I was a fan of Mariah Carey in the era before she fully switched to R&B. I mean, who wasn’t impressed by her vocal range and flexibility, right?! Her albums were played on repeat and, it’s clear, we collectively do the same with her Christmas song “All I Want For …
Written for Kurrent Music Published January 2nd 2017 Twitter welcomed me into the new year with a timeline jam-packed with tweets about Mariah Carey. If this were 1999 or so, this would’ve worked for me fine, but for many years I’ve seen Mariah slip into this world of madness. It’s …
Published February 14th 2016 In honor of it being Valentine’s Day today, I’m sharing my list of what I consider to be great songs love songs. Mariah Carey – Vision Of Love For a while, Mariah Carey was the queen of love songs and “Vision Of Love” kicked off her …
This morning I woke up to my Facebook timeline and this article about Grace Jones on the Time Out website: “Grace Jones slays Rihanna, Miley, Gaga and Kanye in this exclusive extract from her autobiography” With a title like that, you can’t help but be interested to see what it’s about. While …
Published August 29th 2015 Just last year I wrote a story about Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, featuring all the facts behind the song. Since it’s release it’s become the annual anthem for the holidays and no other Christmas song, including past classics, has been …
Published August 6th, 2015 As the new TV season is currently in preparation, you can’t have missed all of the announcements about upcoming appearances in the hit show ‘Empire’. The show about the fictive music label ‘Empire Entertainment’ has got everybody talking since it hit the screens. It’s captivated a …
Published May 7th 2015 Mariah Carey has been under fire for a long time. Videos of her missing notes, not singing live or simply cooking up strange stuff, seem to be hitting the social media scene more than anything positive happening with her career. But even on the eve of …
Published April 27 2015 Even though Mariah Carey is rumoured to have recorded a diss about her ex-husband Nick Cannon, her new single “Infinity” describes nothing more than the ‘art of letting go’. Many artists use a lot of their own personal life in the songs they write, but not all …
A few days ago, a rumor emerged that Mariah Carey could be leaving Def Jam/Universal to team up with LA Reid and Sony… again. Mariah Carey Returns Mariah left Sony, after about 10 years, for EMI/Virgin in 2000. At that time, she signed the biggest record deal ever ($100 million …
With Christmas approaching, this is one of those songs that doesn’t bore you.. ok, me then! I love Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas“! Christmas Classic It’s a real classic. In fact, in the States, this is the most successful Christmas song written since Bing Crosby recorded “Do You …
