Mariah Carey arrives at Narita International Airport on Thursday, October 15th in Narita, Japan. The singer is currently in the country for promo of her latest album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
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Love Mimi
Is ist just me or is Mariah always late when it comes to fashion. Jada had them shoes on at the beginning of summer.
LOL I had to write that bland comment at first, because I’m never first! I hate it when people say first but now that I am experiencing it, it does feel kinda good LOL!
Anyway, I do love Mimi and that red color looks so nice on her skin color. She looks great for her age, better than many of these 40+ celebs that people on here try to praise. Her legs are lovely.
WHO IS THAT MAN WITH THE FITTED HAT ON IN ALL THE PICS??????!!!!!!! IS THAT HER NEW BODY GAURD????? WHOEVER HE IS, HE IS FINNNNEEEE AS HELL YOU HEAR ME????!!!! THATS THE TYPE OF MAN (EMPHASIS ON THE WORD MAN) THAT MIMI NEED TO BE WITH.. REAL TALK YALL!!!
Those shoes are fierce and it dosent matter when she wears them because she’s mariah carey…….
I love mimi, she’s beautiful, but can’t she ever wear anything that’s not tight or “spandex” like? At least sometimes?! I think she would look so much more classy.
I love Mimi….but her KNEES let me HAVE IT everytime. They look as if they just wanna scream “BISH SIT DOWN”….
BTW, i actually like her album alot
@ 4. He ain’t new. He been her bodyguard for a minute and yes he is FINE!
THANKS FOR THE INFO ANGEL!!! LOL..LOVE THIS SITE!!
That looks like Michael Clark Duncan to the right. Cant wait for the remixed version of her latest album comes out. I think it will be MUCH better than the current version of which I did not buy.
Monica rocks them shoes back In the summer when she performed TRUST with KC on tour.. Its on youtube. BTW MC looks cute
I can’t help but to love her!
She’s so extra lol
I agree: her bodyguard is fine!
FYI Mariah is not 40 + yet.
She is still in her late 30′s.
LOL
Love the shoes…
I love dark skinned men but umm..imo that bodyguard is NOT fine..eww
Now that right there is how a superstar does her thing! I am not a Mariah fan but it is wonderful to finally see somebody with serious talent here instead of endless pictures of Rih-Rih Pee-Pee. When you’re occupation is singer it is always a plus if you CAN actually sing! And Mariah can! (Rih-Rih cannot)
LMAO @ DUDE-N-HTOWN
I AGREE ABOUT THE KNEES!
LOOKS LIKE A PHOTO SHOOT U MUST LOVE THIS SEXY ASS CHICK GET IT GIRL!!
Damn! i guess she’s tryna put those preggo rumors 2 rest!
Must agree with dude her album is NICE…but I just want her to get a stylist like pronto…I’m sick of her and these Herve Leger dresses girl wear some jeans and a cute little top sometimes…..her fashion sense is horrid.
I’m also surpised to not see Nick Corny in a suit holding her up….
why does she looked “stuffed” and uncomfortable??
she looks terrible here. mariah please get with the program.
Mariah’s shoe game has always been the bizness.
wow mimi, i love ya, but quit it with the tight ass dresses, and that underarm fat you got showing is not the business!
We see you MiMi! Can we get a video or the remix to Up Out my Face?
She doin 2much. You don’t need 2 b sexy in a airport.
love her shoes! yepp there goes MIMI
doing too much as usual but shes the
true definition of a diva & i LOVE her for it!
work it mimi!
There’s something Religious about Mimi! There’s something Church about her!
Mariah Carey is fine wine.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE MARIAH’S CD
and honey i have NEVER loved any of her CD’s but the mimi one
so many deep good songs and she is singing…not screaming
love —-HateU, Bet
MARIAH NEEDS A TAN REAL BAD, SHE LOOK SO PALE, I SAW HER IN PERSON AND SHE LOOK LIKE A WHITE GHOST!
love your cd mimi
girl is on FIRE and this cd is a classic
i give her a STANDING O
not feeling the black leather jacket it cheapens the whole outfit and if im not mistaken those look like gucci shoes but that jacket make her outfit look wack
I LIVED HER ‘BETCHA GON KNOW SONG”
THAT SONG HURTS, EACH TIME I LISTEN I CAN SEE MY MAN WITH ANOTHER WOMAN IN OUR BED
MARIAH I FEEL U GIRL
I AGREE WITH YA’LL ON THAT CD, MARIAH BROUGHT IT ON THIS CD, DEEP, DEEP, DEEP
@22 i agree about the dress but im sick of everybody wearing Herve Leger those dresses are extremely over rated and nowadays anyone can go buy a Herve Leger there always on sale
Lyrics to Betcha Gon’ Know (The Prologue) :
Though the lights were low
I could see you both
In a lover’s silhouette
And my heart stood still
I was froze right there
Staring down at her red dress
So I bolted out the door
Jumped right into the car
It’s too dangerous
To be in the vicinity of where you are
Rolled down all the windows
Just so I could breathe
I can’t believe you just actually did this shit to me
I’m going bout a hundred
Mascara runnin
Laughing out of anger
But it don’t strike me as funny
Been too good to you
I’ve been virtuous and true
To have something like this
Happen in my own bedroom
Betcha Gon Know oh how it feels
(when I get you back)
Betcha Gon Know oh how it feels
(when your heart’s been cracked)
Betcha Gon Know oh how it feels
(when we fade to black)
How it feels for real
And you see your whole world collapse
I’m a la-la-la-la-la-laugh
I’m a la-la-la-la-la-laugh
I’m a la-la-la-la-la-laugh right in your face boy
Betcha Gon Know oh how it feels
So I pulled to the side
Of the road to fix my face
But I can’t cover with make up
What my tears want to erase
I wake up in a haze
Morning dew and sun rays
As I drive I hide my eyes
Behind my black Cavalli Shades
A block from the house
Slowly creep in the driveway
Tip toe through the door
But you’re there wide awake
You like “Where you been? ”
I’m like “Sorry.
I fell asleep of Jasmine’s sofa.
I coulda swore that Ray Ray
Called you and told ya”
You like “You okay”
I’m like “I’m alright.
Little sleep and I’ll be fine.”
But if you only knew
What was in the back of my mind
You already stung
But you really gon find out in time
[Chorus]
This is for real, for real, for real
Oprah Winfrey, whole segment, for real, for real
20/20, Barbara Walters, for real, for real
60 minutes for real
Baby, I had all the guns but not a word from you
You got me all crazy, somewhere down the line your gon get what you deserve… you F*****G jerk
Your were supposed to save me, my sweet baby
Now we are fading away… but your gonna know how this feels
Even if it’s the last thing I ever do
DAMN THE WORDS TO THAT SONG ARE VERY DARK
MARIAH CAREY HAS GROWN UP
FROM THE LYRICS TO THAT SONG, SOUNDS LIKE MARIAH CAREY HAS BEEN THRU SOME S-H-I-T IN HER LIFE, I’VE BEEN THERE
I’M GETTING THIS CD, EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW GOOD IT IS
everyone likes hateu but i like the betcha gonn know
i didn’t want to like this cd
BUT I LOVE IT, i cant stop listening to the lyrics
THIS CD IS CRAZY, IT’S LIKE READING SOME HOT GIRLS DIARY AND ALL THE CRAP SHE’S BEEN THRU
THIS IS SOME REAL JANET JACKSON/JIMMY JAM/TERRY LEWIS TYPE MUSIC
love the cd but on some cuts mariah is so angry she uses curse words and i cant listen when my baby is in the car
but i listen once my boo boo goes to sleep, i like standing o-o-0
I HAD BEEN WAITING ON MARY J TO DO A MY LIFE II, SORRY GIRL MARIAH CAREY BEAT YOU TO IT
MARIAH’S CD REMINDS ME OF MARY J’S MY LIFE, FINALLY WE PEEL THRU THE LAYERS OF WEAVE, MAKEUP AND HEELS AND MONEY AND FIND OUT
THAT MARIAH CAREY IS A REGULAR CHICK WHOSE BEEN PIMPED BEFORE
SING THE BLUES GIRL, BECAUSE I AM SINGING RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU
in that song
Mariah should have hit him in the head with a fraying pan and some HOT LYE
i just listened to ms. girls songs well not all of them but that one listed up above and to a few more, and they sound good. it don’t sound like old school mariah this sounds like a black woman singing
who is the real mariah carey?
my songs
1. Betcha Gon Know how it feels
2. H.A.T.E. U
3. Angels Cry
4. Standing O , cheers bravo, flowers for you ==your the man of the hour and u played the woman that loved you the most, so here’s your standing o
I PROMISE IF ITS THE LAST THING I DO THIS FOOL WILL HEAR STANDING O
Mariah is a beautiful woman, but she can switch up the tight, short skirts sometimes and show more an adult look. Love her regardless though.
On her recently leaked and soon-to-be-released 12th studio album, Mariah Carey and her latest producers, Terius “The-Dream” Nash and Tricky Stewart, attempt to get at something by distilling it. They’re seeking the Essence of Mimi, the liquor in the oyster of Carey’s famously luscious voice.But instead of showcasing this musical Olympian’s dazzling way with a vocal run or her nearly unmatchable whistle register — obvious choices when it comes to Carey’s talent — she and her team tune into a particular tone, the one that earned her another nickname, Honey.
There’s a breathiness to this album that’s not only sexy but emotionally intimate. Heavy on slow jams, quiet confessions and kiss-offs closer to the work of the rappers she admires than to Carey’s soul sisters, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” capitalizes on an underrated aspect of the singer’s talent: Her ability, even when she’s scaling vocal heights, to still come off as just another girl at the nail salon.
Carey’s lyrics — she co-writes everything here, except for her fairly unremarkable cover of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” — make this point most obviously. Even when fully dressed in the armor of her glamour, as when she advises an ex (Eminem? More likely it’s Latin pop star Luis Miguel) to “pretend you on a sofa, and I’m on MTV” when he spies her walking by.
Carey still compulsively shares details about her runny mascara and her appetite for Duncan Hines yellow cake. “Bubble baths on the jet” might be a ridiculous fantasy, but it’s not at all elitist. Any real housewife or career girl has been in that daydream.
What The-Dream and Stewart help Carey realize is that her vocal style also communicates this accessibility. Even at its most extravagant, Carey’s singing has a warmth, a sensuality and openness to it that sets her apart from peers like Whitney Houston and younger pretenders like Leona Lewis. When she tones down her singing, those qualities dominate.
Not incidentally for a big-ballad singer who’s hit 40, stressing her more endearing small voice keeps Carey from any embarrassing shortfalls.
Throughout “Memoirs” she locates that mode of expression in whispers, murmurs and late-night lovers’ quarrels. (She tosses off some amusing zingers in the latter.) The tempos here lean back slowly, and the sound is thick, a little heavy, inevitably responding to the sonic shift that occurred in R&B in the wake of Nash and Stewart’s first female foil, Rihanna, and their smash “Umbrella.”
Even the more aggressive songs on this album — “Obsessed,” Carey’s volley in that silly Eminem feud, and “Up Out My Face,” in which she recovers via her now-husband Nick Cannon’s specialty, the drumline — proceed with a laid-back nod instead of a disco spin. After a while, the approach is too much of a mildly interesting thing, and Carey’s restraint stops serving her agenda.
As every long-married couple knows, intimacy loses its power when the gestures that define it get repetitive. That happens about halfway through “Memoirs,” when Carey’s soft outpourings start to melt into each other, and it ceases to matter whether she’s mourning a broken heart or celebrating a new start.
Nash and Stewart have settled into their own groove as producers; their unctuous, Caribbean-inflected, R. Kelly-inspired tracks work well song by song (especially on the sad ones, like “Languishing” and “Angels Cry,” and the sex ones, like “The Impossible”), but there’s a point where a trademark sound starts to be a cage, not a calling card.
“Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” will stand out in Carey’s catalog as an experiment that illuminates her place in the pantheon without either boosting it or damaging it. I wouldn’t be surprised if, a decade from now, Carey cites this effort as a personal favorite. It’s that kind of wholly decent effort: a self-exploration that settles on its unpretentious insights by not pushing too hard.
them shoes DO NOT flatter her legs! and who still wears leather trench coats?
She seems happy finally .
#51 ASSAULTED,
LOOL, I didn’t even realize she was wearing one – I was just focussing on the dress.
The leather trench coat IS ugly.
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Lovin’ the dress.
And “It’s A Wrap” and “Ribbon” are forever on repeat on my iPod, love ‘em!
she has a really nice cd but seems like shes not promoting the best songs on there
Mimi, what is that? The coat, the shoes, the dress, and make up all DO-Wrong! Individually they could be some killer pieces sans that Kelly Bundy (you too old to keep wearing those damn things) dress. She needs to steal Riri’s stylist not to mimic her style but to find her one.
SHE LOOKS AMAZING. THE NEW CD IS A’IGHT. ITS GROWING ON ME. BUT IF YOU HAVENT BOUGHT IT, JUST BURN IT, DONT WASTE A $20
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT SHE SEES IN NICK? I’M STILL CLUELESS
I NEVER REALLY LIKE THE WAY SHE DRESSES BUT HER SHOE GAME IS ALWAYS ON POINT…………
ISLAND DEF JAM SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS
HERE’S WHY
!. They put out the cd with NO video for the 2nd single (which was pop)
2. They didn’t service a Single to RnB radio (should have been STANDING O)
3. They have perfect model of releases (with rihanna and beyonce–release multiple singles to pop and rnb radio)
4. They push back her cd with angered fans
5. They release a remake that does not have the 2nd verse and then make her
perform it, and she looks like she’d rather throw up then sing that song
6. She does not promote on SNL, Ellen, Leno, Letterman, or Larry King or even the Monique show
7. They make her do live tv shows where she’s stiff as a board, bored looking and boring and has the energy of dead corpse
8. STANDING O is the strongest single she has done in years. why won’t they release it and get that cd back to number 1
LA REID IS HORRIBLE, poor janet jackson, poor pink and poor mariah
@ KYLA
i’m still trying to get into RIBBON..
its sooooooooooooo hard when HATEU, BETCHA and STANDING O are so incredible
this is the CD beyonce should have made and not that crossover pop mess she released
BLOWN AWAY BY THIS CD