Christmas with Mariah, The Roots and Jimmy Fallon

Another holiday post, this time from Jimmy Fallon, Mimi and the same guys that brought you "Silent Treatment".  Enjoy!




And here is a gratuitous picture of Mariah busting out of her outfit during her Rockefeller Center performance last week.  Nick Cannon, come get yo girl.  Ho, ho, ho indeed.

Election Day

It's Election Day across the country. Be sure to vote or you might let Mariah down. According to the shirt, she's taking this pretty seriously. And here's your theme song for the day, courtesy of Duran Duran:

Mariah's New Video

Here's Mariah's new video for the song "My Love" (what's up with the hair?). I think the video is directed by Nick Cannon. Remember when Janet Jackson let that freeloader she was married to "direct" all of her music videos? Yeah, that turned out well. Anyway, enjoy the clip:

New Mariah!

Here's the latest video from Mariah Carey, "I Stay In Love". I think it's directed by that toad Nick Cannon. Enjoy!

New Mariah

Here's a picture of Mariah Carey on the set of her new video. Hooker boots and daisy dukes? Man, this song must be atrocious. Also, isn't she around 40? Shouldn't she have stopped dressing like that around 1995? The new video for "I Stay In Love" is supposed to debut Monday on BET at 9PM CST. This should be good.

(Photo from fadedyouthblog.com)

Say It Ain't So!

According to a report at perezhilton.com, Mariah Carey has a new tattoo on her lower back. It's a butterfly that says "Nick". Baby, you're a grown ass woman going on forty! This kind of stuff should have stopped at about 18. She's an A-List entertainer, not some Rock of Love groupie! At least she's smarter than her husband Nick Cannon, who allegedly has a giant "Mariah" tattoo across the top of his back. The laser removal doctors must be salivating. A giant back tattoo? This guy has set new levels for being sprung.

Mimi On The Cover of Elle

Mariah Carey made the cover of Elle Magazine and you can read the accompanying article right here. Meanwhile there were reports online last week that there is already trouble between her and Nick Cannon (shocker). Since there was only a courtship of a couple of weeks, they are now getting to know each other and allegedly Nick is staring to find out that she is as crazy as a horse with no neck. Holmes, you could have found that out by reading Hollywood Nation.

(Photo from elle.com)

More Mimi

Mariah Carey throws out the first pitch at a baseball game yesterday at the Tokyo Dome in Japan:

Mimi, looking very excited in her full Glitter-era costume, managed to throw it over the plate.

"Awwww, ya jinglin' baby, go 'head baby!"

(Photos from mariahdaily.com)

Mimi Update

The wedding was about three weeks ago and defying all the odds, Mariah is still married to Nick Cannon. I'm about to lose ten bucks over this. In other Mariah news, she makes a cameo in the upcoming Adam Sandler movie You Don't Mess With The Zohan. Apparently, it is a self-depreciating appearance where she is singing the national anthem at a hackey sack game, which actually sounds pretty funny. And unlike Glitter, this is actually intended to be funny. She might get that Oscar yet!

DAYUM!

Ladies and Gentlemen: the new cover of Vibe magazine. I'm almost sorry that I cut this broad loose.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Mrs. Mariah Cannon

Wow, and we thought she was crazy when she was pushing that ice cream cart around on MTV! According to several outlets, Mariah Carey did indeed get married to Nick Cannon on Wednesday in the Bahamas. No pre-nup was signed. There goes that "Emancipation of Mimi" money. I would wish the couple the best of luck but 1) it ain't gonna happen and 2) I'm a hater. I give this one three months before he gets tired of hearing her talk. Well, at the least, I hope he doesn't keep her locked up like the last one.

(Photo from I-D Magazine, on sale May 8th)

Say It Ain't So

According to some online reports, Mariah Carey has been sporting an engagement ring and is allegedly getting married to ..................... that clown Nick Cannon, from MTV's Wild N Out! Oh hell no! Has she ever seen that show? That guy is corny! I bet he doesn't even have his own internationally read blog! Or a wrestling figure collection arranged by mid-carders and main eventers! Man, she is trippin'. I hate to see her go out like this.

New Mariah: Out Today

Mariah Carey's new CD, E=MC2, was released today. I picked up my copy this morning at Target (which had a pathetic selection of wrestling dolls, by the way). I had a choice between the regular version for ten bucks and a "deluxe" version for fourteen. I picked the regular version, because what am I going to do with an Ipod skin (which was included with the deluxe version)? I'm a grown-ass man with a record collection; I won't miss it. That's four dollars that can be spent on a pizza upgrade. So I stood in line with a bunch of old ladies who were in a hurry to get back home to see The View and headed to work. I managed to listen to the disc a couple of times during the day, in between carrying the company on my broad shoulders.

The verdict: It's a good disc. About what you would expect if you heard her last offering-- a few ballads, a couple of uptempo songs, some guest rapper appearances and some vocal gymnastics. On the first listen, I heard about five songs that I liked, which for me is tremendous. So E=MC2 gets the official Hollywood Nation Stamp of Approval. So go on and pick it up; after all, it would make Mimi really happy!

Mimi's New Single Is Available

Mariah's new single is out today on Itunes. Whatever happened to 45s and maxi-singles? I'm so old.

Mariah's New Album Cover

Here's a preview of Mimi's new album cover for E=MC2, which is due on April 15th. Kind of tame; I thought Madonna's cover was much better. Perhaps, Mimi should have added a title belt or something. Also, her media onslought continues as she will be on the cover of this weekend's Parade magazine (below), which I may actually read for the first time in ten years.

(Photos from mariahdaily.com)

Live From New York...It's Mimi!

Mariah Carey will be the musical guest on this weekend's Saturday Night Live, filling in for Janet Jackson, who has the flu. Now if they could just bring back Eddie Murphy and James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub, we would have something.

At Home With Mimi

Thanks to Architectural Digest, fans now get to take a look inside Mariah Carey's Manhattan triplex. Three floors and oddly enough, no wrestling posters. And just think: if you put together all of the money that I've spent on her CDs, DVDs, concert tickets, etc., I probably bought that ottoman on page 7!

The Adventures of Mimi Live DVD

I went into my local Streetside Records/FYE a couple of weeks ago like a good Lamb to get the new Mariah Carey "Adventures of Mimi" DVD and they looked at me like I was insane. Then I found out that it was a Best Buy exclusive. So I made the thirty minute trip to the nearest location and picked up a copy. With a gift card that I had on hand, it only cost me a couple of bucks. That's neither here nor there. I watched it last week. Disc One is a live concert from last year's fantastic Adventures of Mimi tour. Disc Two is a couple of skits that I already saw online and a behind the scenes documentary that I haven't watched yet because, God bless her, but sometimes hearing Mimi chit-chat can be brutal. Anyway, instead of reviewing the DVD, here are highlights of my write-up from last year's tour when she made a stop in Chicago:

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In 2003, I finally got a chance to see one of my favorite singers, Mariah Carey, live in concert when she played the Fox Theatre here in St. Louis. At the time, she was just getting over the Glitter/"Mariah Carey is absolutely nuts" phase of her career and the sales of her new album were struggling. Since that time, she's had a huge comeback as sales of the follow-up CD, "The Emancipation of Mimi", have gone through the roof and earned numerous awards. Now that she was back on top of the music industry, there was no way in the world that she was stepping in the state of Missouri for her latest concert tour. I checked and the nearest place she would be playing was Chicago. Then I had a bright idea-- don't I have a sister in Chicago that I need to visit? Which of course led us to see...

The Adventures of Mimi Tour
Mariah Carey
The Voice, The Hits, The Tour
United Center
Chicago, Illinois
Monday, September 11th, 2006

- We arrived at the United Center around 8. People were still filing in. The crowd was almost as diverse as an American Idol show. It was mostly 20 to 40 year olds and there were was an almost even mixture of blacks, whites, and Latinos. And you know the hoochies were out in force. Tell me this: what in the world makes a broad come out in public wearing a short white fur coat with booty shorts?

- The opening act was dancehall artist Sean Paul, best known for his hits "Temperature" and "Get Busy", which was once used in a hideous Hardee's commercial where a guy was dancing with a cow. The audience was really into him and he kept them hyped for his whole set.

- After Sean Paul finished, there was about a half hour to change the stage and suddenly the place went dark. The screens showed point-of-view footage of a roller coaster going around on a track. Mariah's voice narrated over the film: "Sometimes life can kinda be like a roller coaster ride...." Aw, here we go! Painful. Can we just cut through the B.S. and get to some short skirts and "Vision of Love"?

- Luckily, soon afterwards the opening strains of "It's Like That" began and Mariah herself emerged from the top of the stage. The crowd went wild. And folks, she came up to the mound throwing some serious heat. She was wearing a black bikini top and shorts that covered approximately 1/4 of her behind. It was the kind of stuff that makes a brother want to jump up and start singing "Creepin" by Luther Vandross. Unfortunately, she also had on this sheer cape thing that never allowed anyone to really get a solid look to see what was going on back there. I had been worried since a few weeks ago when the Crunk and Disorderly blog had posted a picture of her from earlier in the tour with the caption: "Mariah, would you like some syrup to go with that pancake ass?" That even hurt my feelings. Anyway, from the little I could see, things weren't totally flat yet.

- Back to the show, the second song of the evening was "Heartbreaker", which featured our first special guest of the evening, Chicago's very own Da Brat. This was followed by "Dreamlover", "My All" and "Shake It Off" (for which they brought down the giant lighted "MIMI" sign like in the video!). The funniest part was when she started singing over the beat for Biggy Smalls' "Juicy" and this Latino lady in front of us jumped out of her seat and went completely crazy.

- During the first of about three breaks that she took, DJ Clue rocked the crowd by playing bits of such hits as "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson, "I Got Five On It" by The Luniz and the more recent "Shoulder Lean" by Young Dro and T.I. The crowd was mega-hyped for this. It was one of the highlights of the night.

- Next was the power ballad portion of the evening. Mariah returned to the stage wearing what was probably at one time an elegant yellow ball gown-- until she took the Hoochie Scissors to it. She reeled off three huge ballads in succession: "Vision of Love", "Fly Like A Bird", and the Jackson 5 remake of "I'll Be There". She hit all of the high notes and did all of the vocal gymnastics that have become her trademark. The crowd absolutely ate it up and she got a couple of standing ovations. She was joined on "I'll Be There" by her backup singer Trey Lorenz. This segment was probably the best of the night. After that, she left the stage to take another break. Trey took over and sang two Luther Vandross songs and his version of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley. To his credit, he was able to hold the crowd's attention, which wasn't an easy feat, especially considering that he wasn't even wearing a bikini top and a cape.

- Part Three. The lights went out and psychedelic imagery showed on the screens. After about a minute or so the words "Keepin' it real, son" filled the arena and the face of the late Old Dirty Bastard a.k.a. The Osirus a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus appeared on the screen. It was the start of one Mariah's biggest hits, "Fantasy". The lights came back on and Mariah was now on a small square disco-type stage that was in the center of the arena floor. We wondered how she had magically appeared there. Incidentally, she was wearing some tight ass capri pants. The crowd loved the song and even though it is about ten years old, we sang to every word of ODB's rap in the song, including one of the best lines in rap history "me and Mariah go back like babies and pacifiers".

- She took a break from singing to address the crowd. She informed us that she "wears the tightest pants in the world" and that this was the last night for it. Aw, I bet she says that to all the cities. If this was indeed the last night however, I would like to offer a giant thank you.

- Also during this set, Da Brat joined her once again during "Always Be My Baby". Mariah left the square disco stage and walked through the crowd (with security in tow) and went back to the main stage. In the official Adventures of Mimi tour program it says, uh, I mean, I'm told it says "Why wouldn't I walk thru the audience? (Well, a friendly game of grabass immediately comes to mind). Hello! We're all just human beings having an experience together". I wonder if she really believes any of this stuff in the tour program? Surely someone else wrote it and she just laughed and signed off on it. Anyway, she performed my favorite Mimi song "Honey", so I was happy.

- Costume change time. More DJ Clue. A little bit of Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman" segued into Kanye West's "Golddigger". The crowd was as hyped as ever.

- With the capris returned safely to the hoochie side of the closet, presumably to never be seen again, Mariah emerged back on stage in another elegant dress, which could only mean one thing: more ballads. Since this show took place on 9/11, the 5th anniversary of the WTC bombings, she dedicated this portion to the victims and families. She addressed the crowd and said that she would like to express her "grievances" to the families. Uuuuuh, we know she meant. She knocked out "One Sweet Day" and "Hero". After a mini fake encore ceremony, she came back and sang "We Belong Together". Good night. Drive home safely. House lights. Parking lot.

- Verdict: Hot show, nice outfits, excellent singing. I think even my sister enjoyed it. If you only see one Mariah Carey concert this year, make sure it's The Adventures of Mimi Tour.