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So the world’s press have been falling over themselves recently, coming up with all sorts of completely fabricated stories about Mariah Carey– and calling all of us who love her for a quote. So here goes:
Congratulations to my New York cousin who has become a wife, and her new husband, Nick Cannon. MC is still an MC, as she’s now Mrs Mariah Carey-Cannon!
Before we get into the real talk, let’s cut the silly stories dead:
MC didn’t buy her own ring and she wasn’t given a second hand ring. In fact, I’m reliably informed that the ring Nick once offered someone else isn’t even in the same league as the one MC is sporting. MC’s is 10 times bigger.
MC’s ring is the most beautiful ring ever with “pink yet lavender” diamonds surrounding the centre.
Next: The flowers didn’t come from the island of Eleuthera. They were flown in from Miami. Also, with regards to all the pre-nup rumous; All you need to know is they’re both independent with their own thing going on and have both their respective heads screwed firmly on!
MC has been friends with Nick since 2005 when he presented her with a Billboard Music Award. They kept in touch and let their friendship develop and the most beautiful thing is: Nick always used to say he was in love with MC and that one day he was going to marry her. It seems he spoke it into existence!!
Nick went on to propose to MC– twice! Firstly on the Empire State Building, which she had just lit up publicly in pink– yet lavender– lights.
Nick hid the ring in a candy wrapper amongst lollipops and lunchboxes, and then he re-proposed after whisking her off on a helicopter ride around New York so she could see her “pink and lavender Empire State Building.”
Think that’s beautiful? They’ve further cemented their love for each other with tattoos. Neither of them have ever had a tattoo in their lives but now MC is sporting a “Mrs Cannon” tattoo while Nick has “Mariah” across his back.
I can say that of all the men I’ve seen MC with in the past, I’ve never seen her like this. I’m not sure she’s ever truly been in love until now. And even better still, all of us who love her, love him, coz he constantly reminds us: “I am madly in love with my wife and it’s my life duty to make her happy.”
I toast you Mr and Mrs cannon!
Source: Voice Newspaper
In week four, Mariah Carey’s E=MC² falls out of the Official UK Albums Chart Top 20:
Official UK Albums Chart
23. E=MC² - Mariah Carey (down 11)
73. Greatest Hits - Mariah Carey (down 3)
Official UK Combined Albums Chart
32. E=MC² - Mariah Carey (down 13)
Official UK R&B Albums Chart
4. E=MC² - Mariah Carey (down 2)
23. The Greatest Hits (up 1)
33. The Emancipation of Mimi (up 1)
Help get Mariah maintain a Top 15 position next week by purchasing the album digitally:
* iTunes UK (bonus track Heat)
* Nokia UK Exclusive (bonus Touch My Body Remix ft Rick Ross)
* Standard MP3 Edition from 7 Digital
Alternatively order the limited edition from HMV Online!
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body” UK chart stats are as follows:
Official UK Singles Chart
25. Touch My Body (down 9)
Official UK R&B Singles Chart
9. Touch My Body (down 3)
Hit 40 UK Chart
31. Touch My Body (down 11)
You can help “Touch My Body” maintain a Top 20 UK position by downloading the single verion of “Touch My Body.” There are also two remixes of Mariah Carey’s current single “Touch My Body” on iTunes UK:
* Craig C Remix
* Seamus Haji Remix
Alternatively you can purchase MP3 downloads from any of these stores.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey is featured on numerous magazine covers this month and some of them are now available in Ireland & United Kingdom.
United Kingdom & Northern Ireland
Pride Magazine
* Tesco (including metro stores)
* Borders
* WHSmith
* Independent Newsagents
I.D Magazine
* Tesco (excluding most metro stores outside large towns)
* Borders
* WHSmith (medium to large stores & at most London Train/Underground station stores)
* Independent Newsagents
* Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow International, Luton & Stansted Airports
* Independent Newsagents (around London)
Times 100 Magazine
* Borders
* Select WHSmith Outlets
* Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow International, Luton & Stansted Airports
* Independent Newsagents (around London)
Vibe Magazine
* Borders
* Select WHSmith Outlets
Republic of Ireland
All of the above magazines are available at Border outlets, while select WHSmith stores will stock the Times 100 Magazine.
Also you can order, over the counter, any of the above publications at your local WHSmith or Borders retail outlet!!!
Source: Mariah Connection UK & Ireland
In the fourth week of release Mariah’s current single “Touch My Body” slips down one place to No.26 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.
Three versions of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body” are currently available on iTunes Ireland:
* Single Version
* Touch My Body (Craig C Radio Edit)
* Touch My Body EP
Meanwhile if you haven’t already, buy the video for “Touch My Body” here!
* Make sure you keep requesting the track at you local Irish radio station and at some of these influential ones.
Source: Mariah Connection Ireland
Mariah Carey’s new album, “E=MC²,” drops fourteen places on the Official Irish Albums Chart to No.39.
You can help the album rise back up the charts by purchasing it digitally:
* iTunes Ireland (bonus track 4Real4Real)
* Nokia Ireland Exclusive (bonus Touch My Body Remix ft Rick Ross)
Source: Mariah Connection Ireland
If diamonds really are a girl’s best friend, Mariah Carey will never be short of mates. Her wedding gift from new hubby Nick Cannon was an £8million - yes, EIGHT MILLION - 14-carat, pink diamond ring.
Mariah’s bling dazzled fellow diners when she was spotted at New York’s trendy Waverly Inn.
We hear: “Nick has been besotted since he first met Mariah on a US TV show three years ago. Just before they got married, he got down on one knee again and gave her the pink diamond ring he’d had custom made. She was stunned and thrilled.” You don’t say…
Source: Daily Mirror
Rating: 7.6/10
At precisely the time that contemporary soul is going through a fairly radical reboot thanks to the likes of Amy Winehouse, Estelle and others, Mariah Carey returns with a follow-up to her hugely successful The Emancipation of Mimi that offers a formula as recognizable as it will undoubtedly prove rewarding. Lauded as “incredibly good” by the security guard who checked my receipt after buying the disc at Best Buy, E=MC2 was an assured hit even before its release thanks to the history-making single “Touch My Body,” which broke Elvis Presley’s longheld-record of number one Billboard singles by a solo artist. But as a whole its sleek, overproduced style satisfies only in terms of sameness, ultimately forcing listeners to look to younger artists for more groundbreaking fare even as Carey effortlessly gratifies the rest of us with her calculated, self-conscious populism.
Much like a rap artist who champions his street cred while recording million-sellers from his palatial Beverly Hills estate, Carey has long since lost any semblance of connection to common people - and that’s fine. Moreover, she’s never been an performer with much artistic integrity, meaning she’s all too malleable when or if her “signature” sound falls out of vogue (see her Glitter, period, or better yet don’t). As such, E=MC2 is a collection of perfect, zeitgeist-capturing production, if not quite songwriting or composition: tracks sort of congeal into existence, provide a backdrop for Carey’s melismatic flourishes and then dissolve just as quickly, like a new package of Otter Pops you brought home from the grocery store and stuck in the freezer right before your friends come over for a snack. The end result is temporary fulfillment, with only the sticky residue of its superficiality as a reminder of what you’ve ingested.
That said, there are several tracks that do offer some genuine (if passing) enjoyment, including that first single, “Touch My Body,” which coasts along on summery, mellow grooves and just concrete enough come-ons to ensure at least a few dance floor grinding sessions; “I’m That Chick,” which borrows liberally from Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” and offers the best disco/ r&b tune since R. Kelly’s “Step In the Name of Love;” the Toomp-produced “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time,” which Full Metal Jacket references aside is a terrific slice of ’80s-influenced romance, and one of the best actual songs on the disc; and “O.O.C.,” which doesn’t quite reach the same heights of irresistibility as Swizz Beatz’ productions for Eve or Beyonce, but the uberproducer nevertheless offers a solid club banger which Carey effortlessly merges into her canon of instant hits.
Still, there are undeniable infrastructure problems with the disc, most of which stem from her vocal collaborations on the album. On the disc opener, “Migrate,” for example, a sparring session with someone like T-Pain only highlights what a unique talent Carey truly is, since her talent is all natural and T-Pain’s (as far as I can tell) is assembled from a collection of synthesizers and/or mating androids. Also, Young Jeezy’s gangsta drawl and especially Damian Marley’s dancehall bluster are simply too abrasive even as a salty alternative to Mariah’s sweetness; Carey desperately needs a Busta Rhymes or 50 Cent to provide these tracks’ “hardness.”
But overall the disc simply doesn’t take advantage of her talent and versatility as well as it could, whether those efforts focused themselves into some truly monumental hit singles or something a little more creative and unique. The only track that exploits Carey’s multiple-octave range is “Multiply,” which manipulates one of her cascading dog-whistle improvisations into a backbeat for her and T-Pain’s verses. Otherwise, there’s a business-as-usual feel to the rest of the record that may turn off folks, either as a byproduct of playing Emancipation to death or just tiring of the whole middle-of-the-road status of modern r&b, those trailblazers and iconoclasts like Winehouse notwithstanding.
Ultimately, E=MC2 is a decent album but it’s unlikely to go down as a classic in Carey’s discography. Like the musical equivalent of a movie sequel produced as a result of commercial success rather than creative design, the album will appeal to its built in audience, but I hesitate to suggest it will win Mariah any new fans. But then again, E=MC2 feels designed to stay the course, not plot a new one, so suffice it to say that it’s a formula that will not suffer much because of its familiarity.
Download Worthy:
“Touch My Body”
“I’m That Chick”
“I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time”
“O.O.C.”
Source: IGN Entertainment UK
Mariah Carey would “absolutely” be a great mother, the singer’s pal, Tyler Perry, says.
“Her baby would be in Gucci, Chanel and diamonds from birth,” Perry said, speaking at Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World party in New York City Thursday.
Perry also joked he was “upset” about Mariah’s marriage to Nick Cannon.
“She didn’t tell me she was married!” he said. “We’ve been talking and you don’t tell me you’re getting married? What’s that about?”
But Perry won’t hold it against her.
“She is a wonderful, wonderful woman,” he says. “So I’m just joking around.”
Source: Showbiz Spy
We’ve had mixed feelings about Mariah Carey’s very sudden wedding to Nick Cannon – a guy she met only a month ago. We love Mariah for her bonkersness, but it’s all a bit too crazy, isn’t it? And we’re even more concerned now that we’ve heard what Nick’s ex, singer Christinia Milian, said about him in a recent interview. “All the time we were together, I heard nothing,” says Christina, who dated singer Nick for nearly three years. “No rumours, no gossip, and then all of a sudden I’m in Romania and I start hearing stuff. The whole time with different girls, not just one, but different girls. He said to me that these girls helped his ego and made him look good.” Mmm, he sounds like quite the catch, doesn’t he? We hope Mariah knows what she’s getting into…
Source: Heat Magazine
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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