When I first read this story my jaw dropped and I didn’t believe it, but apparently it’s true. Mariah Carey has more number one hits than Elvis and she’s a New Yorker, so the city of NY wants to pay tribute to her by lighting up the Empire State building purple, pink and white from April 25 to 27 in honor of the release of her latest album E=MC2.
Tomorrow, the Empire State Building will be purple, pink and white in honor of Mariah Carey.
According to the ESB’s website, it’s “Honoring a Great New Yorker: Mariah Carey Breaks Records With E=MC2 Album Release.”
Yes, Carey’s latest album is number one on the charts. “E=MC2” sold 463,000 copies and is her sixth number one album. And Carey’s not resting on her laurels, not only will the building be swathed in Mariah Carey-approved colors, she’ll be performing in Times Square tomorrow morning for Good Morning America (fans should arrive by 6 a.m.) and she’ll be at the ESB tomorrow at 1 p.m.!
[From Gothamist via Gossip Rocks]
The Empire State Building is regularly lit up with different colors to honor events and causes. It will be yellow for the group “Project Sunshine” on May 5, and was green in honor of Earth Day on April 22.
Mariah Carey’s E=MC2 has debuted at the top of the charts and has so far sold more copies in a week than any other album this year. It replaces Leona Lewis’ CD, Spirit, which was on the top of the charts for just one week.
Not only has Carey trumped Lewis on the charts, she’s also quick to point out that Lewis doesn’t sound like her, and she doesn’t mince words:
She said: “Honestly, there has been so many, ‘This is the new her,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, show me the new her. Can she come and work for me and be my double?'”
“And I’m not particular talking about this girl Leona, because I only heard her once and I didn’t really hear a true similarity, particularly in the style of music.
“It is what it is and critics have compared me to so many people who are not really singers, and they’re certainly not writers.”
[From NZ Herald]
Mariah talks about Leona Lewis but won’t even acknowledge talking about her, she’s so below her radar. Only Mariah gets the Empire State Building lit up for her.
Update: Here are the videos of Mariah’s performances on GMA this morning via ONTD
Touch My Body (Her backup track messes up)
Bye Bye Bye (Mariah gets pissy at the beginning.)
That Chick:
Thanks to Splash News for the photo of Mariah performing on Good Morning America this morning.
W.T.F? Mariah Carey? She’s not something we need to bring attention to. I find this gross and disturbing.
hmm. 3 days of mariah colors? I think thats a little overkill…
on earth day they should have gone dark 😛
Oh, puke. She’s not all that.
Mariah Carey?? Couldn’t they have done it for someone who writes their own music and lyrics. Just because she’s had more number 1s than Elvis? Quantity is not quality – that is why there is 1 Amy Winehouse and fifty million mediocrities like Mariah
STUPID EGOTISTIC HO THINKS WE ALL WANT TO BE HER.
I am not even going to discuss the “why oh why” regarding the choice of Mariah Carey being paid an Empire State Building tribute to…
But pastels? 😯 Oh, please. Spare us.
Leona Lewis is twice the woman Mariah is, just because she isn’t a stuck up bitch.
Uhm, Mariah has writing credits on all of her albums. Let’s not forget her skills as a vocal arranger. I mean, I’m not a fan by any stretch, but she is a skilled artist.
Why don’t they just project a giant Hello Kitty on the building?
I love Mariah. She has the talent to back up the recognition the Empire State Building is giving her. And it’s about time! So many ppl have so many unjust judgements about her but mine are all positive because her music is from the heart, she also has been writing her OWN music since the beginning, she loves the fans even NOW after all this time, ppl are always bashing her & you just sound like pessimists. She molds her music it to what she wants it to be, not what someone else threw in front of her along with a check. This is her passion. And it shows! Mariah Fan since 1993!
PS – Leona Lewis is a great singer and @ the beginning of her career, but I don’t see the similarities between the two other than the fact that they both have great vocals.
Rude, stupid bitch. As a New Yorker, I am thoroughly embarrassed.
😯 I am a fan of Mariah’s music but methinks that’s a bit much.
Mariah deserves to be recognised in her home city New York what better place then the Empire State Building. Mariah was great on GMA and I think the appreciation after been in the music business for 18 years is a long time coming IMO, Any way do not compare LL to MC – LL is stating out no way better then MC – GO MARIAH
Mariah DOES write all of her songs. She is a singer, songwriter, producer and executive producer. 17 out of her 18 number one hits were penned by carey herself. Mariah is a New Yorker, that grew up looking at the ESB hoping that one day it would be lit for her, not because of her ego or diva demands, but for recognition of her success and her contribution to the music industry. And it is indeed about quantity: Quantity of children she has helped through her own Make a Wish foundation camp (Camp Mariah) and other foundations such as MAke A wish itself and Vh1 Save the Music; quantity of national and international awards she’s garnered in recognition of her success; quantity of albums she has sold and consequently quantity of fans she has around the world. Countless fans that were helped and sometimes even saved by her music with songs such as Hero, One Sweet Day and lately Bye Bye as well as the less known Close My Eyes, Outside and Cant Take That Away.
So, yes, she deserves that and much more.
Take that!
…and here come the stupid, idiotic, braindead, brainwashed Mariah fans to defend someone who doesn’t have to be defended. You people seem to find your way to ANYTHING even remotely related to her just so you can have your way and say “SHE’S THE GREATEST EVER! SHE WRITES ALL HER OWN SONGS! SHE’S NOT A HO YOU’RE (usually spelled “your”) JUST JEALOUS BECUASE YOU’RE NOT MARIAH”. Shut up you morons. JUST SHUT UP.
WE DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MARIAH CAREY. SHE’S NOT TERRIFIC. SHE’S NOT GREAT. SHE HASN’T CHANGED THE WORLD. SHE IS A FRICKIN DIME A DOZEN MILISMATIC “OPERETTA” POP STAR!
i did never say she was the greatest ever. I never ever mentioned that anybody was jealous of her nor called a ho or anything that you said.
IF you cant live with other people’s opinions, what are u doing in this world then?!
and you;re more than welcome to not like her. You dont have to…
I_met_mimi– PLEASE get a grip and stop spamming now. Mariah Carey doesn’t remember meeting you, and could not care less about you beyond your outlay to buy her records.
She a warbling, mediocre talent. As a REAL singer, I think anyone who claims to have been singing opera from the age of three or five or whatever crap she puts in every bio should be beaten severely about the groinal area. Sputtering out a snippet of music she heard in a cartoon once does not an opera singer make, and her shrieking career bears that out.
Why are terrorists so intent on killing regular folks when this dumb twat is stealing oxygen ? 😈
The empire state building in pastels…I guess she wanted a life size image of herself and the empire state building is 100% on scale…because that cow is huge…
PEOPLE COMPARED THIS SLUT TO WHITNEY AND SHE TO ME NERER SOUNDED LIKE OR AS GOOD AS WHITNEY SO MARIAH CAN GO FUC$ HERSELF…SHE IS NOT ALL OF THAT REMEMBER GLITTER ????????? LEONA IS JUST STARTING OUT AND FINDING HER WAY. THATS WHY I NO LONGER BUY WHORERIAH CDS BECAUSE SHE IS SUCH A FAKE BITCH AND TO ALL OF HER SUPPORTERS I HOPE YOU GET THE CHANCE TO MEET HER AND SHE TOTALLY DISS YOU ASSES.