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February 21, 2006 - Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com offered several corrections for The New York Post's Grammy night report. Friedman writes, "[Mariah] Carey, contrary to the report, went straight to her party at Ron Burkle's estate following her Grammy loss and remained there until 2 a.m. I know this only because I saw her. Four hours is hardly a 'drive-by.'" Read more.

February 21, 2006 - Former Blue star Lee Ryan is hoping to duet with a big American star for a hit single on his sophomore album, he tells Neil Sean of Sky News. Lee's label wants to lure Mariah Carey, but he believes it will be Jessica Simpson instead. "I plan to make my second album more gospel," he said. "That is the music I excel in."

February 21, 2006 - prodigy82 writes "Throughout last year, we've seen Mariah Carey emerge from the dark and almost lowly place where she's been for the past 4 years, to the sunshiny and spotless beacon where  the  Mariah Carey has always been since her 90s debut. No artist in history has ever had the grander comeback than Mariah Carey has as Mimi. No artist has ever swept almost every other award show than Mariah has. With  The Emancipation of Mimi , she has received no less than 35 awards, awards which she receive from various groups: music-loving people, consumers, various magazines, worldwide music organizations, teens, and the ever-hard to please Grammys." Read more.

February 21, 2006 - MariahDaily.com has video of Mariah Carey's post-Grammy Awards appearances on various entertainment shows, including 'Extra', 'The Insider', 'Access Hollywood', and 'Entertainment Tonight', where she discussed her three wins. Download and view here.

February 21, 2006 - Sal Cinquemani of slant magazine weighed in on Wednesday night's Grammy Awards, and a slight on Mariah Carey. "So what was up with Mariah's three wins Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best R&B Song, and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance not being televised," Cinquemani asked. "Sure, they've switched things up in recent years, keeping us on our toes for three-and-a-half hours by no longer presenting trophies to artists immediately following their live performances, but not letting Mariah accept an award on stage is a blatant slap in the face to the female artist with the most nominations this year and whose last CD was the biggest selling album of 2005." Read more.

February 21, 2006 - It was Kanye West that warned about how he'd react to losing the Album of the Year award at Wednesday night's Grammys, but when U2 took home the honor, it was Mariah Carey who was the most upset loser, a source tells The New York Post. The singer refused to come out of her dressing room post-show (though she did do an interview afterwards with Grammy television host CBS). "She ended up back at her hotel with a small group of friends," a spy revealed, only making a drive-by at her own after party hosted by supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle.

February 21, 2006 - divinah writes "So this is it . . . the morning after. A morning of disappointment to both Madonna and Mariah Carey fans. Madonna fans were expecting that she would steal the show -- she didn't (the crowd was cold). Mariah fans like myself expected a clean sweep -- we were disappointed and now hurt. This is a wake up call to both Madonna and Mariah fans." Read more.

February 21, 2006 - Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com checked in with details of Wednesday night's Grammy Awards, including Mariah Carey's after party that was shut down by the Los Angeles Fire Marshal and the police department after being overbooked at the home of Beverly Hills mansion/estate of grocery magnate Ron Burkle. Read more.

February 21, 2006 - Mariah Carey spoke with Hattie Kauffman of CBS News about winning three Grammy Awards following a 16-year drought and the success of her album, 'The Emancipation of Mimi.' Watch the interview here.

February 21, 2006 - An Intel ad aired on CBS during the Grammy's Awards featuring Mariah Carey. The ad, part of the "laps" campaign, focuses on how music-lovers can enjoy her music anywhere, without wires with Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology. Watch the ad here. 

February 21, 2006 - Jay Leno joked during his Tonight Show monologue on Tuesday night, "Well, according to the New York Daily News -- I love this kind of gossip. Madonna and Mariah Carey are fighting over which one of them gets to open the Grammy show Wednesday night. First of all, how many think Mariah Carey should do it? [Light cheers and applause] How many think Madonna? [Screams and applause] How many don't care, as long as neither one of them promises to never make another movie again? [Cheers and applause]"

February 21, 2006 - Madonna and Mariah Carey's rivalry has hit new heights ahead of tomorrow's Grammys after the Material Girl convinced awards bosses to give her the show opening performance instead of Carey's choir-backed rendition of 'We Belong Together'. "The producers noted that Madge is a five-time winner," a source tells The New York Daily News, even though Madonna received zero nominations this year. Another source added, "The war between Madonna and Mariah has been going on for years. Mariah was also steaming last summer when Madonna stole the show at Live 8." Read more.

February 21, 2006 - 'The Early Show' national correspondent Hattie Kauffman met up with Mariah Carey over the weekend at her Grammy rehearsal and asked the singer about the title of her hit comeback album. "Naming it 'The Emancipation of Mimi' had a lot to do with me saying, 'Okay, this is me the person as well as the artist formerly known as Mariah Carey,'" she told Kauffman. "I'll always be Mariah Carey, recording artist, whatever you want to label me as, but the thing is, this is very special to me because it's a labor of love." Read more, and watch the interview at CBSNews.com.

February 21, 2006 - Alyssa Milano, Britney Spears, Carmen Electra, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kevin Federline, Ludacris, Mariah Carey, Pamela Anderson, and Tyra Banks attended The 48th Annual Grammy Awards and/or various after parties on Wednesday (February 8) at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Check out pictures and video from Grammy.com. Check out pictures and video here.

February 21, 2006 - Us Weekly reports that as the Grammy Awards wrapped up, Mariah Carey commandeered all 12 stalls of the Staples Center ladies' room backstage. The diva needed her space to prepare for the after parties.

February 13, 2006 - Neil Sean of Sky News reports that Kelly Osbourne was to cover Mariah Carey's #1 hit 'Dream Lover'... until Kelly dissed Mariah's voice. "I stand by what I say, but if she wants to block my recording she loses out on lots of money," Osbourne said.

February 13, 2006 - Mariah Carey's manager Benny Medina spoke with OK! magazine about reports that the singer was lining up Karl Lagerfield to design a dress for the singer's launch of a perfume line later this year. "We're in discussions with several major fragrance and cosmetics houses to potentially launch a fragrance," Medina said. "We have to solidify arrangements." As for Lagerfield, Medina said, "Karl just designed a beautiful dress for the Golden Globes. She and Karl have a relationship."

February 13, 2006 - divinah writes "Jermaine Dupri, in his interview with MTV News, said he's considering a collaboration between Mariah Carey and his girlfriend Janet Jackson, which would mirror Whitney Houston and Mariah's 1998 hit 'When You Believe.' Dupri said, "That's been on my mind for a couple weeks now. The hardest part is figuring out a song that fits both of them, because you have two different styles of artists, and the thing when you're dealing with divas is you don't want to overshadow either one, so if you were to do a song for them, it would have to work where both of them would feel they were on the same pedestal, or else someone's gonna have a problem." Read more."

February 13, 2006 - Anonymous writes "Last year, all of the Mariah Carey fans spent so much time defending her; now it isn't even neccesary. She is undoubtedly back at the top and no matter what anyone says about her, she did her thing with the new album and proved that she has longevity and is a living legend. Call her trashy, call her fat, call her overrated if you would like too...but accept the fact that she has sold over 5 million records of "...Mimi" and she is being critically praised for her immensely successful comeback. Even though you say you hate her, for some reason you keep watching her apperances, keep looking at her pictures and keep listening to her music..it is really shocking that you devote so much time to a woman you hate. " 

February 5, 2006 - Ses writes "I have recently come across Janet Jackson's career and biography when I compiled her classics in the last post I submitted. I read information about Janet's past albums and I have recently found out a stunning similarity in both 'Rhythm Nation' & 'The Emancipation Of Mimi'. The similarities are these: both albums produced at least 2 U.S. No.1 singles ('Rhythm Nation' had 3 & 'The Emancipation' had 2), both albums were the best selling albums in the U.S. for that year ('Rhythm Nation' sold 8 million & 'The Emancipation Of Mimi' sold 5 million in the U.S.), both albums were R & B inspired, both albums got the most Grammy Nominations for their year & most significantly both albums had 8 Grammy Nominations!" Read more.

February 5, 2006 - Jessica Alba, Jenny McCarthy, Ludacris, Mariah Carey, Jaime Pressly, Heidi Klum, Seal, Mandy Moore, and Pamela Anderson were amongst the stars on hand for the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 16th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Check out pictures here.

February 5, 2006 - Moritz von Uslar of Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine spoke with Mariah Carey in a marathon 100 question interview. He boldly questioned the singer about the infamous 'TRL' appearance days before she was hospitalized. "It is hard for people who don't have any experience with TV appereances to understand this," she said. "There was a problem with my ear monitors. I had this chaos of voices in my ears but was expected to answer a question at the same time, which is hardly possible. Everyone was terribly excited. It was a joke. Things were exaggerated afterwards because I fainted two days later, and I needed medical help." Then when Moritz asked about a "suicide attempt" at the climax of her exhaustion, Carey insisted, "That is not true. I am a far too spiritual person to even think of suicide." Read more.

February 5, 2006 - divinah writes "Much have been said abou Mariah Carey's weight gain, prostitute sister and crimes of fashion here on Podirt lately. It's OK to talk about these things, once in a while, but it's becoming obvious that defeated fans of the defeated Madonna are using these stories to divert us from the real issues which they are afraid to discuss: 1) MC have 17 #1's; 2) MC continues to dominate the Billboard Charts (which is STILL the Bible and THE authentic authority on music); 3) MC is nominated for 7 Grammys; and 4) MC is The Queen of Pop and the highest selling female artist of ALL time." Read more.

February 5, 2006 - divinah writes "Crazy. Mad. Pathetic. Call it what you will, but TeamLamb (whatever it is or whether it does exist or not) has accomplished its goals, namely: 1) it helped Mariah Carey in her comeback bid . . . and how; 2) it helped make "The Emancipation of Mimi" the huge success that it is; 3) it helped MC achieve her 16th and 17th #1's; and 4) it helped destroy the career of The Corpse (a.k.a. Madonna) -- whatever is left of it." Read more.

February 5, 2006 - ScorpionMan writes "Recently I came across Mariah Carey fansite TeamLamb.com. This disgusting, delusional site has the usual desperate propaganda for Mariah Carey but a lot more very disturbing features. For instance, an "Artists We Hate" section where they plead Mariah fans not to purchase of artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and Prince in a failing attempt to make Mariah the biggest selling artist of all time. Also the site applauds the murder of John Lennon and names Elvis as a closet homosexual. This site is yet another example of the pathetic cult of the "Lamb" who are desperate to try and prove their talentless idol is among the greats of music history." 

February 5, 2006 - The Mirror reports that Mariah Carey is set to release her own fragrance in December and wants to enlist designer Karl Lagerfeld for help in the advertising campaign. "Mariah is so excited about the scent and it will be based on white flowers," a source revealed. "She wants Karl to design a dress that fits in all the right places."

February 5, 2006 - Joking about the Golden Globe Awards during his 'Tonight Show' monologue on Tuesday, Jay Leno said, "And Mariah Carey's dress, did you see that? Whoo! My god. She still has the Golden Globes, but she's about five years away from the SAG Awards."

February 5, 2006 - Mariah Carey was videotaped entering the Golden Globes afterparty at Chaya Brasserie in Beverly Hills, California on Monday (January 16). Watch the footage from Lulop.

February 5, 2006 - Ellen DeGeneres celebrated her 48th birthday on her show Thursday, and one of the well-wishers was Mariah Carey. In a taped video message, Carey whistled 'Happy Birthday' to Ellen and said, "Not singing today. I'm on my vocal rest." Download and watch the birthday greeting at MariahDaily.com.

February 5, 2006 - VH1 issued a press release Wednesday (January 15) with results of their online Grammy poll, which saw Mariah Carey dominate. They write, "Mariah Carey needs to make room in her trophy case for more awards from her comeback of the millennium, according to the results from VH1's 4th annual Grammy Awards poll. Adult respondents in VH1's fourth annual poll single out the songbird's CD 'The Emancipation of Mimi' as most likely to win Album of the Year and her international hit 'We Belong Together' most likely to win Song of the Year. The single also tied in the poll for Record of the Year with Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'." Read more, including poll results figures, here.

February 5, 2006 - Mariah Carey was photographed leaving a midtown restaurant in New York City on Monday (January 23). Check out pictures here.

February 5, 2006 - Anonymous writes "In an interview with NPR's Debbie Elliott about her latest album, 'The Breakthrough', Mary J. Blige cites Mariah Carey as a source of inspiration in her early singing career." Read more.

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