Written by Roger Friedman




Mariah Carey is still having fun with ex-husband Tommy Mottola.

It's not enough that she made a video, "Honey," in which she's saved from an older gangster-type by a young stud riding a jet ski.

In her new video, "We Belong Together," Carey wears the Vera Wang wedding dress she sported during her 1993 wedding to Mottola.

As in "Honey," Carey is attached in the video to an older man who only wants to go ballroom dancing and partake in activities preferred by older people.

She's rescued by another young stud who wants to show her the good life. The title, "We Belong Together," is a reference to the young man ... not the old one. Ouch!

Mottola may not be amused when he's shown the finished product. Ironically, he and Carey are both at the same record company again (Island/Def Jam) after leaving Sony Music separately in the last couple of years.

"We Belong Together," by the way, is one of a half dozen very strong tracks on Carey's upcoming album, "The Emancipation of Mimi."

The whole CD is excellent, especially a track produced by the Neptunes and featuring Snoop Dogg. Called "Say Anything," I predict this single will help re-launch Carey and catapult her back onto the charts. More on "Emancipation" tomorrow.

Dear Mariah and Roger Friedman,



Yours,

The Orgers
[Edited 3/7/05 15:53pm]

She's been divorced for longer than she was ever married to him in the first place. I thought she "emancipated" herself from that shit in the 90s.

VoicesCarry said:

CinisterCee said:

She might not be over it who knows

So, besides telling her not to dress like a street walker, how was he bad to her? I say that with only partial sarcasm, because I don't know the story. I've heard her say that it was a bad marriage, but I've only heard/read reference to him not liking the way she dressed.

I don't think this video has any deep meaning other than she wants to be relevant again. The "husband" in her video for "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together" is played by none other than Eric Roberts, who has a 26 year hsitory of playing bad guys, heavies and otherwise arrogant jerks in movies and TV (most recently on the TV series "Less Than Perfect").

I saw Eric Roberts in The Killers' video "Mr. Brightside" playing a similar character to the one in Mariah's video, so I wonder why Mariah didn't just get the lead singer for the Killers to play her love interest in her video?

Mariah can't even fit into the dress she was married in

RipHer2Shreds said:

I echo this sentiment. The general message is that he was just too controlling

and honestly who would want to be married into such bondage?

Dan don't answer that

ABeautifulOne said:

WHY THE HELL DOES SNOOP DOGG HAVE TO BE ON A SONG. I'M TIRED OF HEARING RAPPERS

ON R&B ALBUMS. I HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR HIP-HOP BUT WHEN I LISTEN TO R&B I WANT

TO HEAR SINGING AND NOT RAPPING! I KNOW BOTH GENRES ARE CLOSELY RELATED BUT I

LIKE TO KEEP THEM SEPERATE. I DON'T CARE IF RAPPERS USE OLD SCHOOL R&B SOUNDS

FOR THEIR SONGS OR SINGING FOR THAT MATTER, BUT HEARING A RAP IN A SOUL SONG

JUST KILLS FOR ME. EVEN BRIAN McKNIGHT HAD NELLY ON A SONG WTH!

FOR ONCE I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR AN R&B ALBUM WITH NOTHING BUT PURE SINGING.

IS THAT TOO MUCH ASK?!
[Edited 3/9/05 2:32am]

Biscuit, everyone knows I love hip-hop, and I still agree with you there.

Snoop ruined a song on John Legend's disc too.

I'm tired of hearing rappers when I'm listening to an R&B record too.

It's like... I like Clipse and Jay-Z, but I don't want to hear them drop 16 bars after the second verse of an R&B song.

ABeautifulOne said:

It was addressed to Mariah and Roger, moron. Not you.

VoicesCarry said:

honestly....y'all crack me up. I knew your innocent post would take a turn for the worst....if it's in you know who's hands.

Mariah just needs to grow up and get some new subject matter.

CinisterCee said:

FOR REAL! LET'S SAVE R&B!
[Edited 3/10/05 2:29am]

Biscuit said:

Good luck with that.

CinisterCee said:

how is the Clipse cd?

dancerella said:

In one a simple word:Shit.