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We have now added scans for three issues of international magazine, SHOUT, which was available in Canada, UK & New Zealand.
Mariah Carey graced the cover of these issues from 2005 to 2007. Click on the links below to be re-directed to high quality readable scans:
* October 14 - 27, 2005 - Issue 330: Mariah talks about school life & Jack. Also a section clearing up some facts from fiction.
* May 26 - June 8, 2006 - Issue 346: Mariah Carey discusses her friends. While Jasmine talks about her friendship with Mariah. Also includes a short guide to Mariahisms.
* November 22 - December 5, 2007 - Issue 385: An overview of Mariah’s look, projects, fueds & rumoured demands.
Source: Mariah Connection
The pictures above are thumbnail scans of the feature article on Mariah from January’s edition of Observer Woman Magazine. Click on any of the pictures for a HQ full size scan.
You can read the text of the interview here
Scans: Mariah Connection UK
Forever fascinating, Mariah Carey aka Mrs Nick Cannon is back in the spotlight with her brand new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, and will be hitting the big screen again in January as a dowdy social worker in award-winning film Precious. Stuart Brumfitt heard from her about her fav fashion labels, rumours she calls her hubby ‘DJ Sex Fingers’ and getting back into acting after being slated for Glitter.
Where are you at the moment?
I’m in New York. I’ve just arrived after my performance at Rock in Rio, straight after that I flew to California for the LA premiere of Precious. Before that I was in Korea and Tokyo promoting my new album so there has been a lot of flying recently. I’m happy to be back in my home even if it is for a brief moment.
You travel all over the world, but where do you love the most?
I really love Capri, I’ve had many holidays there and love to swim in the sea. I’ve recorded many of my albums there too. I also own a home on Eleuthera in the Bahamas, which is very sentimental to me as it’s where Nick and I got married.
How was Fashion Rocks in Brazil?
Fashion Rocks was really cool. I was so delighted to see my Brazilian fans and I performed a special remix of Fantasy which went down really well. It had the full Carnival feel!
Who are your favourite fashion designers then?
There are so many to mention. At Rio Rocks I performed for Calvin Klein. I wore Dolce & Gabbana at the premiere of Precious at Cannes. I love Versace, Chanel, Dior and Azzedine Alaia.
Your album’s called Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel – in what ways are you imperfect? And are you really an angel?
I’d written a song called ‘Imperfect’, but it didn’t make it onto the album. The lyrics of that song address the fact that the world puts so much pressure on us - especially on women - to be perfect and look a certain way, and that’s impossible because nobody is perfect. I know I’ve tried to be a good person, but I am definitely no angel!
You’ve worked with tons of rappers, including Gucci Mane on ‘Obsessed’. Who is the most gorgeous?
I loved working with Gucci on Obsessed. He’s really cool. As for who is the most gorgeous, that would be Nick of course!
We heard you call your husband ‘DJ Sex Fingers’. Is this true?
This is not true!
There was a gay proposal at your performance at The Palms in Las Vegas recently. How did that come about?
A Canadian fan got in touch and said his partner would say yes if he could propose on stage and so I let them come up on stage during my performance in Vegas.
What do you think of your gay fans?
I love all my fans. My gay fans are always so delightful and they give so much love. A few years ago I did a show at G-A-Y in London and I had so much fun. It was very exciting and the audience were so with me. An unforgettable moment for me.
Why do you think you’re a gay icon? And you are!
I think people can identify with what I’m writing about and the emotion in my songs.
You’ve done a cover of ‘I Wanna Know What Love Is.’ Don’t you know what love is though?
One night Nick and I were talking about the album and the idea of doing this song just came up. For a very long time I didn’t know what love was, but meeting my husband has opened a whole new world and understanding of the meaning of love.
Your new film Precious has received awards and you’ve been praised for your performance. How proud are you of it?
I’m very proud of this movie and love working with the director Lee Daniels. I have worked with him previously on Tennessee and it’s wonderful to see him receive the praise he so deserves.
Do you mind being all plain and without make-up in the film?
I looked so damn ugly! Those little bangs and then Lee Daniels put dark circles under my eyes. I just kept away from mirrors. I had to do the inner work to be this character.
Weren’t you scared to do another film after criticisms over Glitter?
I thought the whole thing about Glitter was a little unfair. First the movie came out after September 11th and because it was me and my first movie I was somewhat unfairly criticised. I am so glad I am in the place I am now with my movie career. The feedback from my performance in Precious has been very encouraging.
The Director of Precious, Lee Daniels, said in the New York Times: ‘She would throw herself under the train for you, as long as her hair was perfect.’ How true is that?
Oh did he say that? You had better ask Lee that question but my hair didn’t look too pretty in Precious!
• The album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel and the brand new single ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ will both be released on the 23rd November.
• Precious will be released in the UK in January 2010.
- - - -> High quality scans of the magazine are available HERE!
Source: Boyz | Scans: Michael Lynn | Text: Mariah Connection UK
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Her reputation for prima-donna behaviour and extravagant demands is almost as legendary as her impressive record of No. 1 hits, yet Mariah Carey maintains that, as far as her diva image is concerned, her tongue is firmly in her cheek.
In this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at a week in her life, we meet the global phenomenon who readily admits to sleeping with ten humidifiers in her room and whose puppies even have their own entourage…
Saturday - Las Vegas
I’m doing some concerts at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas to let fans see my new performance live before I hit the promo trail for my new album, Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel, which will include appearances on big TV shows like Oprah.
The Vegas dates sold out in hours, and my fans sang along with my old classics and cheered really loudly for my new tracks. Even though I had never performed the new songs before, I had a great time revealing them to the intimate audience. My single Obsessed had the fans singing word for word – that always feels amazing.
I travel heavy with my team, which on this trip includes DJ Suss One, my stylist, my hair stylist, my make-up artist, my manager, my tour manager, my brand manager, my three personal assistants and my puppies, JJ and Cha Cha. I work out most of my outfits with my stylist. I opened the show in a Tony Ward crystal-beaded minidress with a full tulle skirt like a ballerina, inspired by a princess, of course. Why not? My second was a long black gown with coloured sequins by Marc Bouwer – I love dressing up but I kept stepping on the lace train of the dress, and so did all my entourage who walked behind me. I threatened to fire them all if they stepped out of line again. My third dress was by The Blonds and was a hot pink studded mini.
My show is a non-stop, 90-minute, full-on workout for my vocals and I have to be in tip-top condition, so I sleep as much as possible for two days beforehand. That’s why I have ten humidifiers in my room.
After the second night’s performance, I raced to the private airfield to fly straight to Toronto. By midnight we were wheels up on the jet.
Sunday - Toronto
At 7am we touched down in Toronto, where three SUVs met us on the private airfield and raced us to the Four Seasons Hotel. My team threw down our luggage in my private suite and spent 60 seconds fixing my hair before dragging me downstairs to a packed press conference room where we began with a photocall for my movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. I was asked about my less-than-glamorous image in the film. My character looks, dare I say, homely. But it’s not about vanity – it was about me losing any resemblance to the Mariah Carey that people know and doing the inner work that was needed to become Mrs Weiss, the social worker.
As soon as the press conference was over I was whisked off to do a quick photoshoot for a style magazine. Next, I did 14 back-to-back interviews, which my management had conveniently left out of the schedule that I’d taken a look at that morning! At 2pm they let me go up to my suite, where I checked on my puppies then fell into a deep sleep for about 40 minutes, which is terrible as you wake up with a sleep hangover.
I was woken to get my hair and make-up done, ready for the first red-carpet event of the night. Ironically, my PR rep had me drive around the venue three times as she didn’t want me to arrive too early but I said: “Let’s go for it. They’re always accusing me in the press of being late and keeping everyone waiting. Let’s show them that I can be on time!”
Outside, the red carpet was heaving with fans and I signed a few autographs. I haven’t been to Canada for so long, it was nice to see the love and support of those who showed up with pictures and CDs for me to sign.
After I’d mingled with movie bigwigs at the cocktail party and had some fun, we were rushed off to the second red-carpet event of the night, which was crazy pandemonium but lots of fun – I call it “fandomonium”. I did around 15 more red-carpet interviews then hurried inside as the screening was about to begin.
At midnight we left and, while everyone else ran to the cars to get to the jet, I walked as fast as physically possible in my vertiginous heels. We were late for our air time slot. I jumped into a waiting car and sped off to the airfield, where the plane was waiting to take me back to my home city of New York.
Monday - New York
It’s only an hour to New York City but still I fell asleep under my leopard-print comforter. We landed in New York at 1am and my car drove me home, where I wound down with my two friends, Rachel and Jasmine. We had some food and watched the beginning of a movie before we all fell asleep. We slept until 3pm and spent the rest of the day in our PJs hanging out, making breakfast at 7pm (pretty early time for me!). What can I say? I’m a night owl. Then we talked girly stuff until the early hours of the morning. Of course, I made sure I watched my husband Nick Cannon hosting his hugely successful TV show, America’s Got Talent, before I fell asleep.
Tuesday - New York
My friend Jasmine was staying with me as she was filming a fly-on-the-wall style special for T4, so she got up early to make us breakfast – she makes good scrambled eggs on toast. We left soon afterwards, to the set of a commercial shoot for an American phone company. My puppies are starring in this ad with me, too. I had my team with me but the pups had a mini entourage of their own, of course! And why wouldn’t they? It was a big shoot and even my entourage had an entourage – my stylist had an assistant, my security had extra security.
The look I went for was a Gucci top with Gucci boots that aren’t even out in stores yet. One of my friends said I looked like a glamazon woman from Vogue. I informed her that if that were the case, I’d be a size minus-something, but I thanked her for the compliment anyway.
The funniest thing was that the huge muscleman actor they had playing my security guard had trouble controlling my 5lb puppy, who was wriggling madly to escape his big hands. I’m convinced my puppy trainer has taught my dogs to obey only male voices, as he and Nick can control them beautifully but with me they’re bad, bad doggies. The shoot was based on the fact that some people think I’m a demanding diva. I have no idea why people have that impression!
That night I had an interview with a journalist from a British newspaper, who I’d agreed to meet at 10:30pm at a restaurant in my neighbourhood. As the restaurant is only three blocks up the street, I decided I would walk, so popped on my comfiest platform skyscraper heels and off we went. The interview finished just in time for me to sit down to a quick midnight dinner with my girlfriends before taking another press call from NRJ Radio in France. My day never stops!
Wednesday and Thursday - New York
I was ending my week with a big performance, so Wednesday and Thursday were vocal rest days. My manager told me that rain was predicted on Friday, when I was meant to be performing for Oprah, live from Central Park. We all laughed and said with Oprah’s connections we’re sure she can make a call and have that weather fixed! I tried to lie in bed relaxing all day but had a couple of things on my to-do list – walking my puppies on my rooftop and taking a dip in my rooftop hot tub.
Since I live downtown, on the other side of the city to Central Park, and traffic the next morning would’ve been bleak, we packed an overnight bag or 12 and stayed at the Plaza Hotel. I love it there, but it was still very hard to fall asleep. Usually I watch a movie to try to nod off, but the hotel was featuring Bruno and it had the opposite effect.
Friday - New York
Waking up was beyond bleak. I actually drank coffee, which I never do. But once I got to the stage and felt Oprah’s and the crowd’s energy, I really woke up. My family were there and Nick had even jumped on a ridiculously early flight from California to join me on stage. I felt pretty good out there. I sang my current single, I Want To Know What Love Is, and as I spotted Oprah watching from the front row I hoped I’d done a good job.
Nick had to go back to California at 5am the next morning, but he left me two really sweet notes so I felt better waking up alone (woe is me!). He’ll be back tonight so I’m being a little dramatic – but then again, aren’t I always?’
Mariah’s album Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel is released on 16 November, and the single I Want To Know What Love Is is released on 14 November. Her film, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, will be released in February 2010. A T4 special on Mariah Carey will be shown on Channel 4 on 14 November at 10:05am.
Source: Hello Magazine | Text and Scans: Mariah Connection UK
On Sunday 1 November Mariah was the cover star of the Sunday Mirror’s Celebs on Sunday magazine. HQ Scans are featured below. Click on the thumbnails for a closer view:
Read the whole interview
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Scans: Mariah Connection UK
Scans of Mariah’s recent interview with Guardian’s Weekend Magazine are now available.
Please click here for scans!
The full text of the interview, in which Mariah Carey reveals some very personal information is available HERE.
Also take a moment to thank Emma Brockes for such a great article… post a response to it by clicking here!
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Scans of Mariah’s recent interview with NOW Magazine are now available.
Please click on the thumbnails above for a close-up view.
The full text of the interview, in which Mariah answered questions submitted by the magazine’s readers, is available HERE.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
You can now view high quality scans of 20 May, 2008 issue of UK’s OK! Magazine. This issue featured the UK exclusive of Mariah Carey’s wedding to Nick Cannon. Click here to access scans.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
We have now added scans for another three Mariah Carey UK cover features. Click on the links below to be re-directed to the scans:
* Hot Tickets - February 2000
* K9 - 2005
* The Look - October 1998
Source: Mariah Connection UK
The nicest diva in the music industry, Mariah Carey is back with a vengeance, boasting a brand-new album and a slender physique. She talked to a tipsy Jessica Huie about the stress of dieting, the importance of friends and her relationship with God.
Last night Mariah Carey got me drunk.
I’d turned up at a studio located by the Hudson River, in Manhattan, for an 11:30pm interview with one of the globe’s biggest superstars. Three hours later…I was still waiting.
Gazing out from the 14th floor of the Hudson Studios, I took in the breathtaking magnificence of the New York skyline by night, mentally quizzing the woman whose comeback from an emotional breakdown seven years ago sensationally saw her The Emancipation of Mimi album sell 10 million copies worldwide, cementing her iconic status in pop history. Exciting stuff. Despite the jet lag that has crept in 24 hours after landing at JFK, I couldn’t wait to get a peek inside the wonderful world of MC.
At 3am I get the okay to go through for the interview. Three French journalists are waiting behind me- one dozing on the couch, another downing espressos to ward off exhaustion, the third obviously annoyed that Mariah’s publicist has given me the okay to take his slot and conduct the interview before sleep gets the better of me.
I’m asked to sit behind a large black screen on a director’s stool. Mariah is sitting on the other side. I feel like I’m about to audition for American Idol. I’m handed a glass of wine, which I down quickly in the hope that the alcohol will awaken my dreary senses a little.
I’m called in, and there she is, a slimmed-down 5ft 9in vision of loveliness, even at this ridiculous hour. Don’t believe the hype or the paparazzi’s unflattering tabloid pictures: Mariah Carey is gorgeous in the flesh, although after my interview I’m not altogether convinced that she knows it.
She stands to give me a hug and I’m bounced by her ample bosom. However, aside from this one surgical enhancement, there’s no evidence of the alleged £150,000 liposuction that is supposed to have resulted in Mariah’s fabulous new body.
“I know the whole UK is freaking out that I had some crazy plastic surgery done, but hit this,” and she motions for me to hit her thigh, which is rock-hard from hours of lunges and toning squats. “Honestly. It’s working out and diet. Look at what I’m eating right now: olives! It makes me upset that people think I’ve had surgery ‘cos let’s discuss how annoying the dieting process was. My girls will eat really good fried food, and I also love sweet plantain and rice and peas, but I can’t eat it! If I eat it, it’s this small [she signals to a coin-size portion]. Do you want some wine?” I respond that I do, and so my professionalism (along with my sobriety) begins its speedy decline.
Half an hour later and my carefully planned line of questioning is forgotten. The situation isn’t helped by the fact that we are sitting in a darkened room lit only by scores of scented tea lights that, while creating a lovely chilled-out ambience, make is impossible for me to see my notebook. Mariah’s lovely assistant Jim appears and signals that my time is up. “No, Jim we’re not done! It’s my fault, I’ve been distracting her- we need five more minutes.”
A tipsy half an hour later, and we’re talking men. I ask MC if she has someone, and she responds: “I don’t know…do you have someone?”, which prompts a conversation into whether you ever really have somebody or if a relationship is merely a transient thing that is never assured. Fascinating stuff, even at 3am. Despite my being happily ensconced in a relationship, MC’s trying to set me up with her nephew. “He’s 33 and has just graduated from Harvard Law School. He was even voted one of the world’s most eligible bachelors…you’d be perfect together!” What I really want to know, however, is why, at 37, with beauty, brains and a wicked sense of humour, Mariah herself hasn’t been snapped up.
I ask her if she wants children.
“I do if it’s right, I don’t if it’s wrong. I’m probably so much more insecure than you. I don’t know that I’ve ever been loved or ever felt loved or fulfilled emotionally, and I know that I’m able to give that. But I don’t know if I’m able to receive it. Maybe I just don’t feel like anyone could ever care about me that way…I don’t know. I don’t mean to say that in a weird way, but I’m so grateful for Jesus Christ in my life. I’m so grateful for the Lord in my life. Because if you’re not ashamed to admit that you know God, you feel like, no matter what, you’re going to be Okay, ‘cos there is one who loves you. Maybe He’s not of this world, and maybe I’m not supposed to be loved by someone of this world, because maybe I’m too difficult. I can accept that I’m a bad girl…maybe I’m not worth it.”
Though we’ve just met, it’s hard to hear this beautiful woman speak about herself in this way, and the Pinot Grigo makes me want to give her a hug, and I feel my eyes welling up. This is certainly the most bizarre interview of my career, but also the most real. I remind her that the best things in life are hard work, while thinking how hard it is to be a woman.
She continues: “I wish I could be with a person who was exactly the same as me racially. Someone who would understand and not judge me. I believe that he’s still out there. But if there’s someone who just cares about me because I’m a famous person, it’s freaking ridiculous.”
Trust is a huge issue for Mariah, and so it was than when an interview with our very own Jasmine Dotiwala, who heads up MTV Base, resulted in a meeting of minds between the two inspirational women of colour, a very special friendship was born. When I mention I know Jasmine, Mariah instantly relaxes and touchingly explains: “She’s just such a good person. It’s so rare for me to find people that I feel close to. We met during an interview and we just had so much in common. She didn’t expect to like me, but we are so similar and I really care about and love her. We spend Christmas together now, we are family” She breaks into song: “I’ve got all my sisters with me!” She is my heart, and nobody can take her place. Do you want some more wine?”
Two more close friends of MC’s are Rachel, who sits in on our chat for the duration, and her nine-year-old daughter Sade. Rachel’s daughter is the coolest girl ever, and she’s one of my best friends. She’s a beautiful girl, she laughs at me ‘cos she knows that I’m eternally 12. She’s like ‘What are you talking about? MC’s not my auntie she’s my friend!’ We are like dumb and dumber, in fact, no, I’m dumber and dumber!”
I question whether it’s being well into her 30s that has allowed MC the confidence to revel in her sexuality on the new album. “Are you freaking kidding me? I’m 12!,” is all she’ll say, explaining that she no longer celebrates birthdays, preferring to view them as “anniversaries.” So how will she celebrate her imminent anniversary? “Honestly, I’d like to be 29 forever. I’m gonna be with Jasmine and friends somewhere fabulous. I’m so excited about that.”
Despite the insecurities that MC admits still dog her, the album itself, E=MC2, is a sure-fire winner, and an anthem for sexually empowered confident women in control. The first single, “Touch My Body” is a catchy send-up that sees a needy geek entranced by her svelte form as she invites him to “wrestle her to the floor” As diva-ish as they come (after all she thinks nothing of keeping the press waiting until the early hours of the morning for a 20-minute conversation), she’s a fabulous diva, famous for having no clue as to the number of bathrooms in her home. I wonder if the fact that she’s rarely spotted in the front row of the Milan fashion shows, or even alongside Beyonce and Jay-Z at the BET Awards, is a deliberate attempt to maintain the removed mystique of her stardom.
“I do award shows if they are all about me!” she laughs heartily. “I do them if I’m gonna have a promotional moment, but they’re a pain in the ass. When you’re on TV, you’ve got a camera in your face, and I don’t want to deal with that, it’s annoying. They’re in your face, they’re not even showing your waist, they’re right in your face with the worst lighting ever! It’s like…why? But it is what it is. Again, God had brought me a long, long way. I know it’s a lot to do with growing up in suburban America where you don’t feel that normal love.”
Whether or not there is a man deserving of Mariah’s love in her life, she’s adored by millions, has a yacht in Capri, a new home in the Bahamas, wealth beyond her wildest dreams, and a set of genuinely good friends. Then there’s the new album, which is full of club-banging summer anthems and sprinklings of T-Pain and Damian Marley to being the MC sound bang into 2008. It’s sure to meet, if not surpass, the dizzy success of the last record.
Her biggest blessing, however, is her relationship with God. I ask Mariah if she ever reflects on the strength of character it must have taken to overcome the breakdown she suffered years ago in such spectacular fashion. “I just look back and say, ‘Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord for getting me through my life and delivering me, for giving me strength when I almost lost it all.’ I can’t take credit for myself, you know why? In the word of the song ‘My Saving Grace’ on the Charmbracelet album. Whatever anybody else ever says, I say ‘I still exist because You catch my every fall.”
Ninety minutes after out interview began, we say goodbye, and I come face to face with the irate French journalist. Avoiding eye contact, I stumble back out into the brisk New York night air and smile. I’m not certain whether it was actually me who conducted the interview or Mariah herself. Regardless. I feel I’ve had an insight into one of music’s greatest icon. It won’t be an interview I forget- I shall always remember the night Mariah Carey got me drunk.
Source: Pride Magazine | Text and Scans: Mariah Connection UK
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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