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Re: TMZ (62,547) (62,575) by ADAM from USA It appears Mariah is running away from her problems. I mean look at how fast she got together with James after Nick. You never see Mariah and James alone and when they're together they're with her entourage. What kind of fiancee puts up with that in the best moments of courtship? I think James will see the light before they get married. Mariah really traded one bad encourage for another set. At this point in her career and age I don't blame anyone for taking advantage of her - I think she's the problem and never addresses the issues within herself. She seems to continuously make decisions based on money and attention (American Idol, Virgin Records, reality TV to name a few, diva persona, etc). (Monday 23 May 2016; 16:47)

Re: Photoshoot (62,556) (62,574) by ADAM from USA I wouldn't read too much into this photoshoot. It could be publicity stills for the reality show or a magazine shoot. Mariah hasn't recorded any new music yet so I think it's farfetched to think it's for a new music project. (Monday 23 May 2016; 16:42)

Wendy Williams (62,573) by ADAM from USA Wendy announced today during the end of her interview with Andre Leon Talley that she was going to discuss with him behind the scenes his thoughts on what Lee Daniels said about Mariah doing reality TV. Wendy said she agreed with Lee and that she would air Andre's thoughts on the issue on the next show or the After Show (airs on her YouTube channel every afternoon). (Monday 23 May 2016; 16:41)

Re: The most overrated MC song and what's better (62,428) (62,435) by ADAM from USA Her most overrated songs are "Don't Forget About Us" and "Touch My Body". Both these songs are so dull and simplistic and repeats of former hits she's had in the past ("WBT"). I really wish "Slipping Away" was apart of the Daydream album and was performed in concert. It's easily one of her best songs of all-time. Amazing lyrics and vocal compositions. (Friday 20 May 2016; 16:17)

Re: Yes, you do know her (62,396) (62,414) by ADAM from USA I could not agree more with your post. I really so badly want to root for her but I feel like every promotional appearance and social media post is always drowned in pettiness and this over the top lavish lifestyle. It's like since she can't promote quality music or current music stats she gloats the world with her obnoxious lifestyle. I would not be surprised if the reason why she even dated James Packer in the first place because he's a billionaire and what better way to one up Nick Cannon and any other diva in the game than by bagging a billionaire. She seems completely lost in her excess lifestyle and has no friends outside of her manager and her managers teenage daughters. Very sad to watch another downfall of another music icon. (Thursday 19 May 2016; 23:45)

Re: Yes, you do know her (62,388) (62,390) by ADAM from USA I don't know why Andy didn't mention Jennifer's nice comment about Mariah from her first visit. Do you remember when Jennifer said she would like to be friends with Mariah and that anything that's been put out there in the press that's negative really hurts her feelings because she's always respected Mariah. She also said that My All was one of her favorites all-time songs. To me, that was such a beautiful and sincere expression that I don't think if Mariah was informed of that she would still harbor shade towards Jennifer. Mariah's recent appearance on WWHL didn't help bridge the gap between the two. I think by her not answering if she seems cool or not makes Mariah appear bitter and jealous. I think Mariah unfortunately nowadays has fully embodied the diva persona to where it's now longer an at but her personality. I really think she has become a shell of her former self in the worse way. Seeing her flinch and always prop her hair or lighting like a Barbie doll is so grating, I don't know how long James will put up with it. I think it's just a matter of time before the mystique of being with Mariah Carey wears off and the divadom sets in that this woman is lost and confused. (Thursday 19 May 2016; 16:26)

Re: Memoirs vs Rainbow (62,061) (62,065) by ADAM from USA I like your assessment of the 2 albums. I agree. I feel she's not adventurous outside of RnB and Hip Hop. It's like we get it. You love these 2 genres and will always make records in these veins however I think she needs to push herself and make bolder choices. Beyonce is a excellent example of this with Lemonade. She has a country song, clubs songs, introspective songs, and angry songs. I just feel Mariah repeats her own success time and time again and it's boring. She's has 2 great instruments (voice and songwriting) but needs to work with different producers to become challenged again and make different material. However I bet despite all our rantings she's working again with Big Jim Wright, JD, and Mike Will Made to name a few. Ughhh. (Thursday 12 May 2016; 21:27)

Re: Wendy interview (62,010) (62,018) by ADAM from USA I think with all the trash Wendy talks about Mariah it's purely business. If you've listened to the 2 radio interviews Wendy had with Mariah in NYC in 03 and 05, they clearly have a good rapport and love girl talk. Mariah gets Wendy's subliminal digs and throws shade right back at her. I just hope that whatever Mariah is promoting eventually makes it way to the Wendy show for a good interview. Fingers crossed. (Wednesday 11 May 2016; 20:56)

Re: GLAAD award (61,622) (61,630) by ADAM from USA I'm actually surprised she's getting this award. She's so vague in her direct support for gays and treads the line to not overtly say that her Christian values conflicts with her gay fanbase. But on the other side of it, I know all award shows including this GLAAD event are all stunts created by big PR machines who pay large sums of money for an image re-hauling. Just brace yourself for another "look inside yourself" speech filled with the same antidotes she always uses about the 2 gay men who babysat for her when she was young and how much she always felt like an outside or not pretty growing up. Personally, I feel that her career has been fueled and sustained by the love and devotion largely from her gay fanbase. With all the money we've spent watching her shows and buying her music we deserve more than a vague IG post for marriage equality or an image of a gay couple in the video for IWTKWLI. She could be another gay iconic diva like Bette Midler or Cher or Barbra Streisand if she wanted too but clearly she rather count her money and not rock the boat. Meanwhile, she employs a house full of gay men including her hair dresser and makeup artist to her stylist and former tour manager. Such a shame. [Webmaster: Antidotes? Don't you mean anecdotes?] (Monday 25 April 2016; 23:38)

Re: Mariah (61,600) (61,602) by ADAM from USA I could not agree more with you comments. I love her so much but feel sad that she lost her way to vanity and smoke and mirrors. I feel the Mariah we've been accustomed to since the Glitter breakdown is a shell of what she used to be. Her smiles seemed plastered on and her music is uninspired. I'll continue supporting her if she creates substantial music but will always yern for the musician she once was inside. The constant shady comments and skimpy outfits are all that seems to fuel her nowadays. (Monday 25 April 2016; 3:04)

Re: Stella takes her antics up a notch (60,885) (60,886) by ADAM from USA I also don't like Stella's increased involvement in Mariah's personal affairs from the outside looking in. I also find it disturbing that Mariah is constantly photographed with Stella pre-teen daughter and never with anyone of her peers or anyone that isn't on payroll. Its like Mariah has no real friends. If it's not Stella and her daughters it's her makeup artist and hair team. It's really sad. Mariah needs to separate the two because it's eluding her judgement and inability to listen to the streets to hear what people are really saying about her and what's going on in the world. Something doesn't seem right this era. (Monday 28 March 2016; 23:59)

Re: Do you think of me (60,534) (60,542) by ADAM from USA That's an excellent observation. Her current voice would go great with Do You Think Of Me or Slipping Away or The Wind. Anyone of those songs without any backup tracks live would be all any lamb would need to be fully satisfied. One can hope right? Lol. (Thursday 17 March 2016; 23:36)

Re: The London show (60,522) (60,541) by ADAM from USA A duet or new song with another adult contemporary artist would be amazing. Just think how nice it would be if she recorded a song with Elton John or George Michael. I would just die. Maybe since she was at Elton's Oscar party they talked about new music together. That would be legendary. (Thursday 17 March 2016; 23:34)

Backup singers - male vs female (60,504) by ADAM from USA Does anyone remember when Mariah first came on the scene she sang exclusively with 3 male singers? I wonder why she doesn't anymore. Personally when I watch old clips of her performing with the guys I like their harmonies better than when MC uses Trey and the other 2 ladies. Does anyone else have the same/different opinion? (Wednesday 16 March 2016; 23:29)

Re: Sweet Sweet Fantasy (60,494) (60,503) by ADAM from USA I agree. How amazing would it have been to hear Slipping Away or Do You Think of Me? She's been performing the same songs for too many years that she can perform regularly fan favorite songs not in a interlude or medley. I also wish she would sing entire songs live and not from audio recordings. I don't care if she sounds raspy, but I cringe every time there's a change in tone from her vocals because she relies on the studio tracks. What do you think? (Wednesday 16 March 2016; 23:22)

Re: Sweet Sweet Fantasy (60,490) (60,500) by ADAM from USA I wish she would perform obscure songs like Sent From Up Above, Alone In Love, Can't Let Go, Till The End of Time, and CryBaby to name a few. She always plays around with quoting these songs but never strays away from the same ol' setlist. I will say performing LoverBoy and When You Believe was amazing and surprising so I am very happy about that, but it's always good to expect more from her, otherwise why bother at all? Everyone has seen her perform her greatest hits to ad-nauseum. (Wednesday 16 March 2016; 21:09)

Re: Sweet Sweet Fantasy (60,481) (60,489) by ADAM from USA I really love Mariah's shorter haircut and brighter color. My first wish was for her original brown color and curls but this is a good alternative for now. I don't like her JLo-esque body suits. It's funny because lambs always claim JLo copies Mariah, but I think her wearing these bodysuits are the most overt way of coping a style that while isn't new is widely popularized by JLo. Mariah's weight loss looks great but let's be real and call it like it is - Mariah does not have a tight, toned dancer's body so should leave those costumes for JLo and Beyonce. (Wednesday 16 March 2016; 15:29)

Re: In Rainbow's defense (59,776) (59,820) by ADAM from USA I really agree with all your points about Rainbow. I love the original Heartbreaker version over the remix - the bouncy Tom Tom club sample and Jay'Z's verse with Mariah harmonizing in the background and of course her layered high notes at the close of the song always do it for me. Other gems include Crybaby (which perfectly infuses her playful wordplay and vivid story-telling and her ad-libs with her scratchy voice which gives this track a great texture as if she's up late and can't sleep) and Bliss (dreamy lush vocals and high notes really display what an amazing gift she has) and Against All Odds (great power ballad). However for these few gems, I hated the fact she tried to obviously clone previous hits from her own catalog and other radio hits - My All/After Tonight, Hero/CTTA and No Scrubs/X-Girlfriend. I also hated Did I Do That and TGIFY for their lazy compositions and lyrics. I get that this album was rushed and there was chaos internally at Sony however I can't help but feel that if she held onto the great tracks here and really sprinkled her Mariah magic onto this record again what would have transpired. Overall, this record was the beginning of Mariah creating sub-par work and where I started to feel disappointed in the material she started to create. This is one album I never play from start to finish. (Wednesday 17 February 2016; 15:30)

Re: Mariah's team (59,310) (59,321) by ADAM from USA I think Stella and her daughters are around Mariah 24/7 by Mariah's request. I think it's weird considering she's in a romantic relationship with James to always have her paid entourage around her everywhere. It's like she's co-dependent and I think that's even good for a long-term relationship to be so secluded in your celebrity to not have private time with your lover. It's very strange but no different than when Rachel and her daughter were always around Mariah for many years. Mariah seems to always have long-term mainstays with her until there not anymore. On a separate note, does anyone know if Mariah is still friends with Jasmine anymore? I don't remember seeing her in Aspen or with Mariah in a long-time? (Monday 25 January 2016; 16:09)

Re: Andrew possessed by the spirit of a positive lamb? (59,100) (59,108) by ADAM from USA I agree with your comments. While I will still watch and root for Mariah to succeed if she puts out quality music, I currently feel she still does not have that spark or drive she had from her periods in her life. I'm not expecting the same drive as when she came on the scene in 1990, but I feel like she is phoning it in with the least amount of effort. I am quite surprised that the Mariah today is the same woman who said repetedly that she wouldn't sell out and that her music was her saving grace. This image she's created and perpetuates of being out of touch and uberly wealthy and flaunting her billionaire boyfriend is really quite the detour. It just feels like she's really sold her integrity. In short, I think she's amazingly talented and I'm appreciative of her back catalog of music that's she's left us for a lifetime but at the same time I feel like she's just cashing out on her fans for more money when she no longer puts out a quality product. This includes her robotic lip sync Vegas shows and inability to change her setlist whenever she performs elsewhere. (Friday 15 January 2016; 14:30)

Wendy Williams (59,017) by ADAM from USA Wendy rehearses Hot Topics before they go live every morning which is why there are pictures to coincide with her commentary. I am a fan of both WW and MC. I saw her recent comments about MC and I didn't take it negatively. I interpreted her comments as MC would be able to get away with excuses because she has built her image around her being super glamorous and girly and one that would be prone to making excuses. WW has said many times throughout her radio and TV career how much of a legend MC is when the timing is appropriate. WW has always made it known that there are 2 voices in music: Whitney and Mariah. To me, WW is a fan and gets paid to gossip on TV, this is her brand. Mariah knows this and enjoys Wendy. Just YouTube her epic radio interview during the Mimi era and you can easily see Mariah had a ball. She was fun and diva and camp and both ladies revealed things they never had before. Mariah also name dropped Wendy in TMB. I thinks it's all love and respect between the two ladies. Mariah knows that any publicity is good publicity even when ones talk trash for a living. I just think that MC will go on Wendy once she ever decides to marry James because she knows Wendy likes to dip for dirt so once she's tied down she knows there's no Nick drama to find up. Does anyone els share my thoughts? (Sunday 10 January 2016; 15:33)

Re: Mariah's projects (58,117) (58,118) by ADAM from USA I just read that in the Hallmark movie Lacey and Mariah are supposedly old classmates who meet once again as depicted in the clip where Mariah shows off her wedding ring. When I read that this morning I instantly moaned and gained. I can't believe Mariah is delusional to really expect the general public to buy into the fact that some 40 year old woman like herself is convincing enough to really play alongside Lacey as old classmates. I really think this movie should have been casted as Mariah playing a mentor role and her playing "Regina George" from Mean Girls. This blunder will be added to Glitter for roles she should leave to professional actors. Mariah doesn't have the talent as an actress to convincingly play anyone but herself and she's too vain to even be filmed in the standard lighting and angles as everyone else. (Tuesday 1 December 2015; 0:44)

Re: Travis (58,077) (58,096) by ADAM from USA I would love it if Mariah did a MTV Unplugged show again to commemorate her first groundbreaking album. How great would that be for her to perform each song with a live band and listen to her commentary about the making of each song and how she adapts the runs throughout each song on her debut album with her current voice. The general public all knows Mariah has talent and could sing but I think to your point, the conversation among many people now is that she commonly lip synced and cheats parts of songs live. That's my wish. She's has an incredible catalog of songs I would love to hear live and stripped own. What's your take? (Sunday 29 November 2015; 23:00)

Re: Stiff (58,038) (58,075) by ADAM from USA I couldn't agree more with your statements. Mariah is very stiff and boring in all her interviews. There's no spontineity or reliability with her and I also question why with her career at a low these last few years are her projects all lackluster? I feel she's always passing the buck on someone or something else and doesn't own up to her shortcomings. I think Tommy and Walter were super instrumental to her earlier success and it's ashamed after many years she still won't work with either in any capacity. I think she's at a place professionally where no one checks her and the only people around her are on payroll so they are all yes people. Unfortunately, like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, when she passes away the world will be flooded with stories from background singers, assistants, makeup team, coming out the woodworks with all these stories about how Mariah was deluded and out of control yet when she's actually living now no one is coming to her rescue nor giving her a reality check. (Sunday 29 November 2015; 2:48)

Re: Current Mariah (57,999) (58,010) by ADAM from USA I feel the same way. I was hoping for this latest round of press to get to know her more but it's always the same script - how glamorous her life is and how much of a legend she is. Very boring and pretentious. I don't know why anyone thinks that makes someone more endearing or relatable. I just wish Mariah would drop the diva antics and allow herself to become reliable more. I don't blame her team because Mariah has the power to hire and fire anyone so IMO her image and questions she gets asked are a result of her asking. (Friday 27 November 2015; 0:06)

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