Mariah Carey‘s “shade dispenser” status has been established almost as long as her reign atop of the charts. Indeed, the legendary diva is renown for her quick-witted responses and brisk dismissal of tomfoolery.
Hence, it was little surprise that the singer adopted this approach when addressing her “beef” with Nicki Minaj in a sit-down interview with Barbara Walters on Nightline last night.
Famed for asking questions the people really want answers to, Walters quizzed Carey on the drama with her fellow American Idol judge, motherhood, marriage, and more.
The segment also featured Mimi working on patriotic cut ‘Bring It On Home’ and another piano-driven number – the latter of which believed to be a track from her upcoming album.
Peep the piece after the jump…
The jury’s out on whether Mariah, Minaj, and Idol are playing the “beef” for ratings given the show’s on-screen debut being around the corner (January 16th). Whatever the case, they’ve “done enough” to ensure we’ll be watching.
More than anything, though, we’re most amped for Mimi’s new music! She often delivers when backed up against a wall; and given the so-so sales of her albums in recent years, it’s more fact than fiction that her relevance to today’s charts is in a tricky predicament.
Here’s hoping she proves the naysayers wrong, ‘Emancipation’ style, this go round. She has a huge platform in the form of Idol (and will do for five months straight), hence there’s really no excuse.
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 6:34 am
Legendriah looks amazing! Happiness is all on her!
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BAD BYTCH
January 8, 2013 at 7:36 am
MORE LIKE DICK IS ALL IN HER.. LET’S NOT FORGET THE TRAGEDY THAT WAS “GLITTER” WHEN SHE WAS HAVING AN EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL BREAKDOWN… BUT EVER SINCE CORNY ASS NICK CANNON BEEN PLUNGING HER DOWN THIS BITCH AINT STOP SMILING SINCE. OH YEA… AND MARIAH AINT HAD VOCALS IN YEARS, NOW ITS MERELY A WHISPER
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 7:49 am
I’m sorry I don’t speak jibber jabber. Let me know who your fave female is because she has not sold as many albums as Mariah, so you can kick rocks.
Legends have bumps in the road, but they pick themselves up and keep doing what God put them here to do. And leave the lessors in the dust.
#getyolifeho
#guttersnipe
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Realest
January 9, 2013 at 1:25 am
Glitter still sold THREE MILLION copies though so….
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Gigi
January 8, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Glitter STILL has sold more than Nicki ! LMFAO Still wanna talk about Glitter ?
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EJ
January 8, 2013 at 4:26 pm
This bitch is the QUEEEEEEEEN of shade. smdh. She better chill out b4 Nicki come after her ass again. #Teamminaj and #Romanempire ain’t toleratin’ that shit. lol
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 7:49 pm
@EJ
Mariah is not the only one being shady. Nicki rapping about checking bitches on idol was shade right?
As long as the shade stays subliminal and not out of control ( people screaming on set,etc.), I don’t see a problem.
Team minaj may not tolerate, but the Lambs will go HAM.
#movingon
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 6:37 am
Stop hyping this situation up. It’s so last year.
Anywho>>>>>>
Oh and I’m 1st! Lol!
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 8:07 am
The two women involved said they squashed the beef. So leave it alone and enjoy the show. #thatisall
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 8:10 am
Nothing Mariah said was new. She and Nicki have said the same things, since the incident happened. So why are people acting brand new.
If you listen both say that the beef is over. So let’s see….
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RICHANDBLACK11
January 8, 2013 at 6:41 am
She is giving me life in this Pic , werk hunty
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Dev
January 8, 2013 at 6:48 am
I’m liking the songs that have previewed, Mariah is a grown woman and mother and as i grew up listening to Mariah and am now grown i’m glad that the music is having a more mature feel that “triumphant” didn’t have…. Lets just hope the outfits continue to have a longer hemline and be better fitting.
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JWOLF
January 8, 2013 at 7:14 am
“I didn’t know she sung, I thought she rapped…”
I’m a huge fan of both nicki and Mariah but LMFAO… That shade so dark a bitch needs a lamp.
At least it isn’t Flophanna on American idol. Bitch couldn’t sing her way out of a wet paper bag. Shit, that hoe ratchet. Someone please link me a performance where she doesn’t sound like a hippopotamus in labor. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. NEXT BITCH
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 8:23 am
WAAAAAAAHAHAHAHALOLOL!!! SHADE SO COLD U NEED A FULL LENGTH FUR COLD!!!
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 8:24 am
Loooooove it!!! Lololo
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Mark111
January 8, 2013 at 11:14 am
Hahaha, Rihanna is on y’all minds even when there’s not a post about her. Go buy her album and shut up.
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 11:55 am
FLOP WILL NEVER BE IN SLAYANNAS NAME OR CAREER!! ANYWAYS MARIAH IS A LEGEND AND SHE LOOKS GREAT AND HAPPY!!! MC NEVER HAS A FROWN ON HER FACE!! SHE IS TRULY HAPPY
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FAME AND FORTUNE FLOPPED N TEAM BREEZY ARE SCUZZY HOES
January 8, 2013 at 2:06 pm
THAT SHADE HAD ME IN TEARS YOU HEAR ME? TEARS!!!!! MARIAH IS SO SHADY AND I LOVE IT!
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ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
January 8, 2013 at 7:31 am
I’m so excited for the new song.
Oh and that shade was thick.
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jason
January 8, 2013 at 7:32 am
When her makeup, hair and wardrobe is right – this bitch serves everyone!!!!
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BAD BYTCH
January 8, 2013 at 7:33 am
MARIAH NEEDS TO KNOCK IT ALL THE WAY THE FUCK OFF.. THIS THE SAME BITCH THAT WAS GETTIN FUCKED BY RAPPERS THROUGHOUT THE LATE 90′S AND NOW SHE TRYNA BE ALL HOLIER THAN THOU BECAUSE SHE’S OLD.. ALL THIS DRAMA SHE BRINGING TO THIS ARGUMENT WITH NICKI IS CHILDISH.. DID SHE REALLY THINK NICKI WOULD RISK HER CAREER AND FREEDOM TO SHOOT HER?.. BITCH CUT IT OUT AND STOP PLAYIN WITH THESE FOLKS
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 8:24 am
girl rest
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PSA (FAF)
January 8, 2013 at 10:47 am
2 producers said Mariah was lying… thats why I rarely come in these types of threads.. Sam just wants bait
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ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
January 8, 2013 at 3:47 pm
They said it didn’t happen, they never said Mariah lied. The producers said that Nicki didn’t say she would shoot Mariah. Mariah said multiple people told her that Nicki said that so it was a she-said, he said story. I’m going to need proof where they said Mariah is a liar. NEXT.
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ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
January 8, 2013 at 3:48 pm
“THIS THE SAME BITCH THAT WAS GETTIN FUCKED BY RAPPERS THROUGHOUT THE LATE 90′S”
Because rappers featured on her song, she slept with them? That makes Gimmick the biggest HIV infested monkey then.
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King B>Rihanna
January 8, 2013 at 7:36 am
I’m the only one that thinks this feud is tired and played out.Mariah should pay Nicki dust and worry about her album and Nicki needs to take time off find mixtape and Pink friday Nicki Minaj then record another album.Feuds in music in general are just boring now.
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 8:12 am
Your not the only one. *sighs*
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RIHANNA FAN
January 8, 2013 at 7:55 am
I HATE THIS NASTY ASS BITCH, SHE CANNOT SING IF HER LIFE WAS DEPENDING ON IT, MY FAVE SLAYS THIS COCKROACH LOOKING HOE. ALL THAT BACON AND FAT UNDER HER NECK, SHE IS SO THIRSY, GIVE THAT HOE SOME ICED WATER…NICKI SHOULD HAVE SHOT HER.
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 8:26 am
U just a hoe thats stupid
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 11:59 am
UM IM A RIHANNA STAN BUT…YOU CANT BE SERIOUS!! MC WILL MURDER RIHANNA IN SINGING!! LEAVE THE LEGENDS ALONE!!
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ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
January 8, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Tone deaf problems.
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Mc fan!!
January 19, 2013 at 2:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMmYCKlHuKM
if that’s not singing, then i don’t know what is…she may not sound as great as she use to, but if rihanna was to stand next to her and sing, rihanna would sound mediocre. I love some of rihanna’s music, but you can’t be serious. Personally, rihanna to me is more of an entertainer, and a good recording studio artist. Live, she don’t sound so great.
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BEYSUS OVER JESUS
January 8, 2013 at 7:57 am
THE SHADE
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Lax
January 8, 2013 at 8:15 am
Mariah can sing her booty off and so what if she has had some
down days every BAD BYTCH Have had those kind of days
Fall the Fuk back off Mariah I mean after No mater what is said
or what her new Music does shes still a “HBIC” \JUST lIKE Rih, RIH!!!
Now that is out of the way less get this party jumping bytches and fake ass
Screen Names trying to make it seem like RIHANNA’S Navy don’t like and support MIMI, B/S We Respect Our LEGENDS like Mariah and Others who has Paved the way for many of these Girls & who are big & Mighty Bytches who think they jumped out of the womb
‘singing like Mariah, Whitney, Celine, Aretha, Patti, Barbara, and countless others who’s got it going on,,,
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tits mcgee
January 8, 2013 at 8:24 am
I agree with everything you just wrote. It’s very clear that that tired troll talking shit is not a Rihanna fan. Everyone knows who it is. That same person post on Bey posts, with 50 names but the same avi!
I guess someone told “it” to change the email address to seem like different people
LOL. The shit talk is still the same though… Smh
That person is not even a real hive, because Bey loves Mariah, so a true fan would at least respect Mariah…
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rihanna fan
January 8, 2013 at 8:32 am
bitch get over your delusions!!!!!! i dont respect flopriah at all, ive been a riri fan since 2007, mariah think she’s all high and mighty, bitch sit the fuck down. you are a fake rihanna fan if you like mariah.
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 12:02 pm
We know you a troll and your not a RIHANNA stan cus RIHANNA LOVES MC!!
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 8:27 am
LIFE @ THE SHADE!! Shade so cold a bitch need a full length coat chile!
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BEYSUS OVER JESUS
January 8, 2013 at 8:42 am
THE LEGEND HAS SPOKEN. RIHOE CAN NEVER BE A LEGEND LIKE MIMI AND BEY.
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Mark111
January 8, 2013 at 10:56 am
Bitch no one said shit about Rihanna. If you hate her so much, why is she always on your mind? OOH, I know, cause you’re a hater that hate her. Get a life ASAP!
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Mark111
January 8, 2013 at 10:59 am
Bitch no one said shit about Rihanna. If you hate her so much, why is she always on your mind? OOHH, I know, cause you’re a hater that hater her. Get a life ASAP!
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 12:03 pm
BITCH BEY WILL NEVER BE A LEGEND!!
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christinastherealtalent
January 8, 2013 at 9:07 am
Nicki is sooooo damn disrespectful. Shes the only coach on there making an ass of herself and needs to show more respect to those who paved the way for her tacky ass.
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PSA (FAF)
January 8, 2013 at 10:48 am
She hasn’t spoken on it in months . Christina, she likes u, so lets not
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Fierce Pussy
January 8, 2013 at 9:15 am
Damn I don’t know if that was shade or she was telling the truth. Either way, Rihanna and Nicki both are bad singers. At least MC USE to have a great voice than both of them combined. But anyways, looking forward to the show.
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Bitch YOU DREAM ABOUT RIHANNA DONT YOU?
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fan4mc
January 8, 2013 at 12:23 pm
what do you mean she used to have a good voice.. she still does correction and still can slay
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Flop Cheeta Whora gave Rob an STD from her 20 guys
January 8, 2013 at 9:25 am
Well Sam,
You have no know the truth. NY post has just confirmed that Rita Whora is back to whore ways. Rob said she slept with famous guys – one of those guys was Evan Ross. Evan Ross has a Longterm GF. Well, even her tour in at the end of this month – The tour that her management are trying to sell on twitter Instead of rehearsing, she was in NYC, hanging out at jay z club, taking pics of herself on rooftop AND…………publicly kissing up on EVAN ROSS at the gold bar in NYC.
What kind of nonsense is this? And they say this whore is gonna end rih’s career? HOW, buy fucking every dude she meets in clubs?
Why is Beyonce endorsing this dirty eastern european girl? Pouring all this money into a lazy hypersexual cocky slut, who seems to party and fuck more than DROP AN LP IN AMERICA.
beyonce self esteem must be at an all time low for her to act as suger mommy to this trick
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truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans BITCH!!)
January 8, 2013 at 10:14 am
DEEEEEEEATH!!!!!!
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B. Hill
January 8, 2013 at 10:58 am
Hey Sybil…
Rita Ora is prettier and more talented than Rihanna.
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ELITE NAVY SHIT(RIHANNA NAVY)
January 8, 2013 at 12:07 pm
LIES!!! JOKER FACE RITA!! WILL NEVER BE AS PRETTY OR SUCCESSFUL AS RIHANNA!! KII
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jjen
January 8, 2013 at 1:14 pm
hahaha dying…u play no games…
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Jer
January 8, 2013 at 9:39 am
Grrrrrrrrlllll serve that shade with a spoon cuz it is LIFE!!!!!!!!
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WhiteBoi
January 8, 2013 at 9:58 am
“I thought she rapped or whatever she does”
SHADE lmao
Mariah looks and sounds amazing! ready for some new mc material!
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King B>Rihanna
January 8, 2013 at 10:15 am
Just saw the interview OMG from the words to the way she moved her head Mariah you are one shady bitch and I love it.
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PSA (FAF)
January 8, 2013 at 10:49 am
*YAWN*
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DeezNutz
January 8, 2013 at 1:50 pm
She’s boring as fuck! *in my Nicki voice* lmao
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Petre
January 8, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Although “Whip It” by Nicki Minaj should get more hype, isn’t this cool?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIQHPS0RlT0
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Petre
January 8, 2013 at 2:47 pm
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIQHPS0RlT0&w=560&h=315
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ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ
January 8, 2013 at 3:51 pm
How original, or did you copy it much like the way your fave copies Lil’Kim? Dirt attracts more dirt.
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Petre
January 8, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Same way Starbucks’s Free Wi-Fi attracts idiots like you to post irrelevant comments.
Keep typing honey, maybe one day Lil’ Kim will notice your underacheiving existence on the web.
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Petre
January 8, 2013 at 2:47 pm
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Mark111
January 8, 2013 at 11:02 am
I’m sorry, I don’t care for Mariah, but she done too much and is too great to have a clown brought up on every interview. An elephant don’t swat at flies. But this just give Nicki some song to sing about and fool her cheap toys. Mark my words, Micki is gonna meet for match soon.
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Monstarebel
January 8, 2013 at 11:06 am
Mariah looked a mess in precious…lol at Barbara reciting Nickis lyrics Yaaas
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Rev the Cool Nerd
January 8, 2013 at 11:24 am
“There’s some grammies…I look at the cases and I’m like
‘Wow, this is amazing…I did alright’” *tosses hand in the air*
“I didn’t know she sang, I thought she rapped or whatever…” *looks away*
#slain #dead #deceased
Too much shade Mariah lmfaoooo She, literally, snatched Nicki’s entire wig
collection in one line. She is “in the league of extraordinary women” (Got 2B Real)
after all.
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JOHNVIDAL
January 8, 2013 at 11:32 am
The shade was amazing. On “I don´t know her” level. These lessors deserve it
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DeezNuts
January 8, 2013 at 11:55 am
“but im quick to check a bitch if she’s out of line.” “Are you the bitch she’s talking about Mariah?” lmfao Barbra Walters is an instigator! hahah
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speechless
January 8, 2013 at 11:58 am
I love how she acted ike she didnt know whether she was a singer or rapper lol
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DeezNutz
January 8, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Lmfao Knowing DAMN WELL Mariah asked Nicki Minaj to be on one of her singles! smfh!
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Realest
January 9, 2013 at 1:45 am
you honestly think SHE asked her to be on her single? lol i doubt she even knew who she was until the label introduced then.. c’mon
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Sean
January 8, 2013 at 1:42 pm
LET’S KEEP IT REAL.
It is a SINGING competition, not a “I’M A RAPPER WHO THINKS I CAN SING, TOO” competition. Don’t get me wrong, I love Nicki. Girl has some crazy flow. But she’s not a singer. Just rememeber: haters are just closeted fans. So sip the haterate or you just might choke. Team Mimi for life!
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DeezNutz
January 8, 2013 at 1:47 pm
The show isnt about Nicki though babe. She’s just a judge. The show is about the contestants. Ellen did NOT get this much shade for judging and she has NO musical ability whatso ever. lol Paula cant sing and neither can Simon.
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HBF82
January 8, 2013 at 1:54 pm
VOICEriah LEGENDarey.
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Todd
January 8, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Go MiMi!
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Musik_Lover
January 8, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Don’t really care about what happened between Nicki & Mariah. It was unprofessional…if Mariah said something inappropriate about Nicki the mature thing to do would have been to get that heffa together privately. Or to make a wity comment back but not make threats & curse like a mad woman. And also to reference it in a song. Smh in the words of Mariah “I’ve been blessed to live my dream half of my life…” The shade between these two will never end but the best thing to do was to be the bigger person and not take it to that level. Mariah has Grammy’s and is an icon in this business and doesn’t use gimmicks because she has talent. Whether every song or album sold the woman has rightfully earned every dollar they are paying her on Idol. She’s a Diva!!!
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