I made a few screen captures of Mariah in "Lil L.O.V.E." and "Sweetheart". Click on the thumbnails to view the pictures :

Sexy Mariah Carey has discovered she is related to footballer Ashley Cole. The R&B diva, 37, traced her family tree because she was convinced the late Nat King Cole was from the same stock. Instead her search revealed she does have a Cole in the family - Chelsea left back Ashley, 26, who is married to Girls Aloud babe Cheryl, 24. Mariah's gran comes from the same area of America's Deep South as Ashley's ancestors.

Mariah said: "It's fascinating. My grandmother was a Cole before she married and it turns out she comes from the same area of Alabama as his (Ashley's) ancestors. We are still looking into it to see if we're also related to Nat King Cole. I'm such a huge fan of his. That would be wonderful and would explain so much."

A pal of the England star said: "Ashley is chuffed to bits to hear that they're related. He's always been a big fan of Mariah's and grew up listening to jazz legends like Nat King Cole."

Pop star Mariah Carey is ready to release her new album but for now she is excited about showing off her new slim look, which she attributes to 'bleak diets'.

'My secret is bleak diets. I still feel like I have a way to go,' Carey was quoted as saying by people.com.


But she said she would not lose her curves and was against the concept of size zero. 'I don't feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically. I'm not supposed to be a stick figure girl. It's just not me.'


Her bleak diet consists of 'basically soups and fish prepared really blandly'. She added: 'I have a wonderful trainer whose name is Patricia, she lives in St. Barts, poor girl. People say, 'Only you would fly someone from St. Barts to New York to work out.' We do water aerobics mostly.'

Mariah Carey is back, kids. New York’s hometown chanteuse, famous for lots of things including an eight-octave range, is getting her new album ready for a Dec. 4 release.

The album is the follow-up to her mega-selling "Emancipation of Mimi." So far, the new one, Mariah told me Thursday night, does not have a name. “We’re working on that,” she said, “and we’re working on an R&B song like 'Fly Like a Bird' from the last album. But we have lots of songs.”

Carey looked sensational in a tight-fitting blue gown as she was honored by VH-1 Save the Music along with former President Bill Clinton and VH-1’s John Sykes. Carey didn’t sing — she’s on vocal rest while she makes the CD — but she gave a great speech about what music in her Long Island public school meant to her. In the audience to cheer her on were L.A. Reid, Benny Medina and her cousins.

Just to demonstrate that she has still has pipes, Carey sang out a couple of lines from the chorus of “Vision of Love” in her story of making it to the big time years ago. Later, I told her that there had been a small war going on between Madonna’s fans and hers, and that some of it resulted in nasty e-mails to this column.
“What? Why?” she asked. “I mean, I think I was in sixth grade when Madonna got started.”

Carey’s old rivalry used to be with Whitney Houston, who was closer in age. But with Houston in semi-retirement for now, somehow Madonna became her peer. And what of “Tennessee,” the Lee Daniels film Carey made? Is it any good, I wondered?
“I think so,” she said. “Lee thinks it is. I haven’t seen it yet.”

Carey’s unnamed album hits stores on Dec. 4, although L.A. Reid told me he might hold off one more week to the 11th and hit the holiday sales big time. Are there any singles, I asked?
“It’s like only singles so far,” Carey said, laughing. “I don’t want to give it away. But wait 'til you hear it.” She has about a month to six weeks left to finish it.

Meanwhile, Carey stayed from beginning to end so she could root on old friend Sykes — she hung out with his kids for a bit — and see Bon Jovi play with Mayer, and Waters perform a jubilant version of “Another Brick in the Wall” with a 60-piece children’s choir and orchestra from New York public schools.

Mariah Carey said it only made sense to work for the Save the Music Foundation because music saved her.

"Music has always been my saving grace," said Carey, accepting her award at the foundation's 10th anniversary gala Thursday night at Lincoln Center. "Like everyone growing up, my life wasn't easy," said the Greenlawn native. "I don't always like to talk about it in great detail, but music saved my life literally. Writing songs and singing is so therapeutic for me."

The Save the Music Foundation, which donates instruments to public schools and helps fund music education programs, honored Carey, President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former VH1 president John Sykes, who launched the foundation in 1997.

Before the ceremony, Carey said she was very excited about her new album, which she says will be very "modern-sounding." She said she hasn't decided on a title yet for the follow-up to her multi-platinum comeback album "The Emancipation of Mimi," though Island Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid said he hoped to announce the title and a release date next week.

In her acceptance speech, Carey said she was always thrilled when fans tell her that her song "Hero" saved their lives or that her hit "We Belong Together" helped saved a marriage.
"I was often discouraged," she said. "Thank god, I never gave up."

The Butterfly Project is officially open now, even though so many pages are not available yet and we don't have many pictures of Mariah in our gallery either. But at least we have a nice domain, we are going to be here for a minimum of 2 years and hopefully this will be a lot of fun to work on this site. I will fill the gallery with old and new pictures as often as I can. For now, our first update consists of screen captures from the "I Still Believe / Pure Imagination" video :

According to Mariah Daily, Universal Music Group International has confirmed the official release date for the new Mariah Carey DVD in Europe as November 19, 2007. This as-yet-untitled DVD release comes in a 2-discs set and will most likely include the live recording of Mariah's The Adventures of Mimi concert in Anaheim, California on October 8, 2006.

So far, only HMV Japan has a listing for a new DVD release by Mariah, categorized under "Live Recording". This release appears to be a two discs set and will be released in Japan on November 14, 2007. The
first disc is a live disc and the second one is karaoke.