DavidEye said:

Lazy-ass A&R's allowing these collaborations to continue.
David, you've made a fucken checklist:

*one big sample
*16 bars from guest rapper
*glossy as all hell

Yeah I am convinced this is the same shit different flies.....

RipHer2Shreds said:

does she talk like that? that sounds like if you call one of them struggling soul food restaurants and ask them what they have on the menu.

glamslamkid said:

From some other board:

Carey's first single, titled "Say Something," will drop at the end of the month and features Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams. The number is produced by prolific hip-hop hit-makers the Neptunes.

New album set to hit shelves March 1.

You know what, I haven't listened to Mariah since the album with One Sweet Day. If we're honest with ourselves she hasn't changed much since then. We've changed. She still looks great and like it or not that is a large part of her career so she's still trying to appeal to the younger fans like she did with us when we were young. Kids are suckers for catchy songs and superficial beauty and to some degree so is the kid in me.

I suspect that when she can no longer play the part she'll try to do the more mature material. She obviously felt like she was being restrained during those Sony/Tommy (I originally wrote Tony ) M. years so she's letting her wings out so to speak. She'll grow tired of it either on her own or when her album's aren't even moderately successful.

She has a new song/video by the end of this month:

DESPITE her whopping $50 million settlement to leave Virgin Records, Mariah Carey is said to be cash-strapped. "Mariah does not have a lot of cash left," said a source. "She got like $28 million after taxes, but went through a lot of it.

"She has a hairdresser and make-up artist who she keeps on a regular basis and they cost like $8,000 a day. She won't leave her house for anything without getting her hair and make-up done."

But at least Carey looks great - she stunned onlookers at her Halloween party at Cain and Sean Combs did a double-take when he saw her in a Vera Wang gown at his birthday party Thursday night.

Another problem seems to be Carey's houses. "Mariah has houses all over and she redid her TriBeCa apartment last year and it was very expensive," we're told. "She just goes through money like water."

Island Def Jam records publicity chief Laura Swanson denies Carey has any cash-flow problems, saying: "She wrote the majority of songs on every album and songwriting is a very lucrative business. I think renovating an apartment is just fine."

In any event, word is that Carey's having an auditor look at all her expenses and review the books of her financial manager and her music manager, Benny Medina.

"Nothing is wrong, she just wants to look at everything and make sure it's all in order," our source explains.

Carey seems to still be happy with Medina, who showed up with her at Bungalow 8 last week. Later Carey, Medina and L.A. Reid went to Lure Fishbar for a late dinner. "She talks to them constantly," the source said.

And she should - Medina and Reid have been hard at work creating her next album, set to hit shelves on March 1.

Carey's first single, titled "Say Something," will drop at the end of the month and features Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams. The number is produced by prolific hip-hop hit-makers the Neptunes.

The album also has tunes produced by Janet Jackson's fiance, Jermaine Dupri, and Kanye West.

"Mariah is getting ready to shoot the video for 'Say Something,'" Swanson said, "It is an amazing album that crosses all boundaries of R&B, hip hop and pop."

www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

im scratching my head on this one

whodknee said:

you'd think after 9 years of using the same formula, she'd already be tired of it and perhaps think that she should shake it up a little. lead single: mid-tempo danceable number based on a 70's/80's hit and featuring a rapper; second single: big power ballad; third single: a hip hop remix of an album track; fourth single (when there is one): cheesy power-ballad cover of a cheesy power-ballad.

it's tired, Mariah. we all know exactly what "Say Something" is going to sound like. don't we? think "Fantasy/Honey/Heartbreaker/Loverboy"

i think that she seriously has forgotten that she has talent and sees all the (excuse me for this..) Beyonce' booty shaking "YOU TOOK MY MAN BITCH!! NOW I'M GONNA SNATCH OUT YOUR WEAVE AND RIDE INTO THE SUNSET ON THE HORSE THAT YOU GOT THE SHIT FROM!!!"oversexualized singers out now. I'm not saying that they're all like that, but they seem to get the most attention. When Mariah came out, she was UP there. And it's not like anyone forgot about her, she keeps putting shit out, it's just dumb shit. She really needs to go back where she started from. THAT would help her, and i'd love it if she'd actually sing. Now all she does is that whispering shit straight into the whistling shit, and fucking mumbles the whispering shit, and that kinda drags the song out. If ANYTHING, she should be like "i don't need these rappers to make my shit hot, cuz i am hot." It's not like she can't do it. I've been waiting for the next Vision of Love for YEARS. and i liked the poor Mariah. when she first came out and no one knew who she was and had to use her chops to get bitches to recognize.

glamslamkid said:[quote]I've been waiting for the next Vision of Love for YEARS.quote]

Remember when the guest rappers would appear on remixes only (ODB on "Fantasy")? I, too, miss the Mariah of yore. I did like several tracks from "Glitter" and "Charmbracelet" but enough with the next hot rap star already! We get it, you're just MC from the block and you're a sista at heart, yadda yadda yadda...

I have no hate for the woman. I will purchase this new album of hers the first Tuesday it comes out, as I have with each of her previous efforts. I only wish she would do an all covers album, a jazz album, or something along the lines of Madonna's Something To Remember in that it's just ballads and love songs (but new material). No more "Love Me" featuring Freeway, Missy Elliot, Snoop, Jay-Z, Nelly, etc. No more!!!

Guess I'll have to wait 'til at least '06 for that...
[Edited 11/7/04 15:56pm]