Memoirs Remix Album Out in February

Mariah's manager, Chris Lighty, revealed that Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel REMIX album will be out in February 2010. In a Twitter message earlier today, he wrote:

Chris Lighty: Listen Memoirs remix lp february...no date set working on target exclusive.

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Mariah Carey to give up showbiz?

Singer-actress Mariah Carey has said she will quit showbiz some day to lead a simple life.

The pop icon revealed that she once met a famous singer who warned her not to grow too accustomed to the easy life courtesy stardom. She insists one day she'll heed the advice by retiring and taking care of herself, reports fashion.ie.

"A very famous diva once told me, 'Mariah, one day you're not going to want to have all these people around you.' She was taking her own bags off the airport carousel and I really noticed that she was in control of her own life and doing things you don't need to have all these people around you (to do), and it's true," she said.

Carey has refused to name the woman who passed on the advice but she insists she has taken her words to heart: "Who is she? I don't want to say her name because maybe she wouldn't be happy, but she's someone I've admired my whole life."

Source: Hindustimes

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Mariah Carey aims to starts off 2010 with a bang in Atlantic City

Heaven knows Mariah Carey hasn't had a perfectly angelic life, especially during the page one breakup of her marriage to record mogul Tommy Mottola in the '90s. But the lady is nothing if not a survivor.

Just listen to the 13 tracks of her new album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," an open-hearted look at relationships. You may not have been a Carey fan before - for many, she's an acquired taste - but in this CD, the richness of her talent can't be questioned.

And she's starting off 2010 with a bang. On Jan. 2, Carey will perform in the Event Center at the Borgata in Atlantic City at 8 p.m. However, the diva doesn't come cheaply. Tickets are $165-$235.

Each song on the CD "is like an intimate conversation or entry in a private diary," Carey says. "A lot of the songs reflect specific, different times in my life. Others were inspired by movies, events that happened to me or the stories of friends who told me about experiences they'd gone through."

With just a few exceptions, Carey wrote and produced the entire album in collaboration with the Dream and Tricky Stewart. "In my opinion, Tricky is one of the most underrated major producers out there," she says.

"Memoirs" concludes with a gospel rendition of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." We don't know as of this writing if Carey's show will include a version of the stirring gospel choir that accompanies her on the recording, but even if she doesn't, just hearing Carey's solo should send thrills up the spine. Not a bad way to start a new decade.

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Goofs, Trivia ,"Box office / business" for Precious

Goofs:

• During the scene where Mariah Carey's character attempts to bring together Precious and her mom Mary, you see the front of Mariah's pocketbook. A few minutes later, when the camera pans back and forth, you see the back of Mariah's pocketbook (the purse changes positions).

• Early in the movie when Precious is shown in her original high school, the teacher has written the word "REQUIRMENTS" in large print on the blackboard. The word is misspelled.

Trivia:

• Shot in only five weeks.

• Over 400 girls were interviewed from across the country for the part of Precious. Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe was cast a mere six weeks before the start of shooting after being forced to the audition by friends.

• Over the course of the shoot the production lost an editor, a cinematographer, three continuity people, three locations managers, two producers, two assistant directors, two sound people, two video playback people, and two caterers.

• Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe read the novel Push years before when her mother, singer Alice Tan Ridley, was approached to play the role of Mary in an earlier production that never came to fruition.

Box office / business

Budget

• $10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend

• $1,872,458 (USA) (8 November 2009) (18 Screens)

Gross

• $8,699,180 (USA) (15 November 2009)
• $1,872,458 (USA) (8 November 2009)

Weekend Gross

• $5,874,628 (USA) (15 November 2009) (174 Screens)
• $1,872,458 (USA) (8 November 2009) (18 Screens)

Source: IMDb

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Carey hints at 2010 pregnancy

Mariah Carey's New Year's resolution is to start a family with husband Nick Cannon - the superstar singer has hinted they will clear their hectic schedules in 2010 to have children.

The Hero hitmaker married rapper/actor Cannon in the Bahamas last year after a whirlwind romance and she admits they've been making family plans.

But Carey insists they're holding off on having kids until at least the New Year when work commitments and Christmas celebrations are out of the way - because she wants her children to have their parents' full attention.

She tells U.K. talk show This Morning, "We've definitely discussed it (having kids). The only thing is that at this particular moment, it's almost Christmas. He's doing his work and I'm promoting and doing all this stuff. Right now is not the moment. My parents were divorced and it's not like, 'Oh, woe is me!' A lot of people's parents are divorced but I would just like to have a nice, normal life for that moment."

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Mariah Set To Leave 'Island Def Jam' ?!?

As a result of the lackluster reception of ‘Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel’, and Mariah Carey’s indignation with the handling of the record, sources have informed us that the songbird may just be ready to take flight to a new label. There is reliable word that Carey has been at logger-heads with label-head LA Reid for several months now.

The 39-year old diva has been signed to the Island Def Jam Music Group since 2002. The terms of the singer’s deal entail a minimum of 3 albums for the grand total of 22.5 million dollars, with her being named a joint partner with the Universal Music Group. Carey’s first LP released under the agreement was 2002’s ‘Charmbracelet’ which was followed by the 6x platinum ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’, ‘E=MC²’ and ‘Memoirs…‘, which was released on September 29th 2009.

If Carey decides to leave IDJ, we will not be shocked. The promotional efforts behind ‘Memoirs…’ reflect less than half of the energy that the label placed into the ‘Emancipation’ project. Has anyone else noticed that she has barely taken any new promotional pictures for this record with the exception of her single covers and the album booklet? Add that to Carey’s criticism’s of ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ being chosen as a single in place of ‘H.A.T.E.U.’, and it’s easy to understand why she might be preparing to ditch the label.

It is no secret that several labels have been itching to sign Carey since she left Virgin Records in 2001. Clive Davis (Whitney Houston, Leona Lewis, Jennifer Hudson) at J Records, for instance, tried to get her to join his team. The real question is: should Carey leave IDJ, where would she fit in? Her best move would be to go back to Sony where she would be able to get the attention and funding she deserves? a plausible option now that ex-husband Tommy Mottola is no longer with the company. Either way, with a rare talent like hers, she would be an invaluable addition to any label’s lineup.

Source: Mariah Carey MC

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Flashback: Thanks giving 2004

Mariah Carey Hosting the 6th Annual Thanksgiving Charity Dinner
True Worship Church, New York City, New York

Source: Mariah Glamorousfan

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Video: Interview On GMTV

Good news to all the international Lambs! She'll be having a world tour!!!!!!

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Video: I Want To Know What Love Is - Live at GMTV

Another stellar performance!

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Mariah Instrumentals

Want to compile the instrumentals of Mariah songs?? Just click on the songs below to listen and download:

From Memoirs:
Betcha Gon' Know
Angels Cry
H.A.T.E. U.
Up out my face

From Butterfly:
Babydoll
The Roof

From Daydream:
Underneath the stars

From E=MC2:
Heat
Byebye
I stay in love


Other tracks will be posted soon!

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Video: Deeper Side of an Imperfect Angel (Part 1 & Part 2)

For those who haven't seen this video from miragelamb16, check out this Part 1:



And the latest vid, for Part 2:



"I really wanted to make this 'lil emotional, lil emotional' on Part 2 so i decided to use Outside as my background music. It's just one of my favorite songs ever and i do think(like other lambs do)that it's one of her best ever written songs to date!! Regarding the Oprah clip, oh my goodness, it just always moves me to tears. The poem plus Mariah weeping, it's just so heartbreaking. About the texts, I got them from MariahDaily, on the Infozone Section("On the cover", to be exact).. Hope you guys like it in spite of couple of errors..LY AY AEY.."
-Miragelamb16

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Mariah Performs on X Factor plus Trends on Twitter!

There is no words that express just how amazing this performance was...speechless..wow

'I Want To Know What Love Is' - X Factor 11.22.09



Following her amazing performance on X Factor Mariah also became a trending topic on twitter! screen cap below..



posted by: Jasmine

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Video: Mariah on UK's Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Mariah Carey interview with Alan Carr Part 1



Hilarious!!

Mariah Carey interview with Alan Carr Part 2


"I Want To Know What Love Is" - Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Nov. 19, 2009

this was a beautiful, strong performance! just simply amazing!! whoever doubted 'the voice' this is for you!




Source: MariahDailyJournal

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Rumor Mill: Mariah's Diva demands in London

Caption: Mariah Carey (Picture) leaving her hotel London, England ....

CAREY CAUSING CHRISTMAS CHAOS IN LONDON

MARIAH CAREY's demands for a white Christmas at an upcoming London event have been refused - the singer has been told she cannot have kittens and doves at the festive bash, according to a new report.
The Santa Baby hitmaker is set to switch on the Christmas lights at the U.K. capital's Westfield Shopping Centre on Thursday (19Nov09), and the 40 year old had vowed to make it a party to remember.
But her requests for 20 white kittens and 100 doves onstage have been turned down by the event's organisers, according to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.
A source tells the publication, "We did manage to source the doves that we were going to release into the sky, but the kittens proved terribly difficult.
"In the end, it was made clear that due to health and safety (restrictions), there was no way we could have the animals at Westfield. We do not allow pets into Westfield - that rule would apply for everyone."
And Carey's diva demands didn't stop at kittens and doves.
The insider adds, "We have worked extremely hard to make sure that Mariah's event is fantastic. Even the model of car (she arrives in) had to be changed six times to one that her people liked."

Source: ContactMusic

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Video: Mariah at NRJ Radio, France

Mariah visited the NRJ Radio studios in Paris, France and interviewed with the morning show Le 6/9. During the interview with hosts Nikos, Mustapha et Flo, she talked about her new album Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel, Twitter and internet, Michael Jackson, the NRJ Music Awards 2010, among other things.

Below is a clip from the NRJ interview in which Mariah talks about her new album Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel. You can view more interview clips at Le 6/9's YouTube channel or the NRJ site.

Source: Fabien from NRJ MariahDailyJournal

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Mariah "Precious" Interview with Kam Williams

Mariah Makes It Happen

Forget the JFK assassination, I can actually remember where I was the first time I heard that beautiful voice so many moons ago. I was sitting on a hilltop, high above a sprawling dairy farm, having a picnic with a friend who played "Make It Happen" for me on a big boom box which echoed down into the valley below. Of course, I was blown away and I've been a fan of Mariah Carey's ever since. That unforgettable introduction flashed through my memory and flooded my thoughts while preparing to conduct this interview.

Mariah was born in Huntington, Long Island on March 27, 1970 to Patricia Hickey, an Irish-American opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an engineer of Afro-Venezuelan descent. Her parents separated when she was just 3 years-old, which was also around the time that Mariah took to singing like a fish to water.

She got the nickname Mirage during high school, because she skipped so many classes to hone her craft at local recording studios. After graduation, she moved to Manhattan where she bounced around between jobs, supporting herself as a beautician and a waitress until her big break arrived when Columbia Records' executive Tommy Mottola heard her demo tape. Mottola soon signed Mariah, thus launching a storybook career which has netted the silver-throated songbird 5 Grammys and 18 #1 hit singles over the years.

During our tete-a-tete, I couldn't help but notice the enchanting, musical lilt to Mariah's voice, as if she can't help but always be musical. I asked her many of my stock questions, learning that the last book she read was a delightful tale she and her co-stars Gabby Sidibe and Paula Patton shared aloud with kids during a visit to an inner-city grammar school. She also told me that her favorite meal to cook was a linguini dish that her late father liked to make, and that she's listening to a lot of different hip-hop nowadays.

But far more significant than any of the factual answers she gave was the overall sense I got of Mariah, the person. She came across as a grounded, sincere, vulnerable and deeply spiritual soul truly interested in having a quality conversation, not as a vain diva who expected to be placed on a pedestal. When I focused narrowly on her vocal talents during our conversation, she gently reminded me that she is not merely a singer, but equally proud of her work as a songwriter who composes virtually all of her own tunes.

As for her private life, in 2008, Mariah married Nick Cannon, star of such movies as Drumline and Roll Bounce. Here, she discusses her new movie, Precious, Lee Daniel's tour de force where she is very impressive as a NYC social worker investigating a serious case of child abuse.

Kam Williams: Thanks for the time, Mariah, I'm honored to be speaking with you.

Mariah Carey: No, thank you.

KW: I loved the film. You did such a great job.

MC: Thank you.

KW: What interested you in Precious?

MC: Well, I've been a film of Sapphire's and "Push" which I'm sure you know is her novel that inspired Precious. I read the book a really long time ago. A friend gave it to me, and I read it twice in a row. It was tough but it was also so incredibly inspiring and amazing.

KW: This wasn't your first time collaborating with Lee Daniels.

MC: He and I had just worked together on a film called Tennessee, which didn't get the right shine, but I don't think it was the right project for either of us. He wasn't directing, only producing it. So, I couldn't listen to him as a director, The thing is, I ordinarily can't help but listen to Lee, except he couldn't really fully direct me in this case, because he was the director. I don't think the country thing was necessarily either one of our bags, if that make sense.

KW: Yeah. I understand Lee was lucky to get the rights to Precious, because Sapphire didn't care if it was ever adapted to the screen.

MC: Before he got "Push," she had basically turned everybody down. When he got it, I was so excited for him because we had become really good friends, not thinking, "Oh, I'm going to be in this movie." Do you know what I mean?

KW: Yep. How did you end up playing Mrs. Weiss, then?

MC: He said, "Look, I'm going to make you under and over, your hair and whatever, and you're just going to have to deal with it. I'm going to put you under fluorescent lighting. That overhead lighting was not my friend, and neither was the hair. Someone who normally does my makeup described it as a Maria Carey nightmare. But in the end, it turned out to be a great gift Lee gave me to be able to go that far away from who I really am.

KW: How did you get along with Gabby [Sidibe], who played Precious, and the rest of the cast?

MC: Working with that talented young lady, and then to add Mo'nique who is such a powerhouse in the film was incredible. I really have to thank Lee for giving me this opportunity.

KW: Speaking of powerful, talk a little about the revealing scene you share with Mo'Nique towards the end of the picture.

MC: That scene is really the culmination of everything that's transpired before in the movie. It's when we come to learn how long the abuse has been going on. My character's not really that likable, but I had to stay strong as an actor, because she does bring all the abuse to the surface.

KW: We're you at all affected emotionally while shooting that scene?

MC: Yes, we connected on a very deep level. We were crying between takes. It was very emotional.

KW: Well, thanks again for the time, Mariah, and best of luck with your movie and new album.

MC: Thank you, Kam.

KW: I really appreciate it.

MC: Likewise, take care.

To see a video of Mariah performing "Make It Happen," visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQYTcGUOVU

To order a copy of "Push," the novel on which Precious is based, visit: AMAZON

Source: NewsBlaze

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"All I Want For Christmas Is You" Dance Remix

"All I Want For Christmas Is You" was the leading single from Mariah's 1994 Merry Christmas album, selling 11 million copies worldwide on its way to becoming one of the best selling Christmas albums of all time! In December of 2007, it became the first ringtone to be certified platinum with sales of over 1 million, and will top 2 million this year.

Written by Mariah and Walter Afanasieff, it is the only original Holiday song written by a contemporary artist to be considered a "classic," and continues to top radio play and sales charts every year during the Holidays.

Upon the fifteen year anniversary, it was time to put a new twist on this Mariah Holiday classic with a brand new dance remix. Mariah's New Dance Mix of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was produced and overseen by Mariah herself, and re-mixed by Joey Arbagey, and you are hearing it first at AOL's PopEater!

The digital single and ringtone will be available everywhere starting November 23.


Source: Steven of PopEater.com MariahDailyJournal

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Video: Mariah Carey T4 Special, UK

Mariah Carey T4 Special - Channel 4 UK, Nov. 14, 2009

Part 1


Part 2

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Mariah Carey: The Gloves Are Off

The singer drops the sugar-coated simpering and shoots from the lip about the music industry and her new business model to save it — which could make her the world's richest recording artist

"Would you like a drink? I'd get you one myself but it's a little hard for me to get up right now." Mariah Carey isn't kidding. She's lying on her back in a darkened room in the basement of the TV Asahi studios in Tokyo, dressed in a black miniskirt, a leopard-print Dolce & Gabbana trench coat and 8in Gucci bitch stacks. Her stylist, Blair, is "jujjing" her hair to make sure each lock falls "just so" over lashes that are as lacquered as a coffee table. "Go ahead, ruin it," she says when Blair tugs too hard. "Wait 'til I'm done speaking, dahling," the singer scolds when her manager, Louise, interrupts to ask what diet she's on today. The singer is surrounded by Hello Kitty dolls that her fans have customised to look like her, complete with breasts so big the toys look like they've got footballs stuffed down their crop tops.

What's on Carey's mind? Not whether she can hit the metal-piercing high notes in her version of I Want to Know What Love Is. She's covering the Foreigner ballad on Music Station, Japan's Top of the Pops, in a few minutes' time. No, she is — bless — thinking about puppies. "My dog is having babies," she says. "Two or three puppies. Can you put that in your magazine?" Well, welcome to planet Mariah, the glittery, kittenish, snowflake place where a girl can do just what she wants, however infantile. In a city where teenage girls — dammit, grown women — dress up as schoolgirls, Carey has never looked more at home.

But then something remarkable happens. Carey sits forward, takes a sip of bitter pomegranate juice and frowns. "Frickin' idiots! Big, powerful music-industry executives made a giant mistake, and now we're all paying the price. Frickin' idiots!" The 12-year-old girl sitting in her bedroom worrying about boys, make-up and simpering over "ickle" animals is gone. In her place is a steely 39-year-old who has just flown in from Seoul, has been working since 6.30am and whose voice is suddenly so hoarse and sardonic she sounds like Alan Sugar at the end of a bad day. "Those stupid executives may have given up on the music business but I haven't. It's bleak out there for musicians. We have to do something."

There are many things you expect from an encounter with Mariah Carey — ear-drum-endangering squeaks, emotional fragility, an unshiftingly winsome gaze, and bowls of M&M's — just the blue ones. A reasoned critique of the state of the music industry is not one of them. But under the skin of this twittering popsicle is a businesswoman who has sold more singles, albums and downloads in the US than any other female artist, even Madonna. The multi-Grammy-award-winner has had more US No 1 hits than any other soloist dead or alive. Her first five singles each went to No1 — another record — and she has more platinum singles than any other female artist. Three more Billboard 100 No 1s and she will overhaul the 29-year-old record held by the Beatles for the most US No 1s ever.

She's also one of the few people successfully to screw a major record label. Virgin wanted to buy her out of a multi-album $100m contract after her 2001 semi-autobiographical film, Glitter, and companion album of the same name flopped. She took the label for a cool $49m, put the Glitter away and came back with a critically lauded album, The Emancipation of Mimi, that put her back on the hot list. And if that weren't enough, she might now — just might — have stumbled upon the secret formula to save the music industry from financial fade-out.

Carey is pioneering a new business model for music. She's cutting deals with the kind of partners musicians have traditionally shunned, pushing herself into new areas such as publishing, tourism and food and drink. She's partnering with the biggest retailers in the world. And she's harnessing the power of the internet, not just to sell music via iTunes, Napster or Spotify, but to market herself using social-networking sites, notably Facebook and Twitter. Simon Cowell, a man who knows a thing or two about making money in the modern music world, believes diversification is the future. He and his close friend, the BHS billionaire Sir Philip Green, are creating a giant music and merchandising company dubbed "Britain's answer to Disney".

Carey's new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, is released here tomorrow. She has been in London publicising it. Artists always fly into the world's biggest cities to sing for their sales but Carey is doing it in a new way. Take her recent trip to Tokyo. There are endless TV spots — TV drives sales; TV means fans. But how to get the right kind of fans; who will look good on TV? And how to get the right number outside every venue where she's appearing, to make her look like a megastar, but not so many that she is mobbed? If only they could be handpicked.

They can. Online. Carey's itinerary, which is supposed to be top secret but which an aide has helpfully left lying on a table, reveals that she uses the internet to leak details of each appearance to favoured bloggers and Facebook groups shortly beforehand. This way, only the most devoted fans turn up, and freaks and weirdos are weeded out. The selective leaks also help to make sure there are enough paparazzi but not so many that there's a scrum. Just before she is due to arrive at the Asahi studios to appear on Music Station, Carey's aides "leaked the time she will appear at entrance through social online sites, blogs, etc. We are expecting to have 100 fans and some paparazzi", the schedule reveals. The cybertrickery works to script. Just after 6pm, Carey pulls up in her stretch limousine and steps out into a small but perfectly formed crowd.

That week, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is released in Japan. When you buy the CD in key markets you get the usual pictures of Carey in the white dress, in the black dress and in the gold boob-tube to sex up the silver disk. But you also get something else: a copy of Elle magazine. This is no ordinary edition of the glossy; this is "Elle for Mariah". It's full of the usual fashion, beauty and relationships stuff but it's all about Carey. There's everything you need to "Mariah up your life!" An additional 500,000 copies have been distributed in the US edition of Elle.

It's marketing, of course, but with the all-important Elle seal of approval. Elle writers wrote it all and Elle photographers took the pictures. Brand analysts say getting an established, credible media partner such as Elle to do Carey's marketing for her is priceless. Rita Clifton, the chairman of London's leading brand consultancy, Interbrand, says: "Elle is fashionable and extremely professional. If Mariah Carey is to succeed in marketing products beyond music, it's critical that she gets stylish associations and polished presentation. Elle can bring those."

There are ads in the magazine, too, for Angel Champagne, upscale Le Metier de Beaute cosmetics, Forever perfume, Carmen Steffens shoes and the Bahamas tourist board. You can even win a trip to Mariah's favourite island in the Bahamas by logging on to her official website. Carey is behind those, too. She and her record company, Island Def Jam, part of Universal Music Group, sold the ads for up to $100,000 a page, making far more than the peppercorn Elle was paid to produce the magazine. "I can't tell you how little money we made on this," says Carol Smith, the chief brand officer of Elle, ruefully.

Some ads are for Carey's own products, such as her signature perfume, Forever. Some are for products produced by companies in which she has a stake, notably Angel champagne. Some are for firms in which Universal Music has a stake, such as Le Metier de Beaute. Some are for brands for which she acts as an ambassador, notably the Bahamas. Every time one of Carey's fans buys one of the products she's marketing, she gets a cut.

The "product integration" deal has covered most of the cost of recording Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, estimated at £4m. It has also created new partnerships and strengthened existing ones. And, of course, it gives fans something tangible and unique — but only if they buy the physical CD, where margins are often better than for online downloads. The physical magazine is not available online. Other artists are looking to exploit the advertorial-meets-ads model on forthcoming albums, including the Killers, Rihanna, Duffy and Bon Jovi. Rihanna, for instance, is in talks with brands and advertisers, including Gucci, Nike, Clinique, CoverGirl and the Barbados Tourism Authority. It's not hard to see why. Merchandising is a huge business. In the US, Disney franchises, including the popular Hannah Montana and High School Musical, raked in $2.7 billion in retail sales last year alone.

Carey knows she is the last person anyone would look to for business acumen. "People look at my image and they see, oh, the curly hair and the little tight black dress. Tra-la-la," she grins. What's more, she herself used to revile the very marketing she is now taking to new levels. "When I was starting my career I'd look at certain people who worked with, say, Pepsi, and I was like, 'Why do they need to do that?' I had an offer from a soda company when I first began. They wanted me to hit a high note and then the glass bottle would break. I told them, 'I think it's stupid. It's tacky. I don't want to do it.' "

What changed her mind? The traditional business model for the recorded music industry is bust. Has been for years. CD sales are down again this year, by 13%, as online downloads grow, according to the ratings agency Nielsen. The Big Four record companies — Universal, Sony, Warner and the ailing EMI — sell two-thirds fewer albums than they did in 2000. Carey is furious that music-industry executives failed to realise how the internet would change the way fans consume music. And when the penny finally dropped, they let the computer, not the music, industry corner the market. Over time, many more copies of Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel will be downloaded online than bought in stores. Buyers will go to sites such as iTunes or Napster to do so, not to Carey's own website, nor that of Island Def Jam. The iTunes music store passed six billion sales earlier this year and has also driven sales of Apple's iPod and iPhone.

"A lot of big powerful music-industry executives made a giant mistake," she says. "They gave the music business away on the internet. If they had just sat back and said, 'Maybe let's figure this internet thing out, it could be something cool,' we could have found a way to distribute music online on our own terms, not somebody else's. Prince had already shown them the way. He was so far ahead of the curve, putting out his own records on the web. Everyone else was stupid."

Musicians have long promoted non-music products. The Rolling Stones marketed Windows 95 with Start Me Up. Michael Jackson did endless Pepsi promos. And rappers such as P Diddy and Jay-Z have moved on from name-checking other people's fashion and luxury-goods brands in their songs to create their own brands, usually in partnership with their record labels, and promote them instead. But Carey is breaking new ground in three areas.

First, she is turning on its head the traditional model of endorsement. With Elle, for example, she is not endorsing the magazine; the magazine is endorsing her. Yet it is Carey, not the magazine, who is trousering most of the cash generated by ad sales. The way she pulled off such a lucrative deal is nifty. Elle and the US cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden had fallen out. Arden makes Carey's perfume, Forever. What better way to bring the two back together — and get Arden ads back in Elle — than in a one-off special magazine celebrating an Arden product and an Arden ambassador? "I'm just trying to share the love," she says. And corner the market.

Second, when Carey is endorsing a non-music product, she does not simply want to do deals through her record label; she personally wants to own all or part of the company that makes the product. You make a whole lot more cash that way. She is forming so many new companies to leverage her brand equity in make-up, clothing and other new areas that her New York lawyers are fast running out of names. "I set up a new business for every project," she says. "The businesses are called things like Mirage and Maroon Entertainment. They're based on silly names that I made up in high school."

Third, she sees ways to make money with partners that others have overlooked. She has a house in the Bahamas on the island of Eleuthera. She won't say if she is paid by the Bahamas tourist board to talk about how great the place is but you'd be forgiven for thinking she is, given the amount of time she spends doing so. And even if she isn't, she probably soon will be. She's building a recording studio on Eleuthera and plans to shoot videos there with the director Brett Ratner. It's the kind of publicity a small country dreams of and it would scarcely be surprising if the government there helped out. Carey also plans to team up with the New York tourist board to attract visitors to her adopted home town. When she had her 18th No1, the city authorities lit up the Empire State Building in her favourite colours: pink and lavender. It was good publicity for Carey and for New York. Expect to see "Mariah in New York" advertisements soon. "There are no limits to what we can do," she says. "The process of creating something should have no boundaries."

So far, so entrepreneurial. But is it really Carey doing the work? And even if she is, is she any good, or is there someone there to hold her hand? The day after she arrives in Tokyo, she's sitting in the boardroom of the Park Hyatt. The hotel is best known for failing relationships, principally Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson's: much of Lost in Translation was filmed here. But Carey is trying to forge a new relationship. She's meeting a leading cosmetics manufacturer to discuss plans to launch a Mariah Carey beauty line in a top US supermarket chain.

Okay, there may be wine on the table — this is still rock'n'roll — but Carey is focused. She's brought with her two of her own cosmetics bags, a glittery Chanel number and an acid-pink vanity case, to illustrate what she wants the packaging for her line to look like. She's also brought an interesting new mini MP3 player she found in Korea that she wants to customise, so that it can be sold as an accessory to the make-up. She benchmarks her proposed line against others: Bobbi Brown, Anna Sui, Laura Mercier. But she listens too. "You tell me," she says when discussing the colours for the cosmetics. "I don't want to mess it up by liking what I like and enforcing that because that would be a stupid thing to do. I don't want to screw up."

The more you see her at work, the more you realise that Carey has grasped not just how her industry must move from a recorded-music business model to a brand-based model, but also that she is the best person to do it. Ask what her "brand" is, and she replies as well as any Madison Avenue advertising executive: "Optimistic, accessible, universal." It's true. Her music is the kind of upbeat, bubblegum pop that appeals as much to teenagers in Tokyo as in Tooting. "It's R&B but not too R&B. It's poppy but not too poppy. Hardcore but not too hardcore," she says. She dresses trendy "but not too trendy. I never want people to think I just wear 'this' or 'that' designer and that they cannot afford my stuff." Her team work remorselessly to make sure fans get what they want. "We try very hard to answer everything we get sent," says Carey. "We mustn't get remote or ever give people the chance to think I think I'm better than them."

And then there is her killer app: her image. The daughter of a black father and an Irish-American mother — a classically trained opera singer who studied at Juilliard — she's black enough to appeal to a black audience. She was one of only two black female soloists asked to sing at Michael Jackson's memorial. But she's not so black that she alienates a white audience. She's also a little Latina. Her father was half-African-American, half-Venezuelan, so she can exploit that market, too. She deliberately plays with her ethnicity, changing her hair to be a little bit more white or a little bit more black, according to what she's doing and where. "I change ethnically according to where I am in the world. I can be a spokesperson for black, white and Latina. MC could stand for multicultural."

Being every kind of woman makes her the right person to sell, well, just about anything. But however powerful her name and image may be, Carey is also savvy enough to realise that, if she's really going to cash in, she must appeal to those who might like her products but don't like her. That's why she's working on a second line of beauty products, clothes and accessories using her nickname, Mimi, as the brand and the logo. "Mimi is an iteration of Mariah Carey. Any girl can be Mimi. If someone is not a complete fan, they don't have to worry," she says.

There is a problem with all this, of course. Carey is an artist, and whether you like her music or not, she's undeniably a successful one. "I'm a studio rat. I love writing and collaborating. The music comes first." Unlike sports stars, who are not considered cultural figures and who have a very short career to make the money they need for a lifetime, musicians have always had problems moving out of music and into new areas. Even those, notably U2's Bono, who have tried to harness their music and celebrity for good causes, have been condemned as opportunists. Surely, for her to plaster her name over $3 lipgloss in Macy's department stores is the quickest way to be labelled — oh, what's the right expression? — a big, cheesy sellout?

Carey concedes that filling supermarket shelves with anything other than CDs "is not ideal". Nor does she enjoy working as hard as she is. "Do I want to do 50 things a day that have little or nothing to do with the music itself? No." But she says the economics of recorded music means she has no choice. The time is right personally, too. Knocking on 40 and just married to the TV executive Nick Cannon, she's not quite so determined to strive for perfection in her professional and personal life, an attitude summed up in the title of her new album and her new film, Precious, which has just been released in the US and is out here soon.

It tells the harrowing story of a 350lb illiterate teenage girl who is pregnant for the second time by her father and horribly abused by her mother. Carey is unrecognisable as a welfare caseworker, in no small part because she is seen, for the first time, without any make-up — a bold move for a woman who wants to save the music industry one eyeliner at a time. The film's director, Lee Daniels, offered Carey the part on condition that she show up at the set alone (no entourage) in a taxi (no limo) and freshly scrubbed (no make-up). The film received a standing ovation when it premiered at Cannes and went on to win three awards at the Sundance film festival.

Carey knows her new business model is controversial, so, just in case Coldplay's Chris Martin or Radiohead's Thom Yorke accuse her of cashing in when the first copies of her new album are opened here this week, she's getting her retaliation in first. "I don't care if the rock-band person thinks, 'Oh, I'm a sellout'. Well, guess what? They're a sellout anyway for going to a record company. I'm sorry — you are. You want to just play in bands in bars? Then do that. Or play on the streets. And if someone throws you some dollars, then you can go get a soda. But you could also help somehow merge the soda business with the music business in a way that is creative."

At which moment Louise, the manager, turns up at the door with the not-so-secret schedule. "We have another meeting back at the hotel," Carey says, "9pm and still working. And we're off to LA tomorrow." She hoists herself up slowly from her chaise longue, asks whether there are any stairs on the way to the limo — walking in 8in heels ain't easy — and tells a flunky to round up the gaudy Hello Kitty dolls and take them to the limo. "I have to have my little toys," she gushes. The 12-year-old girl is back. It's what her emotionally incontinent Japanese fans demand. But don't be fooled. The woman tottering off down the corridor, putting on her bug-eyed sunglasses before stepping out into the latest perfectly formed instacrowd of fans and paparazzi, is the music industry's next top model.

Source: Times Online UK

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Mariah Performs 'H.A.T.E.U.' on The Late Show with David Letterman (11-13-09)

Mariah came through Lettermen to talk about Precious, Memoirs, & a few unexpected topics.(somebody selling M&M's?)haha And performed the new smash hit "H.A.T.E.U.' check it out!

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Premiere: Mariah Carey - I Want To Know What Love Is Video

What do yall think of the new video?

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Exclusive Preview: David Letterman: Mariah Carey's Horror Movie

Mariah in a mustache? Find out what else the director did to torture her on the set. Check out the whole interview tonight at 11:35pm ET/10:35pm Central on CBS. plus Mariah peforms her new smash hit 'H.A.T.E.U.' you don't wanna miss it!




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Sneak Preview of "I Want To Know What Love Is" Video

Be sure to log on to the official Mariah Carey site tomorrow (Nov. 13) for an exclusive first look at Mariah's video for her smash single "I Want To Know What Love Is."

The video was directed by Hype Williams and was shot in New York and features Mariah's fans and the True Worship Church Choir.

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Twitter, Youtube, Ym, avatars! plus Twibbon for the Lambs

Support "Certified Lambs". Add twibbon to your avatars here
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"100 Percent" Lyrics

My life ain’t defined by limits
I Don’t need no permission to live it
I’m a break thru the door til I get in
Everything that I got I’m a give it
100 Percent and I ain’t stopping til I reach the finish

I’m a believer not just a dreamer
I’m givin everything I got
I’m a go getter
100 Percenter
Undoubtedly I can reach the top and
I ain’t gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me
Cuz I’m walking out of here a champion either way babe
I am givin 100 Percent
So go on put your ones up

If you’re putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up
If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up
If you really comprehend this feel, your ones up, your ones up
If you’re walking into victory keep on shining
One hundred percent

You can only do it if you do it like I did
Cause’ suffering ain’t easy
But if you can turn your wounds into living proo
that you’ve survived the fight and you no longer defined

My life ain’t defined by limits
I Don’t need no permission to live it
I’m a break thru the door til I get in
Everything that I got I’m a give it
100 Percent and I ain’t stopping til I reach the finish

I’m a believer not just a dreamer
I’m givin everything I got
I’m a go getter
100 Percenter
Undoubtedly I can reach the top and
I ain’t gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me
(Nothing can discourage me)
Cuz I’m walking out of here a champion either way babe (Eh)
I am givin 100 Percent so go on put your ones up

If you’re putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up (Put your ones up)
If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up (Everybody)
If you really comprehend this feel, your ones up, your ones up (Put your ones up)
If you’re walking into victory keep on shining (One hundred)
One hundred percent


Dont you ever be discouraged
Let nobody take your courage
If you gonna pray don’t worry,
If ya gonna wait I'll pray
You just keep the faith
And listen to me

If you’re putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up (Put your ones up)
If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up (If you know you were)
If you really comprehend this feel, your ones up, your ones up (If you ever hear something)
If you’re walking into victory keep on shining
One hundred percent

I’m a believer not just a dreamer
I’m givin everything I got
I’m a go getter
100 Percenter
Undoubtedly I can reach the top and I ain’t gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me
(Percent I will share with you)
Cuz I’m walking out of here a champion either way babe (Either way)
I am gotta givin 100 Percent
So go on put your ones up

If you’re putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up
If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up
If you really comprehend this feel, your ones up, your ones up
If you’re walking into victory keep on shining
One hundred percent


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Jasmine Dotiwala: My mate Mariah Carey

The elderly Asian proprietor of a corner shop in the West London suburb of Southall is stacking shelves when events take a surreal turn.

A limousine pulls up and out leaps a bodyguard. From the back seat emerges a glamorous woman in a figure-hugging dress and skyscraper Christian Louboutin heels. She is not from Southall; she inhabits a starrier stratosphere.

Yet she walks into the shop, picks up a wire basket and wafts along the aisles on a cloud of costly fragrance.

Bosom buddies: Mariah Carey and Southall's Jasmine Dotiwala - pictured here in the star's ranch - met 12 years ago

At the check-out, the proprietor, slack-jawed with amazement, puts her shopping in a box. It is a prosaic selection; there are no luxury items for sale in this shop.

Then the woman and the bodyguard carrying the box of groceries get back into the waiting limo and are whisked away as quickly as they came. The mirage fades as suddenly as it appeared, but the shopkeeper will remember the woman for years to come.

His unexpected customer was the American singer Mariah Carey, the most successful female recording artist in history. What was she doing in this unglamorous corner of London? She had come to visit me.

Knowing I was sick and languishing on the sofa at my mother's house with a searing temperature, she had come straight from filming the Graham Norton TV show with the intention of cheering me up.

I have half-a-dozen close friends and Mariah is among the dearest. I flatter myself that the relationship is reciprocal: Mariah and I share a strong, sisterly friendship. She signs off all her letters to me with the affectionate endearment: 'Your sis, M.'

Though she is stupendously rich and I am relatively poor, it is a friendship of equals. She visits me in my small home; I am a frequent guest at her various mansions and holiday villas all over the world.

And it was a typically impromptu gesture of friendship that brought her to my mother's modest two-bedroom house to see me that day.

Actually, at the time I was feeling less than hospitable. Dressed in a grubby old dressing gown and almost delirious with a fever, my hair lank and my face bereft of make-up, I looked like death and felt dreadful.

And I felt acutely uncomfortable that my stupendously wealthy friend had swooped into my childhood home without warning, like some migrating exotic bird.

I'm not remotely ashamed of my origins and I knew my Indian-born mother, Roshan, would not accord Mariah any special treatment - she is not remotely fazed by celebrity - but I did feel awkward.

Couldn't she have visited on a better day when I was feeling fine and the house was spruce and tidy?

Different worlds: The odd couple in Jasmine's tiny flat

'Really, you don't need to come - Jasmine's so ill she can't even get up,' my mate Monique had implored Mariah when she'd phoned. But, true to form, Mariah had insisted that she would visit. She was on a goodwill mission to lift my spirits.

And she was hooting with laughter as she unpacked the box of goodies she'd chosen for me. There was a bottle of Alize liqueur - favoured by the rap artist P. Diddy - which Icouldn't drink because I was on antibiotics. Neither could I manage a sip of the plonk she'd chosen.

Her hamper also included a bag of self-raising flour - to help me rise from my sickbed - chocolates and a packet of (ahem) jumbo-sized sanitary towels. All the items were hand-picked to make me chuckle. And, of course, they did.

Mariah is clever at choosing the right gift for the occasion. Even her joke presents are thoughtful. And often - though I beg her not to spend money on me - she is embarrassingly generous. She has given me many lavish gifts while instructing me to spend no more than £25 on her.

How had the paths of our disparate lives crossed? Twelve years ago, when I was a news presenter for the music channel MTV, I was asked to interview Mariah at a villa on her favourite island of Capri.

I knew her by reputation only. An alto with a prodigious five-octave range, she had recorded a string of successful albums - among them Merry Christmas, Daydream and Butterfly - that had earned her vast wealth and huge international celebrity. And her reputation as a grade A diva preceded her.

'I can't believe you're sending me to see her!' I wailed, as my boss dispatched me. I visualised a morning spent pandering to the inflated ego of a prima donna.

Initial appearances seemed to confirm my fears: Mariah was poolside on a sun-lounger in a red knitted bikini, a cooling drink at her elbow. I took one glimpse at the reclining superstar with her mane of artfully tousled locks and thought: 'Uh, oh.'

But she defied my expectations. She was sharp, witty and funny. We soon discovered we shared a dry and rather British sense of humour.

Mariah gave me a tour of her hotel bedroom. She showed me her vast collection of hip-hop CDs. Then, at the end of our interview, she pushed me, fully clad, into her swimming pool and jumped in after me, shrieking with laughter. (The theme of my MTV show was that the artists I interviewed would abuse me.)

When I emerged, dripping wet, I realised with dismay that, though I'd brought a full change of clothes, I'd forgotten to pack spare knickers.

Mariah presented me with a pair of her own: beautifully wrapped, flesh-coloured silk. 'I could sell these for a fortune on eBay,' I quipped. (Of course, I didn't.)

Happily married: Mariah and her husband Nick Cannon, the host of America's Got Talent, dressed as angels for Halloween

'I've really enjoyed meeting you. Give me your number and I'll call you,' promised Mariah as I left.

'Oh yes,' I thought, with uncharitable sarcasm. 'Of course you will.'

But to my huge surprise, she did. I was driving home from work a couple of weeks later when a call came through from one of her aides.

'Are you free to speak to Miss Carey?' she asked.

'Sorry, I'm not,' I replied. 'I'm driving at the moment. But I'll be home in ten minutes if she'd like to ring me back.' I thought I'd better arrange that in case I crashed my car from shock.

She did - and so our unlikely friendship began. In that first meeting, we talked about music and struck up an immediate rapport. If I had to speak for Mariah, I'd say she probably likes the fact I'm opinionated and outspoken. She also calls me 'festive', which in her lexicon means I'm always up for a celebration and having fun.

There's no doubt, too, that she's an Anglophile. She adores the British accent - whether it be the Queen's or a Cockney's - and she does a pretty passable impression of it.

And I think she values the fact I am always honest with her - the people on her payroll may find it harder to speak their minds.

Certainly, I can't compete with her lifestyle. I live in an unassuming flat near the vibrant, but impoverished area of West London where I was raised. My two bedrooms are so small that if you joined them together they would still fit into one of Mariah's bathrooms.

So I confess I felt a little self-conscious when, on one of her fleeting, last-minute visits to London, she phoned to ask if she could call by. My embarrassment was compounded by the fact I was entertaining friends for dinner.

'Are you in? Can I pop over?' she asked. I sounded hesitant. Mariah was mock distraught. 'If you don't want me, I'll just go straight to the hotel,' she laughed.

'Oh no, come on over. Shall I save some food for you?' I said. She said not to worry because she'd bring a take-away. And so it was that Mariah breezed into my tiny flat laden with enough food from the exclusive Mayfair restaurant Nobu to feed herself and all my guests.

We ate two dinners that evening, to the accompaniment of much laughter. Then Mariah, whose capacity for hard work is legendary - I have known her to go for 41 hours without rest - dropped into a deep sleep in my sitting room.

She even wrote about it in a song. The first track Betcha Gon Know on her new album, Memoirs Of An perfect Angel, contains the line: 'I fell asleep on Jasmine's sofa.' \

'Emotionally abused': The star was told she had a 'bad' side of her face that should never be photographed

She is great company and the consummate dinner party guest. On other occasion when she dined at my flat with my friends, she stopped off at Tesco en route and arrived laden with carrier bags containing salmon, sea bass and spinach, which she helped me cook.

The only thing our palates differ on is spices - I love food very hot and she doesn't.

I've often been impressed by her eagerness to embrace everyday experiences; the more prosaic, the better.

After performing in a concert in Hackney, East London, she insisted on accompanying me to my favourite bagel shop in nearby Brick Lane.

The area is known for the authenticity of its curry houses, its colourful ethnicity and a distinct aura of edginess and danger at night. I advised Mariah to stay in her limo while I bought the bagels.

'Child, I'm from New York City. I ain't scared of nothin'!' she hammed, sweeping into the shop with me.

We stood in the queue together under unforgiving fluorescent strip lights while the other customers looked on in disbelief.

'Will you sign this for my daughter?' demanded a burly local, proffering a creased scrap of paper and a pen. Mariah duly obliged.

Five minutes later, the man returned. 'Could you do it again? You've spelt her name wrong,' he grumbled. Mariah dutifully supplied a second autograph.

As well as her kindness to her fans, she can be more than generous to her friends. Once, knowing I'd never been to Disneyland, she flew me to Florida as a surprise treat on my birthday while we were en route to her New York home.

Like an excited child wide-eyed with delight, she dragged me round all her favourite rides. 'You don't know about the Tower Of Terror? Come on, you have to try it!' she said.

Obviously, the stories about Mariah being diva-ish persist. But I believe they spring from the fact that for many years she was dominated - brainwashed even - by certain people who had shaped her early career.

She has said she was emotionally abused by her first husband, the record company executive Tommy Mottola, who signed her to his Columbia Records label.

She was told she had a 'bad' side of her face that should never be photographed. So, she would forbid anyone to sit on her 'wrong' side during interviews. While the Press leapt on this foible as evidence of her overweening vanity, it was simply that she was doing what she had been told.

So, too, with the flunkey pictured toting her handbag. She had been told she should never carry a bag because 'It doesn't look right'. It was not that Mariah deemed herself too important to carry her own bag; she was only obeying orders.

On one occasion, we were swimming off her private yacht in the Med. As Mariah climbed on board after our dip, I handed her a towel. A skulking paparazzo captured the moment and the next day a headline proclaimed: Mariah Even Has a Towel Handler!

I laughed at the absurdity of it, but in this way the myth of Diva Mariah is perpetuated.

She is far from blase about her lavish lifestyle. Despite her riches, she still views the world with wonderment. Once, when I was distraught about the break-up of a romance, she insisted I stayed for a few days with her in her apartment in New York. Though her schedule was punishing, she fussed over me like a mother hen.

Gracious: Mariah embracing a fan who greeted her as she arrived at London's Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday

'Are you OK? Do you want to go to yoga or will you come to work with me?' she asked each morning.

Every Christmas she invites me, along with four of her closest girlfriends and their families, to her ranch in Aspen, Colorado.

My parents are Zoroastrians - an ancient Persian religion - and have never celebrated Christmas, so I have no qualms about leaving them during the festive season. And as an only child, I relish the sisterly companionship of Mariah and her family.

She always says that she's eternally 12 years old, and that's how I see her. She has a sense of childlike awe about Christmas.

After Santa with a reindeer-drawn sleigh visit, we stay up all night on Christmas Eve wrapping presents.

Mariah makes linguini with clam sauce every year and, in her typically self-mocking manner, asks: 'Isn't anyone going to help me?'

She's introduced me to the joys of rolling in the snow clad only in a bikini and then leaping into a hot tub.

On Christmas Day morning, still in our pyjamas, we spend three hours unwrapping our gifts, then have a nap before emerging in gorgeous red dresses for dinner.

Afterwards, we'll fly off to her holiday home in the Bahamas. Mariah swims like a mermaid. I'm a timorous swimmer, so she'll tow me along as a lifeguard would a floundering novice. Protectiveness is one of her qualities.

I know she'd make a wonderful mother and she's told me she would love to have children. She and her husband Nick Cannon, 30, a comedian, actor and businessman who hosts Simon Cowell's America's Got Talent, have been married for a year.

Only once have I felt I could offer Mariah a treat comparable to the ones she routinely lavishes on me. Through my work contacts as a TV producer and director, I was able to take her to meet Richard Branson at his private paradise on the Caribbean island of Necker.

We spent a blissful few days there - on one evening, we lay on a rooftop talking and looking at the stars.

I was thrilled that I had arranged for her to visit such a fabulous place, but I suspect that if you were to ask Mariah, she would say she had every bit as much fun sitting at the dining table in my cramped London flat sharing a laugh over a home-made supper and a cheap bottle of wine.

• The album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel and the single I Want To Know What Love Is will be released on November 23.

The Mariah Carey T4 Special is on Channel 4 tomorrow at 10.05am. The movie Precious, starring Mariah, will be released in Britain on January 29, 2010.

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Source: Dailymail Jasmine Dotiwala

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Mariah Carey - 100 Percent

What do yall think of 100 Percent?

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Mariah Carey Performs I want to know what love is live @ X Factor

She looked so stunning in this performance!! Enjoy watching

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Daily M: 11.10.09

Who would had ever thought that this adorable lil baby girl would grow up to be the biggest selling female artist of all time.

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Throwback Interview: Mariah on 20/20 (11/13/98)

Mariah Carey's interview on 20/20 with Barbara Walters on November 13, 1998. Enjoy.

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Mariah Carey 'Precious': Ugly looks lovely at Oscar time

• Role: She plays Mrs. Weiss, a New York social worker who helps teen mom Precious, played by Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe. And thanks to director Lee Daniels, Carey is downright dowdy.
• She's got the look: At a Toronto Film Festival party for Precious, Carey was told that an audience member could not figure out what role Carey played because she was so unrecognizable. The pop star was pleased. "Thank God!" Carey told USA TODAY. "Lee lives to make me homely. He loves it. ... He put dark circles under my eyes," said Carey, who also has a hint of a mustache in the film.

Source: USAToday

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YAY: Mariah Gets a People's Choice Nomination!

The official nominees for the People's Choice Awards were revealed earlier today; and Mariah earned a nomination in the following category:

Favorite R&B Artist Alicia Keys Beyonce Jennifer Hudson Mariah Carey Usher

Let's continue to cast our votes here to help Mariah win her first-ever People's Choice Award!

The People's Choice Awards ceremony will be staged at the Nokia Theatre and broadcast live on CBS on Jan. 6, 2010.

yeah lambs it's time to vote your butts off! ; )

Source: Associated Press

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New Photos: Mariah on Letterman Show (11-9-09)

Mariah taped an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman earlier tonight, November 9th at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. She sat for an interview with David and performed her new single, "H.A.T.E.U." The episode will air on Friday, November 13th at 11:35pm ET/PT on CBS. Below are pictures of Mariah with husband Nick Cannon after the taping.

Source: MariahDailyJournal JJ

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