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Mariah forehead (77,921) by Andrew from UK Was it always so round? Her hairline is almost literally half way down her head. (Tuesday 15 August 2017; 20:06)

The blame game (77,838) by Andrew from UK Love how, on this board, when things are awful it's the fault of Mariah's team. But when things are good, it's because Mariah's a genius and knows what she's doing. (Thursday 10 August 2017; 15:18)

Re: Battle of the cougars (77,730) (77,738) by Andrew from UK Eddie Eddie Eddie. Are you offering to be my cougar? (Saturday 5 August 2017; 10:56)

Bryan Tanaka (77,727) by Andrew from UK I now love him. He's such a cool guy. Everyone better get on board. Or I'll stop the planet and you can get off. Ageism or sexism or racism should not prevail here. Sound as a pound, guv. Ain't no mistake. (Saturday 5 August 2017; 00:59)

Re: Mimi's hair (77,712) (77,726) by Andrew from UK Okay so like let me be like American or whatever: all this crap hair I've seen Mariah sporting... it's fake? Her real gorgeous hair is hidden under it? Like, am I in a daydream? Why would anyone with a modicum of sanity do this? (Saturday 5 August 2017; 00:57)

Re: Battle of the cougars (77,722) (77,725) by Andrew from UK Who the [censored] thumbs up your nonsense, honey? You must be Apple employee of the month, all those devices you done won. (Saturday 5 August 2017; 00:43)

Re: Mimi's hair (77,708) (77,710) by Andrew from UK I'm likely going to sound really dense here but a wig? Mariah wears wigs? Is this actually a thing? (Friday 4 August 2017; 11:10)

Re: This is disgusting (77,657) (77,684) by Andrew from UK I know, right? That Edward sure is mean. Shame on him. (Thursday 3 August 2017; 08:25)

Re: (77,635) (77,636) by Andrew from UK I was wondering why you didn't put it up. Wrong side of the bed this morning, was it? [Webmaster: No, but it's from the Daily Mail and at home that website crashes my computer. Maybe I will post it tomorrow at work. Or is there another website with the same story?] (Tuesday 1 August 2017; 21:03)

(77,635) by Andrew from UK Eric, have you seen this Mariah Carey's troubled sister sued over "drunk driving" accident. [Webmaster: Yes, I did.] (Tuesday 1 August 2017; 20:39)

Re: Star (77,583) (77,587) by Andrew from UK Well, I can rhyme me some "Snickers" with "knickers" and "Cornflakes" with "porn takes" so I think I got me a Mariah Carey song (Monday 31 July 2017; 01:17)

Re: Fat shaming (77,576) (77,586) by Andrew from UK I thought you had missed the point, but I don't think you have: "Are you mad because she's a diva and has a bad attitude?" The public and press can't stand Mariah because of her long-term, arrogant diva attitude. "Are you mad because she does not look the way you think she should?" It's exactly because of of this bad attitude they want to tear her down. The press and public aren't mad at Mariah for being fat, they love it. So is it bullying? I think it's more like Schadenfreude. Me? Personally, I would prefer her to rework her image and pretty much everything else. But if she can't, I wouldn't mention her weight at all if it weren't for her still trying to be sexy and wearing leotards, one dancer (who drew the short straw) trying to hold her up whilst the other dancers (are paid to) make faces like they want to poke her. It's embarrassing. I think most fans want to be able to say they like Mariah Carey's music in public without having to lower their voices. She's done nothing to help that recently. (Monday 31 July 2017; 01:14)

Re: Fat shaming (77,575) (77,582) by Andrew from UK "[She] is too lazy or self-indulgent to lose weight." There are two ways to lose weight: diet and/or exercise. If you are overweight and will not exercise you are lazy. If you are overweight and will not diet you are self-indulgent. Call it "struggling with weight issues" if it makes you feel better. But these "issues" are laziness and self-indulgence. Call me whatever you like, but what I said is a simple truth and no amount of you nor anyone else attacking me changes that. (Sunday 30 July 2017; 21:53)

Re: Fat shaming (77,563) (77,567) by Andrew from UK You should have tried harder. It's a bit argumentum ad absurdum: extrapolate the points to the extreme and then ridicule them. Lots of people who find the truth difficult on here do that. But, if you wish to go there: as soon as there is a LiciaArchives I'll comment on whether you should go run some laps or not. In terms of Mariah: yes, she could do with running a few laps. Of New England, perhaps. (Sunday 30 July 2017; 02:48)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,554) (77,560) by Andrew from UK Your post is interesting. Mariah's personality is like her attitude towards her image - completely contradictory and the source of much ire. With her image she acts like a vapid z-movie porn star, but cries foul if she's not considered innocent and virtuous. With her personality she acts condescending and aloof, but cries foul if people don't consider her a victim and virtuous. And celebrities moaning about how hard they have it should go work in a factory for 12 hours a day and put miniature parts together to achieve impossible quotas, or go clean out other peoples toilets. I don't think Mariah has a hard life at all. The only hard part would be being criticised by the public for your choices. Well, if you can take praise, you should be able to handle criticism. And I'm sure the jet-set wealthy lifestyle where working involves such arduous tasks as sitting on meetings and choosing things your like, drinking a lot and singing a little bit is adequate compensation. What's the bet it's been a long time since she cleaned her own toilet? (Sunday 30 July 2017; 00:35)

Fat shaming (77,558) by Andrew from UK Um, sorry, what's wrong with it? Let's see. You're not naturally big. You are thin. And very attractive. You eat and drink way too much. You make yourself very overweight. And unattractive. You *should* be ashamed. If there is no shame in it, what is there? Pride? Everyone jumping on the "it's-wrong-to-fat-shame" bandwagon sounds rather silly, and I imagine are people who probably feature the world "hater" heavily in their vocabulary. Just because you disagree with something, that you are not positive about something someone is or does, doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. Call it out. She made herself fat and is too lazy or self-indulgent to lose weight, even if being fat seemingly hurts her somewhat. And it does *not* look good, given that everyone knows what lies beneath the many layers of self-indulgence and delusion. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 23:54)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,528) (77,532) by Andrew from UK People make fun of Mariah because she has afforded herself one of the worst reputations for any star of her calibre. People just don't like her. There's no ambivalence. They'll dance to her music and sing along to Hero, but when asked about her, I imagine everyone here has heard many people retort with "I can't stand her." She throws overt desperate and needy sexualism in people's faces and that's not what they were, or are, looking for from her. In a society that thinks gluttony is a disgusting character trait, if you pile on the pounds, it's best you don't take your clothes off and ask people to pay you sexual attention or show adoration, seemingly to feed your own warped ego. They'll tear you down. For a woman that has spent a lifetime trying to be qualified by having men want to [censored] her and women be jealous of her, it's not surprising that people want to mock her for wanting to have her cake and eat it now. Literally and figuratively. She knows that being thin sells, or she wouldn't airbrush every photo she has the influence to have airbrushed to within an inch of its life. She's either too lazy to lose weight or just doesn't care. Either way, it's about time she started to dress properly and act with some dignity. People celebrate the humble and dignified, they don't tear them down. It's rather bad sport. (Friday 28 July 2017; 10:08)

Re: M3rry Christmas (77,511) (77,514) by Andrew from UK Apparently, it was originally supposed to be called "The Lamb" haha. Isn't that Mariah singing "That's what Christmas means to me my love" in the trailer? It sounds like she sounds now. And it sounds like an arrangement Mariah would have in a Christmas song. She should definitely write a Christmas song called "Be A Lamb". (Thursday 27 July 2017; 10:37)

M3rry Christmas (77,510) by Andrew from UK The Star? So the new album is a new Christmas album? If it is, that's probably a good move. I'd actually be excited for that. I hope The Star is upbeat. (Thursday 27 July 2017; 08:58)

Re: One Sweet Day (Mariah only version) (77,461) (77,465) by Andrew from UK Ha, I jest, I jest. I know what you mean. That sustained belt. I listened to that parked in a motorway service station last night in the pouring rain. I played it about 5 times before I drove off. I was reminded of listening to Mariah in my youth and feeling abject awe. Now, she shouts a lot in short bursts or sustains without resonance. I miss that. I miss the vibrato. the resonance. When she does it, it makes everything sound Mariah Carey again. Speaking for myself, I wish she could drop this "range" nonsense, and sing low and in the manner she used to sing. And I love you, honey. But you must admit, the ending of One Sweet Day is clunky. I find it quite draining to listen to, whilst submitting that it probably is a pop masterpiece. (Tuesday 25 July 2017; 21:23)

Re: The 150 greatest albums made by women (77,457) (77,464) by Andrew from UK If you'd read the article instead of dismissing it just because it doesn't say the light shines out of Mariah's Titty Grand Canyon, it says the list was compiled by 50 women. But I'm forced to agree in part with your post, in the sense that it is ludicrously unclear what "greatest" doth mean in this context. Best selling? Career defining? Importance in relation to the music genre? The music industry? Importance to the feminist movement? Reading through the accompanying commentary, I would say that it may be about its seminal importance. I would say that to music observers, Daydream helped shift the paradigm of the category in which Mariah sat, or, indeed, moved a new category into the mainstream. Butterfly would, in my estimation, be the career-defining album for the lambs as it was an album that acutely felt like it *meant something*, rather than just being a collection of awesome songs, sung really well. However, for career- and industry-defining for non-lambs, and thus, the world at large, The Emancipation of Mimi surely deserves the seminal status. I don't much appreciate the latter half of it. But as an album, a project, it defined 2005/6 because it re-crowned a queen who had lost her kingdom. It was an album that told women, nay everybody, that if you have it, you just have it;, that it doesn't matter how you fall, it's that you learn to get back up, that you never give in, that you must walk through shame or embarrassment with your head held high and silence your detractors. I can't think of another album by a woman that achieved such unexpected success in this manner. With an unparalleled level of success and an unparalleled downfall before its release, it is likely that sort of response to the mainstream music world that The Emancipation of Mimi was will not happen again within our lifetimes. Everything about that project was special. In terms of "greatness", I am not certain how any woman could not consider that album in the Top 10. Now I'm off to play E=MC2. "2008, watch it." (Tuesday 25 July 2017; 21:17)

Re: One Sweet Day (Mariah only version) (77,441) (77,455) by Andrew from UK This is awesome. This sounds so much better without Boyz II Men. Personally think the song is a bit messy towards the end, especially live. There's way too much going on. And I'm not sure it has aged that well. Sounds very daytime TV now. I'm also not clear why you had tears in your eyes at 3:15. Did you cross your legs too quickly? It is quite awesome to listen too, however. (Tuesday 25 July 2017; 12:10)

The 4:49 to Careytown (77,402) by Andrew from UK At 4:49 Mariah smiles like she used to, blows a kiss like she used to, and I don't know if it's the lighting, the angle, or both, but she looks just like she used to. I had to pause it for quite some time. It was like looking at a different Mariah from ages gone by. It was like looking into the past. (Sunday 23 July 2017; 02:30)

Don't linger on, don't linger on (77,389) by Andrew from UK Note to Mariah - after the pre-record high bit of Always Be My Baby, don't jump in with the "and we're gonna linger on, we're gonna linger on". Just let the backing track play for a bit. At least that's a shot at getting away with it. Then come in with low notes and end the song. What you're doing now is so cringe I look like *I* smelt the fart, too. (Saturday 22 July 2017; 21:25)

Re: It's just a plan (77,328) (77,365) by Andrew from UK Come on, somebody obviously pissed in his gene pool. To say "Mariah Carey mode" is purposely being fat and shit in order to get noticed when you're slightly less fat and shit is some of the looniest psycho spin I've ever read. Not sure if he's the village idiot, but just one look and you know his name was definitely on the ballot paper. (Saturday 22 July 2017; 01:08)

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