If you’re wondering whether or not this is Mariah Carey’s promotional photo for ‘American Idol’, then yes, you are right, and I have to commend you on knowing the flaky Mariah Carey so well. Or I have to slap you, one or the other. I’m not sure yet.
This is, indeed, Mariah’s ‘AI’ photo, and it’s just as ridiculous and over-the-top as you’d expect it to be. Like, did technology become so advanced that she’s going to look like this live on the show? Is there going to be a cloud of Photoshop and CGI following her around the stage and the judges’ chairs every second of the production, making her look like this? Because we all know that Mariah Carey just doesn’t look like this anymore—this is Mariah Carey of ‘All I Want for Christmas (is You)’ fame. This isn’t 2012’s Mariah Carey. This is 2012’s Mariah Carey:
Contrary to what she wants you to believe, she *has* aged.
What’s even more ridiculous? The early whispering about Mariah’s ‘Idol’ rider. From Page Six:
When Mariah Carey was named the newest, $18 million judge on “American Idol,” staffers at the Fox show began bracing for the dreaded and possibly endless list of diva demands, we’re told. The pop princess is famously demanding on her backstage riders, which have included such necessities as baskets of puppies, furniture with “no busy patterns,” “vases of white roses” and a “tea service for eight.”
She once insisted, “I don’t do stairs,” while other wild reports have said Carey has previously demanded a chauffeur for her dog, “confetti shaped like butterflies” as well as 20 white kittens at a London appearance.
But, a source close to Carey says she won’t require anything out of the ordinary on “Idol,” and adds that the show itself has many of its own branded requirements for stars to use the products of certain sponsors.
“It’s all standard stuff, nothing out of the ordinary,” the source said of Carey’s “Idol” requirements. “It’s not like they’ll need to put a new roof on the building. It’s standard lists, whether it’s for water, soda, veggies, snacks. It’s all fairly normal.”
So no puppies this time. Then again, Carey’s tagline on Twitter declares, “Citizen of the World Dahhhling!”
Please. If Britney gets sixteen thousand cases of cola on demand, then you can bet that Mariah’s gonna get her puppies and kittens and sparkly butterflies, because that’s just how it goes, folks.
Yes, that is the sun setting on her career.
Wow, the photoshopping on the first pic to make her waist look smaller is hilariously bad.
If I was a celebrity, I would TOTALLY demand to have kittens in my dressing room.
I was thinking the same thing. It seems almost crazy NOT to demand buckets full of kittens.
I didn’t know Jessica Rabbit is on American Idol!
Hilarious…totally Jessica Rabbit.
Can’t stand this delusional twit.
I have been a fan of Mariah’s for many…..years now, and I have always seen her as being real. I’m not sure what has happened to her in the last few years, maybe it’s just her getting more and more famous but she is not the same person she used to be. It seems she is so stuck on herself, and she’s trying so hard to look young it’s becoming really…..annoying. I wish she would just act like a 41yr old mother of two and quit trying to live in the “butterfly” album days, she would probably get alot more respect if she’d just be herself. I used to love to watch her perform and do interviews, but now she’s trying so hard to be something she’s not that it makes me want to just turn the channel, I really miss the old Mariah and I’m hoping someday she’ll come back to her old self and just be Mariah, not Mariah the “Diva” who thinks she is the only person on earth!!!