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Calling it a comeback was tempting: Almost three years after her most recent album, 2015's Unbreakable, Janet Jackson released a joyous new single and colorful new video. “Made for Now” arrived earlier this month with a slew of promo, marking a complete turnaround from the press-shunning of Jackson’s Unbreakable …

The notion that media pits women entertainers against each other more explicitly and extremely than it does men is tried and true enough to be a cliche. The supposed bad blood between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj immediately comes to mind, as does Ryan Murphy’s 2017 limited series Feud, which examined how powerful men…

Frequently emancipated superstar Mariah Carey has reportedly sold the engagement ring given to her by That Billionaire (aka James Packer) back in 2016. Though Packer is rumored to have spent $10 million on the enormous rock, Carey was only able to nab $2.1 million in the recent sale “to a Los Angeles jeweler.” That’s…

Gather ‘round, lambs, for a brief update about our mother and leader, Mariah Carey, who revealed that she’s been living with bipolar disorder II for over a decade.

Kit Harington had an interaction with Mariah Carey in which he would have been free to glance at her breasts, but instead he made a conscious, adult decision to do the right thing. The Sun has exclusively reported:

Like a beautiful crystal-covered phoenix, Mariah Carey has risen jubilant from the ashes of her “disastrous” New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest performance last year, having put on a perfectly adequate set as part of Sunday night’s show. It appears that pre-show soundcheck worked.

The celebrities reliably flew into Aspen for their annual Dec 21st-Dec 31st parade, or, “hit the slopes,” and then generated a thousand bajillion slideshows like this:

“Oh, I was just being stupid,” is something I have found myself telling many an editor when questioned about a particular turn of phrase or idea in my work. I understand it’s an editor’s job to question (and I appreciate anyone who’s here to help my nonsense make more sense), but looking back on Pot Psychology, I’m…

There’s no way it could happen again...

Election results are in for ABC’s annual “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” performance, and they’ve chosen...

The universe works in funny ways. One day, you’re (foolishly) swearing off the title of the Queen of Christmas; another, your 23-year-old Christmas song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is entering the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time. If Mariah won’t claim her throne, can she actually enjoy…

Mariah Carey is many things to many people: mother, daughter, occasional PR disaster, and, above all, an elusive chanteuse. But is she the Queen of Christmas? We at Dirtcast know the answer in our hearts, but felt it necessary to interrogate what has now become a central question during the holiday season for…

Mariah Carey is many things to many people: mother, daughter, sister, lover, sartorial inspiration, meme-generator, icon. What she is not, however, is the “queen of Christmas.” Did you hear that? Are you paying attention, madam! Please do not call Mariah Carey the queen of Christmas.

Rumors are going around that Allison Mack, Clark Kent’s adorkable best friend on Smallville, is a “key recruiter” of a sex cult DOS. The cult’s title stands for “dominus obsequious sororium,” Latin for “master over the slave women”; last month, the New York Times reported that they also brand women with cauterizing…

It seems like no matter how many times Mariah Carey says it, there are people who still believe that she doesn’t write her own songs. Or at least, she believes that there are people who believe this—many of her public discussions about her songwriting and how much that particular craft means to her are often…

It has been 264 days since Mariah Carey’s Ashlee Simpson-level New Year’s Eve performance fail and the world is still in a state of deep unrest about it.

Mariah Carey, the queen of Billboard records and reality TV acting, won’t be shooting a second season of her “docuseries” Mariah’s World, but she is rumored to be planning another televised glimpse into her life.

You should never fully trust someone who’s trying to sell you something, but looking back at the press for Mariah Carey’s 1997 album Butterfly, which turns 20 on Saturday, it’s staggering how right she was. “This time period, and this album is about me putting more realness in terms of myself into the music and into…

Phew, that was close. Last week, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito” held onto the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th week, tying the all-time record with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day.” As much of a bummer it is to share such a record, I don’t even want to think of…