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Post by The Emancipated Unicorn! on Aug 7, 2009 12:05:16 GMT -5
If we're going to say who did it the best, at least Amerie's cover looks better of the other 2. agreed.
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Post by Junkiex on Aug 7, 2009 13:25:37 GMT -5
Mariah Carey goes karaoke Mariah Carey turns karaoke queen for her latest album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. We had a first listen to six tracks but almost choked on our pink cupcake as we heard her belt out Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is. We can see the children's choir on stage already. The rest is classic Mariah with R& B tracks Candy Bling, Standing O and Impossible and a biting tribute to Eminem with Obsessed. www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/3am/2009/08/07/carey-goes-karaoke-115875-21578153/??? ??? ??? WTH means going karaoke? Is that supposed to be a good or a bad thing for them? I just can't figure it out from the article. Brits are so different!
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Post by Junkiex on Aug 7, 2009 13:27:24 GMT -5
So tired Mariah’s just direMARIAH used to be on fi-ah. But no longer. While UK Brrrap pack artists such as TINCHY STRYDER and DJ IRONIK take soul and R'n'B in exciting new directions, veteran CAREY is left looking tired and irrelevant. No more so than on new album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. I was played a selection of tracks from the CD, due on September 14, and they left me feeling that the diva has run out of steam. The collection has been billed as her most personal so far, harking back to the sound of her mid-Nineties heyday. But its reliance on bland, dated-sounding, dreary R'n'B bored me to tears. Cliched lyrics about things being better "back in the day" and loving someone like "Kool Aid" ??? don't help either. A cover of FOREIGNER's I Want To Know What Love Is was competent at best. And with little of her trademark vocal pyrotechnics on display I can't find much to recommend what I heard. There's still more tracks to finish before the album hits the shelves. I just hope they're not as bad as the one's she's already handed in... www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2575613/Mariah-Careys-new-LP-gets-the-Biz-review-treatment.html
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Post by Hefty Hanna on Aug 7, 2009 13:38:20 GMT -5
Harsh!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 7, 2009 13:39:30 GMT -5
The Sun is a RAG. Next.
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Post by Junkiex on Aug 7, 2009 13:42:45 GMT -5
^I agree but the "loving someone like Kool Aid" line... I hope they got it wrong... maybe it is "loving someone like Coolio"
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Post by The Emancipated Unicorn! on Aug 7, 2009 13:49:49 GMT -5
WTF@ at both them reviews
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Post by autodidact on Aug 7, 2009 13:53:15 GMT -5
Mariah has become the queen of musical product placement.
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Post by Bojangles on Aug 7, 2009 13:54:14 GMT -5
I really take reviews with a grain of salt, everyone has different opinions. Just because someone else dislikes it doesn't mean you will. ;)
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Post by Junkiex on Aug 7, 2009 13:57:21 GMT -5
Absolutely! I prefer it when they limit themselves to describing the songs as opposed to judging the songs. But it's the British tabloids so this is expected. This doesn't take away a bit of my excitement. I'll be my own final judge.
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Post by Caviar on Aug 7, 2009 14:22:23 GMT -5
HARSH!!!
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Post by Where will Mimi be? on Aug 7, 2009 14:31:33 GMT -5
Damn limeys! She should never go back there...but the one point they do make is that Mariah needs to experiment on her cds and dump The Dream....and do new things!
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Post by Dammn Baby on Aug 7, 2009 14:32:27 GMT -5
Why do they even bother letting those bitches into the listening parties lol?
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Post by Where will Mimi be? on Aug 7, 2009 14:45:33 GMT -5
:)All we need is that I know what love is to get leaked and watch this album explode ...it sounds like the kind of song like Bleeding Love or Halo that everyone will love and most have forgotten the orginal version from theh 80's so the tweens will use this for their proms?
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Post by ZigaZigHa on Aug 7, 2009 14:57:56 GMT -5
I wouldnt be surprised if those reviews would be the same as mine. The tracks played were mainly produced by The Dream and like I said, I do not find their chemistry great. Touch My Body was acceptable, Obssessed is to but they are not like, really exceptional. I dont know, I just dont think they have magic. It's like Mariah working with Jimmy/Terry
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Post by S. Carter on Aug 7, 2009 15:25:26 GMT -5
^"Bliss" is one of MC's best songs on "Rainbow".
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Post by Where will Mimi be? on Aug 7, 2009 15:29:40 GMT -5
I wouldnt be surprised if those reviews would be the same as mine. The tracks played were mainly produced by The Dream and like I said, I do not find their chemistry great. Touch My Body was acceptable, Obssessed is to but they are not like, really exceptional. I dont know, I just dont think they have magic. It's like Mariah working with Jimmy/Terry I agree time to move on from the Dream they most work cheap or something?
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Post by Nevermind on Aug 7, 2009 15:43:30 GMT -5
So tired Mariah’s just direWhile UK Brrrap pack artists such as TINCHY STRYDER and DJ IRONIK take soul and R'n'B in exciting new directions, veteran CAREY is left looking tired and irrelevant. WHAT THE ACTUAL FU CK. I'm all for Mariah being critisized, but that is all sorts of wrong. But then seeing Tinchy and DJ Ironik and the Sun all have the same buying audience - chavs - it's not surprising.
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Post by Caviar on Aug 7, 2009 15:58:15 GMT -5
That review was the ultimate slay.
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Post by martss on Aug 7, 2009 16:02:00 GMT -5
Not great reviews. I'm hopeful though.
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Post by dream<3lover on Aug 7, 2009 16:14:32 GMT -5
The way to look at reviews is just to judge them on a whole, see what the average is....theres gonna be AMAZING ones and ones that Trash..just look at the common ground between all of them......so far they have been good not great or bad
And please for the MILLION time both Whit and MC are great legendary BITCHES in their own way so lets just drop the back n forth bickering on both Threads.......infact lets just cut out the bickering all together and discuss MUSIC, NEWS...ITS FRIDAY ENJOY UR STAY AND BE NICE
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Post by martss on Aug 7, 2009 16:22:01 GMT -5
I mean if "Obsessed" is as "bad" as the rest based on that last review, then the critic has no taste at all LOL.
I think it's such a hot strong song.
Mariah said that this album is a tribute to Minnie Ripperton, so I wonder why no one has mentioned the presence of lots of high notes or something?
"No trademark" vocals? Ok that's interesting because even in that "Hate U" clip you hear the high whistle notes.
Why can't people pay attention and write reviews with more details!
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Post by dream<3lover on Aug 7, 2009 16:27:47 GMT -5
I wouldnt worry or pay attention to any review from the UK.......Im more interested and anxious to get some reviews on this side of the pond.......And i still think we gonna get 1 or 2 surprise last minute addition to this album that will turn out to be singles..CANt wait, Sept 15 is my Xmas
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Post by cking33 on Aug 7, 2009 16:34:27 GMT -5
Not great reviews. I'm hopeful though. There was like one bad review of only six songs on the album, haha. You shouldn't read anything into these. Plus, there was one over all good review too.
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Post by martss on Aug 7, 2009 16:38:14 GMT -5
Oh I'm not reading into it at all. Peoples opinions don't sway me at all.
I'm just mad at them for being so harsh. That's where I'm coming from.
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Post by Mariah on Aug 7, 2009 17:18:48 GMT -5
O M G I would love a cover like that ...
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Post by cjay on Aug 7, 2009 18:07:53 GMT -5
im confused. If the songs are so bad why did the review give a 4/5 rating for most of the songs? Is that supposed to be some back-hand compliment to MC?
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Aug 7, 2009 18:07:56 GMT -5
Holy Photoshop Batman! That barely looks like her. :O
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Aug 7, 2009 18:21:31 GMT -5
she looked like that in the early 90's. Cuz she looks like she's 21ish.
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Post by vipanonymous on Aug 7, 2009 18:37:21 GMT -5
:)
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