Mariah Carey: "IT'S TIME" 👑

[Daniel Collins]

I feel like a flop fan for not knowing there's a video for this song

[@DjKingBee]

I Hope she doesnt do them in Chronological order. Thats Too Boring and obvious. I hope she mixes them up and comes up with a Theme to make them all flow together but not CHRONOLOGICAL> No. Dont Do it Mariah.
and I would love for her to throw in Remixes of MY ALL - and Thank God I found you instead of the Originals.

[jenglisbe]

Apr 30, 2015 9:23:41 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

I feel like a flop fan for not knowing there's a video for this song

I hadn't seen that in years. Isn't the production a bit different, or am I just not remembering that 1st verse being so low key cinematic?

[crystalphnx]

Apr 30, 2015 9:23:41 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

I feel like a flop fan for not knowing there's a video for this song

Not sure if you knew, since you were surprised by its video - but "There's Got To Be A Way" was released as the 4th and final single from her debut in the UK (and several European countries, I believe) in 1991, in lieu of "I Don't Wanna Cry." Not sure if a US release was ever rumored/considered.

UK Chart Run = *54* - 57 - 71 - OUT

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Apr 30, 2015 11:50:42 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

I hadn't seen that in years. Isn't the production a bit different, or am I just not remembering that 1st verse being so low key cinematic?

The video uses the "There's Got To Be A Way (7" Remix)" which was exclusive to the single CD issued in some European countries.

[Tea-why]

Apr 30, 2015 9:23:41 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

I feel like a flop fan for not knowing there's a video for this song

I didn't know there was either! Colour me flop. :(

[jenglisbe]

Ranking MC's albums...

Classics
1. Daydream
Favorite single - Fantasy
Favorite album track - Underneath the Stars
Skip - "When I Saw You" (replace with "Slipping Away" on my iPod, and Daydream is perfection)

2. Me. I Am Mariah
Favorite single - #Beautiful
Favorite album track - Dedicated
Skip - One More Try

3. Butterfly
Favorite single - Breakdown
Favorite album track - The Beautiful Ones
Skip - none

Love
4. Emotions
Favorite single - Can't Let Go
Favorite album track - To Be Around You
Skip - So Blessed

5. The Emancipation of Mimi
Favorite single - We Belong Together
Favorite album track - Circles
Skip - To the Floor (I Feel It should have made it over this one)

6. Mariah Carey
Favorite single - Vision of Love
Favorite album track - Alone In Love
Skip - There's Got To Be A Way

7. E=MC2
Favorite single - I'll Be Lovin U Long Time
Favorite album track - I Wish You Well
Skip - Last Kiss

Like
8. Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Favorite single - HATEU
Favorite album track - Ribbon
Skip - More Than Just Friends

9. Music Box
Favorite single - Without You
Favorite album track - Just to Hold You Once Again
Skip - All I've Ever Wanted (replace this and I've Been Thinking About You with Everything Fades Away and Do You Think of Me and it would move up a lot)

10. Rainbow
Favorite single - Crybaby
Favorite album track - Petals
Skip - After Tonight

11. Charmbracelet
Favorite single - Bringin' on the Heartbreak
Favorite album track - Clown
Skip - Through the Rain

Meh
12. Glitter
Favorite single - none
Favorite album track - All My Life
Skip - Loverboy

[Relaxing Cup]

Classics
 Daydream
Favorite single -
Favorite album track - Melt Away
Skip - "When I Saw You"

 Me. I Am Mariah
Favorite single -
Favorite album track - Dedicated
Skip - #Beautiful

 Butterfly
Favorite single -
Favorite album track - Babydoll
Skip - Whenever You Call

 Glitter
Favorite single -
Favorite album track - Reflections (Care Enough)
Skip - Never Too Far

Love
 Emotions
Favorite single - Can't Let Go
Favorite album track - To Be Around You
Skip - So Blessed

The Emancipation of Mimi
Favorite single - SAY SOMETHIN
Favorite album track - Stay The Night
Skip - To the Floor (I Feel It should have made it over this one)

Mariah Carey
Favorite single - SOMEDAY
Favorite album track - Alone In Love
Skip - You Need Me

 E=MC2
Favorite single - I'll Be Lovin U Long Time
Favorite album track - OOC
Skip - Bye Bye

Like
 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Favorite single - HATEU (SOSODEF REMIX)
Favorite album track - MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS
Skip - I Wanna Know What Love Is

Music Box
Favorite single - Never Forget You
Favorite album track - Now That I Know
Skip - Hero

Charmbracelet
Favorite single - Boy (I Need You)
Favorite album track - The One
Skip - Lullaby

Meh
12. Rainbow
Favorite single - Crybaby
Favorite album track - Bliss
Skip - After Tonight

[BDGeek]

I listened to Butterfly in full for the first time in a while the other day. Such a flaw-free pop/R&B crossover album - not a bad song on it. But Emancipation remains my most-played from her. There's just such a thrill in listening to an album where the artist and her team pull out all the stops and just deliver. I stan for a new track with every listen - currently, it's "Say Somethin'."

I also have a newfound appreciation for Charmbracelet. It sorta serves as a sonic bridge between Butterfly and Emancipation; you can hear elements of both, albeit in subtle ways. Although the cut/paste vocal segments on "Through The Rain" are far too obvious, it's a well-written song. And apart from that horrid chipmunk effect, "Boy (I Need You)" and "You Got Me" are bona fide bops.

Memoirs though... I can never remember anything from that album apart from the first three tracks, "Standing O," and "I Wanna Know What Love Is." It's just so forgettable in the grand scheme of her discography.

[jenglisbe]

Apr 30, 2015 21:56:37 GMT -5 BDGeek said:

I listened to Butterfly in full for the first time in a while the other day. Such a flaw-free pop/R&B crossover album - not a bad song on it. But Emancipation remains my most-played from her. There's just such a thrill in listening to an album where the artist and her team pull out all the stops and just deliver. I stan for a new track with every listen - currently, it's "Say Somethin'."

I agree Butterfly is flaw-free. I think the only thing that keeps it from being my favorite is the lack of a real jam in the way "Emotions" and "Fantasy" are jams. Butterfly is mostly warm/sad.

I also have a newfound appreciation for Charmbracelet. It sorta serves as a sonic bridge between Butterfly and Emancipation; you can hear elements of both, albeit in subtle ways. Although the cut/paste vocal segments on "Through The Rain" are far too obvious, it's a well-written song. And apart from that horrid chipmunk effect, "Boy (I Need You)" and "You Got Me" are bona fide bops.

In terms of the songs themselves, I like Charmbracelet a lot. There are a lot of good lyrics (Clown, You Had Your Chance, My Saving Grace, I Only Wanted, Sunflowers) and melodies (The One, Boy, Clown, My Saving Grace, Lullaby). It's too bad she sang every single on in her airy voice. Songs like "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" and "Subtle Invitation" are crying for full vocals, and ultimately it's too much of the same. I don't think most of the songs are bad with the airy vocals; it's just that hearing it on song after song becomes tiresome and drags the album down.

Memoirs though... I can never remember anything from that album apart from the first three tracks, "Standing O," and "I Wanna Know What Love Is." It's just so forgettable in the grand scheme of her discography.

I think "HATEU" is a legit classic in her catalog. It's so good! I can see where the album as a whole has a sameness to it, though, and I think that was actually on purpose (it's a mood album).

[MiniMusic]

NOT at the "When I Saw You" hate. I will not accept that. That was one of my favorite songs when I first heard the album and actually remains one of my favorite Mariah tracks ever. It's just so, ugh. Perfect. Emotional. Serving vocals, serving drama. Maybe I can just really relate to that type of over the top sentiment but idk that's a fuckin jam to me.

[The Northern Star⭐]

Apr 30, 2015 22:11:57 GMT -5 MiniMusic said:

NOT at the "When I Saw You" hate. I will not accept that. That was one of my favorite songs when I first heard the album and actually remains one of my favorite Mariah tracks ever. It's just so, ugh. Perfect. Emotional. Serving vocals, serving drama. Maybe I can just really relate to that type of over the top sentiment but idk that's a f**kin jam to me.

Nope, I'm right with you on that song, my love for it is more than just a made up dream.

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Mimi shading Robin Leach and his observation lol


What's the story behind "Infinity" because I read all those rumblings today (about the Nick Cannon breakup)?

You read all that, but you missed the Brett rumors, so that's pretty amazing. No, the story behind "Infinity" is really about loving yourself first because "Infinity" loving me more and more, that's the motto really.

It's about no matter what you go through, the ups and downs in life, you have to put yourself first and love yourself first and get through anything that way. That's the message.

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The Mariah Carey Business Model
Source: Bloomberg Business

If you took inventory of Mariah Carey's recent projects, you might conclude she's desperate for money. In 2011 she hosted a three-night special on the Home Shopping Network, where she modeled cheap jewelry with as much gusto as Paula Abdul before her. In 2013, she followed Abdul again, taking her seat on American Idol. Earlier this year, Carey announced a "residency" in Las Vegas, where she'll compete for ticket sales with such hot acts as Britney Spears and Penn & Teller. Then, on April 27, she of the famous five-octave range released a greatest hits album.

Called #1 to Infinity, it features songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100, starting with her 1990 ballad "Vision of Love" and ending at "Touch My Body," which held the top spot for two brief weeks in—wait—2008? That was seven years ago. Carey has released three albums since, but they've all flopped. And yet, despite all the markers of a career on the decline, the diva is thriving. According to CNN, Carey, 45, is worth upwards of $520 million. That's more than Elton John and on par with Jay Z.

Much of her current success, of course, rests on the foundation of her earlier career. With 18 No. 1 Billboard hits, she holds the record for a solo artist. In 2001, piled high with Grammy nominations and platinum records, she signed an $80 million, five-album contract with EMI. At the time it was one of the largest record deals for a female singer, second only to Whitney Houston's $100 million contract with Arista Records. "She's the last of a dying breed," says Jeff Rabhan, chair of NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. "A pop diva put on a pedestal. That doesn’t happen anymore."

Carey did a memorable job recording hits like Heartbreaker and Always Be My Baby, but that's not what keeps her flush. It's that she wrote her own lyrics. "If you're just the artist, you live off record sales, but as a songwriter she’s paid every time her song is played on the radio or streamed online," says Clyde Rolston, a music-business professor at Nashville's Belmont University. "That makes a huge difference in long-term financial success." With Nineties nostalgia kicking in, Carey's music is streamed on Spotify twice as often as Madonna's.

Negotiating writing credits is now de rigueur for Katy Perry, Rihanna, and other young pop stars—even if they haven't actually penned the tunes. But Carey has always been shrewd with her contracts: In 2001, when she tried acting, in the movie Glitter, she bombed. The soundtrack album that followed sold only 500,000 copies. EMI, her label at the time, decided it would pay to never work with her again. So she brokered $28 million out of the deal. The New York Times did the math: Carey made about $25 per copy of Glitter sold at retail.

After that the singer bounced around to a few labels and released new albums with inconsistent results. Carey’s also not really a live performer. She can sing, of course, but "you don't really remember when they announce a new Mariah Carey tour, do you?" asks Bob Merlis, a longtime music publicist at Warner Bros. "She's just not a touring act." (She can’t dance.) According to the music data site Pollstar, Carey's tours have pulled in $60 million since 2000. Christina Aguilera has made $92 million.

So how does Carey remain a star without big concerts or breakout songs? By saying yes, basically. A few months on American Idol netted her $18 million. Her Elizabeth Arden fragrances have made more than $150 million in revenue since 2007. She's still hawking her HSN line, and she's also got a new soft drink. Carey's most profitable partnership remains the one she has with Santa Claus—she gets a windfall of royalties every Christmas "when All I Want for Christmas Is You" is played ad nauseam.

Now she's turning to Vegas, the only channel she's yet to milk of its money. Starting in May, she'll play 18 shows at Caesars Palace while its matron, Celine Dion, rests. If the shows sell, Carey would be wise to make the gig permanent: Dion makes about $2 million in ticket sales a night. If it doesn't work out for Carey, that will probably be fine, too. Even her failures end up making her a lot of money.

[weaver]

^^ The shade in that article...not to mention the incorrect facts, like after Glitter she "bounced around to a few different labels." Pretty sure she was at IDJ (or Island once the split happened) until she just moved to Epic recently?? So, from 2002-2015. Actually that's longer than she was at Sony the first time around.

[sundaymorningguy]

Well, nobody ever seems to get their facts right concerning her.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Je ne comprends pas some of these rankings I am reading. Too bleak for a Friday, dahhling.

[kmbgs]

Lmao she released a few albums to "inconsistent results" way to sweep one of the biggest comebacks in music history under the rug fool.

We see each otha

[MiniMusic]

Glitter is the only Mariah album I don't have or have ever listened to... and why is it not on Spotify? Where can I listen to this?

[Ivy Leegue™]

Maybe I will send it to you on DropBox since I missed Pay It Forward Day yesterday and am feeling generous. Check back in with me later tonight, fellow New York resident.

[MiniMusic]

May 1, 2015 8:48:54 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

Maybe I will send it to you on DropBox since I missed Pay It Forward Day yesterday and am feeling generous. Check back in with me later tonight, fellow New York resident.

Thank you so much sistren

[Caviar]

Yass at the random Christina Aguilera mention; But no that article was all shade and poorly written. She did not release a greatest hits album on the 27th. I CANNOT at the "bounced around a few labels". LOL what in hell?

[Ivy Leegue™]

May 1, 2015 8:51:34 GMT -5 MiniMusic said:

May 1, 2015 8:48:54 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

Maybe I will send it to you on DropBox since I missed Pay It Forward Day yesterday and am feeling generous. Check back in with me later tonight, fellow New York resident.

Thank you so much sistren

Brethren, but you're welcome all the same. :bert:

By the way, So Blessed just came on and reaffirmed the fact that it is one of my all-time favorite Mariah ballads. Any shade to this song doesn't even exist to me.

[The Northern Star⭐]

May 1, 2015 10:58:55 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

May 1, 2015 8:51:34 GMT -5 MiniMusic said:

Thank you so much sistren

Brethren, but you're welcome all the same. :bert:

By the way, So Blessed just came on and reaffirmed the fact that it is one of my all-time favorite Mariah ballads. Any shade to this song doesn't even exist to me.

I LOVE So Blessed and have been listening to so many of the pre-Daydream ballads lately. I know she doesn't like a lot of those songs but they are so good.

[Deleted]

May 1, 2015 10:58:55 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

May 1, 2015 8:51:34 GMT -5 MiniMusic said:

Thank you so much sistren

Brethren, but you're welcome all the same. :bert:

By the way, So Blessed just came on and reaffirmed the fact that it is one of my all-time favorite Mariah ballads. Any shade to this song doesn't even exist to me.

THANK YOU. So Blessed is one of my all-time fave Mariah ballads and is on the best Mariah ballads album: Emotions. Can't Let Go, And You Don't Remember, The Wind, Til The End Of Time, If It's Over..... PERFECTION.

Glitter is a must-listen for true Mariah fans. Great ballads, but also some of her best (and real) uptempos: I Didn't Mean To Turn You On being my favorite along with All My Life, and Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and Don't Stop (Funkin 4 Jamaica) are both jams too. If We has one of her catchiest hooks and Loverboy is pure kitsch. The 2nd half of Want You has some of her greatest vocals.

[Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815...]

Is there any chance of Mimi being at the Billboard awards this year since is in Las Vegas?

I mean damn, 25 years in the business has to count for something right? Not to mention she's one of Billboard's most prolific chart artists.

Anyhow, here's hoping.

FYI, I ask this because Roger mentioned it again today, and while he's been wrong with news in the past, he's also been right...

Showbiz 411‏@showbiz411
As far as I know, @ mariahcarey is supposed to participate in Billboard Awards.

[Linnethia Monique]

Apr 30, 2015 21:31:10 GMT -5 Relaxing Cup said:

Classics
The Emancipation of Mimi
Favorite single - SAY SOMETHIN
Favorite album track - Stay The Night
Skip - To the Floor (I Feel It should have made it over this one)

All truth!

[Ivy Leegue™]

I dont skip anything on TEOM but To The Floor is easily my least favorite. No competition there. It came on today when my phone was on random and I bopped.

[Relaxing Cup]

May 1, 2015 16:17:37 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

I dont skip anything on TEOM but To The Floor is easily my least favorite. No competition there. It came on today when my phone was on random and I bopped.

is that when u pop ur bussy?

[Deleted]

May 1, 2015 9:12:24 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Yass at the random Christina Aguilera mention; But no that article was all shade and poorly written. She did not release a greatest hits album on the 27th. I CANNOT at the "bounced around a few labels". LOL what in hell?

I love it only because it just underscores the fact that any attempt at shading Mariah generally equates to: a) must get details wrong to even try it b) and even then, the bitch still slays all your faves with every every past, present, and future receipt. Bless their attempting hearts.