Mariah Carey

[naughtynae]

OHOMO with current vocals would be a guaranteed disaster.

Do you think? I think the opposite actually, it’s a pretty straightforward vocal. If she was well rested I think she could do a decent job like with LTT.

[Milano]

I agree with this.
It comes down to the sustained belt at the end, to which I think she could do justice with proper preparation.

[lambforever]

Mariah can do OHOMO justice live

[delapuerta]

I agree with this.
It comes down to the sustained belt at the end, to which I think she could do justice with proper preparation.

She's done belts like that during jttw intro

[allygdale]

She could definitely do OHOMO live, but the Christmas show already has enough cover songs

[stevyy]

Mariah Carey's Top Streaming XMAS Songs on Spotify: Daily (Revised)

Timeframe: November 25th

01 - 1,218,348,428 - +3,495,098 - 1994 - All I want for Christmas Is You
02 - 184,951,655 - +617,135 - 1994 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
03 - 79,653,947 - +283,772 - 2010 - Oh Santa
04 - 86,247,648 - +178,879 - 1994 - O Holy Night
05 - 83,331,885 - +132,052 - 2011 - All I want for Christmas Is You (ft. Justin Bieber)
06 - 58,992,204 - +121,714 - 1994 - Silent Night
07 - 65,465,518 - +106,844 - 1994 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
08 - 9,123,583 - +43,339 - 2021 - Fall In Love at Christmas
09 - 19,897,235 - +40,501 - 1994 - Joy To The World
10 - 16,717,168 - +38,644 - 1994 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

FILAC is getting up there. 43k is quite something. The songs at #1, #2 and #3 are also her overally top 3 songs.WBT is down to #4 and Fantasy is at #6.

[lambforever]

Her top 7 is definitely popular and I am surprised to see FILAC take over Joy to the World. Not bad.

CBPCH continues to slay. Hoping Oh Santa can pick up a bit more and not be too far behind #2

[GlenMarley]

Her top 7 is definitely popular and I am surprised to see FILAC take over Joy to the World. Not bad.

I dont understand what happened with Joy to the World. It used to be one of her most recognisable Christmas songs and now its fallen behind considerably.

[ferrero]

yes FILACT numbers are quite good considering its limited reach on Spotify (2M, 155 playlists)

[lambforever]

We may get atlease 100k daily Christmas week with FILAC. Hoping the performance helps it out a bit

[SawyerHewitt]

The best thing about FILAC is the outro, tbh.
Rest is okayish.
I also wonder what happened with JTTW as it really was one of her most popular Xmas songs.

[Strat]

I remember hearing JTTW everywhere years ago.

It's definitely declined but I'm sure it's close to GOLD in Australia.

The Celebration Mix is underrated.

[carey18ph]

Patiently waiting for CBPCH to debut in Hot 100.

[carey18ph]

[jr588]

LOL at her bringing one of dem dogs to dinner.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...anaka-NYC.html

[Marchum]

Ahhh she looks amazing

[naughtynae]

A little off topic but Chante Moore did a performance of her classic songs at the Soul Train awards and it made me long for a Mariah performance like that where she could just sing and remind people of THAT voice.

I’m sure the beginning is lip syncing but from 1:32 it’s just pure vocals with some beautiful whistle notes.

I don’t know if Mariah has a vocal coach I know it was Maryanne for a little bit but as a fan it’s getting difficult to defend these subpar vocals all the time. She needs to do something.

[MattyOj]

A little off topic but Chante Moore did a performance of her classic songs at the Soul Train awards and it made me long for a Mariah performance like that where she could just sing and remind people of THAT voice.

I’m sure the beginning is lip syncing but from 1:32 it’s just pure vocals with some beautiful whistle notes.

I don’t know if Mariah has a vocal coach I know it was Maryanne for a little bit but as a fan it’s getting difficult to defend these subpar vocals all the time. She needs to do something.

Thanks for posting this! I LOVE Chante! This proves that having a long career doesn’t automatically mean there has to be a permanent vocal decline. Oh how I’d love for Mariah to shine like this live instead of just ‘getting through it’…

Chante’s voice was showing similar wear to Mariah’s around the year 2000 - she was raspy and actually a little hoarse on record. It seemed to point to whistling causing that sort of damage since they both do it. Chante had sung live far more in the 90s than Mariah did though. I wonder if she had surgery because she sounds fantastic here. Discipline is key and Mariah has been honest numerous times that she’s not interested in treating singing like a discipline unfortunately. That reminds me, didn’t one of the Morris brothers (Boyz II Men) criticise Mariah’s lack of dedication to the craft a few years ago? I feel like Gladys Knight also said Mariah sounds hoarse because she pushes her voice outside its natural range but I can’t remember where I read that.

Back to Chante, she was also ripped off by Jennifer Lopez. Diddy heard Chante’s “If I Gave Love” and made Rodney Jerkins rewrite it as “If You Had My Love”. Blatant!

[Chris87]

Oh I loved that Chante performance! I don’t know her but she was excellent there! Will check out some more of her! Very confident on stage, great presence! Blown away but the voice especially those whistles but even without them, excellent

[delapuerta]

I've never read that Gladys Knight comment.
And Mariah's career is unique (the amount of pressure or being in the spotlight scrutinized). I don't see the point of bringing other artists to compare Mariah with. Chante's career has not been as intense as Mariah's

[leoavalon]

Getting into the Tiktok trend:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFxsk4V4/

[ferrero]

awesome leoavalon

u wanna try this? this is getting viral, reaching 100K videos

original sound created by Noah schnapp> | Popular songs on TikTok

[MattyOj]

Oh I loved that Chante performance! I don’t know her but she was excellent there! Will check out some more of her! Very confident on stage, great presence! Blown away but the voice especially those whistles but even without them, excellent

After Mariah brought the whistle register back to the forefront in 1990, Chante was one of a few R&B singers who followed in her footsteps. Her debut album from 1992 “Precious” and its follow up “A Love Supreme” are both fantastic. Like Mariah, she’s a master of vocal layering and does a lot of her own backgrounds. A former background singing colleague of Mariah’s clearly had her one and only solo album recorded with Mariah in mind - Lisa Fischer’s 1991 album “So Intense”. There’s plenty of whistles here too but the whole album is a vocal tour de force. I’d add Rachelle Ferrell’s 1992 self titled album as well. Despite being great singers, all of these ladies struggled to cross over and find success outside of R&B formats.

Mariah coming out the gate the way she did in 1990 really forced all female singers to up their game.

[leoavalon]

awesome leoavalon

u wanna try this? this is getting viral, reaching 100K videos

original sound created by Noah schnapp> | Popular songs on TikTok

Thanks dahlin'!

I've used this one, but the original audio from Mariah:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFxsc48U/

[MattyOj]

I've never read that Gladys Knight comment.
And Mariah's career is unique (the amount of pressure or being in the spotlight scrutinized). I don't see the point of bringing other artists to compare Mariah with. Chante's career has not been as intense as Mariah's

I’ll try and find it. I remember a lot of lambs being furious with Gladys for commenting even though she was being more matter of fact than shady.

I get where (I think) OP was coming from posting the Chante video. Chante’s a similar age to Mariah (she’s older) and has used her voice in a similar way and still sounds better than ever. She’s toured a lot more than Mariah has too (of course in much, much smaller venues). I want to see Mariah receive this kind of adulation from a live performance. Could you imagine how we’d all lose our minds if Mariah hit those sort of notes live and sounded that clean? I think we all just want her live performances to be worthy of her legacy.

With that said the LTT video that was recently posted was the best thing I’ve seen from Mariah in years. While it lacked things like vibrato it was amazing to see her stand there and deliver a very difficult song pretty close to the original all these years later. My fingers are crossed for her upcoming shows.