NEW MARIAH!!!! Single "H-A-T-E-U" should be dropping soon.
― i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
so is it written completely by the-dream or what
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
Not entirely, she's also working with Timbo. Terius is doing the majority of the album tho, I think... not that much info available, she released the name via her Twitter.
― i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:09 (6 months ago) Permalink
i was so dying when i heard about that tweet
THE FUCKING TITLE
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
it's gotta change
― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:16 (6 months ago) Permalink
i mean, i love it, but there's no way
MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
She's an angel, but she's not perfect.
― Bathtime at the Apollo (G00blar), Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:59 (6 months ago) Permalink
This is her story.
― Bathtime at the Apollo (G00blar), Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
In a world full of angels, imperfection speaks.
(nay, it sings)
llol
Twitter:
MariahCarey: I really can't wait to get home and finish this album!
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 May 2009 16:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
MariahCarey: I mean, I failed remedial math. How am I supposed to add every time I look at the clock.?! Lol
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 May 2009 16:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
i love this woman
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Friday, 22 May 2009 16:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
I thought Surmounter was saying that for a second and I was a little worried!
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 17:02 (5 months ago) Permalink
!!
― man see united (k3vin k.), Friday, 22 May 2009 17:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
:]
MariahCarey: Its 0 o'clock.haaaaaaaaaaa
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:41 (5 months ago) Permalink
0_o'clock
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:09 (5 months ago) Permalink
dnr this was gonna be a Dream thing, touch my body was good but I never actually got round to investigating
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
i'm excited for you to do that
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 May 2009 22:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
downloading now...
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
btw I am v. happy to be on the same page as you wrt music lately Ramz! Sbeen ages!
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:29 (5 months ago) Permalink
the only tweet i've ever favourited is one of mariah's:
@MariahCarey The best thing about working at home is I can sing and write in my pajamas..the worst thing is I NEVER LEAVE THE FRIGGIN PLACE!!! Lol
SHE KNOWS HOW I FEEL
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
o wait i have another favourited which i forgot about!!! it is amazing (americans ignore):
@campbellclaret Akon has almost taken over from Nelly Furtado as best cycling rhythm music
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
i'm drunk in an airport btw
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:29 (Yesterday) Permalink
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:27 (44 minutes ago) Permalink
YES, yes to both (i remember that tweet!)
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 May 2009 01:13 (5 months ago) Permalink
They changed the single to "Obsessed", it's an uptempo produced by Terius & Tricky... supposedly it's an Eminem diss track LOL. It's being sent to radio next Tuesday.
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
MariahCarey So"Obsessed" is an uptempo fun summer record. We were gonna go w/the ballad Hate U 1st but don't worry,its coming. I tried to make something or all who love Butterfly, and even older albums,but"Obsessed" has to come out 1st, asap!! Its different for me,but clearly,its SO me!
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:52 (5 months ago) Permalink
heard about this, CAN
NOT
WAIT
― surm, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:54 (5 months ago) Permalink
:)
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
ftr, i'm really digging the song titles
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:44 (5 months ago) Permalink
my fav is when mariah stays up til 5 singing and tweets all punchy
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
MariahCarey: By the way H.A.T.E.U. Stands for something..can anyone guess? The chorus starts w/ "I can't wait to hate you make you pain like I do.."
― surm, Monday, 15 June 2009 02:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
MariahCarey: The point is you still love the person.."I can't wait to h.a.t.e.u. cos right now I need you..
she lettin dashboard confessional write her lyrics now? sheesh
― my god, it's full of straws! (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 June 2009 04:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
"heaven awaits those expecting ululation"?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 June 2009 16:09 (5 months ago) Permalink
"hogtie a tranny in ermine underwear"?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 June 2009 16:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
adorning her imperial?
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Monday, 15 June 2009 21:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 06:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
was just coming to post that :D
― surm, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
dropping today???
― surm, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:20 (5 months ago) Permalink
mariah carey album titles are real poetry
― recurrently posting, in an irregular series (Lamp), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
Night owl Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey only records her new album at night.
The "Hero" singer - who is currently working on her new record, entitled "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" - is driving record producers to distraction with her refusal to work during daylight hours.
Carey wrote on her page on social networking website Twitter in the early hours of Wednesday morning: "In the studio… driving the engineer crazy cos I'm a control freak and once again we're STARTING at 1:16 am..perfectly normal: ) (sic)"
The 40-year-old star posted an update two hours later, saying she was still working on the track.
Referring to her decision to sing all backing vocals on the song, Mariah wrote: "still in the studio. Hopefully I'll finish this one tonite. It has a lot of bv's and I'm doing them but you know I like that mess. (sic)"
The star - who is married to rapper Nick Cannon - eventually decided to stop recording at about 4:15am, when she went to her kitchen to play with her dogs.
It was recently reported Carey has been gorging on calorific treats while making her LP, causing her to pile on 15 lbs.
A source said: "Mariah loves food. Right now she's making an album and eating everything and anything she wants. She loves the curves."
― surm, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:44 (5 months ago) Permalink
god i love this woman
― surm, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
omg less than 1.5 hours, so anxious
― i exchange e-cards with the retards (Tape Store), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
wow a professional musician recording after midnight -- how unprofessional!
― best of the badman log (some dude), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
we're gonna see more "omg look at the timestamp on that twitter entry" non-stories like this from now on, aren't we
<3 <3 <3 love it
also is it now playing at 2pm? or 3pm? idk
― i exchange e-cards with the retards (Tape Store), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:49 (5 months ago) Permalink
it's playing in like 5 mins, you can listen here http://www.b96hits.com/
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
like it just ended and i got really sad. starting it again
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 26 October 2009 06:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
totally disagree that memoirs is boring in any way - its initial midtempo uniformity gave way really quickly for me into discrete and unique songs
the best i can say about memoirs is that it's 'nice' and is good if you're in the mood - it seems over-calculated to me
this strikes me as an odd criticism given how very calculated LvM and HTBALv1 were - and how memoirs is a sort of pullback from that on the-dream's part (and a pullback from the "all hits all the time" composition of e=mc2 on mariah's)
btw precious is incredible...
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 October 2009 16:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i feel like these aren't necessarily all that different from other jams by the-dream, just really piano heavy. not rly bored by this, i think it kinda goes for a more effortless quality with the exceptin of the "up out my face" reprise which is super tight and tryina be
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Monday, 26 October 2009 16:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it's not the soup, it's the cooks -- she's not the right vocalist for his songs and he's not the right songwriter for her voice imo
― President Deez (some dude), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:03 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
this strikes me as an odd criticism given how very calculated LvM and HTBALv1 were
sure, and tbh i would say that i love music where i feel like i can tell that the artist planned out every second (this is maybe the main reason why i <3 e red so much), but i guess what i mean when i say that 'memoirs' is over-calculated is not so much in the songwriting but in the choice to be so pared down. i think they over-thought what the image & feel of the album should be and ended up with an album that is a bit too fluid from song to song.
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:20 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i can see that jordan.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:20 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
ship with the most reasonable criticism imo, don't happen to fully agree w/ it tho
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 October 2009 18:24 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
in "betcha gon know" i always think that she's saying "i fell asleep on jazmine sullivan"
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
fucking love that line so much
i just noticed something amazing on The Impossible. she references Crybaby! in the 2nd chorus when she's going "love you like it's 5am and i'm off work," in the background she's like "OK, so it's 5am...", like at the beginning of Crybaby, and then chuckles all knowingly
caught it on headphones, it was so great
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:36 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
ramzi i like to believe that you're holed up in some sort of mariah batcave listening only to this album and emerging once or twice a day to bump this thread
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:38 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it was just one of those things where the second she sang the 1st "5am" i was already thinking of Crybaby, and then she said it
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:38 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
lol
http://www.zshare.net/download/66344970bda9e395
guys heard the timbo track that didnt make the cut, "skydiving"? kind of all over the place but i like it
― love will terius apart (k3vin k.), Friday, October 9, 2009 5:15 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
um, lou just shared this song with me. it is amazing. if ONLY this were on here instead of Inseparable/Standing O.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:05 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
like, who makes these decisions?
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:07 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
interesting line from the NME trying to encapsulate memoirs
"The album itself revelas she’s also got a penchant for exhuming the sickly-sweet memory of Minnie Riperton’s ‘Loving You’ and setting it to 17 different slow jamz drenched in studio gloss. "
i think he was intending this as a dig...
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
was glad to finally see the minnie reference, which rings true for this album, in particular, out of all of hers
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
btw, i didn't realize "hate u" was officially the 3rd single. not sure how i feel about this strategy.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
If only this had any songs within leagues of "Loving You".
― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 November 2009 14:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:14 AM (1 hour ago)
still love this song but certainly wouldnt choose it as a single given what they've got to work with...
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 November 2009 15:47 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
OTM. what is it with Mariah's people and their inability to run proper singles campaigns? emancipation was done properly, and nothing since.
― 7borad dudes get sb'd, frequently. (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 1 November 2009 17:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i think "h.a.t.e.u." is a really strong single!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 November 2009 17:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
like i said, i like the song - i just don't see it charting all that high
― k3vin k., Sunday, 1 November 2009 18:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lol @ NME reviewing mariah
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 1 November 2009 19:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i'm jamming this WAY harder than i thought i would. agree with those who say "ribbon" is the best track... "it's a wrap" is pretty wicked too.
― akaky akakievich, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
mariah on LARRY KING tonight
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 22:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the video for h.a.t.e. features mariah on a beach in a scary looking 1 piece (of course).
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"ramzi i like to believe that you're holed up in some sort of mariah batcave listening only to this album and emerging once or twice a day to bump this thread"
that batcave is wherever me and my ipod happen to be
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
:P let's grab lunch sometime
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wait a minute what about my honey mary?
― the goondock saints (some dude), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
seriously, i need to lay off Memoirs for a week or two, crank some metal.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wait, mary?
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 5 November 2009 22:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Inseparable ft. Trey Songz is floating around. He does that thing where he mentions a lot of Mimi's song titles in his guest verse. I don't know if it's better or worse, but Inseparable is one of least favourite tracks on this project so \(oO)/
― 7borad dudes get sb'd, frequently. (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
to describe Inseparable, i must use the words of MC herself
not even super glue could fix this shit
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Friday, 6 November 2009 23:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
A lot has been said about this album, so I'm not sure if my contribution adds anything, but I'm really loving this...it's definitely my favorite album of the year so far. It's filled with so much beautiful detail, making it endlessly replayable, and yet everything seems to fit perfectly. I like the fact that it doesn't have any big grandstanding hits. The songwriting overall is better than anything on any of her recent albums, including Emancipation of Mimi, imo. (I don't know much about '90s Mariah, wasn't into her back then except for a few hits so can't speak about those albums).
It seems to lose some steam at the end with all of the interludes/preludes I think, but maybe I'll change my mind about that. Even the weaker tracks like "Inseparable" aren't bad. I gather most of you aren't on board with "Standig O", but I'm not sure why. It reminds me a little of "Umbrella", with her multitracked vocals harmonizing on adjacent notes. "Betcha Gon Know", "Obesessed", "H.A.T.E.U.", "Candy Bling", "Ribbon", "It's A Wrap", "Up Out My Face"... all incredibly great! The lyrics in most RnB albums are ususally their downfall imo, but hers on this album are very nice, lighthearted and full of humor. To me this album has most of the elements that made "Love vs. Money" great, with something extra, the lush overlapping and understated vocals maybe, I'm not sure, but it seems like a genius collaboration.
I can't say I like the last track...I wish she had picked somebody else to cover than Foreigner.
I'm relatively new to liking RnB, I only started paying attention around the time of Aaliyah's album and have only really begun to take an active interest with Justin, Beyonce, Solange, and The-Dream's albums, so maybe this is just the moment that I'm most primed to hear something like this.
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, November 5, 2009 5:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
referencing Mariah Carey and the word "scary" in the same sentence triggered a pavlovian reaction to quote "Just Playing (Dreams)"
― lindsay goham (some dude), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
imo the Foreigner cover works great in the context of the album, if only because it's so refreshing for her to just fucking sing something and stop cooing a bunch of bad wordplay
― lindsay goham (some dude), Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
^^yes, I guess that sums up what I don't love about the last few tracks that precede it. I've been leaving of "I Want To Know..." from copies I've been making for friends, but maybe I should leave off "Impossible" ==> "Languishing" instead.
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i do feel ship's criticisms wrt mariah maybe not being the best guinea pig for terius' experiments/steez, but i think for me it's just a matter of where my allegiances lie. i'm basically perfectly ok with mariah being used as a vehicle for this, even though she's capable of more on a technical level
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:38 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
inseparable is still the weakest track of the first 11 or so, but it's actually grown on me a bit. i like the verses a lot more now, and the chorus is kinda cool
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
k3vin, I'm not sure from your previous posts if you're saying your allegiances lie with Terius or with Mariah's earlier more technical-level stuff.
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
oh ha definitely terius, i'm just saying i totally understand the view that there's certainly got to be someone better for his style, which doesnt really reward/suit belters like mariah
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I guess I'm not really into Mariah's belting. That's one of the reasons I like this album I think. I like her more understated vocals combined with his production/sensibility.
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I agree though that there may be other singers who might make an even better album with Terius/Nash production.
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 02:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Dan you need to get into the impossible at some point. it might require a joint.
i have a problem. i can't get more than just friends out of my head.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
^^am looking forward to hearing this album at home with a joint! so far I've been listening mainly in the car during my long commutes. it's been a lot to digest. I don't dislike "Impossible", it probably just hasn't hit me yet...
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 November 2009 08:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
u ain't evah gonna feel this thing againu gon get a lotta calls, cuz i cc'd all ur friends
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:17 (1 week ago) Permalink
the production of the vocals on this album is kind of odd in its imperfection. they don't seem to know how to flatter her voice just so. this doesn't detract from it for me, but it is odd nonetheless.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 9 November 2009 03:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
um
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:45 (1 week ago) Permalink
thx to lou, i just realized that this isn't the first time mariah has referenced jodeci. like, at all.
on emancipation, the 2 AMAZING cuts that didn't make the original tracklist:
So Lonely (One and Only Part II) -- she goes "I wish that we couldBlow out the speakersOver N OverTo them Jodeci cuts'Forever your lady'"
and on Makin it Last All Night (What It Do), she goes "what must i say, what must i do, to show how much i think about freakin you" which samples Jodeci's "Freakn You" remix
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:50 (1 week ago) Permalink
so this
like i don't think mariah chills in the bed bumping jodeci
― death to america (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:12 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is clearly a fallacy. girl likes her some jodeci
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:51 (1 week ago) Permalink