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RJJ12 (40,721) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Hey! I think I can safely claim that I am the only Bangladeshi on this board. Not many people listen to Mariah here, and I am like obsessed with Mariah. About Indrani and TEOM, you are right, her cover and the promo shots were awesome in this era. Sultry yet classy. Indrani was also part of the original photoshoot which was the inspiration for the cover. I don't know if you have seen the originals, there is one pic which is exactly the same pose which Mariah recreated for the regular cover of TEOM. After reading your post I did a quick search to see if Indrani directed any videos, and two names came up. Alicia Keys' "New day" and Bowie's "Valentine's day". I am not sure at all if it's true or not, I did not get to check out the videos yet. (Thursday 23 January 2014; 11:12)

Jeezy (40,718) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I hope the collabo everyone is excited about doesn't turn out to be Jeezy. I mean Side Effects was great, but I was expecting a more exciting collab. After 4 years, Jeezy isn't the artisit I want to be the surprise collab with, although I am fine with him being on another track. (Thursday 23 January 2014; 1:26)

Indrani (40,712) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Indrani is also the same photographer who took Mariah's promo and cover shot for TEOM. Wow. New video announcement already. I'm excited. (Wednesday 22 January 2014; 14:21)

Cover (40,685) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So everyone seems to be excited about the Whitney cover. I can't really contribute to this, because I really have not listened to much of Whitney's work. But yes, it would be great if Mariah does a cover of Whitney's. I would like to know, if not Whitney, who else would you all like Mariah to cover? I'd love for another Michael Jackson cover (not necessarily of Jackson 5). MC and MJ are my ultimate favorite artists and I would love for her to cover a MJ song. (Tuesday 21 January 2014; 14:45)

That dress (40,651) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I agree with whoever said Mariah wasn't looking her best. That dress is definitely not for a red carpet event for actors. Usually for music awards, it's fine to wear flirty and somewhat casual dresses, but for events like these, I think it should always be classy, and those gloves are certainly not helping. The hair is alright, but not great. But I really can't get over the inappropriate dress (inappropriate for this show I mean) and that glove. What happened to her stylist? She could have worn a beautiful gown, with beautiful curls and subtle accessories. She's a beautiful woman, but Mariah needs to change her stylist. She looked gorgeous in that MTV awards show where she wore that long red dress during the Emancipation era. (Monday 20 January 2014; 2:07)

Mariah / Isaac / Webmaster (40,612) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Lol wow Isaac went from being polite, starting/ending posts with thanks to a full blown "fair weather fan" basher. Seriously though, what is the problem if people talk about their disappointment? Mariah is human, she isn't perfect, she can make mistakes, so I don't see why fans are attacked if they dare say anything apart from sugar coated stuff. Jeez! And also I don't really get the whole "Without You was a remake not an MC song". The webmaster just said he's been a fan since Without You, a song for which a lot of people became Mariah fan. Remake or not what does it matter? Moving on, webmaster, thank you for this amazing site, this is the first board I ever wrote in. It's fun to interact with other MC fans (except some bleak ones, but that's okay). A lot of people are not really familiar with Mariah here in my country and most people my age are into other newer artists, so I really don't get to discuss MC with them as much as I would like (although I do force some of my friends to listen to her stuff, but obviously they don't know much). So yes , thanks and I love that you are fair with stuff you post, good or bad. Lastly can someone please tell me where you all got the quote of Mariah saying she will be releasing something with an artist she previously worked with? I missed that one! Thank you. (Friday 17 January 2014; 4:07)

Fans (40,588) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I was disappointed too, because admit it or not most of us thought it was music related. The whole "taking 3 days to announce" suggested it was music related, but well we were wrong. I think someone wrote that Mariah would never call anything music related a "pip announcement". That's wrong, she always calls things she loves/is excited about "pip" and "pow". I can relate to the fans who were disappointed, but I agree that calling her names and insulting her just because she did not announce anything related to the album is a bit too much. It's fine to be disappointed. But from what I hear, fans on FB and twitter are saying bad things about her, and that's kinda over reacting. Regarding other cases where fans attack people who points out Mariah's mistakes, I will have to say that people shouldn't call critical fans "fair weather fans", we love MC as much if not more than you, but unlike people or should I go ahead and say "fanatics" (?), we choose to let Mariah know where she went wrong instead of drowning her with praises and defending something when it was indeed a wrong move. Just so it's clear, the last part wasn't about the announcement, it is about general cases. I am supportive of MC's charity work. (Thursday 16 January 2014; 14:57)

Carla (40,563) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I agree with you. I mean yes I was disappointed about the announcement, but that doesn't mean people will write her off. It's an amazing gesture on he part, she is giving away something so personal. In fact there was even a discussion on this board a while back about the necklace if I am not mistaken. I would die to be able to enter and win that contest. Entering Mariah's home is a huge deal by itself, having her sing to me personally would give me a heart attack on spot, and on top of that her giving me a part of her history, I'll die for sure. Like many fans I am disappointed too, but it's fine, we waited so long, and she already said the new single is out next month, I'm cool with it. However I do want her to bring her best this time, strong songs, amazing promotions, great/meaningful videos. If she loves being sexy I don't mind, but the videos should be like Heartbreaker, Honey, It's Like That and other great video concepts she had instead of being like #Beautiful, H.A.T.E.U. and "things of that nature" which looks like it was done on low budget and without proper planning/storyline. (Wednesday 15 January 2014; 1:36)

clueey (40,561) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Chill out a little. You gave a name which I didn't like so what? My point of view shouldn't determine anything. But yes I do like your idea of bringing guests, I enjoyed it when it was done in TEOM. I would pick a name but for that I would like to wait and see what's the name of her next single or album, so that the name is more "current". But off the top of my head I'd say "the Mariah Carey 2014 World Tour", "Mariah Carey Forever", "the Triumphant world tour" (I m sure she won't use it), "Mariah Carey I''m that chick tour" (ok maybe i'm stretching it here). "Memoirs the Mariah Carey world tour", "Mariah Carey: for the record", "I Am Mariah Carey", "Mariah Carey the vision". My set list would be- (not in that order though) Butterfly I stay in love Without you Never forget you Breakdown The art of letting go Bringin' on the heartbreak Fly like a bird The one Heartbreaker I still believe Inseperable I chose these because some of these showcases her amazing range, some she doesn't sing at all nowadays and some more r&b influenced. I would probably add some more, but yes I would like her to sing these. Although some may have to be cut out due to time constraints. (Wednesday 15 January 2014; 1:28)

Announcement / tour game (40,552) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Ugh super disappointed darling. Why Mariah why (said like Mariah). I was checking her page again and again to read the announcement even though I was pretty sure it would be just the official single announcement. Then after so long it arrives and it's about the charity, which is a great gesture on her part, but like someone else pointed out, why wait for 2 days to announce it? Plus no details whatsoever on the new single. Just that it comes out on February. Only people who saw the NYE performance know the date fixed is 14th February. With exactly a month left shouldn't she start with hyping up the single so that it gets a lot of attention? I almost expected the announcement would be of the album. But alas. I'll only wait on MC, if it was anyone else I would have given up. But this time I want her to do it right. And about the other "game" about dream tour, I wouldn't want it to be called "Art of letting go", it would sound like a farewell album. Plus the "intimate night" part has already been used for Charmbracelet, right? So what's the point? (Tuesday 14 January 2014; 15:13)

Mariah Facebook (40,533) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I have been checking her Facebook page "likes" every now and then and I am happy to see it has been increasing almost on a daily basis. That's a good thing, right? I think in the last 2 months or less alone there has been an increase by a million! I am happy. Wasn't there supposed to be an announcement today? Was there any time specified? (Monday 13 January 2014; 17:03)

I want to know what love is remixes (40,532) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter These are some other remixes I came across: 1) I Want To Know What Love Is (Low Sunday Tempo) 2) I Want To Know What Love Is (The Popstar Radio Edit) 3) I Want To Know What Love Is (Chriss Ortega Club Mix) or Edit 4) I Want To Know What Love Is (Cutmore's Club Shakedown) or Edit 5) I Want To Know What Love Is (Nu Addiction Club Mix) or Edit (Monday 13 January 2014; 12:03)

MC (40,499) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter MC's facebook message is getting me excited. It's probably just gonna be an official announcement for her new single. We already know about it, but probably many don't know about it. (Friday 10 January 2014; 19:32)

Snippets (40,487) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The snippets in YouTube are fake. It's just the ringtones she did for Pepsi. I would love for her to turn some of those into full songs. I don't remember the names but some of them were really good. And different. TEOM was an amazing era for Mariah. (Thursday 9 January 2014; 16:24)

TAOLG cover (40,423) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Wow that was beautiful. I loved it. Mariah should watch it, I'm sure she'll appreciate it too. I loved how he personalized some parts and sung it a little differently than the original. Great voice. (Monday 6 January 2014; 18:21)

Imperfect (40,408) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter LambilyWW, I know that only that part was meant for me, I was just saying that instead of talking about the fact that it's technically not a single for the new album, you should just look at the positive side of it. Anyways all is good, it's not a huge deal. And just so we are clear, the first part of my previous message was directed at you, the second half was just my two bits about Mimi. While staying on the topic of Almost Home and Triumphant, I would also like to add that I loved Mariah's discarded song "Imperfect". I think someone said in a post here before that Mariah dropped it because it was autotuned and she did not want to follow that path. I don't know if that's the reason or it's because she thought it wasn't a strong song, but personally I really liked it and I also made one of my non-lamb friend hear it (I force her to hear a lot of Mimi's songs) and even she was praising it and asking why she did not include it on Memoirs. Now obviously Mimi knows more about the music industry than I do, but I wouldn't mind if she has a single which is autotuned like Migrate or I'm That Chick. Those are cute too. (Saturday 4 January 2014; 18:21)

MC (40,406) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter LambilyWW, why don't you just overlook the technicalities and go with the positive side of my post? I was basically talking about how two of her amazing singles, which most people don't know about. A lot of people are talking about Mariah's voice recently and I don't really need Mariah to keep singing high power ballads to me throughout the album. I will be fine with a few. I don't mind her doing hip hop influenced songs because that is something she loves and I like it too. I know some fans want her to completely go back to early 90's MC with the big voice and the strong ballads, and that's fine, I adore those too, but I am not the kind of lamb who don't appreciate her music post Daydream because it's more hip hop flavored! And yes people talk about how fans should give Mariah a break and not push her to release for albums, well darling I am sorry if I can't get enough of Mimi. (Saturday 4 January 2014; 16:11)

Triumphant / Almost Home (40,388) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I know many lambs don't really like Triumphant, but I like it a lot. Yes it sounds like Mariah is a featured artist on her own track, but her parts were nice and breezy. It's not her great piece of work, but it is fine. I also like the Vintage Remix. Don't care much for the other 3 remixes. Almost Home was such a beautiful song. With proper promos I think it would have done good. But a lot of people now probably don't even know about it. (Friday 3 January 2014; 17:55)

Dav / new album tracklist (40,375) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Dav, maybe you haven't noticed but many people on the board did talk about the NYE performance and everyone praised her vocals. Wasn't there a track list circulating for TAOLG? Although it could be fake, but the songs TAOLG and a duet with Stevie was listed on it. Although now Mariah maybe have replaced some of those tracks with newer songs. 14th February, I can't wait! Also I hope the album follows soon after. (Thursday 2 January 2014; 21:16)

NYE (40,363) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Blown away by the performance. Mariah looked stunning. She must have been freezing though, poor MC. but oh well we know she'll do anything to be festive and super glamorous. I loved the little impromptu speech before TAOLG, so cute. The performance was great, no overtly touching herself, no unnecessary movements, just standing there being awesome, the signature hand movements, and the sexy leather gloves. I love that MC is making leather/satin gloves her new fashion statement. She sang the hell out of her old smash hits, it can be argued that it was dubbed or pre-recorded, but honestly how can anyone expect a person to sing completely live in such cold weather. Super excited about the Valentine's Day single release announcement. Still over a month. Can I wait? For MC I will. (Wednesday 1 January 2014; 23:33)

Critics (40,343) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter If a recent post about critics is directed at me, then this is for you. I am a huge MC fan, so don't tell me that I am criticizing her because she isn't topping the charts. I don't sit here and criticize her. Whenever I saw something positive, I always talk about it. I even talked about her Buble performance, Glitter and her other underrated stuff. So just because a few of my posts are pointing out what Mariah's camp of "yes men" are not telling her, it's because I would rather have her know some of the stuff that her people don't tell her and it ultimately makes her look bad. Do I want Mariah to be back at number 1? Yes with all my heart. Am I hating on Mariah because she isn't on top? Never. So don't make statements that "those critics will come back running when Mariah is back on top" because it's not like I get benefits or profits from MC's success. My love for MC is unconditional. I will keep pointing out flaws if I see any because I would do that for any person I love. Mariah is human, she has flaws, deal with it. If you have problems with it, please scroll up. (Tuesday 31 December 2013; 20:17)

Mariah's "real" fans (40,338) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Some people here think that real Mariah fans can't say anything negative or critical about her. Anyone who will dare criticize MC will be attacked. That's silly. We are all on this board because we love MC, and if here and there some of us do worry about her recent activities, it's only because we care about her. I've said this before, the excuse of Mariah concentrating on her kids doesn't really cut it for me. Like Edward said, there are plenty of women working multiple jobs, while still taking care of their family. Mariah isn't the only one in show business who got married and has kids. Look at Beyonce, Britney, Angelina Jolie and many others. Someone here indirectly insulted me, when in a previous post I mentioned how Beyonce had Blue after Mariah and still released 2 CDs and went on tour. Mariah definitely has nannies and Nick to occasionally take care of the kids, she had 4 years to come up with a 12-15 track CD. I still stand by the fact that Mariah is acting weird during her interviews and it's not just her playful side. She keeps going off track and the host keeps trying to steer her back into track but she doesn't listen. Like Fallon, he kept asking about TAOLG and she kept naming her dogs, the interview ended with us getting zero info on the track and much info about her dogs and cleavage. Same with the Christmas interview at her home, she rambling and at one point the host was like "Marian hold up". I do genuinely care about MC and I hope she gets her act together. (Tuesday 31 December 2013; 9:52)

Last album (40,298) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I don't see what's all the fuss about? You should not take everything she says so seriously. She was just talking about a hypothetical situation. Like if something happened to her (like she lost her voice or was in any accident God forbid), and she could not give her fans another album then she would want her last album to be the best they had. Or who knows MC could have put in that line to spark a controversy because the album is coming soon and it's important to get people to start talking about it all over again. I say this because by now a lot of people have given up on the album. Especially after the release date was cancelled. It might sound harsh but even though MC is the best singer of our time, even she needs publicity stunts to keep herself on the map, because other people are catching up to her legacy. I hope she bags a few more number ones soon or Rihanna is seriously going to take over! (Wednesday 25 December 2013; 0:44)

Little known facts article (40,290) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter The article has so many errors. 1) Her fans don't call her lambily. That's stupid. She calls her fans/lambs her extended family or "lambily". 2) Patti LaBelle isn't really her godmother, she just calls her that out of respect and love. 3) DemBabies is her nickname for her twins. Technically the website is DemBabies.com. 3) Her mom was an opera singer, not a voice coach, she coached Mariah that's true, but professionally she was an opera singer. 5) Although it's not an error but just singling out "Butterfly" as the album where she wrote her own songs is a bit misleading. She has been writing songs from a very young age, and all her songs from her first record are written/co-written by her with the exception of the songs of other artists she covered and some tracks in which she was a featured artist. (Tuesday 24 December 2013; 2:44)

MC (40,280) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter I enjoyed the WWHL interview of Mariah. Overall it was good and Mariah didn't go too off topic this time. The Eminem part was straight up hilarious. Her face when the question was asked was so cute. About her mixing up song names, maybe she didn't mix up? Maybe those were two separate sentences like "you don't follow up Obsessed with IWKWLI" and "Migrate should have been a single for 'that' album (as in E=MC2)". Because she was asked if she thought some of her single worthy songs weren't released or something. So yes even though it sounds like she mixed up her album names, maybe it's just the way she said it. Lastly, she says her album is coming soon, I really hope so. I need a full length album like real soon! (Monday 23 December 2013; 12:17)

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