Mariah Carey And The Video That Accelerated A Thousand Gossip Blogs’ Publication Schedules

So apparently Nick Cannon “directed” the video for Mariah Carey’s “Bye Bye,” although it really just seems to intersperse repurposed footage from meet-and-greets and photo shoots (we’ve all seen that bathing suit before) with some footage of a plane taking off, shots of newly minted lovebirds Mariah and Nick loving it up, and pictures of people who died. (The video-ending photos of Mariah with Luciano Pavarotti and Luther Vandross were the perfect MC touch, in a “trying to be classy, winding up kinda assy” sort of way.) I guess this is how they do a Mariah video “on a budget” in these tough economic times? [YouTube]