Opening Act: Sean Paul

01. It's Like That
02. Heartbreaker
03. Dreamlover
04. My All
05. Shake It Off
06. Vision of Love
07. Fly Like A Bird
08. I'll Be There

---"B" Stage:
09. Fantasy
10. Don't Forget About Us
11. Always Be My Baby
---End "B" Stage

12. Honey
13. I Wish You Knew (Snippet)
14. Thank God I Found You/Make It Last (Snippet)
15. One Sweet Day (Snippet)
16. Can't Let Go (Snippet)
17. Close My Eyes (A capella - Snippet)
18. Hero
19. Make It Happen

--Encore:
20. We Belong Together
21. Butterfly Reprise

From Toronto Sun: A little too much

Long before Jilly-come-lately starlets like Lindsay Lohan were keeping tabloids alive on the back of their foibles, failed relationships and trips to the hospital for exhaustion or "asthma", there was Mariah.

Few have fallen as fast or from such a height as Mariah Carey, who went from the top-selling female artist of the '90s to fodder for Leno and Letterman in roughly a year. It's not without a certain amount of karmic coincidence that her album Glitter, drawn from the universally panned film of the same name, was released on Sept. 11, 2001. Ouch.

That bad timing was only the beginning of the bad times for Carey, and the first few years of the new millennium were famously unkind to the 36-year-old girl with the glass-shattering pipes. But Mariah's now on the comeback trail, and given the roars and screams coming from the packed ACC concert bowl last night for the Toronto stop of the Adventures of Mimi tour, fans old and new are still here to welcome her.

First the good news: Carey's still got THAT VOICE. After hearing hundreds of American Idol rejects emulate her show-offy high-register warbling, one would think the source material would now be poison to the ears. Not so. Carey can still show those wannabe punks how it's done. Bow down to your queen.

Now, the bad news. It wouldn't be a Mariah Carey concert if it wasn't an exercise in excess, but too often Carey was overwhelmed by her band, her back-up singers and the two-tiered stage with its lighted staircases, wind and fog machines and the giant Mimi sign lowered from the rafters. Her voice may be huge, but her presence was at times disappointingly small.

After an opening video which expressed the profoundly original sentiment that life can be like a roller-coaster, Carey emerged from a hole in the stage, dressed in a black bikini, flowing cape and stilettos, to the strains of It's Like That. Yes, it certainly is.

That segued into Heartbreaker and then Dreamlover, giving Carey the first (but by no means last) opportunity to bust out her trademark ear-tickling squeal. But while the voice is still there, Carey could use a lesson or two in how to pace a live show. Yeah, we expect the costume changes, but is there no way to do it that doesn't involve killing the momentum? The DJ interludes were fine and certainly crowd-pleasing, but the video skit and other filler should be chucked. And stopping Vision Of Love a couple of lines in to tell the tech guys about a problem with the stage smacked of old school diva-tude. "There's a hole in the stage right here, just about the size of a stiletto heel!" said Carey, a smile on her face but not in her voice. How she noticed it with all the distracted fiddling she was doing with her earpiece is a wonder.

But the woman who has sold more albums than the Beatles doesn't get where she is by disappointing her fans. Her very next song, Fly Like A Bird, was a testament to what her voice can do, and I'll Be There, a duet with Trey Lorenz (who then took the stage solo while Mariah went off to don her third costume in 45 minutes) was deliciously sweet.

Sliding back and forth between the old (Hero, Honey) and the new (Don't Forget About Us, We Belong Together), Carey cherry-picked from her bulging catalogue of monster hits for the concert's 90-plus minutes.

At one point she took to a mini-stage smack-dab in the centre of the bowl to do Fantasy and Always Be My Baby, much to the crowd's delight. And during Make It Happen, a full 32-person gospel choir backed her up. Hallelujah!

But overall, the show had too many rough edges, too much of the band in the sound mix and too many non-Mariah distractions. It's nice to see you back, Your Royal Mimi-ness. But next time you visit, could you please travel a little lighter?

Opening act Sean Paul, enthusiastically professing equal love for the T-dot and the ladies (and, presumably, the T-dot's ladies), got the crowd on its feet early with his sweaty, freaky dancehall reggae beats. Backed by a small army of musicians, DJs and athletic, bootylicious dancers, Paul thumped through the likes of I'm Still In Love With You, Temperature and Get Busy. And no costume changes required.


From Toronto Sun: Carey shows fans how to shake it off

You gotta love Mariah Carey. What other performer would stop their show to point out a hole on the floor of the stage "about the size of a stiletto heel," then admit to having missed the first line of the song anyway, further acknowledge various goofs - including almost falling down — in the first quarter of the 90-minute set, and shrug it all off with a sweetly confident "You know how I am?"

It could be that Carey, 36, has learned the dangers of perfectionism, given the exhaustion to which she attributed her very public emotional breakdown a few years back.

Or perhaps, she's been nudged about some of the unflattering reviews (citing late starts and uneven singing) of The Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, the Hits, the Tour, which kicked off in Miami last weekend.

"I didn't want Toronto to think I didn't want to put on a good show," she said of her confessions, which came at the tour's fifth outing last night at the Air Canada Centre.

It helped that the New York native made these admissions clad in a butter yellow, low cut, bare back, midriff baring gown and then delivered a standout version of 1990's "Vision of Love" - the first of her 17 No. 1 singles.

And to the reassurance of those holding tickets for Carey's Aug. 29 return date, as last night's sold-out crowd can attest, the pop songstress remains in the fine five-octave form that made last year's The Emancipation of Mimi a three-Grammy winner that moved 10 million copies - besting rapper 50 Cent for the year's top seller.

The concert began with video footage of a roller-coaster ride with a Carey voiceover that alluded to the ups and down that marred her personal and professional life for the first half of this decade: divorce from then-Sony boss Tommy Mottola, starring in the movie musical Glitter which tanked, being released from Virgin Records and erratic public behaviour that was widely documented and labelled a meltdown.

With the taped announcement, "after all the hysteria everything is up," Carey stepped out in a glittery black bikini top, matching boy shorts and a transparent cape, singing "It's Like That." Backed by an elaborate stage, six dancers and a seven-piece band, she performed many of her hits, including "Heartbreaker," "Dream Lover" and "Fantasy."

She was joined by erstwhile R&B crooner Trey Lorenz, with whom she'd recorded the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" for a pleasing rendition of the song. Unfortunately, she then conceded the stage to him to showcase a song from his forthcoming album. Momentum lagged, since few know the South Carolina native outside of the 1992 collaboration with Carey and he didn't even try to make nice by removing the I'm-so-cool sunglasses.

The other downside was a videotaped skit of a quartet of catty women dissing Carey in a washroom about her emotional problems and possibly fake boobs and legs. That was overkill for someone who's shaken off the naysayers to come within three songs of the Beatles No. 1 hits record. And let's face it - she didn't have such a substantial bosom in her 1990 debut.

But overall, Carey is a delight.

She is a bit quirky, and she can't really dance - her tendency is to preen and prance - but she sings her ass off and is a whole lot of fun to watch. And she really does try to connect with her fans, even performing two songs on a ministage in their midst.

Costume changes were well down from the eight on her 2000 tour and the healthy looking, no skinny Mimi has toned down the skank. In fact, it was dancehall reggae opener Sean Paul and his sexy frenetic dancers who pushed the boundaries of decency last night.


From Chart Magazine: Mariah Carey Amazes And Befuddles

Mariah Carey has always come across as a plucky survivor with questionable style and an amazing voice, and during a nearly two-hour performance at Toronto's Air Canada Centre last night, the diva delivered equal amounts of pluck, questionability and amazement.

Despite overhyped media reports of $10 million U.S. brooches, nine time-consuming costume changes and unfashionable lateness, The Adventures Of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour was a pretty modest experience. The production was no more elaborate than your average figure skating TV special and the self-deprecating 36-year-old seemed intent on creating a relaxed atmosphere as she belted out 16 of her career hits, including "Dream Lover," "Always Be My Baby," "Fantasy" and "Honey," plus a few numbers from last year's comeback album, The Emancipation Of Mimi.

The show opened with a confessional video of sorts. Over the image of a rollercoaster, Carey told the sold-out crowd, "Obviously it's no secret my life has been like a rollercoaster ride" æ a reductive reference to her tumultuous career in the public spotlight, which has included a high-profile divorce from Tommy Mottola and a bizarre nervous breakdown and subsequent hospitalization in 2001. "It's all part of God's bigger plan for me," she concluded, before suddenly appearing in a gust of wind from beneath the stage, clad in a sequined black bikini top, matching booty shorts and sheer cape.

Launching into "It's Like That," she remained easy to spot among the tangle of back-up dancers, thanks in part to an omnipresent wind machine that violently tossed her gigantic, curly hair wherever she went. Carey doesn't really dance so much as swoop, flow and float around the stage. But a Mariah Carey show isn't about slick dance moves, it's all about her voice. All five of her octaves were in top form, dazzling the crowd with several ad-libbed arias.

Peril was nearly averted during mid-set track "Vision Of Love." "Stop the show," she commanded, apologizing profusely. "There's a hole in the stage just about the size of a stiletto heel." As a roadie scrambled onstage to plug the hazardous hole, Carey coyly confessed she'd flubbed the first line of the song anyway and continued on.

She hit every high note during a rousing version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There," and brought out Trey Lorenz, the vocalist who originally performed the song with her back in 1992 on MTV Unplugged. The show then ground to a halt as she disappeared backstage to change outfits, leaving Lorenz to perform a filler song from his forthcoming album. He naturally gravitated towards an over-eager group of girls conveniently seated in the front row who had red and white pompoms and a placard that read, "I love Trey!"

Carey reappeared on a smaller stage at the centre of the audience to energetically perform three numbers. It was definitely the high point of the evening, as the show began to lose some momentum shortly thereafter.

Following another costume change, she returned in a turquoise evening gown and stopped the show once again, passive aggressively reprimanding the band for playing the wrong song in the wrong key. The crowd fell awkwardly silent. Clearly distracted, she pointed into the audience and said: "That ain't a video camera, is it? I've got slick eyes," and began rambling about a "Keith Sweat remix."

To turn the silence back into raucous screaming, she performed an impromptu few bars of a song only hardcore fans would recognize and brought Lorenz back to join her for a few bars of "One Sweet Day" and a full version of "Thank God I Found You."

With the 11 p.m. curfew fast approaching, Carey rounded out the set with "Hero," "Make It Happen" and an encore of "We Belong Together."

It wasn't a perfect show, but then Mariah doesn't pretend to be perfect, that's part of her charm. She turned the awkward moments around, hit all the high notes and kept the wind machine cranked up to 11. Who could ask for more?


From Now Toronto: Hairy Carey

It feels unkind and gratuitous to say anything mean about Mariah Carey - the woman's been through enough after her very public fall from grace in 2001, which featured an album that flopped, a feature film that flopped and a very strange appearance on MTV's Total Request Live.

I will say this, however: you'd think after all these years of dressing like a drag queen the woman would have learned to walk in heels. Her hour-and-a-half show was nerve-racking as she minced precariously across the stage.

It was obviously a practical rather than diva-like move to stop two lines into Vision Of Love so as to draw attention to a stiletto heel-sized hole in the stage. She was glad to have an excuse to start the song again, admitting she missed the first line anyway.

Despite the massive production of her Adventures Of Mimi tour – lights, dancers, singers, band, video screens and constant wind blowing across the stage and through Carey's hair – the whole business was a bit awkward and strange. Yeah, Carey is the queen of the vocals. She's got a fantastic, amazing voice as she showcased again and again running through her, what – 17, 18 – number one hits, pulling out the high-pitched vocal gymnastics wherever required and sending the gay guy next to me into squealing fits.

But Carey herself is awkward and strange, which is actually part of her charm. She's cute and quirky, keeping up chatter with the audience, insisting she doesn't want us to think she "didn't want to put on a good show."

She often seemed dwarfed by the trappings of her stage show and her band. The show lost momentum whenever she disappeared for one of many costume changes while a DJ played medleys of party tunes.

Her duet with Trey Lorenz, I'll Be There, was lovely but then we lost momentum again when she left for another costume change and Lorenz sang a tune off his upcoming album (Mimi Presents Trey Lorenz). He has a fine voice but it wasn't big enough for the venue and he should have taken off the sunglasses.

Finally, launching into Hero, Mariah suggested anyone who didn't like the song could take a bathroom break (I don't know if she was being facetious or seriously insecure). When the end came it came with a burst of purple confetti.


From The Globe and Mail: The Simple Joy of Feeling Mariah's Pain

Aug. 24, 2006 -- Last week, I scored free tickets (the grown-up way to sneak in) to the Mariah Carey concert at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, and I'm pleased to report that the summer teen concert is still as much a rite of passage today as a bulbous hickey or a first shoplifting bust. The acts and the songs are new, but the cheesy light shows and the grotty concrete venues remain the same. You can gussy up a hockey rink with all sorts of beige upholstery, but nothing gets rid of that goalie-pad smell.

Here, then, is a simple guide to rocking out at your local ice palace, be you 13 or 63. Earplugs and wobbly R&B divas optional.

First off, whoever's on stage must be somewhat legendary, a moss-covered relic. Metallica, Madonna or the once-cute Barenaked Ladies will do; Kalan Porter will not. The big summer music spectacle works best when the performers carry a hint of seasoned gruffness and a road-weary glamour, some dirt under their nails to balance all those pretty lasers and blinding flash pots. Younger, fresher acts don't have the hotel-lobby-bar hours under their belts.

Second, skip the opening act. You only have so much love to give. The opening act is on stage for one reason -- to buy you time. Time to purchase overpriced souvenirs and snacks, find and lose the correct entrance portal, be embarrassed by your family, or, if you're a teenage girl travelling with a coven of your sisters, run around the lobby screaming, in clacking heels.

Third, and most important, seek out acts known more for their personal melodramas than their talents. For instance, the one thing better than watching Oasis sing their hits is watching Oasis break into a brawl -- it's like pro wrestling, with charming British accents. A musician with a personality disorder or a well-publicized history of substance abuse may pick your town, your show in which to have a legendary, live-on-stage meltdown. You'll be able to tell the story for years to come! Who cares if the concert ends early? You got some top-grade blogging material for your money.

It's in this last category that Mariah Carey shines. A fragile, needy wailer, Carey certainly sings like an angel, but her true talent lies in begging for affection -- an act she performs better than a pound full of starved puppies. At ease only when she closes her eyes and imagines her locked, guarded hotel room, Carey seems uncertain of her stilettos, her hot pants, the words to her songs, indeed gravity itself. She doesn't strut across the stage, she forces herself forward, much the way a brave child will march into a darkened room, chest out and eyes locked on the light switch.

Carey's sets and costumes are designed to further emphasize her vulnerability. For her Toronto appearance, Carey wore a bikini top and short-shorts, loosely veiled with a 1970s style, transparent floor-length vest straight out of Bea Arthur's Maude days. Poor old Liza Minnelli at least knows enough to wear a sensible pantsuit on stage, the better to be photographed in while riding an emergency-room gurney. Decked out in swimwear, Carey looked about as comfortable and relaxed as Jack Layton in a Hummer.

The set, a multileveled wedding cake that was part tribute to Lawrence Welk's bandstand and part Barbie Dream Castle, made Carey look smaller, like a doll dropped on a ballroom floor. Above her head, a giant, pointy M loomed -- a fibreglass guillotine hungry for a choice set of pipes.

Of course, all this infirmity, the whole gossamer girly routine, is play-acting. Carey's long, lucrative career and the many battles she has won with record companies prove she's really a truck driver at heart. But what the teen customers come to see, and what I find so mesmerizing, is a replication, if not outright exploitation, of Carey's breakdowns, freak-outs and falls from grace.

Ever since her debut film Glitter tanked -- and tanked hard -- Carey has invited her loyal, loving audience to participate in a carefully orchestrated, nightly re-enactment of her destruction and re-emergence. And how we love to play along. The idea that an entertainer worth millions of dollars is in any way a victim is so spectacularly phony and showbizzy that we happily will ourselves to be sucked into her big, wet opera without worrying about the giant holes in the plot.

"I'm winging it tonight," Carey whimpered to the screaming Toronto crowd, handing out fistfuls of her sequin-clogged heart. "I'm sorry for all the dramatics."

Please, Mariah, don't apologize. We might start thinking about the music.

By JusT BlAzE MC:
Mariah was off the hook! Wow, amazing! This was my third Mariah concert (2000, 2003 and now), and I've never heard her this good!

'Vision of Love' was amazing - power house vocals! She started the song and missed the first line 'cause there was a hole in the stage. Mariah almost fell three times on stage, she even mentioned it then finally she had them stop the song to fix it, she said it was about the size of a stiletto heal so she could get stuck in it! Then she started 'Vision of Love' again. She said she was sorry for stopping the song and hoped Toronto wasn't mad at her for it, but she wanted to put on the best show she could!

Mariah did a couple a cappella lines of 'Close My Eyes.' She did 'Can't Let Go' again, 'ne Sweet Day' and 'Make It Last/Thank God I Found You' tidbits.

Also while introducing "Hero," she said that she HAS to do it, and if it wasn't your favorite song then you should go take a bathroom break at that moment lol. It's funny how she says things like that, and for most people that's the one song they want to hear above all else.

Her vocals were in tip-top shape! One thing I noticed, on 'Dreamlover' instead of doing, 'Baby come and take me away yea yea yea,' she held the note, the first time in a long time! Great show, well worth my trip here!


By Felipe:
I had an AWESOME time at the concert! I was sitting in the very first row and I could just not believe it. The Air Canada Centre was PACKED! It was funny because the crowd ranged a lot in terms of age, and while trying to get in, a woman probably in her 40's who was standing behind me, turns to the man besides her and goes: Look at this crowd, is this a Britney Spears or a Mariah Carey concert? (Of course, I'm thinking to myself, if you dare say Mariah IS like Britney, I'll make sure you don't make it pass that door alive woman!).

The concert then got started! The crowd was wild, and the setlist was pretty much the one we've been seeing for the past concerts, but unfortunately shorter. It did feel like the concert was a little bit too short in my opinion.

She did most of the songs she's been doing the past couple of day. She did "Vision of Love" in the middle of the show (AMAZING!), she did not do "Stay the Night" or "Breakdown," she did the snippet for "I Wish You Knew," "Can't Let Go," "Make It Last/Thank God I Found You" AND she did quite a bit of "Close My Eyes." In terms of the skits, I only remember them showing the one where the other girls are bashing Mariah in a bathroom and then she comes in. About the ensembles, she wore the black opening number, the yellow, the blue, the brown, and then the one she wears in the b-stage, which the jeans or so.

The show also had a bit of interesting moments. When introducing "Hero," Mariah explained how she didn't originally connect with the song all that much 'cause she didn't write it for herself, eventhough she then ended performing. When introducing "Always Be My Baby," she said that eventhough she had written while still living at Sing-sing it was still a stellar moment (or something like that). She also pointed out how similar the "Can't Let Go" chorus, and the "Make it Last" Remix are! Also, when starting "Vision of Love," she stopped the song and showed the stage crew a hole that she said was the size of a stiletto heel. LOL! The other thing was that some people had a sign requesting "Sprung" and she saw it and pointed out to it. She didn't do the song though. Sean Paul was also there for all the show hanging out next to the first row checking everything out.

Overall, she is looking FANTASTIC and she is sounding really amazing! Her voice is so much more high-pitched live, it is really interesting! Anyway, it is an AWESOME show, if you have seen it you know what I'm talking about it, and if you haven't and you will, you are up for quite the treat!!


By Sergei:
The show was amazing, Mariah looked and sounded unbelievable.

I saw how diverse the sold-out crowd was. There were people of all races and ages, it was really great to see so many fans singing her songs, getting so into it. It just makes you feel happy to be a fan, when you see so much love!

Yea, I thought the concert was a bit short, and I hoped to see songs like "Breakdown," but it doesn't really matter, what matters is that we had a great time, and Mariah put on a wonderful show, short or not.


By judymisty:
I was at the show last night and it was great but the costume changes were a bit much. I mean she looked great but I think all of us paid money to see and hear her sing and not watch a DJ every interlude, although the dj was great and got the crowd on their feet.

But we enjoyed the show, she is great and I would go again in the future but hopefully it will be less of a fashion show and more of Mariah.


By Pauline (PLMirage):
I have been to all of Mariah's previous Toronto shows, and sadly did not have good enough seats to be close to Mariah. This time, I ensured that I'd be much closer this time by waiting for over 10 hours for an amazing dance pit/GA spot! It was definitely worth it!!!

Mariah opened the show with a bang and closed it in classic Mariah styles. Her voice was captivating and alluring as always! As mentioned before, there was a hilarious and classic 'moment' during 'Vision of Love' when it had to be stopped, after Mariah missed the first line of the song due to a near-incident of 'falling on her behind'. The stiletto-sized holes on the stage were immediately fixed and the show went on without missing a beat.

Mariah's voice opened up beautifully as the show rolled on, and she heartily responded to a couple of fan requests for 'Can't Let Go' and 'Close My Eyes' (aka the song that the true fans know) snippets. She never hesitated to stop for a moment to read signs and wave back to the adoring fans. Water breaks were, of course, necessary. 'Fly Like a Bird' was performed with such overwhelming passion that the whole concert venue was silenced in awe.

Old Skool jams were mixed, dancers showed off, and Trey sang his new song during costume changes. After the second costume change, Mariah went through the crowd on the right to the 'B' stage. When Mariah was on the 'B' stage, I had the opportunity to see her clearly in all her glory - and for those of you who have never seen Mariah close-up before - she radiates of indescribable beauty, beyond what any picture can capture.

This tour has such a significant value and meaning to both Mariah and the Lambs. Personally, after a decade and a half of being an unfaltered lamb ol' Mariah and naming a rose after her, this tour really brought back so many memories and never failed to prove why I dedicate myself like that to noone but Mariah.

Overall, the first Toronto show was a great success, and I can't wait to celebrate the Adventures of Mimi again on the 29th!

Mariah is truly always imitated, never duplicated. Papow!


By Curtis G.:
Let me just say that last night was the best night of my life! Mariah delivered like she planned and when she wasn't on stage there was always someone to keep us entertained and pumped!

I arrive at the Air Canada Centre at 7:10 PM, 50 minutes before the show is set to start. There is a long line to get in already! Thousands of people waiting outside the building! The line moves pretty fast, everybody starts off by getting their tour books, shirts, posters, etc. After getting their food and everything, we all enter the arena, we wait about 6-7 minutes, and the lights turn out!

A big yell from the crowd erupts! Sean Paul comes out... "What happenin' T.dot!" He sings about 8 or 9 songs, such ass Temperature, Give It up To Me, Get Busy, Gimme The Light, Breakout and more. He then leaves with an excellent performance! Another intermission begins, we all leave the arena for 30 minutes, we get back not to miss a second of the concert, We wait, and after 10-15 minutes, the screens come on. We were screaming so loud!

And she plays an intro with footage of a rollercoster saying it's how her life has been. The stage setting is gorgeous, stage shaped as an M. She comes out and sings It's Like That, wearing the black top and shorts with the cape, she then talked to us and gave us a welcome and then did her Heartbreaker (Remix)/Heartbreaker, as she sang other songs, (IN PERFECT KEY, BY THE WAY) the crowd was wild! You could really see the love she was getting!

After singing My All and a few others it was time for the outfit change! I don't know who that DJ was, but he was good!! He kept us pumped making us throw our hands up to old hip-hop music!! So we were never bored, she came back out in a stunning yellow dress, she sang a few songs, and Introduced Trey. He sang a song while she was gone.

Mariah comes back in another gorgeous outfit for change #3. She sang amazing songs like FLy Like A Bird! In a part of the show she also got one of her stilettos stuck in a hole on stage and somebody came to remove it. (funny diva moment) she then and ran back for another change! This one was my favorite part of the concert and my favorite outfit! The blinged out hip-hop outfit was what she wore! She came closer to the croud on a dancefloor somewhat in the middle of everything and sang Fantasy excellently, and not with the same boring chair routine. She had a man around her in silver suits like in the Loverboy video! At the end, the screen said R.I.P O.D.B, We miss you. (aaawww)

She then sang Don't Forget About Us and Always be My Baby, the high parts of the evening! Then for the last change she was in a beautiful dress, to come back and sing snippets of Can't Let Go, and Make It Last, she did a great end performance of I Wish You Knew!! She then sang Make It Happen with the choir (I thought she would do that for Fly Like A Bird but sang that on her own, EXCELLENT!) the crowd was all dancing and standing and singing with the choir!

She then came out and sang We Belong Together. I was sad, because I knew the show was over!! She then left the room with Butterfly outro and confetti shaped as butterflies! I was overjoyed and in tears by the end of the show, leaving with a Tour Book, Poter, T-Shirts, Neon Lights and the whole nine yards, but I also left seeing a spectacular show!! Great Job Mariah, you made me very proud!


By mirth20:
Okay... I really don't know why I'm writing to you, but I know that there must be more fans out there who are thinking the same way i am.

Based on the setlists I've noticed from the completed concerts from Florida to Canada and recently viewing the video of "Can't Let Go/Close My Eyes," it seems as though Mariah is insulting (tried to find a better word) her fans. Her true fans have their favorites and of course, they are going to know "Close My Eyes" and I bet they wouldn't at all be disappointed if Mariah performed a concert without a lot (if not any) of the #1's.

I think the rainbow tour was the best, because she went into "Petals," "Close My Eyes," and other non-singles. Songs that non-fans wouldn't know. And those performances were swell. The audience's reception was great!

But Mariah can't help but feel that she has to sing the #1's for the non-true-fan ticket holders. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I know you find folks at Mariah Daily do an outstanding job to keep the fans informed on Mariah. But does Mariah (or her staff) ever use this site to keep informed on the fans??!! Their polls alone show what the true fans really want to hear. With the exception of maybe three songs, this is the same set list from tours on "Charmbracelet." Enough of the #1's.

I don't know how close your relationship is with Mariah, but this is the best site on the web (including her official one), and I really think SHE would be the surprised one (as she demonstrated in the video) on how well her fans know her.

Thank you for reading this letter. My apologies if this seems like I'm angry or dissing Mariah. I'm not. I'm just a bit disappointed. Whether this letter is one of many with similar thoughts; maybe posted with "tour fan thoughts and reviews (good or bad)"; or another poll needs to be put up, I hope Mariah understands how bad her fans would wanna hear just the non-mainstream songs.

...yet I'm still going to see her perform on this tour. hahaha.


By Lusciousone1981:
Mariah Carey had a amazing concert in Toronto on Aug. 13th. Her voice is exactly like you hear on her albums which I loved the most. It shows she has true talent and what you hear on her albums isn't just people and equipment in the studio making her sound good.

The only thing I disliked about the show was that the background music seemed to overpower Mariah a little, if it was a little quieter you could hear Mariah more. Other than that she was amazing. She performed these songs It's Like That, Heartbreaker, My All/My All remix, Hero, Fly Like A Bird, Close My Eyes (which was a nice surprise), Can't Let Go, One Sweet Day, We Belong Together, Make It Happen, Honey, Fantasy, I'll Be There, and Always Be My Baby. I was kinda looking forward to Breakdown but was real happy with some of the surprises. She was also very pleasant to the audience and seemed real happy to be performing.

The concert was packed, with more people than you can imagine. Her timing was good, starting only 15 minutes late compared to her other shows. The only collaboration was with Trey Lorenz which I was a little disappointed. Overall, Mariah gets two thumbs up from me!