Mariah Carey: Official Topic

[Leone]

A drunk Mariah:

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaX3Ss39-o

 

And this one.. look at what she's wearing

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXrTO0A-k8o

[Macaronie]

Haters

[beth_de]

not her best performance.

[Koolan]

I've never heard or read a story about Mariah being disciplined with her voice.. I mean.. we all know what kinds of stuff Céline did to be where she is/was.

Mariah likes to party at clubs, have drinks ocassionally, eat all kinds of food, other oral activities etc.. I believe if she was more disciplined with her voice it would sound much better then it is today. She takes for granted that she has an amazing voice (like people still claim today - which I hate!) so she thinks that this gift from God will always be there..NOT!

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

 

[catwomanrrr]

A drunk Mariah: 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaX3Ss39-o

 

And this one.. look at what she's wearing 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXrTO0A-k8o

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Video #1: I HATE IT when she RUBS herself!!!

 

Video #2: It's not what she was wearing - it was how she was acting. She was absolutely senseless that day. Carson kept proclaiming her as a superstar, this and that, and she came in, acting like a fool, stripping and handing out ice cream, and then creating havoc in the MTV studio, demanding attention. Was this before or after her breakdown... or was this part of the breakdown?

[paradox]

A drunk Mariah: 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaX3Ss39-o

 

And this one.. look at what she's wearing 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXrTO0A-k8o

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OMG, she is realy ugly... Mariah Carey the best cow in village

 

http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm06winter/images/jtf_cow.jpg

[Leone]

Video #1: I HATE IT when she RUBS herself!!!         

 

Video #2: It's not what she was wearing - it was how she was acting. She was absolutely senseless that day. Carson kept proclaiming her as a superstar, this and that, and she came in, acting like a fool, stripping and handing out ice cream, and then creating havoc in the MTV studio, demanding attention. Was this before or after her breakdown... or was this part of the breakdown?

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Here's a video just before she went crazy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0za8NsrUDw4

[ThereseDion]

Mariah can sing

[Bellamy]

The emancipation of crazy

 

 

This is so Mariah!!!

[Macaronie]

poor mariah carey

[Céline's Blues]

poor mariah carey

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You are improving, Jerererrerererererererrerererereerrerererereroren!

[patroclo88]

haha the clip is really funny...it represents the truth...

[catwomanrrr]

Video #1: I HATE IT when she RUBS herself!!!         

 

Video #2: It's not what she was wearing - it was how she was acting. She was absolutely senseless that day. Carson kept proclaiming her as a superstar, this and that, and she came in, acting like a fool, stripping and handing out ice cream, and then creating havoc in the MTV studio, demanding attention. Was this before or after her breakdown... or was this part of the breakdown?

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Here's a video just before she went crazy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0za8NsrUDw4

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Who's that other girl? Is that like her.. "Keeper" ? Her shrink?

Edited August 13, 2006 at 05:41 PM by Joy

[vivezpouraimer]

She disgusts me.

 

Next thing you know, she'll be wearing pink leotards with a gigantic pink puff stuck to her butt!

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HAHAHHA!!

[ANewDay...]

Mimi just had her first US concert tonight, and her outfit: LMAO

 

She wore a cape!!!

 

What superheroe is she supposed to be?

 

Superwhore?     

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not SUPERHERO, more like SUPERHOE! omg! i wanted to post a thread about this, thinking i was the only person out there who thought she looked a ) overweight, b ) skanky, c ) extremely cheap and classless, d ) like the average bimbo you might see at some trashy bar (and not CLUB)...

 

whereas i did enjoy THE EMANCIPATION... album (though it's a sad that she now relies on collaborations with huge, established R&B stars to sell her music, and i'm glad the GRAMMY committee took that into consideration), i think that MARIAH is the most horribly dressed, pathetic looking, lame performer there is out there; hell, CELINE, who's had a kid, and who has no breasts, could look a million times better in that same outfit than WHORIAH (no offense), but i'm glad that CELINE relies on actual fashion designers and experts (and some of her own opinions, too) to make her wardrobe selections, and refrains from shopping at TRAILER PARK BOUTIQUES before embarking en major tours...

 

i cannot express enough how bad and cheap mariah looks these days, really...

 

how can she not know and see how brutal she appears... RANDY (jackson, i believe) from AI is her tour manager! one would think he would say something!

 

- ANewDay...

[Macaronie]

Superwhore

UNCALLED FOR!

[Céline's Blues]

Superwhore

UNCALLED FOR!

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SUPERMEGAWHORE = MARIAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Macaronie]

I smell alot of jealousy in this thread

[Céline's Blues]

I smell the whole truth about Mariah.

[Macaronie]

I guess something is wrong with your nose then

 

You just can't handle it that Mariah is hotter than Stella

Edited August 16, 2006 at 01:08 PM by Jeroen

[Bellamy]

You just can't handle it that Mariah is hotter than Stella

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this is the most ridiculours sentence I heard today.

[Macaronie]

It could only be said by me

[Céline's Blues]

Stella is the STAR. Mariah can only dream of being 1/3243534534 sexy as Stella.

[Macaronie]

Aww I miss your 'Sally Spectra' obsession, it was wonderful

[Céline's Blues]

Sally is a Goddessss as well, but lies now in the past. Deeply in the moist past.

[4celine]

i can do better without all the money she spend in clothes

[19masters86]

...wow...

still a great singer though.

buttttttt.

i dunno about the wardrobe choice...

[Célinefull]

One has to give Mariah props for doing her thing all the way. Despite her misguided sense of fashion, lack of class and the blatant lip-synching in front of the audience.

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yep, props to Mariah.

[Céline's Blues]

What's Wrong With Mariah Carey? // 4:54 AM EST Updated by Lynn

 

She's a multimillion-selling artist who's had trouble filling even modest concert halls. She has a rabid fan base, yet her biggest Hollywood movie became a box-office flop. And though she racked up eight Grammy nominations this year, she took home none of the major awards.

 

For such a hugely popular artist, Mariah Carey sometimes seems awfully unpopular.

 

The Greenlawn native boasts the bestselling album of 2005, "The Emancipation of Mimi" (Island), and she'll be playing to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden Wednesday. But ticket sales have been somewhat soft for other shows on Carey's current tour, one of her biggest yet with an initial 31-date schedule. Already, she has canceled an additional date at the Garden plus three arena dates in Denver, Seattle and Hershey, Pa. As of last week, fans could still get lower-level seats at New Jersey's Continental Airlines Arena for Carey's Aug. 27 show. (Carey has added dates in Canada and at Jones Beach, and at least six shows have sold out according to Live Nation, the Los Angeles-based company handling the tour.)

 

Does this mean Carey's career is in trouble? Hardly. But it's a good example of how even the world's biggest pop stars must carefully navigate the choppy waters of the music industry. Since releasing her self-titled debut album in 1990, Carey, 36, has enjoyed envious success and embarrassing failures, at times almost simultaneously. Yet the singer with the glass-shattering voice and a prima donna reputation always manages to come out on top.

 

"She's known for demanding what she wants," says S. Tia Brown, associate editor at the celebrity magazine In Touch Weekly. "No one can argue that she hasn't matured into a smart businesswoman."

 

Carey's track record as a live act is only part of her overall picture. Generally, her tours have been infrequent - one every few years - and limited to a handful of dates in big cities. Carey played just five shows on her first tour, in 1993 (with "American Idol" host Randy Jackson on bass) and she didn't tour again until 1998, when she booked only four dates, according to the concert-industry publication Pollstar, based in Fresno, Calif.

 

By the time Carey embarked on a more ambitious 28-date tour in 2003, she had long neglected many of the country's "fly-over" cities. Initial plans for an arena tour, including stops at Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum, were scrapped in favor of smaller, theater-sized venues. Even then, only 10 dates sold out, according to Pollstar. One show, at the 15,800-seat Woodlands pavilion near Houston, ended up less than half-full. And in Portland, Ore., Carey sold just 1,437 tickets at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - about 53 percent of capacity.

 

"She doesn't have the established audience of people who have seen her before and are anxious to see her again," Pollstar editor Gary Bongiovanni says. "You can play New York and Chicago over and over again and have a great following there. But whether that'll translate to other markets is another question."

 

There's also the question of what Carey brings to the stage. Though famous for her vocal acrobatics and sheer lung power, "she's not known for giving a particularly entertaining live show," says Brown of In Touch Weekly. "She's not a physical entertainer like Madonna or Janet Jackson. You're entertained by her voice."

 

Let's elaborate some more

Carey may be trying to change that. Her 2003 tour seemed geared toward the eyes as well as the ears, with plenty of costume changes, fanciful stage sets, faux paparazzi and a troupe of dancers. The current tour is being touted as the "most elaborate concert production of Mariah's career," according to a press release from Island. (The label declined to comment.)

 

Carey is facing a tough concert season, says Alex Hodges, executive vice president for House of Blues Concerts in Los Angeles. The summer tour business is down about 10 percent over last year, he notes, and Carey's sales may be affected by some of the big-name, high-priced tours that have already come though. "Madonna has taken a lot of the money out of the marketplace," he says.

 

She will survive

Still, Carey has survived far worse than slow ticket sales. In July 2001 she was hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion" after behaving oddly during public appearances (including one at the Roosevelt Field Mall, where she reportedly railed incoherently against Howard Stern). That same year, her semi-autobiographical film, "Glitter," performed so poorly at the box office - it earned just more than $4 million - that it became a punch line for late-night television hosts. Carey's label at the time, Virgin, soon took the remarkable step of paying her to leave, shelling out $28 million.

 

Carey's album sales began shrinking slightly. The 2002 disc "Charmbracelet" went platinum, but her earlier discs tended to go multiplatinum. That's likely because Carey was moving away from soft pop and toward a more R&B-inflected sound, says Geoff Mayfield, charts editor at Billboard magazine. It seemed like a misstep, but Carey might have been ahead of her time.

 

"In today's climate, R&B and hip-hop is extremely popular, and it's one of the primary ingredients you hear when you listen to Top 40 stations," Mayfield says. "That wasn't the case in the late '90s or the early part of this decade."

 

The success of "The Emancipation of Mimi" is partly because of its now-popular hip-hop flavor, with tracks featuring Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Jermaine Dupri. But Mayfield says the two-year gap between albums also helped.

 

"She kind of needed to go away and let the audience breathe, let herself breathe creatively," Mayfield says. "The best advice for trying to make a turnaround would be difficult for someone who's accustomed to being in the limelight, and that's: 'Go away.'"

 

Dampening Carey's comeback was her treatment at February's Grammys. She was nominated for eight and took home three, but they were lesser awards that weren't televised. The major prizes - such as album, record and song of the year - went to others. Carey lost best female pop vocal performance to Kelly Clarkson.

 

Was this another defeat for Carey? The week after the awards ceremony, "Mimi" jumped seven spots up the Billboard chart, from No. 14 to No. 7, and went on to sell 5.7 million copies. For anyone following Carey's turbulent career, it was further proof that her clouds always have a silver lining.

[Bellamy]

"she's not known for giving a particularly entertaining live show," says Brown of In Touch Weekly. "She's not a physical entertainer like Madonna or Janet Jackson. You're entertained by her voice."

First part is true. Last part is not completely true, cause you can't be entertained by her live voice, especially not now.