Mariah Carey: Official Topic

[Nikosn17]

Actually Up Out My Face should be the next single imo. Not the best song on the album but from a commercial point of you it'll be a hit...

[Lymon]

Actually Up Out My Face should be the next single imo. Not the best song on the album but from a commercial point of you it'll be a hit...

 

Oh yeah, commercially it's very strong and i'm sure it'll do well. I just hate it, personally.

[celinesounds]

My fav till now

 

Betcha gon know

Out My Face

HATEU

IKWLI

Obsessed

[Nikosn17]

Mariah to perform on The Today Show Oct. 2 !

 

MC fans, mark your calendars! On Friday, October 2, Mariah will bring her brand new single I Want To Know What Love Is to The Today Show! The 4 song performance is currently scheduled to take place outdoors at the Rockefeller Plaza outside the NBC Studios in New York City.

Source: MC.com

 

Mariah to perform on The View Oct. 2 !

 

The show will be taped on Monday Sept. 28 (not confirmed)

 

Source: MC.com

 

[Black Kitten]

GLOBAL GRIND. com REVIEW

 

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By Fawn Renee

 

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Some artists get better with time. There are others whose shine slowly dwindles with each album, and then there are those timeless artists that are born to be stars (clap for em). Mariah Carey straddles the line of the latter two, though her album sales and accolades would have one thinking otherwise. Under the guidance of Columbia Records executive, and then husband, Tommy Mottola, Carey made her recording debut in 1990 with the release of her self-titled album Mariah Carey. That day marked the beginning of what would be the best decade of her career. Beauty, congeniality, sex appeal were all on her side, but it was her voice that would be her crowning glory.

 

Fast forward to the new millennium, Carey hit a new plateau in 2005 with the release of the Grammy Award winning album The Emancipation of Mimi, which became the best-selling album of that year, and Carey's best since the 1995 release of Daydream, thanks largely in part, to its heavy Hip-Hop influence. Numbers don't lie, but sometimes studio electronics can. While Carey may have topped the charts, her -at one point- incomparable talent had been muted for album sales. It would appear Carey had traded in vocal coaching for glitter, spandex and a new "hood card."

 

For those longing for the days when Mariah Carey's name was synonymous with unending talent and power, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel offers a semi trip back to those halcyon days. The album's first single, "Obsessed," tells the tale of a desperate man fabricating stories of she and him, due to his obsession with her. Despite her denials to the contrary, it is widely believed that the subject of the song is rapper Eminem.

 

The two have been verbally sparring for a few years now and the track comes across as a discrete diss record as the R&B diva explains "You a mom and pop; I'm corporation. I'm the press conference; you a conversation." Despite its commercial success, thanks to a feature by Gucci Mane, Carey opened up a can of worms with the song's release causing a lethal retaliation by Eminem. On his song "The Warning," Em states warns the singer, "%!@%!, shut the f**k up before I put all them phone calls out you made to my house when you was wild n out, before Nick."

 

The album, almost entirely produced by writer/producer/artist Terius The-Dream Nash and his counterpart Tricky Stewart, is saturated with melodic, infectious love songs with the duo's signature stamp on it. "Ribbon," "Inseparable" and "Standing O" are all head-nodding tracks, inclusive of The-Dream's production foundation of heavy synthesizers, throbbing 808s, ephemeral bass lines and vacillating hi-hats.

 

"Up Out My Face" is a radio-friendly hit with its ballsy lyrics and in-the-pocket groove. On the fun-loving track, Carey playfully exclaims, "If we were two Lego blocks, not even the Harvard University graduating class of 3010 couldn't put us back together again!" The reprise, which features a live marching band playing over the track, brings the integrity of the song down considerably.

 

On "More Than Just Friends," Dream and Stewart play with the Notorious B.I.G. sample from "One More Chance" effortlessly, while Carey flirtatiously engages her crush with promising glimpses of their future. While not a song of representative of her full vocal aptitude, it does its job to add to the fluidity of the album.

 

The ballads, while superior for today's standards, are a far cry from the ballads present on Music Box or Daydream. "Angels Cry" is a heart-wrenching track about losing love. It's undoubtedly the album's big ballad, where Carey boldly reclaims her title as a vocal powerhouse and showcases the authenticity that fans first encountered in 1990. Similarly, Carey's graceful cover of rock band, Foreigner's, 1985 hit "I Want To Know What Love Is," resurrects Carey's churchy vocals, complete with her blaring whistle register riffs.

 

Despite some flaws, such as the simplistic lyrics and one-dimensional production style, the album is sure to be another hit for Carey, giving old and new fans something to look forward to. Makes one wonder how much better the album could have been if the songs she worked on with producers Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri had made the final track listing. Even still, void of the cornrows, skimpy dresses and rap hall of fame, this album provides an introspective look at Carey's growth as a person and an artist. Yes the angel is imperfect, but she still has wings.

 

- 4 out of 5 stars.

[Prince Whiskers]

Best tracks: Betcha, It's A Wrap

 

BUT.... The Mystic Cat can't get Ribbon out of his dainty head.

 

YES... Up Out My Face is a single waiting to happen.

 

Angels Cry is beautiful but also kinda boring.

[Nikosn17]

Best tracks: Betcha, It's A Wrap

 

BUT.... The Mystic Cat can't get Ribbon out of his dainty head.

 

YES... Up Out My Face is a single waiting to happen.

 

Angels Cry is beautiful but also kinda boring.

 

What do you think about HATEU? It's my favorite. Btw I really like the ending of Ribbon how it goes from really hard to sweet.

[Black Kitten]

Best tracks: Betcha, It's A Wrap

 

BUT.... The Mystic Cat can't get Ribbon out of his dainty head.

 

YES... Up Out My Face is a single waiting to happen.

 

Angels Cry is beautiful but also kinda boring.

 

ooohh the Mystic Cat has been Mimified. couldn't be happier!

 

[Black Kitten]

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel's album notes:

 

Hebrews 10:35:36 - So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

 

To my fans, everytime I can't go on you brighten up and reign for me. Then I open my eyes. I cherish you more than the world could ever comprehend and no one can ever take that away from us.

 

Special thanks to: Nick my soul mate for all your love and support...I love You will all my heart, KKLB!!! Lots of love to my mother Patricia Carey and entire family. To my father, Alfred Roy Carey, rest in peace. To my Maroon management team, Louise McNally, Michael Richardson,, & Gina Rainville. To Chris Lighty & the Violator management team and to Eric Wong & Connie Filippello.

 

Lots of love to MaryAnn, Rachel, Sade, Sherry, Trey Lorenz, Brat, Feen, Kristen, Billy Dean & Miles, Jasmine, Karen G., Joan & Allen, Blair, Kris, Roque & Brigitte, Rhonda, Erik Bradley, Brett Ratner and of coarse... Jack the wonder dog and his kinfolk J.J. & Cha Cha!

 

To the producers... I thank you for the heat. Tricky, Dream, JD, Big Jim Wright, and of course Randy Jackson. Thanks to Jaycen-Joshua Fowler, and Dave Pensado & a big thank you to Brian Garten and Phil Tan.

 

Thanks to Rob Light and everyone at CAA. Thanks to Ron Nash, Rosemarie Passerino & everyone at Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman. Thank you Allen Grubman, Joe Brenner, Sonya Guardo, & the entire team at Grubman, Indursky & Shire.

 

To Doug Morris, thank you for always believing in me. Thank you to LA Reid for your guidance and friendship. Thanks to my entire IDJ team for all your hard work: Steve Bartels, Karen Kwak, Laura Swanson, Garret Schaefer, Mark DiDia, Benny Pough, Erik Oleson, Thomas Lytle, Pecas, Rick Sackheim, Rich Westover, Mike Chester, Noah Sheer and the entire radio promo team, Jim Roppo, Russell Fink, Sam Dailey, Dough Cohen, Gabby Peluso, Erika Montes, Jenya Meggs, Matt Voss, Jacki Spillane, Christian Jorg, Ali Schlueter, Jazmine Valencia, Grace Miguel, Kris Yiengst, JP Robinson, Andy West, Jeff Straughn, Dre Wright, Jen Mulvihill, Dave King, Amy Hartman, Scott Marcus, Leesa Brunson, Joey Arbagey, Sandie Smith, ira Fronk, Joe Borrino, Steve Gawley, Michael Seltzer, Antoinette Trotman, Ian Allen, Donna Fetchko, Tara Bryan, Elise Mora, & Carol Corless.

 

This album is dedicated in loving memory to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and to my Pastor and Spiritual Father, Bishop Clarence Keaton of True Worship Worldwide.

[Black Kitten]

Booklet scans with full lyrics

 

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Thanks to arnaudor @ FOMM and Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel @ PMB

[Black Kitten]

Slant Magazine Album Review

 

Mariah Carey has always had a way with words. Despite unlikely pop-song vocabulary like "alienation" appearing in hits like "Vision of Love," her lyrics started out relatively simple. Love takes time. You've got me feeling emotions. Dreamlover, come rescue me. But right around the time she dived out of Tommy Mottola's mansion and into the deep end (of the pool) in her music video for "Honey," Mariah's increasingly multisyllabic language started to feel like compensation for her progressively regressive image-and undoubtedly sent her young fans running for their dictionaries. The album titles, of course, remained elementary (Butterfly, Rainbow, Charmbracelet), but Mariah shifted gears and embraced titular verbosity with her 2005 comeback album The Emancipation of Mimi and last year's Energy Equals Mass Times the Velocity of Light Squared. Her new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, follows suit.

 

Memoirs is a purported day in the life of Mimi, and it finds the singer "Having a Typical Emotional Upset" ("H.A.T.E.U."), lashing out at one-time beau Eminem ("Obsessed"), and kicking all kinds of men to the curb (basically the whole album). It's a breakup record, to be sure-this despite its subject being (reportedly) happily married. No matter, Mariah throws more shade than she ever has before, making it her campiest venture yet. "I'm gon' la-la-la-la-la-laugh," she taunts in her best schoolyard sneer on the promising opening track "Betcha Gon' Know." Sometimes the 'tude is sexy ("You a mom and pop, I'm a corporation/I'm a press conference, you're a conversation," she quips on "Obsessed"), other times it's downright cheesy ("See right through you like you're bathin' in Windex"). She also achieves a whole new level of lyrical ridiculousness on "Up Out My Face," with what's sure to be the most quoted passage from the album, involving Legos, the entire Harvard University graduating class of 2010, and an allusion to Humpty Dumpty. Yeah.

 

If Energy Equals Mass Times the Velocity of Light Squared was her most commercial album in years, with each song carefully constructed to become a potential radio hit, Memoirs is ostensibly for the longtime fans, her first album in 14 years not to feature any rappers and one that dips into her back catalogue to depths we haven't heard since 2002's Charmbracelet. In fact, Mariah even compared the album to lamb favorite Butterfly on her Twitter account, but it's really more like Rainbow. Having The-Dream and Tricky Stewart on the boards for all 17 tracks makes the album one of her most sonically consistent-but it also makes it one of her most boring. If this is Mariah's attempt at making a soul album, it's shockingly soulless: Despite some cool tricks, the production sounds cheap and same-y, lacking the fullness of her best work, and is there really any acceptable explanation for drenching her vocals in Auto-Tune? Not to mention, these "memoirs" don't really reveal much about the singer other than that she's capable of harboring a grudge.

 

Mariah is in fine voice throughout the album, and there are plenty of inspired moments to be found: the hard-edged "Standing O"; "Inseparable," which is probably her most successful attempt at a redo of "We Belong Together"; and "Up Out My Face (The Reprise)," which features a kick-*** marching-band arrangement that could have been used to optimum effect on the song proper. Which makes it all the more disappointing that the album's final stretch devolves into a mess of old-school Mariah rehashes that should have been left in the past. "Languishing" is a lazy rewrite of a Mariah song that's been lazily rewritten at least three or four times already, while a cover a Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" climaxes prematurely with a cacophony of screaming and gratuitous whistle notes-the kind that marred the closing number of her last album too. A gospel choir and half-step key change is not how you spell soul.

[Nikosn17]

*DEAD*... the review for this album has been very different.

[Prince Whiskers]

What do you think about HATEU? It's my favorite. Btw I really like the ending of Ribbon how it goes from really hard to sweet.

I forgot to mention it's one of the strong tracks. Not sure though about its potential as a single.

[Nikosn17]

What do you think about HATEU? It's my favorite. Btw I really like the ending of Ribbon how it goes from really hard to sweet.

I forgot to mention it's one of the strong tracks. Not sure though about its potential as a single.

 

I think it's masterpeace. This song went straight to my Top 5 Mariah songs of all time.

[Lymon]

What do you think about HATEU? It's my favorite. Btw I really like the ending of Ribbon how it goes from really hard to sweet.

I forgot to mention it's one of the strong tracks. Not sure though about its potential as a single.

 

I think it's masterpeace. This song went straight to my Top 5 Mariah songs of all time.

 

Same, it's sooooo beautiful.

 

By the way I now love Up Out My Face.

[disadiva]

For my point of view MOAIA is better then E=MC2, it has more fun songs and diffirent from TEOM,

more like Butterfly Meets Rainbow.

 

My favorit songs here are:

 

Angels Cry,

Inseperable,

Up on Your face,

H.A.T.E.U,

I wrap it up,

Obsessed,

I want to know what love is,

 

I give it 3 of 5 possible stars.

 

Not her best but not her worst either.

[celinemagicsingle]

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[Black Kitten]

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[Nikosn17]

Glitter Remakes

 

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[chadiedls]

I heard the new single,it' OK. The postion in the chart is disappointed.

[Black Kitten]

the Glitter re-shoot IMO is her best "recreation" so far.

 

looking forward to the Merry Christmas re-shoot.

[Nikosn17]

The album has been pushed back to Nov. 16 in the UK ! I know UK fans will be mad for this but as they reported she'll do promo there in November so it's for better.

[disadiva]

I am so into the new Mariah, Angels Cry and Iseperable are my special

favorits and IWKWLI:

[Black Kitten]

i luuuurve the new layout/skin/theme (or whatever you wanna call it!LOL) of her official website!

 

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[Lymon]

i luuuurve the new layout/skin/theme (or whatever you wanna call it!LOL) of her official website!

 

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Me too, the Butterfly re-shoot pictures are amazing and I love how light the theme is.

[Tyler1991]

I really love how she is going back to a 90's image and singing better songs.

[ThisTime]

The website is good except for the Obsessed pic on there.

Only one that I don't like so much.

[Nikosn17]

Vocal Range - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

 

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[Lymon]

Vocal Range - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

 

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Oh god, i'm afraid of the upcoming comments/debates.

[CelineRox]

The album has been pushed back to Nov. 16 in the UK ! I know UK fans will be mad for this but as they reported she'll do promo there in November so it's for better.

 

 

So predictable

 

We didn't even get Obsessed, it was dropped here ....

 

So, IWTKWLI is the first single here and haven't even heard it on the radio