upset, she doesn't look like that. It's just bad angles and very bad dress choices. Mariah looks really gorgeous from her candids. Secondly I hate it when people say "Mariah never was and never will be this thin" when they see pictures of her where her body is slimmed down (not the Terry one, I am talking about other shoots) well they clearly didn't see her pre 2002 and then again in 2008 when she was super skinny. I think Mariah looks bulkier than she is because of the boob job. She has a tiny waist but since she had the boob job starting 2002 her chest looks wide and that makes her look bulkier than she actually is, because she was really slim and even now has a small waist line. Things Mariah needs immediately 1) a new record deal, b) a genius manager, c) a great stylist. She needs to work on being a fashion icon. (Wednesday 16 July 2014; 19:58)

Shelly (45,420) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter It is true that Terry is a well know pervert and I have heard one too many rumors about him, however I don't think he was the one who leaked the pictures. Because it kind of was done to show that his signature method of photography is not really effective which basically makes him a crappy photographer. He does method and tries to pass of his photographs as candids that don't need editing. His signature photos are of the sort of documentary like (basically pretending to be candids) but with the leak of Mariah's pictures it shows his original versions are actually not effective. So it basically trashes his methods. I don't think he would want to do that to himself and he doesn't really have anything against Mariah. The more celebrities he has in his clientele the better for him. (Wednesday 16 July 2014; 6:43)

Terry Richardson and photoshop (45,412) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I find the whole Terry photoshoot such a waste. That is possibly one of her worst shoots and now this little scandal. By worst shoot, I don't mean she looks bad, I just mean the pictures are not good, she looks uncomfortable. MC knows how to appear sexy in shoots, but in these pics she just looks uncomfortable. The image used on the magazine cover was the only good one. The one with her thighs out and a champagne glass is my least favorite. The pose is stiff and she doesn't look comfortable. And it's not a flattering angle. The dress is horrible too. Then the picture with dembabies is a little cringeworthy for me, I mean she could have worn something else and had a cuter moment in the pic. The one with her and Terry is also a bad angle. All in all, a bad photoshoot and now people will again start with "oh photoshop" thing which is pointless because every celeb uses it. I don't mind her excessive use of photoshop on the Chanteuse cover, since it's an "artwork" nobody claimed its candid. Artworks are not always representative of reality and I like the picture. So no, photoshop isn't a problem for me. But I really hate the terry shoot. Bad decision. (Tuesday 15 July 2014; 20:57)

Shelly (45,397) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I think Andre Leon was heavily involved in what Mariah wore in 2005-06. I am absolutely certain the stuff she wore inside the Louis Vuitton store shots (as in the swimsuit and the black and white number) were chosen by him. All the clothes were from Louis Vuitton line of that season. I think she should get back with Andre. I also adore the clothes she wore during AI. Those wore some amazing clothes, I wonder why she doesn't wear similar stuff anymore. I am kind of tired of the black gowns. They are boring now. Mariah looks great in all colors, so why not aim at being a fashion icon too? That will also help her get younger audiences. I think she should step out of her comfort zone little by little. Maybe wear a sexy suit like she did in the Ellen show, or pull a jeans-and-top moment like 2008. (Monday 14 July 2014; 23:43)

TJ / Shelly (45,375) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't think it's the official cover. It's fan made. It's the same picture that's on the official chanteuse cover with a dress photoshopped on it, the background changed and a mic set infront of her. If you google "Aimssy Boudir Mariah Carey" then you'll see there are many artworks of the official chanteuse cover with clothes on. About 10-12 different clothes. However this blue one is not a part of that. I saw another fan post it so it originally so I am assuming he designed it. Whether Mariah picked it from the "send me your YDKWTD cover" thing or not, I can't be sure but yeah it's basically fan made. (Sunday 13 July 2014; 12:03)

Lee (45,374) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Had Mariah done all the promo she could and then it would have flopped, I don't think people would be complaining. They would know she did everything she could and then failed. But if it seems like she herself isn't excited about her album, then one can't expect people to get excited. If it was a bad album I wouldn't feel so bad that she didn't go around promoting. I hate that such a piece of art is suffering a bad label (lowest selling) when it had the potential to do so much better. Plus like I said, Mariah isn't even responding to the frustrations of the fans. I am sure she sees all the things people tweet her asking what on earth went wrong, but she just chooses to reply to the positive ones. And then she sends out JD every month to be hanged. I don't think it's JD's fault, the man clearly is pissed with the way the album is going. At least he is communicating with the fans. (Sunday 13 July 2014; 9:48)

Edward (45,351) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I laughed so hard at your post. I was going to say the same thing that it doesn't suit someone who is so rude in their own post to go ahead and preach others how to behave. I don't really think anyone on the board that are complaining about the promotions or lack of contact from Mariah are being rude in any way. As fans we have the right to feel frustrated, shows how we feel so passionately about Mariah's work. Something Mariah doesn't seem to be feeling currently. I am sick and tired of "she doesn't own you a dime" or "if you are pissed don't buy her music, she is so rich she would care". Well hello, I am sure she would care. This is a woman who insists on being introduced as "the best selling female artist of all time, more #1's than any other solo artist", she allegedly hung up on a radio interview when the interviewer mistakenly said 80 million albums sold instead of "over 200 million". Mariah is a legend, and the fact that now only people can say that "oh she sold 10000 more than JLo" is not fine by me. Whoever says that public exposure wouldn't translate into sales is delusional. I just want MC to atleast appear to care for an album she spent so many years perfecting. It seems like she just threw it out there and then is going out of her way to ignore anything to do with it. She is all over social media talking about life, but not one mention anything to do with the album, except for the occasional "Me. I am Mariah. Out now. Get your copy at iTunes." (Saturday 12 July 2014; 22:11)

SweetheartAaron (45,324) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Wow that's a great lyrics video. I love the clips you used. You should tweet the link to Mariah. Great job. (Friday 11 July 2014; 22:44)

B (45,323) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Well I hope everything you said in your post turns out to be true. I am fine with her waiting until she looks her best to appear in front of the world as long as she ends up coming out and promoting the album. Like you mentioned, this album will decide what kind of deal she will get if she chooses to switch labels. All the best to Mariah. Here's to hoping this album and YDKWTD gets the recognition they deserve. Just to pass time, my next choice of singles would be Faded, Thirsty and MILG (in that order). (Friday 11 July 2014; 22:40)

YDKWTD and the master plan (45,319) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Where on earth is this single plan going? There is still no official audio upload on Vevo, let alone a lyrics video and the elusive music video. Where is the music video she supposedly shot with Brett in Paris? And also where's the Thirsty promo? Why on earth was it just announced a single and then bam, everyone just ran back to their caves, hiding? This single had so much potential. Secondly, at this point I just want to pick up the phone, call up JD and ask him what is the master plan that he keeps talking about. Weeks back he said that there is a plan and in music industry it takes time to put it in motion and stuff and now again he is like there is a plan and sales will build up. Ok, cool, great, but what is the plan? Tell me JD, just tell me. *shakes JD* (Friday 11 July 2014; 21:43)

Marissa (45,318) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I'm with you on this one. Although I didn't stop listening to the album just yet, but every time I listen to it, it bugs me because such a great album is just going unnoticed. To top of it, it now holds the label of being "Mariah's lowest selling non-holiday album". It's all because the lack of promotions. If people could hear the great songs in it, this album would be flying off the shelves. Sorry I am not one of those fans who say "I don't care if Mariah doesn't sell much, I just want her music" because I think Mariah will actually stop making music after a point if she continues to have declining sales and that's something I don't want. I don't think this lack of promotion is because of dembabies because she was all over the place during AI and dembabies were even younger then and needed more care than they probably do now. MC didn't need to be everywhere, she could have just atleast visited a couple of talk shows and do some live performances. Talk about the "journey", the album, the songs. Connect with us somehow. I don't believe she sees the messages of lambs complaining, because she is always on twitter, retweeting the good things fans are saying. So it bugs me more that she is just outright ignoring the fans who are asking her why she abandoned a project she claims is so close to her heart. (Friday 11 July 2014; 21:39)

#Beautiful (Acoustic Version) (45,101) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter This is amazing. Check it out if you already haven't. (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 13:24)

For the record (45,089) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter This song is so underrated. I love how in one para she mentions some of her old hits/personal favorites. I wish Mariah does a video where she does some throwback moments of her famous videos. Like a little bit of Honey, a little ABMB, a little WBT and all those. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:06)

Carlos Jaramillo (45,088) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey man, yes I know about the change in Billboard rules. But thing is in this case Mariah could have re-sung the entire song and change it as much as she wants because BGK and IAW remixes were not to promote the original tracks as singles, but rather these were bonus tracks on a completely new album 5 years after the original. So basically it wasn't added to support any singles, these are basically going to be considered album cuts for Chanteuse. Could I explain myself? I don't think they are even labelled as "remixes" on the tracklist for Chanteuse. They are listed as normal songs with featured artists. Secondly she still does change up songs somewhat, if not completely, like the #Beautiful Jeezy remix where she re-sung vocals and there was another re-sung remix which wasn't released after they abandoned #Beautiful. Oh and I don't know if you know this already but there are about 2-3 completely different re-sung remixes for Say Somethin' (one with Dem Franchize Boys and the other without any guests), then there is the DFAU re-sung remix, and the H.A.T.E.U completely re-sung remix. You should definitely check those out, although you might already know about these, but just in case you didn't. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 19:03)

YDKWTD (45,085) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ok so it was declared that this is the new single. Then what? Has there been any news on how she plans to promote it? Apart from the 2 Australian radio interviews? Seriously why even bother with a single when it's not put to proper use? This is the last chance to save the album, if it's even possible at this stage. But yet again, no news. What happened to the video? Why is there no talk of it? And it's becoming almost a month since the album dropped, where on earth are the proper lyrics that was supposed to be released in a special way? Ugh Mariah why. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 17:16)

Album art (45,078) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The fans are coming up with much better cover arts than the label. I found this one so cute, aww. I laughed out loud because young MC is holding a pack of cigarette (like she mentioned earlier) and young or short Wale is taking a cigarette from her. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 6:33)

qhm (45,075) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I am with you on the remixes being horrible copy paste jobs. She gets two great vocalists in the studio and doesn't make a new song or re-record the old one. Mary J Blige sounds great but I don't understand the point of her being in the song. Like it's a song about Mariah being sassy and telling off her boyfriend, and while she's at it, threatening to crack his forehead. So why exactly is Mary in it? They should have just made a women power song or just give Mary a new verse. I also don't like the BGK remix. I am glad you liked it, but I can't help but cringe everytime Kelly goes "the whole plan was just to chill" and "she mixed something in my drink". Then there is the thing that they are clearly talking about two very different nights (MC talking about how he cheated in her house and Kelly talking about how he got "date raped" at another girl's house). So either they got lazy with the lyrics and messed it up or our boy cheated 2 different times and was confused about which one M is pissed about. Regardless, Kelly seems to think it is a legit proof that he isn't a cheater because he didn't mean to get nasty, he just went to get some shots with a girl at her house while he has a girlfriend. And also the part where MC sings "fading away" and Kelly goes "don't fade, don't fade". Ugh. (Tuesday 24 June 2014; 4:02)

Raphael (45,064) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Yes the release date, combined with the bad publicity around Mariah, Tommy actively pulling strings to sabotage Mariah and Mariah's breakdown (or treatment for exhaustion whatever she chooses to call it), and a lot of other factors lead to the disastrous Glitter era. Otherwise it's a great album and I even enjoyed the movie. As for the glass breaking, those rumors are unconfirmed but even if it's true, I would think it's because she was basically super pissed in that era and she had many reasons to be pissed. And also like she said, she was overworked. So probably every time someone was like ok Mariah time for a shoot or interview she was probably like darn it *picks and throws a glass* lol. Ok last part is not serious. (Monday 23 June 2014; 16:39)

Raphael / TRL (45,049) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I think the whole TRL thing was blown out of proportions. People are like oh she stripped there and was blabbering non sense. Well first of all she didn't get naked and many reports tried to make it sound like she did. She was almost fully clothed underneath the oversized t-shirt and either ways that was the type of clothes she wore in Glitter eitherways (hello, Loverboy?). About the things she said, it looked like she was trying to show her frustration and honestly it didn't look that serious. What worried me more was on another day she was on the streets and a reporter asked something and she started venting out her frustration and all and her publicist pulled her away. And Mariah was like "see I am not even allowed to speak" or something along those lines and that showed just how fragile she was at that point. (Monday 23 June 2014; 12:37)

You guys are awesome, a personal thank you note (45,043) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Darryle, thank you. Your suggestions and the idea about using songs that first comes to mind when hearing MC's name is a great. Shelly, wow thanks a lot, that's a great list covering some of the greatest songs of her career and highlighting how diverse Mariah's music is (gosh the woman makes me so proud). Bill, thanks man, adore the songs you mentioned. She doesn't know AIWFCIY. See Bangladesh is a very small country (land area 147570 square km) with a total population of 156,497,313 people (yes), and out of these many people I think only 50-150 know Mariah. Just her name, mind you. (I might be stretching when I say 150 because I only met about 5.) The only song they possibly heard is WBT. So yeah they pretty much have no idea lol, but thanks man love the songs you mentioned. Also, the Pure Imagination remix is my in my top 5 Mariah remixes. Champagne_Slurpee, I love how you categorized the songs, will make it so much easier to ensure I chose at least one of each type of the different types of songs Mariah sang and wrote. Thank you. Antonio, thanks a bunch man, that helps a lot. Some of my personal favorites. Lastly, I would like to thank all of you for taking the time out to suggest songs. Means a lot and helped me out a lot since I had no idea which to pick and I blame Mariah since she is the most amazing artist that ever lived. You guys are great. (Monday 23 June 2014; 2:48)

The cover (45,032) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't like it, but it doesn't bother me much, I'll eitherways just make a cover myself and use it. What bugs me though is what was the need for it? Even if there was no time for a new photoshoot why not just skip the picture all together? I mean like ITL and IBLYLT they could have just used text. This unnecessary negative attention was not required at all. I hope Mariah chooses one of the fan made covers instead. (Sunday 22 June 2014; 17:44)

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