Mariah Carey graced disgraced the stage of
Saturday Night Live this past weekend in what can only be described as a master class in what not to do. After all of the chatter about Mariah replacing
Janet Jackson (!) in her first appearance on the late-night sketch comedy show in over 10 years (!) anticipation was heightened for Mimi to do the damn thing on
SNL. Well, I'd like to request a refund of my time for watching that pre-Easter H.A.M.
To put it nicely, Mariah sucked. Not only was she lip-syncing, but she was lip-syncing and sounded terrible. The hell? Artists typically re-record "live" versions of songs for use in performances to throw people off of their lip-syncing trail. But to re-record the song and phone in the vocals is another matter. Furthermore, the whole lip-syncing thing only works to throw peeps off when your lips match up with the words, Mimikins.
But lip malfunctions aside, the songs she sang are Just. Not. Good. For an artist of Mariah's stature,
this material is beneath her. The lyrics to "Touch My Body" and "Migrate" were alternately laughable and cringe-inducing. And, yeah, she's done collabos with a who's who of rappers before, but
T-Pain? Come on. Was
Lil Wayne too busy sippin' on some sizzurp? But back to Testicular Pain, can his 15 minutes please end soon? We need another flavor of the month producer/guest artist/ugly mofo STAT.
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Butta | 03/17/2008 at 5:59 PM | Comments (30) | Permalink
Prepare for an imaginary fourth quarter "showdown" between Whitney Houston and that other troubled "Itney" in 2008. I swear, the fact that so many music sites are even uttering their names in the same sentence with regards to music makes me want to cancel my Internet. But this isn't about people inventing competition where there is none. This is about the geniuses behind Whitney's new album and their refusal to just let the woman release an album without hyping it's likely producers.
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When I initially saw the flyer on the right, I wasn't sure how to feel. I mean, I know 
