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Re: Mariah Report (90,348) (90,349) by Edward from USA Record of the Year is related to but is conceptually different from Song of the Year or Album of the Year: 1. Record of the Year is awarded for a single or for one track from an album. This award goes to the performing artist, the producer, recording engineer and/or mixer for that song. In this sense, "record" means a particular recorded song, not its composition or an album of songs. 2. Song of the Year is also awarded for a single or individual track, but the recipient of this award is the songwriter who actually wrote the lyrics and/or melodies to the song. "Song" in this context means the song as composed, not its recording. 3. Album of the Year is awarded for a whole album, and the award is presented to the artist, producer, recording engineer, and mastering engineer for that album. In this context, "album" means a recorded collection of songs (a multi-track LP, CD, or download package), not the individual songs or their compositions. (Thursday 18 July 2019; 14:00)

Re: Cosmopolitan (90,281) (90,282) by Edward from USA What is so spectacular about her body in that pic? I don't see anything special or heavily doctored. (Wednesday 10 July 2019; 23:57)

Re: Katy Perry shading Mariah in 2014 (90,225) (90,231) by Edward from USA Her comment about Mariah has returned to bite her own ass. Some of these artists believe their own hype when they have a few hit songs/albums and start feeling invincible, then reality sets in when people can't remember one of their songs. Mariah made that comment about when Madonna used to be popular and hopefully she learned her lesson. Mariah might not be as popular, but unlike Katy, she has an impressive calalog and legacy. (Sunday 7 July 2019; 15:43)

Re: Mariah's greatest lyric (90,121) (90,132) by Edward from USA Tijl, sorry to rain on your parade, but Mariah didn't write that part of H.A.T.E.U., The Dream did. Here's the The Dream's full demo he presented Mariah with. I actually love the lyrics on his take better than Mariah's. It's obvious Mariah took what she liked from his song, and then rewrote the rest with The Dream and Tricky Stewart. (Sunday 30 June 2019; 13:13)

Re: Madame X (90,103) (90,108) by Edward from USA Completely agree. Mariah's image and music were also carefully calculated for about a decade. I think it's easy for some people to dismiss other artists just to put Mariah on a pedestal. Mariah and Madonna are icons and they've influenced generations in their own different ways. I haven't followed Madonna since "Confessions" because I haven't liked what her music has morphed into, but I won't dismiss her accomplishments and impact on the music scene because of that. She's always taking risks, some of which have paid off really well. As for "Almost Home", Mariah broke my heart with that dismissive comment. "Almost Home" actually brought back my faith in her ability to create something lyrically and vocally reminiscent of her glory days, come to find out she didn't write it and most likely was directed as how to sing it hence her bitterness towards it. Another stupid comments she made was about her not liking other people covering her songs when she's spent her entire career sampling and covering other people's music. I try to make myself believe she wasn't taking her meds when she made those comments. (Thursday 27 June 2019; 18:05)

Lest liked album songs (90,056) by Edward from USA This is my list. Mariah Carey - You Need Me Emotion - To Be Around You Music Box - Now That I Know Merry Christmas - Jesus Oh What a Wonderful Child Daydream - Daydream Interlude Butterfly - Flawless Rainbow - Did I Do That? Glitter - Loverboy Remix (a hot mess) Charmbracelet - Through The Rain Remix TEOM - Stay the Night E=MC2 - Last Kiss Memoirs - Up Out My Face (The Reprise) Merry Christmas II You - Charlie Brown Christmas MIAM - Super Creepy / One More Try (can't stand her Minnie Mouse on helium singing) Caution - One More Gen (Monday 24 June 2019; 00:53)

Re: Underneath The Stars CD single? (90,008) (90,009) by Edward from USA Be a super uber lyft lamb, rip it into flac or any other lossless format and send it to him. Ive done that many times with the lambs. I just don't have that item. (Tuesday 18 June 2019; 18:39)

Re: The Daily Shame (89,964) (89,969) by Edward from USA I had said it before, this is just the beginning from Cuntella and her daughter Bitchka. It's sad because I actually think Mariah is in a different place right now. I'm glad this is happening though, maybe she finally bursts the yass-queen bubble of people she's decided to trap herself in, incluring the yass-queen fans. Those pics are humiliating and Mariah looks as if she had herself a mixture of pills, alcohol and God knows what else. I was glad when Morgan opened his mouth, even though it wasn't for him to tell. She should've taken notes from that, her yass-queen nephew denied everything. I'll go with the yass-queen lambs, she was going through a divorce, having an affair, her humidifiers were contaminated, and the list goes on. (Thursday 13 June 2019; 22:52)

Re: Lead the Way (89,922) (89,930) by Edward from USA I've always known the long note in "Butterfly" was cut and paste to prolong the note. If you listen closely, you can hear it, it was obviously impossible to replicate that life or pretend she was even trying it in front of an audience. At Diana's Tribute she lipped the note as it was sung in the studio before they cut and pasted. It was easier doing that with Butterfly because there was a lot going on in the background in that song, but with "Lead The Way" the situation is different. With no distractions in the background, you can clearly hear Mariah's voice flowing along without any weird change in key or studio tweaking. You have to remember "Glitter" was supposed to be to Mariah what "The Bodyguard" was to Whitney, so Mariah went all out vocally in that album, especially in "Lead The Way". I do agree with you, the whistle note is perfectly placed, and the last note is out of this world. "Lead The Way" is simply epic. (Wednesday 12 June 2019; 14:05)

Re: Me against the whistle (89,907) (89,911) by Edward from USA Mariah should release a whistle album, it would be like super epic-epic. Randy, I heard there's a version of "Right to Dream" with whistles too. Wasn't the whistled version of "With You" burning the R&B charts? Oh, I think I need my meds again. (Tuesday 11 June 2019; 14:09)

Re: Article: Mariah's former assistant reveals singer has fake booty (89,878) (89,883) by Edward from USA Completely agree with you. That Mariah got herself a new booty, who cares? I kind of suspected it, but Mariah let herself go with her empowered women bullshit. Allowing a kid to have control over her Social Media, and allowing those roaches to take pictures/videos that would eventually be used to shame her. It's not like she didn't know, nobody liked Stella, not even Wendy Williams, but she made her choice now she has to deal with the bootiquences. Mariah went from classy/mysterious to trashy while she was with that thing. This is just the beginning, remember that Mishka has a copy of Mariah's demo too, yes we want to listen to it, but not coming from those roaches. (Sunday 9 June 2019; 03:47)

Re: Mariah Pride (89,799) (89,810) by Edward from USA In terms of the support she gets from the LGBT community, Mariah donates a percentage of her tour merchandise accordingly. The Lesbians: 5% The Gays: 25% The Bisexuals: 2.5% The Transgenders: 20% If you're cisgender, Mariah doesn't know you with her money. Lee, buy as many tour items as you please, 25% is huge. (Sunday 2 June 2019; 13:23)

Re: First Mariah item (89,648) (89,650) by Edward from USA The first thing I purchased from Mariah was the "Daydream" album in cassette format. Yes, I was bored sitting in an almost empty classroom with my headphones on when "Open Arms" came on. That voice, so soothing, so angelic, so melodic, captivated me. Imagine my surprise when I then realized that I had "Mariah Carey", "Emotions" "MTV Unplugged" and "Music Box" to binge on. I discovered "Merry Christmas" later when I heard "All I Want From Christmas Is You" at a Computer Show. All this happen not in the US, but in Dominican Republic, where we only had two radio stations that played music in English at that time, and a few stores that sold CD's and cassettes from the most popular music in English. How I wished we had mp3 players back then, I used to carry all this effing cassettes and then CD's with me in my backpack. Buying batteries for my walk-man and then disc-man made a hole in my pocket, lol. Those were the days. (Sunday 19 May 2019; 13:45)

Re: New start (89,632) (89,649) by Edward from USA "Using a superiority complex as a mechanism to masquerade an inferiority complex." B, you're deep. (Sunday 19 May 2019; 13:29)

Re: Has something happened? (89,593) (89,597) by Edward from USA Licia, you better like it or I would definitely want my pink shirt back. (Thursday 16 May 2019; 14:33)

A new board (89,596) by Edward from USA Let's all hold hands, stage a coup and take this board off Eric's hands. After that, we can create the perfect messageboard. A board in which we could all praise the greatness of Mariah's World, in which we could all buy Mariah's nail polish, lipstick, pink water, and perfumes, not matter if you're cisgender, transgender or a eunuch, we could all benefit from that. If this board were as positive as that, we could finally get Mariah's World released on DVD and Migrate could finally be released as a single. After all, when Andrew left the board, Caution's sales went through the roof, had he stayed gone a little bit longer, Caution would now be Mariah's Thriller. Please guys, please, we need a board like that, even if it only lasts a day or two, but being positive is fundamental. (Thursday 16 May 2019; 14:23)

Re: Has something happened? (89,583) (89,584) by Edward from USA Using your cisgender privilege to make fun of the whole board is not cool. (Thursday 16 May 2019; 01:13)

Re: Has something happened? (89,580) (89,582) by Edward from USA Randy, at least "Right to Dream" was digitally released, but "Help Me Make It", a song I love, never saw the light of day officially. I've always looked for a 320kbps mp3 version of that song, but it doesn't seem to exist, I only have the version that surfaced online at the time, which is still good, but just that. I do love "Right to Dream" and "Help Me Make It" because there wasn't much happening in the background, just Mariah's voice and simple and non-intrusive instrumentation. (Thursday 16 May 2019; 00:54)

Re: Madonna's BBMA performance (89,499) (89,507) by Edward from USA I agree with you. A donkey shouldn't laugh at a rabbit's ears. Mariah can have her boobs out at 50 because she's earned it, and she does it because it encourages young mothers to breastfeed their babies so they have good teeth and bones. (Wednesday 8 May 2019; 02:32)

Re: Madonna's BBMA performance (89,503) (89,506) by Edward from USA If it's Mariah half-naked with a tit out at 60, it's ok, how dare you being ageist? If it's Madonna, Beyonce or Lady Gaga, the wrath of the lambs is unleashed. Hypocrisy much. (Wednesday 8 May 2019; 02:22)

Mariah vs Whitney (89,298) by Edward from USA At their peaks, Whitney had a more powerful voice, but Mariah was more versatile and an overall better singer. Whitney would've sung circles around Mariah because her voice would've drowned Mariah's, unless Mariah started hitting high notes left and right. While Whitney didn't create melodies like Mariah, she exuded confidence because she was in control of her instrument. She would stand there, and you knew girl was about to blow your wig away, with glue and all, that's why some women hated her. Mariah would get to you not only with her voice, but with her lyrics, the complexities of her melodies and her singing. Many sung Whitney's songs, but when some have tried those Mariah's songs that to the ear seem to be easy, they have struggled, big time. Jessica Sanchez on American Idol matched "I Will Always Love You" note for note, but when she tried "My All", she came to realization that you don't f with most Mariah's songs. Jennifer Lopez looked at her and said: I didn't know it was that difficult. Mariah was great, but she couldn't always matched her perfection in the studio, that's why she resulted to dubbing many performances that many now can't believe were dubbed because she was insecure. Mariah dubbed her performance with Pavarotti for example. I love me some Whitney, I loved her charisma, her confidence, her music, but her music didn't get to me as Mariah's did. As for Aretha and Patti, love them both, but I hate the screaming thing while singing. Some people might call it soulful, some might call it great, I just don't like it, unless you're Chaka Khan singing "Gotta Be There", only time, lol. Whitney's voice was powerful and clear, she never screamed, so, out of all of them, including Mariah, Whitney had the more powerful voice, Mariah had the best voice over all. (Wednesday 24 April 2019; 18:35)

Re: How are singles chosen? (89,099) (89,102) by Edward from USA Bye Bye was meant to be the next One Sweet Day with its universal theme. E=MC2's blessing and curse was the fact that mostly anything on it could've been a single. The critics hailed it as an album that played as if it was a greatest hits. I guess they had so many options that they ended up picking what they thought would connect with the audience, but following an old tired formula instead of what the people were feeling at the moment. Coming from the high of TEOM, E=MC2 showed a Mariah singing with confidence, without straining or anything to prove, she was actually feeling herself in the studio, like literally, lol. I loved I Stay In Love from the first listen, but it was definitely the first attempt a recreating We Belong Together. Weirdly enough was the fact that everybody talked about most of the songs on the album, but they never mentioned I Stay In Love, not even Mariah's people. I didn't surprise me though that it was released as a single. (Thursday 11 April 2019; 14:02)

Re: Caution 93k (89,094) (89,097) by Edward from USA Eric, please don't be sarcastic, last time you did that, B took a 3-hour break from the board. We almost die thinking he would be gone for a whole day. On a serious note: Caution is a great album, I actually can listen to it from beginning to end without skipping a track, a thing I can't say about TEOM, which is is far superior, but with some fillers. I just wish she had pushed herself vocally at least on a couple of tracks. I hope she doesn't wait another 4 years for another album. (Thursday 11 April 2019; 01:30)

Re: How are singles chosen? (89,086) (89,087) by Edward from USA Mariah definitely wanted Migrate released, that's not in question, but once Touch My Body was released, she and the label wanted to continue with the usual formula and it just didn't work, she never wanted Migrate as the second single, that's my point. I remember Migrate actually charted on the Hot 100 purely on sales, along with some other songs from the album just like Betcha Gon Know from Memoirs also charted. What kind of irks me here is the fact that some people keep saying Mariah wanted Migrate released right after TMB was released, when in reality she had her usual formula in mind: an up-tempo then a ballad. They thought Bye Bye would be a universal hit, but it just didn't connect with people like that. (Wednesday 10 April 2019; 13:46)

Re: How are singles chosen? (89,064) (89,081) by Edward from USA Back in 2008, Perez Hilton interviewed Mariah briefly, and he asked her if Migrate would the second single, to what she replied: "No darling, we've been doing this for years, I know what I'm doing." She answered that way because Perez kind of made it sound that Migrate wouldn't be a good choice as a second single. Saying Mariah wanted Migrate before Bye Bye to make Mariah looks good is insane to me. As you said, Mariah followed the same formula, and it just didn't work. Then she basically abandoned the project which I understand because of what was going on in her personal life. This notion that every time a single flops is because it was the label's pick is ridiculous. Mariah stopped being a puppet a long time ago. She's very much involved and in control of what she puts out, in too much control actually. E=MC2 is a great album full of potential hits, but the timing just wasn't right. L.A. Read was also the one who sent Mariah back in the studio to record We Belong Together and Shake If Off because he thought there was something missing. Some fans can't give credit to anybody other than Mariah these days. (Wednesday 10 April 2019; 01:49)

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