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About Bill from the UK: I love Mariah more than you do. London Daydream Tour Attendee.

Re: Caution (91,658) (91,670) by Bill from the UK But let's not dance around the obvious here. Mariah returns to the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic with an amazing song every year. This proves that all she needs to be a top ten artist again is a brilliant song. To be blunt, her last few albums have been absolutely fine, but there's not been any "wow" song. No Fantasy. No Heartbreaker. No We Belong Together (but plenty of imitations). She's got it in her to knock it out the park as she proves every year, but she opts to instead tell us to GTFO and then follows that with yet another carbon copy of a 15 year old song. Caution was a good album but I doubt it will be remembered like the string of albums Music Box through to Butterfly and then Emancipation. But we are where we are and we love everybody. (Monday 16 December 2019; 19:09)

Re: AIWFCIY with Whitney Houston (91,660) (91,668) by Bill from the UK I was just about to post this. Came up on my recommendations. I love the whistles at the end, sounds brilliant. (Monday 16 December 2019; 19:02)

Re: Look at the lambs (91,631) (91,644) by Bill from the UK Just be careful you don't put your signature jinx on things though (remember how Caution was going to outsell Thriller?). Don't tempt fate. Just enjoy the song's ride and hope that it gets what it deserves. If it doesn't, then so be it. (Sunday 15 December 2019; 10:22)

Re: Millennials (91,637) (91,641) by Bill from the UK Can we please stop talking about millennials. (Saturday 14 December 2019; 23:20)

Mariah In the UK (91,622) by Bill from the UK Mariah has climbed from number 8 to number 6 this week. (Friday 13 December 2019; 22:42)

AIWFCIY thesis (91,593) by Bill from the UK I swear I could write a thesis on this song and how good it is. I was listening to the unearthed extended version and who else has noticed this? The first head voice "you" as the song's crescendo is one note (with an embellishment at the end). The next "you" has a little trill at the beginning, making it two notes ending with an embellishment. The next one (the last you hear on the record) has two "trills", then the next one (extended version) has "three". For each "trill" she adds at the beginning of the note, the same amount of bars have passed in the song. She then ends with a straight "you", as per the opening of the outro. Is that not incredible musicianship? (Wednesday 11 December 2019; 19:38)

Re: Just a streaming tidbit (91,577) (91,578) by Bill from the UK I don't think it counts as it is done per account, isn't it? Otherwise everyone could manipulate the charts. Hope you have a generous data allowance lol. It's different from how it was in 2001 when Loverboy entered the chart at 4,528 and lambs went nuts being [sic] multiple copies of the single to help her out. You were purchasing the damn thing so no one cares. And then it got discounted to 1 cent and rocketed up the charts. Lolz. (Tuesday 10 December 2019; 14:29)

Re: #3 (91,561) (91,567) by Bill from the UK This is great news, especially as its peak week at Christmas is still to come. I have everything crossed for a 19th number one. None of her songs has ever been more deserving or more universally loved. Midweek positioning in the UK has her climbing from 8 to 5. (Monday 9 December 2019; 22:55)

Re: AIWFCIY midweek update (91,542) (91,545) by Bill from the UK And hot off the press, now the end of week UK chart has been released and she has catapulted into the top ten and is now at number 8. (Friday 6 December 2019; 21:48)

AIWFCIY midweek update (91,542) by Bill from the UK On the UK singles chart, Mariah has risen from 39 to 17 in the midweek positioning. (Friday 6 December 2019; 17:25)

Re: Oh Santa (91,529) (91,530) by Bill from the UK Yeh but she promoted Crapfinity with Vision of Love and that still tanked (and rightly so). (Thursday 5 December 2019; 16:21)

Re: Bored as hell (91,524) (91,525) by Bill from the UK It's a cultural thing though. Japanese audiences are always very reserved. The Tokyo Done concert is great, but the European leg of the tour was a hundred times better. Hero in London is the best performance of that song she has ever given in her entire life. (Wednesday 4 December 2019; 22:22)

Re: AIWFCIY live at Tokyo Dome (91,514) (91,515) by Bill from the UK All Mariah's concerts were captured for posterity. If it was filmed then the film itself can easily be upgraded to HD quality. I was at the Daydream tour in London and they had tripods set up in front of the stage to film it, though no professional footage of that concert has ever emerged. (Wednesday 4 December 2019; 00:57)

Re: Laundry machine (91,507) (91,510) by Bill from the UK Lol at Webmaster. Savage. (Tuesday 3 December 2019; 17:10)

Re: Guinness World Records (91,462) (91,499) by Bill from the UK It's already her signature song. (Monday 2 December 2019; 17:57)

Re: Article: All I Want voted most annoying holiday song (91,497) (91,498) by Bill from the UK Indeed. My brother hates Mariah (more out of sibling necessity than anything) and always says he can't stand the song, yet I've seen him when he didn't know I was watching listening to the song with a smile on his face just like everybody else in the world does. (Monday 2 December 2019; 15:58)

Re: AIWFCIY is on 26 in the German charts (91,485) (91,487) by Bill from the UK Number 34 in the UK this week (up from 59 the previous week). I'm so excited. (Saturday 30 November 2019; 21:27)

Re: Mariah's Christmas concert performances (91,483) (91,484) by Bill from the UK Why you mad Licia? Hehe. Agree her vocals have been great from the clips I've seen. Maybe she finally loosened that damn corset. (Saturday 30 November 2019; 14:57)

Re: O Holy Night (91,477) (91,478) by Bill from the UK Agree, no one has ever sung it better and nobody ever will. Even my dad loves her rendition of it, and he can't stand her lol. I was playing it in the car when I was driving him home and he was like "I figured she'd sing this song well. She was made to sing songs like this" and I kind of agree with him. A voice like hers should be singing O Holy Night rather than "you're acting so corny like Fritos". We love life. (Thursday 28 November 2019; 23:39)

Re: O Holy Night (91,471) (91,474) by Bill from the UK I think because the studio version is absolutely perfect, anything else would seem inferior. (Wednesday 27 November 2019; 18:25)

Re: The Star live (91,457) (91,460) by Bill from the UK That's a great video and performance, love her interaction with her children at the end. It's so clear how much they all adore each other. (Monday 25 November 2019; 10:09)

Re: BOTH (91,456) (91,459) by Bill from the UK Completely agree, it is much better than the original, and I love the Jackson 5, but Mariah's voice, Trey, the fact it's live, and the atmosphere of the thing really do elevate it to a level that the original can't get to. (Monday 25 November 2019; 10:03)

Re: Slipping Away (91,455) (91,458) by Bill from the UK Same here, but if you switch to landscape mode the link appears. On my phone at least (Google Pixel 3). (Monday 25 November 2019; 10:02)

Re: Slipping Away (91,451) (91,453) by Bill from the UK Check out this website's very own huge discography section to answer that question. Slipping Away was only ever put out as a B-side to the Always Be My Baby CD single in the US, and the Open Arms CD single in Australia. To the best of my knowledge it never appeared on any European releases of either single, which is massively unfair, nor did it appear on any vinyl releases. I remember knowing about the song during the early days of the Internet, and how I used to read the lyrics online and wonder what it sounded like. Then, in HMV one sunny Saturday afternoon, I saw the Australian import CD of Open Arms, with the blue filtered cover. I almost passed it by, thinking it would mirror the "blue version" of the UK CD single, but when I picked up the little card sleeve and turned it over in my hand, imagine my shock to see that it had Slipping Away and the Spanish version of Open Arms on it. My dirty mitts grabbed it off the shelf so fast, I was like lightning. My heart was pounding and I started to sweat, Had I fallen so deep in my daydreams that I was imagining it? I couldn't believe my luck. I ditched my friends and used the money I had for the cinema to buy the CD (import singles were about £8, which was really expensive back then), and ran all the way home and then listened to it all weekend. Still one of my faves to this day. (Sunday 24 November 2019; 10:59)

Re: BOTH (91,449) (91,452) by Bill from the UK Matty, you forgot the first and fairest of them all - I'll Be There. By far and away her best cover in my opinion. (Sunday 24 November 2019; 10:51)

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