Will be released on August 25th and called Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel! Can't wait!

http://mariahcarey.com/news/news.php?uid=2487

Disc 1/1

01. Betcha Gon Know (4:00)

02. Obsessed (4:02)

03. H.A.T.E.U. (4:27)

04. Candy Bling (4:03)

05. Ribbon (4:21)

06. Inseparable (3:33)

07. Standing O (4:00)

08. Its A Wrap (4:00)

09. Up Out My Face (3:41)

10. Up Out My Face (The Reprise) (0:51)

11. More Than Just Friends (3:37)

12. The Impossible (4:00)

13. The Impossible (The Reprise) (2:25)

14. Angel (Prelude) (1:04)

15. Angels Cry (4:01)

16. Languishing (The Interlude) (2:33)

17. I Want To Know What Love Is (3:27)

Disc 2/2:

01. Obsessed (Cahill Radio Mix) (3:22)

02. Obsessed (Seamus Haji And Paul Emanuel Radio Edit) (3:14)

03. Obsessed (Jump Smokers Radio Edit) (3:21)

04. Obsessed (Friscia And Lamboy Radio Mix) (4:11)

Edited October 15, 200916 yr by Sylph

Oh please, she was NOT emotional during that performance at the MJ Memorial service. Her voice is shot, she probably rehearsed very little, and she doesn't want to admit to any of that.

VH1 is filming a very special Storytellers concert featuring Mariah and they want her biggest fans to be a part of it!

This will be a very intimate show, and a rare opportunity to see Mariah in such an intimate setting, discussing some of her biggest hits! Seating is extremely limited! These tickets will go fast, so reply back soon!

For all the details, click below and follow the instructions on MariahCarey.com.

Edited July 20, 200916 yr by Sylph

Mariah Wants to Know What Love Is: Covers Foreigner

By: Roger Friedman // Tuesday August 18, 2009

Foreigner's Mick Jones can start ordering caviar and Champagne again: Mariah Carey is releasing her own gospel-tinged version of his masterwork song, "I Want to Know What Love Is."

It's the first "real" single from her new album following the summer release of the witty "Obsessed," which is also included on "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel." The album and the single hit the world on Sept. 29th.

I heard the Foreigner song yesterday along with all of "Memoirs" and let me tell you: Mariah's got a hit on her hands along the lines of "Emancipation of Mimi "The hour-long CD is ballad-centric. Written and produced with The Dream and Tricky (I know, but these are their stage names), "Memoirs" boasts a lot of singles. Starting with the Foreigner song is a canny move in these uncertain times. By the time its run is over, a new generation will think "I Want to Know What Love Is" is a Mariah Carey song.

Mick Jones, who wrote it, should start picking out some nice new cars thanks to Carey. The money should come rolling in quickly.

The other songs on the album -- these are the titles, although the running order is still being finalized: "Betcha," "Obsessed," "H.A.T.E.U.," "Candy Bling," "Ribbon," "Standing O's.," "Impossible," "It's a Wrap," "Inseparable," "Up Out My Face," "More than Just Friends," and "Angels Cry."

Several of these are radio ready.

"Angels Cry" is an honest-to-god ballad a la "Vision of Love," and should be a gigantic success. "Standing O's" also has potential, as do "H.A.T.E.U." -- which stands for "having a typical emotional upset" -- and "Inseparable."

Island Def Jam's L.A. Reid -- who previewed the CD for the first time yesterday with a clutch of staffers -- is playing with the order, to get it right. But he really can't go wrong. Carey's album, is, as they used to say, "what the kids want." Plus, it's got stuff for the slightly older crowd. I loved the doo-woppy "It's a Wrap." And the Foreigner track is so powerful, it's going to be everywhere.

Good news, too: no more songs about Eminem. One was plenty.

So, by the end of September we'll have new CDs from Whitney and from Mariah. They're each top notch and different from each other enough that their fans should want them both. Maybe we'll see a return to record stores (we have but a few in Manhattan now) and diva duels on radio if programmers are smart.

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman

Perhaps realizing that the focus should be less on Mariah Carey's feud with Eminem and a bit more on the pop diva, more hints were dropped today about the singer's upcoming "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel." The ad-supported album, which was originally set for Aug. 25, is now due to be released Sept. 29.

The second single from Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" will apparently be a cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" (perhaps tackling "Don't Stop Believing" would have been a too-obvious choice of pandering). The news was first reported by Roger Friedman, and his article has since been posted on Carey's official website.

This isn't the first time Carey has covered an '80s ballad -- see her take on "I Still Believe" above. The latter gave Carey yet another top 10 hit, a status that has thus far eluded her "Obsessed." But it's far from a tanker, as the song is holding steady at No. 14.

Additionally, Nielsen SoundScan reports that the single has sold 383,000 downloads to date. The tally isn't bad for a song that's only been available for about a month, but it's not showing the kind of initial numbers her "Touch My Body" displayed last spring. The latter sold 286,000 downloads in its debut week, and shot to No. 1.

If anything, tackling a well-known power ballad seems like a safe choice. It's a comfortable fall-back plan after "Obsessed" performed well, but did far from blockbuster numbers. It will undoubtedly be a hit, but it's giving me more reason to fear "Imperfect Angel." The sort-of-real/sort-of-not feud with Eminem seemed largely a ploy to keep Carey in the headlines, and covering Foreigner seems just as calculated to steer Carey back onto familiar ground. Pop & Hiss awaits to be proven wrong.

Mariah Carey’s new mouthpiece Roger Friedman has confirmed yesterday’s rumor that the “real first single” from Mimi’s delay-plagued, yet still forthcoming Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel will be a cover of Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is.” (In case you missed it, the new line on the Eminem dis track “Obsessed” is that it was just a “summer trifle,” and not a real lead single from the album, despite it having an expensive video and it being called a single by Mariah’s camp. This couldn’t be because it hasn’t hit the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10 in the five weeks that it’s been out, could it? Cough.)

Anyway, Friedman’s item is worth reading, if only to provoke giggles when he gets all Andy Rooney on the “stage names” of “Obsessed” producers Tricky and The-Dream, not to mention when he drops the decree that “Carey’s album, is, as they used to say, ‘what the kids want.’ Plus, it’s got stuff for the slightly older crowd.” Of course, that laughter might turn to tears when you realize that, yes, he gets paid to basically serve as a semi-credible mouthpiece for his bigwiggy pals. (Remember when he was all about the super-spendy boondoggle that was the Social@Ross series? Good times!)

Eminem declared war against the ‘ Honey ’ hitmaker by discussing their brief fling in his recent track Bagpipes from Baghdad, and Carey retaliated by mimicking Eminem in the video for her latest track ‘ Obsessed ’.

This urged Eminem to hit back again at her in a new song called ‘ The Warning ’.

According to critics, the fight has been orchestrated to promote Eminem and Mariah’s new albums - and Cannon seems to agree.

"My wife doesn’t beef (feud). She’s Mariah Carey. She’s not beef’in. She’s vegetarian," Contactmusic quoted Cannon as telling Us Weekly .

Edited August 18, 200916 yr by Sylph

Mariah doing I Want To Know What Love Is?

Yes please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFvyK1msug

I assume this is a "summer trifle" too.

G*DHSGn, this isn't bad, but this isn't #1 single material. It's so bland and boring and just not great to listen to.

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Edited August 29, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

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lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2cUX0CNA8

The original is so much better. I hate the arrangement of Marah's version.

Love it. I have to hear it several times again before the final conclusion.

I have to say that I found a copy of MiMi's Memoirs somewhere deep in the internets...

NOT IMPRESSED.

Fans of her MiMi/E=MC2 stuff will love this album. But this is not a "throwback" album by any means. The one true ballad on this album is "I Wanna Know What Love Is" and you know how awful that sounds. There are about two or three long, meaningless interludes that could have been left off this album. There is very little passion in these songs and the way she sings them. Even "Up Out My Face" or whatever that song is...could have easily been a club banger. But the production and the whispery way she sings the song just screams of "classic, lazy ass Mariah."

I'll have to give this another listen or two before positively deciding how I feel about it. A few tracks from E=MC2 grew on me(i.e. Migrate, Thanx 4 Nothing, I Wish You Well, Love Story), but I don't even consider most of those "real Mariah."

I doubt this will get her renewed at Island/Def Jam. She's toast. And this definitely won't sell.

Edited September 25, 200916 yr by bellcurve

Yup, it leaked.

I'm going to give it a listen.

This is an awful, bland album. It won't sell.

However, I loved Angels Cry. And liked Standing O, Ribbon and Inseparable.

This is an awful, bland album. It won't sell.

I know, right? Even Charmbracelet was more fun and marketable than Memoirs. But Charmbracelet came during a difficult time in my life, so that album will always hold an extremely special place in my heart. I still believe that album was Mariah's last true studio effort. I've had contempt for Mimi and beyond.