MARIAH CAREY COVERS VIBE
Monday, May 5, 2008
Mariah Carey covers VIBE Magazine’s June 2008 issue, which hits newsstands this week. The singer who has been in the media a lot this week due to those crazy-ass Nick Cannon rumors, heats up the pages of the magazine’s summer issue as she models some of the season’s hottest swimwear revealing her recent weight loss.
The cover was shot on-location on Eagle’s Landing, a private Caribbean island off the coast of Antigua where VIBE joined Carey for her 38th birthday celebration. In the magazine, writer Shanel Odum wrote a journal narrating her encounter with the singer.
Odum provides an hour-by-hour account of the day’s events:
2PM: Mariah Carey’s $12,500-a night villa on the 300-acre tropical island is alive and almost antsy…A gang of hairstylists, fashion assistants, photographers, and makeup artists race around the open-air bungalow, each on their own mission to please.
5PM: The 5-foot-9 mirage prances past the overly attentive pack and heads towards a rickety boardwalk, which instantly transforms into her runway. A magenta silk robe whips against those endless, copper legs; black Christian Louboutin heels stab the sand; a wild halo of corkscrew curls flies.
7:30PM: Mariah Carey’s 38th birthday banquet is a Sweet 16 dream…Beckoning palms welcome guests to the entrance of the veranda…The scene inside is a strawberry-frosted pubescent fantasy: purple, pink, and white balloons dance in the balmy Caribbean breeze…And then Mariah’s posse begins to appear. Longtime confidante Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris breezes past…Recent acquaintance/music video director (“Bye Bye”) Nick Cannon grabs his laptop and goes to the buffet to fix a plate…Fuchsia feather boas drip from arms of every chair…Kitschy gold crowns, tiaras, and noisemakers adorn each place setting…As her guests fawn, Mariah drifts from friend to friend, beaming and blowing kisses.










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1.
MR MR
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Bitch please…..
2.
leelee
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
lLOVE HER MUSIC, BUT IT’S SOMETHING
ABOUT HER THAT I DON’T LIKE. cAN’T
PUT MY FINGER ON IT. CAN”T HATE, THE
GIRL LOOKS GOOD.
3.
Stayin Fly
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
I want to say thanx to Concrete Loop for not posting those Nick Cannon rumors. Everyone knows that shit is a publicity stunt. She goes out with some Record Exec, I saw them hugged up a couple weeks ago in NYC!!
4.
Gabby720
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
She is beautiful! If her and Nick are married, CONGRATS!!!!
5.
blk dds
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
PHOTOSHOPPED!
6.
Khinje
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
#1 took the words right out of my mouth. Is this really necessary?
7.
FlyLikeMe
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah looks great! Her album is #1 again two weeks in a row.
It’s time for the green eyed monster to do it’s work. hint hint #1 lol
8.
Juicy SuperStar
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Magazine Pictures Airbrused…..
She looks good to be 38 but she needs to dress less like trailer trash….
I love her music though…. Has anybody ever seen her in something that didnt show all her legs or all her boobs… Im just curious… Maybe I havent seen enough pictures of her or something.
9.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Vibe covers are looking more cheaper by the day. They need to ease up on the photo shopping ( ya’ll know Mariah aint that little in the waist and hips) I think it sends a wrong message to some of the young girls who look up to these stars the wrongs message. I have been talking to several young girls who say body image is the most important thing to them. smh
I love Mariah as an artist, but I don’t think this album is going to compare in anyway to the last one. “Touch my body” is not a good song to showcase an album on.
10.
Dame(my confidence combined with ur low self esteem equals my arrogance)~Mr.West
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Nariah ass gets on my nerves that pic is so photoshop it is a shame.
I used to be a huge fan of hers but now she irks me.
11.
WITH THIS KIND OF TALENT WHY DRESS LIKE THIS
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
lOVE Mariah but she needs a new stylist…why do her people let her dumb down her talent by showing her body everychance she gets..it is ridiculous
DJ MUTHA
12.
Bluediva
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Thats my girl…go ahead and live your life, you spent countless years sheltered by your sugar daddy and now u wanna live…i feel you!
As long as you make sure you continue to give us good music and a sista will be fine with you.
13.
leelee
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
OK I GOT IT MS. MIMI IS SO FULL
OF HERSELF.
14.
J. Lewis (I'm Pimpin' again, back on the prowl! I done lost all my hoes and I don't know how...)
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Celebrities and their publicity stunts, I tell ya…
Who is making sure that Mariah is getting her medicine and the proper dosage on time? They need to be fired asap
Nick Cannon is brave for marrying MC knowing her big brother is Da Brat. I don’t care how fine a girl is but if she got a brother like that I’m not going near her. Treat her right otherwise Da Brat will pop bottles over your head
I’m sure the wedding was beautiful…instead of throwing rice they probably threw glitter and butterfly barrettes
15.
vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Great voice but the new music is whack!!!! And I mean it’s really high time you put on some clothes and just stopped acting all medicated. Sheesh!!!!! The whole Mimi needs her Cabbage Patch doll thing is tired with you crazy tail. Sit yourself down somewhere and act like a grown up, sing some grown up songs(not to be confused with sexual bullcrap songs), write your memoirs or something (please do not use crayons)… I am too tired of this looney trollup.
16.
Mandy
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
lol @ #1. I think you said it best.
17.
whatsgoingon
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Ok, if Mariah and Nick are married, I’m married to Will Smith- he just dont know it yet - sorry Jada. Anyway, as much as I love Mariah and her music, I think she’s mentally deranged. She’s 38, but always acting and dressing like she’s a teenager. Wearing those super short shorts and skirts is not cute for a woman her age. She needs to dress to age- be more classy.
18.
i'm just here for the free food
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
oh for real?!
19.
becky
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
HELLA AIRBRUSHED!!!! Photoshop beotches!
20.
Chulo
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
HATERZ
21.
Ladyssolady
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Crying laughing at #15!
22.
Jewel 1
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
I love Mariah, but this PIC is soooooo airbrushed. It looks like her head on someone else’s body. Word!
23.
pette
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee erksssssssssssssssssssssssssss meeeeeeeeeeeeee goooooooooooo awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fcuckind dum butter flying asssssssss
24.
whatsgoingon
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
@14 JLewis - You are hilarious. LOL at the butterfly barrettes. I swear Mariah stay doped up on something. She always try to act innocent with all them butterfly accessories and what not. Maybe 10 years ago that image would fly- but she has worn that image out and need to act her age.
Since Da Brat’s career has been a wrap, maybe she should consider working for Mariah as a bodyguard or become a woman wrestler or bouncer- since she’s so good at busting people upside their heads.
25.
Dame(My confidence combined with ur low esteem equals my arrogance)~Mr. West
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
J.Lewis u are mess glitter and butterfly barrettes lmao.
26.
lolita
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
She looks good on the cover, no doubt BUT she is not the sexiest singer alive.
27.
Anonymiss
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
That is an airbrush disaster of a cover. Her head and her body look really juxtaposed in a horrible way.
28.
Shonni
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah lost alot of weight so i’m sure that is her true size. If you have seen her red carpet pics then you would know and not assume. As far as this pic, it’s not much different from alot of other female celebs who hop on the cover of a mag with skimpy clothes on, give Mimi a break and quit the hate.
29.
NewOrleans_Finest
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Is this a Seventeen magazine Cover or what? She looks gorgeous for her age, but please people what is her age?! Touch her body…….NOT! And let me see y’all talk stuff about her photoshopped behind, like y’all just new Toccara was photoshopped!
30.
H-Town Chic***
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
@ #1 I agree LMAO!!!
31.
cdnyc
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
I really wondering if this whole wedding rumor is a part of Ashton Kutcher’s new show. What’s it called? Pop Fiction or something?
32.
MrD
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah looks great. Sure she was probably airbrushed, but I agree with #28; that’s her true size. She really has lost a lot of weight and is doing a great job keeping it off.
It’s funny how a post about her covering a magazine led to comments about her sanity, her image and her “marriage.” But what’s really funny is the fact that the very same people who came here to bash her and her mental state, can barely spell (#15, #23), conjugate (#9, #24), or punctuate (#8).
Please keep the negativity to yourself. It only breeds more.
33.
STLCHICK
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Lol @ # 14. U got me crackin up cuz I can picture ppl throwing glitter and butterfly barettes at this chicks wedding. I just can’t get w/ Mariah Carey anymore. I’m tired of watching her perform cuz that shit is boring. I’m tired of seeing her videos: slow motion w/ her hair bouncing up and down w/ some tight as dress on then she runs her fingers (w/ that butterfly ring) through her hair. She is very talented but she’s grown and she should act like it. She reminds me of Barbie for some reason.
34.
mememe
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Please… who doesnt get photoshopped for a magazine cover, Hateratia Jenkins?!!
35.
complexndope
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
She looks great on that cover.
I like her voice…love her older music. I just can’t take her belting “youuuutube” seriously.
But she really needs to act & dress her age & stop running around town like a $5 Coke whore.
36.
Buffy
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah should really be mad that the word “kitschy” was used to describe her decorations…because it’s exceedingly becoming to go-to qualifier when discussing Mariah.
37.
Buffy
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
the*
38.
kennedi
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
…I am SO FUCKING tired of Mariah…!!!!!!!
39.
Danny
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
“Touched up Body” instead of touch my body. I’m such a clown sometimes.lol. She probably has the most touched up photos ever. between her or janet.
40.
debra
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
They showed the rerun of Mariah on SNL saturday nite, I missed it the first time, but I
41.
Prettygirl90221
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
..Why is she always half naked these days. Maybe, the vocals are fading…Hmm…
42.
debra
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
enjoyed Mariah’s performances especially the end of Touch My Body with her grinding with the the guys in back and in front of her. That was cute.
43.
stewart
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
WOW! She looks GREAT!!!
44.
Royalty
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Shut the fuck up y’all, Tina Turner was showing her body at her sixties. So y’all better leave Mimi alone!
45.
dee
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
People why does it bother your asses that the pic is airbrushed?
When Beyonce pic is airbrushed she is beautiful, get off Mimi case people, keep doing your thing.
46.
vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
That’s the thing, I don’t HATE Mariah. When David Foster was writing her ballads, and she had people managing her career that would not allow her to run around talking like Dora the Explorer, she was great!. I just kinda wish we didn’t know so much about her. I feel like I’ve seen all there is to see of this chick aside from her last pap smear.
Less is more.
47.
complexndope
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Royalty. Tina does it gracefully & tastefully.
You can be sexy, yet tasteful at the same time. Mariah always teeters on that line.
Looking like she shops at Cheap Hos R Us. It’s old & tired.
She needs to act her age & stop walking around like a Treasure Troll on treasure island acting like she farts rainbows & pixie dust.
48.
vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
BTW, as far as spelling goes, my keys stick sometimes…. (so what’s her excuse?) See I’m not even going there. You know she seems crazy in public, defend it if you want to. If it was your aunt Cookie running around in Belly shirts skipping to the corner store for Skittles at close to 40, you would be calling for an intervention. Tell the truth and stop the madness.
49.
Buffy
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
#47
Actually, more than that Tina and Mariah are different in that Tina actually looks like a GROWN, SENSIBLE sexy woman, whereas Mariah comes across as some prepubescent slut. I think it’s repulsive to women because it offends our feminist sensibilities: a grown woman who is in the public eye and yet also bathed in pink butterflies…well, that’s lame on a whole other level. If she were to leave her 14 year old Long Island slut at the door, everyone would except the barely there dresses and sky-high platform mules without complaint…
50.
M E RENEGADE
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
PHOTOSHOP!
ERASE MY WRINKLES.
DELETE MY CELULITE.
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
GET ME ALL SMOOTH.
MAKE ME LOOK YOUNG.
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
JUST KIDDING!!!
51.
vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
OK, I’m gonna say this and leave it alone. No one is asking her not to wear bikinis… She looks great. I am simply saying that her image (that of an adult in the midst of a major identity crisis) is wearing thin. After 13 years, even Raven had to grow up. Bikinis in themselves are fine on her, just not everywhere she goes. And the person who said they can’t take her crooning “yoootuuube” seriously was right on point. Can you really be serious? YOOOOTUUUUBE…. really? C’mon. Would you buy it if Halle Berry started playing teen roles again? Same concept. And if it’s that personal to you, ok, I won’t crack on Mimi anymore. I’ll just talk in babytalk and gibberish so it’s not offensive. Yes I will, honey bunny, yes I will.
52.
Emma V's Great-Grandaughter
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
She could of did this like ten years ago and not ten years later.
53.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
@ # 32. MrD
What did I miss spell? I know I was in a hurry, but I did go back and re-read my comment and I didn’t see where I miss-spelled anything can you please tell me?
54.
Buffy
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
@#53
Ironically, you misspelled “misspell” lol j/k…you did, though…
55.
Royalty
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah is WAAYYYY sexier than Tina Turner. Tina was wearing skimpy clothes at her sixties & pls dont give me that crap about how she was classy and graceful, people were saying the very same thing about Tina.
56.
bill
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Don’t Hate.
Appreciate…….
She’s a good singer, a great writer, and a Very Pretty Girl.
I would have never gussed she was Thirty Eight…
She looks like she’s 25.
57.
LuvsIt
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Work it bitch!
58.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
@ 54. Buffy
Thank You
correction: “misspelled”
It’s been a long night finals are coming up. lol
59.
Tealeaf
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Wish the world “hater” would go away…so elementary
I like Mariah more when she first came out, seem like her voice was better.
Who cares if her and Nick are married..it’s just a PR stunt
60.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Why am I more interested in the Irv Gotti article than Mariah article. lol
Let me go in my campus bookstore and see if this has come in yet.
61.
IAMDARKAQUA
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
DANG ANGEL…I THOUGHT WOULDN’T TOUCH THIS HOT ASS MESS!! ROTL..JUST JOKING
MARIAH NEEDS TO SIT HER CRAZY ASS DOWN…IS SHE HAVING ANOTHER BREAKDOWN OR SOMETHING???? YOU KNOW SHE WENT FOOL DURING THAT “GLITTER” FICASO…DOESN’T SHE HAVE A NEW MOVIE OUT NOW!!! LOL
TRICK PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE JUST SING…WHERE’S TOMMY MOTTOLA AT WHEN YOU NEED A STRONG ARM????
62.
yomama
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
bring vision of love mariah back
once fame enters your life your gone forever,,,
63.
DH
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Go Mimi!!!!!!!!!
64.
blackisbeautiful
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
You guys are such hypocrites Madonna has her legs spread on her cover of her album “Hard Candy”, My girl Stacey Dash who is 42 posed seductively, Janet always keeping a hot and sexy but when Mariah does it is a problem? You guys need to stop seriously lol Mariah looks great love it!
65.
blackisbeautiful
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Tina Turner has always showed skin and was looking lovely but there were stage outfits she has worn that can pass for slutty go on youtube and look at the old videos of her back in the day. Some of them she looked like a sweated hooker who just got done having anul sex lol. With the spiked up blonde wig and everything and the matching leather chain stillettos lol. I love Tina but I am not in denial to put down Mariah to make it seem like Tina was keeping it “grown and sexy”. In her 40’s she was showing alot skin because she can and her body was tight!
66.
kimwill02
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
……..did not know that there was an age limit on bikini’s! work it Riah!
67.
1prettyb
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
**** Cute “ensemble” Mimi! Photoshop City!
68.
Badgurl
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Talent obscured by… T&A, well if it works Mariah. But speaking of rumors. People saying Bee is pregnant hence the rushed wedding. I can only wonder what THAT kid might look like. Jay is just not attractive. Lord help that child.
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vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
See and I said I would leave it alone…. (deep sigh). She’s beautiful and she can sing her behind off… but she is a nutty as a Snicker bar. Enough!!!!!!
70.
Luckie 7
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Mariah looks great, but i wish she would start dressing according to her age. I hate those 10th grade outfits she’s wearing in that “touch by body” video.
71.
asea
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
I love Mariah… she is a TRUE individual and could give a dam what anybody thinks. That takes courage in Hollywood!! The photoshop is not neccessary - she looks great without it!
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vexxed
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Let me be fair…. Mariah has had some jams (We Belong Together, Vision of Love, many many more) but the garbage she has out now is as bipolar as it gets. This chick is three bars away from singing the McDonald’s melody:
Big Mac, filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, french fries….in a diaper and a helmet, and you Chris Crocker “Leave Britney ALONE” stans would be big up-ing that mess too.
73.
Juicy SuperStar
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Some people confuse older sexy with older slutty….
Tina never looked like a slut… (from what I have seen) Performing and doing an interview are 2 different things. Has someone seen her step on stage to accept an award or walk the red carpet looking slutty? When I used to do dance those outfits/costumes were tight or short and sparkly to stand out on stage… I didn’t go to school in that mess because I was smart enough to know there is a time and place for everything…
Madonna is a slut so who cared that she looked like one. (sorry that sounds so mean)
Janet - I have seen her in normal clothes not showing all her assets. I have never seen Mariah fully clothed.
Stacy Dash - So I have seen her in person a couple of times and she never looked like Mariah…. Nope, not buying it… Half Naked sometime and Half naked ALL THE TIME are different… lol
Mariah looks like trailer trash 97% of the time… If you tip toe around 24/7 with bra tops and mini skirts, pink glitter and talking like a baby - you need to grow up… She can wear sexy clothes but its the whole package that’s wrong to me… Did you see her MTV cribs… I wanted to scream for her…. My brothers loved it of course because they thought she was going to drop the towel… Are you serious, an interview in a towel…
I dont think she is dumb but thats how she comes off. I just would personally like to see another side to Mariah… She doesn’t have to play the ditzy white girl to be sexy….. I really have never seen a picture of her in a regular pants suit or nice dress.
I know Mariah can do whatever she wants but Im just saying I think she needs a stylist.
BTW - How do you all get your pictures up on the side?
Ok, off to do some work now.
74.
deion08
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
I could not wait until ya’ll posted a magazine cover with Mariah on it, to see what folks had to say. Now before this one of Mariah came ya’ll posted Janet, Alicia and plenty of others females singer on covers half naked, and everybody was like she is she pretty and all that good shit. Now when Mariah does it now we got a problem with it? She proves my point. No matter what she does their is awlays gonna be a hata’s Big ups MC. That’s why you killing all these females right now.
75.
Tweetie_Bird
Monday, May 5, 2008 /
Even with all the photoshopping, you can tell Mariah has lost a lot of weight. She looks looks really good. I just think it’s a shame that feels like she has to overexpose her body all over the place in order to sell records. Mimi has a great voice and can actually SING - I just wish she’d focus on that some more. Not hating, I’m just saying that she’s one of the few female artists who really shouldn’t have to depend on her looks to be successful. But, then again, having a good voice doesn’t get you on the cover of all the mags. The media always wants more skin … it’s just a pity Mariah feels like she has to give in to them.
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