Mariah back in the studio with Dupri working on album 13!

Fresh off the back of a flop album and a scrapped remix album, Mariah is in the studio with long term collaborator Jermaine Dupri and Bryan Michael Cox. She had mentioned before she was heading back into the studio to work on something top secret, but now the pussy is out of the bag and back in the studio. Mariah has started recording her 13th studio album.

I have mad love for Miming Mimi. I'm one of the 72 people in the whole wide world that actually went out and bought Glitter. But she need's to sit down and start acting right before she goes recording another album. Unless of course under the wings of Dupri and Cox she can knock out 14 tracks all as hot as the grossly misused "100%". But I doubt it. We're just gonna get a whole album of "I stay in love", "Cruise control" and filler with piano's, harpsichords and an interlude which has her screaming over a rhodes piano and birds. Bitch is too predictable. I will cop the next album she drops without fail. But I'm not that excited about it given how messy her last 2 albums were in terms of roll out.

The worst thing is that E=MC² and Memoirs of an imperfect angel were good albums. They both had no shortage of single choices which could have been big hits. But Def Jam f**ked up. And despite Mariah having the resources and the money to take control of her own shit - she didn't and allowed Def Jam to screw over 2 albums in a row. So if Mariah is serious about this next album (which she seems to be considering she's recording it already) then she needs to either...

• Have words with that n***a L.A Reid
• Have a back-up plan and be prepared to fund her own shit and get the singles and music videos out at the right times.

A new style wouldn't go amiss neither. But getting Mariah to actually dress appropriately more than 50% of the time is like trying to get Madonna to close her legs during a performance: it ain't gon' happen.

There's no guarantee this album will release this year, as we know how Miming Mimi likes to take longer to do things than everybody else. But I hope she works with some new producers. Danja, The Runners, Rodney Jerkins and Robert Smith all need to hit up Mimi on Twitter and book studio time. I actually wouldn't mind Jam and Lewis or Walter Afanasieff coming back into the fold to give Mariah a big ballad. I need some re-affirmation Mariah can still throw it back to her old ballads - 'cos Lord knows she tested me with that re-recording of "Hero" and "I want to know what love is". Jermaine and B.Cox also need to throw shit back to "Sweetheart", "Always be my baby" and do how they did for "100%" and Monica's "Love all over me".

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