Mariah/Westlife Attacked By Zombie Nation 9.27.00 DJ Splank, aka Zombie Nation, has launched an attack on current chart rivals Westlife and Mariah Carey! Splank has called his rivals cover version of the Phil Collins classic 'Against All Odds' "crap". He adds ''the record was rubbish the first time so why would anyone want to resurrect it and make an even worse job, people all over the country are chanting our record, lets see how many people will be chanting to Mariah Carey''. 'Splank' has even challenged his rivals to a battle, but says they are too scared to take him up on it.

Sylist (Mariah's) Takes Her Own Life 9.24.00 Tonjua Twist was a star you never knew. As a fashion stylist, she was in the image business, creating looks for such celebrities as Cindy Crawford, Michael Jackson and, for the last four years, Mariah Carey almost exclusively. Virtually every style associated with the pop superstar was Twist's. The trend of low-slung jeans with a ripped waistband came out of a photo shoot of Carey for her 1999 single, "Heartbreaker", when Twist simply ripped off the waist of Carey's Levis to make her look sexier. Trashy-chick airbrushed T-shirts were Twist's too, like the one on the cover of Carey's 1999 album, Rainbow, which sold 8 million copies. For a while, it seemed like every idea Twist executed wound up in the pages of "Women's Wear Daily", "Cosmopolitan", or "In Style" magazines. She was flying on private jets, and sleeping in $700-a-night hotel rooms. It appeared that Tonjua Twist was living an amazing life, until last May, when she ended it - allegedly swallowing more than 70 tranquillisers, antidepressants and sleeping pills in her Marian Del Rey, California, apartment. She was 36 years old. The fashion world is ego-driven, a place where snobbery triumphs sincerity and cattiness is commonplace. But Twist was special, and photographers and celebrities sought her out. "I've been in this business in New York City for 15 years, and there was nobody nicer. Nobody," says Wayne Scot Lukas, a celebrity fashion stylist who knew Twist for about 12 years. Twist began her career after graduating in 1987 from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She started as an assistant at "Vogue". She became the fashion editor at "Self" in 1988, did a stint at Glamour in 1994, then went freelance, styling for David Letterman, Bill Murray, Christina Ricci and many others. Professionally, Twist was known for her ability to put people at ease. In 1996, Tom Tavee, freelance photographer who worked with Twist on about dozen shoots, was photographing jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany for the cover of his 1997 album "Another Time Another Place". Twist was styling the shoot, which was supposed to capture Mahogany driving a red Chevy Capri over the Manhattan Bridge in New York. But Mahogany was nervous, Tavee recalls. Twist's maternal instinct led her to offer to ride with him, curled up on the floor in the passenger seat of the car. "She kind of held his hand across the bridge," says Tavee. Mahogany immediately relaxed. Photographer Chris Buck, who worked with Twist on a Chris Farley shoot, adds, "She had a wonderful sense of humour... It wasn't just about fashionable clothes with her." Twist was fastidious, organised and committed to her job, which required combining mass-market trends with sophisticated looks to burn her clients into the public's memory. It was a mart approach, and when it worked, Twist fuelled a star's popularity by facilitating a visual and emotional connection between artist and fan. She was a master of facades. But unfortunately, one of Twist's greatest creations was the mask of happiness that she made for herself: While her apparent joy for life and for her career touched almost everyone she worked with, inside, overwhelming sadness brewed. Many of her closest friends and family didn't even know that she was depressed until after the suicide. Tonjua Lynn Twist was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 12, 1964, the first of three daughters for Martin Twist and Saundra Curry Twist. They were poor, uneducated, young parents. "This was not your typical little Kentucky family," says younger sister Tyra Twist-Amrein. "This was something out of Jerry Springer." Life inside the Twist home was miserable. Martin was "abusive physically, mentally and verbally," says Twist-Amrein. Martin denies that he physically abused his daughters. He allows that he "smacked" Twist - Amrein once when she snuck out of the house. "I just don't think there was [physical abuse]," says Martin, "but it depends on your yardstick. I did paddle the girls - I won't deny that." The family struggled financially until Martin started Coal-brokerage Company in the mid-70's. The business quickly took off, and by 1980 Martin says his company had revenues of $30 million. In 1977, he moved his family to the east end of Louisville, the "prominent side of the tracks," as Twist-Amrein puts it. When Tonjua was 16, her mother was killed in an accident after her car slipped on a patch of ice and hit a tree. Tonjua was devastated by the sudden death. Escape became her coping mechanism. She spent hours painting in the basement with headphones on. "Tonjua was a hider," remembers Twist-Amrein. Two years after her mother died, Tonjua, then 18, gave birth to a son, who immediately was put up for adoption. But her sisters and friends didn't learn of the child until days before Tonjua's funeral. Martin and his now ex-wife were two of only a handful of people who knew; they kept Tonjua's secret until her death. Tonjua had managed to hide the pregnancy on her petite, lithe body wearing baggy clothes then she buried the whole experience after the birth.  In October 1994, Twist took an assignment from Mariah Carey, who soon hired her for more appearances and videos. By 1997, Twist was devoting nearly all of her time to the pop star. It was a dream gig; Twist was associated with one of the biggest names in music and earning about $300,000 a year. She went on tour with Carey and spent the last three years at her side. Still, living your life in the service of a celebrity can be draining, especially, if, as in Twist's case, it was difficult to say no. Last year, in Amsterdam (should probably be Antwerp!~Elin's note) during Carey's Rainbow tour, Carey asked Twist about a favourite dress that she wanted to wear. Twist couldn't find it among the truckload of costumes. So she frantically called her friend Beth Fredrick and Fredrick's husband, Don Palmer, in New York, and gave them meticulous instructions about how to get into her Manhattan apartment and locate the dress among the racks of clothing. Assuming they found the dress, Fredrick and Palmer were to purchase a one-way plane ticket for it leaving that afternoon from New York. "Tonjua told us they were willing to buy a ticket for the dress - buy the dress a seat on the plane," says Palmer. The dress eventually turned up in Carey's travel gear. "I can't imagine how Tonjua could have had a second of personal time when working with Mariah", says Carey Bennett, a costume designer who worked with Twist on Carey's wardrobe. Prior to concerts, Twist would set up the Nascar-like pit stops Carey would take between songs to change outfits. During the concert, Twist was on-call to negotiate any clothing crisis that might occur. After the concert, Twist would supervise the packing of clothing and the loading of the trunks onto the tour truck. Then Twist would need to plan for Carey's next outfit. After three years of this gruelling schedule, according to Martin, she was burned out and "needed to be doing more than picking out tennis shoes," he says. Last December, Twist told her family she was getting a long-overdue break from the nearly non-stop touring. Carey had invited Twist and her boyfriend, Stevie Salas, to Acapulco for a millennium party. But instead of letting her lounge on the beach, "Mariah used her like a little servant," says her sister Tyra, sending Twist on all-day errands. (Salas confirms this account.) Carey's manager, Louise McNally, who was also in Acapulco at the time disagrees: "Tonjua was not someone who got pushed around," says McNally, adding that Twist was asked to run one two-hour errand. There's no question that working for Carey was difficult, but for someone like Twist, who seemed to live to please other people, it could be dangerously consuming. Still, Twist looked like a consummate pro to those who knew her: happy with both the status and challenges of the job, even if she was physically and emotionally exhausting herself. But Twist wasn't only having problems with her work; she had health worries, too - a "uterus problem," as she called it, that, she told her friends, would eventually require surgery. And her relationship with Salas was also deeply troubled. Salas is a second-tier musician who has played backup guitar for Rod Stewart, and Terence Trent D'Arby. Now he is a solo artist with a small fan base in Asia. For more than 12 years, until Twist's death, the couple broke up and got back together countless times. In her relationship with Salas, as in her job, Twist was the peacekeeper and the nurturer, always trying hard to make things work out, while Salas played the role of temperamental star. She arranged her schedule around his and doted on his domestic and emotional needs. "You could see how hard she worked for it - she catered to him, always at his beck and call," says Twist's friend David Gilbert. "He'd be gone for a few weeks. He'd come back and say 'Oh, I'm going out to a party with my friends, and you're not invited.'" Twist's devotion confounded her friends and co-workers. "Everyone kind of scratched their heads and wondered why Tonjua put up with it," says Tavee. But rather than pull back from the relationship after Carey's tour finished in the spring, Twist plunged in even deeper. On the theory that things would never work out between them if she stayed on the East Cost while he lived in California, the stylist made a crucial decision. She left behind the support system she had built during the 17 years lived in New York and moved into a Marina Del Rey apartment with Salas. About one month after moving in, Twist discovered that Salas was seeing another woman. She told Beth Fredrick that Salas asked her to check his e-mail when he was out of town. "There were several [e-mails] from a woman [Salas] had been seeing while [Twist] had been on the road," Fredrick says. "He didn't have the guts to break up with her face-to-face." Salas says that he did not instruct Tonjua to go into his e-mail account and adds, "I didn't leave her for another girl... I just couldn't be her boyfriend anymore." Twist and Salas broke up for the last time. She was crushed, and her depression worsened. Even with all of their problems, she had regarded Salas as the one stabilising force in her life. Just before she died, says Carey Bennett, "We talked about this mess of a relationship and how it was all exacerbated by the fact that she had been on tour with Mariah. She had given everything to Mariah and had come back [to find] no life left." A few weeks after the break-up, David Gilbert had a sick feeling something was wrong. For three days he had been trying to get Twist on the phone. Since the Salas debacle, Gilbert and Twist had spoken almost daily - sometimes more than once - because "she was hysterical 24 hours a day for two weeks," Gilbert says. "At eight in the morning she would call me crying; at midnight she would call me crying". He found the sudden quiet frightening. On Thursday, May 25, Gilbert notified the police that Twist was missing. Technically, she hadn't been gone long enough to qualify as a missing person, so the police did not follow up on the call. The next morning, Gilbert, who lives nearby, drove to Twist's home to check it out for himself. One blind in the bathroom was tilted upward. Gilbert peeked through the space and noticed that the antiquated electric heater built into the ceiling had been left on. "That's a big fire issue, and she's just too responsible and organized. She wouldn't have left that on," says Gilbert, who again alerted the local police. They arrived soon after and broke into Twist's home. Twist's body was lifeless on her bedroom floor. She had overdosed on a mix of prescription medications and over-the-counter sleeping pills two days earlier. "Somewhere between 70 and 100 tranquillisers, antidepressants, a couple bottles of Tylenol PM and a couple of super-strong pain medications that were [Salas's]," says Gilbert. Gilbert didn't get back to his apartment until 5 A.M. the following day. It was 8 A.M. in Louisville, and with a pit in his stomach, he picked up the telephone, and called Martin. Martin's reaction to the call was as Gilbert expected: "Wails, Moans, Screams," Gilbert recalls. "That was brutal." Gilbert echoes most of Twist's friends and relatives when he describes his guilt for not having recognized the extent of her depression. In hindsight, the signs were there. At 36, she was approaching the same age at which her mother died; the son she had never known of or spoken of was turning 18, and her reproductive system was faltering. In one phone call between Gilbert and Twist three weeks before she killed herself, she talked about suicide. "You're depressed and I get it." Gilbert had told her. "I know what you're saying, but you need to go to a psychiatrist." Gilbert says Twist was completely lucid in her response. "I am just not interested in life," she said. "I am just not interested in it." I don't like the way people treat one another." Carey, however, maintains that Twist kept her torment so well hidden that it was impossible to see, despite their almost daily contact over three years. "The Tonjua I knew was the life of the party, says Carey. "She had an incredibly uplifting personality that must have been covering a lot of sadness." Thanx Mariah Online and US Weekly Oct. 2, 2000

Against All Odds Goes #1 in UK 9.24.00 Hillary sent me: Mariah and Westlife went to #1 with "Against All Odds" this week on the UK Singles Chart!

Mariah in Textbook 9.23.00 I was doing some reading for my computer class. My textbook is Discovering Computers 2001 and in Chapter 2 on page 2.35 there is a PIC of Microsoft Internet Explorer and they have the MSN screen displayed. On it, for the date of January 21, is a PIC of no one other than MARIAH and next to it, it says: "Mariah Carey announces first tour in 8 years." I could not believe it! If anyone has that textbook take a look inside! Thanx from Hillary

Mariah Leaves New Message 9.23.00 Mariah Has left the fans another message about the recording of "All That Glitters" and that she will be coming to New York! Download here: >>real audio or wav file<<

Mariah Mentioned in a Few Magazine 9.23.00 * Here's a picture of YM magzine, mom found it when she was waiting at auto shop, so I dont know the date, comparing which star had which pet: * Here's another picture of YM Magzine, dissing Mariah's hair-due calling Mariah a 'HAIRBREAKER': * In a November 2000 issue of 'TWIST' magazine, with Britney Spears on the cover, Mariahs in the magazine under the title, "What do your brows Say About You?'. With a picture of Mariah it says:   "If you are half moon shaped Like Mariah Carey: You are the master if orginazation. Everything you own from your back-pack to room- is perfectly neat. Whenever friends need a reality check, they come to you.

Site Update 9.23.00 I added a few pictures to the New Gallery 12. Also, I added two new wallpapers to the wallpaper section. Here's a peak at them. Go to the wallapaper section for these and many others:

Westlife Odds for #1 9.20.00 Westlife look set to achieve their 6th consecutive No.1 single on Sunday, according to early midweek sales figures. Their Mariah Carey collaboration, 'Against All Odds', is expected to match the No.1 status of Phil Collins' 1984 original." Thanx from Hillary and from Dotmusic

Trouble In Pardise Mistake 9.20.00 OK, If you look down two articals, I said how I thought that They thought of Mariah as a Sea Turtle, well my friend Vanishingxphile, he told me that Sea Turtle, in some translations in Spanish means Carey. So replace all the Sea Turtles with Carey, and it all makes sence!

Best Mariah Sites? 9.18.00 This is like a small little poll I am having! I need to know what you, the Mariah Fans think are the best top 7 Mariah Sites! I would be really interested in what they are, so E-Mail me >>HERE<< and tell me the Name of the site, the Link, If they have a Newsletter, and why you think it's the Best!

Trouble in Paridise? 9.18.00 The spies of Toronto, where Mariah, Sea turtle, is filming its almost-biographical "All That Glitters", says that her fiance, the Latin singer Luis Miguel, is annoying with the labor agenda of her. " Luis really is angered ", says our source, that made notice that he still is very friend of his ex-Sofia Vergara. "She, for three months has been there and when he comes to visit it, there is many people and much work, which causes that never they can be together. " The representative of Sea turtle said: "Mariah alone from Toronto and got to visit in Mexico all one week with Luis. " I would assume that they are calling Mariah a sea turtle because she is in a paridise where they have sea turtles, and she is swiming, and sea turtle swim?!?! Thanx from Always Mariah

Against All Odds To Do Very Well! 9.18.00 In the ENTERTAINMENT TEEN Magazine, On the 3rd page, there was a small columbn saying how Mariah's duet with Westlife "Against All Odd's", was to do really well. The vocals were really good and then there was a quotes from a Huge Mariah Fan Named, I believe, Mark Machiyl, and said how Mariah is such a great singer Soon to be actriz, and such agreat producer! He was so surprised to see Mariah working with the buttons in the production room while doing the recording of AAO. He said that she is so great in what she does! If you are interested in this magazine, it's ENTERTAINMENT TEEN with Carson Daily, MTV VJ, on the Cover! It's a thing magazine!

Site Update 9.16.00 * Here are some Mariah Designs I created. Also, in the Members Page, you can check out some other things a Mariah Fan made. If you have anything you would like to add, send it to me! * New Pictures added to Gallery 11

MC Saves Seagull 9.16.00 I dont believe this is new, But I havnt seen this posted on any other MC Sites! Thanx to Mariah Carey World! Bombshell popstar Mariah Carey saved a wounded seagull while working on the sun-drenched Italian island of Capri. "I was doing a video when I noticed a bird in distress," Mariah told the Enquirer in an exclusive interview. "He seemed unable to fly - his feathers were all ruffled and one wing hung uselessly at his side." The pop diva was on location in Capri's famed Blue Grotto, a water filled cave cut by waves on the island's coast. The seagull was stranded in rocks at the water's edge. "I love all kinds of animals and picked up the bird. He was dazed and let me cradle him in my arms," continued soft- hearted Mariah. "Then our boat made its way back to port. From there I took the bird to my residence and my house keeper fashioned a splint for its wing. We made it a perch in the corner of the kitchen, and named it 'Charlie'." Charlie is regaining his appetite and Mariah was planning to release him if he recovered fully in the next few weeks. If not, she said he'd spend the rest of his recuperation in a bird sanctuary on Capri. "They love birds here and the facilities are great," she told The Enquirer from the island. "But," added Mariah, "someone I know isn't thrilled with Charlie - that's Jack, my Jack Russel terrier, who travels everywhere with me. If he had his way, the bird would already have found a new home. Jack's the king of the castle - and he likes it that way."

AAO Available to BUY 9.16.00 Now you buy the Against All Odds Single duet with Westlife! You can now order the two UK cd's at Esprit!

Jimmy Jam: Carey, Benet Duet Planned For 'Glitters' Soundtrack 9.15.00 After helping to craft Janet Jackson's latest #1 single, "Doesn't Really Matter," the production duo of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis now are readying songs for Mariah Carey's upcoming film, "All That Glitters." The duo previously collaborated with Carey on the singer's 1999 album, Rainbow, and Jimmy Jam said they've already completed about a dozen new tunes for the "All That Glitters" soundtrack. Jimmy Jam said he and Lewis continue to work on the planned album, and they are now working on a duet for Carey and Eric Benét, who co-stars in the flick. "I think we're up to 11 or 12 songs now," Jimmy Jam said, "and we're just getting ready to add another song, because Eric Benét is in the movie. So now there's this idea for a duet with Eric Benét and Mariah, and we're in the process of working on that. Go here for the Whole Story! >>http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?id=1123941<<

This is not Mariah, Technically 9.14.00 As some can rember, I was saying how it was wrong for people to use a specific Mariah photo, because orignally, this person, I dont know who, took Mariah's face, cut it out, and placed it on some other girls body! Well, here's the proof: (Sorry for the bad quality, the scan is of a bad print when my ink was going out!)

Gallery Update 9.14.00 Jus ta Reminder, Gallery 10 has been added with New pictures, and Gallery 11 has been created!

Mariah Lopez, or Jennifer Carey? 9.14.00 OK, I just made this, and the reason why I'm posting it is because of the Latin Grammy's and what Jennifer was wearing at the American Grammy's and what Mariah would look like in it! Let me know what you think! E-MAIL me >>HERE<<

Luis wins a Grammy 9.14.00 Last night, (September 13, 2000), Luis Miguel won a few Grammy's at the first ever 2000 Latin Grammy Awards show for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Album of the Year, and Best Pop Album!

Best Mariah Sites? 9.14.00 This is like a small little poll I am having! I need to know what you, the Mariah Fans think are the best top 7 Mariah Sites! I would be really interested in what they are, so E-Mail me >>HERE<< and tell me the Name of the site, the Link, If they have a Newsletter, and why you think it's the Best!

DMX Music 9.10.00  DMX Music, the worldwide leader in programming and distributing unique music experiences, today announced the first annual DMX Music Awards. A new addition to the company's already innovative and exclusive programming, the awards show demonstrates the enormous variety of music available from DMX Music as well as its commitment to on-line underactivity with music fans around the globe. DMX Music programs and distributes over 100 channels of music covering virtually all genres, as reflected in the 40 wide-ranging award categories unveiled today. The broad range of award categories include Best Boy Band, Best Moonlighter, Best Country Crossover, Best Comeback, Best Native American CD, Best Meditation / Healing CD, Junior Diva of the Year, Best International Hit Never Released in the U.S., Hottest Hip-Hop Phenomenon, and many more (see attachment for full list of nominees).  The award winners will be determined by music fans that vote on-line at the DMX Music web site for their favorite artists. Winners will be announced on October 9, 2000 during a special Award show program that will air on "The DMX Listening Room" and "Holidays & Happenings" channels. The program will be replayed as a "DMX-tra Special" show on "The DMX Listening Room" channel from October 10 through October 24. DMX Music Award presenters include Matchbox Twenty, Boyz II Men, Pat Benatar, Hanson, Chuck D, Keith Urban, Nina Blackwood, and L.A. Dodger Kevin Elster.  Music fans can visit the DMX Music web site to cast their vote for each category. To assist listeners with their votes, audio clips from all the nominated artists are available on the web site and full-length songs from the nominees will be spotlighted on DMX Music's "Holiday & Happenings" channel from September 11 through October 9. All voting participants are also automatically entered into a contest to win DVD players and other electronic equipment from Mitsubishi.  "The first annual DMX Music Awards show was created as a brand builder and as another way for us to interact with our listeners and demonstrate our unique ability to create innovative listening experiences," said Christy Noel, senior vice president music programming and brand marketing. "From the online voting element, to the distinctive award categories and our high profile presenters, we expect this will be a hit program with music fans, cable operators, the artists and their record labels."  DMX Music provides the industry's largest selection of channels in a variety of genres direct to homes and businesses around the world. Each DMX Music channel features non-stop, CD-quality music in styles ranging from country, jazz and rock to world music, classical and hot hits.  "The DMX Listening Room" features 12 different artist-driven music shows, anchored by top music industry personalities that feature exclusive artist interviews, in-depth looks at musical eras or cultural icons, up-to-the minute hit countdowns and fascinating journeys into music from around the world.  Mariah is nominated in DMX Ultimate Diva category. The other nominees are Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill and Jennifer Lopez. [many thanks to Jake] -Mariah Archives

AAO Cover from Norway 9.10.00 After "Live In Japan" (Daydream tour) and "Butterfly Tour 1998", the Dutch Mariah Carey Association has released a third concert video. It's Mariah's Rainbow Tour! The video is a colabortaion of the tours in San Jose, the one I went to, New York, and Toronto! And from the release of DMCA, it's only available to members! =o( This is a bootleg copy, not official from SONY, and still unsure of the release date! -Mariah Archives

AAO Cover from Norway 9.7.00 ThanxMariah's Diary for this info, SONY Music Norway has released the cover for "Against All Odds" with Westlife in fact!

More Nescafe Captures 9.3.00 Thanx to Mariah's Diary, He had the actual link to the actual Pictures to Mariah and the Nes cafe commercial captures which you can view >>HERE<<

New San Jose Exclusive Picture 9.3.00 Thanx to my gret pal Monica, she had some good seats at the San Jose Concerte, and scanned soem nice pictures! Here's a Preview of some! You can check othese and More in the Picture Gallery:

Nescafe and Mariah! 9.2.00 Mariah was again featured in what I would assume following Japanese Nescafe commercial from Nestle! Thanx to Love Jack webpage, they have provided MCSS with exclusive picture of Mariah in the commercial: Downlaod the 1st Nes Cafe Video >>HERE<<

Mariah for Celebrity Central 9.2.00 Celebrity Central Please vote for Mariah as Best Celebrity at Celebrity Central! Please go to the following link and vote:  http://cgi.dreamscape.com/throb/celebrities/cv_main.cgi?Mariah_Carey

Mariah at VH1 Poll 9.2.00 VH1 poll - Vote For Mariah Now! Mariah is losing to both Faith Hill and Shania Twain on VH1's Sexiest Diva Poll as we speak! So vote for Mariah RIGHT NOW, by going here to http://www.vh1.com/insidevh1/polls/sexiest.jhtml, and vote for her in the category "Sexiest Diva"! This poll will be turned into a show that will air on VH1 (US) in September