Mariah Carey/Eminem Obsessed Music Video

Here's your first look Mariah Carey's music video directed by a frequent Carey collaborator Brett Ratner for her new song 'Obsessed', (lead single to album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel out Aug 25) a song that is packed with low blows at a certain someone, media assuming is a response to Eminem's recent diss on Mariah and her husband,Nick Cannon in his 'Bagpipes From Baghdad' song. In the video she gets to play two roles, herself and the obsessee, but the song ends in a somewhat abrupt and uncomfortable ending where the obsessee's fate is decided by the public transport system.

Mariah fires back on Eminem on new single: Obsessed!

So Mariah's back. A mere 14 month after her platinum selling E=MC2, with the hit lead single Touch My Body that became Mariah's 18th number one hit, tying her with Elvis and leaving only the Beetles with more number ones than her. This time she returns with a racy response to what we'd assume Eminem has been saying and especially the song Bagpipes from Baghdad, where he goes on about wanting Mariah back, calling Nick Cannon, her husband a punk and other unsavory words, he references one of Mariah's ex's as well Luis Migel, but this is all made very irrelevant with Mariah's hard hitting response - the best part is she manages to maintain an element of fun & randomness, she opens the song with a quote from the chick flick, Mean Girls, 'I was like' why are you so obsessed with me?''. The blows start dropping from the very first line, and they dont stop. There are so many lines i love, i'd end up quoting the entire song, so i'll just add the lyrics on here so you can read them for yourself. She manages to deliver these with ease, instead of sounding angry she merely sounds bemused. Sung in a auto-tune tinged voice, and layers synth beat, the song is pure radio magic, and I know it'll be a hit - Her album titled Memoirs of an Imperect Angel drops Aug 25th, which means we'll probably be getting a second single before the release date - oh its on, the Mariah train has begun and its not about to stop anytime soon.
OBSESSED
(Mariah Carey - C. Tricky Stewart - Terius "The-Dream" Nash)

I was like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?"
So oh oh oh oh x4
Will the real MC please, step to the mike?
So oh oh oh oh x4
All up in the blogs - Saying we met at the bar
When I don't even know who you are
Saying we up in your house - Saying I'm up in your car
But you in LA and I'm out at Jermaine's.
I'm up in the A - You so so lame
and no one here even mentions your name
It must be the weed. It must be the E
Cause you be popping- hood
You get it popping, Oh

Why you so obsessed with me (Boy I wanna know)
Lying that you're sexing me (when everybody knows)
It's clear that you're upset with me
Finally found a girl that you couldn't impress
Last man on the earth still couldn't hit this
You're delusional, you're delusional
Boy you're losing your mind
It's confusing yo, you're confused you know
Why you wasting your time
Got you all fired up with your Napoleon complex
Seeing right through you like you're bathing in Windex
Boy why you so obsessed with me?

You on your job - You hating hard
Ain't gon' feed you - I'm gonna let you starve
Gasping for air - I'm ventilation
You out of breath - Hope you ain't waiting
Telling the world how much you miss me
But we never were - So why you trippin'
You a mom and pop - I'm a corporation
I'm the press conference - and you a conversation

Why you so obsessed with me (Boy I wanna know)
Lying that you're sexing me (when everybody knows)
It's clear that you're upset with me
Finally found a girl that you couldn't impress
Last man on the earth still couldn't hit this
You're delusional, you're delusional
Boy you're losing your mind
It's confusing yo, you're confused you know
Why you wasting your time
Got you all fired up with your Napoleon complex
Seeing right through you like you're bathing in Windex
Boy why you so obsessed with me?

Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Thandie Newton, Sol Kerzner etc at Nelson Mandela Luncheon

Sol Kerzner's fabulous One & Only Resort hosted Nelson Mandela luncheon for the Nelson Mandela Children AIDS Foundation - Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone and Sol Kerzner and wife, Heather were some of the celebrities that shared a table with our former president Nelson Mandela and wife, Graca!
Main picture taken at the luncheon, held at Gordon Ramsay's Maze, Thandie Newton and Hugh Masekela can be seen in the nearby tables. Which is one of the two restaurants in the resort by two world renowned chefs - the other being Nobu, where the opening ceremony the previous day was held - more on that later as i had the pleasure to have dinner there on Friday, 3rd of April. The hotel which at first I found underwhelming, partly due to dreary architectural design & 90's deco, looks rather lovely from the inside and has a man made island which houses the spa area as well as the villa suits.

Hollywood comes to Cape Town: One& Only Hotel Opening

Superstar diva Mariah Carey arrived in Cape Town on Thursday to lead the festivities at the glamorous opening of Sol Kerzner's new hotel. Mariah is in Cape Town for the grand opening of Sol Kerzner's One&Only resort tonight, April 2. Other celebrities expected to attend include Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Thandie Newton, Marisa Tomei, Robert de Niro. Gordon Ramsay will be launching his first restaurant in Africa, Maze, at the resort. Nelson Mandela will be attending an intimate luncheon at Maze on Friday, April 3 to celebrate his long-standing relationship with Mr. Kerzner. One&Only, next to the Two Oceans Aquarium in the V&A Waterfront, opens on Thursday night after an investment rumoured to have totalled R1-billion. The internationally famous hotelier - best known locally for building the vast Sun City out of the dry bushveld in the Pilanesberg mountains in the North-West province - is expected to put on one of his famously lavish shows to open his Cape Town masterpiece. A Hollywood-style red carpet is expected to be rolled out to welcome stars Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone, rapper Mos Def and Bebe Winans. Former model Yasmin le Bon will be there, with daughter Saffron. Matt Damon, who is in Cape Town working on a film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning Springboks, will join them, and had supper with de Niro and Kerzner on Wednesday night. Damon will play Springbok captain Francois Pienaar in the Clint Eastwood-directed flick. Local stars attending tonight are said to include Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Sibongile Khumalo and Jonathan Butler.
The 131-room hotel is marketed as a super-luxury "six-star" establishment, and guests will be fed from two restaurants bearing celebrity chefs' names. Gordon Ramsay of London will open one of his "maze" restaurants, and alongside him will be "Nobu", after Nobu Matsuhisa, the Japanese-born chef who is widely credited with bringing sushi to the Western world.
The hotel was designed by Capetonian architectural firms Dennis Fabian Berman and Ruben Reddy and built by contractors WBHO..
Thursday night's festivities will be hosted by Kerzner and his wife Heather and Moss Mashishi, the former head of SA Tourism who heads Matemeku Investments, Kerzner's local partner.