According to H.I.P Japan, a new "The Adventures of Mimi" tour date in Japan is scheduled for

October 16, 2006 - Tokyo, Japan at Nippon Budokan
Public Tickets On Sale: September 16th

Nippon Budokan has a seating capacity of about 15,000. Click here to view the seating chart.

No pre-sale details are currently available.

Source:Maple.

Voice soars but no sizzle.

She has the most athletic voice of her generation, able to leap octaves in a single bound.

But at Mariah Carey's rare Madison Square Garden concert last night, she proved yet again that force and flexibility in no way guarantee emotional depth or connection.

In her usual style, Carey approached each song as a rigorous exercise, bending and stretching notes extravagantly, elaborating each melody with as many ornate phrases and fancy filigrees as she could conceive.

Essentially, Carey was doing with her voice what Madonna does with her body.

Carey meant such moves to make up for the fact that, unlike most modern divas, she doesn't dance. She doesn't even move with much grace. But at least she poses with a certain campy charm.

Long attuned to modern trends, Carey made sure that last night's show wasn't just about music. She had a passel of backup dancers to shimmy and shake, a deejay to fiddle around between numbers, and enough costume changes to fill a segment on "Project Runway."

Unfortunately, such distractions often wound up harming the show's pace. Seldom did Carey perform more than two or three numbers before vanishing backstage, while DJ Clue, or some video backdrop, carried the day.

The deejay motif carried over into the songs. Perhaps nervous about her age (36), Carey put even more youthful hip-hop inflections into her music at this show than on her CDs.

Both Jay-Z and Sean (Diddy) Combs showed up as guests. But the style wasn't always flattering, often slowing the beat and flattening Carey's already narrow melodies. Songs like the opener, "It's Like That," made such severe concessions to the beat, there wasn't much room left for the tune.

By contrast, Carey's vocals certainly showed range. The woman can hit most any note on the scale. The deeper question is, should she.

On hit after hit (from "Dreamlover" to "Honey"), Carey threw her voice around with the giddy abandon of a crazed seal leaping through hoops.

It's a supremely influential approach. "American Idol" would be unimaginable without it. But for all her physical dynamism, Carey in concert generated no heat.

Source:New York Daily News.

Here are Mariah's Billboard chart positions for the magazine's issue date September 2, 2006.
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Mariah partyphiles, get ready! As the Philippine Mariah Carey Fanclub (PMCF) and KOKUN Events bring you the biggest and most exciting Mariah party in the country today!

"SUPERMIMI: The Adventures Party" is a celebration of PMCF’s four flantastic years of bringing together Filipino lambs all over the country in honor of our heroine herself, Ms Mimi.

Ride the rollercoaster celebration and get to listen to rare and exclusive remixes and Mariah’s music ALL NIGHT LONG! Also get the chance to win amazing prices from surprise games we’ve prepared especially for you!

Everyone is encouraged to come to their best SUPERMIMI ENSEMBLES. Be the best dressed super lamb of the night, and you will surely go home with prices fit for a superhero!

Bring along all your friends with you and experience this once in a lifetime adventure because EVERYONE IS INVITED to come!

"SUPERMIMI: The Adventures Party" is coming your way this September 9, 10pm, Club Government, Makati City. Watch out for more details and for the sketch of the venue.

For queries and clarification, please do not hesitate to contact KEN through 09278733546 or e-mail him at mcareyph@gmail.com. Visit the PMCF website (www.mcareyph.com) or more party updates!

Source:Mariah Carey Philippines.

Mariah Carey's "The Adventures of Mimi Tour" made a stop at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston Monday night and brought with it hits, hotties, and of course, lots of glitter.

The crowd of mostly teen girls was warmed up by the sexy voice and suggestive moves of Sean Paul, who performed a string of his hits, beginning with "Like Glue." Along with his four backup dancers, he brought enough energy to the stage to have everyone out of their seats during his entire 45-minute set.

After a long 75-minute intermission, the curtains - adorned with the initials "MC" in pink glitter - opened to reveal a stage fit for a queen: Mariah had arrived.

Beginning with her hit "It's Like That," Carey announced her mission for the night - "I came to have a party" - and the crowd's deafening screams showed they were ready for just that. Decked out in skimpy purple-glitter booty shorts and crop top, Carey hit those infamous high notes and delighted the crowd with their favorite songs, old and new.

The elegant two-level stage came complete with four video screens, a star-filled backdrop with a disco beaded curtain and was topped off with "MC" right in the center. It was a perfect fit for the diva who has poise and confidence, as Carey clearly did.

There was a sweet moment when Carey slowed it down and sang the ballad "My All" as she stood on the stairs in a single spotlight. Shadows of a couple dancing behind a screen set the mood for this older hit, as fans sang along with the song about wishing for one more moment with the one you love.

With a quick change back to the upbeat "Shake It Off," lights spelling "Mimi" came down onto the stage. Carey danced in front of them, teasing the audience with a moment of pole-dancing.

She took it way back with her first single from 1990, "Vision of Love" and told the audience that second show of her career was in Boston and was the best of her life. She chatted with fans as if they were all good friends and even took a moment to sing "Happy Birthday" to a male fan in the audience.

Carey made a number of diva-style wardrobe changes into sexy-yet-elegant dresses that still didn't stint on glitter. Midway through the show, she moved to a smaller stage in the middle of floor and the audience went wild with the chance to get a better view of their idol.

As the show drew to a close, Carey dedicated "Hero" to anyone who has been through any tough situation and had the audience singing along and waving their hands in the air. For an upbeat ending, a full gospel choir in white robes joined Mariah and her dancers on stage for "Make It Happen."

Carey then graced the stage in a skin-colored, full-length dress for the encore song, "We Belong Together." As she said good night to Boston and walked off the stage to "Butterfly," glitter cannons exploded sending pink and purple butterfly shaped glitter over the audience - a graceful ending for a diva-licious evening.

Source:Lowell Sun.

Click on the links below to download audio files of Mariah's performances and view photos from her concert at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, August 21, 2006.

01. It's Like That
02. Heartbreaker
03. Dreamlover
04. My All
05. Shake It Off
06. Vision of Love
07. Fly Like a Bird
---- Mariah Sings Happy Birthday to fan Jonny
08. I'll Be There
09. Fantasy
10. Don't Forget About Us
11. Always Be My Baby
12. Honey
13. I Wish You Knew (Snippet)
14. Can't Let Go (Snippet)
15. Thank God I Found You/Make It Last (Snippet)
16. One Sweet Day (Snippet)
17. Hero
18. Make It Happen - Incomplete
19. We Belong Together - N/A
20. Butterfly Reprise - N/A

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For all her diva posturing, Mariah Carey is just another giddy fan inside that curvaceous body she likes to display at all times.

At the best moments during last night’s 95-minute installment of Carey’s current tour -- ``The Adventures of Mimi: the Voice, the Hits, the Tour" -- at the TD Banknorth Garden were when she let that exuberant music lover out to play alongside the bombshell with the glass-shattering voice.

Whether it was the offhand, almost unconscious, rapping along with video of duet partners like Jay-Z and the late ODB, the teasing of her band and dancers, or the singing of a sincere ``Happy Birthday" to a devoted sign-waving fan, Carey was at her most likable when she seemed to be enjoying herself as opposed to counting in her head how many hip shimmies she had to do during ``Shake it Off."

Of course those hip shimmies ( Carey’s and those of her considerably more rhythmically gifted sextet of dancers), the peek-a-boo costumes, the mammoth silver-and-white stage dotted with a quintet of video screens, and the big hair were all part of the spectacle one expects. And the singer worked the stage with as much grace as a scantily clad woman in towering heels can.

The pageantry was a bit silly at times, including the requisite intro video of Carey comparing her life to a roller coaster and then falling through the clouds. Trey Lorenz made an ``entrance" to huge cheers for Carey’s lovely cover of the Jackson 5’s ``I’ll Be There," but he had been on stage all night as part of her trio of backing vocalists. (A medley by the genial Lorenz meant to promote his forthcoming album somewhat defeated the purpose by consisting solely of covers of Luther Vandross and Gnarls Barkley, but presented an excellent restroom break for many in the crowd.)

The generous set list drew on her collection of 17 number one hits, with emphasis on her more recent rhythm and blues successes. Mariah and the crowd, 12,232 strong, followed every impressive trill, belt, and canine whistle with rapt devotion and vigorous sing-alongs.

She hit her breakthrough anthem ``Vision of Love" early and strong, summoning up a gospel grit that felt earned and would recur on songs like ``Fly Like a Bird," the raucous, choir-assisted set-closer ``Make it Happen," and, during a medley, an earthy duet of ``Thank God I Found You" with Lorenz. That one particular felt like a glimpse at what takes place on the tour bus, two friends harmonizing with easy joy.

The more calculated balladry of ``Hero" and up-tempo, breezy numbers like ``Heartbreaker," ``Fantasy" -- sung on a B-stage near the back of the arena -- and ``Honey" lacked that same grit, but the former drew a fervent ovation and the latter trio got the hips moving and the crowd jumping. ``We Belong Together " ended the show in a spurt of hitching dance grooves and glittery purple confetti

Source:Boston Globe.

Not too many pop singers can finesse massive crowds in their underwear.But Mariah Carey isn’t your everyday pop singer.

When Carey’s 2001 release, “Glitter,” bombed commercially, she probably couldn’t have sold out your local Best Buy. Even in her intimates. But with the muscle of her recent Billboard blockbuster, “The Emancipation of Mimi,” behind her, Carey had the TD Banknorth Garden packed with her usual fan base: kids, moms, dads, thugs, chicks, players and everyone else in between.

But a spectacle on par with Carey can’t be unveiled without a proper intro. Her mere presence calls for a worthy opening act, which last night came from Jamaican dancehall dynamo Sean Paul, who is for many to reggae what Carey is to r & b. He racks up hit singles the way UPS drivers collect parking tickets. Jamming through dancehall hits such as “We Be Burnin’ ” and “Get It On,” Paul energized people who came to hear him as well as Carey die-hards waiting patiently for their hero.

Carey’s intro was hysterically dramatic. She emerged to a recording of her waxing poetic about how life is like a roller coaster. When her fans finished wiping their tears, they braced for the show.

In a salute to rappers who have laid verses on her most popular tracks, Carey paid homage to MCs she’s collaborated with.During “Heartbreaker,” Jay-Z cameos filled the video monitors, and for “Fantasy,” deceased rap star Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s verse was given a full salute.

But Carey’s catalog is even more impressive than her vocals and the MCs who have complemented her choruses. For every dance track she flung in the beginning of her set, she unfurled a “Vision of Love” or “Hero.” Her fame might have briefly faded from 2000 to 2003, but Carey’s vocal chords never left the building.

No track triggered more tears and screams than “Always Be My Baby,” a song Carey let her fans sing most of. Halfway ballads such as “Honey” inspired tears, but it took her hit “Hero” to trigger the night’s most significant emotions.

There are rumors about how Carey resents her fans and how she disrespects the backroom talents who engineer her career. But at a venue as mammoth as the Garden, none of that seemed relevant so long as she reigned over the crowd as expected.

Source:The Boston Herald.

When you’re talking about Mariah Carey, it all starts with the voice. Or, as she billed it herself on the tour that rolled into the TD Banknorth Garden last night, The Voice.

It was in good shape last night, but it’s one thing to have such a force of nature; it’s another to know what to do with it. And I’m not talking about the oversinging she’s so often accused of; that’s her deal, and if you can’t get used to that, well, this deep into her career you’ve given it a fair shot. (It only grated on the encore, "We Belong Together.") She’s still head-and-shoulders above the generation of American Idol doofuses trying to follow in her footsteps.

But on the hip-hop-influenced material that’s come to dominate her recorded output, such as the set opener "It’s Like That," "Heartbreaker" (with video rap cameo from Jay-Z) and "Fantasy" (with video rap cameo from Ol’ Dirty Bastard), she fell victim to the Van Halen syndrome -- imitating one’s imitators and undermining one’s own strengths -- sounding like any one of a number of thin-voiced contemporary R&B divas, with a couple of the trademark Carey helium notes thrown in so you know whom you’re dealing with, but to not much other discernible effect.

The Voice was used to better effect on opulent R&B such as the old hit "Dreamlover" and "Fly Like a Bird" and "I Wish You Knew" (from last year’s The Emancipation of Mimi album), when she wasn’t singing like she had something to prove, which unfortunately isn’t nearly as often as you’d think it would be at this stage of her career. This is the stuff very few singers Carey’s age or younger are doing, because very few can handle it. But there wasn’t enough last night, and too many forgettable recent hits.

The pacing of the show was a bit of a mess. The middle of the set was loaded with filler, including a DJ spotlight and a three-song set from "I’ll Be There" vocal partner Trey Lorenz. The end of the show was bogged down with another DJ spotlight, snippets of songs such as "I Wish You Knew" and forced banter from Carey before finishing up with "Hero" and "Make It Happen."

When The Emancipation of Mimi came out last year, more than a few people wondered exactly what it was she claimed to be emancipated from. Similarly, the introductory video to last night’s concert featured footage of a roller coaster with a voiceover from Carey about how life was like, well, a roller coaster. Ups and downs, hold on, that sort of thing.

That was pretty much it for the philosophizing, and while that may have been just as well, most of the material seemed to come from a mindset most commonly expressed in the margins of a notebook during third-period algebra: Look inside you and be strong. I’m gonna shake you off. Baby, don’t forget about us. Make it happen.

Which is a shame. At this point, with her raw talent, Carey should be leading, not following. Sure, Emancipation was last year’s top seller. But last night’s show didn’t leave the impression of a young singer baring her soul or an older singer baring her scars. Or much of anything. Except The Voice.

Opener Sean Paul was a rousing force, using a DJ, a backing band and synthesized beats to re-create some of his biggest hits, particularly from his latest album, The Trinity. The live band gave new life to such dancehall hits as "We Be Burnin’" and "Get It On."

Source:Providence Journal.

Question: With a new season of Dancing with the Stars on the horizon, who would you pick to be your celebrity dancing partner?

MICHAEL THOMPSON: "I would go with Scarlett Johansson, I think she’s cute. I like her also because she has a different style, and class"

CARLY PRESIDENTE: "I’d have to pick someone who can already dance, so I would pick Usher. He could probably teach me something."

WILLIAM HONG: "I would pick Mariah Carey, because she can sing. I don’t know if she can dance. I hope she can dance."

SHERI DROUIN : "Owen Wilson, I’d pick him because he’s cute. I don’t think he could dance, though, but at least he would be funny."

BROOK ANDRUSYK: "I’d pick Halle Berry, I like her acting. I think she could dance better than me and she could teach me something."

Source:The Calgary Sun.

Busta Rhymes has already been an opening act at a number of Mariah concerts during the tour and is scheduled to be the opening act again for some future concerts (Houston, Dallas, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Phoenix); but last night Busta was arrested on assault charges.

It is not known at the moment if Busta will be released soon or if it was just an administrative arrest. In any case it will disturb Mariah and who knows if she was already aware of this fact, when she took to the stage at last nights Alantic City concert, it could explain alot of stuff!

Source:Heroes of Mariah.

"This is one singer who actually sounds just as amazing, if not better, live"

The phrase: "We came, we saw, we conquered," can now place a photo of Mariah Carey next to it in the dictionary because on August 5, 2006, MC proved that she has not only whipped her critics and detractors into place with her numerous number ones, won award after award in the past year and sold more copies of her latest album than ever before in her career. Now she's blown away her fans with her current live gigs… and oh-how she's doing it!

Her biggest, most doting fans queued up all night, so there were layers of fans 20 deep surrounding the Miami Arena hysterical with anticipation for the opening night of Mariah's Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, the Hits, the Tour.

It's been at least three years since most of the world saw MC perform live, so her fans came from far and wide - literally from all over the globe - and were on their feet all night.

Since Miami she's been on a steady roll around the US killing the audiences at every venue. Even when MC was around an hour late the fans were jumping up and down not caring.

The crowd was made up of every kind of person from every walk of life; kids, road boys, mums with toddlers, old folks, pregnant women, hip hop heads. You name it, everyone showed up.

After Busta Rhymes and Sean Paul warmed up the crowd for her on different dates, the crowd was so hyped they did Mexican waves the size of which a European fan like me has never witnessed.

When you go to an MC gig you're going as much for her sexy, provocative outfits as you are to hear her legendary vocals. On this show they both blow you away. There were enough clothes changes for a whole London Fashion Week.

But that didn't matter because as she ran off to slip into another saucy outfit, the girls giggled with delight at each new one while some of the boys got very hot and flustered watching her naughty looks. Her more than able backing singers and dancers entertained us with their unsurpassed skills. MC's dancers led by the wonderful choreographer Rachel McIntosh flipped and shimmied for all they were worth and had us whining around in our seats trying to imitate them (unsuccessfully).

MC's mate DJ Clue spun and mixed for all he was worth as MC stopped for mini breaks to change or catch her breath or take sips of water, which she felt she needed to apologise for. Why I don't know. Girl, we know you can't belt out those melodic tunes on pipes that are dry like the desert!

Randy Jackson, Mariah's musical director (and always has been, but in US is famous for his judging role of American Idol) was on hand to ensure MC's music was on point all through the show.

There were loads of musical high points during the show which showcased MC's vocal ability, and occasionally it seemed she would shatter with the hollering that was escaping her lithe body.

MC had her friends/featured artists on her hits, such as Busta, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard join her via the technology of video clips onstage but it was director Spike Lee who swung it on home with a series of video clips highlighting the crap from the media and haters that MC always has to contend with - while MC just smiles as it plays.

A diva wouldn't be a diva without the long, 007-style gowns and MC's were put together by stylist June Ambrose who called in hot looks from every designer who wanted to dress MC. Ultimately, however, the clothes were made as one-offs. The outfits were untouchable and while the press may have just showed the public shots of MC in batty rider shorts, let me reassure you that the gowns and sexy dresses were much more dominant in this show than hot pants.

She not only managed to run on and off stage in a variety of outfits but her singing was complete with all the vigorous stamina you'd expect from her. This is one singer who actually sounds just as amazing, if not better, live.

MC recreated the Lady Marmalade vibe with her perfectly natural curves in a metallic red burlesque costume as she straddled and worked a chair so hard it practically melted under her, and rolled through hit after hit as the night sped past.

If older fans were worried she would only bang out the old tracks they were pleasantly surprised as she worked in every hit including Dream Lover, Honey, My All, Shake It Off, Fly Like A Bird, Fantasy (during which she ventured into the crowd), Thank God I Found You, Hero and her cover of The Jackson 5's I'll Be There.

We can only pray that after its US and Asian run it will finally make its way to Europe. You know if you want it you gotta demand it readers. Holla at MC on her site now.

Source:The Voice.

Last night, ITV presented the first episode in the new series of the X-Factor. Already there have been two Mariah wannabes. One was a 21 year old mother of two who, after her first and only audition was rejected by the judging panel. My heart had to go out to her; though she didnt have a very good voice, she believed so much in herself and seeing her beg the judges to put her through was heartbreaking. Needless to say she sang audtionees favourite "Hero".

Source:February Sky.

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Sat. Oct., 28th - Hong Kong, China @ Tamar (outdoors)

HBF Legacy Presales will begin:
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Through our Tickets Page, Mariah’s Official Fan Club - Honey B. Fly members will be able to gain access to the Fan Club Only Presales to purchase tickets before the general public. For Honey B. Fly members (as of May 18, 2006), you will have the opportunity to participate in the presale first! The Legacy Member presale window will begin 2 hours before the regular Member Presales. After this window, the presale will then open to all Honey B. Fly Fan Club members.

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Source:MariahCarey.Com.

Mariah Carey devotee Rochelle Warden was scanning the online classified ad site Craigslist when she spotted a link for concert tickets.

It routed the Mariettan to MadTickets.com, where she landed a pair to the recent gig at well below list price. Just one disquietude: The broker stipulated that the deal go down at a McDonald’s off I-85.

"I was really leery about it," Warden said. "She wouldn’t let me come to an office. That was kind of weird. I didn’t know if that $200 was gone."

The sale, transacted to the sound of crackling french fries and slurped sodas, put Warden and her pal, Courtney Hansbro, in the second row sidestage at Philips Arena, almost close enough to reach out and brush the diva’s long blond tresses.

Apart from the fast-food backdrop, tapping into the so-called secondary market for choice seats has become routine for patrons of music, sports and theater events. Like Carey’s abs, the pool of buyers clutching tickets obtained directly from traditional sources in the primary market, mainly Ticketmaster around these parts, has dwindled.

Fewer than half of those situated near Warden and Hansbro shopped the conventional way — shelling out $129 apiece, plus service charge — while others wound up with secondhand tickets, some smudged with numerous fingerprints.

The twin engines driving this trend are a 21st century phenomenon, the Internet, and a doctrine older than the Rolling Stones: supply and demand. Ticket brokers — the artisans formerly known as scalpers, whose once illegal activities have been legitimized in about 40 states, including Georgia — are fond of saying they engage in society’s second-oldest profession. That is, selling on the open market.

None of which justifies, to the system’s critics, a free-for-all scramble that tends to tilt the scales for desirable seating toward those with disposable income. "Second-oldest — and Caligula probably scalped tickets to watch the oldest profession," said Philips Arena President Bob Williams.

Williams lobbied against the Georgia bill, passed and signed into law five years ago, that moved scalpers from shadowy operations dealing out of hotel rooms to Yellow Pages listings — provided they obtain licenses. Consumers without deep pockets, he contended, "are the losers."

Not always. A sampling of the Carey crowd perched near Warden and Hansbro revealed a wide range of amounts, for listed $129 seats, charged by a variety of sellers.

In the second row, one section over, Mitzi and Barry Adcock of Calhoun paid $200 apiece. Rachel Jones and mom Diane, commuting from the same North Georgia town, scored theirs 20 rows up for $120 each.

Addys Cabanas and Melanie Ward were satisfied with paying $140 per, as were Vivian Lee and two friends for $155. But they were farther from the stage than Christopher Estes and Josh Jolly, who discovered a block of eight seats for $80 a pop.

Some bought from eBay, others from online brokers found on the Web or in the telephone book. About two dozen entries appear in the metro Atlanta Yellow Pages under "Ticket Sales — Events."

Assorted first-time Web site customers had fretted that their tickets, nearly all of them sent by mail or package delivery, were counterfeit or duplicates. "I was a little nervous," said Barry Adcock, who did not rest easy until he was waved through the Philips gate.

Regular clients of ticket resellers, such as Mike Durst, had no such worries. Placed second row, center, with his date, Durst had waited until the most coveted seats pitched by his broker dipped from at least $750 to $350 the morning of the show.

"I like sitting up front," said Durst, who has dealt with the same local enterprise for 10 years, for sports and the circus, for performances by dinosaur bands and the purple dinosaur Barney.

"People used to go to jail"

Wading into the secondary market does not come without risk. Some brokers sell "short," offering tickets they have yet to obtain. Once they get an order, they seek the seats from their connections at profit-making prices — sometimes unsuccessfully.

A part-time scalper of Masters badges at Augusta National failed to scarf up enough to satisfy his clients in 1997 when prices rocketed beyond his projections. He shot himself to death.

Increasingly, dealers are "guaranteeing" tickets at the agreed-upon price, or at least reimbursements should they not arrive in time. Booming cyberspace ticket superstores such as StubHub and RazorGator, some backed by venture capital, handle large quantities and can better absorb the occasional loss.

"People used to go to jail for what I do," said Steve Susce, co-owner of AAATix.

No business model has gone unexplored. Four MIT students, frustrated at missing out on the Red Sox postseason, formed YooNew, a futures market for major sports tickets. For example, NFL fans can make a no-refund investment on a Super Bowl seat — face value is $600 — by getting dibs on a ticket well in advance at a price based on a team’s prospects. A roll of the dice on the Falcons goes for $215.99 per seat.

Industry experts put the number of established resellers with a brick-and-mortar presence at 500 to 600. But in these high-wired, wide-open times, said Carl White, founder of WebTickets, "Every computer is a Ticketmaster outlet these days."

Tom Waits has an answer

Tom Waits has an answer. He leaned into the mike during a recent gig at the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta and growled to the full house of 2,500, "I know you’re thinking, `What about waiting in line forever and ever and ever?’ Let me just say that I had you in mind. Otherwise, you end up with a ticket on eBay for $1,500. And nobody wants that."

To keep tickets ($65 and $60) away from brokers and other resellers, Waits stipulated that all buyers claim them at the box office just before the show.

"Every single person in that room that night paid face value," said Adam Cohen of Live Nation, the promoter. "That’s unheard of today."

Other artists have tried similar tactics with the most desirable seats, but the plan is impractical for larger venues. For Waits, the usual box office staff of two needed 10 reinforcements.

In pockets of Europe, promoters are fighting back with high-tech weapons. Ticket buyers receive bar codes over their cellphones and cannot pass through the turnstile without flashing them.

The latest danger stateside to ticket brokers is not rebellious artists or state legislatures — who keep loosening the laws at the behest of industry lobbyists — but Ticketmaster. "The 800-pound gorilla," said the NATB’s Adler.

The mega-distributor is establishing auctions and exchange programs for paid-for tickets. The exchange permits resale of tickets, often at inflated prices. "We think the fan is poorly served" by brokers, said Executive Vice President Sean Moriarty.

With the auctions, Ticketmaster, in conjunction with the promoter, team or venue, will siphon off the finest seats and put them up for bid for a period as long as 10 days.

There may be a charitable component or a bonus thrown in — meet-and-greet the star backstage, throwing out the first pitch.

Along the front row at the Carey concert, Nichole and John Cain were $1,000 lighter for their auctioned seats. "It’s worth it," she said.

Nearby, Calvin and Vanessa Addison were overjoyed to land their seats for just $480. They had braced themselves to spend more.

Ticketmaster’s goal, Moriarty acknowledged, is to shrink the secondary market. Them’s fightin’ words to the brokers.

"They have vowed to take over the secondary market like they have the primary market," Adler said. "We believe this is a serious threat."

Long lines are all but extinct in the business of buying tickets, replaced by two camps: for and against treating tickets as a commodity, available for resale at a price reflecting whatever the market will bear.

It is a debate, fueled by the public’s visceral attachment to athletes and entertainers, where emotions can run high.

Said the professor Happel, "In this day and age, being there means so much to people. The ticket is a statement: I was there. It can be a life-defining thing."

Source:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Audra Adeoye, 22, a senior at Florida International University studying biology, was named South Florida winner of the "Legs of Goddess" contest held Aug. 5 as part of the events of a Mariah Carey concert at AmericanAirlines Arena.

"It’s a little hard to believe because I have always thought of my legs as a little too thin," Adeoye said. "In fact, I decided to enter the contest on a whim. I figured if it’s legs they were looking for, then I’ll give them every inch of my 41-inch legs."

Adeoye’s prize was VIP tickets to Carey’s Adventures of Mimi World Tour concert and a meeting with the superstar after the show.

"Meeting Carey was an absolute honor and being photographed together for the `Venus Legs of Goddess’ contest was surreal," Adeoye said.

She and winners in other cities will advance to the final round of Gillette Venus’ "Celebrity Legs of a Goddess" on Aug. 23 at Madison Square Garden in New York City for a try at $25,000.

Source:Miami Herald.

In a recent interview, Lee Daniels told the pre-production for Tennessee has started in June and July and will start up again in November after Mariah’s tour.

Tennessee is different from his trademark as it is a musical.

"Tennessee" is uplifting and it’s like a Terms of Endearment. It has a sad ending but not what you’d expect from the beginning.

Source:Heroes of Mariah.

ATLANTIC CITY — Love her or hate her, pop singer Mariah Carey’s current live show, “The Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, the Hits, the Tour,” gives people plenty to talk about.

Carey performed the first of two shows on Thursday at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, her first appearance here in almost three years. She’s back at the Taj tonight.

The vocalist’s attire drew immediate attention. Carey, 36, arrived on stage to sing her first song, “It’s Like That,” in what looked like a black bra, short shorts and a black, see-through cover-up.

Carey’s fans love to see her strutting and posing in clothes that cling to her body as if holding on for dear life, but as she closes in on middle age, some may wonder how much longer she’ll have those curves to show off.

Even though Carey employs three backup singers, two female and one male, and she can duplicate the vocals from her records in a live setting, not everybody appreciates the bird-like sound she makes when she takes her voice to the top of her range.

For someone known for her vocals, Carey sings no songs in an acoustic setting. Synthesizers and backup singers join her even on ballads. Carey, the biggest-selling female performer of the 1990s, also wanted the audience to know that people talking behind her back comes as no surprise or shock to her.

A video segment during the show features a handful of women in a ladies room. They say bad things about Carey, like how she thinks she owns the greatest legs in the world, and how they heard she allegedly underwent cosmetic surgery, etc. In the video, Carey emerges from a bathroom stall. She says hello to the women, and they say hello back. Each side pretends that Carey didn’t hear what the women said. When Carey leaves the ladies’ room, the women mock-sing one of her songs.

Carey’s fans can say this video segment shows the down-to-Earth qualities of Carey, how she knows women gossip about her.

The singer’s critics can argue that during a 95-minute show this just demonstrates Carey’s insecurities. An attractive woman, a five-time Grammy winner, and a multi-millionaire, who transformed herself from someone unknown into one of the most famous vocalists in pop music, why should she care what people say about her?

Carey modified her show to fit the 5,000-seat Mark G. Etess Arena. She usually performs in arenas with 10,000 seats or more. She typically leaves the stage, walks through the crowd, and sings songs from a second stage in the back of the room, but she didn’t do that here.

The vocalist’s admirers should like this show. Carey sings her biggest hits from her comeback CD, “The Emancipation of Mimi,” including “We Belong Together,” “Shake It Off” and “Don’t Forget About Us” and many of her No. 1 pop hits, including “Vision of Love,” “Fantasy,” “Always Be My Baby,” “Honey” and “Hero.” A DJ played old-school and new hip-hop hits to keep the crowd pumped during her several outfit changes. Five video screens provided a great view of the stage to everyone in the arena.

For people thinking of seeing Carey for the first time out of curiosity, this tour may not show off her skills to best effect.

At the end of the night, nonbelievers may feel like they ate at McDonald’s for 90 minutes. It was enjoyable while you were doing it, but in retrospect, you could have spent your time better doing something else.

Source:Press Of Atlantic City.

Mariah performed in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Trump Taj Mahal earlier tonight, her second show at the venue. Mariah was still feeling under the weather from the concert on Thursday, August 17th but inspite of this, she put on a great show.

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She’s a multimillion-selling artist who’s had trouble filling even modest concert halls. She has a rabid fan base, yet her biggest Hollywood movie became a box-office flop. And though she racked up eight Grammy nominations this year, she took home none of the major awards.

For such a hugely popular artist, Mariah Carey sometimes seems awfully unpopular.

The Greenlawn native boasts the bestselling album of 2005, "The Emancipation of Mimi" (Island), and she’ll be playing to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden Wednesday. But ticket sales have been somewhat soft for other shows on Carey’s current tour, one of her biggest yet with an initial 31-date schedule. Already, she has canceled an additional date at the Garden plus three arena dates in Denver, Seattle and Hershey, Pa. As of last week, fans could still get lower-level seats at New Jersey’s Continental Airlines Arena for Carey’s Aug. 27 show. (Carey has added dates in Canada and at Jones Beach, and at least six shows have sold out according to Live Nation, the Los Angeles-based company handling the tour.)

Does this mean Carey’s career is in trouble? Hardly. But it’s a good example of how even the world’s biggest pop stars must carefully navigate the choppy waters of the music industry. Since releasing her self-titled debut album in 1990, Carey, 36, has enjoyed envious success and embarrassing failures, at times almost simultaneously. Yet the singer with the glass-shattering voice and a prima donna reputation always manages to come out on top.

"She’s known for demanding what she wants," says S. Tia Brown, associate editor at the celebrity magazine In Touch Weekly. "No one can argue that she hasn’t matured into a smart businesswoman."

Carey’s track record as a live act is only part of her overall picture. Generally, her tours have been infrequent - one every few years - and limited to a handful of dates in big cities. Carey played just five shows on her first tour, in 1993 (with "American Idol" host Randy Jackson on bass) and she didn’t tour again until 1998, when she booked only four dates, according to the concert-industry publication Pollstar, based in Fresno, Calif.

By the time Carey embarked on a more ambitious 28-date tour in 2003, she had long neglected many of the country’s "fly-over" cities. Initial plans for an arena tour, including stops at Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum, were scrapped in favor of smaller, theater-sized venues. Even then, only 10 dates sold out, according to Pollstar. One show, at the 15,800-seat Woodlands pavilion near Houston, ended up less than half-full. And in Portland, Ore., Carey sold just 1,437 tickets at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - about 53 percent of capacity.

"She doesn’t have the established audience of people who have seen her before and are anxious to see her again," Pollstar editor Gary Bongiovanni says. "You can play New York and Chicago over and over again and have a great following there. But whether that’ll translate to other markets is another question."

There’s also the question of what Carey brings to the stage. Though famous for her vocal acrobatics and sheer lung power, "she’s not known for giving a particularly entertaining live show," says Brown of In Touch Weekly. "She’s not a physical entertainer like Madonna or Janet Jackson. You’re entertained by her voice."

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Carey may be trying to change that. Her 2003 tour seemed geared toward the eyes as well as the ears, with plenty of costume changes, fanciful stage sets, faux paparazzi and a troupe of dancers. The current tour is being touted as the "most elaborate concert production of Mariah’s career," according to a press release from Island. (The label declined to comment.)

Carey is facing a tough concert season, says Alex Hodges, executive vice president for House of Blues Concerts in Los Angeles. The summer tour business is down about 10 percent over last year, he notes, and Carey’s sales may be affected by some of the big-name, high-priced tours that have already come though. "Madonna has taken a lot of the money out of the marketplace," he says.

She will survive

still, Carey has survived far worse than slow ticket sales. In July 2001 she was hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion" after behaving oddly during public appearances (including one at the Roosevelt Field Mall, where she reportedly railed incoherently against Howard Stern). That same year, her semi-autobiographical film, "Glitter," performed so poorly at the box office - it earned just more than $4 million - that it became a punch line for late-night television hosts. Carey’s label at the time, Virgin, soon took the remarkable step of paying her to leave, shelling out $28 million.

Carey’s album sales began shrinking slightly. The 2002 disc "Charmbracelet" went platinum, but her earlier discs tended to go multiplatinum. That’s likely because Carey was moving away from soft pop and toward a more R&B-inflected sound, says Geoff Mayfield, charts editor at Billboard magazine. It seemed like a misstep, but Carey might have been ahead of her time.

"In today’s climate, R&B and hip-hop is extremely popular, and it’s one of the primary ingredients you hear when you listen to Top 40 stations," Mayfield says. "That wasn’t the case in the late `90s or the early part of this decade."

The success of "The Emancipation of Mimi" is partly because of its now-popular hip-hop flavor, with tracks featuring Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Jermaine Dupri. But Mayfield says the two-year gap between albums also helped.

"She kind of needed to go away and let the audience breathe, let herself breathe creatively," Mayfield says. "The best advice for trying to make a turnaround would be difficult for someone who’s accustomed to being in the limelight, and that’s: `Go away.’"

Dampening Carey’s comeback was her treatment at February’s Grammys. She was nominated for eight and took home three, but they were lesser awards that weren’t televised. The major prizes - such as album, record and song of the year - went to others. Carey lost best female pop vocal performance to Kelly Clarkson.

Was this another defeat for Carey? The week after the awards ceremony, "Mimi" jumped seven spots up the Billboard chart, from No. 14 to No. 7, and went on to sell 5.7 million copies. For anyone following Carey’s turbulent career, it was further proof that her clouds always have a silver lining.

Source:NewsDay.

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Mariah Carey has an unusual body for a modern-day pop goddess — voluptuous and solid instead of willowy and elastic. It’s a singer’s body, not a dancer’s, built to house the multi-octave pipes that have allowed the 36-year-old singer to rule the radio dial for 16 years.

Carey showed off that body at the opening of the North American leg of her tour that comes to Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.

At Miami’s American Airlines Arena, she was swathed in artfully cut out chiffon gowns and sequined hot pants that Ann-Margret would have enjoyed in her prime and used a burlesque dancer’s straight-back chair, a winding staircase and other props to prove that she could move those long legs and that curvy torso.

But Carey never let choreography get in the way of what her body was there for: to help her sing in ways that have, as she said with a modest shrug near the end of the 90-minute-plus concert, "changed people’s lives."

No one works as hard to balance inspiration and flash as Carey, who started her career selling the ageless appeal of pure vocal prowess only to sustain it by turning herself into a trend-savvy hip-hop home girl.

This new production seeks to meld the uplifting Mariah and the modish one by surrounding a traditional prima donna’s turn with the accouterments of urban music.

There were acrobatic dancers; video clips of rappers with whom Carey has collaborated, such as Jay-Z and the late ODB, and references to milestones in her transformation from girl next door to hot mama, including the sailor suits of her 1997 video for "Honey" and the video catfights of her "Heartbreaker" era .

From the moment she entered in a black bikini with boy-cut bottom and a chiffon cape, offering up her trademark high notes and striking poses with her masked male dancers, Carey treated the evening like a qualifying round that she was determined to win.

It's an old showbiz trick to interrupt major production numbers with asides that humanize the goings-on, and whether that or basic nerves motivated Carey’s asides, it worked: When she did stumble, as on the unusually challenging mix of big dance moves and rapid-fire vocalizing during the reggae-inflected "Shake It Out," it made the show feel alive, not unprofessional.

Especially satisfying were the duets Carey shared with backing vocalist Trey Lorenz; when these longtime singing partners traded high notes on the ballads "I’ll Be There" and "One Sweet Day."

Carey was happiest simply singing and, in doing so, allowing her fans to consider their own perhaps unemancipated potential. It’s a function singers have served at least since the coloratura came into style in opera — the female voice carries the listener beyond the humdrum of her daily imaginings.

When Carey moved to a small stage mid-arena, she got the crowd climbing on seats to cheer her holding one last note on the poignant "Don’t Forget About Us" until it seemed like she would break.

She never broke. Like the silver-screen queens she admires, Carey’s not just a femme fatale but also a trooper, and her years of delivering hits, even with a midcareer dip, have resulted in hard-won consistency.

Source:Los Angeles Times.

Mariah Carey is incredible.
I was going to write this long elaborate love letter to Mariah Carey after seeing last night’s concert in Atlantic City. I was going to get into how she has 17 number one hits or how "One Sweet Day" featuring Boys II Men is the longest running #1 single on Billboard EVER... EVER, but I won’t.

What I will do is talk about how with all the mediocracy in R&B over the past few years it is refreshing to witness true talent genius first hand. Yes Mariah loves short skirts and showing tons of cleavage. Yes she is narcissistic. But witness that vocal ability live and you wouldn’t have it any other way. Hands down, that bitch can sing! She can get breathy and inflate notes and in less than a second within the same syllable deflate them and deliver a clarity thats like water. Not only that, she understands the technical aspects of music. Her conversation is as much about rainbows and butterflies as it is about chord progression and singing in lower registers when she is hoarse.

What I also always knew but found important to mention is Mariah is all about her fans. In a game where you become insanely wealthy and people worship the ground you walk on, its great to not see it go to one’s head. As much as Mariah loves herself that narcissism stands second to her love of her fans.

The music industry has become such a "performance culture". Background dancers and props and fans and such. Lately her televised performances have been inconsistent. (re: last year’s BET AWARDS) but what I noticed is when Mariah is "performing" she sounds a little strained... but when she isn’t paying attention to the cameras that 5 octave massive voice falls out of her mouth effortlessly. No shake, no scratching, no reaching for notes that aren’t there.

Source:SOHH.

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Mariah performed in Atlantic City, NJ at the Trump Taj Mahal earlier tonight, the first concert of her two-part set of shows at the casino; her second show is Saturday evening. The Trump Taj Mahal, seating only 5,000, makes these two shows some of the most intimate on the tour.

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Mariah fans have comeout in full force in Japan where ticket sales have topped 80,000, with four of the five shows sold out!!!

Oct18, Nagoya : Sold Out
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Oct21, Saitama: Sold Out
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Oct24, Osaka : Sold Out
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Oct25, Osaka : Sold Out
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Source:Love Love Jack.

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At the Rogers Centre on Sunday night: That famously Prime Minister-free opening bash for the world AIDS conference! Just a few sing-song blocks away? At the same time, in the city of a million stories, just down from Bill Gates and the rest of the do-good gang? That much-emancipated diva we know as Mariah Carey.

It’s the beginning of the end when rock goes to the bank. The Rolling Stones proved they had truly sold out when they allowed Visa cardholders to be the first to buy tickets to their concerts this year. But what other signs are there that a band or muso is in danger of doing the same?

THEY RECORD A CHRISTMAS ALBUM
Why, Jackson 5 and Jethro Tull – why? And all the artists on Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas should hang their heads in shame. They know who they are. Mariah Carey is excused from selling out because she never “sold in” in the first place.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Mariah Carey with Sean Paul at the Air Canada Centre, August 13. Tickets: $18-$109.50. Attendance: sold out.

It feels unkind and gratuitous to say anything mean about Mariah Carey - the woman’s been through enough after her very public fall from grace in 2001, which featured an album that flopped, a feature film that flopped and a very strange appearance on MTV’s Total Request Live.

I will say this, however: you’d think after all these years of dressing like a drag queen the woman would have learned to walk in heels. Her hour-and-a-half show was nerve-racking as she minced precariously across the stage.

It was obviously a practical rather than diva-like move to stop two lines into Vision Of Love so as to draw attention to a stiletto heel-sized hole in the stage. She was glad to have an excuse to start the song again, admitting she missed the first line anyway.

Despite the massive production of her Adventures Of Mimi tour – lights, dancers, singers, band, video screens and constant wind blowing across the stage and through Carey’s hair – the whole business was a bit awkward and strange. Yeah, Carey is the queen of the vocals. She’s got a fantastic, amazing voice as she showcased again and again running through her, what – 17, 18 – number one hits, pulling out the high-pitched vocal gymnastics wherever required and sending the gay guy next to me into squealing fits.

But Carey herself is awkward and strange, which is actually part of her charm. She’s cute and quirky, keeping up chatter with the audience, insisting she doesn’t want us to think she "didn’t want to put on a good show."

She often seemed dwarfed by the trappings of her stage show and her band. The show lost momentum whenever she disappeared for one of many costume changes while a DJ played medleys of party tunes.

Her duet with Trey Lorenz, I’ll Be There, was lovely but then we lost momentum again when she left for another costume change and Lorenz sang a tune off his upcoming album (Mimi Presents Trey Lorenz). He has a fine voice but it wasn’t big enough for the venue and he should have taken off the sunglasses.

Finally, launching into Hero, Mariah suggested anyone who didn’t like the song could take a bathroom break (I don’t know if she was being facetious or seriously insecure). When the end came it came with a burst of purple confetti.

Source:Now Toronto.

L.A Weekly: A routine like “Bounce That” finds the Purple Ribbon All-Stars rapping over a perpetually morphing series of beats from the Emotions, LCD Soundsystem, the Breeders, Laura Branigan and Britney Spears (just to name a few) in just two minutes. “Hold Up” features James Taylor crooning over a Mariah Carey loop before the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind” sets the stage for Nas to rock the mic before pitting Weezer against a Chicago ghetto-tech rhythm.

Milwaukee Business Journal: Tesar, formerly the executive chef of rm restaurant at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, will be responsible for The Mansion’s multimillion-dollar culinary program... He also has served as personal chef for high-profile clients including designer Giorgio Armani and singer Mariah Carey.

Business Week: Across the country, pop-star hopefuls are lining up by the thousands to catch their train to stardom. Like many Americans, I’m still stunned at just how good truly bad singers think they are. Do they sound like Mariah Carey in their own heads but like a sick crow to the rest of us? It’s amazing that they can’t hear what we hear. Well, it may be sad, but it makes for great television. I’m certainly addicted!

Source:February Sky.

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA had admitted she doesn’t want to play Dirrty with Mariah Carey any more.

The sexy singer said she regrets talking so openly about her stormy relationship with the Dreamlover songstress.

Earlier this year Christina told how Mariah had been scathing about her a number of times and that she raged at her at a party.

At the time Mariah hit back by saying she forgave Christina’s comments and would "keep her in my prayers".

But now Christina says she’ll not talk about it any more.

She told Allure magazine: "She hasn’t been nice to me, no. But honestly, I don§t want to give her any more attention by even talking about it."

She added: "Sometimes honesty is my downfall."
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Here are Mariah's Billboard chart positions for the magazine's issue date August 26, 2006.

The Emancipation of Mimi ▲6
Billboard Comprehensive Albums: #196 (Last Week #183)
Billboard 200: #168 (Last Week #159)
Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums: #45 (Last Week #43)
Sales this week: 4,825 (-4%)
Total sales: 5,686,385

Greatest Hits ▲
Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums: #15 (Last Week #16)

Fly Like a Bird
Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles: #12 (Last Week #9)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks: #24 (Last Week #19)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #24 (Last Week #19)
Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay: #1 (Last Week #1)

Don't Forget About Us ●
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent: #23 (Last Week #22)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent Airplay: #23 (Last Week #22)

We Belong Together ▲3
Billboard Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay: #14 (Last Week #15)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent: #15 (Last Week #12)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent Airplay: #14 (Last Week #11)

Source:Mariah Daily.

Pop star CHRISTINA AGUILERA is desperate to put her feud with MARIAH CAREY behind her, and insists she was naive to talk so honestly about their stormy relationship in the past. The AIN’T NO OTHER MAN told GQ magazine earlier this year that Carey had been scathing about her on several occasions, and that the WE BELONG TOGETHER singer made derogatory comments about her at a party.

Carey hit back at the time, saying she would forgive Aguilera’s comments and "keep her in my prayers". Aguilera now tells Allure magazine, "She hasn’t been nice to me, no. "But honestly, I don’t want to give her any more attention by even talking about it." She adds wearily, "Like I said, sometimes honesty is my downfall."

Source:Contact Music.

Mariah performed for the first time tonight in Montreal. The show was nearly sold-out, and according to early fan reviews, Mariah's voice was perfect.

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Pop star Christina Aguilera is desperate to put her feud with Mariah Carey behind her, and insists she was naïve to talk so honestly about their stormy relationship in the past.

Pop star Christina Aguilera is desperate to put her feud with Mariah Carey behind her, and insists she was naïve to talk so honestly about their stormy relationship in the past.

The Ain't No Other man told GQ magazine earlier this year that Carey had been scathing about her on several occasions, and that the We Belong Together singer made derogatory comments about her at a party.

Carey hit back at the time, saying she would forgive Aguilera's comments and "keep her in my prayers".

Aguilera now tells Allure magazine: "She hasn't been nice to me, no. But honestly, I don't want to give her any more attention by even talking about it."

She adds wearily: "Like I said, sometimes honesty is my downfall."

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Mariah Carey - The R&B superstar has had her ups and downs, but she’s on an upswing since releasing last year’s comeback album The Emancipation of Mimi. She brings her diva-esque self to the Bell Centre at 7:30 p.m. Dancehall don Sean Paul opens. Tickets cost $19.50 to $125. Call 514-790-1245.

Source:Montreal Gazette.

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Mariah Carey has always come across as a plucky survivor with questionable style and an amazing voice, and during a nearly two-hour performance at Toronto's Air Canada Centre last night, the diva delivered equal amounts of pluck, questionability and amazement.

Despite overhyped media reports of $10 million U.S. brooches, nine time-consuming costume changes and unfashionable lateness, The Adventures Of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour was a pretty modest experience. The production was no more elaborate than your average figure skating TV special and the self-deprecating 36-year-old seemed intent on creating a relaxed atmosphere as she belted out 16 of her career hits, including "Dream Lover," "Always Be My Baby," "Fantasy" and "Honey," plus a few numbers from last year's comeback album, The Emancipation Of Mimi.

The show opened with a confessional video of sorts. Over the image of a rollercoaster, Carey told the sold-out crowd, "Obviously it's no secret my life has been like a rollercoaster ride" æ a reductive reference to her tumultuous career in the public spotlight, which has included a high-profile divorce from Tommy Mottola and a bizarre nervous breakdown and subsequent hospitalization in 2001. "It's all part of God's bigger plan for me," she concluded, before suddenly appearing in a gust of wind from beneath the stage, clad in a sequined black bikini top, matching booty shorts and sheer cape.

Launching into "It's Like That," she remained easy to spot among the tangle of back-up dancers, thanks in part to an omnipresent wind machine that violently tossed her gigantic, curly hair wherever she went. Carey doesn't really dance so much as swoop, flow and float around the stage. But a Mariah Carey show isn't about slick dance moves, it's all about her voice. All five of her octaves were in top form, dazzling the crowd with several ad-libbed arias.

Peril was nearly averted during mid-set track "Vision Of Love." "Stop the show," she commanded, apologizing profusely. "There's a hole in the stage just about the size of a stiletto heel." As a roadie scrambled onstage to plug the hazardous hole, Carey coyly confessed she'd flubbed the first line of the song anyway and continued on.

She hit every high note during a rousing version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There," and brought out Trey Lorenz, the vocalist who originally performed the song with her back in 1992 on MTV Unplugged. The show then ground to a halt as she disappeared backstage to change outfits, leaving Lorenz to perform a filler song from his forthcoming album. He naturally gravitated towards an over-eager group of girls conveniently seated in the front row who had red and white pompoms and a placard that read, "I love Trey!"

Carey reappeared on a smaller stage at the centre of the audience to energetically perform three numbers. It was definitely the high point of the evening, as the show began to lose some momentum shortly thereafter.

Following another costume change, she returned in a turquoise evening gown and stopped the show once again, passive aggressively reprimanding the band for playing the wrong song in the wrong key. The crowd fell awkwardly silent. Clearly distracted, she pointed into the audience and said: "That ain't a video camera, is it? I've got slick eyes," and began rambling about a "Keith Sweat remix."

To turn the silence back into raucous screaming, she performed an impromptu few bars of a song only hardcore fans would recognize and brought Lorenz back to join her for a few bars of "One Sweet Day" and a full version of "Thank God I Found You."

With the 11 p.m. curfew fast approaching, Carey rounded out the set with "Hero," "Make It Happen" and an encore of "We Belong Together."

It wasn't a perfect show, but then Mariah doesn't pretend to be perfect, that's part of her charm. She turned the awkward moments around, hit all the high notes and kept the wind machine cranked up to 11. Who could ask for more?

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The second season of My Own will begin on MTV, starting Monday (August 14). The show will air every weekday at 6:00 pm. This season will feature wannabes of some of the most popular musicians performing.

For those unfamiliar with the show, My Own pairs obsessed fans with the celebrity of their dreams on a date. With the help of two friends, one fan will have the opportunity to question, examine, and audition an assorted selection of wannabe pop stars hand-picked by TMV. The fan will inspect the six star wannabes, in a search for the one who looks, sounds, and acts most like their favorite celebrity.

After a series of challenges and eliminations, three finalists square off, performing some of the superstar§s hit songs. In the end, the wannabe that best embodies the look and feel of the dream celebrity will be the one our super-fan calls “My Own.”

The schedule of celebrity wannabes for the second season of My Own follows:

August 14 – Pussycat Doll Nicole Kea
August 15 – Beyoncé
August 16 -- Brandon Flowers
August 17 -- Nelly
August 21 -- Rihanna
August 22 -- Joel Madden
August 23 -- Jessica Simpson
August 24 – Ashley Parker Angel
August 28 -- Pink
August 29 -- Diddy
August 30 -- Kelly Clarkson
August 31 -- Jennifer Lopez
September 4 -- Natasha Bedingfield
September 5 -- Mariah Carey
September 6 -- Derek Whibly
September 7 -- Shakira

Source:Groove Volt.

1. It’s Like That
2. Heartbreaker (remix)/Heartbreaker Medley
3. Dreamlover
4. My All
5. Vision of Love
6. Fly LIke A Bird
7. Shake It off
8. Don’t Forget About Us
9. Fantasy
10. Always Be My Baby
11. I’ll Be There (snippet - almost the whole thing w/Trey Lorenz)
12. Thank God I Found You (Make It Last remix) w/ Trey Lorenz (snippet)
13. One Sweet Day (snippet w/Trey Lorenz)
14. Can’t Let Go (snippet)
15. Close My Eyes (a cappela snippet for two girls)
16. I Wish You Knew (snippet)
17. Honey
18. Hero
19. Make It Happen

Encore
19. We Belong Together
20. Butterfly Outro
Note: Downloads coming soon!

Source:Butterfly 16.

When Mariah Carey belts out a glass-shattering high note, it's impossible for most listeners to identify the tone.

Not for her. Carey possesses perfect or absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify tones without any external reference. Just as most people recognize the colors green or sky blue, those with AP instantly recognize a C or E-sharp.

Although roughly 1 in 10,000 people are born with this talent, without musical training they may lose it. "At some point, they have to learn the proper terms—the labels—and then learn to associate those labels with sensory impressions of pitch," says Daniel Levitin, a psychologist at McGill University in Montreal.

That training needs to happen very early: Adult musicians with absolute pitch typically began music lessons around age 5. After age 9 it becomes virtually impossible to develop truly perfect pitch. The rare instances of late acquisition usually occur among the developmentally challenged—most often those with autism or Williams syndrome—whose cognitive maturation is delayed.

Specific languages facilitate absolute pitch. Conservatory students who are native speakers of tonal languages (languages like Mandarin and Vietnamese in which pitch conveys meaning) display perfect pitch more frequently than do their English-speaking counterparts.

Alternately, prevalence among Asians may have a genetic basis. Another study, which did not consider which language subjects spoke, found that 32 percent of Asian-American music students had perfect pitch compared with 7 percent of non-Asian-American music students. Regardless of ethnicity, people with perfect pitch are more likely to have similarly talented siblings.

The gift isn’t always a blessing. Awareness of pitch can distract listeners from enjoying music, and playing a melody in a transposed key can be a downright nightmare. Even so, droves of wannabes enroll in courses on "pitch identification."

Of course, when it comes to musical greatness, absolute pitch is irrelevant. For every Mozart who has it, there are several Tchaikovskys who don’t.

Source:Psychology Today.

I've added more screen captures. This time from a live performance. It's one of my favourites, Whenever You Call live in New York. This is the performance that features on the Around The World video/DVD. Mariah looks stunning and even though many say it's lipped I like to think it isnt!

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Pop diva Mariah Carey is under fire from her faithful lambs. On the popular Mariah Carey message board "friends of Mariah" fans say the stars "The Adventures of Mimi Tour" outfits look cheap and tacky

Fashion experts often, use tacky to describe, Mariah Carey's wardrobe choices but fans say one thing is certain, her clothes always look like time was spent to make them tacky.

That's not the case with h