BFFs Mimi is a Bro Sarah posted last Friday about the new trailer for Billy Eichner’s upcoming rom-com Bros and as she said, “please just give me this movie right now”. This trailer and the one before it too have been great – and I don’t even mind if it ends up being that By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 12:08 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Hall of Fame Mimi It has been a MINUTE since we’ve posted about Mariah Carey, our Elusive Butterfly Chanteuse, the Mimi of our wildest rainbow and animal print dreams. She was in New York last night, the headlining artist inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and as she said while accepting the By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 03:49 pm
Mariah Carey Outfit of the Week: Mimi’s Christmas Puffer and Boots How could we go on Christmas break for a few days without a mention of our Christmas Angel, Mariah Carey? Mimi, as she does, is in Aspen for Christmas. And, as always at Christmas, there’s a lot for Mimi to celebrate – including her one billion streams: That’s a By Lainey • Dec 23, 2021 01:40 pm
Amazingness Mimi Brings Christmas Back to Aspen What would Christmas week be without Mimi in Aspen? It’s a Christmas tradition, it’s where she almost always spends Christmas, and within that tradition there are other traditions. Like shopping at the luxury boutiques. In heels, of course. No matter how icy and slippery the sidewalks are, Mimi By Lainey • Dec 21, 2021 09:46 am
Amazingness Intro for November 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you may know that Halloween is …not my favourite. Scary sh-t isn’t my sh-t. That said, I do participate in certain ways. Like, I don’t want to be the house that doesn’t pass out candy By Lainey • Nov 01, 2021 08:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Monroe Cannon is a model Monroe Cannon, known in the culture as one half of “Dembabies”, which is what her mother calls her and her twin brother, Moroccan, is now a model. Her mother, of course, is Mariah Carey, the elusive butterfly chanteuse and light of our lives. Monroe is now ten years old – and By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 10:50 am
Mariah Carey Intro for February 24, 2021 Dear Gossips, Mariah Carey should always be the main character, as she should be. And that’s how she’s always lived. In her book, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, Mimi shares with us how she came to see the world the way she does – and why she has always By Lainey • Feb 24, 2021 09:00 am
Mariah Carey Intro for January 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, There’s really only one show that’s happening today, right? Let’s hope it’s a safe show. And that if there are any dramatics, they come from the entertainers – Lady Gaga’s vocals, Jennifer Lopez’s choreo, the synchronicity of the University of Delaware and Howard By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 08:52 am
Mariah Carey Intro for December 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a lot of people this year, the holidays are nothing like what we’re used to which is why, where we can, we are improvising, figuring out how to keep some traditions, only modified according to guidelines. In an ordinary year Jacek and I would be in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 09:19 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Mariah’s Meaning and The Bloody Truth At long last (and after many emails from you guys keeping us on it) we waited for December, and unofficially rang in the holiday season and finally had our book club about The Meaning Of Mariah Carey. Problem is, there may not be a whole lot of meaning… not that By Duana • Dec 10, 2020 01:19 pm
Top Reads Mariah Carey: Backup Singers in Green Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special premieres today on Apple TV+. This is what I will be doing tonight and tomorrow and Sunday and as often as I can for the next three weeks. Mimi is our Christmas Angel. This is her season. As part of the promotion for the By Lainey • Dec 04, 2020 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mimi Saves Christmas! As I just wrote in the previous post about Thanksgiving and gatherings, right now, many families around the world are facing the prospect not spending the holidays together. On a personal note, both my parents are immune compromised and in our city, we’re now basically on lockdown, and we’ By Lainey • Nov 27, 2020 11:04 am
TV Updates Intro for November 2, 2020 Dear Gossips, Exactly a week ago in this space, I posted about Saturday Night Live and Dave Chappelle, wondering whether or not it would be Chappelle again this coming weekend, after the US election. SNL has confirmed that indeed it will be Chappelle. Next week! pic.twitter.com/0DjJICXjJW — Saturday By Lainey • Nov 02, 2020 08:51 am
Books Intro for October 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, I still haven’t started reading The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey which makes me a sh-tty lamb, I know. Would Mimi understand what inlectio is? Well, she’d probably say that I could listen to the audiobook – it’s her voice, after all. Unfortunately audiobooks By Lainey • Oct 06, 2020 08:57 am
Books Mariah & Oprah When I heard Mariah Carey was sitting down with Oprah to promote her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (which comes out tomorrow) I was ready to inject it in my veins. Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi is one of the defining albums of my childhood and The By Cody • Sep 28, 2020 09:47 am
Amazingness Intro for September 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, If you only consume one piece of pop culture today, let it be Tina Fey quizzing Mariah Carey on Mean Girls. Even if you aren’t a lifelong member of the Lambily, you should know that this is Mimi’s favourite movie. Nobody loves Mean Girls more than By Lainey • Sep 11, 2020 09:15 am