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I agree with Meteorite (80,105) by jaker20 from US It's a bit easier to sing, it's fun and festive and timely. I'm looking at a production similar to It's Like That BET performance. (Thursday 28 December 2017; 00:15)

I wish she'd drop a single in time for NYE (80,066) by jaker20 from US That'd be the perfect moment to release a new song. (Sunday 24 December 2017; 19:53)

Re: Take 2 NYE (80,028) (80,029) by jaker20 from US Can you imagine if MC drops a single on that night and slays the performance? So much publicity she can use to her advantage. (Saturday 23 December 2017; 15:40)

We did it (79,955) by jaker20 from US Congrats Mimi. Congrats Lambs. (Monday 18 December 2017; 20:37)

AIWFCIY will be top 10 soon (79,953) by jaker20 from US It will land between 7 to 9. This will be the highest peak for a song that's been released more than 20 years. And that's just based on the song's legacy. If MC actually had a proper strategy for the song, like live TV or new viral video, I can see the song going above top 5. (Monday 18 December 2017; 19:27)

Re: Golden Globe nomination (79,793) (79,797) by jaker20 from US So many good things happening to her lately after the new management. (Monday 11 December 2017; 22:37)

All I Want Is on verge of top 10 (79,683) by jaker20 from US Stream stream stream lol. Who would have though MC will have another top 10 this year? (Wednesday 6 December 2017; 03:21)

Re: Piers Morgan (78,641) (78,643) by jaker20 from US Mariah should know better as well. She's been on the spotlight longer than Piers. Its not like she's doing a sit in with Oprah, she's doing an interview with Piers looking like an idiot lounging on a couch with a freaking Christmas trees. The fact that she's doing that interview is a setup for ridicule. Why not do that interview with Gerardo Rivera while riding a reindeer yeah that'd be fun. Whatever, it's just another episode in this Mariah train wreck. Always epic fail headlines with her the past few years. Decent career long over. (Tuesday 3 October 2017; 20:05)

Re: Is Queen Mariah ready to retire? (78,454) (78,477) by jaker20 from US She can just produce newcomers or mentor young artists, rappers etc. What happened to that new record label? She also got a yuletide movie. She's got millions, so she should do more of those. She will find new and real inspiration while supporting young artists, and/or making movies. That will spark new ideas for her. I always thought MC is a pop genius but she needs to be really inspired. Right now she's stuck. She needs to step away from performing these old songs, she can't hit the notes and sounds awful. Her image is so bad now. She reminds me of Bruce Jenner, one of the greatest athletes ever. Younger people don't know Bruce, but they know Caitlyn. That will be Mariah's direction if she's not careful. Once legendary, now a joke. BTW I just saw Cher on a Gap commercial singing Everyday People with Future. Cher is 71, doesn't dance, but performed at this summer's Billboard Awards because she put an effort. Fans and the media loved it. Far from perfect vocals but it was live. Mariah doesn't need to retire, she just need to refocus her efforts. But what do I know? (Thursday 21 September 2017; 02:49)

Re: VH1 performance was disrepectful (78,436) (78,443) by jaker20 from US I thought about possible health issues. But I always thought she's just really gotten lazy. She just doesn't want to put much effort. Around after that 18th no.1, she just didn't care much anymore. She still put some now and then, but in general, she's just chilling. I remember around the release of E=MC2, she said albums don't sell anymore, the industry has changed, said she'll never have another Music Box success because that time's passed. I thought to myself, this girl's ready to retire soon. Then she got married. In essence, she retired when she married Nick and had kids. The Emancipation tour was her last hurrah. I don't remember a performance since where she really put her all. Talent still comes out on some live performances every now and then, but they're few and far between. For the most part she just wing it. She can put a performance if she wants but that passion isn't there anymore. She's no longer that motivated, but didn't want to completely disappear from the limelight. I've been there from day one when Vision of Love climb the charts so it's tough to admit. Now I always use Madonna as point of comparison. I hated Madonna in the 90s and 2000s, but admire her perseverance well past her prime, 13 years Mariah's senior. Success or no success, watching Madonna make me keep going in life. Someone asked below why fans bitching just not leave if they don't like MC anymore. Because I want MC to keep going. Right now she's cheating her career and herself. These performances are recorded, they will never go away. Go to YouTube, a great majority are her awful ones. The great ones are hard to find. That's become her legacy, the awful ones. Hope she realize it's not about success, no.1s or money all the time, it's doing what you are able to do and do it well. To entertain, to be creative. Otherwise, it is indeed time to retire. Know when to stop. (Wednesday 20 September 2017; 07:46)

Bad dancing vs. not caring (78,441) by jaker20 from US Emancipation era was full of awful dancing, but people loved that era because she put effort on them. Mariah was never a dancer. She's always been awkward when she dances. But let's not be foolish here, there is a world of a difference between not knowing how to dance vs. stripping then doing nothing on stage. MC always needed choreography because she's not a natural dancer, especially on her upbeat 90s songs. Even ballads where she just walks on stage requires choreo and preparation. It's Like That VH1 performance she did during Emancipation, she just walked around the stage while flowing her dress, but it's cute and cool because you can tell it was choreographed. The last 8 or so years have been repulsive to be perfectly honest. No preparation, just rubbing her hair and legs and lipping. I can bookend the past ten years of epic fails. (1) American Idol Bye Bye performance which she lipped. It's a big top 5 night, AI was ratings blockbuster at the time. She coached the contestants. Yet she lipped. (2) American Idol again, all season she's judging, ratings are decent. Yet when it's finally time to sing, she just stood on a stage float and semi-lipped. (3) VH1 this week, she's being honored, and lipped and did not seem to have anything prepared. In between these fails, it's controversies, divorce, flop singles, lip-gates. Cher was older than her when she hit no.1, and she doesn't dance either. Madonna was older than her when she hit top 3 with 4-Minutes and she's an awful singer. MC is irrelevant in pop music the past 5 years or so. At this point, I'm not worried about her career. I'm worried about her sanity period. (Wednesday 20 September 2017; 06:54)

She's completely lost it (78,424) by jaker20 from US She's become so lazy it seems, just coasting on the benefits of the 90s. She can't sing live, she can't move, she's not had a proper single in a decade (debatable because to me it's much longer), has not properly promoted a song, has not had a solid album in a long time. Everything is about what she's wearing, and being sexy. She's become a poor man's Pamela Anderson who is 50 now. Mariah is a complete and absolute joke now. Every performance is followed by the public mocking her. Its actually embarrassing these days to be called an Mariah fan. Tragic. But hey, she's "worked hard in the past, so she's got nothing to prove". That none-sense has crippled her creativity. Much older performers did well in the past, but Mariah completely losing it is self-imposed. (Tuesday 19 September 2017; 20:11)

Re: Mariah Carey installed skinny mirrors in home? (78,326) (78,333) by jaker20 from US The fact that people are talking about [this] stuff speaks volumes of the state of MC's career. As nasty as these rumors are, that means no one is interested to talk about whatever music she's doing. I mean my 12 year old niece [doesn't] even know [who] she is for crying out loud, and that says a lot [because] she knows Whitney and Madonna. (Sunday 10 September 2017; 06:09)

Re: Slightly shocked at Despacito (78,223) (78,229) by jaker20 from US Actually Edward, it was exactly Justin's version that got the song to where it is now. The song without Justin was released in January, and got multiple remixes, and lingered on the chart for months but never reached top 40. So if the song was so hot, why didn't it chart higher? It was after Justin's remix version was released in mid April that the song took off, entered the top 40, and was no.1 in just a few weeks. Would the song have reached no.1 without Justin? Maybe. Would the song have reached no.1 if the song was only Justin and without Fonsi and Yanke. Maybe. But that's not what happened here. That's not the fact. It was the combination of both that got it to break record, a similar fear accomplished by MC with B2M in the 2 big artists collab is better than one. (Thursday 31 August 2017; 21:21)

Re: Slightly shocked at Despacito (78,212) (78,216) by jaker20 from US [It's] some sort of chart manipulation. I know chart tricks happens since the beginning of [Billboard], but Despacito is sort of the perfect storm of this "trick". The song has two versions, the original one, and the one with Justin Bieber, and both songs are charting on iTunes, radio and streaming. The Spanish one is rotated heavily on Spanish radio, but both version on iTunes count as one. So that's a lot of push. It is very weird how artists and studios do this to manipulate the charts, but I know MC was also accused of chart tricks in the past, especially during the Glitter era. Also studios/artists release different remixes now, and they stagger the release of each remix just at the right time either when the song is peaking on the charts to give it a boost. But in the case of Despacito, the end result is more impactful because having 2 different languages is clearly a bigger push. I think the song would still be no. 1 for 4 or 5 weeks or so but definitely not 16 weeks. The song is generic pop for me. Someone mentioned Macarena and that's how I felt about the song too. (Thursday 31 August 2017; 05:39)

Article: Mariah Carey's "new deal" is her old deal, reiterated (74,362) by jaker20 from US It's true though. She's released nothing in the last 7 years, or at least something non lambs know about without googling it. It's been trainwreck after trainwreck but fans refuse to accept it for what it is. I think she has no more creativity left, it's all gone down to booze and touching her hair. Surprsing because Madonna had a no.1 when she was in her 40s and Cher her bigger song ever in her 50s. MC needs to realize it's not all about Pamela Anderson-like drama and flings with dudes half her age, she has to deliver too. I'm not even expecting songs with high notes, just proper songs whatever they maybe. MC's problems right now is herself. (Tuesday 11 April 2017; 01:27)

Article: Mariah spends more money on boyfriend Bryan Tanaka (74,101) by jaker20 from US We all know how this will end: not well. (Sunday 2 April 2017; 02:15)

Better start than before (53,723) by jaker20 from US I agree with Randy, these last performances isn't her best vocals, but I am definitely confident she will endear fans and casual viewers by at least singing live. Some parts are still not live, but better than the last couple of years. If she has to change some of the notes and chords that is alright, than lipping them all. The best part of these performances is singing VOL 100% live at the beginning of Infinity. It reminds everyone that the voice is still there. (Saturday 23 May 2015; 23:52)

Such a corny, increative album cover (51,782) by jaker20 from US It is good MC is doing Vegas, because I don't see this album going anywhere saleswise or gaining any fans. MC has lost any or whatever creativity remained in her. She's stuck in this type of tired old album cover. With all her success, she's still unable to break out of her insecure shell. That is a terrible photoshop hack job if you ask me, the same hack job done on MIAMTEC and Memoirs. Come to think of it, her last truly creative effort ("effort" meaning project she actually spent some time thinking) was Emancipation. That is 10 years of fail. Now she's just whatever. Again, I'm glad she's doing Vegas because I see her officially entering the has-been category. I don't see her coming back into mainstream pop again. Therefore she should milk every ounce of whatever lamb remains and serve them with concepts from 20 years ago. (Tuesday 14 April 2015; 1:56)

I like Ratner, big vote for him (51,235) by jaker20 from US I hope it's true. I never really liked Nick. I always thought he's a user, loser and social climber. Ratner is more within MC's alley. Surely he's more disciplined otherwise he won't be an accomplished filmmaker. They have also known each other for a long time. Nothing sweeter than ending up with a long time friend who was there through thick and thin. He's also within her age range but he actually looks young for his age. He's also kind of cute, if he loses weight. Nonetheless, he's still much better than a pretentious gym nut like Nick who goes to gym all the time and thinks he's all that. I think he will sort of put MC in her place, but not necessarily control her. If they end up together, it'll be good for MC in my opinion. It might be too soon, but something to think about in the future. (Monday 30 March 2015; 1:09)

Nick Cannon (50,764) by jaker20 from US I said it when they got (secretly) married, I said it when they had babies, I said it when MC's career was flopping and I'll say it again now. Nick Cannon is a user and he was in it from the very start. And you all attacked me back then in 2008 and have been called a hater all throughout their marriage, which I always thought was a sham he got MC to buy. There's no love there, just fools who believe he loved her. This man is a social climbing loser. No one knew who he was, and MC was instrumental in getting him ATG and a career at all. Without her, he'd still be a nobody. I guess now you should all give me an award, I can smell a social climbing user from a mile away. (Wednesday 11 March 2015; 1:42)

Re: Whitney Mariah Celine Madonna Janet (50,584) by jaker20 from US Here's how I rank them in terms of personal preference based on their overall talent: 1. MC 2. Madonna 3. Celine 4. Whitney 5. Janet In terms of public image, I think both are being ridiculed by the new generation, MC for her lipping and weight, and Madonna for her age. I think Madonna and MC probably have better appreciation of each other now than they did 20 or 10 years ago because they're going through somewhat similar public scrutiny by a generation that is generally not kind of women over 40. Whitney, Celine and MC are very similar vocal divas. But MC one-upped them both for being a hugely successful songwriter. I think Celine is being received by the public better because she really did step back from her career to live a private family life. I think she's going through tough times now with her husband's cancer. Janet's career was permanently damaged by that performance with Justin Timberlake. I think MC will outlive all these women's music catalog, they will stand the test of time longer, especially her Christmas catalog will make her relevant for years even decades. Provided she doesn't completely destroy her legacy with constant lipping and embarrassing appearances which she seem to instill into public memory for generations to mock. Ohterwise, it is better for her to retire. (Tuesday 3 March 2015; 0:49)

MC is stuck (50,437) by jaker20 from US MC's image is in the gutter. Eternal 18 demeanor is a turn-off even to 18 year olds. No one respects her. Look at her Breakfast Club interview, she's so shad. It isn't cute anymore, she's 45 years and acts like Paris Hilton circa 1999. In a single interview, she alienated fans of another artist. It could have been an opportunity to gain them. And then there's this other female rapper she didn't get along with. What she needs to do is find other creative outlets. Make more movies, maybe direct one, challenge herself, collab with unlikely artists not with predictable rappers or r&b artists, something unexpected and challenge her art, go out with industry people from other industries. When Streisand was at her age she was directing movies. If you're doing the same thing over and over, you don't grow as a person. And if you don't grow, your art don't grow. Right now she's prepping for Vegas to sing VOL and Fantasy for the millionth time to cash in on her name. The only difference now is she can't sing as good as her own original. MC needs to stop listening to these so-called lambs because they are just as bad as her handlers/enablers who don't tell her the truth. When MC was young, she was fierce, she collabed/performed with people more experienced than her, Aretha, Vandross, Whitney. Now it's just a bunch of predictable nobodies who gain from her instead of her gaining. See artists who collabed with her the last few years and who are now doing better than her. (Thursday 26 February 2015; 22:23)

Re: Baby, and MC1989 (50,385) by jaker20 from US [censored] I am replying to the posters who suggest MC should be visible in these awards shows. Which is precisely the point, she can't be in these awards shows because she can't get herself any reason to go. She is not in any movies worth talking about, nor is she in a nominated soundtrack, nor is she willing to give a tribute to someone. I really think you should learn reading comprehension first before you throw any insults. And MC1989, that's also my point. The WYB oscar performance was ok, not great. How is Gaga able to do it, and not two of the greatest voices in history? It should have been a legendary performance by MC because it's her peak. It reminds me of 2006 Grammy's which she partially lipped one of the biggest performance of her career, supposedly her comeback year. MC often crumbles on big stages like these. (Wednesday 25 February 2015; 2:15)

Awards (50,378) by jaker20 from US MC is not in awards shows like the Oscars because she's not really often invited. I mean, what is she going to do there? The last few years she's been trying to parlay her music career into movies but the best roles she's had are supporting. She's not really connected in the movie industry. JLo, as bad as you think she is, has been acting since the 90s. They maybe terrible movies, but she is a much more established actress with many hits under her belt, appeared in some classics like Selena and Out Sight and brought in money to movie studios. MC is not. The only way MC will be invited at the Oscars is if she is willing and capable to slay a performance like Gaga did. But her last Oscar performance with Whitney for When You Believe was not very well received, it was shaky and kind of all over the place. She looked like she was very nervous. (Tuesday 24 February 2015; 18:03)

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