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Post by The Northern Star⭐ on Mar 6, 2010 19:56:58 GMT -5
ORIGINAL RIBBON didn't need to be touched, the-Dream ruined my favorite song on the record. M.E.S.S. Ludacris did his thing though. Where are the "boy yooou's"? Sucks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2010 20:10:38 GMT -5
I read that bulls**t remix album got pushed back again! LOL! And yet it will probably sell more than Alanis' next bomb! Stay mad now!
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Post by Glove Slap on Mar 6, 2010 21:07:27 GMT -5
I read that bulls**t remix album got pushed back again! LOL! And yet it will probably sell more than Alanis' next bomb! Stay mad now!
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Post by yourstar830 on Mar 6, 2010 21:17:04 GMT -5
ORIGINAL RIBBON didn't need to be touched, the-Dream ruined my favorite song on the record. M.E.S.S. Ludacris did his thing though. Where are the "boy yooou's"? Sucks. I agree and I guess thats my problem with this features/remix album. The features (minus UOMF) are not adding anything to the originals. I mean it's one thing if they enhanced the songs in some way but most of the remixes I have heard have done the opposite. I love getting new material from Mariah but this remix project seems so random and pointless at this point. I just can't get over this Ribbon remix. It has no flow and the dream sounds horrible.
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Post by So Pure on Mar 6, 2010 21:46:10 GMT -5
I read that bulls**t remix album got pushed back again! LOL! And yet it will probably sell more than Alanis' next bomb! Stay mad now! Who's mad!? She stopped trying to be commerical a long time ago. Nothing sadder than Mariah's 40YO desperation...we'll...a Target exclusive...that keeps getting pushed back...that's pretty sad. back!
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Post by awwHALEnahh on Mar 6, 2010 21:46:56 GMT -5
They seriously just need to scrap this whole remix project. I mean, seriously, they are wasting time and money on it. I say just package these damn remixes with the original Memoirs album and just issue it as a "re-release" or "Deluxe Edition". If they ever release Angels Advocate, it is gonna flop harder than the original album. As much as I love Mariah and MOAIA, this is getting ridiculous. They just need to focus on giving the original album another big push (re-release) and getting it to platinum sales status. She doesn't need another underperforming album on here record.
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Post by Alex on Mar 6, 2010 21:49:50 GMT -5
AA does NOT to be released. After hearing another cut-and-paste rap and Dream ad-libbing like he's the next Usher is just too horrible.
Re-Release "Memoirs" in April with the lame Remix CD and call it a day. Pray album will scan 500,000.
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Post by Leigh on Mar 6, 2010 22:00:22 GMT -5
I am now feeling more excited about the dance remix album.....which clearly has disappeared off the radar and has very likely been dropped. I agree, they should just repackage the original album. Perhaps have two re-released versions, one with the urban remixes disc as a bonus and one with the dance remixes disc as a bonus. Give each one slightly different artwork, add a NEW (radio-friendly) song to the album, along with both an urban and a dance remix of it to promo each of the two re-releases and try to recoup some interest!! Or at least a few more sales of the album along the way...
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Post by kire on Mar 6, 2010 22:48:06 GMT -5
I mean really enough, one thing is to be fan and like an artist, but when the artist clearly makes shit music which doesn`t appeal to many people and pretending that is still good music is just plain ridiculous! I love mariah always will always have, but her music since 2000 is shit and noone can make me change my mind...when i listen to all her music from the early days...oh my god, it gives me chills...everything from 2000 makes me go tot he toilet and throw up, a woman with that kind of voice to sing songs like touch my biody and obsessed , it is just beyond me! I`ve said it before and i`ll always will, mariah is best at work when she is controlled! When she makes decisions herself they are disastrous....one exception was fantasy remix and that`s it. One smart decision in 20 years in music , god! don`t get me started on songs she didn`t want to be released but luckily for her arrogant smart ass the label chose to release them, i don`t want to cry, without you, hero, we belong together etc.
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Post by Epic Fail on Mar 6, 2010 22:50:01 GMT -5
this era is ova!
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Post by Leigh on Mar 6, 2010 23:56:40 GMT -5
I mean really enough, one thing is to be fan and like an artist, but when the artist clearly makes s**t music which doesn`t appeal to many people and pretending that is still good music is just plain ridiculous! I love mariah always will always have, but her music since 2000 is s**t and noone can make me change my mind...when i listen to all her music from the early days...oh my god, it gives me chills...everything from 2000 makes me go tot he toilet and throw up, a woman with that kind of voice to sing songs like touch my biody and obsessed , it is just beyond me! I`ve said it before and i`ll always will, mariah is best at work when she is controlled! When she makes decisions herself they are disastrous....one exception was fantasy remix and that`s it. One smart decision in 20 years in music , god! don`t get me started on songs she didn`t want to be released but luckily for her arrogant smart ass the label chose to release them, i don`t want to cry, without you, hero, we belong together etc. I agree that my favourite era of Mariah's music was when she didn't have control and that many of her decisions have, in my opinion, been a mistake. But in all fairness, she is making the music that she wants to make and why shouldn't she? It is, after all, her own career. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate having your important decisions made for you everyday. I don't understand why wanting control of your own career would make you arrogant...? It sounds like you need to accept that you're no longer interested in Mariah as an artist and enjoy/be thankful for her earlier body of work.
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Post by Hefty Hanna on Mar 7, 2010 0:08:45 GMT -5
SMDH @ the 'Ribbon' "remix". It's almost insulting to me as a fan. I may actually not spend money on this one.
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Post by qwertsy on Mar 7, 2010 0:23:43 GMT -5
im sorry but im one of the mariah fans who liked her BUTTERFLY onwards MORE.
i hardly play daydream. and more so music box. butterfly and moaia are my most played mariah albums.
if youre stuck in the early nineties, move on. mariah sure as hell has.
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Post by musicjunky318 on Mar 7, 2010 6:26:11 GMT -5
Mariah is pregnant. She's just gettin too huge for it to be just the cheeseburgers.
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Post by summers on Mar 7, 2010 8:00:04 GMT -5
Way better than we are the world. And the video is much stronger as well...
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Post by jayy on Mar 7, 2010 8:17:11 GMT -5
If they HAVE to release something just re-release memoirs with the remix disc.
This era was over after Obsessed peaked.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Mar 7, 2010 11:15:43 GMT -5
OK...I just listened to that Ribbon remix. Here is my problem with this remix album: It takes away from my spins of the originals. For example, I LOVED UOMF and played it all the time but then, the remix made me want to play that one instead and for what? Because of a few hot Nicki Minaj lines? Same thing about the Ribbon Remix. I love Ludacris so I feel like I will only be playing the new version, while the original languishes on my ITUNES. It's not really fair to the original recordings, which are amazing in and of themselves. The remixes so far don't seem to add anything because some layers of vocals or guest raps/vocals from other artists, yet it seems like this remix album is being pushed out to replace the original album. At least, that's how it would be for me for most songs. Why would I clutter my iPod or iPhone with two Ribbons or UOMFs that are practically the same. One has to go and most likely, the one that would stay would be the new version. I am just lost with this new project in general, I guess. I'm sure I will still buy it but it's annoying me at the moment.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Mar 7, 2010 13:05:41 GMT -5
OK...I just listened to that Ribbon remix. Here is my problem with this remix album: It takes away from my spins of the originals. For example, I LOVED UOMF and played it all the time but then, the remix made me want to play that one instead and for what? Because of a few hot Nicki Minaj lines? Same thing about the Ribbon Remix. I love Ludacris so I feel like I will only be playing the new version, while the original languishes on my ITUNES. It's not really fair to the original recordings, which are amazing in and of themselves. The remixes so far don't seem to add anything because some layers of vocals or guest raps/vocals from other artists, yet it seems like this remix album is being pushed out to replace the original album. At least, that's how it would be for me for most songs. Why would I clutter my iPod or iPhone with two Ribbons or UOMFs that are practically the same. One has to go and most likely, the one that would stay would be the new version. I am just lost with this new project in general, I guess. I'm sure I will still buy it but it's annoying me at the moment. THIS. :'(
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Post by worldwide on Mar 7, 2010 15:19:47 GMT -5
for the millionth time MTO is reporting mariah's pregnant. it seems every time she puts few ponds on she's pregnant.
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Post by ₫anny Jerz ♔ on Mar 7, 2010 15:21:55 GMT -5
By the way she's been looking I'm hoping she is carrying a baby. Either that or she ate one.
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Post by The Northern Star⭐ on Mar 7, 2010 15:22:51 GMT -5
OK...I just listened to that Ribbon remix. Here is my problem with this remix album: It takes away from my spins of the originals. For example, I LOVED UOMF and played it all the time but then, the remix made me want to play that one instead and for what? Because of a few hot Nicki Minaj lines? Same thing about the Ribbon Remix. I love Ludacris so I feel like I will only be playing the new version, while the original languishes on my ITUNES. It's not really fair to the original recordings, which are amazing in and of themselves. The remixes so far don't seem to add anything because some layers of vocals or guest raps/vocals from other artists, yet it seems like this remix album is being pushed out to replace the original album. At least, that's how it would be for me for most songs. Why would I clutter my iPod or iPhone with two Ribbons or UOMFs that are practically the same. One has to go and most likely, the one that would stay would be the new version. I am just lost with this new project in general, I guess. I'm sure I will still buy it but it's annoying me at the moment. We usually agree but not this time. That new remix is a HOT MESS and can't hold a candle to the original. The-Dream is so irritating.
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Post by ₫anny Jerz ♔ on Mar 7, 2010 15:25:01 GMT -5
From the New York Post (take with grain of salt):
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Post by beebee on Mar 7, 2010 18:52:39 GMT -5
Unfortunately "IWTKWLI" 's success in Brazil is just helping the soundtrack of the soap opera rather than Memoirs in this country. It's not like "Halo", which achieved great success in Brazil last year as well,and helped Beyonce's sales there. halo, which also was featured as a soap soundtrack, didn't help beyonce's sales much. what helped her was the tour in brazil. Mariah would most defintely sell arena in brazil, she's very popular there. Too bad she's ignoring them. As far as i know Brazil is country where MOAIA had the biggest success. "IASF" stayed in the Top 5 of Brazil's album chart the whole year , way before her tour there last month, and it sold over 150.000 copies. "Memoirs", so far, is at 10k only.
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Post by qwertsy on Mar 7, 2010 19:30:04 GMT -5
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Post by kire on Mar 7, 2010 20:07:21 GMT -5
I mean really enough, one thing is to be fan and like an artist, but when the artist clearly makes s**t music which doesn`t appeal to many people and pretending that is still good music is just plain ridiculous! I love mariah always will always have, but her music since 2000 is s**t and noone can make me change my mind...when i listen to all her music from the early days...oh my god, it gives me chills...everything from 2000 makes me go tot he toilet and throw up, a woman with that kind of voice to sing songs like touch my biody and obsessed , it is just beyond me! I`ve said it before and i`ll always will, mariah is best at work when she is controlled! When she makes decisions herself they are disastrous....one exception was fantasy remix and that`s it. One smart decision in 20 years in music , god! don`t get me started on songs she didn`t want to be released but luckily for her arrogant smart ass the label chose to release them, i don`t want to cry, without you, hero, we belong together etc. I agree that my favourite era of Mariah's music was when she didn't have control and that many of her decisions have, in my opinion, been a mistake. But in all fairness, she is making the music that she wants to make and why shouldn't she? It is, after all, her own career. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate having your important decisions made for you everyday. I don't understand why wanting control of your own career would make you arrogant...? It sounds like you need to accept that you're no longer interested in Mariah as an artist and enjoy/be thankful for her earlier body of work. I might have gone on a rant but it was from the heart and I meant every word of it. Thank you for your understanding and yes you are right too. If someone likes Mariah now be it and everybody is entitled to their preferences and what they want to hear or listen from the artist. It is not that i live in the nineties and is nothing shameful to say that the nineties was great era and if anyone is honest here they would recall that mariah is what she is today because of those vocal ballads back then. Some people constantly refer to her later period but it is obvious that she is what she is because of her early work and few sparks now and then i.e we belong together. The biggest remark I have is that she wasted her voice on mediocre songs too much in her career, of course she shouldn`t just sing ballads all the time but...well i wish her more maturity in life, she is not a 20 year old girl who should sing about touching her body, she needs to grow up pronto and she maybe will be sometimes respected as an artist. I really really think that she should just stop recording for few years get something going on in her private life with Nick and maybe some creative spark will someday appear and be put in her music. we`ll see.
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Post by Mariah on Mar 7, 2010 20:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by Hefty Hanna on Mar 7, 2010 20:15:51 GMT -5
I actually think she looks nice. I was hoping for something a bit more extravagant, but she looks nice.
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Post by tyrannitar on Mar 7, 2010 20:38:13 GMT -5
I actually think she looks nice. I was hoping for something a bit more extravagant, but she looks nice. I agree. She definitely looks older, though.
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Post by switch on Mar 7, 2010 23:20:27 GMT -5
I actually think she looks nice. I was hoping for something a bit more extravagant, but she looks nice. I agree. She definitely looks older, though. It's about time. She looks lovely :)
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Post by baobabs727 on Mar 7, 2010 23:22:27 GMT -5
Kire is right. I concur.
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