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Re: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - songs about Derek (97,382) (97,386) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Derek Jeter being the DJ in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is brilliant fan theory haha. Maybe that's why she chose it. (Wednesday 17 February 2021; 14:20)

Re: Valentines mix (97,374) (97,375) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Good you enjoyed it. Hold on a second, though: it is lipped the whole way through. Do we really get excited because pre-recorded, engineered vocals sound good? Sets the bar quite low, perhaps. (Monday 15 February 2021; 15:00)

Re: Raindream? (97,362) (97,373) by Andrew from the United Kingdom She done already done had herses. Gurl, this show is brilliant, m'kay. This is making lockdown funny and fun. I'm currently caught up with RuPaul's Drag Race US and UK so I'm bingeing the latest Allstars and there's a queen called Mariah who literally as I'm watching on Netflix just got voted off as I'm typing this. It is quite really bizarre watching someone called Mariah that isn't Mariah Carey. It's as bizarre as a drag queen or anybody calling themselves Madonna or Cher. Mariah is a one word, one person name. That being said I thought Mariah Paris Balenciaga was pretty shite and Shea Coulee has to win. But whatever happens, the Cracker needs to go. (Sunday 14 February 2021; 22:03)

Raindream? (97,359) by Andrew from the United Kingdom What the hell was that about? I tuned in to see Mariah Carey perform. What was with that outfit? Those shoes? That dark hair? That makeup? What the hell is going on? Who did this? Whoever did it deserves a Nobel Peace Prize because I'm down from defcon 4 and my Doctor has a thankyou note ready because the big vein in my head is no longer about to pop. If this is the new image then I am loving it: makeup that is subtle and sophisticated, the amazing hair colour that suits her skin tones, an amazing style that compliments the shape of her face and bone structure, an outfit that hides the girls and says "hey, if you want magic my mouth is up here" and shoes that scream she already done had herses (watching Ru Paul's Drag Race UK - but no idea what it means, either). Mariah looks amazing. It's as if she were ten years younger (so like two, I guess). Think back to her performing in that shocking pink top with that clown make up and perm. This Mariah looks like that Mariah's daughter. And the song? I'm disappointed that it's lipped. But the voice was Rainbow-cum-Daydream (I'm calling this era's voice Raindream) and I appreciated it. Mariah should consider serving resonating chest notes and dropping the high octave-jump screeching in future songs and even in performance of old songs. I don't think anybody needs a lot of that anymore. This was cool. Sehr cool, Frau Carey. On the subject of Ru Paul's Drag Race Mariah should definitely go on this. She should direct Mariah Carey's "Gutter" The Ru-sical with the Queens lip-syncing their own lyrics to Mariah Carey songs. She could really help them do that. She's had enough practice. (Saturday 13 February 2021; 04:42)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,319) (97,328) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Oh Stacey, your kids must go loopy if you have that album on repeat. I love Daydream. But I cannot forgive Mariah for leaving One Night off of that record. It's so absolutely insane. The same goes for All I Live For and Here We Go Around Again and Cool On You and Mesmerized and Loverboy Firecracker Original and Out Here On My Own. Like most Mariah albums there are lesser favoured tracks and a couple I could do without, but The Rarities is genuinely my favourite album in spite of these same flaws. I'm with you. I can play Daydream back to back every day and twice on Eric's birthday (the big five-o this year). But The Rarities is genuinely my goto album every day and I don't see it stopping. It is so thrilling. How is your husband, by the way? I hope he and the rest of your family are well. (Monday 8 February 2021; 21:35)

E=MC3 (97,326) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Rereading lots of threads here I just wanted to state to Mariah or Mariah's team reading this that a sequel to the upbeat single driven nature of E=MC2 is what's called for but it should not be another retread of familiar sounds. Mariah did Unforgettable and it *suited* her. Dance remixes and up-tempo always did before she abandoned it for rather over familiar formulas. I don't recall one person here resisting Unforgettable but everyone (almost) resisting I Don't. That song and Why You Mad? And Infuhmuzz and Infinniddee and so on remain largely hated by the lambs. One of Mariah's gifts used to be taking a current sound and making it hers and owning it. C&C said it in 1993. This isn't her trying, this is hers. However, stuck in the past retreading the same old formulas will kill her recording wise. Something current with a Mariah twist that is fun and accessible and emotive would do well. One of the great things about Cruise Control was that it didn't require an octave jump of screeching. It was a refined song from start to finish. Shawn Mended listens to "old school" Mariah because it sounded refined and fun and accessible with fantastic melodies and beats. It made people happy so they bought it, they played it, they talked about it. E=MC3 is a term I have in my head for a level of currentness and sophistication and refinement and fun and so on that Mariah needs to find again. And for the the love of God, work with new or underused people, take from different inspirations even. Use Mark Shaiman and listen to Tchaikovsky. Listen to Eighties Whitney and look at Ariana's interpretation of it. There is more to recording that Y'all Know What This Is. Because we all do. It had its day. That was fine back then. Now, time for new genius, please. (Monday 8 February 2021; 21:25)

E=MC3. Two towsun' twenny one. Watch it. (97,304) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Cruise Control is the shit. It's the best thing on E=MC2 and beats everything on The Emancipation of Mimi. "Can't nobody can't nobody tell me nuttin' when he comes into view, cos he's the flyest ting when he be cruising' on me avenue." This album was mature and sophisticated and funnnnnnn and Cruise Control the best thing on it. It's one of the best songs she's ever done. If anyone disagree then "step up, step up, bottle, broken". You can keep your One Mo Gen and Givin' Me Life snoozefests while you sit in your armchair with your cocoa. I wanna sing, dance and party. 1. Cruise Control 2. Migrate 3. I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time Those should have been the first three songs on the album and the order of single release. Starting the album with 2008, watch it, made sense. Nobody really wants ballads as single releases anymore, do they? E=MC2's problem was waiting so long to release it. She should have released it an absolute maximum of two years after TEOM release. She was riding high. She was the biggest artist in the world again but she went on a tour and disappeared. When she came back, I think the public had moved on. Bye Bye was the nail in the coffin. She was *cool* - and then she was writing in a book on a sofa wiping a fake tear from her eye. And that was the end of that. Roll on E=MC3. (Saturday 6 February 2021; 00:16)

Re: I don't care if Mariah gets another #1 record (97,286) (97,289) by Andrew from the United Kingdom A few quick online searches has proved you wrong, it seems. There are many sites that state that artists whose ventures don't make a lot of money are required to pay back the advance or have them recouped out of royalties or future earnings. Music Labels are not charitable enterprises and (admittedly, at a guess) I shouldn't think they give two shiny shits if they have a legacy artist on their books or not. I shouldn't think it a reasonable use of time or money if they are not getting adequate return for it. If Mariah still had a lot of power I don't think she would be dictated to by a record label about "grats" and so on. However, this is all moot if Mariah writes an album that people want to buy. (Thursday 4 February 2021; 12:27)

Re: Mariah Carey's sister sues over tell-all memoir (97,282) (97,288) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Prey tell, what evidence would Mariah provide?" It is "pray, tell". "Pray" is an archaic and, perhaps, arcane word for a polite request. It's a common mistake so don't feel too bad that you, somewhat ironically, used it to patronise. "The same evidence Allison provides for ritual abuse? There is none." That's probably a strawman argument. In any case, Allison's own claims are not in question here; Mariah's are. "Mariah didn't make accusations - she described the trauma she endured and what it did to her." I understand what you are trying to say but would offer that you may not be clear in your thinking. Mariah has published and claimed on television that Allison committed criminal acts and offences against her person. Without evidence substantiating the claims, I think Allison has reasonable claim against Mariah for libel and slander. It's been a (*cough*) while since I read Law so perhaps there is someone more qualified an authority now on here to speak on the subject. However, I believe my statements to be correct. "Actual trauma victims who contain what happened to them get a sense of relief from talking about it. It's a part of standing up for yourself and not hiding the truth." I appreciate it's a difficult issue. On the one hand, there are people who have been on the receiving end of many different types of abuse and the truths of the events don't feel natural to hide. On the other hand, to make allegations that damages someone's reputation is quite serious and such allegations should really have evidence to support them, and not just a "lived experience" claim, lest innocent people have their good characters tarnished by vindictive people without recompense. "Allison had no problem attacking Mariah for 20 years making money from wild claims without proof. In fact, she's still doing it now with this lawsuit. Why shouldn't Mariah get a say? Different rules for her?" Countersuit. "Allison doesn't have a case. She's less than credible with all her issues and history." That's not for you to decide but for Allison to ask a court to decide, if she so wishes. "Mariah covered her bases by writing a memoir vs. an autobiography. She also wrote in the forwards this was her viewpoint as little Mariah and how she felt going through the experiences." I am certain it is not how Mariah felt "going through the experiences" that Allison contends with, but rather that the experiences happened at all. I believe Allison will ask Mariah to prove the claims which, from what Mariah has written, doesn't sound like that will be possible. The court may require Allison to prove some sort of malice or evidence of falsehood on Mariah's part, but if it does I think the ex-brother or mother could be wheeled out. Then it becomes a total PR disaster if it already isn't one. "This is a memoir and not a lawsuit. No proof is needed to tell others your experiences." As above. I am not saying who is right and wrong and your claim that you are the authority on who is and who isn't is spurious. On the balance of probabilities, and all things being equal, I would ignore both of them. But things are not equal. Mariah has used her position of wealth and power to profit well from the claims that someone who is totally skint and downtrodden committed unlawful acts. I honestly think this book was a bit of a silly venture. But, Mariah - being quite a smart cookie - must have foreseen the fallout and calculated that she stood more to gain from the publication than she had to lose. If so then good for her and so be it. Myself, I fail to see what good this all did. Very few people were ever really listening to anything Allison was saying about Mariah, anyway. Now they'll be listening a lot. We all have our own present and historical shit. Maybe it's just me, or perhaps it's a very stereotypically British thing, but it's neither wise nor dignified to "air your dirty linen in public", so to speak. Mariah should get back to writing a killer Summer album with a properly financed marketing campaign and promo rollout. (Thursday 4 February 2021; 12:17)

Re: Mariah Carey's sister sues over tell-all memoir (97,276) (97,277) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "[Alison] could've just put in a statement to the press denying the claims instead of having to try to profit out of it." Mariah profited from the book in question, a significant selling point of which was an allegation that Alison committed specific criminal acts. If somebody made such an allegation about you without providing evidence would you not seek redress? Especially if they profited from it? I don't know why Mariah wrote this book, anymore. It's a totally bizarre read. Sleeping dogs should be left to lie. (Wednesday 3 February 2021; 04:48)

Re: Mariah Carey's sister sues over tell-all memoir (97,271) (97,274) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Allison is saying everything is unsubstantiated. She doesn't need to prove the claims in the book are false. Mariah printed the allegations. I believe the onus is on her to prove that they are true. (Tuesday 2 February 2021; 22:56)

Re: Hello (97,213) (97,219) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I shouldn't think anyone finds you boring, but rather charming and decent. I think many people were concerned for your well-being and are glad that you are well. (Wednesday 27 January 2021; 17:35)

Re: I don't care if Mariah gets another #1 record (97,216) (97,218) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I also believe Mariah can have a hit album again. But I believe a big redirection is required. Mariah needs to write actual songs at a piano with musicians other than Jermaine Dupri and incorporate new elements into her sound, rather than regurgitating the same sounds and formulae. Yet she seems way too focussed on pushing narratives that are spurious if not false. I would have thought this a perfect time to write an album over Zoom with others as there is not much else to do. And if she herself claims that she is in much better voice than Caution I am sure everyone wants to hear it. On the radio and television. New Summer/party album for June to August launch and singles release. September and October for Glitter nostalgia. November and December for Christmas with her actual non-Christmas catalogue incorporated into concerts/tv specials. (I really think the Christmas tour would benefit from using the most popular Christmas songs interwoven with the most popular hits - Fantasy, Heartbreaker, Obsessed and so on.) (Wednesday 27 January 2021; 17:30)

Re: I don't care if Mariah gets another #1 record (97,215) (97,217) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Lmao ouch, harsh. Well written, though, so I'll think on it. Maybe, I'll tone the rhetoric down. It's just such a burden being right all the time. (Wednesday 27 January 2021; 17:17)

Re: I don't care if Mariah gets another #1 record (97,211) (97,212) by Andrew from the United Kingdom The point is (emphatically, I believe) that Mariah has either abandoned, or lost, the drive for good or successful music whilst at the same time further developing a narrative that is either not correct or circumspect. That I write mostly either tongue-in-cheek or blunt seems to have wound you up and I am sorry I have lost your confidence but still wish you well. I stand by my points, however, for the observations are correct, whilst your inferences are not. Mariah needs to expand her horizons and stop repeating the same mistakes. But her obsession at the moment is on her identity and her legacy and I don't foresee her letting it go. To repeat, she would do better to not release and E=MC2 and not a Caution; it is telling when Questlove highlighted that Caution didn't really sound like what other artists are doing. It's neither on trend nor what any people are looking for. That Mariah relies on it being her album most critically well-received speaks a lot to what I am saying. And lo, I am sorry for not using woe. I typed it in five minutes and the proof-writers at the MoS must have been in break. (Wednesday 27 January 2021; 14:33)

Re: I don't care if Mariah gets another #1 record (97,200) (97,209) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "I wish these "'ambs' would stop insinuating that Mariah needs to work with this or that person like she needs a savior." Mariah's writing has been extremely lacking in the last decade. I could debate this with you but I suspect you know it to be true. "Mariah has fought the majority of her career to control her music." This is not true. Name an album release after 1994 over which Mariah did not feel she had creative control. "Last time I checked she wrote 18 #1 songs on the Hot 100." And all why not having content control and being used like a hit-factory. I smell wine. "Mariah launches artists she doesn't need anyone to make a hit record." What artists has Mariah "launched"? I liked you until this point. Now you're just a child who heard a nice story she liked so she repeats it like she done some sermon. "30 years later she is still relevant. Keep it moving." I fought for you. I google "relevant" instead of blanket laughing out your statement: "appropriate to the current time, period, or circumstances; of contemporary". Now you must mean Christmas, right? Because everything else in the last 12 months is nostalgia. All releases, all stories, are from days gone by. Except for All I Want For Christmas Is You. A song composed in the early 90's. To Phil Spector/1960's design. Oh, dear. "[T]o insist she needs to get another #1 Hot 100 and needs the assistance of another act is just plain out rude." Well, you cite her number of No.1 records but insist yourself that she does not need another. At what point did she stop needing another? After the next one? (I righteously suspect with a wry smile this may be true.) But I agree and disagree here. Old Mariah didn't need help writing songs. She could do it. But then I hear the original version song of A No No and realise sampling is essentially just "lifting" a song with permission, as was such the dilemma with "Emotions" - "she lifted the entire song". (But who remembers the losers? The victors write the history in their favour. I'm British, I should know. Y'all are heathens.) Perhaps it is Just the case that chord progressions are still copyright and must be paid for. That is to say: there aren't an infinite number that are marketable. But Mariah is hardly writing songs, anymore. With You is the last thing she did of any merit, in my opinion. The rest was an extension of her desperation to solidly herself as the woman with white skin never to have been considered a Black artist to be considered a "Black artist". In my view, nothing matters else matter to Mariah now. And that has played detriment to her writing music that will stand the test of time. Nothing after 2008 will. And I am not sure she gives a shit. She is attempting to rewrite history from the view of the victor. She's here to tel the story. Nobody else is. Or if they are, nobody much cares to listen. Who care about good music? You could stick her on a track with big artists. But Mariah has had those opportunities and squandered them. The big artists are defined as her guests. They are made to feel adenda, to be gifted to be on her mediocre output, it seems. At least to me. Other artists collaborate. Mariah rides legend and demands sycophancy. And lo betide collaborations with non-Black artists. Heaven forfend. "Billboard is slowly becoming obsolete anyway, streaming charts are where things have been heading for some time." When you say stuff like this, do you understand that you seem like a petulant child throwing everything and the kitchen sink at an argument despite its lack of virtue? You just extolled to be virtue of Mariah having a new 19th No.1 hit. And now say that the chart is irrelevant. Until she gets another one. With the help of Ariana. And her next new book: "Mariah Carey: Critical Race Theory, How to Colour Friends, Transplant a Personality, and Profligate Conspiracy Theories". And Biggie Smalls? Not *once* in 23 or years did that come up. Funny that. (Tuesday 26 January 2021; 23:11)

Re: Honestly Eric (97,194) (97,197) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Joking aside, we see on the news the ongoing unrest on the streets of the Netherlands and hope you stay safe and sound. (Tuesday 26 January 2021; 10:34)

Honestly Eric (97,194) by Andrew from the United Kingdom The hours you've spent correcting my messages. But you won't change "life" to "live"? You're getting lazy in your old age. (Monday 25 January 2021; 09:54)

Re: #MC30 releases are back (97,188) (97,193) by Andrew from the United Kingdom These MC30 releases feel a little... passionless. Feel like she wants to skip to Emancipation. Not including live performances and television performances is a mistake. Including them makes it feel like a representation of a project or an era. This Charmbracelet release feels like Mariah sat at home and nodded to someone whilst sipping Caymus. (Monday 25 January 2021; 09:48)

Re: Charmbracelet EPs (97,191) (97,192) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "I'm in love. And I am shocked." Sound like my ex. (Monday 25 January 2021; 09:44)

Re: #MC30 releases are back (97,186) (97,187) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Too much is being made of Mariah skipping Glitter. I think she will do something big for it in September. What is an insult is releasing a single format as "live" that is just clapping over the original track. There are no live performances from the Charmbracelet era to include? A bit like the "live" version of O Holy Night, this was another eye-roll to some of the bullshit she puts into the public sphere. Never learns. (Saturday 23 January 2021; 21:40)

Re: Want to miss her (97,163) (97,165) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Mariah is riding high. She needs the momentum and she has it. Disappearing for several years now would be the nail in the coffin. She needs a Summer album. She needs an E=MC2 now. Not a Caution. (Tuesday 19 January 2021; 23:47)

Re: Quest Supreme interview pt. 2 (97,147) (97,158) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Mariah is not comfortable with aging and feels only secure when she's sexy over the top. You can't be an actor with these kinds of hang ups." She's overly self-conscious. You are right; this quality does not a good actress make. She can't even convincingly act like she's singing her own songs on stage. In An Christmas Melody, she directs that ever my shot of her should be a softly lit closeup of the right side of her face. It truly reflects obsessed/nuts she is when it comes to her appearance that she would rather make a weird movie than be in an unflattering shot for one second. So I just rewatched Mariah's part in Precious and it's not good. Mo'Nique's performance, however, is truly remarkable and her not receiving the Academy Award would have been outrageous. When she reveals why she hates Precious and cries I both felt sorry for her and despised her at the same time. Also at the same time Mariah looked like a six year old having just been chastised for stealing candy. Glitter's failure in the The Fiction of Mariah Carey is put down to everyone else but her and her bad acting is, apparently, not her fault. My cat could act better than she did in that film. And now according to the interview she says "Glitter was whitewashed... literally". It seems here she is suggesting white prolly made it bad. Which would continue her current artistic license in painting herself as a Black woman suffering at the hands of white people. However, the only whitewashing going on in Mariah's representation of her own acting ability. Mariah Carey is a brilliant singer-songwriter. But she should leave the acting and directing to professionals. (Monday 18 January 2021; 12:23)

Re: QuestLove Supreme interview pt. 2 (97,133) (97,144) by Andrew from the United Kingdom O Chicago, wait until the interviewer starts to praise her acting ability and get through it without a facial expression of pure bewilderment. I cannot take anybody seriously who says that Mariah is an actress, let alone a good one. Add that on top of the interviewers having difficulty forming questions and making the narrative flow, spiced with Mariah being so tangential she now has a doctorate in trigonometry, and it's a pretty confusing shit show. Or maybe I am wrong and should listen to it again. I was running while listening. Maybe the linear and purposeful nature of running is what threw me off. (Saturday 16 January 2021; 16:44)

Re: Supreme interview part I and II (97,140) (97,143) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Lets face it, some of the things she draws from have a lot or almost all to do with her ethnicity." Almost everything bad that has happened to Mariah in her life she puts down to her race. There's nothing for anyone to be told to confront for it's quite a lot of, if not almost all, of what she is talking about these days. "POC need this safe space. I could go on but I won't." If you don't mind (and genuinely) I'd like you to go on. What is it about this podcast that is valuable to non-white people and not valuable to white people? Or do you just mean music artists? The charts are arguably dominated by "POC" or, at least, they are heavily featured. So, in that respect, the group is not a minority group. What kind safe space is required, who or what is it protecting from? I'm asking genuinely for your opinion and if I disagree with it, this doesn't mean I am going to try to find ways of tearing it down. I don't understand what you mean. (Saturday 16 January 2021; 16:35)

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