So I can’t even begin to describe how I feel right now. I have just come back from witnessing my queen, my idol, my everything – Mariah Carey. It feels like a dream. I feel like I’m floating in the clouds up in heaven shining down on you all.
I was on edge all day thinking about the countless things that could go wrong. What if I can’t find parking? What if my ticket isn’t legit? What if a car crashes into me as I’m crossing the road to get to the arena? What if Queen pulls a Janet and cancels? I was so stressed that I ended up getting a LARGE at McDonalds instead of a medium. Them fries were nice and I won a free sundae! Slay!
Anyway I asked my dad where I should park and he said that he can drop me off and pick me up so I was like ok let’s do that. But I decided to get the tram to the venue in the end and just get picked up after.
Once I got to the arena I picked up my VIP contents from Tuesdays missed show. I haven’t even opened it yet but it came in a beautiful bag emblazoned with Butterflies and has Mariah Carey on it. I was walking past the other people that didn’t have VIP and they were all staring me. One guy even shrieked “OMG IT’S A BEAUTIFUL BAG”. I carried on to walk a little acting like I didn’t hear him but then I stopped and did a U-Turn and said “Thank you”. He asked if I bought it and I replied, “No, I’m VIP dahhling”, and continued to walk to the doors or the arena to get to my seat.
Once I got there I was looking up and down, all around looking for my good sis Daydream as I knew he was around. Then I looked to my left and my bae Orpheus was sat their jamming to the DJ whilst engrossed in his phone. I text him, asking him to look to his right. He didn’t see it so I stared at him for like 10 minutes until he got the message. He looked at me and did a small jump and moved over to say hi! He sat with me for at least 20-30 minutes and we just spoke about Mariah. We even spoke to the girl next to us who was also on her own. I wish I’d got her social media details. Orpheus eventually went back to his seat when the people it belonged to came to claim it. I let out an internal scream as the man that came to sit there was someone that I had met previously in very special circumstances, if you catch my drift.
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Anyway as the seats were filling a loud group of lambs came and sat behind me and I noticed that one of them was a former Subway employee who is actually a Christina stan. Our history together is deeper than that though as he too is another person that I once had a special intimate moment with many years ago. He started dissing Beyonce and I just had to keep my cool because he was with his girls and I didn’t want to get jumped, especially since one of them had really nice hair and I wanted to be her friend so I let it be. I eavesdropped in their conversation and one of them had never seen Glitter and the other girl said “OMG You have to watch it. It’s SO good. Like it got slated but what do they know. It’s cheesy but it’s good!”
I carried on eacesdropping as they mentioned the sogns they wanted her to sing. One of them said “Breakdown” and I started laughing and muttered to myself “Poor sis”. Another wanted her to sing #Beautiful. I put my hands together and looked up to the Lord praying that this came true because I too want to see her perform that, knowing that she wouldn’t perform it tonight.
They kept talking about Mariah, her shady moments etc. I got my kii’s. I didn’t really speak to anyone as I had deadweight #1 on my right and deadweight #2 on my left. Poor me not having a seat next to Orpheus. That would have been awesome.
It was 21.24 when the lights went dark and the big MC came up on stage. The crowd went WILD. I had a rush of blood to the head – finally the moment that I had dreamed about for 25 years was about to be realised. The lights flashed as the Fantasy remix started to play. And there she was. The Queen being carried in by her hot dancers. The good sis started off harmonising and then she started singing so effortlessly. I sang along a little but was shy at first. She absolutely SLAYED this. I was so into it. I couldn’t stop moving and bopping. Then it went into the ODB remix for the “New York in the house” part before returning to Def Club mix. It was just so surreal. This song that I stanned for aged 5-6…I was witnessing it live.
She then moved onto Emotions. I was nervous for this one due to the range it uses. But she seriously put so much pizzazz and prowess into it – I was impressed and floored! I also thought of our good sis feelslikeadream during this one. I attempted a whistle whilst singing along but failed, obviously.
Then came My All which started a little vocal impromptu followed by some words about how we need emotional songs due to all the drama in life. MESS I type this as I watch my videos and you can hear me singing in the video
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“Do you know this one” preceded Always Be My Baby and this song got the crowd insane! Everyone was singing. My ultimate favourite was being performed and I shed a tear whilst singing!
I’ll Be There was to come next but as she tried to explain the story behind her singing it in 1993, she noticed something on the floor:
“Hmmm is there something that I could slipped on because that’s not cute. Oh! Look what we have here. I've just found two crystal beads from my first ensemble that were STREWN about as they were TRAIPSING me around the stage.”
. She then proceeds to put the crystals on the piano saying
“What shall we do? We’ll save them and sew them back on the costume” before asking for a broom and claiming
“I’ll sweep these up myself, I ain’t got a problem”.
This song was actually beautiful. I know I don’t like it but it was quite a poignant performance especially with Michael in the background and it’s nice to see Trey if I’m honest.
Coming up next was Touch My Body! I knew I didn’t stand a chance but I had spotted a fine guy towards the front that had been dancing his ass off all night and I just knew he would be picked. Lo and behold he was!! He got on stage and was flirty dancing with the dancers before they sat him down. He was cute and I should have got his number after the show tbh. Anyway at the end she asked his name and she yellwed “Give it up for Jmmy”. He corrected her and she said “Jeffrey Dahhling”.
I Know What You Want SLAYED! That song has always been a favourite of mine and well I had a great time jamming to her part. Obsessed came next and I LOST MY MIND! My inner queen came out and I went OFF, sashaying, swaying and rolling my neck whilst singing to the girls next to me. I don’t even like the song that much
. Slay me though.
It’s Like That came on and I was GONE! If I had phone single I would have rang my BFF as this song hides an inside joke between us from 2008 when I thought I saw Jermaine Dupri in Primark. I was annoyed she didn’t do the chorus and went into Shake It Off. It’s like the moment he’s about to *** but decides to take it out – no sis – sing it! In fact if you watch my video and listen carefully you can hear me sing “making the most of life. Everybody is…OH” as I get surprised. Sis **** blocked me tonight.
And then came the moment I had been hoping for since 2001 – LOVERBOY! She needs to make this a permanent fixture in her setlist in future because the energy it brings is FIRE. Everyone around me knew the words which showed me that it was the lambs in the house tonight!
The transition into Heartbreaker was cute! She even attempted the whistles at the end and pulled it off.
After another costumer change came the European classic Against All Odds. Once again the crowd ate it up and sang along. She called Trey back out alogn with another one of her band to sing One Sweet Day. People started putting their camera flash lights on for this. It was pretty.
When You Believe was a cute moment. Her vocals were drowned out (again) by the music but it was a very emotional moment for me and I shed another tear.
We Belong Together was cute too but Without You SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYED me. It was just so good – she sounded amazing and it was on point. Sadly, I ran out of space during WBT so didnt catch the end of its climax and any of Without You.
Finally it ended with a short goodbye with her sing part if Butterfly whilst thanking us
It was at this moment I realised that everything I have ever been through…all that life has ever thrown at me. All the heartache, heartbreak, stress, misery, negativity, sadness and pain was for me to witness this moment today and it was all worth it. All of my strife was worth it as I finally saw the woman that got me through the darkest moments of my life and was there for the greatest moments too. And now the good sis created the ULTIMATE moment for me. This night will go down in history for me as the greatest day of my life. The night that I saw my everything, Mariah Carey.
I just can’t believe it’s happened. I’m in disbelief.
My video is currently uploading. I’ll post it should YT not reject it.
Anyone that says that Mariah has lost her voice or can't sing anymore needs to shut the **** up because I witnessed first hand that she very much can sign and she cn slay. Mariah is confident right now and I'm sure we'll see something big from her soon.
excited for tomorrow night!
