Mariah Carey was on Jimmy Kimmel Live today. You can now download the interview segments (VCD quality) here and Mariah’s performance of Touch My Body & I’ll Be Lovin U Long Time here or Side Effects here!!!
You can also watch Mariah’s amazing performance of “Side Effects” below:
Source: WorldStarHipHop.Com | Thanks to Moony
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Mariah Carey is doing her darndest to keep her young marriage sweet by splashing out on a multi-million love nest for herself and husband Nick Cannon, Metro can reveal.
An insider tells us: ‘Mariah’s just bought her and Nick an amazing hideaway in the West Indies for them to escape to. She’s also eying up another get away in Monte Carlo as she loves chilling out there.’
The properties will added to Mimi’s bulging property portfolio including lavish homes in New York and LA.
Source: The Metro
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon – that’s lovin’ you short time, so far. “Lovin’ You Long Time” well, that’s another story (and Mariah’s latest single).
But how is she using the line? And why are so many other multi-culti female singers using a phrase that some consider to be a racial and/or sexist slur? Can the meaning change over time, depending on who is using it and why?
“That phrase is so loaded,” said performance artist Allison Roh Park. “People don’t understand the history behind that.”
“Me love you long time” – how the phrase is typically quoted – came into prominence with Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” as a Vietnamese prostitute tries to pick up Matthew Modine’s character with broken English. The phrase was then popularly picked up by 2 Live Crew in the song “Me So Horny.”
“From that point on, it became a hook,” says Ryan Suda, who runs clothing company Black Lava.
“It’s so many different kinds of slurs in one,” said comedian Margaret Cho. “It’s instantly putting you in the position of being a foreigner, an outsider and a sexual stereotype. It’s an all-in-one combo.”
“Asian women get exotified and hyper-sexualized to the point where it really affects our day-to-day life,” Park said.
“A lot of times when people use phrases like that, they neglect the background,” Suda said. “Like sex trafficking. So if a guy goes up to someone in a bar, and he’s using that phrase, and he’s imaging that scene for some reason, I’m sure they mean it as a fun thing. I don’t think they mean it to be malicious. They know she’s not a prostitute. But it’s attached to that. It’s a lot more than a simple phrase.”
But even musicians who lifted the phrase from 2 Live Crew didn’t always know they got it from a depiction of a prostitute’s pickup line and sometimes wrongly assumed the rappers had coined the phrase all on their own – and were therefore ignorant of the connotations.
“I first heard it in the 2 Live Crew song,” said Fergie, who used the phrase in her song “London Bridge.” “And then I was watching ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ and I’m going, ‘Ohhhhhh! That’s where 2 Live Crew got it. OK.’ But back in the day, everybody would be saying that.”
And they still do – you hear it in jokes on “Family Guy” and “40-Year-Old Virgin” – but the context keeps changing.
” ‘Love you long time’ comes out of a fairly stereotypical situation, and it’s recycled itself back into the culture,” said playwright David Henry Hwang. “Now it’s being used as an empowerment phrase, like to deny it – ‘I won’t love you long time’ – or women who take the phrase and use it to assert themselves.”
That’s what Nelly Furtado was aiming to do when she put the phrase in her song “Maneater.”
“That’s such a weird song,” she said. “It came from this cool, dark, powerful place which all women possess. I guess I just took that and ran with it, because that phrase just came to mind. ‘Love you long time’ – it just seemed powerful for a woman to possess that much energy. All she has to say is four little words and she’s got everybody eating out of the palm of her hand.”
Mariah Carey didn’t just refer to the oft-quoted line – she built a whole song around it. But she corrects the grammar, so the connotation changes. “Female artists like to play with words,” Furtado said. “Missy Elliott did that quite well with ‘bitch.’ She started saying, ‘She’s a bitch, I’m a bitch.’ And she owned the word. Women should be grateful to her for that. She’s a modern-day feminist.”
“It’s just one of those sayings that’s kind of pushed its way into our slang and our vocabulary,” Fergie said. “I think it’s just part of pop culture now.”
There’s a clothing line in London called “Love You Long Time” (fashion designer Katy Horwood counts Vanessa Carlton as one of her clients), but to counteract any possible negative interpretation of the use of the phrase in fashion, Suda’s Black Lava clothing line sells a shirt that reads “I Will Not Love You Long Time.”
“It’s definitely one of the more popular shirts, by far,” Suda said. “People, when they see it, they just laugh, like, ‘Oh my god, I get this all the time! Guys come up to me in bars and they always say this line to me.’ ”
“I was walking down the street and this guy yells from his car, ‘Love you long time, me love you long time,’ ” Cho related. “And I was so horrified. Of course he’s talking to me, to the Asian woman walking down the street. And he left.
“I don’t mind it when it’s used in songs, like when women use it,” Cho continued. “Fergie uses it, that doesn’t bother me. But when it’s shouted in the street and they don’t wait to hear the response? What if I was actually going to go, ‘Oh, OK’? They never stick around to hear the answer.”
Source: MTV News Canada
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Mariah Carey’s “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time” has managed to gain 5,521 spins in the last seven days. The airplay is divided as follows:
Rhythmic: 2,272 spins
Pop: 1,582 spins
Urban: 1,548 spins
Urban AC: 71 spins
Alternative: 4 Spins
Hot AC: 26 Spins
Total audience impressions for “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time” million
Meanwhile the video for “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time” is still impacting on music TV channels across America. The video has been aired 18 times, in the last seven days, on BET.
Source: Mediabase | Mariah Connection
Thursday, July 31, 2008
MARIAH CAREY
I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time
The new single from the platinum selling album E=MC²
Release date: September 1st 2008
Performer and songwriter Mariah Carey is poised to release a third single from her 11th studio album, E=MC². The single entitled ‘I’ll Be Lovin U Long Time’ is set to propel Mariah chart bound for a third time this year.
This upbeat summer tune was written and produced by Mariah Carey. The accompanying video is set in the stunning surroundings of Hawaii and features an appearance by rapper, T.I.
E=MC² is the follow-up to The Emancipation Of Mimi, Mariah’s worldwide 10 million selling #1 album, which generated three Grammy awards, 2 #1 singles and countless more industry honors during its 18-month stay on the charts. The first single released from her new album, entitled ‘Touch My Body’ was a record breaking success and a #1 hit to boot. This was her 18th #1 single, stealing the crown from Elvis Presley, who previously chalked up 17#1′s.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Thursday, July 31, 2008
OK, hands up who brought Scandalous by Mis-Teeq? Alright, hands down. Hands up who brought All Rise by Blue? Shame on you at the back there.
Right, finally, who bought Bye, Bye by Mariah Carey, or Beautiful Liar by Beyoncé & Shakira, or recent UK No 1s Closer by Ne-Yo or Take a Bow by Rihanna? Congratulations, you all own a song produced by Scandinavian hit-makers Stargate (or as their mums call them, Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel S Eriksen), a production duo currently listed in every American pop star’s jewel-encrusted Blackberry.
Having plied their trade in Europe, working with such global superstars as Javine, Shola Ama and the much-missed 5ive, Hermansen and Eriksen decided to hot foot it over to New York to try and compete with big boys such as Timbaland and the Neptunes. And compete they did, immediately hitting the top spot on both sides of the Atlantic in 2006 with So Sick by Ne-Yo.
Since then the duo have produced two more US No 1 singles as well as six UK bestsellers. In fact, such is their ubiquity that in January of this year they had four singles inside the US Top 20 and were nominated in six categories at this year’s Grammy Awards.
But what does this all mean, I hear you cry? Well, stone me, if it doesn’t symbolise a European takeover of American pop. Stargate’s simple, immediately catchy productions have taken in everything from Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson (Closer by Ne-Yo) to acoustic balladry with an R&B twist (With You by Chris Brown) and they’ve had everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Jacko knocking on their studio door.
What’s been most surprising about their ascendancy is that they haven’t simply been called in to write the filler for an album, oh no, these are the lead singles, or in Beyoncé’s case, the single (Irreplaceable) that saves an album.
They’re not alone, either. Swedish duo Bloodshy & Avant (aka Christian Karlsson and the brilliantly named Pontus Winnberg) have produced two of the best shiny American pop singles in recent years: Piece of Me and Toxic both by Britney Spears, as well as working with Madonna, Kelis and Samantha Mumba (OK, so their closet isn’t skeleton-free either).
In a recent New York Times article about Stargate, their success was put down to a lack of ego – you’re not going to see Hermansen and Eriksen gyrating in one of their artists’ videos anytime soon – and, of course, being Scandinavian must have meant they were brought up with ABBA acting as a kind of musical drip-feed.
But it’s not just the Scandinavians rubbing shoulders with American pop royalty. Brighton-based remix duo, Freemasons – consisting of Russell Small (who dance aficionados will recognise as one half of Phats & Small) and James Wiltshire – were reportedly asked by Beyoncé herself to remix every song from her B’Day album following the club success of their re-rub of Déjà Vu. Their remix of single Green Light was then given radio play in the UK, eschewing the original, produced by Pharrell Williams. Williams may be right to feel a little aggrieved with the Knowles family, as sister Solange’s debut UK single I Decided has just been playlisted by Radio 1, again off the back of the Freemasons remix.
So, what to make of this European invasion? Is it the ABBA factor? Do Europeans better understand what makes great pop? Or, in an American music market saturated with big egos, is it refreshing for these young pop stars to have producers that don’t want their share of the limelight? Let’s just hope it’s not the more depressing option – we just come cheaper.
Source: The Guardian
Thursday, July 31, 2008
El próximo jueves 14 de agosto se repetirá el especial de una hora de duración de Mariah Carey en el canal Sol Música a partir de las 13:00 horas (una menos en Canarias). Este canal musical está disponible en varias plataformas digitales y comunitarias.
Esperamos ofreceros la primera parte del especial, ya que en la anterior ocasión no pudimos por problemas técnicos.
Fuente: Mariah Connection España
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Organize this year’s album sales charts by gender, and Mariah Carey and Leona Lewis will be one and two, as Carey’s 11th disc (“E=MC2″) has topped 1.1 million in U.S. sales, and Lewis’ debut (“Spirit”) has sprinted beyond 900,000.
Carey, recently married to actor Nick Cannon, is touring the country doing free shows as part of the second Samsung AT&T Summer Krush, while Lewis, fresh off being voted the world’s sexiest vegetarian, is touring through Europe.
Carey, 38, scored her 18th No. 1 single this year, surpassing Elvis Presley’s 15 chart toppers and putting her in first place among solo artists. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. And, with the fiasco of “Glitter” behind her, Carey has returned to film and received some decent reviews for “Tennessee.”
Since her May marriage to Cannon, though, she has maintained a low profile, telling Ryan Seacrest on KIIS FM in L.A., “I can have a personal life, and I can have a life making records and doing whatever other creative things I want to do. (Life now) is a lot more enjoyable, and it’s preferable, it’s ‘quite pleasant,’ as I like to say.”
Rumors started circulating in July that Carey had been offered a Las Vegas residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort, though there was no confirmation.
“American Idol” has revealed the enduring influence of Carey and her melisma-rich singing style, and when she appeared on “Idol” this past season, she proved to be one of the better mentors that the series has booked. On top of that, the singers discovered precisely how challenging the Carey songbook can be.
Lewis, 23, told Parade magazine that being compared to Carey and her other idol, Whitney Houston, is “exceedingly gratifying, because they are so great.”
A London native, Lewis won the British singing competition “X Factor,” and before she even hit radio airwaves was being compared to Carey. Her album was first released in the U.K., selling 376,000 copies in its first week, making it the bestselling debut ever in the U.K. In April, “Spirit” became the first album by a U.K. solo artist to start at No. 1 with their debut disc, selling 205,000 copies in a week.
Her single, “Bleeding Love,” posted impressive sales and airplay statistics worldwide. After hearing the single, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs said he knew immediately that he wanted to work with her, telling a number of press outlets she has one of the best voices he has ever heard.
In early July, Lewis was among the performers at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party. On her blog, she noted that “it was one of my favorite performances. … To perform for such an amazing man’s birthday and 46664, his remarkable (AIDS) charity, is one of the highlights of my career, and I hope there will be many great causes that I can be a part of.”
MARIAH CAREY
If not Hillary, then who?: “I can relate a lot to so many of the stories (Barack Obama) tells. Clearly I am not the political analyst of the ages, but this is something that hits me on a deeper level than anything I’ve ever experienced growing up.” (Carey to Elle magazine)
LEONA LEWIS
Career mantra: “You can’t make your mistakes in private. I have the advantage of a great support structure. I get honest opinions from my family and friends. They aren’t always telling me what I want to hear, but the truth helps keep my head straight.” (Lewis to Parade)
Source: Variety
Thursday, July 31, 2008
A continuación, os mostramos algunas posiciones de Mariah en el Billboard:
Billboard Hot 200
52. E=MC² (baja 5)
Billboard Comprehensive 200
54. E=MC² (baja 7)
Billboard Hot 100
67. I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time (sube 12)
Billboard R&B 100
39. I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time (baja 2)
Fuente: Billboard | Mariah Connection España | Gracias Ryan
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Here is a quick update of Mariah Carey’s positions on Billboard Chart’s:
Billboard Hot 200
52. E=MC² (down 5)
Billboard’s Comprehensive 200
54. E=MC² (down 7)
Billboard Hot 100
67. I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time (up 12)
Billboard R&B 100
39. I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time (down 2)
Source: Billboard | Thanks to Ryan
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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