Mariah Carey - "E=MC²" - Part 4 - April 15th

[**βécky**™]

Congrats Mariah!

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

Oh, ok.. I'll take ur word for it. I was just kinda hoping Love Story would be a single, its so good. :) Thanx for the confirmation.

[Nicolexo]

I agree, Love Story sounds great! And thanks, but now you won't have to lol. I found the clip of Mariah saying about the next single

www.zshare.net/audio/969663254eb3eb/

[hidizzyguy]

Promo-wise... it would be smart for her to release Bye Bye given her Oprah and Idol appearances, and will give the masses a taste of her non-ballad and heavy ballad sound for the album....

Hits-Wise... I think either would go to No. 1

[mrjedi]

Migrate Migrate Migrate for next single....the HQ version is freakin awesome!!!!

[tothefloor]

I like "Migrate", but I definitely don't want it as the next single. I'm ready for a ballad. :)

[mrjedi]

Nah, bring on the clubs.....we had a mid-tempo...now lets get it on!!!...then we can chill after that! ....honestly though, any track I've heard so far from the album would be fantastic by me :)

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

I've been listening to 'The Emancipation of Mimi' alot lately and I'm really surprised how alot of the songs I never really liked have grown on me. Stay The Night, Mine Again, and Joy Ride have all grown on me lately. There are only 2 songs now that I don't like, To The Floor and Your Girl, maybe its cuz I'm really anticipating the new cd. But I think this cd is really good. However nothing that's grown on me will top Circles, One and Only, and Shake It Off. If E=MC2 only has 2 songs that I don't like, I'll be ecstatic, and by the way it looks, it'll be better than the Emancipation, so that's awesome!

[hidizzyguy]

The "hits" of E=MC² are already so much better for me than those for TEOM.. However, I still really cherish TEOM, there are a lot of jewels on that one for me...It's funny you say you don't like Your Girl, cause that's my absolute favorite on the album.

[tothefloor]

Apr 2, 2008 16:45:51 GMT -5 @mrjedi said:

Nah, bring on the clubs.....we had a mid-tempo...now lets get it on!!!...then we can chill after that! ....honestly though, any track I've heard so far from the album would be fantastic by me :)

A ballad will be more accessible to all radio formats, and generally, sell the album a lot better than another run of the mill T-Pain track. We can save that for the summer.

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

The "hits" of E=MC² are already so much better for me than those for TEOM.. However, I still really cherish TEOM, there are a lot of jewels on that one for me...It's funny you say you don't like Your Girl, cause that's my absolute favorite on the album.

It's wierd, it's gotten praise.. but I just never got into it at all, and I still can't.

[paulmb]

went to the mariah signing in london on tues and there was a poster for the new album that said including the singles tmb, i'm that chick, i stay in love and bye bye. just heard migrate properly and it really does sound like single material to me though.

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

Really? I Stay in Love? That's intersting..

[cutiepie²]

WOW!!! and 15 tracks??

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

Interesting picture! Heat is on now? Is this possibly the Japanese version?

[Eloqueen™]

BANGIN BACK COVER! haha So excited to hear the other songs!

[hidizzyguy]

I see breast... how euro!!!

[Deleted]

I don't think it's Mimi. Her breasts look to small.

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

Maybe they're real? And the other times she's wearing a water bra or something. Do you think she could have gotten a body double cuz she was uncomfortable? I don't really think so, I always thought she was comfortable with her body and loved to flaunt.

[Deleted]

It kinda looks like an artwork.

[Active Aggressive]

Comfortable enough to always get her pictures so photoshopped? LOL. Even when Mariah is at her hottest, I think she is still insecure about her looks. Anyway, I am over Migrate. It sounds identical to the live version except this time you can hear her vocoder-enhanced vocals but that's not something to make me jump up and down about anyway. Bring on Bye Bye or Love Story!

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

Maybe so, but I still don't think that cover is fake...

[Active Aggressive]

I think that is the Euro version because why would Heat follow a gospel song unless she is talking about the heat of Hell that she wants to stay away from.

[ïʼnčrεdiвl]

I would love it if that was what it was!

ETA: I Wish You Well is supposedly not full out gospel... so it could work.

[Nicolexo]

Someone said at another forum it isn't real because it doesn't have the Anti-Piracy logo lol. But who knows.

[hidizzyguy]

That looks pretty darn real to me....

[colson]

E=MC2 - MTV.com Album Preview

Mariah Carey Album Preview: E=MC2 Is Focused On Fun, But Mimi Is At Her Best When She's Keeping It Real

MTV News checks out the diva's latest LP before it hits stores April 15.
By Jennifer Vineyard

Mariah Carey's last album, the multiplatinum Emancipation of Mimi, brought her back from a career slump of bad movies, dud albums, marital collapse and emotional meltdowns. It proved she still had the goods. So what is there left to prove with her new record, E=MC2? Answer: Nothing.

Which may be why Jermaine Dupri, the man behind so many of the Emancipation hits, plays a more muted role this time out, providing the occasional "uh-huh," "yeah" and "nope," among other things, on four of the album's 14 tracks. Has he worn out his welcome like the on-again, off-again lover Mariah sings about in the bulk of his tracks?

JD was a delight on Emancipation, acting less like a producer and more like a friend, bolstering Mariah's confidence and giving her someone to riff with ("It's Like That," "Get Your Number" and "Shake It Off"), ultimately helping her get to the point where she could do the breakout track "We Belong Together." But JD and Mariah don't belong together anymore. Now that Mariah's finally free, her producers need to help her spread her wings — otherwise, all we get is redux.

JD comes closest to showing that he still can do something new on "Thanx for Nothin'," which, like the Scott Storch track "Side Effects," finally reveals a side of Mariah we don't see that often — her true self. The Mariah we usually see and hear is a glossy one. Psychologists might say her affect is "off" — meaning her gestures and facial expressions don't match her mood. There's a reason for that, as she explains on "Side Effects," which is the emotional abuse she says she suffered during her marriage to music mogul Tommy Mottola. Mariah, who is usually quite guarded, has alluded to the subject in songs like "Petals," but never has she gone into such detail as she does on "Side Effects," in which she refers to the marriage as a "private hell that we built." Even though it's been 11 years since they split up, she sings in a lower register that she's still "wakin' up scared some nights ... dreaming about the violent times." Her emotional scars left her "a little protective ... a little defensive ... a little depressed," which makes her "fake a smile" as she "deal with the side effects."

Even though "Side Effects" features Young Jeezy, it sounds like a rock power ballad, as if Mariah had been listening to a lot of Bonnie Tyler and Pat Benatar and decided that to capture her emotions, the music needed to share her pain. This turns out to be a good thing, because when she's not focused on vocal gymnastics, Mariah can really sing — as in, letting us really feel what she feels. Nowhere else on the album does Mariah get quite so emotionally naked, and it makes you wonder: What would Mariah have sounded like if she ventured out of her comfort zones of pop and R&B? (Not withstanding her ill-advised Def Leppard cover, of course.)

While "Side Effects" is about her ex-husband, her second single, "Bye Bye," appears to be about her late father, Alfred Roy, who died of cancer in 2002. Mariah reminisces about the too-little time she shared with her mostly absent father and regrets how as a child, she didn't understand why he failed to show up sometimes to see her after he and her mother divorced when she was 3. But mostly Mariah regrets that he "never got a chance to see how good I've done/ And you never got to see me back at #1." This confessional moment doesn't last long, since she extends this song about death to be for anybody "who just lost somebody."

But for most of E=MC2, Mariah doesn't want to feel any pain — she wants to party the night away. So on the club-thumping "Migrate," she hops from "my car into the club ... from the bar to VIP ... from the party to the afterparty ... afterparty to hotel" with T-Pain, who urges her to "bounce, bounce, bounce." Like most MC albums, every guest star seems required to check her name at the door, and this is no exception. "Migrate," which was co-produced by Nate "Danjahandz" Hills, has Mariah in full diva mode as she leaves a club once they start "playing my jam."

Just in case there was a question of which jam that might be, she name-checks them herself in "For the Record," a play on words in which she incorporates past song titles into a verse after she asks her lover, "Give me one reason one we can't just press rewind?"

"I'm That Chick" ups the ego ante, but as she demonstrates with some silly lyrics ("la da da ooowee") and a funky disco beat (benefiting from an "Off the Wall" melody sample), she's not taking any of it seriously. At least we hope she's not serious when she compares herself to Tupac and Biggie, then ice cream and the lottery, as she softly taunts, "You're fiending to blaze up and taste me." As if this weren't already destined for the '80s time-warp roller-disco crowd, she serves up the joyful romp "I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time," which borrows from the chorus of DeBarge's "Stay With Me" (as well as a phrase uttered by a Vietnamese hooker in "Full Metal Jacket" and then sampled by 2 Live Crew and other hip-hop acts). At least on the reggae-inflected "Cruise Control" (featuring Damian Marley), she exhibits a sense of humor, singing in a Jamaican patois during the second verse: "When tha door open, de gals on de block they be hopin' to rob tha clock." She's not joking, or as she puts it, "Tink I'm joking?"

But for all the jokes, silliness and absurdities, Mariah is at her best when she keeps it simple, as she does in the closing track, "I Wish You Well," a piano ballad with gospel overtones (even including Bible verses from the books Proverbs, John, Philippians and Psalms). The song is a turning-of-the-cheek to anyone who mistreated her or doubted her. Older and wiser, she realizes on E=MC2, which hits stores April 15, that she needed them all along to make her who she is now, and thanks them for it. Because if she can be square with them, she's truly set free — squared.


www.mtv.com/news/articles/1584685/20080402/carey_mariah.jhtml

[Mikey]

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[Wolfy]

Apr 2, 2008 17:15:40 GMT -5 cutiepie² said:

WOW!!! and 15 tracks??

Hot back cover :) I love it

[paulmb]

that's probably the uk version. we usually get bonus tracks and don't have anti-piracy logos on the back.