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Dec 31 11 11:08 AM

It's funny because even tho I'm in the US, and Without You wasn't as huge here, it was actually the song that made me "notice" Mariah. I was on the school bus home, and it was on the radio. Some girl was singing it and I actually turned around and made fun of her LOL... I said wicked sarcastically, "you LIKE this?" ... I think I secretly liked it too and was just feeling guilty because it wasn't "cool" to like Mariah Carey when you are an 11-year-old boy.

Then when I got home and put the tv on, MTV was ALWAYS on. I remember on my TV, you would hear the volume first and the picture would fade in for some reason. Probably broken. Anyways the same song was on and I remember standing there watching the video and thinking she was just amazingly beautiful and what not.

From there it was just discovery after discovery... VH1 would do these "back2back" things where they played two-three videos by the same artist, and that's when I discovered Dreamlover and became OBSESSED with that song.

I remember "discovering" the videos and songs to all of her previous singles, but I'm not going to explain them all here. I'll just say that after I didn't see the "Vision of Love" video until I bought the "First Vision"...

And I remember being SOOOOOOOO ANNOYYYEDDDDDDDD because I knew there was an "I Don't Wanna Cry" video out there but they NEVER PLAYED IT on any of those specials. I finally saw it on a top female countdown where she was #1 and they wanted to make it cute by using the #4 a million times talking about how her first album had four number one singles and the jackson 5 and blah blah blah... and here's Mariah's FOURTH #1 song, "I Don't Wanna Cry". I remember ltierally shouting OMG!!! and had my finger on the VHS recorder lol.... oh the days before youtube and DVR