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  • I wonder if she ever whistle the last part of the song live. Do you know a vid with that? Obviously, this song is hard to perform live and mariah's voice is very full here.

  • @nittasayuri07 She whistled the last part in Barretos concert in Brazil in 2010.I was there. A great concert. The first whistle wasnt perfect, but then she did it again...and got a better one.

  • @REDbrasil1 hey I had watched it! thanks! you know i really thought mariah originally sung this song. then, later i heard Brenda K. Starr. Was she also the back up singer in Weakness of the Body?

  • love the tone of her voice.. veryy sexy nd beautiful.. its suits her very well!!!! i love mimi always nd forever. the one nd only no one can ever beat her.

  • i love how she sounds husky live after 1997. her voice went thru transitions, i like all of her voice phases... but i do not like how she has to always edit her voice in the studio to sound high pitched now. it sometimes sounds a bit over done, we all know she cant sing thaaaat high live anymore. i feel like she does this just cuz she wants to live up to title of still having such a high voice. she needs to stop playing w/ her voice in the studio and let us hear her natural husky tone.

  • how beautiful she was...

  • If people think this is bad, it just goes to show how high the standard is for Mariah because I thought she sounded great here.

  • joepoe is eminem...

  • I love how she always mentions that she recorded the song as a tribute to Brenda K Starr, the original singer of I Still Believe and the one who helped to launch Mariah's career...Thank you, Mariah for being so generous...I'm a big fan of yours truly and Brenda K Starr, both versions are beautiful and each one has beautiful memories attached to it from the mid-eighties (original song) to the late nineties (tribute song)

  • OMG she sounds amazing! i mis this mariah

  • I think she has never look that stunning. Looks and sings like a godess.

  • lol she sounds shit

  • your stinky mouth sounds shitty, mariah is a legend or why do you stans all searching for her? jealous trolls

  • @zanaomusic excuse me, everyone is allowed to have an opinion ok?

  • @JoePoeLoeSoe i think everybody is allowed to have a constructive opinion..

  • @JoePoeLoeSoe LOL would u do a better job?

  • Amazing live vocals Mariah is the Queen of the #1s

  • 'beautiful song ; ans i'm a man.

  • her riffs at 3:26 are astonishingly precise !

  • you can tell david totally wants her! and it was nice that she referenced brenda k. starr(especially considering that the woman almost destroyed her own career helping her)

  • Jesus just sit back and relax and listen! You fools getting paid to be critics?

  • I dont personally think that the backup singer is trying to oversing Mariah on purpose. Well she is louder than Mariah in some parts (I watched Bye Bye & Yours live performances & this one ) Maybe she is just very empathized while singing

  • I wonder why no one around her noticed that she was over using her voice.. vocal choirds is a muscle... she sang too much I'm glad of that but I have to admit I'm sorry because that husky voice could be avoid and the damage in powerful middle range is just a consequence.. but! but! she's got a perfect voice no doubt

  • mariah is just legendary!looooove to watch randy in the back!

  • Obviously alot of these people that like to get on here and hate aren't doing much hateing because they took time to watch the vid so they are just contradicting themselves like dumbasses, anyway I love MIMI and just like she says and I quote "People Are A Trip"!!!!!

  • LOVE U MARIAH ALWAYS ALL THSES HATERS CAN FUCK OFF

  • She ALWAYS sings live for Letterman, think it's a wonderful thing. :)

  • MARIAH CAREY THE GREATEST SINGER IN THE UNIVERSE OF ALL TIME. NO ONE CAN BEAT HER EVEN THIS GAGA.

  • Yet another performance ruined by mary ham

  • @Devoted2Mariah LMAO. have you heard the live version in Brazil 2010. it's amazing, and so is her my all performance!!!

  • @Devoted2Mariah have u heard her rent performance? in brazil

  • @Devoted2Mariah at least it wasn't like the performance of i only wanted lol...

  • @iiAmitx3 No, that's just another example.. I have MANY examples of this happening, it's quite annoying, if you ask me.

  • @Devoted2Mariah i don't blame her for doing that cauese they pay her to and tell her to do so but its just annoying and i want to hear mariah.

  • @iiAmitx3 Actually they don't pay her to out sing Mariah, they pay her to sing back up. Mariah has given her warning looks in performances when she over shadows Mariah's voice.. Obviously she's louder than Mariah, but she doesn't HAVE to sing that loud.

  • @Devoted2Mariah don't you think they have rehearsals? they won't just let her do whatever she want on stage. if they told her to stop and she continued to do it they would fire her loooong ago. they want her when they think mariah voice isn't powerful enough for the part but i do find it annoying,. like in someday performance... LET MARIAH SING HER SONG!

  • @iiAmitx3 Actually it's not, Mariah was singing FINE on Butterfly @ david letterman, and she was ALSO singing fine on Side Effects @ Jimmy Kimmel, AND she was ALSO singing fine during Yours, and My Saving Grace. Oh and Bye Bye. She has done it nuuuumerous times, and let's not forget I Only Wanted!!!!! You think Mariah wants that every time?? Mariah mixes business with pleasure, therefore she can't fire people.

  • @Devoted2Mariah "Mariah mixes business with pleasure, therefore she can't fire people"

    LOL! the excuses Mariah's "lambs" make for her are down right pathetic. Mariah, as we all know it (and some deny it) has lost a whole lot of her voice. She "warns" her back-ups to cover up for a lip-sync mix-up. Let's not theorize that Mariah wouldn't fire a back-up singer that out-sings her on many performances.

  • @Devoted2Mariah maryann is the best backup singer...other singers pay her to do certain important shows with them such as whitney...mariah is lucky to have her!!

  • @Devoted2Mariah and not to mention that maryann isnt even in this performance

  • the butterfly era is the one who gave me reason to love mariah...her husky voice id beautiful.. omg...hey if its husky its risky.. mariah is the only 1 to stand on that stage with a strained voice and sing.. without cracking!!

  • she cant be denied.. too much raw talent and no fluff

  • now this is better than the butterfly live, love this. she may not have the most powerful voice but she has the amazing songs

  • another incredible performance wasted on the incredibly idiotic letterman.... really spectacular and soulful like no one else.

  • IT'S MY FAVORITE SONG.. I get so emotional everytime I listen to this.. Mariah, your the best..!

  • people are still hating on mariah even in 2010 they try even sayn a negative commen hen a positive one on the same noe.....if ur a fan be a fan if not go watch somebody elses videos i mean seriously has gotten old and tired

  • just wow!!!! she is has great voice and also she knows perfectly how to use it!:)

  • She sounded great love her soulful buttery tone

  • Is this the era when she smoke cigarette?

  • she sang too much, also here.. the damage was already done.. but I always say thanks mariah for what you gave us! and for what you will :)

  • he was mean to her at the end... lol. love her and the performance. :DD

  • it sounds like she overused her voice before this performance.

  • Check out my version of this song LIVE!

  • You can always tell when she sings live..cuz her nostrils flare...lol

  • lol they don't flare.  they flap

  • It's so sad she can no longer sing the way she easily used to.

    Had anything happened to her? She is so young to have lost the brilliance of her voice.

    I still love her and hoping that somehow something, even a miracle, would do to revive her voice..

  • she still has that voice...she just sings way different..she using more of her head voice which can sound a lil crashy...i had that problem when i first started sing..shes using less of her chest voice now...

  • @markelijahnicoli WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT? Lost her voice? When and where? Do you know of anyone who can even match her? I think u might have lost a little of ur hearing though.

  • The voice she has here is identical to the voice she has now, more husky and choppier which I think is hot tamale. She just chooses fast paced songs with thousands of background vocals and high belts with no vibrato, no wonder its so hard for her to keep up nowadays. I bet she can still sing this song amazingly.

  • i agree

  • This is how she really sounds live .. pretty damn good... what we get in most of her performances is a mix of live and lip sync she probably performs so much that she just can't keep it up live .. I'd rather hear the imperfections and get the real deal.

  • @ocsound1 Exactly, her real voice is so soulful and beautiful, not her awful mixture of live and lip sync vocals.

  • It's the difference between live and synched Mariah,

    this is live, this is her real voice now.

    and she's sounding amazing here,

  • where is the whistle sound at the end ??? O_O

  • yea her sound here with that husky tone is beautiful and sexy

  • That was an amazing live performance! I like her more husky voice too and i wish she would do that more nowadays

  • Her voice seems more soulful after she lost some of her voice! vision of love in 2005 hit me more then it did in 1990!

  • right here is like her voice is now! it is hard for her to belt! in 2005 during her comeback her voice was more like Daydream era. but she wont ever get back to her debut, emotions and Music Box! I'm happy that she's married and happy within herself! love u gurl! keep doin ur thing and dont care about them haters!

  • Also - for what she's accomplished in life and done with her voice, it's a miracle she can even sing as good as she still can and even "declined" her vocal range and talent is still rarely matched.

  • I don't get why people say her "sudden" change in voice or why they can't understand it... when she first hit, she hit BIG - the woman probably hasn't had more than 5 hours' sleep if that in one night for over 10 years with concerts, guest spots, her music, her tours, interviews, etc. Of course someone's voice is going to change when it's put through what she's done with it in the last near 20 YEARS.

  • womens bodies keep maturing until about mid or late 20's. so thats why i think mariahs range and belting kind of declined.

  • she sounds awesome but her voice starts to seem tired

  • I remember that around this time 1997 1998 she was beginning to strangely struggle with her chest voice ...something didnt sound right or quite the same from this time on ... The it became what he hear today. I still like a lot of Mariah's voice and music but certain misteries remain for me as misteries ....her vocal changes and sudden "damages"

  • Beauitful strong voice

  • If she wasn't, then go and watch some videos you have in your profile. I don't understand why stans of other 'divas' and has-beens have to troll on the Internet to get out their frustrations

  • that's exactly what i've been waiting for, some "let's go with the flow" attitude and " be Convinced with "what you have" thingy. what i was tring to say in here is when people grow (the talented ones) keeps on focusing on their appearance rather than what made them famous (voices) i've never been combaring any to any and always say if you can do it them knock it off rather than keep on lieing to myself by smiling and throw the blame on others. pethatic.

  • and yet, you couldn't have her then or now.

  • well im not into bestiality!

  • this is my fave song me and my mom..im always crying when im hearin this song.. ! MC ur voice so amazing.. :)

  • Search for Mariah's I wanna know what loves is performance at the view! I was excellent!! Buy a copy of MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL by Mariah! The album is on fire!!!

  • so if she looks like your grandma you are saying that your mother got pregnant when she was still 2 years old? lol

  • I love her version of this song...

  • she was 28 or 29 in this video.

  • omg ppl shes 39...hahaha...and Jacada123 she would never say that cuz she always says shes celebrating her 12th bday anniversary cuz shes eternally 12

  • Don't hate! She still the best female vocalist of our time and looks great as ever...

  • obviously...y would i be hating...im her biggest fan...i was just correcting the fact that shes 39 not 40

  • This is your problem, what gives you the right to claim you are her biggest fan who knows the most? Evidently you are not her biggest fan because you have gone and got information off wikipedia which is renowned for being incorrect.

  • first off ive never ever in my life gone on wikipedia that the stupidest website ever...second i know im the biggest fan because she knows me by name, im vip on any event she has in LA...u dont know me so wat gives u the right to claim that i dont know wat im talking about...

  • this is the true, beautiful for ever!

  • For the love of god why would she say its the 40th anniversary of her 12th birthday if it wasn't on live TV, why would her birth certificate state she was born in 1969 if she wasn't, I am fully aware you are a Mariah fan just like me, but you must accept you can't always be right, I'd take this opputunity to correct your knowledge about her then you know even more correct stuff :) But no she is not 39, she is well and truly 40.

  • no shes not. her mom confirmed she was born in 1970 when they were on oprah. get your facts straight. mariah carey is 39.

  • do you have that on YOUTUBE

  • she has born at 1970! We know that since her debut..at zilion interviews she said it too... If thats the Real year of her birth only she knows it....maybe they said 1970 and she was born at 1969..who cares? the biggest fan cant know for sure...not even her closest friend...only she knows.

  • great vocals! as clear as crystal!

  • She's 39 u fucking idiots. sheesh.

  • She is 39.

  • Everyone posting on this video, arguing.

    Has terrible grammar and knowledge of the English Language, and secondly knows nothing about Mariah.

    Its quite laughable people are arguing over whether shes 38 or 39, when shes 40, and please don't tell me i'm wrong, if she wasn't 40 she wouldn't of said she was "celebrating her 40th anniversary" on the day of her birthday.

    Who cares about her nose? She looks amazing now, she did then.

    Who cares about her family name? Its Carey now, it will stay Carey

  • SHES NOT 40! HER MOM CONFIRMED SHE WAS BORN IN 1970 WHEN THEY WERE ON OPRAH! jesus get your facts straight. and WHEN did mariah carey say she was celebrating her 40th anniversary?

  • the husky voice brings more flavor to the song i will say it's better than d studio version....

  • sorry, but this Man is THE MOST STUPID MAN IN THE WORLD, who the hell doe he think he is to talk Mariah like that?? stupid...

  • Amazing!

  • one of her best performances

  • i love mariah carey

  • Great performance!!! Dave is so weird Mariah handled his foolishness nicely

  • Amazing performance

  • her nose looks really weird here, did she have surgery?

  • it's her make-up and lighting

  • yea she had a nose job its obvious her nose was rly different early 90's compared to after the nose job

  • did she have surgery done on her vocal cords, cos they are also really different now compared to the 90s :P maybe she got the same procedure she had done on her nose- size reduction :P

  • her nose is real.

  • Yes she did have a nose job. But I think her nose looks fine here. She looks beautiful!

  • ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS...

  • love this ....she should go back to sing like this....powerfull and emocional

  • i kno i agree

  • what year is this? i see the comments say this is 10 years old...so this is 99??

  • David got a little out of hand...Mariah had to straighten him out...HaHa.!!!

  • its amazin that this is 10 years ago

    shows such longetivity of her career!

  • one word... "PERFECT"

  • live, real and FANTASTIC.

  • wats mariah carey's last name....im just curious.

  • what the fuck retard. god i hate retarded people

  • wats ur problem spaz!?

  • haha why are you all going at him...its true her real last name isnt carey...kind of

  • Mariah Carey's last name is Carey.

  • actually LOL.

  • yah, actually.. hahah.

  • Well she was born with the name Mariah Carey, but either her father or grandfather changed it from Núñez when he moved to the US.

  • Her Father was Nunez he asimulated... to carey

  • You mean her grandfather changed his last name to Carey when he moved to the US.

  • assimilation

    The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: Waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture.

    I said EXACTLY what i meant. but thx =)

  • You're WELCOME! lol

  • what was her family name b4?

  • mariah carey the best ¡¡¡¡

  • if u look on youtube u will see how many live performances (including world tours) she did from 1990 to 1998. It was her golden period but she worked her voice too much

  • finally a TRUE live version of this song (loving it even though it's a really bad video quality - thanks anyways!)

    any way, for whom it may concern - it sounds like her voice was starting to get hoarse even back then (again, an amazing performance, but you can hear the begining of the end if you get what i'm saying)

  • finally a true live version??? she did a lot of live performances of this song! seriously!

  • well you might be right, but when i looked on you tube all versions seemed lipsynced (yeah i know it wasn't typcal to her at the time) or with really bad quality...

  • you still can tuch my heart, Mariah. No metter whats happends

  • did i say its a competition..ahha..nah ...it just an opinion and my fancy...but im sure they are both pro in wat they do...chill!heheh

  • what a voice....what a performer..awesome...total package....dont care if she lost some of her vocals.....she has nothing to prove ...

  • mariah carey is such a great artist! she sings with all her heart... you're a legend. two thumbs up!! whoooh!!!

  • the beginning was good. then it got a little higher and she struggled. such a delicate voice she has. probably due to the countless promotional events and NO SLEEP her voice is worn out. if sony was smart, they wouldve been nicer to mariah and gave her days off and more rest. now. her voice was good this year, but who knew what her voice would be like a few years later...

  • its cuz she has noduels on her vocal cords...thats wat makes her voice soo fagile and delicate

  • Are you seriou?

    Oh my!

    Where'd U get this info?

  • she has said it many times in interviews especially a few years back...other singers have had them too but they got surgery to get rid of them some can still sing some lose the voice forever which is y mariah is scared to get the sergery...

  • Thanks

  • what is it like a lump? is that why her voice gone so bad recently?

  • this performance is soooooooooooo good!

  • really good performance!

  • those two get along really well! no actually they piss each other off.

  • I hope I will be able find the "Fountain of Youth" and the first person I'm gonna share it with is Mariah Carey... She's like a treasure to me, everything about her... Her passion and dedication in singing Her voice and sex appeal! The way she smiles, the way she laugh, the way she sings, the way she is, and the way she will be... everything!

    We are all so lucky to have you in this world and no one will ever replace you! GO Mariah! Just keep on striking while the iron is hot! ;)

  • I think i prefer mariah's version more than brenda k starr...not being biased but mariah's version just sounds so vocally complete.her voice envelopes the song nicely.....the ORIGINAL singer sings it rather simply and keeps her version safe. Bring it on MARIAH!!

  • aiswary..its not a competition...brenda sang it in the 80's her way...while mariah simply did her own rendition...there no need to make a contest out of it......Damn..its a tribute by mariah to brenda....

  • I love Mariah!!

  • I love the raspiness of Mariah's voice yet it still is so beautiful.

  • yeah.. its gives texture.. i love it..

  • lip synching or not this is one woman i'd gladly see live...!!

  • one word: UNBELIEVABLE

  • What about the rest of the songs on the CD? I love the whole thing beginning to end - it's my #1 favorite. And how about Outside...come on! Phenomenal song! :-)

  • THesE Are My FavES FroM MaRiAh tOO!!!!!

  • When did that album come out?

  • It says 1998 on the CD. Got it right here.

  • FANTASTIC!

    I've never seen a singer like her! There's no other!

  • i know she hasn't lost her voice. you fans always insists she sings for us with all those freakin high note. singin isnt just like that. singing a song 3 to 5mins is already long for a person. so much more when your doing concert. we fans should always think before commenting negative things about her. we should understand and feel lucky that she shared her talent to us. its not easy to sing from 1991 to 2008 doin all those all around the world concerts. so please give credits when she sings low

  • that interview was so weird at the end. mariah seems so over sensitive and dave was annoyed by it

  • why doesnt she do the high note at the end??!!

  • We Love U Mariah!! This is fantastic!!

  • Check out our favorite dowgg, Randy Jackson on bass!

  • Ive dissed her in the past for not singing live but thats present mariah this video shows mariah back at her best!! Wish she could sing like this now instead of lip synching all the time!!!

  • I totally agree britney mimed on the x-factor as well as mariah except for when she did the hero song which she destroyed! but then "miraculously" her i stay in love with you was perfect beacuse it was mimed! I have utmost respect for live singers regardless if i dont like them. When i saw leona lewis on the x-factor singing run i was gob smacked she was/ and always is live and it was phenominal! She's one to watch rite now!