With sales of her smash hit single ‘Beautiful’ make their way to the 2 million mark, Mariah Carey pens a fresh letter on its supporting album ‘The Art of Letting Go‘ today, explaining the honest and organic path she took craft it and its single of the same name.
Why the icon felt goosebumps during the recording process?
Mimi’s words below…
Yes!
Kudos to Mariah for keeping her fans in the loop with regards to the release, building anticipation for the project while humanising herself in the process.
Our only concern is this. While we’re sure the material will be stellar, there’s no denying that its the star’s live performances that need the most work, especially with her cause still feeling the sting from her BET Awards performance and the ‘aged diva’ act she pulled at ‘Good Morning America‘ during ‘Beautiful’s promo run.
While it’s at endearing at times, it does build a wall that separates the world from her more endearing / ‘down to earth’ qualities. The very qualities, that Jennifer Lopez plays on to keep her brand young, fresh and inviting despite being the same age as Mariah.
How can she rectify this problem?
Well, with much of today’s generation unaware of Mariah’s layered story, a brand spanking new ‘VH1: Behind the Music‘ special pushing a ‘rags to riches’ agenda would do the trick.
For, how many know of today’s music lovers truly know about her formative years- the struggle to find acceptance as a biracial girl living in a black and white world- her stints as a waitress- how her parents’ divorce shaped the woman/mother she is today.
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Good! I miss the days when Mariah made good music. No more fluff Mimi!! Thanks.
Please sis Mimi, retire and pop out more babies… 🙁
Lol troll……
Mariah should retire with Ciara and Toni Braxton
Mariah Carey ( 1992- 2007 ) R I P
Please Mariah, stay home and enjoy your ol’ money.
Cant believe she is desperate to have a career. Sad.
She should retire after E=MC2
😀
LOL you b****** sound scared she’s coming to slay. remember she’s will and always will be vocally superior than your faves could ever dream of.
Sorry, Mariah is the hip- hop Queen………. on life -support !
your screen name and your comment combine is a self drag.
Letting go and then retire. Good. She cant score top 10 anymore let alone sell 2 million albums worldwide.
and Riri remain unbothered ! 😉
No riri remains out singed
She will flop hard with this sympathy letter…sorry !
Yawn !!!!!!!!
American Idol was her life-support. She should stay away and raise her kids. She is not selling anymore.
It is all about Miley and Katy now.
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Love this woman! It’s a shame these f*** these days only want music they can shake their ass to and do choreography lol
Mariah has peaked during We Belong Together. Time to go gracefully.
Dead….And rihanna has peaked her limits for her over stretch love walls. LOL
@Kayla No hun. These ‘f***’ want music they can enjoy. Adele’s music is slow and outsells Beyonce and Rihanna’s entire discography combined. So there goes your stupid theory.
Poo Mimi, she should stick her tongue more …..
Mariah will REIGN again !!! Show these lessers how it is done Mimi !!!
I really hope so! All you need to do is bring them vocals back Mariah and give me the Mariah I fell in LOVE with.
You best have a bigger part on your own song and it best not sound like some leftover from another artist ala Beautiful.
Mariah is a done deal like Ciara and Brandy. 🙁
girl please.. you tired your life with all three of these true DIVAS. Quality over quantity hun. CLASSICS over TRAGICS. The world will only remember 1 or 2 songs by your fave. poor that.
I feel Mariah has ONE last great record and at least 1 more #1 hit in her.
I feel she doesn’t. Mariah is yesterday’s news.
Please, sit down Mariah. You can hardly charted. K bye.
“You can hardly charted.”
no need to even try go in on you. you went in on yourself when you thought that was correct.
Cant remember when Mariah last hit Top 5 …… 🙁
Hmm…..i CAN remember Mariahs last #1 hit…i can’t remember Nicki’s though.. Oh thats right, she does’nt have any
bloop.
Haha. Bullseye!
bring on the music mariah!
this is why I f**** with Mariah, she’s a legend, way above her pears, and yet she always give credit when credit is due…
you’ll never hear her say I wrote this song all by myself, when there are other writers on the songs..
she always mention who she wrote the song with….
and all the classic songs she actually wrote herself, is making her paper, she doesn’t need to tour, she doesnt need huge endorsements
bish is making more paper on her songwriting alone, than basic b****** who needs to tour every year, who needs 10 million endorsements
bad bish status
She doesn’t tour because it is not profitable for her. She is not performer. She is just a nightclub singer …..
🙁
Mariah doesn’t tour because she’s not a good performer and knows that people will never buy tickets to see her live.
There is no market left for her because her voice is annoying to Europeans and she is stuck since the 90s.
Last time Mariah tried to Tour dates were cancelled due to LOW sales. Thats why she doesnt. She doesnt have a strong enough live fanbase.
Well she clearly doesn’t t need touring. Her royalties still pay her more than those sold out tours. So bye haters.
Really? Then why she went to Australia???? Yeah right…
I didn’t know a person is compared to pears.
DEATH!^
I Read no lies.
PEARS? Girl back to school you go….
Sorry, it is all Gaga now. Mariah is so last 15 years ago. RIP
how it’s all about gaga now ? and Gag is a FLOP being slayed by Katy, Miley, Lorde…. =>_/
2 million singles and 4 weeks on Billboard. Sorry, try again…
LOL @ You.
What is it with everyone writing letters these days?
You didn’t finish school so I’m not surprized that you hate letters.
I’ve developed a new respect for TGJ after reading this article. I hope she reads this.
Girl, I was thinking the exact the same thing. The new BTM is such a good idea.
Her prime has passed. 🙁
Did you hear about her assistant ditching her to work with J lo lol.
JLO needs all the assistance she can get…..her musical prime has been long over….Atleast Mariah has seen the top of the billboard charts in 2008…
It was the opposite actually.
idiot, Jennifer’s assistant left her for Mariah’s team. If you’re going to troll/shade check yourself thirst.
The Art of Letting Go… Hmm did anyone else notice the title and think what that might mean? Is she letting go of her marriage, is she retiring, or something else? That’s definitely an eye catcher title, only time will tell.
The ending of this letter tho LOL
I can’t wait to hear it i like many of Mariah’s music. I know it’ll be good…lets hope.
TEOM was the last good album Mariah released, after that it has been struggle after struggle after struggle..
Sorry, it is all Katy, Riri, Taylor, Miley now.
The rest stay home and ask for sympathy sales !!!!
“Sorry, it is all Katy, Riri, Taylor, Miley now.”
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This makes me want to drink a cyanide shake.
Those gimmick artists careers will soon be on life support and forgotten about…none of those artist will go down as legendary in pop music. Mariah may get sympathy sales…but she is not getting sympathy checks! Royalty…
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I love when Grape Juice gives good advice.
Dont Mariah. Not another flop. Just retire…before it is too late.
All jokes aside, who’s checking for Mariah Carey? *Looks Around*
Her last single went double platinum…so apparently there are several educated people who are. Its the unintelligent and ignorant that make so many comments and references like you have
She will flop like Bye Bye, Through The Rain and etc. This era it is about dance pop music. Mariah is too serious to be fun with. Go and learn acting.
Christina augilera should know alot more about flop than Mariah….Bye Bye and through the rain both came off of platinum selling albums…..did you but Lotus?
Even Miguel is regretting ….. LOL
I LOVE MARIAH BUT B**** NEEDS TO STOP. HER PRIME IS A DONE DEAL.
She will flop harder than Ciara and Jessie J.
Not here for trolls hiding behind other fan bases.
Nah, she belong in the 90s. I agree, someone should ask her go and do charity work at Beyonce’s garden.
Hahahahahahahaha
Troll
It is f****** sad that most of you think it’s all about chart placement. NEWSFLASH!!! IT ISN’T! It’s all about whether an artist knows their truth and has longevity. Most of your faves will only last in this industry 5-10 years. People will get over you and move on.
The secret to a successful career is not selling your soul to the devil.
Actually the secret to a successful career is to be a really interesting artist, to anticipate trends untiringly, to reinvent themselves, to intrigue and, of course, to have a strong manager behind their back.
shade of the Charmbracelet.
Why is it that all these random user names come up in a Mariah post so you can hide behind that person and their fan base so they get bashed? The damn troling.
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Thatstupidjuice tries so hard to sound informative. MC is fine and has a huge fan base.. She knows what she’s doing.. That whole diva thing is out of the window. She’s the only one that they do these poor write ups for. Sam needs to do them for Beyonce and company because they really need them.. Speaking of JLo her brand doesn’t sale her music, which is more important.. So that fresh stuff is irrelevant.. MC’s music alone >>>>..
LOOOOOOOOL. You are delusional if you think Mariah has a big fan base anymore. She tried to tour and couldn’t BECAUSE she doesn’t have a big fan base.
As if Aubrey O Day ever had a fan base….lol real intelligent.
Wrong. She doesn’t have a strong touring fan base because she never toured from the beginning. In order to be a big touring act like Madonna you have to tour your ass off, and that’s something Mariah was never interested in doing.
Not Rodney Jerkins again please. He is 20 yo ago…. 🙂
Y’all so DUMB lmaooo! Let me fill you in on the FACTS :’D
In 2013 Mariah performed a short tour in some of Australia’s biggest Arenas. They both SOLD THE F*** OUT. What’s more is the All Phones Arena where she played at had a seating of 21,000…..it sold out in FOUR DAMN MINUTES. NOT to mention those EXPENSIVE ASS TICKETS. So y’all can shut the f*** up on THAT. Second, #Beautiful peaked at #15, certified platinum and has sold 2 million copies. If I’m not mistaken Mariah outsold anything Nicki has done recently :((( THIRD who gives a F*** if she doesn’t reach #1? She has EIGHTEEN #1 singles. THAT’S MORE THAN ALL OF YALL’s FAVES. S*** NICKI AINT EVEN GOT ONNEEE NUMBER ONE BUT SHE’S SLAYING? NICKI’S S*** HAS BEEN FLOPPINGGG BUT Y’ALL STILL WANNA COME FOR MARIAH WHO IS SELLING MULTIMILLION RECORDS AND RAKING IN CASH? OK. MARIAH IS SLAYYYIIIING RIGHT NOW AND Y’ALL ARE MAD LOL!!!!!!!
……..still she can’t outsell Madonna.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Oh puhlesss, she got lucky because of American Idol promo.
And Janet got lucky marrying money. We all know no one even knows who she is anymore.
FACTS B****
Exactly and Beautiful is such a beautiful song.
Rihanna soon be the Queen of #1’s tho. Fact. I don’t even like the b-tch like that.
Through The Rain pt 2 ???? ***Yawn***
She is doing her own PR because nobody is checking on her music. Sad era to be Lambs. 🙁
Mariah helped paved the way for so many of the artist,of today and she is One of Our
Legendary Artist.
Her chart success speaks for itself.
No, she is NOT.
Whitney was !!!!!!!!!!
Chart success? I think you mean PAYOLA.
LOL…Do you know what Payola even is? Coming from a fan of an artist who only can pen songs with no substance like “Bow Down B******”….im sure the topic of payola is above your intelligence level..
@Aj As if bow down is Beyonce only song.
Mimi work to flop !!!!! 😀
How are those “live” vocals coming at Vegas?
I love you Mimi i REALLY DO, but every single, every album it’s the same soundbites. “This is my most personal album yet” “This single means so much to me” “I’m giving you nostalgic moments on this record” “I felt something very special making this album” ………………
^ LOL this is true..
Don’t they ALL say this though? 😀 😀 😀
when you Write+produce+Sing Everything in your Album, you are allowed to say anything.
Love is a Complex Thing, More props+Power To her For Going The path in her discography and exploring all of it’s facets.
And You can Feel When it’s personal In her Songs. 😀
you are trying it with that link to Katy Perry
can you imagine how annoyingly perky and pompous she is. you’d just want to kick her in the shins, repeatedly.
LOL…Too bad Janet does’nt have anything to be pompous and perky about…she has released an album since 2008…in 2008 Mariah Carey was still getting #1 singles
She needs to let go of the little bit of voice she has left. Katy Perry sounds better than her!!!
No one sounds as bad as that goat Katy Perry. Even Xtincta sounds better.
Also everyone of Mariah’s albums are certified. She doesn’t need all of this branding marketing crap.. The music is what will do the job. Thatfraudjuice is hungover on the EBT crap. Really get over it.. MC ain’t these less than average chicks.. The stuff y’all suggest don’t even work for the flopping artists y’all keep trying to push.. If only y’all were this informative about the other crappy artists..
LOL Y’ALL NEED TO STOP. MIMI RELEASED A SINGLE IN 2013 THAT WENT PLATINUM DESPITE NOT HITTING THE TOP 10.
WHEN WILL FLOPONCE OR J-HO EVER DO THAT? LOL
Best thing I never had and love on top and ring the alarm did that. Ego to have a seat.
LOL DEAD @ ‘BEAUTIFUL’ OUTSELLING FLOPLEY CYRUS’ ‘FLOPPERZ’ LOL
LOL DEAD @ ‘BEAUTIFUL’OUTSELLING J-HO’S LAST 3 ALBUMS-COMBINED LMAO
DEAD @ ‘BEAUTIFUL’ OUTSELLING FLOPONCE’S ‘4LOP’ LMAO
B**** get SLAYonce off your mind for once! And how the hell can you compare a single to an album??
Beautiful is platinum, so is Best thing i Never had.. 4 is also platinum in the U.S. And on it’s way to double platinum!
Stop making your self look a psychotic mess! The Hive owns you! Now i commamd you to SIT! kii BYE!
Beautiful shits on all the songs on 4 that’s a fact.
Clearly you don’t know the definition of a fact.
@XXX k
The Lambs are so pathetic and delusional if they think Mariah can sell off of her music alone. If she REALLY wants to prove herself she shouldn’t use CC to promote any of her singles. #Triumphant
And Rihanna should use her p**** to promote hers..
**********YOU HEARD ONE MARIAH’S SONG; YOU HEARD THEM ALL***********
Release It as a Single now Already, Damn Mariah, As a fan I’ve been Waiting for This Album Since Forever+a day, Babies Were Born during this time Already and I’m Still Waiting.
I Love Her, But The Timing Is Way off This Era.
Hurry Up Diva.
can You release the Beautiful(Remixes)-EP for me ? We Need Something To hold on Too. 😕
And someone Need to re-Think About This release Date….
Why would anyone need to re-think there release date?
Hence the reason Rihanna didn’t release an album this season. Katy, Miley, and GaGa.
So you Need her to release an album or take a rest ?
You b****** are Funny. 😆
@Richie Rich EXACTLY. B****** wanna talk about Beyonc being ‘scared’ and not except she has a change of heart which happens when their fav been releasing year after year every now when everyone else is doing it around the same time she decides to stop conviniently.
Beyonce
B**** is desperate for Christmas sales… 🙁
#RANDOM:
I Just Love The Fact How Most of The Navy in here are fans of her. 😀
Beyonce fans pressed as always. Mariah will always s*** on Beyonce.
B**** stfu its probably YOU behind them trolling accounts, they’re clearly not real Beyoncé fans anyone with common sense can see that. But clearly you don’t.
No sweetie i see slay h** running her mouth.
Mkay and I see ‘so called’ Rihanna fans, Barbs and Britney stans running their mouth, why are you obsessed with Slay Hive SWEETIE?
Not obsessed just wish she’d stop coming for Mariah especially when beyfail looks up to Mimi .
Hes not coming fro Mariah though, the person is coming for Beyonce.
This little girl is obsessed with me…i said nothing negative about Mariah! Clearly those are TROLL hive accounts. The names are so random, it’s obvious. Molly is just sore from all the dragging smh
It’s either Molly are Pressedbird behind those accounts
You know these lessors can’t function unless Beyonce and her Hive are involved…#sadbuttrue
Beyonce did SuperBowl…Mariah???? Disney…. 🙁
Really looking foward to this album Mariah music is always good shes a legendary mother and doesn’t deserve all the disrespect she gets :-/
But YOU are always disrespecting her troll lol
how?
Love Mariah, trolls are pathetic.
i agree .
Mariah- diva on life support?????? 😀
Mariah dont have to prove herself anymore..the b**** is like. Michael. Jordan she dont need to make another. shot she is a legend.
B****; can you please stop wasting time with all of these b******* open letters-tweets and blog posts and FOCUS ON DROPPING THE F****** ALBUM ALREADY? I mean GOD DAMN, just drop it already before Ariana Grande runs off with whatever career you have left! Damn you act like the only DELAYED POT HEAD!
Lol Ariana Grande is still trying to run her own career. U can’t run nothing without a platinum album. Hers isn’t even gold. As far as touring MC sold out arenas in Aus.. She didn’t even have a tour planned. What are u trolls even talking about. Plain idiots !!!!
Mariah I love you but just release the f****** music already.
Why do I love Mariah? Because she’ll make music until the end. Her music is her career & success will follow automatically because Mariah is music!
Imagine another singer who’s successful @ the moment staying in the game for more than 20 years. You can’t because there’s no longevity in their songs just produced songs by somebody for a pop artist to sing. Nothing personal you can cling to in years to come unlike Mariah’s music.
Looks at Mariah´s sales now and then, looks at Jennifer Lopez´s sales now and then… How the hell does Mariah Carey have a problem in Sam´s words… but Jennifer Lopez has not???? LOLOL To praise Mariah Sam always needs to shade her in another paragraph. It kills him to know she is THAT good and legendary and that he adores her music, as he has admitted so many times.
Anyway, I can´t wait!!!! Gaga´s album, Mariah´s new single (the most important thing to me) and Celine´s whole album the previous week! Yaaasss November will be amazing. October releases were really weak, September was a better month for releases. Janelle´s alone>>>
I just can not believe amount of hate that majority of people are expressing on this site. Vicious comments, deluded, things that have no sense at all. What is wrong with you people? You hate everyone. Do you even stop for a minute and actually think about things you write in here? You may like someone or they music, or not, but there is civilized way to say your opinion. And acting psycho is not one them.
Same opinion here. I like this page but the comments! There is no room for a nice discussion with few exceptions but it has a lot to do how you run a page like this. Take this entry about Mariah. It’s not just about her, suddenly there’s J.Lo in the picture. I don’t know why you have to compare artists with each other. No wonder the hate in the comments. Probably the owner of this site is addicted to the amount of clicks he gets for it.
I thought about not coming back but I just read the entries I’m interested in. Before I was reading entries about other artists I usually don’t listen to, I don’t do that anymore.
You are right. Nobody actually stays on topic. And all of the sudden every post becomes war of the stans. And for what? For artists who doesn’t even have a clue that those idiots exits. Every artist would be embarrassed to know that such crazy people belong to their fan base.
The new record will be EPIC!!!! She worked with autentic hitmakers and its coming good song! The art of letting go i think… Will be a ballad with lil touch of 90s with powerful moments
Nope b****, Gaga is done.
Y’all birtches sound pressed! Beyoncé hasn’t had a hit In years and does at least 6 to 7 other jobs and still couldn’t get a hit Rihanna can move singles but can’t move as many albums ! If mariah was to flop ten times your faves will still never compare! The only ones that should retire is rihorror and bey none selling
For the most part u trolls make no sense. On the topic of mariah…. she is MARIAH F****** CAREY #LEGEND #ENOUGHSAID
This week TEOM passes the 6million mark in sales. TGJ didnt report that.
For those who say Mariah has a hard time selling anything these days. Seems she is doing pretty well even with her old s***.
Sit Down People RELAX!! regardless of how many people HATE her so much Mariah Carey will never stop making music and her song will inspire everyone on earth! Those who hate her are those who listen to her music cuz they knew that this Legendary is “Mariah Carey” after Whitney Houston (RIP) and she will dominate her success and continue to successs as the #1 best selling female solo artist of all time!
Got it?
but Mariah toured in Australia because of demand she hasn’t performed there since the 90s they even had a trending tweet Australia wants Mariah!,like come on now atleast she responds to her fans unlike some people who just take and ignore Mariah is just one of those artist who remained relevant and successful in a generation that’s passed hers and yall trolls just hate that hahaha!
Sounds exciting! She should give the song to Ariana… LOL
I HATE LAMBS .. They’re idiots #Fact
Thats why I shade mimi a lot
ANYWAY, whether she flops or not
Am here for some good music ..
I want some REAL ballads
I trust her this time!
Mariah, Celine and Toni are comin’ this year
The divas better bring it .. I miss my old b******