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Happy anniversary (97,703) by Gee from U.S.A. (New York City) Happy anniversary to the incomparable musical genius that is Mariah. Wishing you many more blessings, and continued success. I pray that you are around positive energy that brings you peace and joy. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 20:33)

Happy birthday Mariah (97,702) by John john from UK Many happy returns Mimi. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 20:07)

Re: Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,698) (97,701) by Aliya from Canada Happy Anniversary Mariah! Thank you for sharing your voice with us, and using it to lift our spirits, brighten our days and touch our hearts. I hope you and your kids stay healthy and happy. You will forever be the best singer of all time. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 19:55)

Happy bday Mimi (97,700) by RibbonB from USA Happy day to Mariah. I hope she and the kids have an awesome time. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 19:25)

Happy Anniversary (97,699) by Jono from USA Happy Anniversary Mariah! Thank you for all these years, and here's to many more. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 17:10)

Re: Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,696) (97,698) by MusicfanJ from Germany Happy Birthday Mariah. Yes, I Know you don't count numbers but I wish you all the best for your day. Stay happy and healthy and enjoy the festive "anniversary". All the lambs around the world will celebrate you and your wonderful music. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 16:14)

H.Anniv (97,697) by Lady B from USA Happy Anniversary, Mariah. I hope you're enjoying it with loved ones. Your Lambs love you! (Saturday 27 March 2021; 15:48)

Happy Anniversary Mariah (97,696) by Special K from USA Happy Anniversary Mariah. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 14:16)

Mimi's Anniversary (97,695) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Happy Anniversary to the greatest musician of all time. Thank you for gifting us with your masterpieces, for being the soundtrack of my life, for being a trendsetter and a trailblazer, for those diva moments that I live for and for being an inspiration. Thanks for also enriching my vocabulary with your lyrics haha. You’re a gem Mariah, keep shining. Stay triumphant my hero. (Saturday 27 March 2021; 09:01)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,686) (97,694) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines First off, happy anniversary to the legend, the reason we're all here. Love Jimmy and Terry. They're very versatile producers. Just look at Janet Jackson's post-Control output (except Discipline - they had no hand in that); it shows their versatility as producers; dabbling in and mixing different genres to the expected brilliant R&B and pop fare and how they go into rock, bossa nova, country, opera and even canto-pop and middle-eastern sounds from Asia when they're feeling experimental. Their production is very textured, layered and really meticulously done - not even their least impressive work ever sounds lazy. Also, no one else pulls off rainy, thunderous quiet storm tracks like they can. My issue with them, though, is that they seem to always (and at times, only) work the best with Janet, and that all of their collaborations with other artists, while competent, usually fail to live up to what they do with her. Now this isn't to diminish Janet's input at all - if anything, she's most probably the reason why their team works so well together, like Givenchy's partnership with Audrey Hepburn in fashion terms. It's just that Janet seems to get the best of the heap, and whatever isn't used is repurposed for other artists. Even at the height of their popularity as producers, their most effective usage of new jack swing (and that genre as a whole) was with Janet. Michael himself was inspired by the hard-edged industrial sound of Rhythm Nation 1814 that it influenced him to shift gears with Dangerous and his future output, even sampling one of her tracks in their duet Scream. Whatever new sound they have is usually premiered to the world through Janet's material before it is redone for someone else. Take their work with Mariah for example. None of the tracks they've done with her sound innovative, let alone measure up to Miss You Much, That's The Way Love Goes, When I Think Of You, Runaway, If, I Get Lonely, All For You, All Nite, No Sleeep, Together Again, Come Back To Me, etc. Their work on Rainbow and Charmbracelet not only sound too similar (that they basically can be interchangeable if not for the difference in Mariah's vocals) but also more noticeably sound dated compared to their work in The Velvet Rope and All For You, respectively, despite the Janet albums being 2 years older than the Mariah ones. I hope they give Mariah something fresh this time around. And if they give her Janet's (or their other muses') scraps, then they better be damn good outtakes. But hey, anything over a predictably faceless JD collaboration is a much more preferred these days, right? (Saturday 27 March 2021; 08:50)

Re: We Belong Together 2022 (97,688) (97,693) by Warren from Trinidad & Tobago You meant the level of success of WBT right? Because she has tried to recreate that too many times over. She should go for something totally new, fresh and that would surprise and make people talk, while still keeping that "Mimi" sound and vocals. Just my 2 cents. (Friday 26 March 2021; 20:17)

Dream (97,692) by Lafa from Sweden Dream: Mariah's entire catalogue is released acapella for public for remixing. It would be an era of nothing else than art. Just look what We BeLamb Together on YouTube did for an album. Nice try woman, but there's little out go gasp for in terms of this. Sadly. (Friday 26 March 2021; 20:07)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,684) (97,691) by Horacio from United States The first album I heard was Butterfly because it was part of my father’s massive CD collection; I was 13 years old. It was mid-1999. Second time I had heard of Mariah (I was an immigrant from a non-English speaking country). My first CD that I purchased from MC was #1s. I was astonished that this woman had so many no. 1 hits. I was hooked. I purchased Rainbow in November 1999, and from then on worked my way backwards Daydream > Music Box > MTV > Emotions > Mariah Carey. I can’t recall when exactly I purchased Merry Christmas, but I know for sure I already owned it by December 2000. (Friday 26 March 2021; 18:11)

Re: Mariah "Care One Child" (97,682) (97,690) by Edward from USA "One Child" was also an instant favorite for me. Her writing on it was reminiscence of her old school stuff. It was evident she was working with a real musician. (Friday 26 March 2021; 14:16)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,686) (97,689) by T from USA I agree with JD. I think that ship has sailed, unless it's one track that is undeniably good, the rest should be left off the album. Does anyone know why Mariah has never been in the studio with Dallas Austin? He seems like the cooler producer version of JD. His ties with LA Reid and the fact that he's done incredible work with TCL, Boyz II Men, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Janet make me think he would be right up her alley. He's also from her 90's generation. The only thing I can think of is that maybe when he was at the height of producing Mariah's husband didn't want her in the studio with him (although she did have JD in 1995). On a side note, Mariah's second husband starred in a movie based on Dallas Austin's life, Drumline. (Friday 26 March 2021; 14:03)

We Belong Together 2022 (97,688) by Bobby A from United States I am sitting here thinking who could collaborate with MC this year and give her WBT 2022. I could only think of two songwriters who would nail it. Jazmine Sullivan and Finneas are the only two songwriters. I hope that she is trying to recreate the magic that TEOM gave her but with a more current sound. (Friday 26 March 2021; 03:33)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,685) (97,687) by Justin from United States Imagine if she was finally recording a studio version of Just Be Good to Me. They did produce it originally. (Friday 26 March 2021; 02:36)

Re: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,685) (97,686) by Leo from LAMBville I think it is exciting for Mariah to be working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis again, however I do hope MC16 goes in multiple directions or has sequencing like "Butterfly" did. I personally hope we don't get an entire album of JD and Mariah "Y'all know what this is", I love Jermaine but his gimmick is old and really tired of hearing how he doesn't get his flowers. He is an amazing writer/producer but he will never have the level of fame he feels he deserves. Him deserving it or not is not the statement; his belief on how people should see him is what low key annoys me. Not to start a debate over how well they work together we already know that; just my personal opinion. Here are the songs Mariah has worked with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis: Against All Odds Bliss Can't Take That Away I Didn't Mean to Turn You On Never To Far Petals Reflections Thank God I Found You Through The Rain Twister Want You Yours Did I miss any? (Thursday 25 March 2021; 19:30)

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (97,685) by Bobby A from United States The fact that MC has been in the studio with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis gives clue to the type of sound she is going for with MC16. (Thursday 25 March 2021; 16:23)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,681) (97,684) by Stacey from USA I kinda went backwards too. First got Music Box then the debut and Unplugged. Then got Emotions. (Thursday 25 March 2021; 01:55)

Re: Mariah "Care One Child" (97,679) (97,682) by Stacey from USA Ahh Eddie, you're a funny guy. I just hit reply. Blame the other guy. (Wednesday 24 March 2021; 02:46)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,678) (97,681) by The Real Deal from USA That's funny how you thought that "I'll Be There" was on "Emotions" because I thought that "Emotions" was her first album because my father would play the "Emotions" album and the debut album back to back on car rides, and always in that order of playing the "Emotions" album first. So in my mind, I thought "Emotions" came out first lmao. (Tuesday 23 March 2021; 22:34)

Re: Mariah on DNice Instagram Live (97,676) (97,680) by We are lambily from USA Yeah I saw it, Mariah is also working with Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis again, for those of you who don't know, they worked with Mariah on the amazing Yours song. And she will be celebrating her anniversary Saturday with him on his live, and she invited all of her lambs. Keyword: Lambs. (Tuesday 23 March 2021; 22:18)

Re: Mariah "Care One Child" (97,674) (97,679) by Edward from USA "Care One Child", was that a bonus track I didn't know anything about? (Tuesday 23 March 2021; 20:18)

Re: Recounting the first bought album experience (97,660) (97,678) by TJ from Norway My first was her debut album in 1990 on CD. The next one was the EP in 1992. I bought Emotions after that and was convinced that I'll Be There was on that album. I remember that I ordered the album in a music club (Scandinavian Music Club). It's like a million years ago. (Tuesday 23 March 2021; 20:10)

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