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About Andrew from the United Kingdom: Banned forever!

Re: AYNAF (Soul Convention Remix) video (94,894) (94,895) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Sarcasm? Moi? It is actually a good YouTube channel, though. Check it out. (Wednesday 12 August 2020; 16:04)

Re: AYNAF (Soul Convention Remix) video (94,878) (94,893) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Mariah Carey's Archives on YouTube (nothing to do with this website) already had the Soul Convention Remix video. It's actually a really good YouTube channel. It sorted out the Hark The Herald Angels Sing clip date for me. It isn't 1994 (despite Mariah looking very 1994 in it). And despite the title of the video saying 1992, the clip is in fact from 1991 as the GMA titles says "Monday Dec 23" which fell in that year. (Wednesday 12 August 2020; 14:27)

Re: Allison (94,887) (94,889) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Addiction is a disease that destroys people's lives and often the lives of the people around them. Those who lambast drug addicts for their mistakes and their actions that harm other people are absolute bellends who have no idea what addictions do to even to the nicest, kindest and most lovely of people. Serious addicts deserve empathy and need help. And you certainly don't just dismiss complaints of sexual abuse that they make just because they are addicts. Allison has made an accusation of child abuse against a person still living which must be investigated. To simply act like she is lying and make up a reason for the alleged lie - something as spurious as her trying to harm an anniversary of an album release that almost nobody but the most ardent of fans really gives two tiny shits about - is a joke and outrageous to the public decency. This is what makes me laugh about the wokest of people who act sanctimoniously and moralise from on high: their absolute hypocrisy and their complete blindness to it. B is for bellend. (Sunday 9 August 2020; 15:56)

Re: The Sun and HIV (94,864) (94,872) by Andrew from the United Kingdom The Associate Managing Editor of The Sun has written back: "I understand your concerns and we have now amended the article." There's a small win, eh? Will be interesting to see if this signals a change in future editorial policy at The Sun. (Friday 7 August 2020; 17:08)

Re: The Irish Times and HIV (94,846) (94,848) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I am pleased someone is perturbed. It's a UK Sun article. For shits and giggles, here is my complaint: The article, concerning Allison Carey, sister of the American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, contains the following quote as part of a section relating negatives about Allison Carey's personal situation: "Alison, who is estranged from her superstar sister, 50, once worked as a prostitute and is HIV positive." The Editor's Code of Conduct states: 12. Discrimination i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's... physical or mental illness or disability. Allison Carey's HIV status is a matter of public record. However, its inclusion in the article is prejudicial, designed to portray the subject in a negative way. The clear inference is that living within HIV is a negative and shameful thing, relating it to bad character. There is no evidence that the subject's HIV status is linked to, or a direct result of, prostitution. The article is suggestive in linking the two - with negative intent. HIV is a physical illness. This article is therefore prejudicial to persons living with the illness and is, thus, in breach of Section 12.i) of the Code. The Editor's Code if Conduct also states: 12. Discrimination ii) Details of an individual's race... physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story. The article concerns the subject's legal action against her mother for alleged child abuse. The inclusion of a subject's illness should only be included where directly relevant to the subject matter of the article. The subject's HIV status is not relevant to the story and is, thus, in breach of Section 12.ii) of the Code. The consequences of this type of prejudicial and irrelevant commentary are the perpetuatation of stigma and the incitement of fear of, and hatred towards, persons living with HIV, which often leads to physical and/or verbal abuse. It can also be detrimental to mental health resulting in depression, self harm and suicide. This article has caused me offense and distress. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 22:48)

Re: Triumphant (94,843) (94,847) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Lies upset me. Dishonest people bother me. You, sweetheart, are a speck of dust on the fabric of life, I assure you. I encourage you to try to be more than you are. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 21:52)

Re: The Irish Sun and HIV (94,834) (94,842) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Apologies, the publication is Irish Sun not Irish Times as I stated. I have filed a complaint for breach of editorial code with Irish Press Ombudsman. However, I would encourage anyone to write a simple letter to the editor of The Sun to express dismay, if you have it, at the irrelevant inclusion of Allison's HIV status in a negative way. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 16:11)

The Honest Vocal Coach (94,836) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Georgina is one of my favourite persons on the internet. Honesty in a charming way. And she's just the nicest person in the world. And a humongous Mariah Carey fan. Everyone should subscribe. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 14:22)

The Irish Times and HIV (94,834) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Alison, who is estranged from her superstar sister, 50, once worked as a prostitute and is HIV positive." The Irish Times. Now this reeeeally pisses me off. Allison Carey is a mess which we all know and it does not need going into. But is her HIV status in the public interest? That's her personal medical information. I would strongly argue that it is not. But more incendiary than that possible gross affront to medical privacy is the purpose of the inclusion of the information. It is seemingly included to shame her and, in doing so, all persons living with HIV as if having HIV makes you of bad character. This is pretty disgusting. Shaming HIV positive people like this leads to a continuation of stigma which, in turn, reduces the amount of people getting tested for HIV which contributes to the spread of the virus, harming the health of more people that could be avoided. This is a really disgusting consequence of cheap, shock-tactic journalism. I intend to now write to The Irish Times to question them on their treatment of persons living with HIV and I urge everyone here to do the same. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 13:36)

Re: Dreamteam (94,828) (94,833) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Jesus wept. "Mariah is the studio with JD" must be one of the most soul-destroying sentences to a Mariah Carey fan. This is part of Mariah's problem. She will never, ever be musically successful again unless she changes her sound and drops deadbeat has-been's like J "y'all know what this is - cos it's the same song we made two years ago" D. So, I actually agree with Bill's tongue-in-cheek quoting of Brandon. Yes, we make fun of the repeated messages but B's sentiments were justified: why not make sonethibfmmnf aiundibg fresh and relevant? Why not work with Bruno Mars and The Smeezingtons? At least Mariah would make something different for once. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 13:20)

Re: Triumphant (94,827) (94,832) by Andrew from the United Kingdom "Triumphant was the song MC never really saw as having a potential to be a hit song but her way of supporting her husband during his illness." Okay, let's do it this way: please provide links to the evidence that Mariah did not believe Triumphant would be successful but released it anyway to please her husband. Just one link to Mariah being quoted as having said words to this effect and I won't call you a liar. See, this is the problem. You delulons aren't just delusional, you actually make stuff up. You lie. And it runs deep - even into "predictions" which are not "predictions" based upon any evidentiary support, but just random guesswork based upon nothing. Again. And again. And again. Why does it bother me so much? Because lies designed to make the delulons fragile world a little more comfortable and safe deny respectable and intelligent people the truth. And truth, above all things must be understood, uttered, and protected from corruption. (Thursday 6 August 2020; 13:11)

Re: Divas Live 1998 (94,800) (94,801) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Now, now, William. Give the delulons a chance. Rather than dismiss their claims that Mariah was sick that night, just ask them for the source material which makes evident the truth of this claim. I mean, you might be called a troll and other mean words for dealing in facts and not teenage fangirl tribalism, but it's always a fun experiment. So, Edouard, where is the evidence that Mariah was "sick" on the night of VH1 Diva's Live? (Tuesday 4 August 2020; 13:52)

Reflections (94,793) by Andrew from the United Kingdom This person is, without a shadow of a doubt, the world's worst singer. Though it is all to easy to laugh at the sounds emanating from the anus God appears to have mistakingly put in the lower half of the region on his head most people would call a face, we would do well to remember that evil comes in many forms and, much like the shadows that take away the bad dead people in the movie Ghost, the vocal emanations he makes are a warning to us all that the devil is real, God can't be everywhere all at once and we better all be good people or we may end up spending an eternity in a place where we have to listen to Jeremimi forever, completely tortured, devoid of hope and joy, and free of the wondrous things we take most for granted. Like the ability to press stop on a YouTube channel. (Sunday 2 August 2020; 16:41)

Re: Divas Live 1998 (94,788) (94,792) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I don't wanna do this because I quite like your posts as of late, but... "That VH1 Divas 1998 performance of Make it Happen is the best she's ever sung that song live and honestly hasn't ever since." Vocally it is completely outdone by MIH at Proctor's Theatre at the very least. The vocal is seemingly dubbed but still patchy in places. The "way-ay-ay-ay-yeahee-yeah" part is off key, for example. "I don't think I had ever seen Mariah command a stage and work it with such class, grace and confidence as she exuded that night." Madison Square Garden is surely Mariah her at most confident and commanding. "I'm glad she's released it currently for the younger generation to discover, it is one of the many treasures from Mariah's prime years." This is not Prime Mariah. Prime Mariah ended with the dawn of '97. This is in April '98. When do you think Prime Mariah ends? This is all subjective, of course. But all opinions are not equal where some align more closely with fact based evidence. (Sunday 2 August 2020; 16:00)

Re: Emotions live in TOTP (94,775) (94,791) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Clearly Mariah has vocal troubles here so is singing the song differently. But I actually love it sung like this. Why doesn't she do this in concerts now? Probably because it would be headline music news. But it would sound great. (Sunday 2 August 2020; 15:43)

Re: Walter live videos on instagram (94,773) (94,790) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Hilton, for perhaps the first time in years, we agree. I'm off to the pub. Ill have a drink to that. (Sunday 2 August 2020; 15:39)

Re: Can't Let Go live (94,749) (94,771) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I have had Can't Let Go on repeat since yesterday. I dont know why but I hardly ever play it even though I love it. It's timeless and rather haunting. I dont understand the inclusion of the audio of Make It Happen at Madison Square Garden or VH1 Divas Live. They've surely been played to death so much that nobody cares. If it had been, as per William's suggestion, an audio from Daydream tour in London, for example, that would have been fresh and exciting. The releases were a little on the safe side. (Saturday 1 August 2020; 15:37)

Re: Walter live videos on instagram (94,765) (94,770) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Oh, more musings of an immature little drama queen, relatively new to the world of Mariah, fixating hate upon someone just because it suits their little dramatic view of the world as good vs evil. You're a moron. Walter Afanasieff is responsible for many of Mariah's greatest songs, including All I Want For Christmas Is You and Hero, the two songs by which she is known. He has never to my knowledge been disrespectful of Mariah in interview and has always praised her talent. That he didn't leave his job with the massive company to follow an artist whose popularity and voice were waning and whose behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic was probably - no, absolutely - the right thing to do for him personally. Mariah spent 5 years in obscurity after Columbia then had success for a couple of years only to fall into obscurity again. She has hardly been on top for 30 years. Nobody ever is. Furthermore, Mariah has not written a popular selling or streaming song in a decade, herself. Given that Walter Afansieff and Mariah Carey used to produce the most amazing music together, you would think that a lamb would be eager for them to take another stab at it. But immaturity wins the day. He's the villain of the piece in the mind of immature little queens who have practically only just learned who he even is and so he is besmirched and his contribution to Mariah's catalogue disregarded. Daddy obviously left home pretty early on in your developmental stages, didn't he, princess? (Saturday 1 August 2020; 15:30)

Emotions lyrics (94,754) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Mariah has released her handwritten lyrics for the Emotions 12" Remix. For those of you that haven't seen them yet, I've typed the intro out for you: Yoogat me feelennng Eeeeeyymohohohohohshuhuhuhuhnzehheeairehehee Hyyyuhuhuhhh Hyyeeehyyyuhuhuhuhhhhhuhuhuhuhhhhuhuhuhairuhuhairhhhuh Hyyyyeeehyhyhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (Friday 31 July 2020; 14:01)

Re: Hero melody / MC30 wants (94,730) (94,731) by Andrew from the United Kingdom That second version of WBT is better than the original. Or maybe I'm saying that because I've over-played the original. But I love Mariah's live melody switch-ups. It is the mark of someone with music running through them. One of my favourites is this where, although not the best performance, the last "but they cant that away from..." at 3:45 is beautiful and really actually conveys the emotional meaning of what she is singing. (Monday 27 July 2020; 22:50)

New Hero melody (94,724) by Andrew from the United Kingdom This is short but amazing. Mariah does a different melody for "sorrow that you know" in Hero that I have never heard or even imagined in 27 years. It's really, really beautiful. (Monday 27 July 2020; 04:29)

Re: From the vaults (94,716) (94,721) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Jeez, Louise. You predict and predict with absolutely no rhyme or reason. FFS. What on Earth is the point of all this? (Sunday 26 July 2020; 20:45)

America The Beautiful (94,720) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I dunno. I'm not the greatest fan of the debut era, so the jewels from the vault are good but not really for me. I decided to watch Mariah's America The Beautiful again to get into the spirit and found I'd watched it over twenty times in a row before I realised how much time I was spending on it. The high note and the change in crowd reaction chokes me up a little bit. It's a good recovery from having the camera focus on the guy with the fat neck for far, far too long. (Sunday 26 July 2020; 20:36)

Re: New book (94,672) (94,678) by Andrew from the United Kingdom I would bet good money that Mariah doesn't mention Eminem in the book. It would result in another very public slapback and potentially embarrassing reveal. (Thursday 23 July 2020; 16:37)

Re: Nick (94,668) (94,676) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Seriously cannot be bothered to read any of that. (Thursday 23 July 2020; 16:34)

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