Emizzle wrote:
pigduck wrote:
I remember that Times Square NYE performance where she wore that sparkly weird dress and being fat.
As for MC looking overweight. Yes, she looks pudgy.
And if you guys talk about her in such a commercialised manner - i.e. using her 'pregnancy' if she is to sell her Christmas album, I would be even more disappointed. When has MC become this artist driven to use her personal stuff to drive album sales? I mean, that didn't work well if her management didn't realise with E=MC2. The wedding totally bombed the album. As for Memoirs, her happy marriage did not sell her album with the depressing lyrics either.
Sure, her divorce has helped fuel album sales many times over but that would be like Eminem using MC every time and even he's found that to be old so... yeah... if MC uses her pregnancy to sell her album, I would be completely horrified and unimpressed. I don't think anybody's done that.
So I vote for - she's not pregnant.
I don't think she's "using" her supposed pregnancy to the Christmas album. I think it's actually the other way around. If she is in fact pregnant, a Christmas album is probably a good conservative move at the right time. At least from a PR standpoint (I work in advertising/marketing) it would be smart to deal with the circumstances of her being pregnant in a way that's fitting for where she is personally for the moment. A Christmas album would be family-friendly and would perfectly capture the joyous occasion of bringing a child into the world.
One may see it as tacky or offensive, but when things go on in her personal life, moving parts of her career will go on. Publicists, managers, lawyers, producers will continue to work because that's what they're there for. And like any average regular person, Mariah will follow doctors' orders and work until it's time for her to stop. I trust she'll handle it in good taste. I'm glad she is tight-lipped. The public does not have a right to know...and pregnancy is a very personal thing. Who knows...maybe she's had an unsuccessful pregnacy before. Maybe she's letting her weight fluctuate so that when it finally becomes time, people won't be all up in her face when she finally has a legitimate bump. So many possibilities. hah.
Agreed! It would be the ideal time to be putting out this album, as it IS a family-friendly type of thing and a way to share the joyous occasion of being pregnant with the world. Adorable Mariah with a pregnant belly singing christmas songs? i am all for this!!