We all know how huge a Marilyn Monroe fan Mariah Carey is. After all, naming her daughter after the iconic actress speaks volumes.
Mariah Connection celebrates Ms Monroe’s 85th Anniversary by taking a look back at Mariah’s biggest homage to the star in the form of her 1998 music video for “I Still Believe.”
Mariah Carey evoked Monroe’s 1953 performance for troops in Korea with the Brett Ratner-directed video for “I Still Believe.” The video sees a retro-glam Carey serenading soldiers at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Why not take a gander below at snaps from the 1998 music video filming:
Nick Cannon, Mariah’s husband who is about to celebrate a different kind of anniversary with MC has also picked his favorite songs by Mariah. Nick co-starred in Mariah’s “Bye Bye” music video and directed the videos to “I Stay In Love” and “My Love”. His favorite Mariah songs are:
10. Make It Happen
9. Emotions
8. Without You
7. Heartbreaker Remix
6. Mine Again
5. Don’t Forget About Us
4. Fantasy
3. Love Story
2. Someday
1. Underneath The Stars
Jasmine Dotiwala works for MTV UK and is a writer for the UK’s Voice Online. Jasmine is a close friend of Mariah’s picked her eleven favorite Mariah songs:
11. Clown – Showed you don’t have to be a rapper to write a slick, cutting diss song-classic humiliation for the subject matter!
10. Circles - Beautifully structured song with anthem like melodies that my girls and I relate and sing loudly to when at karaoke.
9. I Still Believe – A personal favourite that once upon a time got me through some personal heartbreak.
8. My All/Stay Awhile (So So Def Mix) feat Lord Tariq, & Peter Gunz – Classic before its time rap-song collaboration which is still a New York club staple.
7. Shake It Off remix feat Jay-Z Young Jeezy – MC and Jay just have this swagger on wax that’s untouchable. Love the ”rah rah” part!
6. Bye Bye remix feat Jay Z – A song that can have you in tears in seconds but isn’t corny just a new generation anthem for painful times.
5. Fly Like A Bird – Inspirational and strengthening when you need balance in your life.
4. All I Want for Christmas Is You (So So Def Remix) featuring Lil’ Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri – This track reminds me of every Christmas in Aspen with MC and family, visuals of breath taking scenery, love, festiveness ,rolling in the snow and a group of us all laughing, snapping jokes and relaxing.
3. Fantasy (Bad Boy Remix) featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard - This record was played all through my youth in clubs and parties and as soon as it began people ran to the dance floor to jump around and bust some moves to this beat.
2. Honey (Bad Boy Remix) featuring feat Puffy ,The Lox and Mase – When she dived out the window into the pool then got air lifted into that chopper and was flossing with Puff and Mase it was wrap-every girl worth their swagger wanted to be her.
1. Thank God I Found You (Make It Last Remix) featuring Joe, & Nas – Dooooope track! Reminds me of dark, sweaty, ghetto clubs where we just dance sexy and hang out with real peeps. Will be played at my wedding for sure!
Terius “The-Dream” Nash, a Grammy award winning producer first worked with Mariah on her 18th #1 “Touch My Body”. The-Dream co-wrote the original song with Mariah and contributed his vocals to the R&B remix of the song. Their current collaboration, “My Love” recently hit radio stations across the nation and the video, directed by Nick Cannon, has just debuted on BET’s 106 & Park countdown. Here are the The-Dream’s choices for favorite Mariah songs:
10. My All
9. Always Be My Baby
8. I Still Believe
7. Vision Of Love
6. Butterfly
5. We Belong Together
4. Honey
3. Breakdown
2. Touch My Body
1. My Love
Erik Bradley, music director at Chicago’s biggest radio station B96 and longtime Mariah friend has shared his choices of favorite Mariah songs with us:
10. Vanishing - one of my favorite moments on the first album, I remember the first time I heard that entire album, I kept this one on repeat!
9. Whenever You Call – I especially love the Brian McKnight duet from the #1′s album.
8. There For Me – a song that is hard to find, but trust me — if it ever would’ve been included, everyone would’ve loved it as much as I did, and still do!
7. Heartbreaker – I just love everything about this song!
6. Fantasy – first time I heard this song it blew my mind! Â
5. All I Want For Christmas Is You – I LOVE Christmas – and it officially begins for me every year the first time I hear AIWFCIY!
4. Vision Of Love – how can I not include the one that started it all?
3. One Sweet Day – if you have a pulse you can feel this.
2. Always Be My Baby – I will never ever get tired of this song…a true classic in every sense.
1. Can’t Let Go – this song sounds as good to me today as it did the first time I heard it.
Mariah Connection Australia was really honoured in Sept 05 to been able to pass on a thankyou message from Mariah to her Australian fans for their continued support & for getting “We Belong Together” to No.1 in Australia!
The message from Mariah is as follows:
“To all my Australian fans – Thankyou so much for everything, Love MC”
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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