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Mariah Carey: 2000-present
Carey suffered physical and mental exhaustion in 2001. Her acting debut in the film Glitter, panned by many popular movie critics, coupled with her many years of excessively hard work appeared to have taken a toll on her. She complained her record label wasn't promoting her albums. She left her longtime label to sign a contract with Virgin Records, under which her 10th album "Glitter" was released. The lead single "LoverBoy" reached #2 in the Hot 100. The album peaked at #7 Carey's lowest peaking album ever, despite being hailed as some of Mariah's best work. To date.. It has sold 3 million copies worldwide, which is about what "Rainbow" sold in the US. Finally, Mariah made an appearance on MTV's TRL, where she was scantily clad and acting strangely. After that, she checked into a mental health facility and announced that she was taking a break from performing.
Mariah released a new album,
Charmbracelet in December 2002, it debuted at #3. She's interested in writing music that is more profound having meaning to her and her fans. The album included the singles "Through The Rain", "Boy (I Need You)" featuring rapper
Cam'ron, and a cover of Def Leppard's '80s hit "Bringin' On The Heartbreak". None of the three singles really took off with radio though fans continued to buy her singles in the thousands, leading to the conclusion that Carey had lost her "radio magic" After a decade of one radio hit after another.
However, in 2003, a duet with
Busta Rhymes entitled "I Know What You Want" fared considerably better, having reached the top five (#3) of Billboard's pop singles chart and the top five in rap radio airplay. It is also featured on the latest release
The Remixes, a double CD containing a series of remixes. That year, she was awarded the World Music Awards "Diamond Award" in honor of over 150 million album sales worldwide.
Carey spent the majority of 2004 preparing for the release of her tenth studio album, entitled "The Emancipation of Mimi". That fall she was featured on Jadakiss's hit single "U Make Me Wanna". Although the song was not as great of a success as her
Busta Rhymes collaboration, it managed to hit the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B chart. In November, a new song from her upcoming album entitled "Say Something" featuring rappers Snoop Dogg and Pharrell leaked on to the internet. The song was planned as the first single, but was met with a lukewarm response. Another Neptunes production, "Tonight," which featured rapper Nelly also leaked on to the Internet around this time. On New Years Eve, Carey premiered a Jermaine Dupri production at the Pure Club in Las Vegas. The song, "It's Like That" received an overwhelmingly positive response and began receiving airplay a day later. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #53 on January 22. It was her highest debut in nearly five years. Within weeks, it zoomed into the top 20 Media sources hailed the song a triumphant return for Carey and hailed it a comeback. "The Emancipation Of Mimi" will be released on April 12, 2005 (tentative). Critics expect her first #1 album since Butterfly 8 years ago, and with all of the media attention it is recieving, it could sell like Rainbow or Butterfly, meaning it could move between 3 and 5 million units.
The next single will be released about the same time as the album, istitled "We Belong Together" is a mid-tempo ballad as critics call it "a return to the days when Mariah made great songs that where very well recieved by the general public...she's going back to her roots..." It is already recieving moderate airplay through-out the country and is expected to put Carey back on the map in terms of Hit singles.
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Published: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:07:06 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleMoviesYou Don't Mess With the Zohan
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Mariah Carey, Shelley Berman, Sayed
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Review:
Given the missed opportunities for sharpening silliness with
satire, it's impossible not to mess with the Zohan. There's a risky
idea in the script cooked up by star Adam Sandler and his
co-writers, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow: What if Sandler played a
Mossad commando named Zohan who fakes his death and comes to New
York to live his dream of making the world "silky smooth" by
cutting and styling hair? And what if the only job he could get was
working in a Brooklyn salon run by a Palestinian babe (Emmanuelle
Chriqui)?
It's the Middle East crisis played for laughs, and it gets a few
until the movie backs off its bolder notions. That's a shame,
because Sandler, buff, blow-dried and Borat-accented, is clearly
having a ball playing a Jewish superhero. Ditto John Turturro as
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Rating:
2 Stars
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:32 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the articleInternet"Hot Hot Sex" Video Removed from YouTube
After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" video finally pulled it offline. (It's still mirrored here.)
On March 7, YouTube administrators removed it from its #1 spot on the rankings while they investigated it. Apparently, no foul play was detected and it was reinstated. Stephen Hutcheon from the Sydney Morning Herald has more on the story, including a screenshot from the leaderboard on the day it was removed.
It's hard to get a sense of the scale, which roused suspicions in the first place. To put it in perspective, in the seven days from March 7-13, the CSS video gained 17 million new views. That's more views than this week's top 20 videos received, combined.
In one week, the CSS video got nearly as many views as the insanely huge Crank That (Souljah Boy) received in 7 months. It was six times as popular as Mariah Carey's new video, in half the time. More popular in a week than the all-time views for Amy Winehouse's "Rehab," Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" or Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone."
Assuming YouTube's numbers are accurate, what was the mystery source of traffic? Now that the video is gone, I don't think we'll ever know. There have been a number of theories, but none of them really pan out.
Popular search terms like "hot sex" and "obama." Unlikely, since the video never ranked well with those queries. Searching for "sex" or "hot sex" didn't return the video anywhere in the top 100 results.
Social network embeds. It's still possible that there's a single source of traffic from an embedded video on an extraordinarily popular website on autoplay. If so, it's managed to evade YouTube's referral tracking, while still getting counted in views.
Leaderboard traffic. Once in the top 10, could traffic have snowballed from people clicking from the all-time most viewed page? No, since the video gained an additional 25 million views in the week it was removed from the leaderboard. Also, other videos in the top 5 only saw a small fraction of the growth.
Chinese users. Someone noted that Chinese users watch YouTube, but won't (or can't) sign in to rate/review/comment. Could they be coming from China?
Buzz from the iPod Touch ad. That might make sense in the days following the original commercial's release last October, but the video's growth was highest in the last two months.
Rajeev Kadam from Divinity Metrics, a company that provides video metrics for media companies, got in touch with me and provided these historical stats for the CSS video for the last five weeks. Here's a chart of that data, or you can see the spreadsheet.
Philip Rogosky asked Clarus Bartel why he removed the video. Clarus reminded Philip that he'd contemplated deleting it before, but his friends advised him to wait to see if it would reappear on the leaderboard, clearing his reputation. At that point, he decided to delete it only because of the critical comments he was receiving on his other videos.
Asked how he felt when he pressed "delete," Bartel responded, "Sad but relieved! If only I'd earned a buck or two or a job offer, I'd feel different today."
Published: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:22:41 GMT - Source: Waxy.Org - Read the article
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