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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
MARIAH REVEALS HER NEWEST FRAGRANCE AD FOR FOREVER
EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: MARIAH'S FOREVER FRAGRANCE CAMPAIGN
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OBSESSED
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MARIAH CAREY FIRST ACT ANNOUNCED FOR FASHION ROCKS 2009
| MARIAH CAREY FIRST ACT ANNOUNCED FOR FASHION ROCKS 2009
*** The announcement was made this Wednesday during a press conference held by Fashion Rocks in the Copacabana Palace. The organizers of the event say that Mariah Carey is only the first musical attraction announced. Other names to be announced in the coming weeks. *** "It is difficult to match dates with big bands such as we want, but we are trying," said the director of the musical part of the event, Christian Lamb, who has led tours of Madonna, Coldplay and Lenny Kravitz. While other details are being kept under wraps at this time, OI Fashion Rocks, in association with OI Brazil, promises a stellar list of performers and designers. (Mariah Connection) | |
EVERYONE FALLS FOR "BAD MARIAH" STORY
| EVERYONE FALLS FOR "BAD MARIAH" STORY
*** Whitney's album is being released officially on August 31. It's been moved up a day from September 1. I'm just sayin'... let's get this stuff right. It ain't rocket science. Carey, by the way, cancelled a bunch of dates once the album was completed, and went on a late, delayed summer vacation. She has a big fall ahead, with the album release and the Lee Daniels Oscar movie, "Precious". (Showbiz 411) | |
MARIAH CAREY AMONG MEGSTARS MAKING THE TRIP TO TIFF
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MARIAH CAREY COVERED THE WRONG FOREIGNER SONG
MARIAH CAREY COVERED THE WRONG FOREIGNER SONG
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*** Many will write off "I Want to Know What Love Is" as one of the schlockiest songs every written, but it's secretly brilliant. In fact, Carey should really take it a step further and record an entire album of late '70s/ early '80s ballads. She has already covered Journey's "Open Arms" (on her 1995 album Daydream), so she might as well do her own version of "Don't Stop Believing" (or "Any Way You Want It" if she's feeling cheeky). Styx's "Come Sail Away"? Why not? REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You"? Yes please. "Hold On Loosely" by .38 Special? Absolutely!
Since Carey's voice is so high and versatile to begin with, she can wrap herself around the vocal stylings of Steve Perry and Dennis DeYoung without much fuss. And just for argument's sake, she might as well add a Rush song in there too (if only because she's got the same range as Geddy Lee, though can you imagine Carey singing the Ayn Rand-inspired lyrics of "Freewill"?).
*** Those are all excellent ideas, and though "I Want to Know What Love Is" was an excellent choice, she really should have covered "Hot Blooded" instead. Even better, she should have covered their acoustic version, a bongo-riffic performance if there ever was one. So come on, Mariah - give us a fever of a hundred and three!
(MTV Newsroom)
MARIAH CAREY'S NEXT SINGLE ANNOUNCED
| MARIAH CAREY'S NEXT SINGLE ANNOUNCED
*** Oddly, the report that announced the single - which Carey later posted to her official Web site and her Twitter account - refers to "I Want to Know What Love Is" as the first "real" single from the album. However, Carey's rep clarified that "Obsessed" is indeed the album's first single. *** Despite the buzz surrounding the single's release, the high-profile video, the controversy surrounding her and husband Nick Cannon's feud with Eminem and a performance on Cannon's show "America's Got Talent", "Obsessed" has peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 thus far. According to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks sales of albums and singles, "Obsessed" has sold 383,000 downloads in five weeks, a respectable number but not quite up to Carey's past success (comparatively speaking, last year's "Touch My Body" moved nearly 300,000 downloads in its first seven days). *** Still, "Obsessed" is Carey's 40th charting single - tying her with Diana Ross for the eighth most of all time among female artists - and anticipation remains high for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, which is now slated for a September 29 release and features production by The-Dream, Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri. (MTV News) | |
NEW ALBUM TO DEBUT TOO LATE FOR GRAMMY CONSIDERATION
*** Mariah Carey is refusing to be pushed around by the Grammys anymore. The songbird, who has won a mere five awards out of 21 nominations since 1991, is officially taking herself out of the running this year. She'll release her album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" on September 29, missing the Grammy cutoff date by just one day.
*** "Mariah's been shafted so many times before that it's like a big 'Kiss my butt' to the Grammy folks," says a music industry insider. "She doesn't need the awards, because her career is already so successful." The diva definitely doesn't need trophies to sell her album: "Memoirs" has already spawned the hit single, "Obsessed" and has generated heavy industry buzz.
*** Although the singer just rescheduled a series of promotional appearances on programs like the "Today" show and "VH1 Storytellers", the insider says Carey is just busy adding more songs to her album, wanting the end result to be perfect. In addition to her CD, the singer is drawing rave reviews for her performance as a Harlem-based social worker in the indie flick "Precious". The Lee Daniels-directed movie debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
*** Meanwhile, fans hoping for a Battle of the Divas will be disappointed to learn that Whitney Houston's new CD will be released nearly a month earlier than Mariah's; the icon's first album in seven years is now set to hit shelves on September 1. Whit should be thankful she's avoiding a showdown with Mimi. Her album's first single, "I Look to You", received a lukewarm reception on pop radio, finally debuting on Billboard's Hot 100 last week at No. 74. Mariah, meanwhile, blasted onto that chart at No. 11 with "Obsessed".
*** Houston is hoping the record's second single, the Alicia Keys/Swizz Beatz-penned track "Million Dollar Bill", will make her some big bucks - it's being released just five weeks after "I Look to You". Says Houston's rep: "Our strategy has always been to release a song to urban formats ('I Look to You') and a song to pop formats ('Million Dollar Bill'). The reviews for 'I Look to You' have been glowing. In fact, Billboard has said this single 'signals the long-awaited return of a true diva'."
(New York Daily News)
MARIAH CAREY BETS ON NOSTALGIA, COVERING FOREIGNER
MARIAH CAREY BETS ON NOSTALGIA, COVERING FOREIGNER
Perhaps realizing that the focus should be less on Mariah Carey's feud with Eminem and a bit more on the pop diva, more hints were dropped today about the singer's upcoming "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel". The ad-supported album, which was originally set for August 25, is now due to be released September 29.
The second single from Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" will apparently be a cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" (perhaps tackling "Don't Stop Believing" would have been a too-obvious choice of pandering). The news was first reported by Roger Friedman, and his article has since been posted on Carey's official website.
This isn't the first time Carey has covered an '80s ballad - see her take on "I Still Believe". The latter gave Carey yet another top 10 hit, a status that has thus far eluded her "Obsessed". But it's far from a tanker, as the song is holding steady at No. 14.
Additionally, Nielsen SoundScan reports that the single has sold 383,000 downloads to date. The tally isn't bad for a song that's only been available for about a month, but it's not showing the kind of initial numbers her "Touch My Body" displayed last spring. The latter sold 286,000 downloads in its debut week, and shot to No. 1.
If anything, tackling a well-known power ballad seems like a safe choice. It's a comfortable fall-back plan after "Obsessed" performed well, but did far from blockbuster numbers. It will undoubtedly be a hit, but it's giving me more reason to fear "Imperfect Angel". The sort-of-real/sort-of-not feud with Eminem seemed largely a ploy to keep Carey in the headlines, and covering Foreigner seems just as calculated to steer Carey back onto familiar ground. Pop & Hiss awaits to be proven wrong.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
MARIAH TO RELEASE BALLAD AS NEW SINGLE?
MARIAH TO RELEASE BALLAD AS NEW SINGLE?
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*** She is also back with her old publicist Cindi Berger of famed public relations group PMK/HBH. The two parted ways after Mariah's Charmbracelet project. The pop diva's 12th studio album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, has been rescheduled for the second time. The set will now arrive on September 29.
*** Berger explained the reason for the delay. "Record release dates change all the time," she told People. "It's nothing unusual and it doesn't signal anything. There are a lot of moving parts to Mariah's professional life... She's making sure the record is how she wants it to be and it's no big deal."
(Rap-Up)
MARIAH REVS UP NEW CD, RETURNS TO POWERHOUSE PR
| MARIAH REVS UP NEW CD, RETURNS TO POWERHOUSE PR
*** Of course, that means both Mariah and Whitney Houston are now being repped by the same PR company. PMK's Kristen Foster is handling Whitney with my old pal, Jill Fritzo. *** "Memoirs" was scheduled for an August 25th release, then moved to September 15th. Now it's set for September 29th. If the regular Grammy deadline had been in place - September 30th - Mariah would have made it. But the unfortunate early deadline of August 31st cut her off. So she has some slack time to get "Memoirs" just right. *** The first single from Mariah's CD will not be "Obsessed" - that was just a summer trifle, and it was a lot of fun. The real first official single is said to be a powerhouse ballad along the lines of "Vision of Love". (Showbiz 411) *** So "Obsessed" is not the first single from the new album. Does this mean "Obsessed" won't be on "Memoirs of an imperfect angel", or does this mean that "Obsessed" is not really a single, despite being released to radio, with live performances, a video and even a physical single? It is No 1 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart. | |
WHY IS MARIAH CAREY CANCELING EVENTS?
WHY IS MARIAH CAREY CANCELING EVENTS?
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*** But the singer's publicist Cindi Berger tells People there is no reason for concern: "These dates have been postponed and not cancelled," she said Friday. A source says the singer is completing her new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, the release of which has been pushed to September 29.
*** "Record release dates change all the time," Berger confirms. "It's nothing unusual and it doesn't signal anything. There are a lot of moving parts to Mariah's professional life... She's making sure the record is how she wants it to be and it's no big deal."
*** In addition to working on her album, Carey is launching another perfume line and promoting her upcoming film, Precious, which is produced by Oprah Winfrey and opens in November. The reason for the calendar re-jiggering is explained further on Carey's official Website: "Mariah is putting the finishing touches on her newest album, and we have shifted all of our TV and promo appearances to coincide with the new release date of September 29th. We can't wait for the fans to hear the new album!!"
(People)
MARIAH CAREY, EMINEM'S WAR OF WORDS A "PUBLICITY STUNT"
MARIAH CAREY, EMINEM'S WAR OF WORDS A "PUBLICITY STUNT"
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*** This urged Eminem to hit back again at her in a new song called "The Warning". According to critics, the fight has been orchestrated to promote Eminem and Carey's new albums - and Cannon seems to agree. "My wife doesn't beef (feud). She's Mariah Carey. She's not beef'in. She's vegetarian," Contactmusic quoted Cannon as telling Us Weekly.
(Thaindian Mews)
Friday, August 14, 2009
Mariah Carey Bets on 'Forever' Perfume
Mariah Carey takes her happiness seriously. That's why she has named her new women's scent "Forever." It's due out in September.
"I am in a wonderful place right now, surrounded by all the things I love, and Forever captures this moment in time," said the entertainer, whose first scent, M by Mariah Carey, launched in September 2007.
"When we work with celebrities, we aim to put together a project which is representative of their life," said Ron Rolleston, executive vice president for global fragrance marketing at Elizabeth Arden, of the new women's launch. "Mariah's happily married, has a movie coming out in November, which already did well at Sundance, and she is releasing a new album in September. She's got a lot of joy and optimism in her life right now, and we wanted to express that in a fragrance."
Perfumer Olivier Gillotin of Givaudan worked with Carey to create the modern opulent floral, which has top notes of neroli, lotus blossom and dewy green apple; a heart of tuberose and gardenia, and a drydown of white musk and exotic woods. "When I first met with Mariah, I was inspired to create a glamorous, opulent floral," said Gillotin. "I wanted the scent to be radiant but to also evoke a warm sensuality. This fragrance has iconic white florals, which convey a powerful message of feminine sensuality and classic glamour."
The collection includes eau de parfum in three sizes — 1 oz. for $42, 1.7 oz. for $55 and 3.3 oz. for $65 — as well as a 0.5-oz. parfum, $250, and a 6.8-oz. body lotion, $28.
In the U.S., the scent will be available in about 2,000 department and specialty store doors, including Macy's, Dillard's and Belk's.
The bottle, inspired by Carey's love of the art deco style, is clear crystal with a gold band around the top. Outer packaging is bright pink with a metallic trim.
While executives declined to discuss sales projections, industry sources estimated that Forever would do upwards of $35 million at retail in its first year on counter. Sources also estimated Arden would spend at least $10 million on advertising and promotion.
Print advertising, shot by Michael Thompson and featuring Carey, will break in October fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazines, including Elle, Vogue, Glamour and In Style. A TV campaign, which also features Carey, is slated for the holiday season. As well, vials on card, scented strips and other scented pieces are expected to deliver upwards of 49 million scented impressions, noted Noreen Dodge, senior vice president, fragrance, global brand development for Elizabeth Arden.
In addition to a dedicated Web site, MariahCareyBeauty.com, a strong social media campaign will also be part of the campaign, Dodge said. Arden plans MariahCareyBeauty pages on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, hoping to leverage Carey's 1.7 million followers on Twitter and 700,000 Facebook fans (Carey also has 132 fan separate fan pages on Facebook.) Arden is also working with social media sites Imeem, Pandora and VideoEgg to further drive business. Pandora will create Carey fragrance-branded backgrounds for users to see while listening to the singer's music, while Imeem will feature an exclusive Forever-themed playlist customized by Carey on its home page. VideoEgg will feed into Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube in an effort to drive traffic to MariahCareyBeauty.com. DailyCandy will offer a "twitter-to-win" sampling program for the fragrance, and Sugar Inc. plans a customized Carey page on its site and a sweepstakes to win the scent.
(Women's Wear Daily)
Australia's Rhyme & Reason Mag Previews Memoirs
Rhyme & Reason, Australia's largest and most frequently issued Urban magazine, was this afternoon treated to an exclusive preview of Mariah Carey's 12th studio album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. A single CD containing six songs from the album was flown in to Sydney from Island Def Jam's New York offices, accompanied by an IDJ representative. Taking every precaution to avoid leaks of Mariah's new material, phones and recording devices were cloaked before the listening session, with the lone CD set to return to New York along with the IDJ representative.
The release of Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel has been delayed until September 29th as Mariah continues to write and record material alongside a collaborator who is understood to be a writer she worked with in the earlier part of her career. Along with the six cuts previewed by Rhyme & Reason, an additional five or six songs are expected to round out the album.
Mariah has entrusted much of the album's production duties to Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, while long-time friend and collaborator Jermaine Dupri also makes a return for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, along with hit-maker Carlos "Los DaMystro" McKinney [Usher, R. Kelly, Whitney Houston].
Mariah co-wrote all of the songs previewed, save for "I Want To Know What Love Is" - the remake of Foreigner's chart-topping 1985 single. "I Want To Know What Love Is" is expected to be the album's next single.
While we don't want to give too much away, below is Rhyme & Reason Magazine's brief breakdown of the six songs previewed from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel:
"CANDY BLING"
Credits: Written by Mariah Carey, Carlos McKinney and Terius Nash. Conducted and produced by Los DaMystro for DaMystro Music LLC/Music Line Entertainment, LLC and produced by Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Radio Killa Records.
Description: A laidback, mid-tempo track set to finger-snaps. At one point, Mariah makes mention of bringing "ODB back".
"OBSESSED"
Credits: Written and produced by Mariah Carey for Maroon Entertainment, Inc., C. "Tricky" Stewart for RedZone Entertainment and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Radio Killa Records.
Description: You should all be familiar with this one...
"H.A.T.E. U"
Credits: Written and produced by Mariah Carey for Maroon Entertainment, Inc., C. "Tricky" Stewart for RedZone Entertainment and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Radio Killa Records.
Description: A slower-tempo song which has Mariah wanting to square off with a trifling partner; "I can't wait to face you / I can't wait to hate you".
"STANDING O"
Credits: Written and produced by Mariah Carey for Maroon Entertainment, Inc., C. "Tricky" Stewart for RedZone Entertainment and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Radio Killa Records.
Description: The "O", of course, stands for "Ovation". This is an unmistakable Dream concoction laid over mid-tempo staccato piano chords and plush synths. The chorus includes Mariah mimicking Dream's signature "oh, oh" vocal punctuations.
"IMPOSSIBLE"
Credits: Written and produced by Mariah Carey for Maroon Entertainment, Inc., C. "Tricky" Stewart for RedZone Entertainment and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Radio Killa Records.
Description: A woozy, somewhat minimalist slow jam.
"I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS"
Credits: Written by Mick Jones. Produced by Mariah Carey for Maroon Entertainment, Inc., C. "Tricky" Stewart for RedZone Entertainment and Big Jim.
Description: Staying true to the original, this piano-lead remake is less an overhaul of the classic 80's hit than it is a modest but impressive update.
( Rhyme & Reason Magazine)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Mariah to Attend NYFF?
"Antichrist" – reviled, awful, coughed up like a hairball at Cannes – is coming to the New York Film Festival. Lars von Trier's sexfest with Willem Dafoe will be a feature presentation this fall at Lincoln Center.
It's the one film of real interest on a list of mostly foreign films and releases of things that people really won't be too excited about.
With the exception of Lee Daniel's "Precious" and a new print of "The Wizard of Oz," this should be some film festival.
The funny thing is, new and unpopular executive director Mara Manus went to Cannes, had an unsuccessful lunch for Hollywood types. Everyone was scared that the NYFF would be overrun with Hollywood releases. Surprise! There aren't any, not even the Coen Brothers' new film.
What happened? Well, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly is gone, and so is any connection to commercial or even indie commercial reality. The other title of this article could be: "Mariah Carey only celebrity expected this year."
(showbiz 411)
It's the one film of real interest on a list of mostly foreign films and releases of things that people really won't be too excited about.
With the exception of Lee Daniel's "Precious" and a new print of "The Wizard of Oz," this should be some film festival.
The funny thing is, new and unpopular executive director Mara Manus went to Cannes, had an unsuccessful lunch for Hollywood types. Everyone was scared that the NYFF would be overrun with Hollywood releases. Surprise! There aren't any, not even the Coen Brothers' new film.
What happened? Well, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly is gone, and so is any connection to commercial or even indie commercial reality. The other title of this article could be: "Mariah Carey only celebrity expected this year."
(showbiz 411)
MARIAH CAREY'S "MEMOIRS" ALBUM DELAYED AGAIN
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MARIAH'S "MEMOIRS" PUSHED BACK AGAIN
MARIAH'S "MEMOIRS" PUSHED BACK AGAIN
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*** The "Obsessed" singer has pulled out of a string of appearances surrounding the album's release, including "VH1 Storytellers", the "Today" show concert series, 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, and her Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.
*** Mariah recently signed with Chris Lighty and Violator Management, which represents 50 Cent, Diddy, and Soulja Boy, among others.
(Rap-Up)
SHOOTER SERIES VOLUME 1
| SHOOTER SERIES VOLUME 1
*** On this DVD are four Mariah videos which were directed by Brett Ratner: "Heartbreaker ft. Jay-Z", "I still believe", "We belong together", and "Touch my body". Other Brett Ratner videos with Mariah, which are not on this DVD, are: "Thank God I found you", "It's like that", and "Obsessed". Maybe these will appear on "Shooter series volume 2"? | |
MARIAH CAREY REALLY WORKING THE "IMPERFECT" ANGLE
| MARIAH CAREY REALLY WORKING THE "IMPERFECT" ANGLE
*** So what's going on? Next week's Billboard Hot 100 has Memoirs‘ lead single "Obsessed" holding steady at No. 14 in its fifth week on the chart - and it's still below its debut-week chart peak of No. 11. The Tricky/The-Dream-helmed track does have a bullet (meaning that overall its metrics gained), and next week's charts see it scaling both the sales and airplay charts, so perhaps Carey's label Island Def Jam is hoping to strike while the iron is a little warmer than it has been up until this point. Still, what with Carey's Twitter going mysteriously silent since her Talent appearance - and the mass pull-out of appearances after that disaster - one has to wonder what, exactly, is going on. (Idolator) | |
MILEY CYRUS TO REPLACE MARIAH CAREY ON "TODAY" SHOW
| MILEY CYRUS TO REPLACE MARIAH CAREY ON "TODAY" SHOW
*** No reason has been given for the cancellation, according to WENN.com. Cyrus most recently appeared on the Teen Choice Awards, which aired Monday, and received some flak for the provocative performance of her new single, "Party in the U.S.A." Carey recently sang her new single, "Obsessed", on "America's Got Talent," the show hosted by her husband, Nick Cannon. *** Cyrus and Carey have recently been linked in another way. Cyrus will be the latest pop star to join the ranks of VH1 Divas when the concert series returns this September. Carey had been one of the original divas when the show made its debut in 1998. *** "Adele, Kelly, Leona and Miley have all captured the world's attention with their talent and have earned their designation as VH1 Divas this year," the show's producer, Lee Rolontz, said, referring to the new lineup. "Don't let some of their young ages fool you - these women are among the best entertainers in the world and will continue to thrill music fans for a long time to come." (MTV News) | |||||
MARIAH CANCELS BIG APPEARANCES
| MARIAH CANCELS BIG APPEARANCES
*** To add insult to injury, Carey is also noticeably absent from the list of performers at this year's MTV VMA's. The songstress was originally scheduled to perform at the September awards in NYC, but Mariah's name has been left off the latest press release. | |
BEATLES TOP POLL FOR MOST POPULAR MUSIC GROUPS
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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP
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*** On October 11, the festival will conclude with Mr. Almodóvar's new film, "Broken Embraces", about a blind and brokenhearted screenwriter. The festival's lineup also includes Lee Daniels's film "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire", as well as Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon", Todd Solondz's "Life During Wartime" and Lars von Trier's "Antichrist".
*** A spotlight retrospective will feature a high-definition restoration of Victor Fleming's "Wizard of Oz" (hopefully not on the same bill as "Antichrist").
(The New York Times)
MARIAH JOINS MACY'S COME TOGETHER CAMPAIGN
MARIAH JOINS MACY'S COME TOGETHER CAMPAIGN
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*** Celebrating the renaissance of cooking at home, Come Together will invite the public to rally around the cause and host special dinners in their homes, but will ask their guests to pledge a donation to Feeding America in lieu of the traditional host gift. In return, Macy's will match these donations dollar-for-dollar until the total goal of 10 million meals is reached. To support the effort, Macy's will launch a major awareness campaign that will include a new star-studded celebrity TV commercial, dinner parties hosted by world-renowned chefs from Macy's Culinary Council at stores across the country, a national charity shopping day, World's Largest Dinner Party; and a one-stop online destination at Macys.com/ComeTogether that will feature recipes, dinner party fashions, invitations, themes, music and other special content to create the perfect gathering.
*** The Come Together campaign will launch in mid-September with one of Macy's famous celebrity TV spots featuring the retailer's "star" designers. The commercial directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, The Addams Family) running in 30-second and 60-second spots, will feature an all-star cast including Mariah Carey, Jessica Simpson, Queen Latifah, Usher, Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Tommy Hilfiger and Donald Trump. A Spanish-language commercial will also feature TV star Carlos Ponce.
*** Mariah: "It's great that Macy's is doing this because it's going to draw attention to the situation and hopefully other people will follow suit."
(MariahCarey.com)
MARIAH'S SLOW-MOVING "ANGEL"
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MACY'S AND FEEDING AMERICA COME TOGETHER
| MACY'S AND FEEDING AMERICA COME TOGETHER
*** "In today's environment, there are two things we know," said Peter Sachse, Macy's chief marketing officer. "The first is that many American families are struggling to get by, making simple luxuries like regular dinners out more fiscally challenging. The second is that hunger is one of the most significantly impacted issues during an economic downturn. Our new initiative with Feeding America is intended to give people the tools and motivation to participate in the cooking at home trend, as well as to give them a service call-to-action to come together with their friends and the rest of America to lend support to a cause that hits every community across this country. Together, we hope to raise 10 million meals for the hungry this fall, as well as to inspire many great moments, meals and memories in homes across the U.S." *** "We are thrilled to partner with Macy's in this campaign and are so grateful for their support and determination to provide 10 million meals," said Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America. "As the need for food in this country is up 30 percent since last year, there is no better time to take action. No American should ever go hungry and it is because of generous and engaged donors like Macy's joining Feeding America in the fight to end domestic hunger that we are able to support 25 million people every year." *** The statistics are staggering, as 35.5 million Americans are at risk of hunger with 12 million of those being children. This year alone the need for food is up 30 percent. While many assume that the homeless make up the largest contingent of the hungry, in reality 89 percent of the people Feeding America serves each year have homes. The need for food increases yearly during the Fall/Winter, a time this campaign will target. In total, Macy's support for the issue has been strong for more than a decade. For the past 12 years, through Macy's, Inc.'s award-winning "Partners in Time" employee volunteer program, Macy's has aimed to "Bag Hunger" with its annual summer fundraising, food collection and volunteer effort. As the company readies to kick off this national consumer effort, Macy's announced results from its own internal campaign - a total impact equivalent to 9.7 million pounds of food - or 7.6 million meals. *** To get involved the public may participate in three ways - Host, Give and Shop. Friends and families across the country can host dinner parties from casual to formal, send invitations and manage party details including themes and recipes on www.macys.com/cometogether. As they invite their guests, hosts can suggest they make a donation in lieu of bringing wine or a dish to the party. The donation can be made directly to Feeding America on the Macy's site. For those who want to participate without throwing a dinner party, donations can be made directly at any Macy's register - one dollar to provide dinner for seven. Lastly, Macy's customers can shop for the cause and get special savings in-store on October 17, when Macy's hosts a national Shop For A Cause day - where a portion of the $5 in-store ticket sales will benefit Feeding America. *** The Come Together campaign will launch in mid-September with one of Macy's famous celebrity TV spots featuring the retailer's "star" designers. The commercial directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, The Addams Family) running in 30-second and 60-second spots, will feature an all-star cast including Jessica Simpson, Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Usher, Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Tommy Hilfiger and Donald Trump. A Spanish-language commercial will also feature TV star Carlos Ponce. Set in a Macy's store at the close of the day, the fun and appealing cast will relax over a meal peppered with the usual and unexpected twists and turns that occur at all great gatherings. To further create awareness, Macy's Come Together will be featured in print ads that disrupt the normal boundaries of advertising into editorial content, as well as in direct mail, magazines, in-store signage, an online microsite, customer e-mails, outreach via social media, and more than 50 in-store culinary events and fashion parties across the country. To launch the campaign, Macy's will host a special VIP dinner party during New York Fashion Week on September 15th in its flagship Herald Square store. The event, hosted by Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse, will benefit Feeding America and will include other celebrity and VIP guests, along with Macy's customers. On that day, at 6pm local time in more than 650 full-line Macy's stores across the country, shoppers will get a taste of this important initiative as Macy's hosts the World's Largest Dinner Party. This kick-off event will have customers join in the "first course" of the nationwide party to celebrate the launch and to educate the public about the effort. The Come Together campaign concludes on October 21, 2009. *** Macy's Culinary Council, made up of 15 world-renowned chefs including Emeril Lagasse, Tyler Florence, Todd English, as well as entertaining authority Martha Stewart, will serve as the experts of this campaign, offering up dinner party themes, recipe ideas, product suggestions and even their suggested playlists, to help America host delectable and entertaining dinners. All of this great content will be available on macys.com/cometogether and in other direct mail vehicles during the campaign. *** With Come Together, Macy's and Feeding America hope to generate attention to the staggering issue of domestic hunger while inspiring the nation to gather over dinner for this important cause. (Business Wire) | ||
Monday, August 10, 2009
WENDY WILLIAMS ON EMINEM'S NAKED PICTURES OF MARIAH
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
STARS THROW A DINNER PARTY IN NEW AD
STARS THROW A DINNER PARTY IN NEW AD
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*** It's the newest commerical from Macy's and "Feeding America" for the "Come Together" campaign to help end hunger. "It's great that Macy's is doing this because it's going to draw attention to the situation and hopefully other people will follow suit," Mariah tells ET.
***"Hopefully this commercial will help raise money for 'Feeding America'," says Jessica. "I think that it's such an incredible charity, and it's amazing when you think about the numbers of how many people are hungry in America."
(ET online)
Mariah at Las Vegas' Palms Print Ad
Below is the full-page advertisement for Mariah's concerts at The Palms, Las Vegas whose tickets go on sale starting tomorrow, August 8th at noon. The ad appeared in Las Vegas Weekly and City Life magazines yesterday and runs in the daily newspaper Las Vegas Review-Journal today.
Source: Gilbert | MariahDailyJournal
New "Ultra Pink" Exclusive at Wal-Mart
The new Ultra Pink fragrance is now available exclusively at Wal-Mart.
Below are pictures of Mariah's "Ultra Pink" display stand at a Wal-Mart store.
Get your diva on with Ultra Pink, the exclusive new fragrance by Mariah Carey. A colorful floral melody, Ultra Pink is flirty and fun and embraces Mariah's feminine side. Soft accents of cherry blossoms and wild berries, combined with signature dewy Tiare Petals and a creamy blend of Sun-Kissed woods create a radiant and vibrant fragrance.
Get your "Ultra Pink" bottle by visiting any Wal-Mart store or online for $30
| The new Mariah Carey "Ultra Pink" embraces Mariah's feminine side, flirty and fun. –Get your diva on with Ultra Pink, the exclusive new fragrance by Mariah Carey –A colorful floral melody, Ultra Pink is flirty and fun and embraces Mariah's feminine side –Soft accents of cherry blossoms and wild berries, combined with signature dewy Tiare Petals and a creamy blend of Sun-Kissed woods create a radiant and vibrant fragrance |
Below are pictures of Mariah's "Ultra Pink" display stand at a Wal-Mart store.
Get your diva on with Ultra Pink, the exclusive new fragrance by Mariah Carey. A colorful floral melody, Ultra Pink is flirty and fun and embraces Mariah's feminine side. Soft accents of cherry blossoms and wild berries, combined with signature dewy Tiare Petals and a creamy blend of Sun-Kissed woods create a radiant and vibrant fragrance. (Walmart)
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Get your "Ultra Pink" bottle by visiting any Wal-Mart store or online for $30
Source: Wal-Mart | Jeremy
Friday, August 7, 2009
MARIAH CAREY GOES KARAOKE
| MARIAH CAREY GOES KARAOKE
*** We can see the children's choir on stage already. The rest is classic Mariah with R&B tracks Candy Bling, Standing O and Impossible and a biting tribute to Eminem with Obsessed. (Mirror) | |
PREVIEW: MARIAH CAREY
PREVIEW: MARIAH CAREY
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****Candy Bling: A melodic, mid-tempo soul shaker with understated vocals that leave you thoroughly detoxed. Not the booty-trembling hip-hop anthem you'd expect from the title. 4/5
****Obsessed: The hard-hitting yet elegant lead single has MC declaring: "It must be the weed, it must be the E, 'cause you be poppin', you get it poppin'." Eminem bating? Possibly - but definitely biting. 4/5
****H.A.T.E. U: Mariah has invited fans to guess the meaning of the track's initials, but it's clear it stands for a lady in love as she purrs through a hypnotic, musical aphrodisiac. 4/5
****Standing O: The O is officially for ovation but, given the intimacy of this tune, it must be a double entendre. A toe-tapper but not quite a show-stopper. 3/5
****Impossible: MC loves you "like a milkshake", although the melody isn't quite as full-flavoured as you'd hope. 2/5
****I Want To Know What Love Is: Foreigner's cheesy 80s signature power ballad, given the Carey the Carey treatment and complete with choir and karaoke climax. It's a great re-work. 5/5
(Daily Star)
MARIAH CAREY'S NEW LP GETS THE BIZ REVIEW TREATMENT
| MARIAH CAREY'S NEW LP GETS THE BIZ REVIEW TREATMENT
*** I was played a selection of tracks from the CD, due on September 14, and they left me feeling that the diva has run out of steam. The collection has been billed as her most personal so far, harking back to the sound of her mid-Nineties heyday. But its reliance on bland, dated-sounding, dreary R'n'B bored me to tears. *** Cliched lyrics about things being better "back in the day" and loving someone like "Kool Aid" don't help either. A cover of Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is was competent at best. And with little of her trademark vocal pyrotechnics on display I can't find much to recommend what I heard. *** There's still more tracks to finish before the album hits the shelves. I just hope they're not as bad as the one's she's already handed in... (The Sun) | |
MARIAH CAREY TO RELEASE COLLECTOR'S SET
MARIAH CAREY TO RELEASE COLLECTOR'S SET
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*** In addition, those who purchase the collector's set will receive a Mariah poster to remind them of all the money they just spent.
(Rap-Up)
NICK CANNON CLAIMS "OBSESSED" IS ABOUT HIM, NOT EMINEM
NICK CANNON CLAIMS "OBSESSED" IS ABOUT HIM, NOT EMINEM
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*** "I don't care what nobody say, that song is about me, because I am obsessed with this beautiful girl right here," Cannon said on the show after Carey performed the controversial track. "This beautiful woman next to me has more #1 hit singles than any single artist in the world. How do you do it?"
*** After Carey clarified that the Beatles have more hit singles than her, Cannon added, "We ain't worried about them, because it's all about Mariah right now. She's modest, she's beautiful. Ladies and gentlemen, my soul mate, Mariah Carey."
*** Cannon had been angling to get Carey on the show since its premiere earlier this summer. "They keep asking me that - I don't know. It's a possibility. She loves the show," he told MTV News in June. "She has a hot new album coming out. It's the hottest show on TV, so why wouldn't that work out? So hopefully the timing works out and she does get to come represent."
*** He also had previously mentioned that he thought the song was about him when he spoke to us while promoting "AGT". "I always say I thought the record was about me, 'cause I'm obsessed with my wife," he said. "But if somebody's out there and you feel like you might have been obsessed, then the record's about you."
(MTV News)
NICK WELCOMES "SOULMATE" MARIAH TO AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
NICK WELCOMES "SOULMATE" MARIAH TO AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
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*** Then, AGT welcomed Mariah Carey, host Nick Cannon's wife, to the stage to perform her new single "Obsessed", off her upcoming album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. "I don't care what nobody say, that song is about me because I am obsessed with this beautiful girl right here," Cannon said as his wife finished her song. "This beautiful woman next to me has more No. 1 hit singles than any single artist in the world. How do you do it?"
*** "Well, there's a group that has more," she said, referring to the Beatles. "And clearly, we can't touch them." "We ain't worried about them because it's all about Mariah right now," Cannon replied. "No, no. This is your show," she said to her husband. "I'm just so happy to be here."
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*** In a split decision, Broad, who played the piano and danced to "Footloose" the night before, was selected to move on to the next round of competition, getting votes from judges Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff while Piers Morgan's vote went to Megia.
(People)
MARIAH CAREY PREVIEWS NEW SONGS
MARIAH CAREY PREVIEWS NEW SONGS
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*** "LA Reid and Mariah thank you for taking the time to listen to Mariah's first finished tracks - there's loads more to come, it's a contemporary but evocative classic Mariah Carey album," he said.
(The Press Association)
MARIAH CAREY: "OBSESSED" IS DEFINITELY NOT A FLOP
MARIAH CAREY: "OBSESSED" IS DEFINITELY NOT A FLOP
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*** This column was one of the first that heralded the single as a flop, but we put our foot down way too soon. When a single by a big artist is first released, the die-hard fans buy a lot of copies the first week. Thus, Mariah had a huge spike of sales that made her debut at number 11.
*** After first week sales level off, the song either drops completely off the charts or drops and slowly climbs its way back up if the rest of the general public like the song. After dropping out of the top 20 in iTunes, Mariah has made her way up to as high as number 14. It is quite possible that the song will rise up to the top 5 again on iTunes. Mariah will most likely score another top ten single.
*** Despite our admitting that we called "flop" way too early, it is still obvious that Mariah is in need of a makeover. The song isn't the huge number one smash people expected and several fans and non-fans have said they are growing tired of Mariah's hoochie mama act. In any case, Mariah is making more money than all the people reading this column put together so perhaps we should just let her be.
(Examiner)
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