Mariah Carey: Independence. This super-suprano with a vocal range that could shatter windows and a face fit for breaking hearts is not a flower that bends with the wind. This butterfly is the master of her own metamorphosis.

Just Can't Carey On
Just a few weeks before the premiere of her first movie, singer Mariah Carey has been hospitalized for "extreme exhaustion," her spokeswoman said yesterday.

Pop superstar Mariah Carey is recovering from exhaustion in a New York-area hospital. The 32-year-old pop star checked herself into a New York-area hospital Wednesday, her rep said. The illness was precipitated by months of working on two movies, "Glitter," set for release Aug. 31, and "Wise Girls," as well as the "Glitter" soundtrack album.

Carey made a personal appearance at the Roosevelt Field mall on Long Island last Friday to promote her new single, "Lover Boy," and sign autographs at the local record store. Onlookers said she appeared to be behaving erratically.

During one interview, Carey began complaining about the constant drubbing she had been receiving on "The Howard Stern Show." But witnesses said her comments were vague and didn't make much sense. Spokeswoman Cindi Berger, who had accompanied Carey, pulled the microphone from the singer's hand and asked a TV crew to stop filming, which they did, witnesses said.

"I knew she was very tired and not focused," Berger told the Daily News yesterday. "I put her attention back on task." Carey was hospitalized five days later "because she just reached a point where she was physically exhausted," Berger said.

The past few months have been a pivotal period in Carey's career and in her personal life. In April, Virgin Records signed her to the biggest per-album deal ever given to a recording artist, agreeing to pay her $23.5 million per CD for five albums.

The label has a lot riding on Carey's success because it was thrown into turmoil recently by the pending divorce of two company executives, artist development head Nancy Berry and husband Ken Berry, who runs the entire EMI group of labels, which includes Virgin, EMI and Capitol.

In the past few weeks, Carey's three-year relationship with Spanish singer Luis Miguel, 31, has gone awry amid reports that she had struck up a close friendship with rapper Eminem.

In an interview with a British newspaper earlier this month, Carey hinted at the pressure. "Right now, I'm so busy I don't even have time for me. ... I don't even have time to talk to my mother and I usually talk to her five times a day. This is more of an intense time than I've ever had, because of the changing of labels and the films and the soundtrack," Carey said.

Carey was previously married for five years to Sony Records chief Tommy Mottola. The couple divorced in 1998. Her "Glitter" album is due out Aug. 21. No date has been set for the release of "Wise Girls," an independent film that co-stars Mira Sorvino.

Source:
Daily News (Lost info on who sent me this)

Don't Count Mariah Out Yet
I'm going to surprise you this morning, because readers of this column know I am usually on Mariah Carey's case for something or other. Plagiarism, bad songs, whatever.

But this column also reprinted messages from Mariah yesterday that she left for her fans, who she always calls lambs, by the way. The messages were more serious than I first thought. By the middle of the day, Mariah's publicist, my good pal Cindi Berger, had to announce that Carey had been hospitalized for exhaustion.

Something is up, to be sure, and it doesn't sound good. But this much I will say: Do not count Mariah Carey out. She will be back, and she will be bigger than ever. It sounds like she's having an identity crisis, and every young person is allowed that. The problem is, Mariah was never young. She married Tommy Mottola when she was 21 without first having time to find herself. By the time she divorced him, Mariah's career meant so much to Mottola financially — as he was the head of the company that released her records — she was painted into a corner. And she was under contract to Sony Music.

In the last few months, Mariah has finally been apart from Mottola, making her record at Virgin Music. But for the first time she is without a mentor. She is also without her writing partner, Walter Afanasieff. Her professional life is in flux. It didn't help that Billboard savaged her god-awful single, "Loverboy." She'd never had such blatant public criticism before about her music. Then no radio stations played "Loverboy." The single hit number 2 yesterday, but even Mariah's not stupid. Virgin deep-discounted the record, practically giving it away. Hey kids, a Mariah single for 50 cents! Bottles of water cost more.

Then there's Mariah's personal life. She alludes in the two postings (which you can read in yesterday's column) to not having one. As much as she advertises her relationship with Luis Miguel, he's never on the scene. But Mariah lives for her fans. She travels with her fan mail, and thrives on the scrapbooks the fans make of her career. It's all kind of sweet and a little weird. Last week, she actually did an in-store signing at a record store in the Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island. This is her hometown mall, and she was signing a single, not even an album! This is the part of Mariah you can't help but feel for-she's reaching out to strangers.

Vondie Curtis-Hall, the director of her movie, Glitter, is no idiot. He told me, as did his wife Kasi Lemmons, another fine director, that Mariah does not embarrass herself in Glitter. On the contrary, they think she did OK. Carey has studied with a good acting teacher, and while I'm sure she's no Cate Blanchett, there's a better than even chance that she acquits herself in this role.

In the end, though, it's Mariah's voice that is her strongest asset. Not too long ago Billy Joel was saying at a dinner that his daughter Alexa Ray was singing, but he had to remind her to "hold the note" and not warble it the way Mariah does. There was a time when Carey held the note — remember her first couple of singles like "Vision of Love"? She had breathtaking range, but somewhere along the line she forgot that. She got caught up in digressions that didn't serve her well. I hope with some rest and time we'll hear that original eight-octave instrument again. Until then, I for one agree: Let's give her some space.

Source:
Thanks to Tom for this article from FoxNews.com

Mariah's Breakdown
Carey has just completed two films and an album. Pop singer Mariah Carey has checked herself into hospital suffering from "extreme exhaustion". Carey's spokeswoman Connie Filipello made the announcement in London, but declined to say which hospital or which country it is in.

"Mariah Carey has been hospitalised for extreme exhaustion after completing two movies, Glitter and Wise Girls and simultaneously writing, recording and producing her album, the soundtrack Glitter," she said.

Ms Filipello added that the star checked herself in late last week.

Carey had number one hits every year of the 90s

The 31-year-old singer, who has sold tens of millions of records, was in London last week to promote her new album, but lives in New York.

Before going to the hospital, the Grammy-winning singer posted a message on her official website. "What I'd like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video," Carey said.

"All I really want is to just be me and that's what I should have done in the first place. I don't say this much but guess what, I don't take care of myself."

Carey performed at the Pavarotti concert in aid of Kosovo and Guatamala

The message was subsequently removed and her New York spokeswoman Cindi Berger said: "She was obviously very tired and not thinking clearly."

Now Carey has cancelled all public appearances, including her performance at the MTV 20th anniversary celebrations. She was set to be the star performer at the 1 August party.

Carey came up with the idea for the film Glitter, which is about an aspiring pop star.

Young talent:
It is scheduled for US release next month and will mark Carey's debut for Virgin Records after signing a multimillion-dollar contract with the company.

The star was raised by her mother, a former opera singer and began singing at the age of four.

She began to write songs while she was at school and soon after graduation had broken into the recording industry, making her debut on Columbia Records in 1990.

She was the biggest-selling artist of the 1990s and her single Heartbreaker made music history in 1999, when it became her 14th number one single, a feat rivalled only by the Beatles (20) and Elvis Presley (17).

Source: Thanks to Ashes, from Rainbow Princess, for

Heartbreaker: Mariah Hospitalized!
Jul 26, 2001, 2:15 PM PT Mariah Carey checked herself into a London hospital late Wednesday night, suffering from a case of "extreme exhaustion."

According to a statement from the pop diva's camp, Carey, 31, succumbed to a whirlwind schedule that included shooting two movies--Glitter and Wise Girls--and recording and promoting the upcoming Glitter soundtrack album, the first under her new megabucks deal with Virgin.

The name of the hospital was not disclosed, and no further information was released about Carey's condition. The news comes just hours after two freaky messages, attributed to the octave-shattering songbird, appeared on her official Website, www.MariahCarey.com.

The rambling postings, supposedly phone messages to one of her Webmasters, identified only as "Randolph," went up early this morning and read like a cri de coeur.

"So basically, all I really wanna say is I don't know what's going on with life, and I hope all the fans are good, and I just want you to know that I'm trying to understand things in life right now, and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now," the first message begins, according to transcripts published by Fox News.

"Glitter is going to be out soon. And you're gonna have that, and I'm gonna be taking some time off...What I'd like to do is take a little break, or at least get one night of sleep," she continues. In the second message, Carey is quoted as saying, "Hey, everybody, it's Mariah. I'm just trying to let you know that I'm leaving this message because everything's okay. And what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take, like, a minute off...Right now I need a break, so I will, as a human being, take that break."

The messages have since been removed from the Website. Word of her hospitalization comes just days after her kooky appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, in which she came out half-naked, pushing an ice-cream cart and reading a love letter from her mom to host Carson Daly. When Daly tried to go to a commercial, Carey wouldn't keep quiet.

To be fair, the singer is is under intense pressure to live up to the hype of her huge new contract. Carey, who has tallied more than $140 million in record sales worldwide, signed a multi-album, multimillion-dollar deal with Virgin Records in April that was valued between $17 million and $20 million, one of the most lucrative in music history.

But her latest single, "Loverboy," the first cut off the Glitter soundtrack, has failed to take the top slot on the charts after seven weeks of release. It remains stuck at number two on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, behind Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious."

The Glitter album is due out August 28. The 20th Century Fox film, which focuses on the meteoric rise of a pop singer, hits theaters Labor Day weekend. Carey is also scheduled to perform at MTV's 20th anniversary party on Wednesday.

Source:
Thanks to Melissa for this article from EOnline

Attention UK Fans
Ashes, from Rainbow Princess, wanted me to remind you all to not forget that the second Loverboy Vinyl is hitting stores on Monday

Glitter Ad in September Teen People
There is a full page Glitter ad in the September issue of Teen People, Enrique tells me. Plus, Chad tells me that in the magazine, they feature gellyrollers (pens) that are promoting the Glitter movie and then it features a picture from the Glitter movie.

Mariah Confirms Twister is About Tonjua
David tells me that in a recent interview with MTV Europe, which you can check out here, Mariah confirms that "Twister" is about Tonjua Twist, her stylist that passed away last year.

MTV: Have you written 'Glitter' - the soundtrack in character, as Billie from the movie?
Mariah: "Yeah it was different. One of the songs is sort of in honour of someone else, and that ended up being in the film and really working. That's a personal situation. But all of the other songs were written in the character's voice or as an observer of what's going on in the movie at that moment."

Mariah on KissFM
Shantal tells me that if you go to KissFM.com and scroll down, you can see a pic of Mariah and hear an interview with her.

RAINBOW FOR MARIAH
This following information is from Honey & Kate, from Butterflies Are Free.

WHAT?
Rainbow For Mariah is a website dedicated to Mariah Carey.

The goal of RFM is to let Mariah know how much her lambz love, appreciate and enjoy her and that we'll always be there, no matter what she's going through!

WHERE?
You can get to the RFM website by going to www.fly.to/rainbowmc

WHO?
Every true lamb can partcipate and send in letters, voice messages and artworks to honey_kate@gmx.net ! we appreciate every single entry! And Mariah will do so, too!

WHY?
We created the "RFM" site becoz as you all know Mariah is going through some drama right now. We really hope she'll get to know about the site, so she can see the letters, artworks and listen to the voice messages! with that site, we simply wanna create some positivity!

Hospital for mixed-up Mariah
MARIAH Carey was hospitalized late Wednesday night due to "extreme exhaustion," according to her publicist, Cindi Berger.

Carey was "mentally and physically exhausted after completing two movies - 'Glitter' and 'Wise Girls' - while simultaneously writing, recording and producing the soundtrack to 'Glitter,' " Berger told PAGE SIX.

"She has canceled all her appearances including the MTV 20th anniversary performance on Aug. 1 and the junket for 'Glitter.' We don't know how long she will be in the hospital," Berger said.

The incoherent messages Carey left for her fans, posted on her Web site just moments before she checked herself into the undisclosed hospital, don't offer much in the way of explanation.

"Basically all I really wanna say is I don't know what's going on with life . . . I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now," Carey's message read.

"But I just can't trust anybody anymore right now because I don't understand what's going on . .. I'm desperately trying to get out of this room. And I don't know if that makes any sense to anybody. . . I'm gonna be taking some time off."

Carey, clearly concerned about her new $20 million-per-record recording deal with Virgin, also talked about top Virgin honcho Nancy Berry in her Web message.

"I can't reach Nancy Berry so I'd like to say Nancy, I will record and stuff, it's just that I needed some time off but nobody was really giving it to me. And I feel that that's only because of the situation that we've been dealing with for awhile . . . I worked it into a bad place."

Carey, who publicly blamed her ex, Tommy Mottola, last month for spreading rumors about her, alluded to him in another message.

"What I'd like to do is just take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video or a thing where all I really want to do is just be me and that's what I should've done in the first place but somebody . . . allowed myself to be a little bit too paranoid about life.

"So if anybody gets this that really cares, just do me a favor . . . close the management company down that I own, and I'm gonna lie here and wait for that to happen."

Berger said, "These messages were posted but have been taken off the Web site. Mariah was not thinking clearly when she left them. But Virgin is extraordinarily supportive and only want the best for her." Berger declined to comment on Carey's waning relationship with Latin crooner Luis Miguel, or her new love, Eminem, but said, "Luis is concerned about her."

Source:
Thanks to Nini for this article from NY Post.

July 27, 2001
Send Mariah Your Love
Click the banner below to send Mariah a special message from yourself to get well!! The message will be given to Mariah, probably sometime next week.

Fellow Webmasters, noone is taking credit for this project!! It is from all the lambs and please feel free to post the graphic and link on your site too!! This is for Mariah to show her that we all love her. Spread the word!

Mariah isn't the ONLY one in the hospital
Eva and Anna, Mariah Daily's Luis Correspondents, just informed me that reports say that Luis is in an LA hospital being treated for severe flu-like symptoms. At the moment he is said to be going through more tests. Anna told me that in April 2000, when MC was in the hospital again, Luis flew to be by her side, right after his concert and then flew right to his next gig, after making sure she was okay. Doesn't seem like that is going to happen this time, since they are both sick.

MTV Changes Article From Yesterday
Basically, MTV just confirms that Mariah has canceled MTV20 and adds some comments from her voice messages:

Mariah Carey entered a hospital Wednesday night for treatment of "extreme exhaustion," according to her publicity firm.

In a terse press release, the PMK publicity firm suggested that the pace of filming two movies, "Glitter" and "Wise Girls," while completing the Glitter album, caused Carey to become exhausted.

"I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now," Carey said earlier this week in a despondent voice message left on her official Web site, according to a fan-site transcript confirmed by Cindi Berger, Carey's spokesperson at PMK.

The message, and another one left soon afterwards, has disappeared from Carey's site (www.mariahcarey.com). Berger said that Mariah was "obviously exhausted and not thinking clearly" when the singer left the rambling messages, which included complaints of unspecified problems with her management and record label.

"What I'd like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video," Carey said. "All I really want is [to] just be me and that's what I should have done in the first place ... I don't say this much but guess what, I don't take care of myself."

Berger declined to provide any more details on Carey's situation. Her manager did not immediately return a call for comment.

According to MTV's publicity department, Carey has canceled her scheduled headlining appearance at MTV's 20th birthday celebration, "MTV20: Live and Almost Legal," August 1 in New York (see "Diddy, Durst, Kid Rock, Ja Rule Added To MTV Birthday Bash").

Carey's current single, "Loverboy," jumped from #60 to #2 on this week's Billboard Hot 100, thanks to high sales. Before going on sale last week, the single had suffered from sluggish radio play. The Hot 100 is based on both sales and airplay.

Glitter, her first album for Virgin, is due in stores August 21.

(This story was updated at 5:31 p.m. ET Thursday, July 26, 2001.)
Brian Hiatt

Download full version of Never Too Far
Thanks to Shadows and Luna, we now have the full version of Never Too Far, which premiered on a spanish radio station yesterday. Click here to download it.

Mariah denies Janet rivalry
R&B diva Mariah Carey has been speaking exclusively to worldpop about the alleged rivalry between herself and fellow Virgin record label star, Janet Jackson.

Janet Jackson was said to be furious when Mariah clinched an unprecedented $20 million per album deal with Virgin Records, apparently claiming she felt she was being sidelined while the label paid more attention, and money, to Mariah. However, Mariah Carey has refuted suggestions that the pair now have a bitter rivalry.

'I don't think it exists,' she told worldpop. 'I'm a fan of Janet Jackson's first of all. I can't imagine someone who's achieved what she's achieved being jealous of me. Every time I see her I introduce myself like she won't even know who I am! I watched her videos when no one even knew who I was, I didn't even have an album out, I was still in school. She's an icon. I'm sure she's not worrying about what I'm doing. And we're totally different artists so I don't see that as anything. I think that's just somebody trying to spread a rumour.'

In the exclusive video interview, Mariah Carey was surprisingly candid about her life, past and present. The star told worldpop she enjoys working with rappers like ODB and Busta Rhymes because she feels she shares a background with them. 'I have seen a lot of stuff in my life which is why I connect with a lot of the different rap artists I work with,' she revealed. 'Although people think I have this fairytale life and had this white picket fence existence, I didn't.'

Mariah went on to describe her current lifestyle, complaining that she never gets a day off but admitted that her lack of free time is down to her own perfectionism. 'It can be easier for people who don't write their own songs because all they have to do is show up, sing the song and leave,' Mariah explained. 'I wish I could do that but I get so involved I end up staying at the studio until five in the morning.'

For more from the 25-minute video interview with the biggest female star in the world, please click HERE!

Source:
Many thanks to my fellow Mariah4 webmaster Elin, from Mariah Online, for this article from Worldpop.

JLo Steals Mariah's Idea???
Okay this following information comes from Chris and let me just say this is just Chris's thoughts and none of this information is proven to be true. Chris makes a very good point though and that's why I thought I should post it below...

OK Regina! I have figured out the J.Lo sampling theft problem. Here it is. Mariah said originaly that she was going to use Rick James' help with her soundtrack but they eventually ended up writing an original song, or he wrote one for her.  While back when she said J.Lo had taken her sample I went through the J.Lo CD looking for songs that had samples and found a couple but hardly any in uptempo songs. So I remained puzzled. But NOW I have figured it out. The I'm Real Remix with Ja Rule has recently been released on her CD, they added the song to all copies made now. The liner notes for the remix read, "Includes an interpolation of the song "All Night Long" written by Rick James. This is what she was originally meant by working with Rick James. This is the stolen sample. Thats why she and Rick ended up writing a totally new song for the album and she said that J.Lo did her a favor by using it. Meaning two things, she actually got the experience of working with Rick or the song is a lot better than " All Night Long". Funny huh? Some say its the Mary Jane song, but I am convinced that this is the stolen sample.

Mariah makes a statement.
Michael Jackson wore a single sparkling glove.  Fred Durst sleeps in his red baseball hat, and Kid Rock swears by a white tank top.  Mariah Carey's trademark is in her latest movie: the paint stripe.  In Clitter, Mariah plays Billie Frank, an aspiring young singer who doesn't leave home without a silver swich painted somewhere on her body.  Like a temporary tatoo, the random metallic mark accents Mariah's back, neck, chest, or arm in every scene-ideal for the girl who lives in halter tops and microminis.  The film's makeup artist, Kristofer Buckle, applies the aluminum-based theater makeup with a paintbrush, but he says silver eyeliner like L'Oreal Line Intensifying Extreme Wear Liquid Eyeliner in Stunning Sliver, $8 (available in september), will work just fine.  And, Oh, we are not advocating this. --Cindy Fedida

Source:
Mariah is in the September 2001 issue of YM magazine and the above article is from YM, which you can find on page 110. Also, there is an ad for Glitter and information about a contest. Along with that, she is also mentioned on page 156, for the Top 10. Thanks to Kathleen for all this information.

Countdown Picture for Glitter
I added the Countdown picture for glitter on the right, towards the bottom. Everyday it will change until the day Glitter is released.

Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, E! News Daily, MTV
All four of those Entertainment shows reported on Mariah being in the hospital. They were all pretty short though, so you didn't miss much!!

Mariah on the Radio
Mye327 told me that Mariah was on her radio station, Kiss 95.7 in Connecticut. It was a pre-recorded interview obviously since Mariah is in the hospital. They talked about the basics including Glitter, Loverboy single and all the rumors in the land. The DJ asked about Luis and then someone came on and said she had to go. That's it folks!

RAINBOW FOR MARIAH
This following information is from Honey & Kate, from Butterflies Are Free.

WHAT?
Rainbow For Mariah is a website dedicated to Mariah Carey.

The goal of RFM is to let Mariah know how much her lambz love, appreciate and enjoy her and that we'll always be there, no matter what she's going through!

WHERE?
You can get to the RFM website by going to www.fly.to/rainbowmc

WHO?
Every true lamb can partcipate and send in letters, voice messages and artworks to honey_kate@gmx.net ! we appreciate every single entry! And Mariah will do so, too!

WHY?
We created the "RFM" site becoz as you all know Mariah is going through some drama right now. We really hope she'll get to know about the site, so she can see the letters, artworks and listen to the voice messages! with that site, we simply wanna create some positivity!

Pop Music 'N Sync's 'Celebrity' Is Soaring
'N Sync's "Celebrity" album got off to a flying start its first day in stores on Tuesday, assuring the pop quintet the biggest sales week so far this year--but the total will probably fall shy of the group's all-time single-week sales record.  ...Mariah Carey's "Loverboy" rocketed from No. 45 to No. 1 on the singles sales chart.

Source:
Thanks to Tom for this article from Los Angeles Times

Jam FM Plays Never Too Far
If you live in Germany, check out Jam FM, because they premiered Mariah's new song, Never Too Far.

Address Change for Mariah Vision
Since Xoom shut down, Felipe had to move his page to a different account. His site features music, trading information, multimedia, pictures and more on Miss M! Check it out by clicking here!!

BREAKING NEWS...July 26th
Mariah Carey Hospitalized for Exhaustion
ONDON (Reuters) - Pop star Mariah Carey is in hospital suffering from ``extreme exhaustion,'' her spokeswoman has said. Carey fell ill after filming two movies, ``Glitter'' and ''Wise Girls,'' while also writing, recording and producing her latest album, the soundtrack to ``Glitter,'' the spokeswoman said in a statement. The U.S. singer checked herself into a hospital late on Wednesday night. The publicist had no further details, including which hospital the star was being treated at. ``There will be no further information tonight,'' she told Reuters. Carey has had more than a dozen No.1 singles. She has also sold a total of 140 albums and singles worldwide.

Source:
Taken from Ruters. Thanks to everyone who sent me this.

SINGER, POP STAR, MARIAH CAREY, HOSPITALIZED FOR EXHAUSTION
New York, NY, July 26, 2001 ---Singer, songwriter, Mariah Carey, has been hospitalized for extreme exhaustion. After completing 2 movies, "Glitter" and "Wise Girls," while simultaneously writing, recording and producing her newest album, the soundtrack "Glitter," Carey checked herself into a hospital late last night.

Source:
Taken from VirginRecords.com This is a direct statement from Cindi Berger, Mariah's publicist.

Mariah is Exhausted
Mariah Carey entered a hospital Wednesday night for treatment of "extreme exhaustion," according to her record label. In a terse press release, Virgin Records suggested that the pace of filming two movies, "Glitter" and "Wise Girls," while completing the Glitter album, caused Carey to become exhausted. Carey's current single, "Loverboy," jumped from #60 to #2 on this week's Billboard Hot 100, thanks to high sales. Before going on sale last week, the single had suffered from sluggish radio play. The Hot 100 is based on both sales and airplay. Glitter, her first album for Virgin, is due in stores August 30. A Virgin spokesperson declined to provide any more details on Carey's situation. Her manager did not immediately return a call for comment. Next week, Carey is scheduled to headline MTV's 20th birthday celebration, "MTV20: Live and Almost Legal," in New York (see "Diddy, Durst, Kid Rock, Ja Rule Added To MTV Birthday Bash").

Source:
MTVNews.com

Mariah Cancels Birthday Bash
NEW YORK (AP) - Mariah Carey has checked herself into a hospital for ``extreme exhaustion,'' her spokeswoman said Thursday. Cindi Berger would not say what Carey's symptoms were or where she was. Berger said Carey's busy schedule contributed to her illness and hospitalization Wednesday night. ``She's been working around the clock,'' Berger told The Associated Press. In a separate statement, Berger said: ``Carey has been hospitalized for extreme exhaustion after completing two movies, 'Glitter' and 'Wise Girls,' and simultaneously writing, recording and producing her album, the soundtrack 'Glitter.''' The 31-year-old singer has canceled all her public appearances, including her performance at next week's MTV 20th anniversary in New York. Carey came up with the story for ``Glitter,'' about an aspiring pop star. The film, in which she has her first starring role, is scheduled for release next month, along with the album - which will mark Carey's debut for Virgin Records after signing a multimillion-dollar contract.

Source:
The Associated Press

Keep Mariah In Your Prayers
Yesterday shocked a lot of fans when we all heard the two messages but I figured that Mariah was just depressed at the moment, which we all go through. When I heard about her today though, tears came to my eyes.

Mariah has been working so hard to try and make so many people happy, including all her fans around the world. She has been doing photoshoots, record signings, radio interviews, tv interviews, throwing party's, traveling, spending time with her fans and so much more in these last couple o' months.

Many of you have e-mailed telling me how you just want her to rest and take care of herself and that is the most important thing right now and I completly agree. I am sure, that Mariah checked herself in the hospital because it's one of the only places she can get some rest and have people realize that her health is in danger. As fans, there is nothing more that we can do, except pray that she is alright and send her our love...

MARIAH, WE LOVE YOU
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!
YOUR HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN ANYTHING NOW!!
LOVE, YOUR FANS

July 16th, 2001
WE DID IT--Loverboy #2 & #1on Billboard!!!
Loverboy jumped from #60 to #2 on this weeks Billboard Hot 100 and to #1 on the R&B Singles charts. The only song ahead of it now, in the Hot 100, is Destiny Child's Bootylicious, which is #1 but Mariah's jump is absoulutely AMAZING and it is ALL BECAUSE OF US!!!! So now, we still have a lot of work to do. We need everyone to go out and buy more singles (just a few more), request it like mad on your local radio stations. Destiny Child's single went to $.49 too earlier in the week too, what a shocker right??? We might be able to get Mariah her 16th #1 single and that would, FOR SURE, bring her out of her slight depression, you will read about below. WE HAVE TO DO IT FOR MARIAH!!

Here are all the charts on Loverboy, courtesy of RML612:

Mariah on Get Music
Michelle, from Star Mariah, informed me that at GetMusic.com, you can check out the Loverboy video, see photos, buy her music and more. I personally like the design of the site and the whole page they did on Mariah. Very cute!

Japan Magazine News
Shino, from Love Love Jack, sent me the following information from the Sony Music Online Japan (remember, Sony holds rights to Mariah's Glitter album in Japan, that is why she is still on their site). It features the magazines that Mariah is featured in...

  OZ magazine ( August 6 )
‚Ò‚  ( August 6 )
S- cawaii ( August 7 )
Can Do ‚Ò‚  ( August 10 )
COSMOPOLITAN ( August 20 )
BAILA ( August 12 )
GINZA ( August 12 )
TV ƒKƒCƒh ( August 15 )
TV Taro ( August 24 )
TOKYO Bros ( August 24 )
ELLE JAPON ( August 28 )
Seventeen ( September 1 )

The Lycos 50 for Week Ending July 21, 2001
WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 24, 2001--Terra Lycos (NASDAQ: TRLY), the largest global Internet network, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular user searches for the week ending July 21, 2001. ...The British Open (#5) and Mariah Carey (#46) also join the list this week.

Source:
Thanks to Tom for this article

Loverboy #1 on Disk MTV
Renato told me that Loverboy was #1 on Disk MTV (Brazilian TRL).