The Refill: That Grape Juice’s Top 5 Stories Of The Week!

Published: Sunday 19th May 2013 by Sam

As one of the most active online destinations for Urban Pop, things move at a rapid pace here at That Grape Juice. However, each week, there’s always select stories that resonate most amongst our millions of monthly readers. Happen to miss one of them? Fret not, you now have…The Refill!

No frills or trills, The Refill simply recaps the hottest topics on the lips of the TGJ faithful over the last seven days. The metrics used to compile the list weekly are comments, social media shares, and page views.  So without further adieu…

 

That Grape Juice’s Top 5 Stories Of The Week!

1) Kelly Rowland Debuts ‘Dirty Laundry’

2) Janet Jackson Confirms New Album

3) Mariah Carey’s Puzzling American Idol Performance

4) Jennifer Lopez Releases ‘Live It Up’ Video

5) Beyonce Teases ‘Rise Up’

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  1. jackie brown May 19, 2013

    OFF TOPIC: WHY DIDNT CIARA PERFORM BODY PARTY ON WENDY WILLIAMS??

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      What’s the point? It’s not like the Wendy Williams Show has high ratings or anything.

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  2. BeyBeyKing May 19, 2013

    Queen Kelly!

  3. Cici slaaaaaays May 19, 2013

    Mariah lip synced that damn performance.

    The rise up post was hilarious with KingB>Rihanna having a f****** mental breakdown. Lmao that’s a classic post

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      Actually, Mariah didn’t lip sync. It was horrible editing.

      • queenB-rules May 19, 2013

        Horrible editing my ass

    • JOHNVIDAL May 19, 2013

      She didn´t! I´ve listened to all the true audio, she even sang Underneeth the Stars and Can´t let Go between takes. She sounded amazing

      • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

        UNDERNEATH THE STARS was amazing…at least those who thought it was all live managed to take back WBT,HERO back onto the Itunes chart…so mimi stays winning as usual

  4. SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

    Kelly has been dominating TGJ as of late. I’m really starting to like her. Definitely my fave from Destiny’s Child.

    • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

      I love your avi @SLAYRIAH…is that a still from the HONEY video where she was tied up?

      • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

        Thanks. yes it is. I was watching the Honey video last night and thought this pic would make for a shady @pop royalty kind of avi.

  5. BEYSUS OVER JESUS May 19, 2013

    STANDING ON THE SUN > RISE UP > GROWN WOMAN. SOTS IS PERFECTION, THE SONG IS SIMPLE AND I’M IN LOVE WITH IT. IN OTHER NEWS, I LOVE DIRTY LAUNDRY, MARIAH SLAYED AMERICAN IDOL, THE LEGENDARY MS. JANET JACKSON IS ABOUT TO SLAY US WITH NEW MUSIC, JENNIFER LOPEZ IS GENERIC.

    • queenB-rules May 19, 2013

      MC slayed with her lip sync performance???

  6. queenB-rules May 19, 2013

    Any1 with half a brain cld c that MC lipsyncd on idols…I don’t think the she can sing live anymr. She lost THAT voice. Her dress -however- was fabulous. “#pow”

    • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

      Emphasis on “half a brain”…anyone with a full brain could see through the bad editing..IT WAS ALL LIVE DAHLING.

  7. QUEEN MINAJ RULES May 19, 2013

    f****** hairy lip synced lmfaoooo, her nasty fat hippopotamus looking ass, she looks like a starving whale, albino elephant. can someone feed her overstuffed hungry ass a greasy triple stacked cheeseburger. she is the biggest flop in music history. Diabetes Carey needs to be in a retirement home.

    • queenB-rules May 19, 2013

      And u need some medication 4 all dat pain u feeling child! We all knw she lipsyncd, but she looked way better then nicki… So deal..

    • JOHNVIDAL May 19, 2013

      Why didn´t Nicki perform in the whole season? lol

      • queenB-rules May 19, 2013

        Lol. Coz idols is a family show…….what would she have done??? Another exorcism?? And I think they ddnt budget her performing.lol

    • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

      Now this is what the Barbz are made of

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      Nicki’s ass stays lip syncing too hun.

      At first, I though Mimi lipped but I watched the fan footage and realized that It was the shows horrible editing that made it seem that way. #StayMad

    • truth(icki’s B**** ASS STANS can EAT ME honey!! Yall b**** is a STANK P**** FLOP chile! (puckers lips like Drake)) May 19, 2013

      Honey mariah didnt lipsing. Listen careful…she cracked. And nicki lip raps soooo…..

  8. DOSSOME May 19, 2013

    I know it’s premature to celebrate Janet’s comeback but damn,i was so worried about the rumours that she was retiring and.Thank God it wasn’t true….

    MARIAH sang LIVE though,the audio version which sounded better could’ve been used instead of the jumbled up editing

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      I apologize for saying that Mariah lipped on that last post. I watched the fan footage and her singing ‘Underneath the Stars’. She really sounded amazing. Especially on ‘My All’ and the fact that she could still slay ‘Vision of Love’ 23 years later is mind blowing.

      • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

        It’s okay hun…the editing was horrible and it seems that was the intention,TO MAKE IT LOOK LIPPED….mimi has never lipped vision of love before

      • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

        But do you actually think Idol would sabotage her tho? what has she ever done to them?

        It just doesn’t make sense.

  9. queenB-rules May 19, 2013

    I swear I can’t decide who’s more stupid and ignorant: the navi or barbs… Sit tf down! These arnt abt ur favs.

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      nope, it’s the hive.

      • Me May 19, 2013

        Not the Hive, at least they stan for real talent.

      • JOHNVIDAL May 20, 2013

        Navi and barbs are worse right now (although I guess we have to talk about individuals, one can´t bash a whole group of people cos of the ignorant thoughts of one single person)

  10. DOSSOME May 19, 2013

    She refused to play along that feud with Nicki as IDOL execs had wanted…She threatened IDOL with a lawsuit after getting word that she was to be replaced with JLO…

    Add that to the numerous times they were cutting her off when giving critiques…some lambs even say that the reason she chose to pre-tape was because the technical crew were going to mess up her mic were she to sing live…i can’t put anything past THE POWERS THAT BE.

    • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

      @SLAYRIAH CAREY

      • JOHNVIDAL May 20, 2013

        @dossome
        Yes hun yes! Teach the kids. Young stars from today don´t know what real pressure is. All kinds of pressure: labels big drama (cos music was such a huge business), media pressure, vocal pressure (young stars don´t know what that is either cos they don´t have a voice to take care of to begin with), etc, etc. Mariah is the ultimate survivor. And only people like Whitney or Michael know what is like

    • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

      That’s insanity. I really hope she doesn’t go back next year. She should even give back their $18 million to show that she is above that sinking ship. How the heck do they think she’d feel knowing that they were replacing her with JLo mid-season? Did they expect her to sit back like an idiot?

      She needs to put this idol crap behind her and focus on the album and singles. I’m so shocked. Mariah has received so much hate from people she’s been working with since day one. But they can’t bring her down because she always comes back swinging. #TeamMariah #FuckIdol

      • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

        She has proven to be the ultimate survivor…Did you know the GLITTER soundtrack was her biggest music project and she had finished the album by 98-99,but SONY refused to release it and she was forced to record and release RAINBOW Instead??The worst part was that after signing with VIRGIN RECORDS and even virgin buying the album from SONY for $7million,Mottola stole her sample and gave JLO and he was hell bent not to see that album released,even conspiring with IRV GOTTI to screw MC…Mariah had to record the album afresh and quickly too.In short,the GLITTER that we know isn’t the GLITTER that was supposed to be released

      • SLAYRIAH CAREY (TOUR DE FORCE) May 19, 2013

        I didn’t know Glitter was recorded in 98-99. This must mean that ‘Rainbow’ was rushed?

        It’s funny that Tommy went through all of this to ruin Mariah but failed to mention it in his memoir. Instead, he tried to make it seem as if everything he did was beneficial for Mariah but if he truly cared about her, he would never had done this.

        This information solidifies the meaning behind “Can’t Take That Away.”

      • DOSSOME May 19, 2013

        Infact GLITTER was ready for release in 98 but her label,for whatever reason pressured her to release “#1s” instead and some songs on RAINBOW were actually meant to be on GLITTER…These artists of today who’s stans constantly insult and mock Mariah would never have had a career by now had they gone through what Mariah went through…there was a duet with Justin Timberlake called “YOURS” that was meant to be on CHARMBRACELET but couldn’t be included because Justin’s label JIVE didn’t want dealings with Mariah.It was that bad…This woman has seen it all

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  12. tera May 20, 2013

    told u kelly ur the head and not the tail u will prevail

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