| May 30, 2000...Vote for MC on TRL and call your Local Radio Stations along with the 26 |
Many people told me that you can also vote for Crybaby on MTV Jams and to do that, just click this direct link below:
MTV Jams...Vote for Crybaby Please!
Bravo T.V.
Honey told me that Mariah will be on BRAVO TV this Snuday at 1:55 pm (CET). Check her out.
Frech TV News...
Isabelle told me that Mariah is scheduled t appear on a TV show on June 3rd at 8.55 pm. It's on France 2 channel. That's all the info. I got on that.
New MC Message
Sony added Mariah's message yesterday and late last night removed it again. However, someone sent it to my Mariah 3 buddy Elin, and that is how I got my hands on it. I added it to my MC Audio section and you can hear it loud and clear there. Go download it and listen to it.
NY and Boston pics
Ashes told me that you can now check out a catelogue that features photos of MC from the New York and Boston concerts. Their are backstage photos and also pics of the concert. Click the link below:
clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mariahsuklambs
Pop-Up Video
Mariah was on Pop-Up Video last night at 7:30 pm EST. I got it on tape and it was actually pretty cool. They said how the video was shot in an abandon movie theater and how the video went over budget but the invester promised to cover all costs. Then an arrow pointed up to Mariah, showing that she was the investor, which I thought was cute. Also, at the end they were talking about different "breakers" like "Achy-Breaker" etc. and then the last one was an arrow that pointed to Mariah and it said, "Record Breaker!" Oh well, if you missed it, check out Important Dates for reairing times. Thanks to "lamby" for reminding me of this info!
Spanish News from Minerva
The title sounds like a special show huh? Hee hee, anyhow, one of my best friends Minvera sent me some Spanish news and here it is for your reading pleasure!
Some news now: A Spanish magazine called ¡Qué me dices! has published some pictures of Mariah with Luismi in Capri, some of them have already seen on internet.
Gary's Page
My buddy Gary updated his page with new Boston pics that he took, I believe and you can check it out by clicking the link below.
Click Here
Billboard
Warren gave me an update on what is going on with the Billboard Charts:
Oh and here's some news for you, on the current Billboard chart scene, Crybaby is bulleted at #72 on the R&B chart, but it falls 3 places from #65 to #68 on the airplay chart with no bullet. There must have been some big jumps and high debuts for MC to get a bullet and still fall in airplay.
CTTA is still nowhere on any charts. I personally have voted on TRL over 10,000 times(using a macro) in the last two weeks and I think that there is no chance for MC to get back on, I'm still voting but I think MTV is blocking our votes. However the email requests are getting responses and hopefully if enough people get through, there's a chance that CTTA will start to be added. I know the DJ I called at B96 in Chicago wouldn't play CTTA because they haven't started playing it YET! Now the keywork here is yet. Which means they are considering it. So we need to keep working on them.
However there is good Billboard news, because Marc Anthony scanned only 45,000 units to get #2 on the Hot 100 sales chart, he is #5 on the Hot 100 chart with airplay at #16. Now MARIAH will sell at least 100,000 units of CTTA/Crybaby first week and possibly more, so if we can at least get the airplay into the 60s for either CTTA or Crybaby, then MC has a shot at #1. But Mariah shouldn't worry about getting into the top 10 because that's pretty much a given I think even without airplay. Now if the DAMN radio stations would just give Can't Take That Away a shot. Tommy(and the rest of Sony) is really pissing me off as usual. I can't wait until MARIAH can
jump ship to another label that will give Her respect. I wonder if the upcoming soundtrack will count as Her 10th album on Her contract of if She has to do one more after that.
I will buy Single
So far I am already buying singles for 5 people (2 singles each plus cassettes so technically I am buying 15 MC items this upcoming Tuesday) to help sales. If anyone out of the country needs the US singles, I am willing to buy them for you to help MC out with sales. Send me an e-mail and we can discust costs! For the Heartbreaker Single, I bought about $60 worth of singles for one person, not including my money that I spent and I am willing to do it again. So if ya need help..e-mail me.
Marie Osmond on CNN
Anthony told me that Marie Osmond was on Larry King's talk show on CNN last night and the showed a clip of Marie singing "Hero." Anthony said she sound really good :)
Note from Regina
I am used to getting about 30-50 e-mails a day and now it is going from that to over 100 e-mails a day..ECK! If I don't respond to you or do not use the news you sent me, please don't get mad at me. I am trying to report the most important news and trying to do homework and work at my job too. Trying my best here boo's! Keep e-mailing me if I don't respond and you need an answer. I'll get the idea eventually, HA HA! Tootaloo...
Message from Jill
Jill wrote me and asked if all the "Mariah3" websites would please post this and of course I said that it would be my pleasure. Mariah and her have come up with 26 more radio stations that are important to call. I e-mailed her and told her how B96 won't play the song CTTA until next week and hopefully they will check into that. Along with calling these, please call your local radio stations:
1. Z100 - NY (1 - 800 - 242 - 0100)
2. WKSS - CT (1 - 860 - 247 - 9570)
3. WVQS - San Francisco (1 - 888 - 876 - 0957)
4. WXYZ - Baltimore (1 - 410 - 481 - 1027)
5. WWZZ - Washington DC (1 - 800 - 987 - 2104)
6. WNKS - North Carolina (1 - 704 - 570 - 9595)
7. WDCG - Raleigh (1 - 919 - 860 - 1051)
8. WXKS - Boston (1 - 617 - 931 - 1108)
9. Y100 - Miami (1 - 305 - 550 - 9100)
10. KIIS - Los Angeles (1 - 800 - 520 - 1027)
11. KDWB - MN (1 - 651 - 989 - 5392)
12. KHKS - Dallas (1 - 214 - 263 - 1061)
13. WSTR - Atlanta (1 - 404 - 741 - 9400)
14. KRBE - Houston (1 - 713 - 390 - 5723)
15. KMXV - ? (1 - 816 - 576 - 7093)
16. KSLV - St. Louis (1 - 314 - 969 - 1077)
17. WDRQ - Detroit (1 - 313 - 298 - 9393)
18. WKQI - Detroit (1 - 313 - 298 - 9595)
19. KHTS - San Diego (1 - 619 - 291 - 9191)
20. WSLZ - Tampa (1 - 727 - 446 - 9393)
21. XL106 - Orlando (1 - 877 - 919 - 1067)
22. WIOQ - Philadelphia (1 - 610 - 667 - 8102)
23. KKRZ - Portland (1 - 503 - 733 - 5100)
24. KBKS - Seattle (1 - 206 - 805 - 7061)
25. WBZZ - Pittsburgh (1 - 412 - 333 - 9494)
26. WPRO - Providence (1 - 401 - 224 - 1234)
One More Thing
I am going to directly quote this from Jill. I think it is important that you guys know that MC is really greatful for everything we are doing!!!!!
"...even though MC knows that her fans are requesting like mad and she is so thankful, we thought getting these numbers to the fans might be helpful as well. thank you so much again for your help, and please thank the fans for us!"
TRL-No Show?
Mariah still hasn't been on TRL and I can't figure out why. Please make sure you vote for it everyday and are deleting your cookies. I promised Mariah on the phone that we would get her back on TRL and if we don't, I presonally will feel that we failed her. So please, I am begging you, we need to vote for MC on TRL. IF anyone sees her on the show too, please e-mail me and let me know.
You can see a list of Request E-mails and phone numbers at my Request Mariah Page.
How to Delete Cookies:
If you vote for MC on TRL more then once a day, it is possible that if you don't delete the cookies, it won't count. So here is how you do that since a lot of people have been asking:
If you have Windows, go into your Window Explorer
Scroll down and click on "Windows" twice
Another list will come up on the left and scroll down until you see "Temporary Internet Files"
A huge list will come up on the right. Click on the first one and hold "shift key"
Go to the last one in the list and click on that too and the whole list should be hightlighted
Click delete and it will delete everything. Don't worry, it won't mess up your computer, it's actually good for your computer.
Now go vote again!
Vote for MC in Latin America
Carolina told me that MC needs help in Latin Amerca too. There is a Latin Version of TRL there and you can vote for MC by clicking the link below:
http://www.mtvla.com/los10
| May 30, 2000...Vote for MC on TRL and call your Local Radio Stations along with the four!! |
Well Sony finally added Mariah's latest message, YIPPEE, and there is more to the ending so make sure you go check it out at www.mcarey.com I am so happy they added it!!
World Music Awards 2000
Well I hope you all tuned into the WMA's last night. Mariah looked amazing, as always!! She won the Female Artist of the Millenium and it was a really cool thing that they put together and it really made you realize all the amazing accomplishments Mariah has acheived in only one decade. Here is the speech that Mariah said and thanks to MCFantasy7@aol.com, who is president of the Mariah's Rainbow Fanclub.
"Uh...this is like...I wrote a little speech. I usually just wing it, but tonight I said I gotta write something down before I forget. Ok. I have to say first of all this is a completely and totally bizarre experience for me...to be receiving the award for artist of the millennium, Hello! I mean, it's the same award that Michael Jackson is receiving. I mean he's been making number one records prior to my birth. He's truly a legend and I just feel blessed to be here tonight. The funny thing is, I still actually feel like that little girl living on a mattress, on the floor, making a demo tape and just trying to get heard and there's a lot of those people out there. So everybody out there keep your head up, if you're...if you're working towards a dream, don't give up and don't stop. Umm.. (laughs) I would like to thank the World Music Awards for supporting me for so long. Thank you Prince Albert especially. Umm...thank you God for carrying me through a lot of desperate situations in my career and in my personal life, in fact. And, uh, I truly believe I have survived because of you. And my fans around the world, I love you and I always, always will."
Then she came out again to accept the Best Female R&B artist. Here is her second speech:
"I just wanna say to everyone around the world, to all my fans internationally, I appreciate you staying with me through people saying 'Oh, she went too R&B, she went this way, she went that way.' I'm still me. I'm still doing the records I've always done. I'm just allowed to be a little bit more of myself, in fact! Because you see, that's the most important part of being an artist. You must be yourself. So, I would like to thank Louise McNally, Michael Richardson, everyone at Maroon Entertainment, umm, Ree-Ree, everybody that helps me out every day of the week. And just say that I'm very proud to be here tonight, and I'm very grateful to all my fans. I love you very much. (laughs) Thank you, thank you Sony Music worldwide, internationally, and thank you so much for being here tonight. I enjoyed ya...and I love ya!"
Against All Odds Duet with Westlife!
This following article is from www.dotmusic.com and thanks to Mazouni for sending it to me!
WESTLIFE AND MARIAH RECORD DUET
Westlife have completed their duet with Mariah Carey,
after recording a cover of the Phil Collins hit
'Against All Odds'.
The track was recorded in Capril recently, and Bryan
McFadden has revealed how Mariah took charge of the
session.
"She produced the song herself. There was only
aengineer in the studio to help her. She's an
incredibly talented woman," said Bryan.
He also said the boyband had to get drunk beforehand
to settle their nerves. "She walked into the hotel bar
singing one of her songs and we were all in awe.
"So we had several drinks and everybody relaxed.
Mariah even got a bit tipsy, we all did I suppose.
From then on everything was fine."
Mariah's e-mail address?
A lot of you were very sweet in your e-mails. Many of you wrote in and said how you have already requested CTTA on TRL over 100 times and have been calling in to your local radio stations, along with the main 4 that Mariah informed us about. However, I just wanted to say that I am unable to give out Mariah/Jill's e-mail address and hopefully you can respect that. I doubt very much that MC or Jill will ever call me again (though I would be estatic if they ever did again :) and I don't want to flood them with e-mails, unless it is something important. I am greatful for Sunday's experience and will never forget that and it has really made me respect Mariah even more, as a person and as an artist. She truly is an extremely nice person. So, that is all I got to say on that..back to the news baby!
New Pics
I added four pics of MC at her first appearance of Regis & Kathie Lee that Gloria took from the audience. Also, I added a pic of MC from the Coconuts signing, which I can't remember who sent it to me. But check out all 5 pics in Gallery 27, if ya like!
NY Daily News
Nini let me know that MC was mentioned in todays NY Daily News:
Mariah Carey is on the island of Capri cutting her
next album in a mountaintop studio and spending her
downtime with boyfriend Luis Miguel.
Not so great news
Maybe this will help inspire some of you and to make you see that this week is very important is voting for CTTA on the radio and on TRL. William sent this to me:
Hello,
Just wanting to let you know that as of May 13, 2000 on the billboard Hot 100 Can't take that away have not made it yet. Also it has not made it on the Top 75 Airplay chart. It has to make it on the Top 75 Airplay Chart in order to me on the Hot 100. Since her first single Vision of Love all of Mariah's single has sold good and almost every single has made it into the top 5 single sales. Mariah don't need much help with selling single she just need help on radio. I predict that the single can make between number 20-30 just on sale and a little help from radio. But we want to do better then that. I think more radio will play the song overtime.
Thank you for your time,
William S
So as you can see, it is very important to call into the radio stations and if you have any radio station that refuses to play CTTA or Crybaby, contact Shayne Kent at shayne_kent@hotmail.com. Please include the stations name, phone number, the DJ's name, e-mail address and the negative comment that that particular DJ had made. Thanks
Other Places to Vote for CTTA
Ken informed me that if you would like to help out CTTA or Crybaby on Channel V, then go to the links below. She loosing ground in the Asian Charts and she needs our help there too!
http://www.channelv.com/top5at5/index.htm
http://www.channelv.com/International/interact/request/bydemand.html
http://www.mtvasia.com/Video/Requests/index.html
MC the perfect host?
Also, thanks to Ken for this next article from MTVAsia.com:
http://www.mtvasia.com/News/International/Items/0005/0005202.html
Singer Mariah Carey showed another side to her character by pampering Irish pop stars Westlife on her $5 million yacht.
Westlife, who were with Mariah off the Italian island of Capri to record a song together, had their every whim catered to by the singer, who's more commonly know for her diva-like outbursts.
Band member Bryan McFadden says, "Mariah was an amazing host - you would just not believe the way we were treated out there.
"I wanted to drink Carlsberg so immediately Mariah ordered in a crate from the mainland. We were treated like absolute kings."
The band, managed by Boyzone's Ronan Keating, spent a week recording a cover of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" with Mariah in her private recording studio on the island.
Fascinating Fact:
Mariah Carey's British fans are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - the chance to buy a toilet seat that she's sat on. Radio 1 bosses have unscrewed the seat, which Mariah perched on earlier this year, and are auctioning it for charity Children In Need. -- WENN
Request MC
Okay I posted the following info. earlier this morning before my class at college. However, I know I have been really saying a lot about requesting CTTA or Crybaby on the radio but this next week is very important and MC really needs our help. So I am begging you to please take 5-10 minutes out of your day, at least, and try and help out for this next 1-2 weeks. Every call and vote counts. Please do what you can..
TRL and Radio Stations
I have to get to class, so I will update the page fully in about 5 hours but I wanted to say PLEASE go vote for MC on TRL. I just did this morning and Mariah needs our help. Also, please vote for MC at the following radio stations, ALONG with your local one. Every vote counts and every call counts so don't think that your ONE call or ONE vote won't make the difference, because it will. I am praying so hard that MC will be on TRL today..please help out. It takes 2 minutes.
KMEL : 1-800-955-KMEL
arbage@aol.com (Joey Arbagey's address-Director)
If that don't work, try this address: THEZOO@kmeljams.com
HOT-97 : 1-800-223-9797
info@hot97.com
(ONLY request Crybaby Mariah said!)
B96 : 312-591-9696
info@b96.com
(I don't know if ths e-mail address is correct. Alan told me that it is easy to vote on the site. Go to b96.com and they click on contact and request CTTA. Mariah said to vote for CTTA)
(She told me that Crybaby is #2 at the moment, which is great. Only request Crybaby here because it's an Urban audience. Jill and MC told me that!)
(818) 845 1059
Power106LA@aol.com
You can see a list of Request E-mails and phone numbers at my Request Mariah Page.
More places to vote:
Magicfever informed me of some other important places to call:
Hey Regina!
Right now I am working on emailing the radio stations for Mariah and the fans! I must have voted 20 times on TRL already today and everyone else needs to too! :) Ok, you also HAVE to add Los Angeles' KIIS FM to your list. Even if Mariah didn't tell you, it is a pop radio station and has the most listeners in all of Southern California and is one of the top radio stations in the country. Power 106 is here in LA but it is just a hip-hop station and will only play Crybaby. KIIS FM plays a variety of music and I know will play both if people request it. So, here is the info on it:
102.7 KIIS FM ~ Los Angeles
website: www.kiisfmi.com
email: feedback@kiisfmi.com
THIS IS IMPORTANT:
The DJ at night is REALLY nice! His name is JOJO. I emailed him a really long letter already explaining why he had to play the songs and if a lot of other people do the same I am SURE that he will play it EVEN if they don't want him too. He will just do that sort of thing! And his producer, Tony, won't mind because like I say, they are extremely cool. If enough people email them, they will get a clue! So, email JOJO directly at:
JOJORADIO@aol.com.
To call in and vote for the Top 5 at 9 on week day night call
1-800-520-1027
between 8PM-9PM Pacific time.
More places to request MC
Gary informed me of even more important stations to call into. He told me he just wrote these two stations and told me that the DJ's said it would help her get on if more people would write in. So PLEASE write them too :)
music@kiss108.com - Kiss 108
cob@wzid.com - 95.7 WZID
request@werz.com - 107.1 WERZ
Vote for MC at TheBox, VH1 and BET; not just TRL
Porter e-mailed me the following message and I think he is write and that we should vote for MC at more places. Of course TRL, is still one of the main places, because that is where MC wants us to vote but if you have some free time, please vote for MC at the following links below too! Thanks guys..
I think that we are approaching this #1 thing the wrong way; so if we can't get her on MTV we should get CTTA on VH1s countdown where songs stay a long time unlike TRL. And plus alot of people that don't get played on TRL make it to #1 like Savage Garden, Santana, and Celine Dion. So lets try this week to vote as much as you can on VH1, BET and The Box, and lets see how we do because as you can see TRL is riged and I think that Sony has some to do with this too. I think working from the bottom of the charts up will make the song more meaningful. PS and by playing CTTA on other stations we may even gain a new following. Because if one station doesn't want to play Mariah there are others such as VH1. By the way, they play the new video more often than they have played any other of Mariah's songs in a while. Vote Vote Vote! Even it there is no request box, put a request in the comments box and spread the word to others.
VH1.COM
BET.COM
THEBOX.COM
| May 29, 2000...Mariah Called ME! |
The MC Audio was updated, just now. It now includes two parts of the CTTA Remixes that Mariah wanted me to put on the webpage. So of course I did it! Also, there are two audios of Mariah talking to Anja at the Germany concert. All four are zips and you have to download them and then sign offline and they will automatically unzip. Check out MC Audio on the main page!
Power 106
I e-mailed Jill to check on the name of this radio station and she wrote me back and told me that it is. Jennifer gave me the number and I also, now have the e-mail address. Look below for the four radio stations to call, ALONG with your local one
AAO released in Germany
Gogi told me that the CD-Single was released today in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and probably some other parts of Europe. Please go get yours now and help support Mariah. Here is the tracklistings..
1. AAO
2. Crybaby
3. TGIFY (Stargate Radio Edit)
4. CTTA (Morales Club Mix Edit)
Update #2 Today. The Mariah message left on Archives
Last night, Mariah wanted me to post this message on my site and I asked where she posted it and she said on Mariah 3. This confused me so I talked to Jill and we figured out they posted it on Mariah Carey Archives site. So Eric just retreived it for us and here it is. Mariah wants you all to read this message:
It's me...lambs,chops,page turners..chatter's o'this stellar
site. Ok,so it's 4 am and I still can't sleep..I'm on vocal rest..hoping it's working..I left a verbal message on the Sony site,but naturally,since it somewhat implied there was not as much support re:cttafm..or crybaby..and I am assuming no one heard it..I wish I had a number to call in to you un related to that mess,but you know me..web illiterate.I am actually on line,typing for myself(a complete joke considering my skills) I just want to thank every single one of you 4 being here for me and forming this site.I
hope Anderz is o.k..and happy w/ his new life..he was very nice when I met him, and I know,He,like so many of u worked so hard on these sites..u probably won't see me do this again soon 'cause after tomorrow I'll be spiriling in work mode forever..and when I try to leave"real"messages about my proffessional situation"someone"is blocking..hmmmm,wonder why?I love you and hpoe u belive it's me cuz'"i gotta get me some sleeeep" God bless..and
thanks again,M.
mariah/hopefully you believe me/Regina and Anja..the fan review book
is in my lap. Well,I'm a Nomad actually..right now,I'm in Greece..soon to be back in Italy. One random moment in the spiriling Universe o'my life.com.Rainbow
Mariah and I talked for one hour last night!
Okay people, there is so much I have to tell you today. But first things first, I have a couple of things that Mariah told me were the MOST IMPORTANT! First...the single is NOT being released on June 13th. The single is being released NEXT week on June 6th. I told her about amazon.com and the other one, slipping my mind at the moment, that has the release date for June 13th. She said she would check into that. She told me she is so scared that the single won't do well. She doesn't think it will make it into the Top 10 or 5 even. Sony is not giving her ANY SUPPORT. Sony sends a list to radio stations on what songs they want to have as the "priority" and Sony didn't put CTTA on the list. Radio stations won't play the song she said because they do track TRL and see what it happening on that show. Plus, since Mariah isn't on the Sony list. She told me that if people don't start calling in, the single won't do well. She said that This is the MOST important week since CTTA is coming out next week!
She gave me four radio stations that she said are the main ones right now. You got any info. that I didn't post on these? Please e-mail it to me. Thanks to Will Ward for the e-mail address!
KMEL : 1-800-955-KMEL
arbage@aol.com (Joey Arbagey's address-Director)
If that don't work, try this address: THEZOO@kmeljams.com
HOT-97 : 1-800-223-9797
info@hot97.com
(ONLY request Crybaby Mariah said!)
B96 : 847-591-9696
info@b96.com
(I don't know if ths e-mail address is correct. Alan told me that it is easy to vote on the site. Go to b96.com and they click on contact and request CTTA. Mariah said to vote for CTTA)
(She told me that Crybaby is #2 at the moment, which is great. Only request Crybaby here because it's an Urban audience. Jill and MC told me that!)
(818) 845 1059
Power106LA@aol.com
Mariah said that she really needs our help. The reason why the latest message wasn't posted on the website because "some people" thought she let out a little too much information and they don't want CTTA to do well. She calls into a Sony phone, so they hear what is uploaded to the site. She is afraid that people won't believe that was REALLY here on the Friends of Mariah Message Board. Jill and her, both want you to know that is a REAL message and it was SUPPOSE to be added to her Official Site but they won't add it. I am going to add it again here:
"Hi Guys! I sound like this because I have been in 3 countries in 1 day with about 2 hours of sleep, in fact... I am on a European promo trip & I'm trying to finish my soundtrack, but I wanted to call in.
Anja - a girl from Germany who I have met several times - gave me a 'fan review' book of my tour and it made me smile (and cry - naturally), so thank you for that. In almost every fan book 99% of you mention that CTTA is your favorite - and say it has inspired you. I even got a petition that Kevin Cane from Indiana gave me which helped me fight to get it released as a single - so thank you for that.
As a lot of you know, the political situation in my professional career is not stellar (it is very very hard), and I am getting a lot of negative feedback from certain corporate people. Still, I'm not willing to give up on Can't Take That Away and I just don't want to let you all down if it is not a big top 5 or 10 record. The only reason I say this is because lots of you write that it is a #1 song. At this point, basically, if there are not thousands of requests to radio stations and TRL constantly... it is just going to quietly fade away.
What is most important to me are those of you who say the song has given you hope and strength. I just want it to reach as many people as possible, and it is so hard with my professional situation to ever really know what is going on - so it's truly a complete mess. I love you all so much for caring about my music and I always will." - Mariah Carey"
So she said please let you all know that she really needs our help and that it has to take place this week for anything to happen! So, when I say this I am not kidding around..we need to call/write to TRL everyday and even several times a day. We need to get CTTA back up onto TRL. We need to call the radio stations listed above ALONG WITH our local stations. It's going to be a hard week but if we pull together we can do it..COME ON MARIAH NEEDS OUR HELP PEOPLE!! For everything she has done for us, are you going to let her down? This song is important to all of us and it is also important to Mariah. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE:
You can see a list of Request E-mails and phone numbers at my Request Mariah Page.
What Else Regina?
Mariah and I talked about so much last night and is seriously the sweetest and nicest person on this universe. When I first picked up the phone, I thought it was my best friend Alex and I said kind of snotty, "HELLLLLLOOOOO?" It was Jill, but she didn't say that! She said, Regina? Hold On. I was thinking GREAT another person selling me something and then they have the nerve to tell me to hold on. Man was in for something..ha ha. Then she came on and she was like, "Hi Regina, it's Mariah!" I started to somewhat cry but I was trying to hold it in and my hands were shaking; thought I would drop the frigging phone. We ended up talking for an hour and I talked to Jill too, who is also SO SWEET and nice, just like MC! So here is some things that we talked about. Oh and one more thing, after about 10 minutes of our conversation, Mariah's cell phone shut down and I lost her. I thought she wouldn't call back so I ran downstairs to tell my parents that she called. My dad told me to tape her and I was like NOOOOOO!!! Then the phone rang, so I ran upstairs and my dad followed me telling me to tape it. So Mariah, I just want to tell you that I DID NOT TAPE IT! I can't even tape on my answering machine, only the downstairs line and I didn't tape you either Jill. I made my dad promised and he didn't do anything! I am telling you this so you can trust me! There is a lot of stuff I am NOT going to post that Mariah and I talked about on the site becaue Mariah asked me not to. I want her to trust me too and hopefully she knows that she can!! Here is the news...
Diva's Live/Christina Who?
She told me that the Christina rumor is NOT TRUE! I asked her and brought it up to her because I personally wanted to know the truth. She said that she has never talked her met Christina and she don't know what the story is. She told me that originally she was asked to be on Men Strike Back, which she thought was kind of odd, but she couldn't do it since she had the MSG concert to do on April 11th. She knows the guy who did the shows and then she said he asked her to be on Diva's Live and she agreed 'cause she loves Diana. We were talking about Diana and she said that she thought it was SO FUNNY when she came out in her dress. Mariah wasn't expecting that. I told her I thought it was cute when Diana was talking about how she is wearing a "Mariah number" and MC started to crack up! OH and she told me that Love Hangover is actually from Diva's Live but it is remastered and really sounds nice.
Pregnant? I don't think so!
Mariah told me that she is NOT pregnant and that she thinks she would know if she is! Ha ha..so now everyone we have the FINAL ANSWER and we can stop those rumors for sure!
Mariah Quotes
Mariah told me to add, "Eat, drink, dance, whatever. (said in a southern drawl)" to the Quote of the Week. When she told me she first said, "Eat, drink, draw, whatever.." because we were talking about my artwork. She said it means that do whatever ya want and don't let other people influence you on what you should do. She also told me that "(said in a southern drawl)" is something she always adds in parenthese when she write her friends. It's like on of her new key phrases she said..hee hee. She is so funny :)
WMA's--Jacko?
I told Mariah that she was in several tabloids this week and about the one where she is in the National Examiner about Michael Jackson. She wanted to know more and I didn't want to tell her cause I didn't want her mad at me. Well anyhow I did tell her but she said it wasn't her idea to come out the second time. Her management thought that she should have the same thing that Jacko did since they are the same awards. She said she didn't want to come out again cause she didn't want to walk up (or did she say down?) the steps again due to her shoes. But anyhow she asked if I was going to watch today and I was like OF COURSE I AM..wouldn't miss it for the world! So make sure you tune in to see Mariah on WMA's tonight too! She deserved the awards she won!
Mariah 3
Mariah got the Rainbow Review from Anja on Wednesday and she said she read my letter to her in the beginning. She wants to thank everyone for their letters and said that they really meant a lot to her. She said that she carry's the fan books with her everywhere and when I was talking to Jill, she said the same thing. I joked around with JIll saying that must be one heavy suitcase and she laughed and said, yeah it is! Hee hee. But anyhow, Mariah visited all three of the Mariah 3 websites. She said that she appreciates everything we do for her. She was having a little problems getting to our sites at times but she said that she posted a SPECIAL message for the Mariah 3 on Mariah Carey Archives Messageboard (Eric is going to retreive it today and send it to Elin and I so we can add it to our sites too!) She told me to please not shut down my website now since I talked to her and I laughed and told her I never will now.
My Artwork
One of the first things we talked about was my drawings. Mariah said she loved the one of her and Guam and told me that Guam is with her mother right now and he is BIG! She said that she thought my drawings were nice and wanted to tell me that no matter what ANYONE says, don't give up on my dreams. God, she was so nice and so sincere and she really almost made me cry. It was like she believed in me, even though she never met me. She said that if anyone critized me to say something along the line as, "Look at yours and then call me back!" I knw I misquoted that but basically she said that if anyone critizes my work, just tell them to look at there own work and then judge my work. Ha ha...she told me I have to be stronger and fight them. I told her I would and she said to watch Whoppies performance in "Color Purple" to help inspire me. I will FOR SURE rent that movie now! She said it was one of her favorite movies too! She told me that she thinks that by talking to me, she feels that we have met in person. Isn't she amazing?!?
CTTA
I mentioned this above but I want to talk about it more, to really stick it into your head. We talked about the single MANY times and she said that it would be cool if I added a clip of it on my site so people can get a taste of it and I said I would. I told her i loved the Morales Remix where she spoke in the beg. and she said Thank You. That is the part I want to add cause she sounds so sincere. She said she recorded that at 5 am in the morning. Hee hee...but she couldn't stress enought the importance of calling and requesting CTTA this week. This is the most important week so we HAVE TO DO IT!
Crybaby Lyrics
In my letter to MC, I told her about the dillema on the Crybaby lyrics. How I loved that part and she sang is to me on the phone..can you believe that? She was so amazing, even though it was 5 am in Greece, which is where she is on Vocal Rest for the next 2 days. I told her about the site and how we were all trying to figure out what she says. Here is what she told me, if I can remember correctly:
"Why is it 5 am and I'm still spiraling!" (she said that was right!)
"I don't get no sleep, I'm up all week, can't stop thinking of you and me, and everything we used to be, it could of been so perfectly, see I cry." (I think she said at the end it is, "see I cry." I hope I got that right but she kept singing it to me I was like OH MY GOSH..lol :)
All That Glitters
She said she is REALLY excited about her upcoming movie and that they are casting at the moment. She said she is happy to be finally able to pursue what she wants and to go for acting. I told her that she did a GREAT job in the Bachelor and she said thanks. I asked when she thought it would come out and she said that they are pushing for Spring 2001. Something for us ALL to look forward to.
AAO single-Petals Remix
I asked her when the European single would be coming out for AAO and she said she wasn't really sure. She said she heard that a Petals Remix was being played in clubs, which she didn't understand why. She said she heard it and loved it, so it will be the B Side for the European Single for AAO. I told her how Petals is my favorite song and she said it was hers too. I told her how I thought it was amazing how she can write a song and how it can touch someone else so much..she said Thanks :)
Enough Already?
There is a lot more we talked about but I don't want to give too much away, which I think I already did huh? Mariah hopefully you arn't upset if I added too much here. Last night was a night I will never ever forget and Mariah was so sweet and so nice. I felt like I was talking to my best friend. I was so nervous for the first 5-10 minutes but then it was like not so scary anymore..ha ha. She really was so nice and I talked to Jill too and she was just as nice. They are like the sweetest people in the world and Mariah wanted me to tell you all that she appreciates everything we do for her. She wishes she could call or write everyone but obviously she can't. I told her how we appreciate everything she does for us and how we love her music. She really wanted me to make sure you know how much her fans mean to her and how we keep her going..go I guess that is a good way to end this? They e-mailed me about the Mariah 3 letter and I will have that up on the site later today.
New Pics
As promised, I added 10 new pics today. They are the pics that Minerva took in Paris. They are very nice and they are in their own section in the PIC Gallery. The Gallery is called, "Minerva Concert Pics-Paris!" Check it out..
New MC Chat Room
One thing that MC did tell me is that one time she did visit a chat room on her, she said it wasn't the official one on her site a while back but another one and she said noone believed that it was really her. I explained how it is how to know with e-mail addresses but Lance e-mailed me and told me he created a new page called Club MC. A couple of fans from the old Official Mariah Chat room created this site and you can find a chat room in the site Here is more from Lance..
Go to http://www.talkcity.com/chat and in the top left corner of your computer screen it ask's the question 'ALREADY KNOW WHERE YOU WANT TO CHAT?'" SIMPLY TYPE mcchat and then just type in your handle and your there. Thanks for the help I really appreciate a great mc fan like you. Alohassssss from hawaii, lance
FHM
BriStuWalt told me that Access Hollywood said that the new FHM magazine, featuring the 100 sexiest list, is coming out June 1st. Mariah is #28 out of a 100 and she is in her red Oscar dress in the pic.
| May 28, 2000... |
I added a brand new gallery today called "Rainbow Review MC Pics" and in there you can find several new pics of Mariah in Germany. The pics were taken by Anja and Peter and they are VERY nice! Check them out if you like. Also, I added the Book pics into Gallery 27 yesterday. If you are in InfoMC, you should already know that since I announced that in yesterdays newsletter. If you arn't in InfoMC, send me an e-mail at WildCatHG@aol.com and I'll add you to the list.
More New Pics
I am going to scan Minerva's concert pics from Paris tonight and add them tomorrow. They are EXTREMELY close and nice so make sure you come back tomorrow to check them out!
Updates
I am going to be adding a new Pic of the Week and a new Quote of the Week. Also, Anja sent me a review about Mariah in Germany on Wednesday. I put it in "Mariah & US" and it is a VERY NICE review. Anja told me a lot of stuff in it. Check that out and Zoli sent me a review also about when Mariah was in Germany. Here it is:
OMG! YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME, BUT IT IS TRUE!
I MET MARIAH! AND WE WERE CHATTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)))))))))))))))))))))))
In Germany (Cologne) there were 2 Mariah-related shows:
Viva Interaktiv and Top Of The Pops. It was impossible
to buy tickets to the first show but I was standing with
my 3 German friends (Anja, Peter, Holger) outside.
And after 10 minutes Mariah's car arrived! We shouted
"MARIAH" and the window was opened: Her fingers appeared,
and she waved to us!!
I was holding my sign "Mariah! The Hungarian Fanclub
Greets You!" but after this I realized that the sign was
turned down. :))))
You already know what happened in the studio of Top
Of The Pops: she sang Crybaby Acapella, and an
amazing song from her All That Glitters soundtrack, etc...
But maybe you are interested in that minutes when
I was speaking to Mariah... ;)
When She appeared everybody shouted "I LUV YOU!" etc
I cried: "Anja Is HERE!" She said: "Who? Anja? Where?"
I pointed to her and she remembered everything. Anja
is the girl to whom Mariah sang Close My Eyes 3 months
ago in Cologne.
Later that night Mariah asked: "How do you say
Her next question was: "How's Hungary?"
I said: "I travelled 15 hours just to see you today! It is
a beautiful country. Please come here someday!"
Mariah replied: "I prefer countries which have a beach!"
"I will make a beach!" :)))
"You'll make a beach? Haha!"
So it was one of the best days of my life. I got 2
autographs, I could touch her hands for many times
and the best thing that she was sooo nice to
everybody!
I think somebody could record the whole thing
with a minidisc and I hope I will get it soon!
I have developed my pix and 10-12 of them are
good! You will able to see them on my site
next week: http://i.am/mariah
Pop-Up Video
Well I taped VH1 yesterday from 4-4:30 pm but I sadly found out that the special was from 4:30-5 pm here in NJ, so I missed Heartbreaker Pop-Up Video. Anyone see it? Froggi1116 told me that Christina's "Genie in a Bottle" was in it and they were talking bout how a genie has 3 wishes, and one of Christina's is to be like Mariah Carey, and then they showed part of one of mariah's videos (Fantasy)
FHM's Sexiest Women 2000
Mariah has been on this list twice, as from my own memory, and now she is up for it again. Please vote for her at:
http://www.fhm.co.uk/covergirls/100sexiest/2000/vote.asp
Thanks to Raphael for this information
Cosmopolitan
Gloria told me that Mariah is in the June edition of Cosmo. I saw this pic too and forgot to mention it. It's about the waist cut off jeans and there is a tiny pic of MC wearing her famous jeans :)
Divas Live/Request Magazine
Chris told me two things. First he said he would look into Diva's Live 2000 release, since he works at Sam Goody and second that the Request Magazine that I mentioned yesterday has been out for a while now and told me to let you guys know that the new Request magazine is coming out probably this week, so go get yours now. It's free so hey, why not? :)
#1's Video Certified Gold
Daniel from Hawaii informed me that the #1's Video has been certified gold, accoring to billboard.com. If you go to the site, go all the way down to Video Certifications and you can find the information there. Cool huh?
Crybaby on R&B Charts
Pink-Love told me that Crybaby is now #70 on the 3/6/00 R&B Single Charts.
69 79 73 7 "Xxplosive," Dr. Dre Featuring Hittman, Kurupt, Nate Dogg & Six-Two
70 72 72 4 "Crybaby," Mariah Carey Featuring Snoop Dogg
71 71 79 4 "Jumpin, Jumpin," Destiny's Child
Song Sheet Pullout
Ken informed me that Mariah is in a Malaysian magazine called "Galaxie." It is the May 17-31st issue and Mariah is on the song sheet pullout for Can't Take That Away :)
My Final Statement
Have you voted today? If not you better go now cause we want Mariah on TRL baby!
| May 27, 2000... |
Maria informed me that Mariah's assistant, Jill left the new message from Mariah on the FOMM board. It will be added to the Official Site probably either tomorrow or Monday. Mariah mentions the Rainbow Review book and my best friend Anja..how cool huh?
"Hi Guys! I sound like this because I have been in 3 countries in 1 day with about 2 hours of sleep, in fact... I am on a European promo trip & I'm trying to finish my soundtrack, but I wanted to call in.
Anja - a girl from Germany who I have met several times - gave me a 'fan review' book of my tour and it made me smile (and cry - naturally), so thank you for that. In almost every fan book 99% of you mention that CTTA is your favorite - and say it has inspired you. I even got a petition that Kevin Cane from Indiana gave me which helped me fight to get it released as a single - so thank you for that.
As a lot of you know, the political situation in my professional career is not stellar (it is very very hard), and I am getting a lot of negative feedback from certain corporate people. Still, I'm not willing to give up on Can't Take That Away and I just don't want to let you all down if it is not a big top 5 or 10 record. The only reason I say this is because lots of you write that it is a #1 song. At this point, basically, if there are not thousands of requests to radio stations and TRL constantly... it is just going to quietly fade away.
What is most important to me are those of you who say the song has given you hope and strength. I just want it to reach as many people as possible, and it is so hard with my professional situation to ever really know what is going on - so it's truly a complete mess. I love you all so much for caring about my music and I always will." - Mariah Carey"
Pics and MC Audio
Someone e-mailed me yesterday and told me that the Pics page was down and not working and I didn't believe him. However, many of yu e-mailed me last night and told me that it is in fact NOT working. So I checked it out and I was pretty much an idiot and deleted the index of the pics page. SO, now the Pics page is back up, thanks to Alex and MCAudio is also up again. If you download the Z100 interview, you have to let the full interview run choppy before it runs normally. It's the Window Media Player..sorry guys!
New Pics
I added a new section to the webpage yesterday, "Mariah & Us!" It talks about how Anja and I became friends and I scanned some pics into the page. Plus Anja sent me a pic of Mariah holding the Rainbow Review book and another one close up, which I added to the page. Check out all the EXCLUSIVE pics by clicking on "Mariah & Us" on the main page. Also, tomorrow I will be adding new pics from Peter, who was also there with Mariah. Some of them are REALLY nice and on Monday I will be adding scans of Minerva's Paris pics, which are as good of quality as the Belgium pics..stay tuned...
Magazine News
Mariah is in three tabloids and two magazines, that I saw last night. First, in the STAR tabloid (June 6) there is two full pages of Mariah. It talks about her family problems and for the first time ever, we get to see what Mariah's father looks like! Plus there are 4 pics of Mariah in Capri. BUY STAR PEOPLE! (of course for the pics, Not the untrue articles) Next, she is in the National Examiner (June 6). There is a pic of Mariah from the WMA's and the title says, "Mariah vs. Jacko." Once again, I bought it for the pic, not article. Next, is the GLOBE tabloid (June 6th also) and there is a pic of Luis, MC and Prince Albert at the WMA's. Finally, go pic up Request Magazine, which is free at your local Sam Goody store. It has a concert pic of Mariah in LA and it is actually VERY nice. It is the June 2000 issue and NSync is on the cover. Thanks to MariahLamby for informing me about this information.
Mariah Book
I got $25 from my uncle for Christmas for Amazon.com, so I bought the UK TGIFY single (which comes with poster) and I bought a book called, "Mariah Carey: Galaxy of Superstars" by Sam Wellman. Well I didn't think it would be that great for about $12 but actually the book is AWESOME. It has a ton of exclusive pics and is 64 pages long. I seriously recommend you all going and buyin this book. I will try and scan some of the pics today or tomorrow! Check out Quote of the Week for one of the *New* pics from the book!
Exclusive: Order Diva's Live 2000
Yesterady at Sam Goody, I saw a poster on their wall. It was Mariah, Diana Ross, Destiny Child, etc singing, "Ain't No Moutain High Enough" at Diva's Live 2000. I never saw the pic before and it was REALLY NICE. It said that you can preorder your copy of Diva's Live 2000 now? Anyone know any information on when Diva's Live 2000 will be released? The poster didn't say. Oh and with more Sam Goody news, you can now get the TGIFY song sheet there. Thanks Lisa!
Video Link
I didn't know this but MTV has a section on their website where you can download MC videos. Ken informed me that Crybaby and CTTA has now been added to Mariah's list. Click this link:
http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=http://www.mtv.com/mtv/bands_az/c/carey_mariah/index.html
New Site
Sirginho created a site with up to the minute MC news and a big pic gallery. Check it out if you like by clicking the link below:
http://www.anglefire.com/ak4/naj/index.html
40 Videos Special?
Megan and several others informed me that the Top 40 Billboard Special is NOT new and it was a rerun. Along with OSD at #1, Mariah had Dreamlover at #29 and Fantasy at #21.
Top 40 on TRL
Heartbreaker was #24 out of the 40 on TRL Superstars. Thanks to Sherwin and Dan for this information.
Columbia House
Shawna let me know that Rainbow was finally added to the Columbia House Music Club catalog and here is what it says:
"When Mariah releases an album, it's an event and this
all-star affair is no exception. She kicks it off with
her #1 smash Heartbreaker, featured n two forms-the
original w/Jay-X and a bangin' remix w/Da Brat & Missy
Elliot. The talented diva co-wrote two songs with the
unrelenting Diane Warren, including the sweetly
caressing David Foster production Sfter Tonight. Usher
excorts her on the woofer-bumpin' seduction How Much,
and her famous four-octave voice sends Phil Collins'
Against All Odds soaring into new heights. She uses
this soul-bearing set to chronicle what she calls 'the
emotional rollercoaster ride of the past year' and
brings it to an uplifting close with the #1 ballad
Thank God I Found You (w/Joe & 98 Degrees). In
Mariah's world, the pot at the end of the rainbow is
always packed with platinum."
| May 26, 2000...Special Announcement... |
OMG, I am so excited right now, I had to update again. Peter just e-mailed me and informed me that Mariah DID get the Rainbow Review Book in Germany yesterday. If you filled out the questionaire for the Rainbow Concerts, which I had on the site for about 2-3 months, then MARIAH GOT YOUR REVIEW. The Rainbow Review book is the first book to let Mariah know what HER FANS thought of the Rainbow Concerts. Peter, Holgar and Anja (Presidents of MFC) got to hang out with Mariah and when they said goodbye to her, she said, "Bye and thank you for the nice Fanbook." Anja also got one of Mariah's shoes, which broke during a performance. Peter wrote me a long detailed review of what happened. Hopefully, Anja will write me a review too :) Read below to find out more on what Peter had to say:
Hi Regina! You will never believe what happened to Anja, Holger and Me. First Mariah got the tourbook and she was very thankfull for it. But here is the complete story: Yesterday we met Mariah again!!!! Oh my god it was like a dream. First we was at the VIVA building where we saw Mariah driving into the garage. She saw us , opened the window a little bit and waved. Then we drove to Top Of The Pops. Mariahs 4!!!!!!!! performences begun at 22 o´clock. She performed AOO in two different dresses. The first was a black top and her jeans she had on during the Tour ("Hero")and the other one was a bright,pink dress. When she came on stage she became a loud ovation. And then our friend Zoli from Hungry screemed "Mariah Anja is here" ( Mariah sung "Close My Eyes" for her in the german concert). And when she has seen Anja she came to us gave her a hand-shacke. Mariah told Luise to come on stage and introduced her to Anja. Anja, Holger and me we started to sing "Stop in the name of Love" with the right coreography and Mariah lought and told that it was nice. Then Anja told her that she has a Rainbow-Tourbook for her with reviews from fans all over the world. And the bodygourd told us to come after the show to the backstage gate. Then Mariah do her first performence a rehersal. The seconed time they recorded the performence. Then Mariah gave her fans autographes and spoke to them. After this she went out to change her dress. When she came again she walk 10 cm away from us and we started to sing "To Be Around You" and she smiled again. She brought sweets for her fans as we had to wait a long time as she came to late. For Anja she had a special one. It was a "ORIO" sweet. She told Anja that in USA it has a special meening. Then she recorded another performence. After she do this recording we started singing again. This time it was "Crybaby" and believe it or not she sung the whole song acappella with us. Just we three and Mariah and some other but they were not loud enought as they couldn´t remember the lyrics.Then Chris refreshed her make-up and during this she told us about All That Glitters and then happaned something fantastic. She told that she was recording the soundtreck and sung a new song for us live which sounds beautiful. Not the whole song but 1 minute or so. Then they had to tape AOO again as they had some technical problems. After this we went out to wait for Mariah. 10-15 fans came to the gate and after 20 minutes a dream begun. A guy turned his car-radio very loud and played Fantasy. We sung very loud and then a guy from Mariahs team came out with a camera followed by Mariah and recorded everything. Mariah came to us gave autographs and we made photos.( I think Mariah will use the recording for her new Homevideo:-) She signed my shirt and i made over 20 photos. then Mariah lost her shoew and Holger screemed "Give it to Anja" and she did it!!!!!!!! Anja now has a original silver Versace shoew by Mariah. The seconed shoew she threw into the crowd. After some minutes she went to the car and drove away. It was so nice. So we spend nearly 2 hours with Mariah in a very nice atmosphere. Today we drove to the hotel. First Trey leave it and after him Chris and the rest of the crew. After another 30 minutes Mariah followed. First we haven´t seen her car. Then we turned around and Mariahs car was directly 1 m away from us. Mariah hasen´t seen us first too. But we screemed Mariah. She looked through the open window and told "Bye and thank you for the nice Fanbook". It happened so fast that we was like shocked. Peter
| May 25, 2000...Big Update Day... |
Well guys, I added a Ton of pics today, PLUS I added a new page. First things first, Jason sent me a 7 minute wav of when Mariah was on Z100 on April 11, 2000, the day of her MSG concert. They were auctioning front row tickets for charity. I added a new page today called, "MC Audio." You can find a link to it on the main page, with all my other links, and that is where you can download the Z100 interview! Hopefully it works, this is my first attempt at audio. Next comes pics. I added 5 that Ayako sent me. They are pics of MC from when she was promoting makeup in Japan. I have seen the one before, but the others I havn't. All of those pics are in Gallery 27. Next, as I promised, I added the Belgium Pics. These pics are amazing quality. They are in their own directory in the PIC pages. However, who took them? I know I am doing a trade with this girl but I lost the e-mail address and her name. PLEASE e-mail me and let me know, so I can add your information under the copyright information. Thanks :)
Pics 2
All the pics that were added today have the copyright on them, meaning they are exclusive scans to this site, do not remove them except for personl use. MCDaydreams, which Mariah World News also links to, took SEVERAL pics from my galleries without asking the people who took them or asking me. Please do not do it again..thank you!
TRL--Win an Autograph
So you don't vote for Mariah everyday on TRL huh? Well maybe this will encourage you to do so. Mariah's management and Bree have teamed up to get MC back on TRL. If you click the link below and then click on the autographed Mariah Rainbow Album, enter your e-mail address for a chance to win a 12 by 12 pic of MC aurographed. Then vote for Mariah on TRL. More times you vote, the more times you have a chance of winning the autograph. PLEASE VOTE FOR MARIAH!
http://imcorg.com/index2.html
Don't Forget
Tomorrow at 4 pm on VH1, a new Pop-Up Video will premiere featuring Mariah's Heartbreaker video.
Rainbow Review Book
Later tonight or tomorrow, I will find out from Anja or Peter if Mariah's got the Rainbow Review Book in Germany. Everyone please keep your fingers crossed :O
How Much Single?
Ave Mariah claims they have the How Much Single Cover. However, Jon let me know that he saw this cover a while back and it is NOT Official! Someone made it on the Friends of Mariah Messageboard and once again, it is NOT Official!
Single Pushed Back
Amazon.com and CDNow.com both list CTTA as being released on June 13th now, not the 6th anymore. I have updated the counter today so that is why that changed. Hope it doesn't change again.
Britney Spears Sets CD Record
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Forget Madonna, Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. Britney Spears has beaten them all.
The teen pop star set a one-week sales record for a female artist with her second album, ``Oops!...I Did It Again.'' In its first week on the market, it sold 1.3 million copies, according to Soundscan.
It will make its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, just like her first album, ''...Baby One More Time.''
Spears' ``Oops!'' is the second fastest-selling album ever. 'N Snyc's ``No Strings Attached'' set a sales record of 2.4 million copies in its first week on the market earlier this spring.
The sales figures prove the utter dominance of teen pop in the music marketplace. The disc with the third-highest one-week sales was the Backstreet Boys' ``Millennium,'' which sold 1.1 million copies.
All three artists - Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys - are on the Jive Records label.
Official Site Updated
Ibraheem told me last night that the Official Website has been updated. You can download a small clip of "Can't Take That Away" and I believe you might be able to download the whole video of Crybaby, if not just a small clip like CTTA. Go check it out :)
Posters/Autographs
Kirsty told me that if you go to the following website, you can find tons of posters and autographs on Mariah. Just put "Mariah Carey" into this search site:
http://www.parkermovies.com/mainsite/searchframe.html
Top 40
Last night, VH1 was counting down the top 40 Greatest Songs on Billboard and Mariah/Boys II Men came in #1 with "One Sweet Day." Thanks Dan for this information.
| May 25, 2000... |
Britney has sold about 1.3 million records beating out Mariah's record for the Daydream album. This may not be the best news to report but just think how long MC held that record, about 5 years. Thanks to Christina for this infomation.
Mass E-mailing Part 2
People have e-mailed me about this and have told me to use the BCC technique while mass e-mailing. However, all that will do is make it seem as if they are on a mailing list. One person told me that she used it and that people responded by asking to be removed from that list. So my suggestion, e-mail your local stations or othre stations, one at a time. Copy and paste!
Against All Odds
Jesse told me that Against All Odds is being played on her local radio station in Texas.
Updates
I got 5 scans today from someone in Japan. I am only doing a small update today because I have to get to work. I will be adding many pics tomorrow to Gallery 27. However, you can see a SNEAK PEAK of one of the Japan pics if you check out the Quote of the Week pic. Come back tomorrow to see full scans of all the Japan pics and more...
| May 24, 2000...Ton O' News... |
Well, noone e-mailed me today and told me MC was on TRL, SO I just she wasn't on. PLEASE vote for Mariah. Mariah posted a new message on her Official Site asking all fans to PLEASE vote for CTTA on TRL. Also, she requested that you request it on your local radio stations. Come on guys, we can do this. Bree contacted all webmasters with a list of e-mail address to e-mail and request CTTA at. I don't believe that is the way to tackle the situation though. If everyone called into their own radio staion or e-mailed them, I think that would help. By mass e-mailing the radio stations, e-mailing all the radio stations at once, all you are going to do is TICK THEM OFF. Most likely they will delete the e-mail, not count the e-mail, or e-mail you back very vulgarly. Anderz told me about this, when he was still working on Mariah's Diary. However, if anyone is successful with mass e-mailing, PLEASE e-mail me and tell me. Then I will post the list either tomorrow or the next day.
Luis Escorts Mariah at WMA's!
Did you know that Luis was with Mariah at the WMA's? Well I didn't. Maria sent me a pic that shows Luis, Mariah and the Prince all chatting. Click below to check it out:
http://www.geocities.com/gracilite/mcwma.htm
Reg, where is the Vinyl
Many people e-mailed me on where they can get the CTTA/Crybaby Vinyl. Alex picked it up for me at his local cd store. My suggestion to you is to call around to whatever local cd store is around you. Towers carry's Vinyl's in certain locations.
Pop Up Video
Chris told me that Mariah's Heatbreaker Video will be on VH1, Saturday May 27th. The show will premiere at 4 pm EST and runs for 30 minutes. Here is a description:
POP-UP VIDEO
On Saturday, May 27
Videos Include: Santana feat. Rob Thomas "Smooth", Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker", Len's "Steal My Sunshine", Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Scar Tissue" and Marky Mark's "Good Vibration." (Premieres from 4-4:30p.)
Mariah Posters
You can find a bunch of cds, posters, etc on MC by clicking the below link at amazon.com. Thanks to Alexa for this information:
Click Here
Desktop
You can add a Mariah desktop to your computer by clicking the below link. Thanks to Angelena for this info.
Click Here
Ronan Keating
Yesterday I had no idea who Ronan Keating was but Ken e-mailed me and told me he is the lead singer for Boyzone. He also said that he is one of the managers for Westlife. So now we know. Thanks Ken!
Change of Release?
Matt told me that U.S. Release date of CTTA/Crybaby singles were pushed back to June 13th now instead of June 6th? Anyone hear anything about this? Matt said he saw it on cdnow.com
Interview
Ashes sent me an interview that Mariah did right before her London Concert. Here goes:
The whole pop star to movie star thing has seen some casualties.
How do you think you'll fare?
Mariah: I'm not looking at this as [cue Austin Powers voice] 'Yeah,
make me a movie star, baby', I'm looking at this as I love and enjoy
acting because it's been like therapy to me and because prior to
my studying acting I wasn't dealing with my emotions. Regardless
of whatever happens or what anyone says, acting is therapy for me
and it's brought me to another place. It's brought me to this place
where I'm feeling strong, confident and happy.
worldpop: Have you always acted?
Mariah: I acted as a little girl, I used to be in different theatre
workshops and I was always in plays. When I resumed, it became
a serious, intense thing for me in terms of studying four times a
week. It helped me a lot.
worldpop: What's the film you're in all about?
Mariah: It's called All That Glitters and I play a character called
Billie. She's in a girl group in the '80s and she's the tomboy of the
group. It's about her relationship with a DJ. I've been working on the
soundtrack, and I'm writing maybe more than six songs for the
soundtrack and performing, it's going to be basically me, but I've
got some guests that are going to be included … it's
music of the '80s, so it's going to be cool. We're supposed to start
shooting in May. They pushed it back from January, that's why I
am able to go on my world tour.
worldpop: We hear one of the guests for the soundtrack is Prince.
True?
Mariah: Well, we met briefly and he played me some things
and we worked back and forth with each other. It was an amazing
experience and I hope it works out. I never like to say what's going
to be until it's done and in the store, but that was an experience I'll
never forget. I think he's a genius.
worldpop: What do you make of the new generation of singers such
as Britney and Christina Aguilera?
Mariah: I really don't listen to
pop music very much. I hate to say it, but I don't.
worldpop: Who do you listen to?
Mariah: I listen to hip-hop mostly or R&B, I like Brandy and Aaliyah
a lot. If I'm in a different mood I'll listen to Stevie Wonder, Prince,
stuff like that or whatever rap record I'm feeling at the moment.
worldpop: There always seems to be a rivalry between you and
somebody - you and Whitney, you and Jennifer Lopez. Are there
actually any rivalries?
Mariah: You get a bit of flack from women
because you're always very sexily, skimpily dressed … You know
what? I got a bit of flack in the beginning because I was always
very boringly dressed, is that a word. Now I'm being
myself and if that's what I choose to do, that's what I choose to do.
I think people, especially women, instead of being catty, a better
approach might be to celebrate women's freedom to do what they
want.
worldpop: Is this is the new spirit of Mariah?
Mariah: I'm still the same person I was. I'm just allowed to be
myself now. I'd say I'm a more emotionally well-rounded human
being because I'm allowed to express myself more freely and I
allow myself to be happy as opposed to pretending everything was
OK because I was scared not to.
worldpop: Seeing as it's a leap year, on the 29 February you're
entitled to ask a man to marry you. Think you'll be using that
privilege?
Mariah: I don't know and neither do you!
worldpop: So ,how is your boyfriend, Luis Miguel?
Mariah: He's a beautiful person. I'm not going to give away too
many secrets. I don't want to give anybody anything to misquote,
so I'm just going to say he's a beautiful person.
Worldpop: No rings on significant fingers, then?
Mariah: I have on some nice shoes.
Vote for MC
You can vote for MC at the following teenchoice website. Thanks to Fil for this info
http://www.fox.com/specials/teenchoice/polls/tc_music.htm
Note from Reg
To everyone who sending me news, please do not get upset or mad at me if I don't reply. I try to use all the news that everyone sends me but sometimes it is just too much or I don't have time to add it. BUT I do appreciate everyone sending all the news in it. This webpage would be nothing without your help so PLEASE continue to send in news :) Thanks guys..
| May 23, 2000...Two Year Anniversary! |
Well I am doing a small update today and I just wanted to announce that this is the Two Year Anniversary of this site :) WAHOO! Thanks guys...
Single Released Today
I just got the Vinyl of the "Can't Take That Away/Crybaby" single. SO YES, it is released today. The single is still set for June 6th but I was skimming my e-mails and someone said CDNow.com changed the date? But anyhow, go get your Vinyl copy of Can't Take That Away. Here is the tracklistings:
Side A:
Morales Club Mix (7:46)
Morales Instrumental (7:45)
Album Version of CTTA (4:32)
Side B:
CTTA (Morales Rivival Triumphant Mix--VERY COOL GUYS!)(10:30)
Crybaby (Album Version)
The cover is the cover of the Tour Book for Mariah's Theme and the back is the pic in the purple top that we all saw on the Official Site. Nothing new there..
Yesterday
If you read yesterdays news you would of seen a plee to e-mail PLAYARUSS@aol.com to get him to play CTTA. However, DO NOT e-mail him at that address. He deletes all those mails because it is his own personal e-mail. Vote for it at the folllowing link:
http://www.wjhm.com/request.htm
TRL
Dan told me that CTTA was a close call yesterday. Continue to vote people.
NEWS
Lack of news today and I am very sorry I couldn't add more. I have a huge test Thursday. Sorry :( More to come tomorrow!
| May 22, 2000...1 Day till 2 year Anniversary of this site! |
I know that tomorrow is the official 2 year Anniversary of this site but I might not be able to update tomorrow, due to college and work. So, I want to mention it today :) Thanks to everyone who helped me out with news/pics/any info. on MC over the last 2 years. This website has changed a lot and has gotten a lot better do to the help of my best friend Alex. So thanks everyone and hopefully I can do my best to continue working on this page :) Much Love...
TRL
Three words...Have you voted?!? Enough said..
Enter to win a personally autographed 8x10!!
[ HOW TO ENTER - DEADLINE JUNE 5, 2000 ]
We want you to write a two page maximum essay telling us what it is about Mariah that inspires you. Is it her voice? Is it her personality? Tell us what it is about her that makes her stand out from others, and what it is about her that touches you.
1. Please make your essays no longer than 2 pages
2. Include your e-mail address, first name and age
3. Send all entries to contest@imcorg.com
4. The deadline is Monday, June 5, 2000. We will not be accepting any late entries.
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[ THE PRIZES ]
The top 3 authors will win an 8x10 personally autographed by Mariah AND your essay will be featured on imcorg.com for Mariah and her management to see!!
Gala and Bunte
Honey and Kate let me know that the "Gala" and "Bunte" (21/2000 issues) feature reports on the World Music Awards and has some nice pics of MC. This magazine are hard to come by in the US but maybe you can check out your local bookstore for imports.
More German News..
Dror from Israel just told me Mariah will perform on this weekends TOTP show. However, it has just been informed that she will be singing Against All Odds with Ronan Keating. Am I the only person who doesn't know who Ronan is?
Russel Simmons show-Joe
Thanks to Honey B Fly for the following info:
hi regina..i just wanted to say that on "russel simmons one world music beat show" they interviewed joe and he was saying how he worked with mc and that the rumors saying he didnt go on tour w/mariah b/c of DA' Brat and that they cut his time were false..it just didnt work cuz of his schedule he said.... but that he wanted to set it staright cuz he has alot of love for mariah!
Luis and MC in Capri--The Pics!
Maria sent me a link where you can view 6 pics of MC and Luis in Capri. Click on the little arrows about the pics to advance to the next one. Click below for the link:
Click Here for MC and Luis Pics in Capri
Trouble on Radio
Magicgirl told me that she e-mailed her local radio station, "102 Jams" to find out why CTTA wasn't playing and she didn't get the response she was hoping for :( I would love if ALL of you send one e-mail to this radio station at PLAYARUSS@aol.com to help get MC on the radio. Magicgirl will let us know if it is successful.
We're currently watching to see how it develops at stations around the country that are playing it. At this time, the guys I talk to tell me that the song sounds nice on the air...but they're not seeing much of a reaction in their research or on their request lines.
Since Mariah's last two songs performed horribly on 102 JAMZ, I'm in no rush to put a new Mariah song on JAMZ.
Thanks for asking and for listening to 102 JAMZ.
Take 2
Magicgirl e-mailed them again for more information on this and this is the second response that she got.
Both Heartbreaker and Thank God I Found you got good requests the first week-and-a-half...then they both fell off dramatically. Heartbreaker was being played 7-8 times per day at one point and Thank God I Found You got 4-5 plays per day at it's height...that's decent airplay for a mega star like Mariah.
I may have also "spiked" her song into the countdowns to further spotlight the song...but over time neither of them held up.
You may continue to request her song...that's one of the ways we monitor audience passion. In fact I'm online right now tabulating the song requests people made on our website. So far out of the 93 requests I've looked at you're the only one asking for Mariah's Theme...hopefully there will be more requests like yours.
EW
WHATEVA284 told me that MC is in the Spring 2000 issue of Entertainment Weekly. It is the 10th Anniversary Edition. There is a cartoon pic on Page 7 of Whitney, Madonna and MC. I got the scan of it and I'll try and add it to Gallery 27 soon. Also, on page 66, they listed OSD as the #1 single of the 1990's :)
| May 21, 2000...2 Days till 2 year Anniversary of this site! |
The Rainbow Review book is now complete. It has a review from Osaka finally, thanks to one very nice fan, and also it has a collage of the FANS pics for every single concert. Thanks to everyone who helped Anja and myself out by sending in pics and reviews. Anja is putting the final touches on the book now, which will be given to Mariah most likely this Thursday! Thanks Again...
Important!
If you havn't voted this whole weekend for MC, shame on you. However, there is still today to vote so PLEASE VOTE FOR MC ON TRL! Thanks..
Negativity
People e-mail me about this all the time. Ken would like you to go to the forum at MTVAsia and counteract some of the negativity. However, I don't think this helps only because it will just edge on Mariah haters even more. I like to ignore them because all they like to do is sit at home and pick there nose, waiting for you to reply to their hateful comment. BUT, you may not agree with me and if you want to help out Ken and fellow MC fans, click this link:
http://forum.mtvasia.com:8100/servlet/eforum?dummy=0&C=Fantasy&T=8&tn=Mariah+Carey
Too Much
Pat told me there is a pic of MC revealing A LOT in a magazine called, "Movie." (isn't it Movieline? I don't know and neither do you but Pat told me Movie) It is a pic of her from the AMA's in that black dress.
Updates
New Pic of the Week, which Peter sent me. He sent me a ton of these pics and I STILL havn't uploaded them to the site (sorry Peter) but I thought this pic was funny cause it looks like she is yelling or laughing. Also, Gail sent me a TON of Rainbow pics, which she took, and hopefully I will be able to add them to the site because they are so amazing. Some of the best pics I have seen of Mariah during her concert tour; extremely up close and personal :) Stay tune to see if I am allowed :)
| May 20, 2000...3 Days till 2 year Anniversary of this site! |
I forgot to report this but on Wednesday Entertainment Tonight Show, they said how Mariah had made The National Enquirer's Best Dress List (May 30th issue). Well there is a pic of her in the pink dress from the Blockbuster Awards and even though E.T. said she was best dress, the caption doesn't seem that nice at all..
A Mighty Nightie: Mariah Carey could confuse lingerie with dress-up clothes! The pop princess' super sexy, super short Versace belongs in the bedroom, not out in public at an awards show.
Moving along to other magazine news, there is a pretty big pic of MC from last years Essence Awards in Sister 2 Sister (June 2000). The article talks about Mariah being stalked :O Josh also let me know that Mariah is in Latin Teen with a full page pic. I don't know the date of Latin Teen though.
Calling All San Jose and Miami Fans
Okay I STILL need more pics from San Jose and Miami, so if ANYONE attended those concerts, please send them to me in e-mail. Don't you want MC to see your pics? Please send ASAP
Behind the Music 1992
Desiree and SUMar235 both told me about this. Here is Desiree's message to me about this show:
Dear Regina, Hi, how are you? I was watching VH1 Behind The Music 1992 and it mentions MC very briefly about 10 minutes into the show. Basically they show Whitney's "I will always love you" video and the narrator says something like "But she was being challenged by a new diva" they show MC singing I'll be there on MTV Unplugged and the narrators say that it was one of the top ten songs she had in 1992 then they show some critics/ music executives saying something like "Of course the middle of the road stuff will always be popular always have mass appeal & the largest audience b/c its mainstream, etc." That's it. Then the rest of the show is basically about how grunge & rap became the big thing then pop came back.
It repeats twice this weekend: 6 pm sat & 10 pm sun.
They also have one for 1999 which hasn't aired yet, so I don't know if it mentions MC, but you never know so here are the times: 7pm sat & 11pm sun.
Mariah in Germany
My Germany friends e-mailed me and let me know some things. Here goes:
Honey
Well, I don`t know, if you heard of that yet: Mariah will be on the German show called "The Dome" the show will be taped on May 26th in Stuttgart, and it will air on the channel RTL II on June 4th at 5pm CET and at 4pm CET there will be the "Backstage report" on the same channel. I also heard on may 25th there will be the possibilty to chat live with the stars performing there, I think, you
have to go to the RTL II site "www.rtl2.de" (on this site the show will air live on may 26th!) but I don`t really know about that catting thingey. Also, Top of the Pops will air on May 27th. I`ll tell ya, if I`ll get any more news
on that!Okay, BYE! (M)C ya! -Honey
Sabine
Hi Reg,
Interaktiv (live show on VIVA each afternoon) has been confirmed just now!!! Mariah will be there before Top of the Pops which will be recorded for Saturday later that day to give an interview. Marc Anthony is on the show as well. So probably he'll sing and not Mariah. :( Anyway, doesn't that sound great? Just
wanted to let you know! Bine
Tommy to wed
Manú from Brasil was so nice and translated this next article for me. Isn't that nice? In the article there is a little pic of Mariah and it says "You can take him, honey, its all yours." Hee hee, anyhow here it is:
"Thalia Ariadna's marriage with Mariah Carey's ex husband is no more a
secret.
She dreamed so much, and now she found her charming prince. The mexican
star Thalia, 26 years, is living the best moment of her life:'i'm feeling
like the happiest woman in the universe.' she said last friday during the
release of her new cd called "arrasando" in New York. Before falling in love
with the sony music's big boss, Tommy Mottola -Mariah Carey's ex husband-
the diva complained about her loneliness all the time. Today she is living a
fairy tale. Just like the heroes that she played at televisa's soap operas
'my marriage is going to be better than those that i lived at the soaps.'
The details of the wedding are a secret, so nothing can go wrong. The
expectations is that the wedding is going to happen in july's first week
-before she comes to Brasil. Rumors says that Thalia and Mottola are going
to get marry in a private caribbean island or at the diva's mansion in Bail
Air. Certainly is going to be a big wedding. Thalia wants a weeding bigger
than the one that Mariah and Mottola had in 1993 -at the time 500 thousand
dollars were expended. Defining herself as a romantic person she will get
marry in a white dress that is going to be designed by a mexican designer.
The Mariah's and Thalia's history are very looked alike. Both are
gorgeous, both have a fancy faces, both have powerful voices, both always go
for what they want, and like any cinderella both had a traumatic childhood:
Thalia suffered with her fathers death and Mariah had to go through the
families poverty, that came to public with a book written by her prostitute
sister.
Thats why the fans have to pray for the mexican diva's love story not to
end with fights, like it happened with the american diva. Today Mottola has
the fame of a seducer, with his italian mafioso way. But he played a villain
when he tried to ruin Mariah's career after they split up and he was accused
abuse against Mariah. He used his influence not to let her play titanic's
'my heart will go on'. We hope that Thalia don't end up mistaken with her
love like Mariah did."
Westlife and MC and Requests
Ken told me two things. One, if you want to read about another article on Mariah and Westlife, click the following link:
http://www.mtvasia.com/News/International/Items/0005/0005134.html
and another place where you can request CTTA or Crybaby for MTVAsia is:
http://www.mtvasia.com/Video/Requests/index.html
Vote for MC on MuchMusic
Moneira aka Moni sent me this :)
Canada's top music video station, MuchMusic STILL hasn't played "Crybaby" or "Can't Take That Away". I was wondering if you could post this message on your site. To all the Mariah fans out there, please email ondemand@muchmusic.com and request both "Crybaby" and CTTA!! Canada's population is only about 10% of the US', so it won't be too hard to make an impact on MuchMusic. If we show enough of an interest in the video, maybe MuchMusic will add CTTA and/or Crybaby to their music video playlist and maybe even on the countdown!
Please email even if you're not a MuchMusic viewer! The last Mariah video that got decent airings on MuchMusic is Heartbreaker and its remix. I only saw TGIFY ONCE on MuchMusic, and that was during a Spotlight they had on her! If CTTA or Crybaby gets played on MuchMusic, it will most likely boost her record sales because Canadian radio stations haven't really been picking up on either single. If either of them airs on MuchMusic, it will be nationwide and if people like it, they will request it at their radiostations!! Our votes could make that much of an impact!!
Please do this for Mariah! Remember, she asked up to keep supporting her on her latest voice message, so keep voting every day, even if it's only once per day.
Note from Reg
Please excuss the very lazy way my news was presented today. I don't have much time to update and it was even this way or no update :O Sorry guys!
| May 19, 2000...4 Days till 2 years! |
My buddy Ma scanned some pics from a magazine for me called Joven Pan. It has 3 pages on Mariah and all three scans are in a new gallery, Gallery 27. The first page is the nicest because it consists of a nice concert photo. Also, I added another pic from Valentina from when Mariah was singing Hero at the Milan concert. It is just as nice as yesterday's so check out all four NEW pics in Gallery 27 ASAP.
Rainbow Review
Thanks to you guys, I have made the Italy and Toronto collages. Now I just need pics from the following concerts:
So please, if you have any pics from those concerts, we still need pics. I promise you, these pics are only for collages that MARIAH will see and they will not be put up on my site! Thanks..
Osaka anyone?
Did anyone see the Osaka performance? Please send in your review then because that is the only one we need to complete the Rainbow Review Book for Mariah and we now have less then one week to do so!
Britney Spears on track to break sales record
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - With Jive Records claiming that Britney
Spears' sophomore album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," sold more than
500,000 copies on its first day of release, the teen sensation is
poised to break the SoundScan record for highest sales in a week by a
solo female artist. Mariah Carey's album "Daydream" holds the record
of 760,000 units.
Mariah Shirt
If you want to order a Rainbow Shirt, Virtukitty sent me the address to do so:
http://www.girlfriends-la.com/cgi-bin/gfla/Summer_2000___Clothing___Tees___Jeans___160?SessionID=T8gKiVQw&Args=&Pos=32
Not Mariah's Concept?
Josephine told me that the original cut jeans were NOT Mariah's idea. They were first created by Tommy Hilfiger. However, I was told that Mariah probably didn't hear about this. Well I can say, that Mariah was the one that made the cut off waist popular. I didn't see anything from Tommy Hilfiger...
Mariah Message Update
You can find the transcript to Mariah's latest message at Willem's Site but
Salvador also typed it out for me and here it is:
Hi everybody, it's Mariah
I'm on a cell phone, in fact and we might get cut off and I don't even know. So if we do I'll try and call you back later from a hardline, it's just...Yeah my life is quite hectic right now, but I just wanted to say thank you so much to everybody who came out..um on the tour, it was so much... I had a really good time. And I loved all the signs and all of those things and everything that I got I'm gonna try and save and make a whole room filled with all my stuff, and all the fan books that everybody sent.
Um, I don't know, I want to thank you guys for calling in and requesting "Mariah's Theme" on TRL, everbody that called and everybody calling in for "Crybaby" and "Mariah's Theme" at the radiostations, that's really really helpful I really appreciate that and I need ya to keep it on going if you don't mind. Um, oh I also wanted to tell you that in case you didn't notice, you guys who gave me the Chicago fanbook, I had that on the set in um the "Mariah's Theme" video so I decided to use it, in fact so that's the Chicago fanbook in there. And um it happened to match perfectly with the set so thank you very much and all the books are incredible. Um, my new single "Mariah's Theme" and "Crybaby" which are going to be a double-A side, are coming out in like three weeks in June, which is a long time from now, but what I have on there also is "Heartbreaker" into um that Diana Ross song, "Love Hangover". So um, you know the one I did on Diva's Live. I know what show it was. Everyone's sitting here feeding me words...I forgot what I was saying in fact. Anyway, it's from the Diva's Live...You guys are confusing me...It's from the Diva's Live and it's the one I open the show with so it's gonna be like a special collector's item type deal and I have other remixes, David Morales remixes um that are going to be on there too. Alright, so I love you, I enjoy you and I thank you very much and I hope I did not get cut off. Talk to you soon, BYE.
Mariah tells us!
Mariah said it herself that it would make her happy if we can all help her out...so PLEASE vote for Mariah on TRL and call into your local Radio Stations! It is very important and yes YOU can make a difference!
No Pregnant MC!
Honey11682 made a VERY good point to me yesterday. She told me that it is NOT possible for Mariah to be 3 months pregnant because during her Rainbow Tours, she invited people up to have a drink of wine with her. Now Mariah would never drink if she was pregnant because she knows that would damage the baby, especially since a baby does most of it's development during the first 3 months.
Vote for MC
John has created a website where you can vote for Mariah on every thing possible. If you are a big MC fan, please check it out and start voting!
http://www.geocities.com/johnlovesmc/mariahvotingsite.html
Crybaby on the Radio
Ruth told me the following:
Well im from San Francisco and there's a radio station called 106 kmel and Mariah's Crybaby song is beening rated and if alot of people rate it good they're gonna play it on the radio and even though you might not live in San Francisco I was hoping that you might pit this on your site so the song could be on the radio and maybe even get her the next #1.
Mariah and Westlife!
SO MANY people e-mailed me about this subject. I thank you all because I happened to miss it :( Anyhow though, Dave told me that you can read the whole thing by clicking the following link:
http://mtv.com/news/gallery/c/carey000518.html
However, I copied and pasted it here for you, in fact...
Mariah Eyes Westlife For Duet
After scoring a hit by duetting with 98 Degrees on "Thank God I Found You," Mariah Carey looks to be dipping back into the boy band pool.
U.S. spokespeople for the Irish outfit Westlife told MTV News that the boys will be in a recording studio in Italy next week recording their contribution to a duet with Mariah on a cover of the Phil Collins nugget "Against All Odds." The track should be familiar to Mariah's fans, as the singer recorded a solo cover of it and released it on her "Rainbow" album.
There's no release date yet for the duet, and U.S. spokespeople for Carey were unavailable for comment at press time.
Carey has struck chart gold in the past with her work with young male vocal groups both with "Thank God I Found You" (which featured 98 Degrees and Joe) and her megahit "One Sweet Day" with Boyz II Men.
Vote for MC
Ken asked me to ask you all for your help. He wants you to request CTTA or Crybaby for the show, "By Demand." It is screened on Channel V and it's an Asian music network. Vote for Mariah by clicking below:
http://www.channelv.com/International/interact/request/bydemand.html
| May 18, 2000... |
I don't think so guys! Mariah's Management has already contacted Bree and Cindi Berger has also announced that this rumor is false. Seventeen Online says this:
Is Mariah Carey pregnant? That's what music trade mag Hits is reporting. The father is supposedly singer Luis Miguel
So many people have e-mailed me that little article. Also, MANY radiostations have reported that Mariah is already 3 months pregnant. However, as far as all of us know, it is not true. So let's end this rumor.
NEW Pics
I added a new pic today that Valentina sent me from the Milan concert. It is in Gallery 26 and it is an AWESOME pic from where MC was singing Hero. It is so closeup, so cool! Check it out if you like.
Copyright Pics?
Some people wonder what the butterfly/rainbow design on some of the pics are for. That means that the certain pic is an exclusive from this site and should not be removed from this site. For personal use, go ahead but please webmasters, don't take them. It is usually because I personally scanned it or on real pics I do it because TWO sites stole several of my tour pics from Peter, Minerva, Anja and Katy already without asking permission to do so. So, I apologize if it makes you upset!
Stats
Here is some information that my buddy Ma sent me about Mariah from the TopHits Brazil magazine:
Magazine News
Steve told me that there is a small photo of MC and a story about her jeans in the June 2000 Instyle Magazine. Also, there is a pic of Mariah in the CosmoGirl with Britney Spears on the cover. Mariah is on page 52. Thanks to Alexa for that info.
Mariah Wannabes?
Well if you check out the latest Cosmopolitan, you will see an actress gracing the cover in a Mariah style jeans. Also, on SNL Saturday night, Britney Spears wore cut off jeans too. It seems that everyone is stealing Mariah's style and it is becoming a big seller :) Thanks to Maria and Josh for this info.
MTV's House of Style
Mariah's makeup artist was on MTV's House of Style. Here is what
BriStuWalt told me :
They showed a segment on how to put on makeup for Summer and the girl he demonstrated on was named Bianca. He said he had worked with another Bianca too, and they showed a clip of Heartbreaker. Kind of cool.
EXTREMLY IMPORTANTO!
Anja and I need your help. She is going to be trying to give Mariah the Rainbow Review book next Thursday when she comes to Cologne Germany to promote her new single. The book is being worked on and for every concert, we are adding REAL pics from fans around the world. I made all the collages except for six concerts, which are:
If you have any real pics that you have taken from the above concerts and that you would like to be added into the Rainbow Review book, please send them to me, WildCatHG@aol.com ASAP. I have concert pics for all other concerts, so I don't need those.
HELP 2
If anyone attended the Osaka concert, we still need a review for that concert. All other concerts have reviews for them except that one. PLEASE e-mail us.
| May 17, 2000... |
I added a bunch of pics today. About 8 in Gallery 26, including 2 new cool concert pics and Mariah holding a lamb, and then I added an Artwork Page. The Artwork page has a bunch of Mariah collages and drawings that I have done. I added Dan's cartoon drawing, which I thought was well done, and also a Howard Stern collage. Check it out if you like!
TRL
Mariah's management doesn't know why Mariah hasn't been on TRL lately and they wanted for the webmasters to tell you guys that ever vote counts. You may think it is just ONE vote but it could mean whether Mariah makes it on TRL or not. So, please continue to vote for her. Thanks..
Ricky Lake
ButtterfIi told me about the Ricki Lake Show yesterday:
On Ricky Lake today they were having women get made up to look like their husband or boyfriend's favorite celebrity and there was this guy who was in LOVE with Mariah and they dressed her up and made her up and gave her a wig to look like Mariah. They had the top cut off of the jeans so I knew it had to be pretty recent.
All Those Glitters
Many thanks to my best friend Alex for this article. You can check it out for yourself at this link:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/may16_carey.html
Going for gold
Mariah Carey's All That Glitters production starts in Toronto early July, but she's already guaranteed herself a hit soundtrack for the film.
She signed super-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to watch over the movie's album. Carey, in her first major part, will play an '80s club singer discovered by a powerful DJ.
She has spent a lot of her time denying the picture is about her and her former husband, Sony record head Tommy Mottola.
The movie sounds like it has more to do with Madonna than Carey, who says the film deals with her character trying to get in touch with "her feelings and her mother."
Article from The New Straits Times from Malaysia!
Here is a somewhat nice article that Zafirah has sent me. If you would like to comment on it, you can e-mail the author at this address:
samry@hotmail.com
A VOTE FOR HEALTHY MARIAH
Mostpeople either hate her or love her - there's no middle of the road when it
comes to Mariah Carey. But so many of her detractors aren't content just to take
potshots at her voice ( the ooh's, wo-wo's and heeee!'s can be a bit too much),
but also at her taste for skimpy togs.
Carey has a well publicised penchant for crocheted tops the size of a
handkerchief, and jeans she must have been sewn into with the waist ripped off for
that "disstressed" look.
I heard a lot of people complaining sourly about her clothes, but
interestingly enough, it's not so much because they think her outfits are tacky
and over the top. Not at all.
No, the court of pop culture opinion simply thinks the diva is too chunky to
dress that way." God," people say, " Doesn't she realise she's not skinny enough
to wear those? She looks huge!".
The most disturbing part of this whole thing is the undeniable fact that
Carey, regardless of what you may think about hermusic or indulgence in vocal
filigree, is by no means plump, much less huge.
She's busty, yes. She has a cheurubic face, fleshy arms, and because of her
too thight costumes, sometimes does look like a giant overripe piece of fruit. But
is she big? Hell, no!
Carey's only crime in that department is daring to depart from the other,
increasingly prominent body shape now being champoioned by starving celebrities
like Posh Spice, Calista Flockhart, and Friends' Courtney Cox.
Even the once bouncy Pamela Anderson has gotten into the act, with her latest
publicity shots showing her to have lost a considerable amount of weight.
Carey, bless her, doesn't look gaunt, knobbly-kneed and in desprate need of a
double chesseburger.
She looks healthy and well-fed, and definately closer to reality than the
majority of the other female celebrities crowding the spotlight.
It's true that diva's choice of clothing doesn't reflect the more conservative
fashion choice of the average Malaysian woman.
In fact, in an age where most Muslim women have taken to the tudung, and any
teen seen in a cropped top is a fodder for critisism, Carey's dress sense is
definately at odds with the way Malaysian women clothe themselves. But that's
another topic.
What I, at least, am grateful for, is seeing such a high profile celebrity who
isn't afraid to show off a body that doesn't disappear when viewed from the side.
There are so few women prancing on the world stage to demonstrate to
impressionable young women that it's okay not to look like a dried-up stick.
And for that alone, irritati\ating vocal gymnastics aside, Carey gets my vote.
Brit and Mariah
Can I just say that I never said yesterday that Britney was trying to be Mariah or anything of that sort! I just thought their faces looked somewhat similiar and thought it was kind of cool. Both artists are talented individuals and that's it. Moving along, Britney mentioned Mariah on her chat 2 days ago. She was asked who her inspiration is. Thanks to Sherwin for this bit...
AOL LIVE: Host: Britney: Like, I mean, I love -- I love
AOL LIVE: Michael Jackson.
AOL LIVE: I like Toni Braxton, Mariah
AOL LIVE: Carey.
AOL LIVE: I have so many inspirations,
AOL LIVE: and I like to get a little from
AOL LIVE: all of them.
| May 16, 2000... |
I just picked up the new Britney Spears cd and inside of the cd, one of the pics kind of look like the Rainbow Cover. I don't know, maybe it is just me. Hee hee. Here is what they look like:
Single News
Minerva sent me some information on the singles. The release dates are not exactly right but here goes:
Promo single:Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) (CSK
45770)
1. Can't Take That Away (Radio Edit) 4:01
2. Can't Take That Away (Morales Club Mix Edit) 3:57
3. Can't Take That Away (Album Version) 4:32
comercial single:
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)
CD Single Japan (SRCS 2???) 10-Mayo-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)
CD Single USA (38K 79399) 23-May-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)
Vinyl Single (12") USA (38 79399) 23-May-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) / Crybaby
Maxi CD Single USA (44K 79348) 23-May-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
3. Love Hangover 5:15
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) / Crybaby
Vinyl Maxi Single (12") USA (44 79348) 23-May-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
3. Love Hangover 5:15
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)
Maxi CD Single Australia (?????? ?) 29-May-00
1. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) 4:32
2. Crybaby 5:19
3. Love Hangover 5:15
InfoMC Offer
I reported yesterday that Jennifer from Indiana would pick up people the European Single for Against All Odds. She got so many responses, she told me, that she doesn't have the time to respond to all of them. She will go there and buy a lot of singles and then figure it out when she gets back. So, if you don't get a response from her, don't get mad!
TV Guide
Dan e-mailed me that article in TV Guide from May 13-19th that prissy told me about earlier. It's from a Jessica Simpson interview:
She started performing on the gospel circuit at 11; at 12, she didn't make the cut on the now-infamous teen-idol launchpad, 1989's Mickey Mouse Club. (Think Spears, Aguilera, Felicity's Keri Russell and two members of 'N Sync.) "I watched Christina audition," says Simpson. "She sang like Mariah Carey. So I froze."
Correction
TODAY is the anniversary of when Mariah first started. She released the Vision of Love single today, May 16th, 1990. "Mariah Carey" was released on June 8th. Thanks Vincent! Vincent told me that this information is from RIAA.
Mariah on T.V.
Tessa e-mailed me and told me the following!
Mariah was an VH1's Back 2 Back this mornin' with
Heartbreaker and CTTA. She was also on the Spankin'
New Music show on MTV with CTTA. Also, she was on
BET's Hits from the Streets with Crybaby, about 15
minutes into the show. -Tessa
Mariah in Capri!
Tessa also sent me some information from a Italian article on Mariah and Luis. It had to be translated and here is the highlights:
Mariah was in Capri, Italy again today, where she sang
"Ave Maria" in a place with an incredible echo called
La Grotta Bianca ( the white cove ) she was
accompanied by a very close group of people and her
dog. You can find a picture of the place here:
http://www.capri.net/gallery/30_1.html
It said she liked everything there including the
lighting of the place.
It also says Mariah knows her way around the island
very well, and she knows those special places,
because she visited last year when she recorded
Rainbow.
It said she got lost in the crowds of the people in
Capri, and she walked around and blended into the
crowd easily.
Then they (I'm assuming MC and LM) went to celebrate
the holiday of Saint of Constanzo. He's supposed to be
the protector Saint of the whole isle of Capri. Every
year there is a long procession in where they carry
the statue of this saint, and everyone follows
behind, until the come to the church of San Constanzo.
The "VIP" of Anacapri (Mariah) came down from her
luxurious hotel to go to Marina Grande. You can see a
pic here:
http://www.capri-island.com/it/Frame_link/F_t2.html
Then they went around the town looking at all kinds of
artisans and candymakers.
She continued her stroll hand in hand with Luis Miguel
to sit as she always does at the great restaurant
L'Approdo with her people.
L'Approdo is a very famous, small cozy restaurant, one
of the best in Capri.
The cook, without asking her served her Mussle Soup
and pizza, and Rucola Salad with Capri tomatoes.
100 Best Love Songs
Maria let me know that Vision of Love is on The 100 Best Love Songs of the 20th Century compiled by Gregory Godek, author of "1001ways to be Romantic."
Magazine News
Here goes:
REAL Edge
Rina told me that Mariah is in this magazine. It's a pic of MC from the baseball game she attended when she was seeing baseball star, Derek Jeter (I'll add the scan to Gallery 26 either tonight or tomorrow). It's a big article on Jeter but all it says about Mariah is:
"But despite his celebrity status and having already dated a pop-star goddess (Mariah Carey), Jeter has not allowed his night life to become fodder for the local tabloids."
LINK Magazine
Taryn told me that Mariah is in this magazine. It is a college magazine, so it won't be easy to find. It is the April magazine and here is the highlights
True or false? YOu make the Call
Chicago SUn-Times columnist Richard Roeper has tracked these and scores of other urban legends for more than a decade. In his book Urban Legends: The truth Behind ALl Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That Are ABsolutely, Positively, 100% not true!, Roeper succeeds in setting our A**** straight.
The LEgend:
Mariah Carey's callous remarks about the world's starvation epidemic:
"When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
Roeper's Retort:
"She's never said anything close to that" notes Roeper. "IT first
appeared on the Internet--a parody interview concocted by a prankster
writing for the Cupcake website. The quote was picked up by several
publications, including the British newspaper THe Independent, the San Francisco Chronicle and Ms. Magazine."
here's the 2nd mention:
BARELY LEGAL AND TOTALLY TITILLATING
When was the last time you wore a white halter top with an airbrushed design across the chest? How about bobby pins? If you're a girl, it was probably the summer after fifth grade when you went off to band camp. If you're a guy, well, that's a whole different article. But what if you're 29-year-old diva Mariah Carey? Then it was just a few months ago for the cover of "Heartbreaker" her bubbliest aerobics soundtrack yet. The single features a rap from Jay-Z, who eschews the usual guts and realness for "a
pillow fight in the middle of the night," after which he's sending her "Back to her mom's." One wonders when the former Mrs. Mottola last lived with her mom. Cary's been called many things over the last few years, but a teenager is not one of them.
Still, it's no surprise that Mariah's trying to out-Britney Britney (see their budding chests for more on this) at a time when youth is queen. After all, our female sexual icons and the girls who sell millions of CDs and pack pubescents in at their multiplex are one in the same.
Q! Magazine (May 2000)
I reported about this earlier but just as a reminder, there is a small pic on the cover. Thanks to Steve
Celebrity 101 hairstyles (July 2000)
Again, thanks to Steve. There are three pics of Mariah. Two towards the front (one with Luis and one from the Rainbow record signing) and one in the back.
Request Magazine (June 2000) Free at Sam Goody
Tessa told me the following:
It has N'Sync on the cover, and in the Hot Dish
section on pg. 12, there are many pics of celebrities
and it had "FRAMED" above the pics. The caption w/ the
pic of Mariah says: "Bummed out? (they pic is the one
where her back faces the crowd) Mariah Carey opens her
U.S. tour at LA's Staples Center.
It also mentions MC on pg. 60 where they are talking
about a new singer Anastacia and saying that she
"brings something new to the table that her
competition doesn't: pure soul. Christina Anguilera
can masterfully duplicate Mariah Carey's fluttering,
Jeep-girl vamps . . ."
I think that's all w/ MC in it! Oh, it also has a
cute Rainbow tube-top that I think MC might wear.
Heehee. Tesschops
Look-a-like 2
Chris from Chicago told me that today on the Ricki Lake show they will be doing a look-a-like makeover. Mariah will be one of the celebrities they will be turning their guests into.
Buy Mariah Stuff
Jake (JCus2550@aol.com) is selling his complete Mariah Carey collection, which includes over 75 CDs and 100 Magazines, among other things. If you are interested and would like a list of all his stuff please e-mail him at JCus250@aol.com
Billboard Update
My buddy, EJ, told me that his friend ccmhouse@aol.com told him the following news about Rainbow on Billboard:
151 - - 1 Hoku: Hoku
Geffen | 490646 | Interscope (11.98/17.98)
152 129 111 27 Mariah Carey: Rainbow
Columbia | 63800* | CRG (11.98 EQ/17.98) 2
153 - - 1 Soundtrack: Gladiator
Decca | 467094 | Decca (17.98 CD) 153
Drawing
I added a new drawing that I did to the Rainbow Review section. If ya like, you can check it out :) Tomorrow, I will be adding the artwork page to the pic galleries!
| May 15, 2000... |
I just reported that Mariah would be on Conan this Friday but really another artist named Marah will be on Conan. I thought their website spelled Mariah's name wrong but it turns out there is a real artist named Marah. So Mariah will NOT BE ON CONAN THIS FRIDAY!!!
10 Years Today!
Many thanks to Mariah World News for this next information. It seems that 10 years ago on this date, Mariah released her first CD titled, "Mariah Carey." So she has officially been around for a decade today! :)
Against All Odds Single
My Mariah 3 buddy Mariah Carey Archives let me know the tracklisting for Mariah's new single that will be released in Europe anywhere between May 23rd-29th.
1. Against all odds (take a look at me now) (Album Version)
2. Crybaby (Album Version)
3. Thank God I found you (Stargate Remix)
4. Can't take that away (Mariah's theme) (Morales Club Mix Edit)
EXCLUSIVE 2
Jennifer from Indiana wrote me and told me that she will be going to London on Memorial Day weekend and will be picking up the new Against All Odds single during her stay there. If there are any InfoMC members that would like a single, she said she is willing to have you send money to her to get the single for you. It would probably be about $8 including shipping. If you have any questions, e-mail her at drjennifermac@hotmail.com
YM Magazine
Shawna told me that there is a pic of MC from the Valentine Cover in the July 2000 issue of YM. It basically says that she's gonna be filmimg"All That Glitters" in New York City and Toronto soon.
TRL-Have You Voted?!?
It better be a YES and if you havn't click the above banner. I will be so sad if she isn't going to be on this week again. You don't want to make me sad right? PLEASE VOTE!
| May 14, 2000... |
The MFC webpage has now been lauched and it is up to be viewed at http://mfconline.tripod.com. It is the new German Mariah Fan Club which is ran by Anja, Peter and Holgar. All three of them have met Mariah several times and even though their fan books will be in German, it will include really cool pictures of Mariah and really cool bonus stuff. I encourage all MC fans to join this club and I already have. Everything on the site is in German but if you have any questions you can e-mail them because they all speak English too. Also, you can go to altavista.com and go to the translate button and translate anything from German to English.
Rainbow Review Book
Anja thought of an idea to shut down all the critics in the land and asked me what I thought of the idea. I thought it was a GREAT idea and that is how we came up with the Rainbow Review Book for Mariah. I have had the link up on the main page for a long time now and this month, the fanbook with all your reviews in it will be given to Mariah in Germany by Anja. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of creating a book that lets Mariah know what the fans thought of the concert and if you havn't sent in your review yet, visit the page and MAYBE Anja will still add it. I don't know if she will have time though, so hurry!
TRL
Please vote for Mariah if you havn't so far. Request Mariah's Theme. Also, Trina told me the following about the cookie situation:
If you have Internet Exlporer just click on "Tools", then "Internet Options", then "Security Tab" and the move the slider up to the highest level. This will disable all cookies and you can vote for MC as often as you want.
Billboard Postition
Bon C. told me that Rainbow is #152 or #158 on the Billboard Charts (wasn't sure of the exact position!)
"She"
Yvonne let me know that "She" has not been released in Singapore yet but will be soon. Typo on my behalf from yesterday.
Against All Odds is #3
That's according to the MTV Loaded Charts. If you want to check it out, you can click the link below. Many thanks to Ken for this information..
Click Here
Q! Magazine
Taryn told me that there is a small pic of Mariah on the cover of Q! Magazine. It's about outrageous celebrity stories and it says how Mariah demanded pink toilet paper. Just another rumor but check it out if you like.
Interview
Honey and Kate typed a interview that Mariah did at a German radiostation called "Deutschland Funk" on May 8th. It is really long so here goes. Thanks guys :)
...meets rich producer, marries him and becomes a huge star - this fairy tale
became reality for Mariah Carey. But today she is divorced and of course she
also got to now the bad sides of the musicbusiness. Christiane Rebmann met
Mariah Carey for an interview.
...Heartbreaker...
Mariah Carey is just 29 and has already sold more than 120 million records
worldwide. With that she beat out her American rivals Whitney Houston and Céline
Dion easily. The mother of the blond dark-eyed singer, an opera diva is
Irish-American but her father, an aeronautical ingeneer has black-Venezuelan
blood. Because of that Mariah Carey never knew where she belonged to, she
neither feels white nor black. And that's a problem for her till today. When
Mariah was 3 her mother discovered that she could sing as well as her, and gave
her singing lessons. With 16 years she wrote her first hit Vision Of Love
together with a friend of her brother, Ben Margulies. Allthough she graduated at
a beauty school and later struggled with jobs like waitressing or as
backgroundsinger for Brenda Starr. She tried to get a recorddeal with her
demotapes and when she met Tommy Mottola at a party he made a better offer than
another record-company - he offered $350.000 instead of 300.000. In 1990 her
first CD Mariah Carey came out. It included 4 #1 hits and Carey straightly
received 2 Grammys for it. Also the following albums Music Box, Daydream,
Butterfly and Rainbow were succesful and during the years she got better and
better in being a singer and songwriter.
"The way I work is I collaborate on the music with the person that I'm writing
with. We get together and play a few accords or I sing a melodie. I like working
with Walter Afanasieff, he's very talented and I can lead him in the direction I
want very well. So what I do is I lay up the song and the music first and then I
sing about 5 or 6 melodies over it and then I listen to it and I go home and
write the lyrics."
And sometimes she sings her ideas on her answering machine, Mariah Carey says,
esp. late at night when she's out.
"Yeah, so I don't forget them. When I'm up late at night it's easier to just
calll my machine than trying to find a taperecorder."
Usually Mariah Carey's songs aren't very deep, but there are a few exceptions
like the song Hero which she wrote for her album Music Box in 1993.
"A lot of people responded to that song. Some were people who went through a lot
of sadness, e.g. they were very ill. I got a lot of letters by the people, e.g.
some parents whose children were in coma wrote me and they said 'I'm singing
your song to my child.' I think that song gave many people hope, and that's what
I wrote that song for. Because when I was growing up my mother always inspired
me like that but many people don't have someone who inspires them in that way.
So that's kind of why I wrote that song for."
Today she doesn't love that song anymore, she says, but she likes to sing it in
concerts because of that a kind of interaction exists.
" I don't necessarily love the record, like I don`t love the record Hero. But I
love to do the song live because the fans are so into this song and they really
are moved by the song and I do it a different way every time I sing it. That's
one of the most emotional things because it's sort of triumphally emotional, if
you know what I mean. They sing along, but they .... it's kind of the emotional
climatic moment of the tour. Eventhough I don't think it's my best song I think
the peolple relate to it because it's a universal thing."
...Hero...
Mariah Carey has got differnet faces. One is the diva as which she presented
herself as long as she was married with the Sony boss Tommy Mottola. There it
was the hell to do an interview with her. I remember an interview 5 years ago in
New York. On that day, there were 3 assistants caring for her in three
different levels, the recordlable, her personal manager and a promotion company
caring for the media. Eveybody was extremely nervous and fastidious, which
enmdee in a complete chaos. Suddenly there were 3 different interview plans for
the ca. 15 journalists, who came from all around the world. Nobody knew what had
to come when, and the time for the interviews was shortened from 1 hour to 20
minutes in some cases. And it even wasn`t a joy, if you finally got Mariah for
an interview: She ddn`t answer the questions clearly, her answers were banal
and I thought her to be extremely arrogant. Obviously she trained for thois role
long years, before she was allowed to behave this way, but now she only behaves
like that on stage.
"I have a lot of crazy characters, you know, I can go into these things time and
time again. For example Bianca. I already did things like that, when i was 4
years old, but then I wasn`t allowed to do that. But I think that`s an important
thing to express myself as a human being, as an artist. So, I think that`s the
most important thing."
You can handle that as a way of expression on stage or in her videos. And
luckily she became a lot of nicer in reality. She tries to give sensefull
answers, she doesn`t seem to be so extremely bored she seemed in earlier days.
She simply became more natural. You recognize, she worked on herself.
"What I did more than anything is allow myself to become the person I used to be
before I became famous. Which has always been there, but has always been sort of
... was always very contained to a certain type of, you know, time and place. I
couldn`t be myself most of the time. And my real friends knew me as who I am
now. You know, a normal person with a sense of humour. I use my sense of humour
to get through sadness or I use my music to get through sadness."
Mariah is shooting a music-film at the moment, and she takes acting lessons for
that project since a while, which made her think about her situation.
"And I`ve also come to term to the fact, that I`m allowed to be happy as a
person I used to think like 'Okay, you have this amazing career, I am young a
lot of my friend don`t even know what to do with their life yet. I am blessed,
I have success, I have money. So I can`t except to be totally happy, `cause
nobody has this perfect life' Now I`m trying to say to myself 'You`re allowed to
be happy'"
...After Tonight...
One of Mariah Cary`s hobby was shopping for a long while, in the meantime that
changed a bit, because she wants to have indidvidual clothes.
"