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Mariah Carey continues to stock her Twitter followers with breaking news, revealing yesterday that the first single from her upcoming album will hit radio on June 16th. “The 1st single from my new album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is called ‘Obsessed’ and will be at radio next tuesday. I’m a lil’ excited!,” Carey wrote, pushing the 140-character cap to the limit. “Seriously, this is one of my favorite songs ever. I love the whole album. I’m completely immersed in it. I can’t wait for you to hear it.”

Previously, Carey revealed via tweet that her follow-up to last year’s E=MC2 will be called Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.

While not much is known about Memoirs, some details have trickled out in the past few weeks. Carey said on her Twitter back in March that The-Dream, who co-wrote Carey’s “Touch My Body” and got Mariah to guest on “My Love” on his Love Vs. Money, is producing at least two tracks. At last month’s Island Def Jam Spring conference L.A. Reid reportedly played a new Carey song called “Hate U,” Rap Up reports.

As for next week’s new single, Carey describes “Obsessed” as the perfect summer song: a fun, uptempo tune. “We were gonna go w/the ballad 1st but don’t worry, it’s coming. I tried to make something (cont),” Carey wrote, aware of Twitter’s threshold. “For all who love Butterfly, and even older albums, but “Obsessed” has to come out 1st, asap!! Its different for me, but clearly, its SO me!” We’re not entirely sure what time zone Carey is right now, but her Twitter indicates she was tweeting from the studio five hours before press time, so we know she’s still working on Angel. No official word of the release date has not been confirmed.

A new cd already?

Why not? Unlike disposable pop acts, she doesn't need a team of writers and producers to assemble an album for her.

xlr8r said:

Supposed to come out in September, but after Whitney's.

Copycat said:

Uhhh...really?

Did I stutter?

Not a Mariah fan but I'm always sort of interested in what she is doing. "Touch My Body" was really good in it's humor (not just the video). I think it makes sense to come back so soon after an underwhelming performing album.

Copycat said:

Let's start with the most recent (from Wikipedia)...





I was going to keep going, but then I realized I didn't care. I guess we have different definitions for "team of writers and producers"...

Rogue588 said:

Yeah because...a producer is really getting credited for making the music.....not actually writing the song. OR are they writing the song too?

Back in the day they used to be two seperate entities..now they tied them togehter and its difficult to say who did what...

WE will never know unless they say or seperate the two...just have to give up that argument.
[Edited 6/11/09 21:28pm]

Rogue588 said:

Don't care 'cause all of her projects are twice as exciting as Prince's recent work.

Ahh shit. Ya got me there.

I knew you would agree. Im using copies of Lotusflow3r to cover shit stains my dogs left on the patio.

LOL!

Copycat said:

NOT THAT LAST ONE! Ugh E=MC2 could have been made by Keysha Cole. And Chrmbracelet gets no love except for 4 tracks. I dont know what u mean. Emancipation though....was my ISH. Glitter...was coo...had lots of 80's touches and fab slow jams. However she striked out 2 times in the past 9 years in my opinion...she got one more to go.

Copycat said:

whose isn't it?

paisleypark4 said:

even though, she doesn't have solid albums...there's still good amount of music she has in her back catalog plus a couple of the cd as well.

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

I know...but Prince's cannot be compared to hers....he has a 1978 - 2009 legacy with 600+ unreleased circulating tunes not including bonus live covers...how can u compare She doesnt have the extent to compare bodies of work to Prince. Its absurd.

Copycat said:

You can exclude E=MC2 and Mimi from that list.
I got Mimi for 3 songs and the rest was a bunch
of bullshit collabos with rap artists. I won't even
go there with E=MC2. I like touch my body but after
listening to a promo copy i said i wouldn't accept
that shit for free.
[Edited 6/12/09 12:17pm]

paisleypark4 said:

um, i wasn't comparing her to prince.

Mariah is cool, if nothing else at least she can really sing. Maybe this time around she will drop all hip hop duets.

Mariah has nothing but herslef to blame if her record bombed , she is at this point overexposing herself by releasing new stuff too early, I wish her another great success, but I don't miss her at all at this point.

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

Yeah his reply to me was that her music has been better than Prince's recent output..I thought you were agreeing.