Showing posts with label Minnie Ripperton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnie Ripperton. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2014

Mariah Carey Booed In Japan As Her Voice Gives Out During Concert She Slammed Husband Nick Cannon As A “Motherf******“ (Exclusive: He Cheated A Lot)


Pop singer, Mariah Carey, 45, is in the middle of a messy divorce from husband, comedian, Nick Cannon, 33. The comedian-turned-actor cheated on Carey, as stated in the August 27, 2014 Judiciary Report article Nick Cannon Left Mariah Carey Because He Says She Is Mentally Ill. Two months later, Carey confirmed Cannon's cheating via singing the line "I know you cheated motherf*****" during her ill-received Japan concert this past weekend.  

Since Mariah confirmed it, let me throw out some more of what I know. The Judiciary Report has it on good authority, via a source responsible for some of the site's exclusives that Nick cheated on Mariah not once, twice or three times, but FOUR! He is completely in the wrong for cheating on his spouse. 

  

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon

While we're on the subject of her recent Japan concert that was a disaster, it is another example of the Judiciary Report being proven right again. Remember last year when Mariah Carey’s unbalanced fans she calls “lambs” attacked me on Twitter for asking a simple set of questions a) what happened to her voice b) was Kelly Price singing more on Carey’s latter CDs than she received credit for?

After about 50 of her crazed fans attacked me on Twitter, I tweeted that the harassing spam would lead to me writing about Carey on the Judiciary Report, stating she deserves to be boycotted for fostering such fanaticism in her fans who've attacked Kelly Price and Nicki Minaj as well over free speech. Fast-forward one year and true to the Judiciary Report’s boycott, Carey’s new CD "Me. I Am Mariah. The Elusive Chanteuse" bombed. 


Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey and their kids Moroccan and Monroe

Fast-forward a few more months to now and Carey was booed in Japan this month over her very poor vocal performance. This proves what the Judiciary Report stated last year (and prior to that as well) Carey's voice is going. This is all I was stating and asking about when the "lambs" tried to jump down my throat. Now you see it for yourselves (see video posted above of her recent concert).

I was a fan of Carey’s when she started out. Carey debuted when I was about 12-years-old and I bought her CD. Her voice was strong and clear on her self-titled debut. Carey did well during live performances during that time period. Her voice was on target. However, by the time she reached her third CD “Music Box” it became apparent something had gone wrong with her voice. 


Mariah Carey

Female singer’s voices often begin to deteriorate in their 50s. Here was Mariah in her 20s with noticeable vocal damage. As a singer, I always found what happened to her perplexing (not to mention scary). Mariah’s contemporaries such as Whitney Houston, didn’t suffer that type of vocal deterioration. 

A great example of a strong voice that keeps on going is Patti Labelle, who is in her 70s and her vocals are as strong as ever (she looks better than ever too). Something happened to Carey that caused her voice to go very early. I don’t think it is psychological. It's something physical/physiological.

 

Mariah Carey was booed in Japan this month

It could be overuse of upper octave notes, particularly the whistle register on a regular basis. Carey put out a lot of CDs and did many performances in the 1990s with the whistle register, made popular by Minnie Ripperton, as her trademark. There's a possibility it constitute overuse of an unnatural tone and it created damage over the course of a few years. 

Carey also like to belt on stage with big notes. Belting may get artists great reviews and applause, but studies have shown it can also create vocal cord tearing and bleeding. Singers don't see the damage, but proper medical inspection will reveal it.


Mariah Carey performing in front of Obama backdrop

It could also be something Carey was ingesting that did a bit of damage. Sometimes singers mix up special concoctions, variations of teas and other liquids, to soothe their voices. There's also a brand of specialty tea (not a mainstream one) I don't think is particularly good for singer's voices, based on the ingredients, but I haven't done any comparative research on the product and will withhold my opinion and the name at this time. Either way, Carey's rapid vocal changes indicating depletion would make a good case study.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Kelly Price Exposes And Clowns Mariah Carey Stating She Can't Sing Implying Someone Else Boosted Her Vocals On CDs

 Oooooo! Shots Fired! Diva Down!

 


Mariah Carey

R&B singer Kelly Price is really going after everyone. On part one of the "R&B Divas LA" reunion show, host Wendy Williams confronted her about comments she made on social networking site Twitter, stating Mariah Carey can't sing. Price used to be Carey's back up singer and left before the singer wanted her to do so.

Williams, who called Price a "mean bully" read her tweet about Carey, "I’m looking at a concert on TV right now of a certain singer and asking myself what happened to your voice. Sometimes the gimmick goes too far. One day you go to sing and realize it ain’t happening. This is making my voice hurt."

I'm not a fan of how Mariah Carey got her record deal (having sex with Sony Music president Tommy Mottola while he was married with small kids, breaking up his marriage, then marrying and using him for preferential treatment at the label). Not a fan of Carey repeatedly stealing copyrighted music from stars such as Earth, Wind and Fire and the Emotions (for which she was sued) as well as ripping off lesser known songwriters (who also sued her).

However, when Carey began in the early 1990s, it did appear she could sing very well. Price is attributing it to a studio gimmick. But seriously, if you could do that in a studio then Rihanna and Britney Spears would sound like Whitney Houston. There is a physical change regarding the sound of Carey's vocals around the time of her third CD "Music Box" when her voice began to deteriorate. You can hear the deterioration on "Music Box" as compared to her self-titled debut CD.



Kelly Price

Other singers have experienced similar things, but Carey's is one of the most notable vocal declines in pop music history. Her former labelmate Celine Dion stated she had lost her voice for a few weeks, but it came back. Dion still sounds the same today, with no decline.

However, I always wondered what happened to Carey, as singers' voices usually don't change/decline until they are in their sixties (some singers experience no negative change at all, such as Patti Labelle). I've heard singers in their eighties and their voices didn't change the way Carey's did, especially over the course of a couple years. 

Drugs and alcohol can cause audible damage to one's voice prior to one's sixties, but with Carey, something distinctly physiological occurred. Would be a good case study. I know music theory and history form a musicological standpoint and can attest, something strange happened with Carey. I wondered if it was years of singing in the whistle register that depleted her voice, but Minnie Ripperton and countless opera singers have done the same and their voices did not diminish in the manner Carey's did and so rapidly. 

There is another theory and it appears to be what Price is implying - someone else was singing with Carey in the studio, proving the backbone of her musical sound. Look at what she stated again about Carey, "I’m looking at a concert on TV right now of a certain singer and asking myself what happened to your voice. Sometimes the gimmick goes too far. One day you go to sing and realize it ain’t happening. This is making my voice hurt." Why would her voice hurt unless she was singing...

Price may be implying it was her propping up Carey's sound on her first CDs, as she was her background singer. Another issue that does not help matters, it is well noted that for years Mottola refused to let Carey tour, which would have meant singing live. It wasn't until her voice (on record) began to deteriorate that she started singing live. By that time the deteriorated vocals matched up (recorded and live). Makes you wonder.