Mariah Carey: New Song “Save the Day” To Raise Money for Human Rights Issues
Mariah Carey‘s had a slight pr problem recently. She and other acts like Beyonce and Usher have performed in St. Barts over the last few years at New Year’s Eve parties thrown by the sons of vicious, crazy dictator Muammar Ghaddafi. At the time, Libya was not in the news. The shows were booked by a name promoter who probably was not forthcoming about the true nature of the underwriters. Now it’s become an issue in hindsight, which is sort of ridiculous.
Anyway, Mariah is not happy about what occurred and is stepping up to the plate. First, she tells me that a song she will record for her album, called “Save the Day,” will only generate funds to be donated for human rights issues. She may even set up her own foundation. She’s done this before. All the money ever made from the song “Hero” has gone to charity–millions. She’s also donated millions from DVDs and from the song “One Sweet Day,” which she recorded with Boyz II Men.
Carey has always been very philanthropic. She still runs her annual Camp Mariah through the Fresh Air Fund; she supports it financially. She’s even given her image to PETA to sell, although considering the weather today she might want it back!
Mariah’s official statement about the birthday event: “I was naïve and unaware of who I was booked to perform for. I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess. Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from. We need to be more aware and take more responsibility regardless of who books our shows. Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable.”
okay i’m gunna say my opinion now!!!!! U people need 2 leave mariah carey , beyonce and usher alone god dhamant!!!! there only human just like us and they make mistakes and they don’t need 2 keep hearing any more of the mean awful disrespectful degrading evil cruel rotton comments that u keep on making!!!! what is wrong wit yous peoples!!!!!!! people like mariah carey and beyonce and usher i and look up 2 !!!!! i just luv mariah carey 4 1 and have always been a fan and she is indeed a butterfly!!!!!! if it wasen’t 4 mariah carey idk where i’d b!!!! through her beautiful inspiring music it has amazingly gotton me out of all the hardache and all the awful things that have happened 2 me mariah carey has gotton me out of it all!!!! i never thought i’d b here saying this and i’m now 26 yrs old and i’am!!!!!! mariah carey’s music has inspired millions and she’s special and i know 1 thing she’s inspired me!!!!!! from her beautiful voice 2 her beautiful heart mariah carey has gotton me out of it all!!!!! and 2 this day i thank god 4 somebody like mariah carey!! she’s tried her hardest in life 2 do the best that she’s can and yes she’s made her mistakes but who the hell hasen’t! mariah carey is an icon and is a legend in her own time!!!!!! mariah carey has had hard life let me tell u and i can relate and through it all she’s come out of it alive through her amazing and incredible amount of strengh that she had and indured and her faith in god most of all mariah carey has come out of it all!!!! That goes 2 show there’s always a light at the very end of every tunnel!!! I’ve always been a big fan mariah and 2 hear your remarks is a very sick thing! u really need 2 seek god if u ask me!!!! And even thoe people may do awful things at times and it may seem like 2 u they don’t care dosen’t me they don’t!!!!!!! you try living mariah carey’s or beyonce’s life 41 fuckin day and then at the very end of the day i bet u will b asking yourself this question how do they ever live there life day in and day out wit all the stress and of being here and being there and everywhere and people always commenting on what they wear and what there doing!!! u would ask yourself this question how do they cope??? so every time u decide 2 knock whoever it is down on what-ever may b 4 whatever apparent reason u need 2 think twice on the matter!!!!!! so whoever reads this message please remember 4 the luv of god what i said bcuz it’s so true!!!!!!! we have enough jealousy & hatred in this god forsaken world and we don’t need people like u adding 2 it!! So I suggest if u can’t either learn 2 keep your nasty comments 2 yourself cuz honestly i don’t think no 1 is interested in hearing them then it will come back at u later on life!!!!!! As my mother always told me WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!!!!! Or should i just simply speak these very words KARMA IS A BITCH!!!!!! So just do yourself this very favor and FUCK OFF!!!!!! and btw mariah carey i luv u and always will and beyonce u 2!! and yes usher u 2!!! and btw beyonce and mariah you’ll always b at the top of your game cuz look at u beautiful gurls your 2 dashing diva”s and the truth speaks 4 it self and alot people will vouch 4 me on this 1!!!!!!!! god bless u 2 beautiful women!!!! and acourse usher!!!!
Thank you for the song Forever. Very appropriate, and many more.
its no bodies busy if she tries to do some good with what she has got from singing 4 whosover, go girl…………
Wow… I guess we don’t believe in 2nd chances huh? I guess people can’t be genuinely sorry huh? I guess if Mariah Carey was half the upstanding citizens you guys are, American society on a whole would be a much better place huh?
Who know whether she knew or not. No disrespect to Miss Carey, but she seems like the type of women who isn’t generally concerned about much that don’t pertain her personally so she probably never asked who she was performing for or their business as long as she got that check.
REGARDLESS, that’s nobody’s business. If she wants to make up for it, that’s cool. And be grateful that that was money spent on a concert and not terrorism. And she does do a lot of charity work so let’s not forget that.
Now, I hope you are take my advice and get some business. It will make you all a happy, more fulfilled people. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
Are you kidding me? Everyone with a brain knew he was/is a dictator.
While reading this article that song kept creeping into my head; “If I only had a brain”. Well, Maria, get one and read something…anything.
No immediate control over? She failed to ask the obvious question: who am I going to perform for? Just getting blind from the amount on the check is not an excuse.
Mariah has given millions of dollars to charities. Much more than any of the critics here combined
It looks like she – or her manager – was dealing with a promoter and not the dictator’s son.
Are performers really supposed to know all about, and approve of, every person in their audience?
Whatever business you’re in, there is probably a murderer who is a customer of your company. How do you sleep at night knowing your paycheck is tainted with the blood of murderers?
I beg to differ with the first comment regarding Hollywood Corporate Speak.
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“I was naïve and unaware of who I was booked to perform for. I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess. Translation: “I knew full well who I performed for, but he was so rich, the moment I saw him I swooned and fell into his lap, but my underwriter was paid big money to assume all of the blame and let me pretend I didn’t know who it was, in case of a public relations disaster like this.”
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“Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from. We need to be more aware and take more responsibility regardless of who books our shows. Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable.”
Translation: “I didn’t know nuthin’ and I feel horrible about the huge severance package I am going to have to pay my underwriter, in return for him being a good sport about taking all the blame, why next time I walk by sacs fifth avenue, I am going to have to just walk by, I won’t be able to go in and buy something, this mess has me so financially strapped.”
I am a conservative generally. I respect Mariah for speaking out and admitting error. She has seemed in recent years to be mature, not that I spend a lot of my time watching about her certainly not judging her.
I do not care if she gives the money back or not she earned it legally.
I do hope her and many of the Hollywood types that are so often critical of others will think twice in the future in doing so. Michael Moore comes to mind to start and the list is long.
We all make mistakes, we all need a Messiah and he is the only one that was ever perfect on this earth.
God Bless you Mariah and all!
Well,I guess naive is one way to put it.
Oh please if the money is right she will sing to an empty room
Typical liberal America hating rhetoric. “Oh, I thought it was for a good cause. I’m not intelligent enough to know where the money’s going or coming from. That’s why I surround myself with a bunch of brain-dead liberals to check that stuff for me. I feel bad and, afterall, it’s all about my feelings so forget I support torture and murder and give me more money.”
Well, duh! Would be nice if more celebrities admit how STUPID they are. Start traveling around America you celebretard- idiots – might get to know America and how much we LOVE THIS COUNTRY.
Most celebraties are naïve about what is Human Rights. They believe Rights are granted by gov’ts, but gov’ts don’t grant liberties they take them away. That are their function, to take peoples liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness when one person infringes on another rights. She should have a nice long talk with the other Carey, Drew Carey.
No – You wanted the Money, nothing more nothing less.
LOL. How could she not know?
Even I knew Qaddafi was an evil brutal dictator back 20 years go when I was in elementary school.
If she was some young artist, from Generation Y, then she may have a valid “I didn’t know” excuse because most punks from the generation are fricken clueless about anything. I find it that she “didn’t know” hard to believe and utterly absurd.
I am NOT a fan of Maria because I am not a fan of her type of music. I do appreciate that she stated the obvious and wonder about people who trash her and others for something that they had no immediate control over.
While Libyans were being tortured and buried alive for BEGGING FOR THEIR RIGHTFUL MONEY, Mariah, Beyonce, and Usher were cashing out BIG-TIME!
THAT MONEY WAS BLOOD MONEY!
“Naive” ? Just another dumb as a doorknob show biz type.
Don’t worry about it MC, our tery own President plays with this guys.
Well, I’m a big fan. Mariah has a voice like a songbird. No hard feelings. If she points out the obvious, that Obama is driving the middle class into poverty, she’ll be the most popular singer in the country.
She may be a savior but too bad she can’t sing. Has anyone REALLY listened to that cow? She couldn’t hit a note if it was on that fat ass of hers. I can’t stand to listen to her and have to turn ‘it’ off. I can tell when it is her singing when I hear the squealing of a pig piercing my ears. Give it up, Mariah!
Oh, please, she’s only sorry because she’s been caught. Like a thief with his hand in a cookie jar, she’s been caught. She, Beyonce and Usher are pathetic and horrible.
This is how typical liberals operate: they donate money to good causes when it’s good for their PR but take money from tyrants’ families when no-one is watching or paying attention. Sleaze personified.
US madman Farrakhan loves Libyan madman Khaddafy. All madmen should burn.
Naive? More like just plain stupid. This guy has been around doing rotten things as long as Ms C has been alive. She should have known what this guy was all about. Ask a few questions once in a while balloon head.
Naive=Airhead
Hey Mariah:
Why don’t you donate what they you were paid to a charity, like Nelly Furtado did………………….Come on step up to the plate…