Here’s Mariah Carey’s new video for the Foreigner cover “I Want to Know What Love Is,” off her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. Mimi looks ten years younger in it with her wonderfully 90s perm-tastic hair and her lack of Hello Kitty clothing, plus she finally gets back to what she does best – singing the hell out of a ballad. All her albums from Rainbow to E=MC² were weighed down with appearances by guest rappers while she just kind of breathed over the tracks, but it appears MC’s finally back to focusing on her powerhouse vocals. ‘Bout time. MORE »
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Top 5 Pop Stars Who Should Never Act Again
Mariah Carey managed to validate her acting career by dressing down and taking a humble, supporting part in depress-o-rama indie flick Precious, which opened this past weekend. We can’t believe the reigning champion of Pop Stars Pretending to Be Actresses has done on-screen work people can actually enjoy non-ironically. Brava, Mariah. Our little hoochy-dressed girl’s all grown up.
Mariah’s earned our respect, but there are tons of other pop acts who, to paraphrase Mean Girls, keep trying to make this “acting” thing happen. It’s not going to happen!
After the jump, our Top 5 picks for pop stars who seriously need to leave acting to the professionals: MORE »
upcoming releases
Mariah Carey’s Forthcoming Album To Spotlight Everyone Who Isn’t Mariah Carey
Don’t call the (probably inevitable) commercial retooling of Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel a remix album: “They’ve said that it’s a remix album, but really what it is is a features album. [The songs] won’t necessarily be remixed,” producer Tricky Stewart told Rap-Up.com. “It’s just an album of features, really cool features on the exact same album.” Among the artists enlisted for this salvage operation: Trey Songz, Gucci Mane, Big Boi, OJ Da Juiceman, R. Kelly, and—natch—T-Pain. No release date has been set. [Rap-Up] MORE »
the vault
Mariah Carey Says “Boo”
Never let it be said that Mariah Carey isn’t afraid to make the grand gestures in order to assert her chart supremacy: She’s already released a Jermaine Dupri-produced remix of her third single from the sales disappointment Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel, “H.A.T.E. U,” that completely reconfigures the track around a bite of the Ghost Town DJs’ 1996 classic “My Boo.” It also features verses by Gucci Mane, Big Boi, and OJ Da Juiceman. Can you say “Hail Mary pass”? I guess since biting from the ’80s didn’t work out all that well, she decided to move her nostalgia up by a few years, and ride the coattails of a song that’s pretty much unassailable. Oh Mariah. Clip after the jump. MORE »
Charts
“Love” Is The Answer: Actually, Barbra Streisand Has The No. 1 Album This Week
Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer has blown past early sales predictions, selling 180,000 copies and coming in as this week’s top-selling album, according to SoundScan. Paramore’s brand new eyes (175,000 copies) is at No. 2, while Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (168,000 copies) bows at No. 3. And the key here, once again, would seem to be TV: Not only did Babs appear on Oprah, she hawked her album on QVC, which apparently gave her quite the direct-sales bump. MORE »
Charts
Paramore Tops Album Chart, Barbra Snags Second Place
Preliminary sales numbers from industry rag Hits have last week’s top three slots on this week’s new-release-stuffed album-sales chart taken by Paramore, Barbra Streisand, and Mariah Carey, respectively—and yes, that’s Mariah coming in behind the new effort by Barbra Streisand. The “official” tally from SoundScan will come later today, but for now let’s speculate: MORE »
Charts
Is Paramore Going To Blast Past Mariah On The Charts?
In what’s shaking up to be a battle of the butterfles, the bean-counters at industry rag Hits are claiming that brand new eyes from the Hayley Williams-led Tennessee outfit Paramore is, after its first day of official availability, on pace to outsell Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel this week by a margin of about 20,000 copies; Paramore’s projected sales are in the 180k-190k range, while Mariah’s are around 160-170k. And as if that wasn’t enough to rile up the chart-obsessed lambs, turns out that Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer is projected to sell between 150,000 and 160,000 copies! Hits‘ one-day projections for this week’s biggest debuts after the jump. MORE »
the last word
Mariah Carey: Flaws And All
Our continuing look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel, the 12th studio album by Mariah Carey: MORE »
buy download kill
Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda
Tomorrow’s release-date schedule is pretty glutted with albums that—gasp!—might get people to actually spend money on music, from Madonna’s latest greatest-hits collection to new albums by the spunky likes of Miranda Lambert and Paramore. In order to help you navigate through this week, might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title? My personal preferences after the jump. MORE »
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Mariah Joins Oprah’s Music Club
Her fans radiant and her hair back to its “Vision Of Love”-era curl tangle, Mariah Carey brought her desperation-borne cover of Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” to Oprah’s makeshift set in Central Park today. While she certainly did hit some old-school Mariah high notes while on stage, the performance further magnified the reworking’s odd pacing. (Oh well, at least her fan-read intro did include data points about her numerous No. 1s. Because you can’t argue with data! Except when it paints Mimi in a bad light!) Clip after the jump. MORE »
