@Maura: I dislike “Forever.” To me it’s the hole I drive in after I hear “Melt Away” (from Daydream).

Yeah, as a big time Mariah Carey fan [and 17 year old male on summer vacation looking to MTV to put a smile on my face and keep me updated on which Limp Bizkit video is the new hotness], that was really, really awkward to watch. Being 17 and not quite as experienced in life as far as emotions and shit goes, I was confused as all hell ["Superstars aren't supposed to act like that! She's famous and should be immune from the craziness we regular folks so often endure...blah, blah, blah..."] and just shocked. I can only imagine how other young, impressionable Mariah Carey fans felt when watching that.

[Or young impressionable girls who have kept a close eye on Ms. Spears' shenanigans of the past few years...]

It’s all good though, for she’s “made it through the rain”:

Maybe Britney will too?

Jezebel dug up the video clip, but I won’t link to that, because, well…

If you want to see it, and it’s quite entertaining, you know where to go…

Also, totally SFW.

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a)Mariah’s “break-break-down”

Ah, July 19, 2001, a day I remember fondly.

Back then, I used to write-up the happenings on TRL for a bunch of friends. This was before “blogging”, but that’s essentially what it was. It was quite fun.

Here’s an excerpt from my 7/19/2001 report:

WOW! surprise guest appearance by mariah carey…mariah who was definitely on *something*…no joke, completely unannounced, just as carson was going away to commercial, mariah rolled onto the set with an ice cream cart…she stripped off her oversized “loverboy” t-shirt and gave it to carson [don't worry -- she was "wearing" a too-tight "supergirl" t-shirt and too-tight hip hugger shorts]…and she kept wandering all over the set acting very strangely…”look carson, i brought an ice cream truck”…she also told carson she needed a therapy day and he was her therapy today…very bizarre…

in the next segment, mariah gave carson a picture of her mother pat [who may or may not have a crush on carson]…and she read a letter from pat to carson…

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Yes. Mariah Carey’s cover of that song straight up knocks. In fact Glitter’s got a host of jams on it that were quickly overlooked thanks to a)Mariah’s “break-break-down” (sorry, had to do it) b) the movie (which I have to revisit. Did that judge from Top Chef who dated Mr. Rushdie for a brief wrinkle in time really star in it as well?) AND, of course c) its release date.

I thought Cook was kinda awful too–”pitchy” to say the least, and his arrangement of the song was meh–but Simon was right, he is the only one who could get away with making a record right now. The tears were a nice touch.

Interesting call on Syesha being likely to go, especially in light of DialIdol’s numbers:

Score — #7: Syesha
Busy Percentage — #7: Brooke; #6: Syesha
Raw Numbers (total tracked call attempts) — #7: Syesha

P.S. You all may find it interesting that DialIdol tracked more vote attempts for Brooke than for anyone else. And oddly, Brooke also had the lowest busy percentage. Do all of Brooke’s fans have the DialIdol app installed on their computers???

P.P.S. I was so sad that no one attempted any of the songs from Glitter. An opportunity for a classic television moment was missed.

I’d rather Carly get tossed, but the big notes in the Nilsson song will probably save her, if barely.

I thought the best performance of the night was David Cook, perhaps because of the extra emotional weight of singing those words with his dying brother in the audience. I still wish he’d drop the grunge lower register though and bust out that shocking diva voice that came out of nowhere during the wretched “Shout To The Lord” last week…Maybe he’s saving it for his performance of the coronation song, “Today Is My Present”, or whatever they are calling it this year…