suga10 said:

i knew she was pregnant. you could tell that she was gaining weight. well good for her. she looks happy and I'm happy for her.

Yeah, that cover is terribly misleading. She plans on being a mom but is not currently a mom. The entertainment media can't wait for every menstruating female celeb to become pregnant so they can follow their entire gestation and ultimately their poor kid around 24/7. So much so, they'll give them a baby bump off a burrito and announce their pregnant before they even know themselves.
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Yeah, that cover is terribly misleading. She plans on being a mom but is not currently a mom. The entertainment media can't wait for every menstruating female celeb to become pregnant so they can follow their entire gestation and ultimately their poor kid around 24/7. So much so, they'll give them a baby bump off a burrito and announce their pregnant before they even know themselves.

I definitely don't think she cares about album sales anymore. She's done pretty much all there is and she really enjoys what she does so it's not all about sales. I definitely don't think Jermaine Dupri is the answer. It was time to move on from him anyway.

JackieBlue said:

Thank you. 170K in the first week is not bad at all.

Timmy84 said:

Her last album (released only April 2008) sold more than 400K the first week. You don't see how these new figures may seem alarming?

Meanwhile, Whitney is knockin' 'em out (saleswise).

Excuses, excuses. C'mon, "Memoirs" is her worst first week since (gulp) "Glitter". Oh well, on to the next project.

Funny thing is, I hear Obsessed now more than when it first dropped. I hear it in stores, restaurants, people's cars...everywhere. I think E=MC2 seriously turned people off and was a big let down from Emancipation. I know some Mariah fans who hadn't heard the leak and were hesitant to get Memoirs because they were still burning from E=MC2 and weren't feeling Obsessed (which is a very MC2 track). I Wanna Know What Love Is? Been there done that in 198X and was a bad follow up single IMO, so it might take a minute for people to really hear Memoirs for what it is. Makes me think to Mariah saying that L.A. wanted her to go back in the studio and do a more pop sounding song when the album was already done. Really, L.A.?

But whatever the case, no one stays on top forever and in this industry if you're not number one every time and you don't move the same units you moved before its a flop. People throw that word around as much as diva. That's why I stopped watching sales and charts post-Bad era. While I wish my favorite artists success, at the end of day all I can do is purchase my copy and decide if I enjoy it or not. Watching numbers doesn't do anything for me one way or the other.

As for Whitney, I'd be surprised if she didn't sell well after an 8 year absence. She's doing exactly what she's supposed to do.
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Funny thing is, I hear Obsessed now more than when it first dropped. I hear it in stores, restaurants, people's cars...everywhere. I think E=MC2 seriously turned people off and was a big let down from Emancipation. I know some Mariah fans who hadn't heard the leak and were hesitant to get Memoirs because they were still burning from E=MC2 and weren't feeling Obsessed (which is a very MC2 track). I Wanna Know What Love Is? Been there done that in 198X and was a bad follow up single IMO, so it might take a minute for people to really hear Memoirs for what it is. Makes me think to Mariah saying that L.A. wanted her to go back in the studio and do a more pop sounding song when the album was already done. Really, L.A.?

But whatever the case, no one stays on top forever and in this industry if you're not number one every time and you don't move the same units you moved before its a flop. People throw that word around as much as diva. That's why I stopped watching sales and charts post-Bad era. While I wish my favorite artists success, at the end of day all I can do is purchase my copy and decide if I enjoy it or not. Watching numbers doesn't do anything for me one way or the other.

As for Whitney, I'd be surprised if she didn't sell well after an 8 year absence. She's doing exactly what she's supposed to do.
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JackieBlue said:

HateU should be a good followup. It has radio play all over it, plus I think its one of the good honest tracks that she has done in a while.

And the David Morales thing....yeah, I really did not like these remixes on the album...they were not re-recorded so i just chucked them aside.

Funny thing is, I hear Obsessed now more than when it first dropped. I hear it in stores, restaurants, people's cars...everywhere.

According to Billboard, Barbra Streisand's got the number-one album, her ninth, and she did it at 67. Amazing.

JackieBlue said:

Me too.. NOW I hear it every single day without cueing it up myself (it grew on me!)

Timmy84 said:

Good for her. So much for ageism.

JackieBlue said:

suga10 said:

grreat record! love her bsides

missmad said:

perhaps my favourite Mariah track.