<![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:03:49 EDT Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:03:49 EDT http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5234750 David Blanchuleta winning AI would be the worst thing that could happen to the show. AI is current;y suffering from a lack of credibility, based primarily on Sanjaya and all the fun that Howard Stern had at his expense. The best thing that could happen to the show would be for David Cook to win and become as successful as Daughtry. That's cred. Anything else, doom.

Manola

]]> 33:380312:c5234750 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:03:49 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5226104 @Rob Murphy: You shouldn't. You won't believe all the wank that came from Slut Machine putting "Crazy" in the title of the post.

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

rad_matter

]]> 33:380312:c5226104 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:12:27 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5224565 @Rob Murphy:

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":


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Maybe Britney will too?

Tauwan

]]> 33:380312:c5224565 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:18:37 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5223754 And, part three...

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.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:380312:c5223754 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:50:05 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5223617 I don't see my post yet, but here's a link to a photo that describes that joyous, joyous day:

[www.mtv.com]

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:380312:c5223617 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:45:23 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5223549 @Tauwan:

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...

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:380312:c5223549 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:42:51 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5222205 @Tauwan: you just blew my mind!!

[www.imdb.com]

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:380312:c5222205 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:21 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5221532 @Maura Johnston:

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.

Tauwan

]]> 33:380312:c5221532 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:33:58 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5220641 The look on Brooke's face after the hamburger analogy was priceless. The way initial disappointment morphed into utter confusion, with an ounce of terror. It was like a cup chicks reaction video.

StuntKockSteeev

]]> 33:380312:c5220641 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:02:51 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5219595 @tigerpop: the tears made a bit more sense after I saw the shot of his brother (who looks like he has days to live) and thought about the words to that song again.

Thierry

]]> 33:380312:c5219595 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:26:36 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5218895 What doomed Brooke, probably, was the whole "singer-songwriter thing" (as the judges kept putting it). It's a singing competition, right? They pay a band to learn the damn songs. Had she stepped away from the piano and just sang the song, she might not have sucked. so. hard.

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.

tigerpop

]]> 33:380312:c5218895 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:57:02 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5217220 actually, come to think of it, david cook giving the robert palmer version the grunge treatment might have been pretty good...

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:380312:c5217220 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:45:48 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5217192 @Rob Murphy: not to mention an opportunity to hear the fantastic song 'i didn't mean to turn you on'!

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Maura Johnston

]]> 33:380312:c5217192 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:44:48 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5217111 @Chris Molanphy: I've always loved "Vanishing", and I was a bit surprised Syesha took it on. The Idol audience's likely unfamiliarity with the song will probably both help (they won't know how badly she botched it) and hurt (what song is this?) her, and I think the effects will roughly cancel each other out.

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.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:380312:c5217111 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:40:30 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216973 Charles A. Hohman: Meant to add a "but" before "Syesha looks doomed."

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:380312:c5216973 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:35:10 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216968 Chris Molanphy: I totally agree. Bottom three will be Brooke, Carly and Syesha. And I'd prefer to see Carly go ("Without You" was a golden opportunity and she bungled it), Syesha looks doomed. The judges even muzzled their praise for her with "the song's not well know enough' qualifications. Archuleta landing in the Bottom 3 is wishful thinking.

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:380312:c5216968 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:34:44 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216343 @Chris Molanphy: I'm - again - with you on Brooke, and I think that more than anyone else on Idol, she makes the flaws in her voice work for her. Still, seeing her shake like that throughout her performance made me wonder whether she wasn't just going to faint after hitting the last note. Which at this point could be what she needs to stay in the competition...

Thierry

]]> 33:380312:c5216343 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:05:40 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216274 @Chris Molanphy: I suspect that the producers are sweetening the crowd noise on him, but what do I know.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:380312:c5216274 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:01:44 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216230 Oh, P.S. - I predict Syesha's getting tossed this week. A bit counterintuitive, I know, but: Simon's right about "Vanishing" being a bad, what-the-hell pick for this stage, she sang it like an unvarying Mariah imitator, and she went fairly early in the show. It's the classic not-bad-at-all-but-tactically-doomed performance that's been killing off Idol contestants for years.

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

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:380312:c5216230 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:59:30 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216225 When Jason Castro gets out of the Jack Johnson box, he inevitably seems to fall into the Enrique Iglesias box - and I honestly don't know which one is less appealing to me.

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...

Thierry

]]> 33:380312:c5216225 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:59:22 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216110 I so so so want you to be right about Archuleta - I got excited when I saw he was singing first. But c'mon, did you hear that screaming? Ugh. I continue to suspect he's the Underwood of this season - the producers don't want to let on just how much his votes are flattening the competition week after week. But god, would I love to be wrong.

I hated the David Cook "ABMB" and really don't get what the judges heard that I didn't. The entire first half was in an impossible grunge register that was nearly tuneless.

If Brooke hadn't botched that bridge I bet she'd be getting more praise afterward. Honestly, it was the only thing she seriously messed up; in general, she managed to make one of the more hateful up-with-people MC ballads kinda heartfelt. But I'm a fan of Brooke's, so take me with a grain of salt - I tend to cut her too much slack.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:380312:c5216110 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:52:51 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5216067 Brooke was horrible. She's so likable but that performance as a wreck. She rushed through it, went off-pitch, SHOOK like hell the entire performance...she's been falling a part every week. This has gotta be it.

I thought this might be Carly's week but I checked Google Trends before bed last night and her song was the #3 search. So I think she's fine. It's gotta be Brooke.

What is with Kristy Lee STILL not messing it up enough to get kicked off?

tubby

]]> 33:380312:c5216067 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:50:31 EDT <![CDATA[Mariah Carey's Catalog Causes The Guys To Float Like Butterflies, But Stings The Ladies]]> http://idolator.com/380312/mariah-careys-catalog-causes-the-guys-to-float-like-butterflies-but-stings-the-ladies#c5215724 "It was a bit like ordering a hamburger and only getting the bun" seriously may have been Simon's best overwrought analogy of the whole season. Brooke White really fell apart, I think she was visibly shaking halfway through the song when the tempo suddenly got faster.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:380312:c5215724 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:32:18 EDT