Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I don't wanna cry with this fucking guitar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 "I don't wanna cry" with this fucking guitar! She did it completely live and all the other songs I've seen were live too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The stream was crap, I only got to see small glimpses but I'm grateful that I got to see them. This is her best stage show. She sounds better than ever and she's getting great press/reviews. I can't wait for all the other shows. As she gets more and more comfortable she's going to get better and better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 I watched clips of almost all the songs. I never thought I'd say this but "Thank God I Found You" was actually one of the highlights! The jazzy rearrangement was a stroke of genius!I'm more than pleased with where she is at this point. Based on the last tour and the Beacon shows, she will keep getting better! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 Nice We love everybody but majority rules 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I need to see all the clips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 And another thing I like is that she's improvising a lot in her recent live performances. That gives her so much room to just play around with the songs and the music. Mariah has set an incredibly high standard vocally that even she can't reach sometimes. She's crafted her songs (Especially 90's) with such an intricate accuracy, pitch and tone that basically only she can do. When she freestyles and just goes along with what she's feeling instead of worrying and focusing on hitting the same exact notes she hit on the record, She excels. Full audio: https://soundcloud.com/seoshi/infinity/s-da0oZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 She needs to have a spotlight put her on her and just go acapella(Like the VOL performances) at some point during her BBMA's performance and just SANG. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 This chorus of LTT. Is it the fucking 90's?! Y'all hear this bitch?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Just listened to the full audio last night. Sweet, she even did a smooth jazz intro for Heartbreaker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyHood Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Not everyone paying Thank God I Found You dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 I acknowledged it on the last page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 She's doing "Emotions" and "Infinity" at the BBMA's. I wish she was doing something other than "Emotions. She performs it so much. A better throwback would have been VOL or MIH. But I trust her and I'm sure I'll love the finished product. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Yeah, VOL would've been a great choice to bookend her career with two songs. I guess she wanted something more uptempo and to showcase the high notes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 'I've bruised so many times but it hasn't stopped me': In her most revealing interview yet, Mariah Carey discusses her miscarriage and the loneliness of mega stardom. Its midnight and Mariah Carey is sitting with her feet up on the sofa. Theres a bottle of very nice red wine on the coffee table. She pours us each a glass. Were in a suite at Las Vegass Caesars Palace where she will be performing her chart-topping hits in a reported £40 million two-year deal. With more than 200 million record sales shes the bestselling singer/songwriter on the planet. Her distinctive, five-octave voice and gutsy defiance put bums on seats and money in the slot machines. Cheers, she says and clinks her glass against mine before relaxing back into the cushions. She smiles. There, thats better, Im a little tired. You must be too. Hours earlier I watched as she arrived here to astonishing scenes as thousands of fans brought the Las Vegas Strip to a standstill. Flanked by bodyguards, she stepped Lady Godiva-like from a classic pink convertible in a pair of towering stilettos and a sheer nude gown with a few strategically placed beads. Mariah, Mariah, the fans shouted as Mariah-the-superstar stood in those impossible heels on The Colosseum stage at Caesars Palace to launch her latest single Infinity. She wiggles her toes in the way people do when theyre relaxed. Earlier, when she was surrounded by bodyguards to protect her from a sea of clawing people, she looked downright ill-at-ease at times. If not scared out of her wits. Of course there are moments that are uncomfortable when youre in a beaded dress walking around and youve got to put a smile on your face, she says. But theres always a genuine moment when Im dealing with fans who could be doing anything else but are screaming my name and calling out for me and making me feel warm, accepted and happy. Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. Its a cliché but very true that at times you feel so alone even when youre surrounded by so many people. Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person but Ive been bruised so many times not to sound woe-is-me about my life. 'Im thankful for my fans who make up for the lack of closeness I feel to most people who start out as friends and ultimately take advantage of me. Im a very loyal person and it takes a lot for me to actually un-friend someone. She pauses. Reflects. Im actually very loyal, to my detriment. Yeah, the past few years have had their ups and downs. Mariah has, to put it mildly, been through the emotional wringer recently. Last year her six-year marriage to Americas Got Talent host Nick Cannon ended amid explosive headlines. Its been a difficult time, which Mariah has steadfastly refused to speak about. Nick is, after all, the father of her four-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe. Shes never shed a tear in front of them. She says she darent. I dont want them to see a mother whos saying, Im going through this. Im going through that. Theyre babies innocents. They dont have to see that yet if ever. So I try to keep everything together because, in some instances, if you cry youre not going to stop crying. Now, Mariah-the-superstar does have something of a reputation as one of the trickiest divas going, but this Mariah sitting beside me is behaving so very nicely, you cant help but wonder if theyve cloned her somewhere between the stage and here. Do you have children? she asks. (One.) Were blessed, arent we? Its just doing the normal things with them thats so special, isnt it? Theyre the greatest experience of my life. Theyre my best friends. Theyre everything. She pauses, and those huge brown eyes cloud for a moment. Shed sooner hand back her five Grammy awards than cause her twins further pain. Instead, she and Nick put their differences aside to share Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter as a family. Christmas was a rough time for me personally but I got through it and you know what? It was for the kids. That was the whole thing. I have a song called Side Effects which goes, I kept my tears inside because I knew if I started Id keep crying for the rest of my life with you. I finally built up the strength to walk away, dont regret it but I still live with the side effects. She half-sings, half-speaks these words. That became something I sang over and over to myself because Ive been through a lot over the last couple of years. I dont talk about that [she means Nick] because its inappropriate but... She looks down at her glass and her eyes mist over with the tears she wont let fall. Im just getting used to when the kids have days out and overnight stays. I have to get used to that but Im finding it hard. It is what it is. I want them to have great relationships with all their family and I wouldnt want to do anything to undermine that. Which is all well and good except for... well, now shes relaxed, we might as well talk frankly: her new single Infinity, it isnt exactly conciliatory is it? Take the lyrics, You lost the best you ever had Theres an end to infinity. Or, Aint no compliments/Aint no being friends/Aint no false pretence/Aint no make amends/Aint no come agains/Thats the story, aint no happy ends. Well, you get the gist. Its not hard to hazard a guess as to who she had in mind when she wrote the song. Heres the thing, she says. I like to leave it open. This time the smile is not forced, just downright mischievous. Her concern for her children aside, Mariah quite simply cant talk about her separation from Nick while the divorce is being hammered out. She can, though, write what she pleases in her songs. Her Infinity lyrics were completed two months ago, but she kept them a secret until the single was released at her Las Vegas extravaganza earlier today, attended by the cream of international showbiz reporters. Needless to say, Mariah disses Nick in break-up anthem headlines flashed around the world. The song will be on her new album #1 To Infinity a chronological compilation of her 18 chart-topping singles which she will perform for the first time in one production during her Las Vegas residency. Until yesterday some of my best friends hadnt heard the song, she says. I just felt I wanted to keep this one for me until it was time to release it. Like they say, revenge is a dish best served cold, although theres nothing remotely chilly about this Mariah. I wanted to laugh it off, she says. But not everybody gets my jokes or humour. Ten years ago if I said three words that didnt sound well rehearsed it was, Oh my God, what is she thinking? I couldnt care less now. She laughs. I dont care. She and Nick married in a secret ceremony at her home in the Bahamas (there are also homes in New York, Los Angeles, now Las Vegas and... I lose count) following a whirlwind six-week romance. Hes 11 years her junior but she truly believed following an earlier desperately unhappy five-year marriage to former Sony chief Tommy Mottola, who launched her career that shed finally found her soulmate. Within a few short months she was delighted to discover she was going to be a mother, then devastated when an ultrasound scan revealed she had miscarried the day they were due to travel to Aspen in Colorado to celebrate Christmas with friends. I was going to tell them I was pregnant and make little baby ornaments with them because obviously I didnt know [what had happened] until the scan. That was a difficult Christmas. It was huge. There are really no words and its difficult to talk about. That was the lowest point for me, she says in a whisper. I wasnt sure why it happened. I was working on Touch My Body [a song from her 11th Album E=MC²] so I was very thin and working out a lot. I didnt know you had to stop exercising and stop doing yoga when youre pregnant. Nobody told me these things. 'Thats why it was so scary when I became pregnant with the twins a couple of years later. I was in the house in Los Angeles in that private moment when you take the test in the loo. It was an incredible feeling but, yes, scary. Having the babies was a great high point but being pregnant was not easy. Mariah suffered with pre-eclampsia (a pregnancy disorder involving high blood pressure) and gestational diabetes, which causes women without diabetes to develop high blood-glucose levels during pregnancy. Doctors suggested inducing labour at 32 weeks but she couldnt bear the thought of having her babies taken from her and placed in neonatal care, so she rested in bed for three weeks to give them the best chance she could. I wore a bellyband with an iPod attached to it so the babies could feel the music. I managed to hang on for 35 weeks because I just didnt want to see them go through things they didnt have to go through. I didnt feel I fitted in. I didnt feel like a pretty girl. I didnt feel like the average person. Monroe, named after Mariahs childhood idol Marilyn Monroe, was born first on 30 April 2011 weighing 5lb 3oz and her brother Moroccan followed at 5lb 6oz. I remember sitting there with a nurse and I was so over being pregnant. All I could do was take a bath. Id thought, Im going to work through it. Im going to do the water birth. Im going to do this and that. No way. I couldnt. I was in so much pain. Please, she reaches for my arm. I dont want to come across as complaining. I couldnt be more grateful for them or more humbly thankful for them to happen in my life. Ive never really felt that closeness in terms of family members. These guys are... were one and the same. Theyre babies but theyre mine and theyll always, forever be my responsibility. Not all people think that way but I feel I have to fight the dysfunction in my family to get to that place where they know Mummy always comes back Dont worry, its always going to be us. Mariahs childhood wasnt easy. Her mother was white and her father part-black, part-Hispanic. They divorced when she was three. She missed her father dreadfully, never quite believing he loved her, and she lived with her mother, a tempestuous Irish opera singer. They moved 13 times to homes that were always poorer and more Bohemian than anyone elses. The family stuck out like a sore thumb in their predominantly white neighbourhood on Long Island, New York. People burnt crosses onto their lawn and the family dog was poisoned. Mariah started singing at four and used to hide under the kitchen table scribbling her own songs when everything became too much. I didnt feel I fitted in. I didnt feel like a pretty girl. I didnt feel like the average person. I felt below average. I had my friends who had darker skin, different textured hair and others who were fair. I was in a neighbourhood where you had to be one thing or the other. It was awkward for me, and because my parents were divorced there was no one to say, This is who you are and this is how to deal with it. But I always knew I had music. That was my saving grace. I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times. Among those hard times was an accident on the set of a music video 18 months ago that left her with a dislocated shoulder. She was due to perform with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Sandy the next night. Against the advice of doctors, she went ahead. I didnt not want to do it so I performed in a sling with bruises all over me in this sparkly dress. I was in tears. It was moving, but the tears werent out of self-pity. I was in pain and singing a very sad song. The doctors said the injury was the equivalent of being hit by a truck. They were looking at me in shock because they couldnt find a pulse in this arm. I was bedridden for a while, but I didnt really want to talk about it because I was worried I wouldnt regain the use of the arm. Being stuck in bed was terrible but I had really good physical therapists who came and moved the arm up and down for me to retrain my mind in that muscle memory. I got through it but it wasnt easy. She shakes her head and sips her wine. Im still recovering from it now in terms of getting my body back to where it was. Before that I was in a really good place and I think, Why? She slaps the extra inches of flesh shes trying to shift in the way we women do. Then she shrugs. Theres a reason for everything and thats how I look at it. Last year was not a pleasant year for me, but Ive had unpleasant times before and it hasnt stopped me. Being a mum has helped Mariah overcome everything shes faced recently. Theres constant conflict between her need to sing, her need to create and the dreadful wrench of being apart from her children. Its tough because you want to make it up to them for when youre not there but you dont want to spoil them. I work at home whenever I can but even thats being away from them because its a big house. And I have to be selfish sometimes with my voice and say, I have to go to bed now. Their latest thing is Paddington Bear, she says. Have you seen the movie? Isnt it great? I loved it and I didnt think I would but it was something my dad read to me when I was little. We love Paddington. Dont you hate having to be the one to say, You have to go to bed now? But I try to give them as many boundaries as possible everything from, Please and Thank you to Not too long on the computer because it sucks the life out of us. Id rather theyre interacting and have a personality... Sometimes I sing with my daughter. We sing in conversation, I love Mummy, and Ill sing back to her. We have a whole conversation in song. When youre doing that its really writing a song. Its freestyling. 'Thats the new version of me as a little kid hiding and writing music, but I still do that. I still sit up and write and work on music and love it. I use it as escapism. I love all forms of creativity. I still love acting. I did Precious [the 2009 film for which she was highly praised in her role as a dowdy social worker] and got lots of offers, but then I got pregnant and so I wasnt able to explore them, as I didnt want to tell the world in the beginning because with twins its a high-risk pregnancy. Its late now. Again she touches my arm. You know what the theme of Infinity really is? You have to love yourself to survive all the challenges life may put in front of you and just keep going. Then you can love others who are close to you. Does she? There has been speculation shes dating her long-time friend, 46-year-old film and music video director Brett Ratner, who directed Rush Hour and produced the Horrible Bosses movies, after they spent a recent holiday together in the Caribbean. Brett and I are like brother and sister, she says. I think we have a similar work ethic and are both eternal kids. So youre not with anyone? No, Im definitely single. Anyone youd like to be with? She laughs. Drink your wine.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3073278/I-ve-bruised-times-hasn-t-stopped-revealing-interview-Mariah-Carey-discusses-miscarriage-loneliness-mega-stardom.html One other best interviews in a really long time. She was shockingly candid here. I actually teared up. The fact that she was bedridden and probably on medications last year explains why she looked so bloated yet people had a field day with it and mocked her while she was going through this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Great interview! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Mariah interviews so well with a drink in her hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 TMZ giving it up, Wendy giving it up. I just love all this good press, She always make it through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Wow, that was the single most greatest most heartfelt most honest interview I EVER seen by her. It washed away all the over the top High and Mighty diva crap she gives. It was pleasantly surprising to hear the woman underneath all of that, talk. Vulnerability always trumps in interviews imo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Wow, that was the single most greatest most heartfelt most honest interview I EVER seen by her. It washed away all the over the top High and Mighty diva crap she gives. It was pleasantly surprising to hear the woman underneath all of that, talk. Vulnerability always trumps in interviews imoThe diva shtick isn't really who she is. It's just for laughs. The media gave her that image/reputation and she went with it and plays it up. Behind that is a very emotional, fragile and in a lot of ways almost broken woman that's been through a lot since a young age. It's all in her music really. That's one of the reasons why I connect with her so much. Everyone who really knows her says she's one of the most kind, honest and loyal people they know. She was up in jail visiting Da Brat for god sakes. This is the real Mariah:http://youtu.be/SoY73Cibpbghttp://youtu.be/BhbitWArChIhttp://youtu.be/TcYjv8sT2s4 I've been following her very closely for over 10 years so I've picked up/know things the GP prolly wouldn't. and I get it. Why give so much of yourself a to a fickle world/media that's willing to turn on you in a heart beat? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 ^ Very nice interview! Despite adversity, she makes it through. TMZ giving it up, Wendy giving it up. I just love all this good press, She always make it through. I love how they quickly shut down the one skeptic. I still find them obnoxious but I appreciate the positivity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 https://m.facebook.com/MariahCarey411/posts/697887340340833 You hear this bitch? 2nd show tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 The diva shtick isn't really who she is. It's just for laughs. The media gave her that image/reputation and she went with it and plays it up. Behind that is a very emotional, fragile and in a lot of ways almost broken woman that's been through a lot since a young age. It's all in her music really. That's one of the reasons why I connect with her so much. Everyone who really knows her says she's one of the most kind, honest and loyal people they know. She was up in jail visiting Da Brat for god sakes. This is the real Mariah:http://youtu.be/SoY73Cibpbghttp://youtu.be/BhbitWArChIhttp://youtu.be/TcYjv8sT2s4 I've been following her very closely for over 10 years so I've picked up/know things the GP prolly wouldn't. and I get it. Why give so much of yourself a to a fickle world/media that's willing to turn on you in a heart beat? That might be one side to her but other ppl have stated how she is a diva -not meaning a bitch but that she is over the top. Even Janet Jackson has stated that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbreakable. Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 That might be one side to her but other ppl have stated how she is a diva -not meaning a bitch but that she is over the top. Even Janet Jackson has stated that.She is over the top and has certain demands and standards. She's earned that after being in game for 25 years+. I don't see anything wrong with that. In the media that's mainly the image that's projected about her but there's so much more to her is what I'm saying. If you let the media tell it she sits around complaining about bad lighting and requesting bunnies and kitties at videos shoots all day. And Janet also stated how kind and sweet she is as well. The diva thing is a small part of her. She's a mom, friend, aunt, sister and artist first. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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