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Melanie C - Think About It (Official Video)

2011-07-19T08:45:00.001+08:00

Melanie C - Cruel Intentions (Snippet)

2011-07-19T08:36:00.003+08:00

Melanie C - Cruel Intentions (preview) by matsometimes

Tenderly
Without affection, do you help yourself, by hurting me, oohhhhh

No longer shocking how quickly you turn from good to bad
First lesson today - start believing the facts
Your condemning me is valid, maybe that's your truth
My question is this - where is the proof?

Lay with me
Your cruel intentions cut me deep, with your deception
Tenderley
Without affection, do you help youself by hurting me, ooohhhhh

Before you drag me under
Another breath you take the air from me
Uncreate this monster
Let me steal the tainted air you breathe
...

Mariah Carey:The Ballads

2009-02-03T05:52:00.000+08:00

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Mimi Performs a Heartful rendition of 'I Stay In Love' at the American Music Awards

2008-12-06T02:36:00.000+08:00

I Stay In Love Live AMA 2008
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Mimi Performing "I'll Be Loving You Long Time" at Teen Awards

2008-08-05T11:04:00.000+08:00

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Mariah performs "IM THAT CHICK" at MTV "The Hills" Premier

2008-03-27T09:10:00.001+08:00

Here's the Video now guys..Watch the amazing new song from the Amazing New album E=MC2.

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Mariah's New MACYs Commercial

2008-03-21T12:06:00.000+08:00

Mariah's Macy's Commercial
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The Official E=MC² Cover

2008-03-19T08:51:00.000+08:00

E=MC2 will be released April 15, 2008 on Island Def Jam Records.

Here's the tracklisting for the album:

1. Migrate featuring T-Pain
2. Touch My Body
3. Cruise Control featuring Damian Marley
4. I Stay In Love
5. Side Effects featuring Young Jeezy
6. I'm That Chick
7. Love Story
8. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
9. Last Kiss
10. Thanx 4 Nothin'
11. O.O.C.
12. For The Record
13. Bye Bye
14. I Wish You Well

Source: MariahCarey.com

Touch My Body(Remix) ft The-Dream

2008-03-19T07:04:00.007+08:00

Touch My Body(Remix) f/ Rick Ross

MC on "Saturday Night Live". Watch Live Performance of the Amazing "MIGRATE f T-Pain" and "Touch My Body"

2008-03-16T22:50:00.000+08:00

Over ten years have passed since Mariah last performed in New York's legendary Studio 8H. Earlier tonight, Mariah, looking better than ever, took the Saturday Night Live stage to perform her new single "Touch My Body" and "Migrate," a collaboration with T-Pain taken from her upcoming album E=MC². The two live performances featured some of the best vocals from Mariah in recent years and marked the beginning of an exciting new era!

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20 Things You Didn’t Know About Mariah Carey

2008-03-16T16:10:00.000+08:00

Elvis. The Beatles. Mariah. Don’t laugh - the Long Island diva is the only living artist with a clear shot at toppling some of the rock’s most enduring chart records, and certainly the only one who could pull off an upset in a skintight gold lame mini. Carey’s 18-year career has been filled with some famous ups (the #1 album for each record released, more than 200 million records sold) and infamous downs (a short-lived marriage to her former label boss and that legendary meltdown on MTV’s TRL, with a hospitalization for exhaustion), but through it all she’s cranked out some of the most indelible pop and R&B hits of the modern era.

Though she claims to have failed remedial math, Carey’s back with her 11th album, the Einstein-inspired E=MC2, which was reason enough to hit the books and dig up 20 things you may not have known about the woman only close friends call “Mimi.”

1. It’s been widely reported that her name means “the wind” in some unspecified Native American language, but that urban fable is likely tied to a Kingston Trio song from the 1950s titled “They Call the Wind Mariah.” Her name was also allegedly inspired by the 1969 western “Paint Your Wagon,” which features the song “They Call the Wind Maria.”

2. Her exotic looks come courtesy of an African-Venezuelan father, Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer, and her Irish-American mother, Patricia, a mezzo-soprano opera singer. She’s spoken often about the effect her parent’s divorce had on her and the racial prejudice she encountered growing up in the suburbs as a mixed race child. She has two older siblings, Morgan, CEO of the Big Kid Records label and Alison, whose struggles with drug use and prostitution in her teenage years led to a long estrangement between the sisters.

3. She began singing at age two and started taking voice lessons two years later. She has said the hours she spent alone at home following her parent’s divorce were often spent listening to and singing music, including opera. She was so often absent from Harborfields High School due to her work as a demo singer in local studios that classmates took to calling her “Mirage.”

4. After graduating from high school, she moved to New York to pursue a singing career and logged 500 hours at beauty school while working a string of menial jobs, including coat check girl and waitress. Her big break came when she sang backup for underground R&B singer Brenda K. Starr in 1987. Later, she handed Starr a demo tape at a party, which made its way to Columbia Records boss, Tommy Mottola. Twelve years after meeting Starr, she would pay tribute to her in 1999 by releasing a cover of her mentor’s “I Still Believe.”

5. Her debut album netted her two Grammy awards, for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Performance for “Vision of Love.” Though she picked up several American Music Awards and other honors in the years since, it wouldn’t be until 2005 that she would win another Grammy. That year she picked up three for her comeback album The Emancipation of Mimi, including Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the smash “We Belong Together.”

6. She was 23 in 1993 when she married her label boss, Mottola, 43, in an elaborate, $500,000 wedding that she modeled on England’s Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Among the details? A family heirloom tiara refashioned to look like Diana’s, fifty flower girls and a boy’s choir. The guest list included Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne and Robert DeNiro. In addition to being a major label record head, Mottola was a former guitarist in a R&B/rock cover band (The Exotics), a sometime movie actor and a wannabe singer under the stage name Tommy Valentine. The couple split four years later and her next album, Butterfly, had a decidedly more hip-hop feel, with production and cameos from Puff Daddy, Missy Elliott, Dru Hill and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

7. She loves collaborations, having shared the mic with Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Missy Elliott, Dru Hill, Whitney Houston, Jay-Z, Joe, 98 Degrees, Westlife, Snoop Dogg, Cameo, Da Brat, Ludacris, Cam’ron, Busta Rhymes, Mase, the Lox, Mobb Deep, Rick James and Bow Wow.

8. Among her pets over the years: a pair of Dobermans named Princess and Duke, a Yorkshire terrier named Ginger, a pair of cats named Ninja and Tompkins, another pair named Clarence (his tombstone is pictured at right) and Puffy, two small dogs named Bing and Bong, a Jack Russell terrier named Jack, who travels with her and has appeared in several of her videos, including “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “Dreamlover.”

She holds several sales and chart records, among them: one of her albums is reportedly bought every three seconds around the world; two of her albums (Daydream and Music Box) have sold more than 20 million copies each; she has the most #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs by a female artist (17); she’s spent the most weeks at #1 on Billboard Hot 100 (16) for “One Sweet Day”; she’s spent the most cumulative weeks at #1 by a female artist on Billboard Hot 100 (77); and she’s the best-selling female artist (49 million), just to name a few accomplishments.

9. In 2007, she told Glamour that her 17,000 square foot triplex in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood was so big she wasn’t even sure how many bathrooms it has. One thing she did know, though, was that there was one bathroom that was Hello Kitty themed, and that 3,000 of those square feet were just for her closet, which doesn’t include a whole separate closet for lingerie.

10. You’ve probably heard it used a million times to describe her singing style, but what in the hell is “melisma?” The dictionary definition is a technique of singing in which the pitch of a note is changed in the midst of a single syllable. In other words, it’s that thing she does where she stretches out a part of a word and makes two syllables sound like 12. Also, that squeaky, glass-shattering note she’s known for? It’s called “whistle register” and it’s defined as the highest register of the human voice, which soars even above a female falsetto. She’s said to be able to cover all the notes from alto to coloratura soprano.

11. She also loves her some covers. She’s had a wide ranging choice of remakes over the years, including songs by Phil Collins (”Against All Odds”), Prince (”The Beautiful Ones”), Def Leppard (”Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”), Darlene Love (”Christmas (Baby Please Come Home))”, Cherrelle (”I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On”), Diana Ross (”Do You Know Where You’re Going To? (Theme from Mahogany))”, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (”Endless Love”), Cheryl Lynn (”Got To Be Real”), the Jackson Five (”I’ll Be There”), Conway Twitty (”It’s Only Make Believe”), Journey (”Open Arms”) and Badfinger (”Without You”).

12. For her first several years in the spotlight, Carey was unable to tour due, in part, to crippling stage fright. She finally hit the road in 1993 for the first time with her Music Box tour. But unlike most artists hitting the road for the first time, she was coming off two hit albums and played her first major show in front of 15,000 people in Miami. Fittingly, the band took the stage to the strains of “They Call the Wind Maria” from Paint Your Wagon during the six-date tour.

13. The 38-year-old singer recently told E! television that while she’s happy dating Mark Sudack - a member of her management team — she’s not sure about having babies. “Obviously having a kid is a commitment for life. I really would have to be very, very positive that I was in a place where I could completely focus and put everything into the job of being someone’s mommy cause it’s hard enough to have a puppy.”

14. She was born in Huntington, New York. Other notable residents over the years have included Billy Joel, John Coltrane, Ashanti, Jack Kerouac, Ralph Macchio, Walt Whitman, Sean Hannity, Lloyd Banks, New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington and Lindsay Lohan.

15. Her 2001 big screen bow in a starring role, “Glitter,” was a disaster, but Carey actually began dipping her toes in the Hollywood pool two years earlier. Her movie debut was as an opera singer in the 1999 Chris O’Donnell/Renee Zellwegger romantic comedy The Bachelor. She went on to star with Mira Sorvino in the straight-to-cable mob movie WiseGirls, which got slightly better reviews. She has since appeared in the indie movies Death of a Dynasty and State Property 2, produced by former Roc-A-Fella boss Damon Dash. She also appeared on a 2002 episode of “Ally McBeal.” She’ll appear in the 2008 indie film Tennessee, and play herself in the upcoming Adam Sandler hairdresser comedy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.

16. She’s notoriously generous to her personal staff and in 2007 she nearly broke the bank. Her annual gift bag to her closest peeps was reportedly worth almost $20,000 and included French champagne, whiskey, Belgian chocolates, Cuban cigars, an iPod and a laptop.

17. Though she avoided doing commercials and promoting products in the U.S. for years, Carey got on the promotional bandwagon in 2006, when she appeared in ads for Intel Centrino computers, launched her own line of jewelry for teens called Glamorized in the Claire’s and Icing chains and also hooked up with Pepsi and Motorola for campaigns. In 2007, she released the fragrance “M” through Elizabeth Arden. As of last year, Forbes magazine ranked her as the sixth richest woman in entertainment, with an estimated net worth of $225 million.

18. She’s celebrating the release of E=MC² with a special collector’s Gold edition of her “M by Mariah Carey” fragrance. The rarity was priced at $75 and had a reported $595 value. According to her website, the lines on the “M” fragrance bottles are shaped to mimic the singer’s signature, with a cap in the form of a butterfly, one of her favorite images. The butterfly sits on the bottle that’s shaped like a Tiare flower that is, according to her official website, “just on the verge of blooming, its delicate petals open to reveal the seductive fragrance within.” Among the “notes” in the fragrance are amber incense, the Tahitian Tiare flower and marshmallows, which remind Mariah of being a child in the kitchen with her father.

19. In October 2007, she was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame along with Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Pat Benatar, Blue Oyster Cult, Neil Diamond, Arlo Guthrie, Carole King, Eddie Money, Public Enemy, the Ramones and Barbra Streisand.

20. Mariah’s backstage needs are like any other divas, according to a tour rider obtained by The Smoking Gun website. Among the things she requires: one bottle of chilled Cristal champagne, two bottles of Camus white wine, 12 room temperature bottles of Poland Spring mineral water, tea service for eight using Poland Spring water, one bear-shaped bottle of honey, a selection of sugarless gum, one box of bendy straws, two air purifiers, one director’s chair and three boxes of tissues.

Source: VH1 | Thanks to Tray

2008-03-15T11:34:00.001+08:00

MC's new Video "Touch My Body"

2008-03-15T11:13:00.000+08:00

Mariah Named New Album E=MC²

2008-02-15T13:19:00.000+08:00

NEW ALBUM IN STORES APRIL 15th; FOLLOWS-UP WORLDWIDE 10 MILLION-SELLING, MULTI-GRAMMY WINNING THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI
Performer and songwriter Mariah Carey has set April 15th as the in-store date for the most eagerly anticipated album of the year, E=MC². The 11th studio album of her career, E=MC² is the follow-up to The Emancipation Of Mimi, Mariah's worldwide 10 million selling #1 album, which generated three Grammy awards (including Best Contemporary R&B Album), 2 #1 singles and countless more industry honors during its 18-month stay on the charts.
The first single from E=MC² is "Touch My Body," written and produced by Mariah Carey, C. "Tricky" Stewart, and The-Dream, hit radio stations worldwide on February 12th. The video for "Touch My Body" was directed by feature filmmaker Brett Ratner - Internet, cable and network premieres for the video will be announced in the weeks ahead. In addition to C. "Tricky" Stewart and The-Dream, other guest producers joining Mariah on E=MC² will include Jermaine Dupri, DJ Toomp, Stargate, Will I Am, Bryan Michael Cox, Nate "Danjahandz" Hills and James Poyser. E=MC² is executive produced by Mariah Carey and Antonio "LA" Reid, Chairman, Island Def Jam Music Group.
The Emancipation Of Mimi, released April 12, 2005, was an industry phenomenon for the mega-platinum award-winning superstar - Soundscan's biggest-selling album of the year, bringing total sales of Mariah's albums, singles and videos to more than 160 million worldwide, making her the most successful female recording artist in history. Mimi featured "We Belong Together" (winner of the Best Female R&B Vocal and Best R&B Song Grammys) and "Don't Forget About Us," Mariah's 16th and 17th #1 career singles respectively. They tied one of the most enduring chart records in Billboard Hot 100 history, Elvis Presley's 17 #1's. Mariah is now positioned as the only active recording artist in the 48 years of the Hot 100 (which began in 1958) with the potential to surpass the Beatles' all-time high of 20 #1 hits.