REFLECTION & REASON

Real Lambily members rejoice. If you know, you know. This fall has been a significant one for those who have been relishing in and swooning along with singer and Song Writing Hall of Fame inductee Mariah Carey since the early nineties. It's been now thirty years since we first watched "Vision of Love" sky rocket to the top of the charts, since we saw a young Mariah grace the stage of the career-defining Arsenio Hall show, and takeover the radio airwaves. If you're a true, true Mariah Carey fan, the ups and downs along the way have meant little to nothing, because of simply how much power the music itself has had along the way. At the end of September, Mariah Carey's memoir " The Meaning of Mariah Carey " was released, and decades worth of stories, context, and perspective were confessed. For many, the albums of Ms. Carey have served as soundtracks to our adolescence, to teen years, our twenties, and now even in our middle ages we are blessed to still be ...

Back in 1991, Madonna was everything innovative and exciting to young girls. Especially young impressionable girls who took in that year's super-scandalous tour documentary: Madonna: Truth or Dare . And a scandal it was ! There was homosexual kissing, simulated sexual acts on dinnerware, and of course the ever-popular masturbation scene during "Like A Virgin" and Madonna's subsequent threat of arrest while performing it in Toronto. Her relationships with Warren Beatty, arguing with her manager Freddy DeMann, and lusting after Antonio Banderas. Reflecting on Sean Penn, flirting with her dancer Oliver, and nursing a sore throat. The movie was a hit that year, and took in $29 million in box office sales. The Blond Ambition Tour was quite possibly the height of her career , relevance, and stardom. She had figured out the formula for pop success. From time. I know this movie like the back of my hand, because I watched it religiously as an adolescent. Not only ...

Don't believe the hype. Mariah Carey. Chris Brown. Souljah Boy. Donald Trump. Discuss. No? Tired of discussing these people that are highly irritating and have nothing to do with you trying to pay your mortgage and Christmas credit card bills this month? Well, as far fetched as they are, they are prime examples of just how money can turn you fool . I'm as die hard a Mariah Carey fan as they come , but I can't help but feel that sense of superficial celebrity fear when you start to see someone talented go in the direction of Whitney or countless other drug-and-fame abusers before her. It's the saddest sight imaginable, because what MOST of us would do and accomplish with ONE million dollars...we sit and observe these ridiculous "public figures" squander and exploit with many, many multiples of that. And have the nerve to be unhappy and unfulfilled. But clearly. They are unhappy, and unfulfilled. The alcohol, the drugs, the spotlight, and the...