Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - About The View.
I've got two stories about TV show The View that was in USA an hour ago. Feel free to send me some more detailed and longer stories about this show, and also about FANatic. On The View Mariah sang I Still Believe and Vision of Love and she was GREAT! Here is what Brian tells me:
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Mariah's on "The View" right now (11:30 AM here in Eastern Canada) and she looks great! She has on the same dress and shoes as she did on Letterman last night, and she brought out her cup of tea because it's really early for her. I'm typing this as it appears during the show, so I apologize if it sounds a little funny ;)

She's talked about how she got in the routine of having to work late at night in a studio in the back of her friend's father's woodshed from 3 to 7 AM. She sang "I Still Believe" and looked fabulous.

She's also quick to point out how her new album isn't a "best of" album... Answering the question "What line in a song best represents your view of life?" she answers "Make it happen" (couldn't agree more :) Mariah's answering audience questions on various subjects as well.

Asking her about her tough childhood and how it shaped her today, Mariah said she doesn't want to capitalize on her rough life, but she was fortunate to have what she has. She thanks her belief in God and her Mother for giving her her gift of singing :)

Someone asked her what do the fans don't know yet about her, and she said they know so much, we'll just leave it at that. Mariah says she hasn't had much chance to relax as a younger person, but that's life :) She also commented on a CD signing at the Virgin Records store in New York and how she's having a big party for the first 500 fans who get down there!

Next, she sings "Vision of Love" and blows the crowd away (of course :) I haven't heard this song live in quite some time, and is it ever nice! She gives the end of the song a really soul sounding ending...

That's it for Mariah on the show. They are coming back with a special report on Monica Lewinsky (like she's more important than Mariah!)
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Kelly writes me this:
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The view had a great Mariah carey interview she performed I still believe and Vision of love BOTH were excellent. They started talking about Mariah clothes style and if Mariah was going wild and she said she never thought it was a big change until a few weeks ago where she was watching a TV show and saw a picture of her with every inch of her body covered and how she can now see why people would think she's going wild. Then some fans in the audiance got to ask her questions and one guy wrote her a poem to find her 'happiness'.
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Rhian writes (edited.)
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Mariah was great on The View today. She came out wih a cup of tea, dress similar to what she wore on Letterman but full lenght, she talked a little bit about how she got into these wierd hours while she was recording her demo and it is very early for her to be awake. She talks about her cloths and change. Commercial break then she sings, I Still Believe, she does this better than on the Letterman show, and her backup singers don't mess up at the end like they did on Letterman by sing flat sounding harmonies on the word Again. She talks about Brenda K Starr and how she really helped her and that she made Tribute to her on the album. Well then everyone sings a piece of a song that describes her life. Mariah sings "Make It Happen", just those words. Then she takes questions from her fans, one fan coming all the way from Mexico apparently he was at MTV Mariah Tv cause Mariah seemed to remember him (Anderz comment: he's my best friend Alexiz!!!!) She then sings Vision Of Love, to close the show. From the start I knew it was going to be a rocky perfomance. Her voice is similar to the way she sang it in the Butterfly Concert at Tokyo Dome. She seems to enjoy singing I Still Believe and Vision Of Love, she is constantly smiling almost as if she were remeniscing. She is great.
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So that's that! More stories please, especially from you who where there live for the show.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - Super Tuesday!
That's what the recordindustry call this day. New albums by Garth Brooks, Whitney, Mariah, Jewel, Method Man, Ice Cube, Bad Boy and more are coming out in USA today. CNN has a survey where they ask "which of these albums will you buy" I don't think it's possible to cheat in this survey so it's very interesting to see. Right now 35% says Jewel, 22% says Garth, 18% Whitney and 16% Mariah.

Click here to check it out.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - Mariah singing on the Letterman show!
This show is on NOW and Mariah sang the song I Still Believe. Here is what some people have written me about it,
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Donny writes "Mariah just performed "I Still Believe" on David Letterman, and let me tell you, she can still SING awesome!!!!! I did have my doubts, but once again Mariah has stunned me, the quality of her voice was almost perfect, i am so proud. Mariah is truly #1."
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Here is what Amy writes "Mariah was great!!! She sang "I Still Believe" on the David Letterman show- and her voice was fantastic. I am really happy with her performance. On an odd yet kind of funny note: Mariah looked pretty much exactly the same as she did the last time she was on the Letterman show. (Well, she IS on the Letterman show- they are speaking as I write)"
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Chris writes "Mariah closed David Letterman with I Still Believe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE DID GREAT!!!!!!! HER VOICE WAS PERFECT!!!!!! I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!"
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I guess Chris likes the song, right? =) WK also liked Mariah on Letterman because he writes like this: "Just finished watching Mariah on the Letterman Show. Mariah sang I Still Believe to perfection, and well...I think this is by far the best Mariah TV performance this year. I don't know why but, my heart was pounding real loud as I watched the performance...inside I was like, "Let's go Mariah!" Mariah was so perfect, so comfortable throughout...She seemed really pumped up to sing as she came out, almost as if she was trying to prove that she still has her powerful vocal range. Mariah's signature melodic tenchnique (hitting many different notes with one word) was so there, and all the gestures and facial expressions she made throughout the singing...WOW! They got more and more emotional, and Mariah was simply giving her all...just powerful. She looked gorgeous as usual, with a black dress (somewhat like the When You Believe video dress), and her hair was long and wavy (stunning!). Just really classy...The interview with Letterman was quite short, as it was near the end of the show. Nothing new there...Mariah was just emphasizing the fact that the album is not a greatest hits collection. Anyway, the story here is Mariah's unforgettable performance. SO CHECK IT OUT! LOVE MARIAH FOREVER!!!
Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - About FANatic.
For those of you who don't know - FANatic is a TV program on MTV USA. It's only shown in USA for some reason and yesterday Mariah was on it. She met two fans and she had half an hour, it's normally only half of that time. Matt tells me about it:
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What's up? I just got done watching fanatic and mariah looked great. Her hair was stright, and she had this black dress on, with a black thing, I'm not sure what it was, but it covered her shoulder's and her arms. She got the whole hour of the show and it was very nice. She said she liked meeting her fans. 2 fan's got to go on the show. One from the US and the other from Europe. I guy and a girl. After the show she signed a ton of stuff they brought, and she asked them some questions about which album they like the best. Also the guy was telling Mariah about how the song OSD helped him when his friend died and she wiped a tear from her eye! yes she was crying. I thought it was very nice and cool and i can't wait to see her on the letterman show and the view.
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I'll surely have much more about this show soon.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - About Mariah TV
This was on MTV USA today and Tausha tells me about it:
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hi well i'll tell you a little bit more about mariah t.v. ok she walked in through the back and she was kindof lost and she said "where do i go" and then the camera men directed her into the room of fans. but none of them touched her as she walked through the center of the room so maybe they were told not to ..so anyway she sat on the couch and all around the room there were big life size posters of the number 1's album.anyway Carson said hi and she was like sorry i'm late and he was like well your not and she was like oh ok and her hair was beautiful just a little bit longer than her shoulders and very curly (almost like for the essence awards, but it looked more natural)..and she had on a fitting low cut black shirt and dark blue tight pants (like on the video "the roof"), and they were rolled up on the bottom and black boots. so anyway he talked to her about stuff like her demo tape and how she felt that her songs were better on that like she liked "vision of love" on the demo better i forgot her reasons,and he asked about i don't wanna cry and the meaning behind that and she said that there wasn't one,etc. then they let a fan from outside ask the question "who would you like to work with in the future"? and she said Stevie Wonder and talked about how he was a fabulous person in person.and then they bring Da Brat out (and at this time Mariah was sitting there eating pringles, saying i'm sorry i'm hungry:) and Carson said "tell me about when you met and sang on mariahs' track and Da Brat said we met at her house and my knees were shaking i was so nervous(mariah laughed) and she said that when she was writing the rap for the song that she sat in the arcade room, outside in the cold,and in Mariahs' plaque room trying to think of what to write and Carson said "you were thinking about what a fat pad that house was" and Da Brat was like yeah and she went on to say "yeah that they were in the recording studio and right behind that was the pool room (paused) and said well i'm not gonna lay out your whole pad mariah and mariah said "oh that's alright cause i don't live there anymore" and Da Brat was like "oh yeah" can i rent it ..haha..then Da brat left and they had karaoke with Rachel,Stephen,and Rocky. Stephen won, and got to go over to the couch and sit right next to mariah while she signed his cd and he sat down facing her and was right in her face and said "you are so beautiful" and she was like well thank you and signed it with him just staring at her,like she was a piece of meat,and then she said how do i spell your name and he said "you can spell your name that's good enough for me" weird anyway then they showed her outside with fans and she talked a minute then started giving out free cds, and they showed "when you believe" on the Jumbo Tri,and Carson said that that was the first time a mtv video premiere had ever aired like that.cool..sorry so long also she was talking about the inside cover and you could see the pics inside which you'll all see tomorrow cuz everyone's gonna buy it bye bye...........
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Well, about that WEIRD fan that won the karaoke, like Kelly already told me earlier today - he was hired by MTV to win so I don't know what was up with that.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - This is sad!
Mariah said this on the short Q&A today (more about that in the next newsstory.) Good news (that I already knew) Mariah will have a new concert special with things from the Butterfly concert and stuff. BAD news, it will air on the UPN network!! So she has gone from the biggest NBC in 1993, to the much smaller FOX in 1995 to the supersmall UPN in 1998!! I'm very surprised that not a bigger network than UPN's gonna show it.
Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - Dissapointing Internet event.
I stayed up half the night to see the Q&A and the videospecials they have announced on Mariah's official site for a week now. It turned out it was only a 7 minute "chat" with Trey Lorenz asking 4-5 questions asked by Mariah's fans. And only 30 seconds of the When You Believe video. So I was very dissapointed. But good news is that if it's still online, you can also see the one hour Mariah chat that took place last week.

Click here to see what it's about.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - Mariah's movie secret!
Nicholas tells me about this secret.
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There was an article in The Telegraph Mirror in Sydney today about Mariah. It was pretty standard - about the way she has more control of her image and career - the Butterfly thing. Anyway, it also said that she will have a cameo appearance in a film early next year before her "All That Glitters" project. She said she is not saying anything about it because she wants it to be a surprise when the film comes out. At first I thought it must be the "OO- Soul" film she was talking about, but it couldn't be. Firstly, she has talked about this film many times... and from what we've heard so far it is not a cameo role, because they always says "Starring Chris Tucker and Mariah Carey..." A cameo appearance is hardly a starring role.
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Any ideas??

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 - Pretty good #1's review.
This was in TIME Magazine and Michelle writes me about it. The #1's album gets 3 out of 4 star which seems a bit low for an album with 13 #1 songs (this is the first ever album with that many #1 songs, I'm sure of that!), but it was more than for instance Whitney, her album got 2.5 stars. Here is the review:
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MARIAH CAREY
#1'S * * *
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Previous Album Butterfly, 1997
Copies Sold 3.2 million
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MARIAH CAREY hasn't matured gracefully, and that has turned out to be one of her most appealing traits. In the past couple of years the now 28-year-old singer has got a divorce, made videos in increasingly revealing outfits and had an on-and-off romance with baseball star Derek Jeter. She has also started to work with performers who have a hip-hop edge, like Puffy Combs and Jermaine Dupri. We like Mariah this way.
Her new album is not a traditional greatest-hits collection, something she makes clear in the liner notes. THIS IS NOT A GREATEST HITS ALBUM! she writes. "I haven't been recording long enough for all that." Instead this career retrospective focuses on her chart toppers insluding such familiar ditties as Hero. As Carery acknowledges, some of her best songs were album tracks and not No. 1 singles, so such standout numbers as her seductive Melt Away aren't included here. Too bad. #1's does feature a smattering of new songs, which are mostly pleasant.
To Promote #1's, Carey will be on MTV live on Nov. 16, as part of a series on this week's new CDs. But we're looking forward to her future albums. She has proved she can hit the heights; it would be nice to hear her explore the depths, to reach down and move us, as Marvin did, as Aretha still does. #1's shows she has the talent for it, if she dares.
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Well, as usual I don't know how to intepret things written by music critics like "hasn't matured gracefully". Correction - Butterfly has sold more like 3.7 million in USA.

Tuesday, 17th of November 1998 BUY #1'S TODAY!!!
Just Do It! =)
Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Today was a good day.
Eric writes me this about his fine day:
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Mariah has been everywhere today. I stayed home from school and I am glad I did. First of all Sweetheart moved from 3 to 2 on the BET Countdown just behind Dru Hill. Anyway here is what was on with her today:
Sweetheart was played 4 times and its only in the middle of the day BET HAS been having a no. 1's ad all over. BET DOESn't have too many commercials which is great because on every break basically they played this ads and I taped it 6 times already.
Total Request Live- saw Chris Connely talkling to Mariah and lots of fans standing around with posters. One guy had his shirt off and it said on his stomach I love alyssa and Mariah because Alyssa Milano was on the show too.

Then came Mariah TV- lOTS OF TALK. tHE kARAOKE SINGers were really bad and embarassing. They debuted the When You Believe Video Then right after the VH1 Countdown was on so I was taping that on and off excluding the videos. Then only like half an hour after they debuted the video on MTV, They played it as a bonus Jam on MTV Jams.

Then at 9:30 and 12:30 Mariah TV rERUNS THen 10:30 is Fanatic for a whole half an hour instead of 15 minutes.

What was really cool for the When You Believe video was it was premiered on the Jumbotron in the middle of Times Square for everyone to see and hear, even people in cars!!!!!!. It was so cool and Mariah looked very good. By the way the video was great and everyone I know wants to see the movie bad!!!

Mmariah will only be on the regular soundtrack not the Inspirational even though thats what the song is.

Then she is supposed to be on David Letterman tonight, so that is a lot. Ads are going everywhere and I saw on Mariah TV there are ads all over New York, even posted pn the studio, and all over the place for no. 1's, so everyone has to know the album is coming out.

Thats so great, and I am going to tape Fanatic and David Letter man tonight. She has such a packed week.
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Lets hope his mom don't read this and finds out he skipped school, but maybe it's worth it! ;) He forgot to mention the Mariah Internet Q&A that's starting in an hour and a half, I'm on my way to school soon to check it out.

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Mariah add.
Earlier this year Mariah did commersials for Japanese language school Aeon and now Tausha tells me where I can find a photo of it, and here it is:

Why doesn't she do this kind of things in USA? My girl Brandy has adds out for Candies shoes and stuff, so Mariah needs to get a sponsor deal too! What would be a good product for Mariah to sponsor you think? Send your thoughts on MariahCarey@swipnet.se.

That photo was so very beautiful so here it is again:

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Tommy not popular.
207 people took my Tommy survey and he's not very popular. 2 out of 3 Mariah fans thinks he's not nice or plain sux. 1 out of 8 fans thinks he's okay and 1 out of 25 fans thinks Mariah should go back to him. Myself I voted that he seems not that nice. I'm aware of that we've only heard one side of the story though, the Mariah side. (Which is the best side of course =) So in fairness I'll print this defence of Tommy that which was in the gossip column of (close to) tabloid New York Post:
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They call the ill wind Mariah

TOMMY Mottola stayed mum as Mariah Carey dissed him on national television Friday night — but others in the music industry are shaking their heads at the public swipe.

In a sit-down with Barbara Walters on 20/20, Carey — who was married to Mottola for four years — claims, among other things, that the Sony CEO held her prisoner in their home, thwarted her movie career and didn't like the way she dressed.

Though Mariah made many of the same claims shortly after she and Mottola split in early 1997, her re-hashing of them on television was bad form, say insiders.

"What was she thinking?" blasted a music executive at another label. "That she'd go on Barbara and get sympathy for herself? I think most people in the industry would agree, you don't tell tales out of school. And you certainly don't publicly deride a man who made your career — and still gives you a very nice paycheck — just to settle some petty private score. I'm sure she wasn't perfect, either. Let's not forget she was fooling around with Derek Jeter while she was still married."

Mottola spokesman Howard Rubenstein said the music biggie has no comment on Mariah's comments.

"He's taking the high road, and he will continue his good working relationship with Mariah," Rubenstein told PAGE SIX. He has the highest respect for her as an artist, and will continue to support her career.

Friends of Mottola were less forgiving. "He pulled her out of total obscurity — she was absolutely nothing professionally before him," blasted one. "He gave her 13 No. 1 records, and a net worth of close to $100 million."

Oddly, Carey did not address her relationship with Jeter, whom she started seeing while still married to Mottola. "She goes to great lengths to trash him [Mottola], but she apparently wasn't willing to put herself under that same microscope," observed one insider.

Carey's 20/20 interview was timed to coincide with tomorrow's release of her new album, Mariah, No. 1's, a collection of her 13 No. 1 hits.

"It's not a greatest hits," she told us earlier this week. "I haven't been around long enough to do something like that. It's really a thank you to my fans."

Meanwhile, Carey seems to have gotten over her most recent love, Jeter, and has a plethora of possible paramours in the wings.

The diva recently hosted an online chat with fans, and got a whopping 100 hits a minute. Every other one, laughed Carey's rep, was a marriage proposal.
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Well, you see: as usual it's only "insider", "close friend with no name" that says anything, ain't that strange? And that Tommy gave Mariah 13 #1 is just plain ridiculous, she wrote all the songs herself. (Except I'll Be There.) And I can't really hear Tommy singing on them either =) So that's Mariah's songs. I don't know what's wrong with these NEw York tabloids but all they seem to do is trash Mariah. It was cool to read about this online chat though =)

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - More about The View.
This is an american TV show on the same channel that broadcasted the 20/20 interview. Here is what Bill just told me:
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On the "View" tomorrow, they are devoting THE ENTIRE HOUR to Mariah!!! Usually they just have the person on for 1 or 2 segments which last a total of about 20 minutes, but Mariah will be on the whole time.

The website is www.abc.com/theview, then click on "About the Show" which is where they say that they have devoted the whole hour to Mariah as she talks to the girls about her life and career and will perform from her new CD as well as answer audience questions. It sounds like it will be really awesome. Also, I saw this show on Friday and as they were finishing the show they plugged Barbara's 20/20 interview which was to air later that night. Then Debbie, one of the girls on the show, who used to work for MTV, said "I can't wait for Mariah to come here next week, she is one of the nicest people!".

So, Mariah will be on for the whole hour tomorrow and it should be really awesome.

BTW the only people the have really ever devoted the whole show to is Rosie O'Donnell and maybe Sharon Stone. It is very rare that they do this.
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Wicked! I can't really figure out what time this show will be since it seems to very different depending where in USA you live. But I guess you can figure it out yourself somehow. They should have an entire channel ONLY for Mariah to make it easier =) Anyway, on the site they write that it's at 10 AM Eastern Time, seems a bit early?

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Nice story about seeing Mariah!
My friend Kelly was at the MTV studios in New York yesterday to see Mariah tape Mariah TV and here is what she writes (edited)
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I was at the Mariah tv taping and Mariah looked WONDERFUL. It was a dream come true. She joked around and was eating pringles and drinking champagne during the commercial breaks. They had 3 fans do karaoke for her and they'd win an autographed CD. I was supposed to do it but MTV couldn't allow me, unless they didn't find somebody else because they said I was better then the person they hired to win so they couldn't allow me to sing for Mariah. I was really mad about that. BAt the end of the show they debuted the When You Believe video and the video is AWESOME. Then she went outside and handed out the fans #1 CD's and did some autographs. People in the studio didn't get autographs. Then i went to the back of the building and waited outside for like 3 1/2 hrs for Mariah to leave and when she walked out the door she looked at me in my eyes like right away and started walking towards me and she said to her bodyguard "give me the pen i want to sign this girls poster" and she walked up to me and was like "hi, are you cold?" and I'm like "yeah but that's ok" and she's like "you poor thing" then I was like "could you sign it out to Kelly?" and she said "sure" but before I could ask her if I could get a picture with her, her bodyguard was pushing her to hurry up when she was trying to talk to me. I took like 11 pictures, I'll scan them once they get developed. She was SO pretty! Her hair was curly, and I can't even think of what she was wearing but she changed after the show. On the show she was wearing this skimpy little black shirt and like tight jeans.. I think they were dungaree's, and she had like healed black boots on. She looked great! Mariah is SO pretty and is just too kind! It was freezing outside but she still signed people's things. The MTV show was pretty awesome, and I got to meet Da Brat & Carson Daly. It was A TOTAL dream come true!
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Cool story!!!! Also Kelly tells me that basically the whole karaoke thing was a set up to have somebody they hired to win. There were 75 people in the studio and like 1,000 people outside!

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Special #1's gift in Singapore!
Here is what Jian tells me:
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Terrence and I bought our copies of #1's this afternoon. It has the same tracklisting as the #1's available in Australia. On the cover itself, there's this sticker that says "Redeem your 13th #1 hit song I Don't Wanna Cry" on the cover. We got that and it comes in a card sleeve. It has the same cover as the album. On the back of it, it has the lyrics to the song and on the bottom, it says "For Promotional Purpose Only. Not For Sale" Besides Singapore, which country has this extra CD too? And, I purchased three #1's posters for US$2 each.
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What he means is that, since I Don't Wanna Cry isn't on the #1's album in Asia, they got a special extra CD with this song on it! This "bribing" is pretty common in Asia, the Japanese Butterfly came with a really cool Mariah photobook for instance.

Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Don't forget!!!
Don't forget these things today:
  • MTV USA, Mariah FANatic - Mariah meeting a fan on TV.
  • MTV USA + Europe(?), premier of the When You Believe video, 3.30 PM.
  • MTV USA, Mariah TV, Mariah talks to fans, 4.30 PM
  • The Box will start a special Mariah competition that will run until November 28th.
  • Mariah at David Letterman show!!
  • MCAREY.COM Presents Special Online Programming Direct from Mariah to her fans! Tune in from 8:00p-12:00a EST=20 Progamming Guide: Q&A - exclusive, audio/video interview Video Montage - featuring all of the videos from #1's Chat - Re-Broadcast of the Yahoo! Chat on 11/10
  • Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Winamp skin.
    I tried to make a Mariah "skin" for the MP3 player Winamp today and I think it came out pretty good! So if you have this player, download the mariahskin.zip file and extract it somewhere in your winamp directory. (See winamp helpfile for more info.)

    Click here to download Mariah skin.

    This is how it will look:

    Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Starving children quote still alive!
    About 2.5 years after it was discovered that this was false, some people on magazines still believe in it. Probably because this thing called "checking sources" isn't what lots of reporters and journalists seems to do these days. The newspaper this time is Australias "Sunday Telegraph". They write:
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    OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
    Stupid celebrities are feeling the heat in a just-released book that re-visits they would rather forget. Included in Stupid Celebrities: Over 500 of the Most Idiotic Things Ever Said By Famous people are... Curiously absent are pearlers by MARIAH CAREY, who reportedly said she admired the skinny physique of women in Third World countries, but added she'd "hate the flies and stuff"....
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    Here is what I'd like you to do FOR MARIAH:

    Email the editor of the newspaper at
    suntele@mail.matp.newsltd.com.au
    with "Letter To The Editor" in the subject line and inform them of the REAL truth and ask for a formal apology. Inform them that they can read the truth behind the story at:
    http://www.mrshowbiz.com/news/todays_stories/960829/8_29_96.html

    Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Streeming video.
    This site has a RealVideo of Mariah talking about When You Believe. I never saw this before and it's cool!

    Click here to see it.

    Monday, 16th of November 1998 - Sweetheart still #1!
    Sweetheart stays at #1 for a fourth week at the Internet Worldcharts!! So go to www.worldchart.com and vote. Also this week you can vote for Mariah's #1's album, and where should that be on the chart --- #1 of course!! So vote for that album too.

    Other Sweetheart chartstuff - Uwe tells me it's #4 on the German Blackpool Single Charts and up to # 4 in HIT LIST GERMANY!

    Sunday, 15th of November 1998 - Mariah on The View.
    Tausha just tells me this:
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    Hi it's me Tausha, well I just picked up a tv guide today and it confirms that mariah will most definitly positivly be on "The View" on Tuesday November 17th the show airs at 11am on ABC. and is an hour long if you've never seen it but they'll probably save Mariah for last unless she's the whole hour because they have been known to do that:) but i just wanted to tell you so that you didn't miss the show
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    Well, I will miss the show of course, just as I miss every other program not shows in Sweden, but the rest of y'all need to check it out!

    Sunday, 15th of November 1998 - Whitney being rude?
    On Whitney's new album, she did not thank Mariah. She thanked everyone that worked with her on the album but not Mariah. How could that be? Surely she can't have forgot Mariah. She did the same thing on the press conference, thanked everyone except Mariah. Anyway, Mariah has a better memory though, she thanx Whitney on the #1's album.
    Sunday, 15th of November 1998 - Mariah on Letterman!!

    On the David Letterman website it says that Mariah will be on the show on Monday!!! Also on the show, a girl who in interviews have said she hates Mariah, Cameron Diaz!! So this might be interesting? Any show with Mariah is interesting of course.
    Saturday, 14th of November 1998 - Mariah and Derek!
    Tom just send me this big photo from Puffys birthday party, Mariah and Derek seems to enjoy themself pretty much! Click for much bigger photo. It's from People Magazine.
    Saturday, 14th of November 1998 - Bad news for WYB?
    I just found these kinda low Billboard airplay positions for When You Believe:
    Adult Contemporary- 14
    Hot 100 Airplay- 38
    Hot R&B Airplay- 37

    I would have hoped it at least would be in the top 30 of Hot 100 Airplay, but it only went from #54-#38. I think the Alanis song Thank You went into #12 or something in its second week. Well, now I guess we know for sure that the rules must have change, how else could Madonna have debuted #2 with Erotica?

    Saturday, 14th of November 1998 - 20/20 MP3 and RealVideo.
    Can be downloaded at Evans place so check it out! They are really big files so bring some patience =)

    Click here for Evans Mariah Carey MP3 page

    Saturday, 14th of November 1998 - Lots of adds!!
    There were lots of adds for Mariah's #1's album in British musicmagazine Music Week - UK equivalent of Billboard Magazine. FOUR pages actually! Britany was nice enough to scan it for me and here it is: