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Mariah/Prince (39,254) by Anonymous from I know that MC and Price have worked together in a song for the Glitter album but, as everybody knows, that song never came out, so I'd like to hear maybe a duet or a song produced by Prince in Mariah's voice. She needs to explore new things and discover new producers and sounds. (Friday 13 September 2013; 3:16)

The beautiful ones (39,253) by Joachim Agerup Løkkevik from Norway I became a fan of Mariah during the Butterfly era, and The Beautiful Ones was for a long time my favourite song on the album. I still love it, but almost never listen to it. (Friday 13 September 2013; 3:10)

Stacey wait! (39,252) by Licia from USA No, I'm going to pretend you didn't say that! She could never outdo Prince. We should just say she made an 80s song sound current. Lol. I do love the Beautiful Ones remake though and I hardly ever hear or see any fans that appreciate this song. She made it her own and I am glad that Prince allowed her and Dru Hill to remake it because from what I understand Prince doesn't allow a lot of people to cover his songs. After hearing Maroon 5 butcher Kiss, I understand why. I love Maroon 5, but no. Lol. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 23:12)

More in studio pics / The Beautiful Ones (39,251) by Stacey from USA More studio pics from MC. *sigh* I am willing to wait for good music, but she is pulling my heart strings right now. Maybe it's the pregnancy, lol. Who knows? I just need some MC music to play, lol. I don't know why, but I have had this song running through my head constantly lately. It's never been one of those "go to" songs I love, but for some reason lately I've developed a new appreciation for it. From the slowed infectious beat to the masterful play between Sisqo and MC at the end is just perfect. Sorry, but this is one song where I think Mariah outdid Prince and that is almost impossible to do most times. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 21:56)

Almost Home and the Oscars (39,250) by Monark from Australia My feeling is that Almost Home is not eligible for the Oscars because of it's placement (or lack thereof) in the film and soundtrack. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 15:19)

ObscureOpulence (39,249) by Musti from UK You make a very interesting point regarding a potential Christmas album in 2000. I never really believed Mariah wrote the Grinch song for herself. But she did re-release All I Want For Christmas Is You in Japan in 2000 including a new So So Def Remix and O Holy Night 2000 Live Version (which is now on MCIIYou). Perhaps MCIIYou as a concept was first conceived in that era and some work was done, but Mariah preferred to focus on Glitter in the end. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 9:47)

Edward (39,248) by Anonymous from That is so lame that they played the song at the very end of the credits. That's crazy. Most artist would have been played at the very beginning or at least after the first orchestrated track. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 8:37)

Mariah Carey movie roles, film, acting career etc (39,247) by DivergentIntel from United States of America I've always thought Mariah Carey is a great actress and has lots of acting potential, whether it be in films, movies, cinema, broadway etc. She can do it all. Most importantly, it has been said that Mariah was meant and intended to be the lead role cast in Evita. Given Mariah's success, growing popularity, image, and personality, and style at the time, I think she would have pulled off the role successfully and even nabbed an Oscar for best actress and other awards for best songwriter etc. Given that Mariah had a Mary Poppins attitude and more on track etc, I think she would have had superb acting skills for Evita, overall. In addition, I think Glitter got a bad wrap and that outside forces were trying to sabatoge it and trying to keep Mariah and her success to remain hampered and in developmental hell. Glitter, the movie and the soundtrack were awesome, period, nuff said. I wish Mariah Carey would have released all of her unreleased tracks and songs intended for Glitter. Glitter, if thoroughly promoted, would have really taken off and propelled her to even greater heights. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 3:38)

All That Glitters/Glitter albums, movies, and controversies (39,246) by DivergentIntel from United States of America IMHO Glitter is one of Mariah Carey's best albums. Glitter was her last album for Sony, along with the Greatest Hits collection released in late 2001. Mariah had a gag order and legal clause for a few years that she couldn't discuss the marriage with Mottola and divorce or deep internal struggles between her and the label. Mariah got out of Sony one album early because Tommy Mottola and Jennifer Lopez used her licensed music samples for JLo's album and Mariah threatened to sue for a variety of charges and losses and damages. As a result Mariah took Glitter with her to Universal Music Group's (UMG)/Virgin Records. Glitter was a joint venture between Sony/Columbia Records and UMG/Virgin Records. Sony retained the rights to Glitter soundtrack and studio album in Japan and a few other international markets and territories and the rest was under Virgin Records. Virgin had to buy the rights and buy out the remainder of her Sony/Columbia contract. I also suspect that Mariah planned to release a Christmas album in 2000, being that she had written, produced and sang a new Christmas song that was intended to be used and go on the Grinch Christmas movie's soundtrack album. However at last minute Tommy Mottola ordered that the song couldn't go on the Grinch soundtrack because it was going on a soundtrack album thar was under another label and part of a contractual and clause and conflict which was actually found out to be a nonsensical claim. Mariah ended up having Faith Hill sing it. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 3:35)

Thanks Stacey (39,245) by Zachary from Croatia I just want to say a big thanks to Stacey for sending me an mp3 format of Mariah´s Dreamlover remix. I love her. Kisses from Croatia. (Thursday 12 September 2013; 1:13)

Almost Home (39,244) by Will from England Almost Home as a whole was not a very intricate part of the film. There was no hint to it though out the musical soundtrack in the film (which the CD mainly comprises of hence why I think it wasn't included), and to be honest, the version that is at the end of the film sounds like a rough demo of the song, before she released the final version that we bought. (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 21:36)

Almost Home not on Oz soundtrack (39,243) by Edward from USA It is so weird that "Almost Home" was part of "Oz: The Greatest" movie soundtrack, but they didn't include it on the soundtrack album. I have never seen anything like that. When I went to Amazon.com to purchase a copy of the soundtrack, I was shocked when I didn't see it on the tracklist. Another annoying thing to me was to hear the song played not at the beginning, but right at the end of the movie credits, just when everybody had just left the theater. (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 17:19)

Best Original Song (39,242) by Haytham from Philippines Speaking of Almost Home, I know it's too early, but I think Almost Home has a shot at the Oscars next year. What do you think guys? (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 15:11)

When You Believe (39,241) by Jamie from UK Will, perhaps it has something to do with the fact the song was part of a soundtrack album. It's essentially a movie song. It's like Almost Home which I doubt will be on Mariah upcoming album, even if it had been a hit. (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 14:18)

Re: Will (39,240) by Billy from Greece That's an interesting observation that I've been contemplating on myself as well. I was particularly puzzled about why they omitted "When You Believe" from Whitney's 2000 "Greatest Hits", especially the international version of the album. What comes across as further buffling is that this double disc contains personal liner notes by Whitney, where she thanks all of her collaborators and duet partners, except for Mariah. Same thing with her "My Love Is Your Love" album where "When You Believe" originally appeared. She thanked Kelly Price, Faith Evans etc, but not Mariah, which is weird given that they were friends at that point. As for the non-inlcusion in Whitney's posthumous "Best of" collection, I assume record industry politics and "unwritten rules" prevailed, with the latter referring to whether a duet with another major peer/rival artist may overpower the stardom of the artist in question. I don't know. Still, they did include Whitney's duet with Aretha in the latest collection. (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 11:57)

Celine / Mariah / competition / motivation (39,239) by Edward from USA I don't see anything wrong discussing Celine's music here either. It is not like people here are putting Mariah down or anything like it. I would love to see Mariah, Celine, Tony Braxton release good music and be popular again. They all had great albums, Mariah just happened to adapt better as music was changing, and that's why she could keep being relevant. The 90's were the days, such good music. I think the competition among Celine, Mariah, and Whitney brought us excellent music. I fought for and defended Mariah against those who said Whitney or Celine was better, but I also enjoyed their music, especially Celine's. She has never said anything shady about Mariah, and I appreciate that. (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 5:45)

When You Believe (39,238) by Will from Australia This has irritated me for a number of years and maybe someone here can give me a reason for it. When You Believe peaked at 15 on the Hot 100 and is a great song that's been covered many times, but I don't understand how it failed to appear on Whitneys original two disc Greatest Hits (2000). It did appear a few years later on her Ultimate Collection (2007), but again was dropped for The Best in 2012. The interesting thing is that the ultimate collection was only an 18 track cd and the other two were double discs. What's going on? Considering both these albums have much lesser hits, is it just a record label conflict? (Wednesday 11 September 2013; 3:18)

Yikes / "Screw you, I like Mariah Carey" (39,237) by Deedre aka MiTodoChop @HBF from Canada I don't see why discussing other artists briefly in reference to popular music should be a problem here. Especially, someone like Celine who is often brought up as one of the worlds great singers as Mariah is herself. At most I saw maybe four comments about Celine's song - I don't think this qualifies as taking over the website. We should be able to have conversations, yes? Anyway, I really related to the article "Screw you, I like Mariah Carey". Most of my interaction with fellow fans has been online not in person, and in my early teens I was severely teased and bugged for how much I loved her and music. Now that I am older, I have very much taken on the stance of "Screw you, I like Mariah Carey" in many areas of my life. By that I mean not just Mariah fandom. If people don't like me because of things I enjoy or opinions I have, than I don't have to stick around. Everyone has a right to be who they are without apology or approval. I like a lot of things others would find embarrassing, I'm sure, lol and I'm in a place in my life now where I'm OK with that. (Tuesday 10 September 2013; 22:42)

Alain (39,236) by Stacey from USA I actually closed my yahoo address. You can send it to my new address which is: daydreamer.butterfly@gmail.com. Glad I could help. (Tuesday 10 September 2013; 21:40)

Stacey (39,235) by Lainsky from Philippines Thank you for responding, I really appreciate it. I will send an email to your daydream yahoo account, if it is still working. I found it from your previous post. (Tuesday 10 September 2013; 18:01)

Alain / Carlos (39,234) by Stacey from USA I have the song and can send it to you. Let me know. Carlos, I don't see Celine fans taking over this website, just a few people discussing her new single and how they like it. Chill. (Tuesday 10 September 2013; 2:34)

Dreamlover Bam Jam Remix (39,233) by Lainsky from Philippines Who has the copy of this song in an mp3 format? Whoever you are, do you mind sharing it with me? I really really appreciate it. Thanks. (Monday 9 September 2013; 8:40)

Re: Nikki (USA) (39,232) by Carol from Spain I couldn't agree more. In terms of music, Mariah was the last trendsetter (not sure if this is how you write it, sorry). if we see music these days, what Gaga does was done by Madonna over 30 years ago. What Katy and Britney do is not unique also. No one dares anymore, no one thinks of new ways to create new sounds, except for Mariah. She never goes in the direction everyone is going, simply because she is smarter. (Sunday 8 September 2013; 13:33)

Mariah's over (39,231) by nikki from usa So over, she managed to go Platinum in America and Australia without any help from her label. It's truly hilarious to hear any fan or critic speculate on Mariah's ability to make hits. I've never really understood this whole "MC's competing with the kids" thing. How? If the "kids" rip off Mariah's formula and use it to get hits, how is that Mariah competing with them, exactly? To be perfectly honest, all of Mariah's singles of the past 6 years have been entirely her own sound and nothing like the music of the moment. Beautiful sounds like nothing else out right now and is a throwback if anything. Triumphant was dance-y and inspirational as was Almost Home. Obsessed was fun and different as was Touch My Body which was a new sound for MC altogether and a new approach. I applaud Mariah for trying new things. The sexy thing she's done since 27, so that's not new. (Sunday 8 September 2013; 0:34)

Re: Brad (39,230) by nikki from usa I don't know if English is native as your post was a bit difficult to understand, but no that's not a rumor. It was well recorded by industry folks and Tommy's ex best friend. The one who was the original CEO of CBS - Tommy went over his head to get his job. It's not ridiculous, it's business and the music industry is cut throat for a reason. The company has to spend a fortune each time they promote a newbie and 90% of newbies and record mates fail - meaning the money they bring in doesn't cover the expenses to promote them. That's why the 10% of the heavy hitters have to be major hits. CBS roster of "hit makers" hadn't made any new music in years and the artists producing minor hits at best weren't selling enough. Tommy convinced the big wigs he could turn it around, that's why he got the job. When MC was hired, they had to cut half the artists on the label just to promote her. Brenda K. Starr concurred that she was fired shortly after Mariah was signed and several more had been cut prior to her pink slip. This all came out in the late 80's and early 90's. (Sunday 8 September 2013; 0:16)

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