I hate the pink font. Why could she have done something similar to The Emanicipation of Mimi cover ?!<~That cover was HAWT!!!

wee. so simple... i dun like the cover....
i prefer EOM

tracklist is now out:

01. Migrate featuring T-Pain
02. Touch My Body
03. Cruise Control featuring Damian Marley
04. I Stay In Love
05. Side Effects featuring Young Jeezy
06. I'm That Chick
07. Love Story
08. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
09. Last Kiss
10. Thanx 4 Nothin'
11. O.O.C.
12. For The Record
13. Bye Bye
14. I Wish You Well

Source: MariahDaily

^I wish it would've moved up a little bit further.

It will next week. No digital downloads have been up for sale yet, so this is all purely based on airplay. I believe the track goes on sale on Tuesday of next week, so it's sure to jump to #2 or #1, depending how it compares with that annoying new Usher song.

1500*1500 Cover

LOL. Flop cover. </3

wow, the cover is really bad. kinda remind me of koda kumi's dvd and calendar font which ruined the image.

Although i don't like Mariah ... I like the cover.

Also, can the mods please change "That Chick" in the title to "E=MC²"

That cover is amazing.... gorgeous. Reminds me so much of her #1's cover:
http://i27.tinypic.com/195r95.jpg

actually i dont like touch my body...
it's like that is better..

TMB so boring..
i hope next single will be awesome

I think the cover could have been better. Mariah's personal look is simple and classily sexy, but the feathers are big and distracting and seem like they belong in another photo. It's a kind of unsuccessful combination of beaty and tackiness - they should have just picked one style or the other. Mariah could look at home in both, but this 50/50 cover doesn't really suit her.

i saw on wikipedia almost all song written by mariah

if you're a fan of Mariah...look at this:

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71461

Mariah's written pretty much all of her stuff for the past 18 years.

I actually like the cover, even though I'm a bit disappointed that it's not the picture with the hat that was posted earlier.

Definitely 100% better than Madonna's new cover, that's for sure. I like Madonna and I'll be getting the album regardless of the cover, but that doesn't stop me from thinking it's just terrible. :headache

funny thing my roomie said when she saw this "touch my body cuz no one else will!" lol

I think the cover is trying to cover up any... awkwardness with her body, so that people won't point out any obvious photoshopping when she appears live..

Didn't that happen with the Emancipation of Mimi?

well, when she performed on SNL, her body looked really good. she's definitely lost a lot of weight.

woow.. i dunno aboutthat..
i thought she just wrote the lyric

Wow she looks SO unhealthy there. Her body is not meant to be that small.

Please support Mariah by buying Touch My Body on iTunes.

Original Version

Official Remix feat. The Dream

Billboard itself wrote an article about how Mimi will probably get the #1 spot next week on their Hot 100 Singles Chart! If she gets that position, it will push her ahead of Elvis for the second highest number of #1s ever, only behind the Beatles!:

I think Touch My Body is alright. It's definitely not a Mariah classic, but then again, nothing on Mimi was either. Hopefully there are some really good hits on E=MC2. I do like the cover because the font is really nice and she looks nice in the feathery garment.

what is her 2nd single??

Comcast exclusive content:
Love Story
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AzVxXDu_QTs

Migrate
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwL8bK7cfY

Bye Bye
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j8u1rR7wjUY

Bye Bye is 2nd Single

Not true. It has yet to be decided currently. As a longtime Mariah fan, I know that at least 2 or 3 singles get mentioned by Mariah and/or the label before one is chosen.

Resource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Bye..._Carey_song%29
(Radio Interview with Mariah Carey) http://www.zshare.net/audio/969663254eb3eb/

I told you, I've been a Mariah fan for a LONG time. I know what she does, she'll confirm one single, and then a month later a totally different single comes out. It's been happening ever since Butterfly. I remember when she confirmed that "Say Somethin'" would be the lead single off of TEOM, but that never happened. Trust me, she confirms a lot of stuff that never happens as far as singles.

I think "Migrate feat T-Pain" will be the second US single, I think they'll release a club track next rather than another mid-tempo song ...

it's just my guess tho. she releases different singles in different regions too though.

Source: MariahDaily

Congrats Mariah!

so? are you her assitant? Back off with your judge. I just follow the news and update.

ohh.. bye bye.. i hope this song will be better than touch my body.
sorry i dont like touch my body

I understand, but I'm just saying that no one should take what she says for full value.... she always changes her mind :D She's unpredictable, that's why I love her!

Mariah hit #1! And she surpassed Elvis :D Yay.

I didn't really love 90s Mariah, but I do think it's great that she's managed to return to the top after her breakdown. She has the voice, she works with the right people, and her new #1 is a big achievement when so many pop artists self-destruct and never get back up after a few years in the business.

Does she still have the voice? I wonder if she's restraining it in her new songs, or just doesn't have it anymore. =[ I would like to see her use her voice to its full potential, even though I do like her current style, I want to see her belt it out.

Watch the videos I posted. She still has it.

And I saw her a few weeks ago...she can belt it out like whoa.

I think she realizes that over singing is very real, and she doesn't to do that to fans (like Christina Aguilera does). Plus, hip-hop right now is all about light and airy voices, not big booming ones like she had back in the 90s. But if you listen to her non-singles tracks, you'll see she's still got the voice!

album previews are out on Amazon now.

This is definitely her most hip-hop album yet. "Touch My Body" is probably the most pop.

the album sounds very promising :D

the songs with B.Cox as the producers sound the best, "I Stay In Love" and especially "For The Record".

I can't wait for this album. :love

A couple songs sound interesting but I feel like most of the album is the exact same song. I prefer old school Mariah.

Me too. Everything from No. 1's and back was just classic. I miss those days.

As a fan of both old school and new school Mariah, I have to say that I too get sad when I think about albums like Butterfly or Daydream and realize she'll never make anything like that again. But I almost think of them as two separate artists... and while I like Mariah better than Mimi, she's still miles ahead of other female pop/R&B artists out there :D

I prefer old school Mariah as well. Like milky way said, up until #1's she was gold, but she's gone steadily downhill ever since. She isn't at a level of crap just yet, but rather at extreme mediocrity.

I definitely don't find her post #1s career to be a steady decline... actually, I find Rainbow to have been a worse album than Glitter. But then her quality of music took a nosedive with Charmbracelet. And then a huge spike upward to Emancipation, and maybe E=MC2 will only have a slight dip in quality.

And Mariah is so good with keeping up with what is popular and very at-the-moment, so maybe that's why people think she's putting out mediocre stuff... because mediocrity is what is selling these days :D But really, if MC had kept going in the adult-contemporary direction of the days of "old Mariah," her career would've been over by now. That era was very much dead and gone after Butterfly.

I agree 100% with your second paragraph, but in reference to the first one, I think Rainbow>Glitter>Charmbracelet>Emancipation. I just personally found Emancipation to be selling out, but that's just because I was so used to the old Mariah, not "Mimi". E=MC2 is actually sounding a lot better than I expected now that I've heard the previews on Amazon, but no tracks seem to be amazing.

Glitter better than Emancipation? :thud I love Glitter, I think it was better than Rainbow or Charmbracelet, but it did not have the hit-after-hit feel of TEOM. TEOM wasn't what Mariah was used to doing, but it was a strong, powerful, quality contemporary R&B record with hit written all over it, which is honestly a rarity today. Most R&B today is one-hit-wonder drivel.

Rainbow is also one of her worst CDs, IMO. It was SUCHHHHH a huge drop after Butterfly, which was easily her best. Half of Rainbow's tracks sound like used up demos rejected by Destiny's Child. And Charmbracelet, as much as I loved "Boy" and a few others, sounded like something you'd expect Toni Braxton or some other washed-up adult-contemporary R&B singer to make. :no E=MC2 sounds like a half-step backwards to me, but I'm not mad at her. She's taking this hip-hop thing a little too far, but I still find it really enjoyable.

Oh god, y'all don't even wanna get me started on MC :laugh 17 years of fandom right here.

I definitely agree that Rainbow was a huge drop from Butterfly, which is also my favorite album, but I certainly didn't think it was a poor album. It's actually one of my favorites to be entirely honest. I liked that sort of transitional phase when Mariah began to have R&B influences, but still remained true to her roots (which I believe she did from Butterfly-Charmbracelet). Once she hit Emancipation, I just lost her because that really just is not my type of music, and it certainly isn't what made me a Mariah fan. So that's why I liked it much less than yes, even Glitter (which I don't consider a real album anyways, but that's just my opinion). I guess if you excluded Glitter from my previous post, then my order might seem a little more reasonable. Charmbracelet was actually pretty close to Rainbow in terms of how much I liked it. Rainbow seemed to skip around a bit while Charmbracelet seemed a little more steady to me. But it didn't have as many fantastic songs as Rainbow did.

Anyways, I do think E=MC2 will be better than Emancipation, so at least she's going up slightly in my book. Still, it isn't what I would like her to be doing, but I'll always love the woman at the very least for what she did in her past.

Haha, now you've got me listening to her music again :D

lol, Whenever a new album comes out I always go back and listen to all of her stuff again. And it always makes me realize that Butterfly is the best. The whole album was very melancholy, and there was only one really upbeat track. "The Roof" and "Breakdown" are genius, especially. Loved the Mobb Deep sample and the Bone Thugz guest appearance. Okay, just for the heck of it...

01. Butterfly
02. Mariah Carey
03. The Emancipation of Mimi
04. Emotions
05. Music Box
06. Glitter
<Merry Christmas :xmas>
07. Daydream
08. Rainbow
09. Charmbracelet

Just out of curiosity, do the people who claim to like "old Mariah" even like stuff from her first two CDs? I find that a lot of people say they liked her better in the 90s, but they can't name a single song before 1993.

Well basically all of Mariah in the 90's was pretty good to me, but some of her songs pre-93 were fantastic. Vision of Love, Emotions (which is forever great for the super high notes toward the end), I Don't Wanna Cry, Love Takes Time, Someday, and I'll Be There are all favorites of mine.

I think when most people say they liked the old Mariah though, they mean anything before Rainbow and #1's. I think Always Be My Baby, Hero, My All, etc. may be what most people like the best, but then again I can't read their minds.

Glitter might not be considered an official original album in her discography, since it's also technically the soundtrack to the infamous movie.

I personally prefer newer mariah. I think EOM is her best album yet, most of her albums clearly have the hits & the fillers whereas EOM has just quality tracks all the way.

I'm really excited for her new album. I'd buy it right away, but I'm probably going to download it & wait to see if there's a deluxe reissue to buy lol

I don't think any of the current vocalists come close to Mariah. I think most people only focus on the belting type of singing ,tho I admit Mariah can't belt anymore like she used to she's still the best. but Mariah also excels in the lowers registers, sounding silky & smooth. and naturally there's her trademark of instantly going from high to low register. not to mention the famous whistle range ...

I've yet to see any of these people hailed as the "new mariah" to pull of anything like this. Leona and etc are good singers but they aren't MC :P

Vision of Love has been in my top 3 of Mariah songs ever since I first heard it, even as the other two have changed, so I do like some of her very early stuff.

Preferring old/new Mariah: it's pretty much the same for me, except I now like her songs for different reasons. I don't think she's ever had an album I loved the whole way through, but with the 90s stuff and Emancipation there are usually at least a few songs I really like - then the beautiful ballads, now quality R&B.

I loved her first album. I loved all the singles and Prisoner of Love is one of my favorite Mariah songs :heart

If I had to rank her albums, I'd say...

1. Butterfly
2. Mariah Carey
3. The Emancipation of Mimi
< The Remixes >
4. Daydream
5. Charmbracelet
6. Music Box
7. Glitter
8. Rainbow
9. Emotions

The memories I associate with her music (particularly "Butterfly") are why I still loyally buy her albums even if I don't care for the direction they go in. "Mimi" and this new one appear to signal a return to form, though.

Bye Bye full version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_obJPJUWHK0

Mariah always lipsynchs on Euro/Asian TV shows (a long time ago she said that they asked her to...not sure what that's all about), so this is basically the CD track.

I never get why she lip-synchs at shows in Europe. But anyway, the song is okay... it sounds really ghetto tho. Like, poorly produced.

The album has leaked!!!! Its at KMC!!, i wont give out links soo yeah find it out yourself

downloading it now OMG!! <3

I'm only on the fourth track so far, but already this album kicks Emancipation of Mimi's ass! I especially like Migrate, which is a wonderful opener. I hope it becomes the second single. I'd buy the album, but I have a feeling it will have a rerelease since all the big albums seem to nowadays (and Emancipation did anyways).

Buy it! :laugh

I love the album already. I think some of the songs will be growers, because they're starting to sound a little bit samey for me. The ones that really stick out to me righ tnow are "Migrate", "Touch My Body", "Cruise Control", "Side Effects", "I'm That Chick", "Bye Bye" and "I'll Be Loving You Long Time." IBLYLT is probably my favorite so far. Loveeeeeee it.

^"I'll Be Loving You Long Time" is by far the top track in my opinion as well. Even though that sample from DeBarge's "Stay with Me" is way overused, there's a reason it's so ubiquitous: it can make virtually any song insanely catchy. A close second for me in terms of favourites is "For the Record", I think that would make a great single choice in addition to any of the songs you mentioned. I definitely agree that some of the production gets repetitive and is very familiar (particularly the JD tracks), but the main draw of Mariah Carey's music has always been her voice, so a satisfying album from her doesn't really rely on cutting edge or adventurous production. That being said, I definitly think this album has slighlty bolder and more varied prouction than the last, so I prefer it a tad over otherwise excellent Emancipation of Mimi.

"Bye Bye" has been confirmed as the second single, by the way. While it wasn't really a stand-out to me, I think the sappy but easily relatable lyrics will make it a radio hit, so I'm definitly not opposed to it's release, especially since "Migrate" is inevitably going to see release down the road eventually, given that she's already performed it.

im still buying this album even though i give it a good generic mark 6/10

Maybe it will grow on me :D

I may be going crazy, but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that MC was going to release 5 singles from this album. If that's true, then here's my choices for singles, in order of release:

01. Touch My Body
02. Migrate
03. For The Record
04. I'm That Chick
05. Lovin' You Long Time

I like "For The Record" a LOT too... I remember hearing it on her perfume commercials a while ago and really liking it.

i listened yday too.. "I Wish You Well" definitely the best... good vocal nice piano..she too good in this.. another best track? "I'm That Chick"! the one and only good dance track inside... "O.O.C." still ok in term of fast tempo song... "Bye Bye" sad song... "I Stay In Love" very her 90s style... mid tempo song a bit r&b...

not really like her new try... "Touch My Body" ok for song not for the mv... "Migrate" are bad for me... plz, i dunwan it be single... "Cruise Control"/"Side Effects" still ok, but really destroy by rap part...

The album is very much "Emancipation of Mimi part 2" , but I'm liking it regardless.

there are plenty of really good tracks. "Cruise control" , "Migrate" , "That Chick" , "I'll be loving u long time" & "For The Record" are the best IMO.

that downside is that there are too many JD-produced tracks, which aren't bad tho, but they really blend together. she should have used some other producers , just few JD tracks would have been enough. Polow & Darkchild could have each make her a track instead :o

but overall it's an excellent album. I can't say if it's really better than mimi tho, I think they're both pretty equal.

I'm pretty sure there's going to be at least 5 singles off the album, if not more. They might release different singles in EU than in US like with mimi.

I love the album.

And I'm addicted to Side Effects. Though it would've been better without Jeezy. When she starts belting out at the ends she sound so in pain. Such a personal track, I'm really surprised!

I'm trying my best to not listen to the album until it's release. Hopefully I can last 1 more week :D

the album turned out better than I was expecting. I'm really enjoying it <3

I really like the way Mariah's voice sounds, but unfortunately I'm not really feeling the songs. I definitely prefer Emancipation.

I didn't know if I liked it the first time I listened, but it's grown on me really quickly. I think the melodies on this album are deceptive --- they appear simple at first, but then they get stuck in your head and you realize how well they actually work. "I Stay In Love" and "Love Story" are particularly good examples of this. I'll definitely be buying the CD when it hits the stores.

Also, "For The Record" is startlingly good. If Mariah/her record company doesn't release this as a single, they'll be making a very bad business decision. On the same topic, I don't think "Bye Bye" is an appropriate choice for a second single. It should have been "Migrate" instead at this point to build hype for the album. "Bye Bye" should have been saved for the last single.

"Bye Bye" initially sounded like a horrible single choice to me... but I find it really stuck in my head lately. It's got a very satisfying melody. And "For The Record" is my new favorite. As you said, Northerner, it's "startlingly good." I was shocked at how great it is. I don't like "O.O.C" yet but "Cruise Control" has really started to stand out to me. But yeah, "For The Record", "Migrate" and "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" are my favorites.

After listening a little bit more, my favorite songs are Migrate, Touch My Body, I Stay In Love, and Side Effects. I've especially started loving I Stay In Love. It's just so emotional, and the notes she hits by the end are fantastic.

"For The Record" is HOT!! <3

My favorite at the moment is "I stay in love" but I haven't listened to the whole album.

My favourite is also I Stay In Love.. Migrate and I'm That Chick are nice songs also!
Overall, this is not the best Mariah album, but it's good anyway.

"Touch My Body" is #1 again this week on the Billboard Hot 100. Congrats to Mimi. She has now tied Elvis for the most weeks at #1 by an artist.

When her album is released next week, she'll kick Leona Lewis off a #1 spot again. I wonder what the first week sales will be - unlike last time there's no doubt that she's still relevant but I'm going to guess that the sales won't be as big as Emancipation's.

^ I'm sure the sales will be good, but I don't see this album outselling Emancipation.

I just don't see EMC hacing as many hit singles as EOM, especially with the single choices so far. I doubt any can match "We Belong Together" + other singles or even the re-issue "Don't Forget About Us" which really prolonged the chart life of the album.

I agree with you. I definitely don't see Bye Bye becoming as enormous a hit as We Belong Together, or even Don't forget About Us. The lyrics are beautiful, but what does that matter when the melody is so dull? After listening to the album a few times, I've realized that it opens strong, but after Side Effects, just sort of goes downhill into extreme mediocrity. I think that it's definitely worse than Emancipation after reevaluating it :\

I do like EMC over EOM, but just barely. ( and might be just because EMC is still fresh and I've listened EOM so much lol)

but EOM definitely had more variety and single material.

my choice for singles off EMC:

1st Migrate
2nd For The Record
3rd Cruise Control (EU) / Touch My Body (US)

and that's it, I don't really see any other songs working as singles. EMC really needs a re-issue like EOM had. EOM re-issue added a great ballad and few club tracks to the album, and EMC really needs the same treatment. at the moment EMC has too many sameish mid-tempo songs and only a couple really upbeat tracks.

EMC japanese release has two extra tracks tho. the titles "Heat" & "4real4real feat da Brat" suggest to me that they're more upbeat, but I guess we'll see.

Where you guys download the album ?

THanks in advanced

PMed you :innocent

Source MariahDaily & Billboard

Fly Like A Bird

For 99cents please support the "Idol Gives Back" cause and download Mariah's performance of "Fly Like A Bird" from last night.

Yeah, that was pretty much my impression on first listen. EOM felt like it had more variety, but on EMC pretty much everything, even Migrate, seemed like part of the same mid-tempo blur. A very nice-sounding blur every now and then, but I definitely prefer EOM.

This was seriously an amazing performance. Loved it. Even better than her Grammy performance of it.

Bye bye sounds good... The album is out on 14th or 15th?
Site writes 15th but I saw in HMV it says 14th

^15th

the bonus tracks have leaked.

both are sort of like mid-tempo club tracks, unfortunately neither is anything that special. I was hoping for something better ...

all i can say is that wen i heard the name of this album on the radio last night during work
i full on cracked up laughing...
no offence but imo i reckon E=MC^2 is just a random name...

Well, if you think about it, Emancipation = Mariah Carey to the second power. That's how I think of it!

that's what the title means. MSN article with Mariah about the title

my favorite quote from the article:
Mariah keeps it real :D

Look at this and LOL:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...Capture1-2.jpg

They are whoring this album majorly. Anyone hear about the Empire State bulding being lit up for the release as well? This album is gonna sell like crazy. I know I'm buying it tomorrow :D

Yeah, there is so much promotion. Did anyone else see her on Oprah today? It's on YouTube, as are her commercials for MTV. She's doing that thing with MTV where she's got a commercial at every single break. They're hilarious, especially these two:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP3Tk9sy2lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxH2kxub1w

most european studios do not have live equipment that is why most europena bands lipsync.

does anyone know the chart on global chart?

Yes, she's a diva but I get the impression she's honest about what she's good at and what she's not. I feel she's earned it and she doesn't seem nasty or arrogant the way some other celeb divas do. So far I've heard good things about how she treats her fans.

Would a name change to the Official Mariah Thread be good? She's a big star, so there should still be things to talk about even after E=MC2's release.