New Mariah Carey Video (Feat. Kenny The Page) - "Touch My Body"
Evidently having an album title that references Einstein (which is so blasphemous 'cause Albert really did have much better hair) wasn't offbeat enough for Mariah Carey². So for the record's first video she secured the directorial talent of Brett Ratner, whose reputation for excellence was established with Rush Hour 3 but was cemented with his guest judging stint on FOX's little seen movie-making reality show The Lot, where his special hacky mix of cockiness and apathy really shone. Ratner says Mariah's "hysterical and this record is kind of funny," and so he cast a funny guy (30 Rock's Jack McBrayer) as a computer nerd fantasizing about what it would be like to be with Mimi. Sort of an expensively executed, wasted concept overall though; the laser tag and unicorns and Hot Wheels race sequences are all pretty limp, but at least there is funny to be found in McBrayer's melisma and in imagining the massive bill on that porn-mansion rental.
E=MC² is out 4/15 via Island.
Posted at 5:52 PM in Video
Tags: 30 Rock | Brett Ratner | Jack McBrayer | Mariah Carey
How is it you guys manage to shit repeatedly on Jack Johnson, but then turn around and even acknowledge something like a Mariah Carey video? More like stereodumb. Get it? It's a joke on par with your writing.
Posted by: Fred at February 27, 2008 6:02 PM | ReplyScore = 0
OOOOOH! A Mariah Carey post on Stereogum. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Let the "stick to the indie/stay away from the shitty pop/this isn't perez hilton/I'm no longer reading this site" comments begin!
Posted by: Tauwan at February 27, 2008 7:18 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Seriously, though. Can we please pretend Mariah Carey doesn't exist? Her music, such as it is, has become utterly irrelevant -- assuming, of course, that it ever was relevant. Sticking Jack McBrayer in a video does nothing for her, despite his being pretty cool.
Of course, I'd still hit it. (As to whether I'm referring to McBrayer or Mariah, I'll leave it vague.)
Posted by: The Other Matthew at February 27, 2008 7:40 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Oh no! Mariah Carey knows what 802.11n is! The apocalypse is near!
Posted by: aaron at February 27, 2008 9:17 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Mariah Carey is irrelevant.....really?
Regardless of whether or not you like her music, the woman's last album was critically praised and it sold six million copies in a time where music sales are at an all-time low.
Posted by: Chris at February 28, 2008 8:38 AM | ReplyScore = 0
I love most of all the hip pop songs and CD's too.
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