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About Randy from USA: MC is my favorite artist of all time and I love her songwriting skills on her introspective songs. My favorite album: Butterfly. My favorite song: Right To Dream.

New album (60,613) by Randy from USA And I think her new album should be unplugged. She should do songs like Right To Dream, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Looking In, Cry, Camouflage, Languishing, Rainbow (Interlude). Something very Adele-like in musicality but we all know who the better writer is. I also want the vocals paired down to things she can sing live without voiceovers or a wall of background singers. Throw away the entire image, pop music, r&b and hip hop and be the singer songwriter she wants so desperately to be known for. She is right up there to me with a Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell etc but because of all of the "noise" she's not respected. (Saturday 19 March 2016; 17:38)

I have to speak on counting MC out (59,976) by Randy from USA Now you all know, I am the first one to criticize MCs live performances and the status of her voice post 1998. But let me be clear. Don't let a couple of flops fool you. When MC is on with her music she makes history honey, not just garners #1s. She doesn't need to chase a musical trend, changer her image her wardrobe or anything. As proven before, when MC has a scorcher on her hands, the game is over. Lip syncing and all. Remember when WBT went to #1? Her response was pretty much, "Why is everyone surprised?" I am telling you this now. Wendy Williams can say what she wants, MC has hits left in her, it's whether or not she is focused on that, or making the music she loves. (Wednesday 24 February 2016; 1:08)

Re: Five songs I wish were Mariah's (59,381) (59,386) by Randy from USA Giovanni, I love you like tea time in July but I do not want MC singing Unbreak My Heart. She cannot match the emotion or sexiness in Toni's baritone. Now MCs glass cutting false and give-everything belt on the iconic My All screams more of desperation, is emotional and lyrically unmatched by anything Diane Warren could ever pen but it's two different lanes. MC also cannot match Deborah's also able to perform it live belt on Nobody's Supposed To Be Here but MCs lyrical genius on The One is a far better lyric. You picked a good topic for once. I would pick: 5. Someone Like You - Adele 4. Ange l- Sarah MC 3. You Were Meant For Me - Jewel 2. One In A Million - Aaliyah 1. Hurt - Christina Aguilera (Thursday 28 January 2016; 3:29)

I can't be the only one (59,256) by Randy from USA Who thinks this engagement is too soon? She isn't even divorced from Nick is she? And does this signal the end of eternally 12? Because I don't know any 12 year olds that get married three times. I really wish she'd see James and hold the engagement off a year or two. Something is happening to me with celebrities. Let me preface my thought by saying this is not MC's fault. She didn't buy the ring. But how many starving families could that 7.5 million have fed? I hate when celebs brag and boast about wealth when there are so many out there in need. I heard in church awhile ago that in certain parts of the world, starving children follow behind cattle and search dung for undigestable pieces of food, such as kernels of corn. Ok I'm rambling. But this whole thing disturbs me. Guess I'll wait for your all attacks now. (Friday 22 January 2016; 22:54)

Vacation (59,200) by Randy from USA Mariah's been doing a lot of vacationing to not have done any work. Where's the new single, album, video? Strap dem babies to a nanny and get in the studio. Sing-sing. (Wednesday 20 January 2016; 11:30)

Ardis, Marissa and B and Wendy Williams (59,012) by Randy from USA Someone who is worth a half a billion dollars and coined the phrase "I don't know her", is paying her dust. You all should too. This is logic. But I love you all, MC and WW as well. You all keep me entertained. (Sunday 10 January 2016; 6:42)

Wendy Williams (59,007) by Randy from USA What's so funny is she gets most of her stories from tabloids and yet people regard it as fact. What's even funnier is that I watch her every day. What's funniest is that you all get so worked up over her? Can someone explain why, since MC probably pays her dust? No seriously. I want a reply on why she makes this message board mad when it is very clear she's basing things on her opinion and tabloids. (Saturday 9 January 2016; 23:41)

What Mariah song brings you to tears? (58,836) by Randy from USA I'm tryna be more positive since most of you think I hate MC. I still love you Adam lol. So I was in DC recently and listening to a certain playlist and MC's Petals came on, and dammit if my eyes didn't well up. What MC song brings you to tears? (Saturday 2 January 2016; 17:55)

Adele and MC (58,791) by Randy from USA I'm the minority because I think that 25 is a great album. That "Million Years Ago" sounds like something MC would've wrote for Tennesee or Precious (had she been invested in the soundtrack). I think MC has another superstar moment in her. Remember the anticipation when the video for ILT came out and then WBT went from #12 to #1 and you knew that it was the beginning of something? I think that for MOIA and MIIY I heard the lead single and was somewhat excited but I never felt that a moment was about to happen. For MIAMTEC I didn't know what the hell she was doing. So when Hello came out, and the video came out, I actually was excited and knew that a moment was about to happen. And I thought, damn I miss this anticipation and butterflies for an upcoming project for MC. If she gives us a ballad as a first single without layered vocals or a wall of background sound and its dramatic like Hello, I would die. But she did that before with Through The Rain and it came in at #81, and even though it's one of my favorite songs of all time, MC has a habit of letting projects go if they are not successful up front. (Thursday 31 December 2015; 15:16)

Re: What does Adele's success mean for Mariah? (58,759) (58,760) by Randy from USA I don't think this is a race thing. I would hardly consider Adele's music R&B/Soul. I bought the album because I like emotional music. MC always gives us emotional music but I would like the hip hop turned down a bit. Here's the thing. Adele's success will mean something even if it doesn't change what MC chooses to put out because the CD was considered dead. And to have someone completely prove that wrong means execs are going to take a hard look at whatever is turned in to be released. I agree MC can't win for losing. She gave us an album without rappers and nobody bought it (Memoirs). Which by the way I loved. (Wednesday 30 December 2015; 1:01)

What does Adele's success mean for Mariah? (58,747) by Randy from USA Now that Adele has managed to sell 7 million copies of her album in the US in just over 2 months which is unprecedented, what does that mean for the industry and for MC in particular? Now a lot of you would say "MC doesn't chase trends" but looking at some of her collaborators and new producer choices over the years you can prove that sometimes she jumps on what's hot. It's interesting that they are both under the Sony umbrella album, so do you think MC will be done with uptempos next album? Will hip hop and R&B take a backseat for songs more like Without You, My All, I Only Wanted, Languishing, Right To Dream, Cry, Camouflage etc? Do you think Adele's success won't matter and Sony executives won't care and let MC do whatever she wants? (Tuesday 29 December 2015; 16:18)

My review of the movie and the special (58,626) by Randy from USA I really didn't want to comment because I am tired of being the bad guy on here. I'm also tired of people questioning whether or not I'm a fan or a hater. But I have to say that I didn't expect much from the movie and it was pretty bad. I get the part about it being Hallmark channel and sentimentality, but the same woman who wrote Looking In, Outside, Petals, and Right To Dream decided that this was a good project to represent her? You know, I felt the same way when I first saw Glitter. I kind of would have expected MC to be more into dark, deep movies like Precious but ok the movie isn't important. They made 19 Christmas movies this year. I want to talk about the special. It was amazingly, high glossed and polished. I watched it with friends. They all accused her of lip syncing but doing a really good job at it. The sad thing is that her vocal live performance reputation is so bad that we can't determine whether she is singing or not. I thought she sounded and looked like perfection. But I don't think the lipping criticisms can ever go away unless it's just her and the piano being amazing on television, which she seems to be able to do in concert. I'm ready for some new music because the last MC fix I had was MIAMTEC and that is my least favorite album by her. So hopefully April will bring a new album, since she tends to like spring or fall releases these days, and she'll only deal with Jermaine, Bryan Michael Cox, Big Jim and Babyface and leave the hip hop alone considering she'll be 46. That's all for now. (Tuesday 22 December 2015; 2:17)

Edward (58,389) by Randy from USA I am happy to have your objective opinion and know that you are honest in your observations. I just wish she would sing well around non-lambs on US television so that I can stop being ridiculed when I profess my love for her. Happy Holidays and good to see you back. (Sunday 13 December 2015; 2:13)

Robby, Andrew, webmaster and others (58,318) by Randy from USA Let me start off by saying this. I am a fan. I love MC. Her music has really helped me through some rough times. I don't think a lot of you really could understand that looking at my posts. It takes time out of my life to check and see what she's doing and where she's performing and to be on this site. I am not hating on her. But I am frustrated. I am convinced something traumatic happened after that 1996 Tokyo Dome performance and before the 1997 Oprah performance that was never addressed and as a fan all I have gotten is trickery and deceit. MC has never acted like anything happened because her so called real fans, or lambs, defend her with excuses at all costs as if they are a bunch of Annalise Keatings. But for someone who is considered by many to be the best vocalist in the world, there are hardly any trustworthy receipts outside of the studio after 1997, except a brief period after the Glitter meltdown, the impromptu for the fans at Jimmy Fallon, and that wonderful duet with John Legend in 2005. I know this because I know every US live performance because I am a fan. I don't go into performances looking to criticize her and I don't want to hate on her. I want the real truth about what happened between 1996 and 1997. No one can do what MC can do as far as crafting a song or an album, lyrically or vocally in the studio. But vocally the magic is left in the studio and to me that's fraud. As far as Andrew. I do think he is harsh and comes off sometimes as hating MC, however, he is entitled to his opinion since he is on a MC messageboard and has a very knowledgeable base of her work and live performances. The webmaster allows us here to provide a difference of opinion. I wish so much that some of you could spend the day in Atlanta with me while I prove my case about deceit, smoke and mirrors, trickery and fraud on stage. I can also prove that other singers have held on to their voices longer than she has been out and that their songs are just as difficult to sing. I can also flip the script and use her lyricism and her studio vocals to prove she is the greatest all around recording artist of all time. (Thursday 10 December 2015; 1:15)

Darren (58,278) by Randy from USA You're right about the pitch thing. I should have used something else to describe her issue. But I will disagree with you with studio versus live. When she first started singing she sounded the same if not better than the studio versions of songs. Listen to "If it's over" and tell me she sounds that much different in live performances. Yet look at the DFAU and the "live version" on the AMAs. Besides when she lipped the high voice belts the versus were awful. That, to me, is her worst live performance. Something "magical" is happening in the studio and it's more than her recording her best takes. (Tuesday 8 December 2015; 21:12)

Performance with Busta (58,263) by Randy from USA She didn't sound bad. I can't even criticize her considering how bad she has sounded in the past. My problem is for someone considered the best singer in the world because of what she does in the studio, this was dreadful. And I'm tired of the excuses, she's been singing for 25 years, she just got out of the hospital, she couldn't hear herself. She started this scratchy pitchy live foolishness on Oprah 1997 and has been pretty consistent since. (Monday 7 December 2015; 23:19)

Adam (58,124) by Randy from USA I disagree. She was awesome in Precious and in The Butler without a speaking part. She wasn't bad in WiseGirls. She can act if handled by the right people. (Tuesday 1 December 2015; 2:32)

Travon and GMA (58,095) by Randy from USA I am so sorry about the name thing. And she did have a forced smile and sad look when they showed that clip. I feel bad for her. A meme came up on my timeline saying "All I want for Christmas is my voice back". I feel like if she could hit award shows the way she hits concerts she would silence the haters. And she has looked stunning lately. It's frustrating when you're a superfan like me and have seen every interview so we know it all. I'm sure several of you will agree, if we hear that beauty school dropout story one more time, we're going to glitter the elusive chanteuse with a whole bunch of butterflies without emancipation. (Sunday 29 November 2015; 19:37)

Travis (58,077) by Randy from USA I think as negative as Andrew, and Adam may be, they bring up valid points and you can love an artist but not everything about them. My least favorite thing about MC: the smoke and mirrors around her live performances. My favorite thing: her songwriting. And the producers I want her to work with: none. I want an album full of stripped introspective songs about the divorce, her kids, Morgan and Allison etc kinda in the vein of Right To Dream, Close My Eyes and Languishing. Keep the vocals constrained to things she can always sing on stage without lip syncing or straining her voice. (Sunday 29 November 2015; 5:38)

Morgan and Allison (58,000) by Randy from USA What saddens me is how people in her family should've been in her corner and how they betrayed her. Are paid spots on Entertainment Tonight and in tabloids worth selling out your sister, who by the way has enough money to give you the world? After Tommy and now Nick's betrayal who humanly does she have to turn to? I criticize MC over her live performances but recently I've began to feel sorry for her. Who does she have? (Thursday 26 November 2015; 19:15)

Melt Away (57,942) by Randy from USA Am I the only one who feels this belonged on the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack? Dammit Tommy and Clive for creating a rivalry. Where on the soundtrack sequence do you think it belongs? (Monday 23 November 2015; 19:16)

Good Morning America (57,926) by Randy from USA Why is she not singing? Please don't let it be a new cosmetic product. (Sunday 22 November 2015; 19:29)

Watch What Happens Live / T Pain (57,859) by Randy from USA I don't know if any of you caught it but Sunday T Pain was on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live. He was asked by a fan on twitter what it was like working with MC. He said she gets drunk off a very little bit of wine and she was in the booth made for one with him while he was trying to record his verse for Migrate and to me in my opinion he was making it seem like something happened in there. Did anyone else catch it and feel like that? (Wednesday 18 November 2015; 12:08)

Oh the insanity (57,687) by Randy from USA I've held my tongue for awhile on this Adele topic, but now I will speak. I agree that MC has been lip syncing the high full voice belts since that fateful day on Oprah in 1997. After Charmbracelet, when she knew we had widened up to it, she started recording a scratchy track to match the tone of the current state of her voice but when she starts flailing those arms, turning her head she ain't a bit more singing than the man on the moon. Now what I will say is whatever she does in the studio is more difficult than what Adele does, however Adele can replicate her magic live and MC refuses to. I agree with Andrew she needs to sing in her current range. Why can't she sing songs in the same register as Right To Dream, Help Me Make It Through The Night and Languishing. I doubt she can't sing those live. In addition, you guys wanna talk Macau, Vegas and Jimmy Fallon impromptu where her voice is great. But why she can't do the same for American television is beyond me. She always chokes at awards shows or again, lip syncs. Now about Adele, I love Hello but to be honest it is not anywhere near a quality a song or vocal as MC's best, Vision Of Love, Vanishing, Looking In, Outside, Close My Eyes, Butterfly, My All, Petals, Through The Rain, Reflections (Care Enough), Twister, Never Too Far, Through The Rain, Right To Dream and Languishing. None of Adele's songs match any of them. In fact, those songs in my opinion make MC the greatest singer-songwriter of all time. Some of those songs are better than anything the revered female singer-songwriters: Alicia Keys, Joni Mitchell, Lauryn Hill, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Carole King, Diane Warren have ever done. Which is why I'm still invested despite the smoke and mirrors surrounding her live performances. Adele is great but please don't think MC can't sit with paper and pen with Big Jim Wright at the keys and not come up with an emotional, timeless masterpiece better than Adele's entire catalogue, in less than thirty minutes. MC still has that capability, she just chooses not to use it because she hates "always" doing ballads. (Saturday 7 November 2015; 18:37)

Adele and Macau (57,553) by Randy from USA I have to admit, when I first heard Hello, I was instantly smitten and I do think she makes all the right moves. The lyric, vocal and video are perfection. But a lot of you wondered why MC can't do the same. She can do stripped down, lyric driven music if she wants to. She just doesn't enjoy being in that box. She said herself she's not one dimensional. Adele is one dimensional. However Adele sells records so that is what people like. MC makes music for herself because she used to make it for the public and was unhappy. MC knows what will sell but that no longer matters to her. As long as we get one stripped, lyric driven, introspective song like Languishing, Cry or Camouflage per album, I'm good. About the live Macau performances. Everyone knows how critical I have been of MC's "live" performances. She sounded very decent and it infuriates me she can't do this on American television or at award shows when it counts. She folds like a card table. (Thursday 29 October 2015; 11:53)

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