A Tale of Two Mariahs: 'Mariah's World' Recap, Episode 4

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Welcome back toMariah's World, the show that is still wandering around Times Square, wordlessly smiling into the camera. People have been saying that Mimi bombed her performance as if Mariah tried and failed. When Mariah wants to try, she'll let you know, honey. In the meantime, download "Emotions" on iTunes.

Previously onMariah's World:

Tanaka really wants to "catch up" with Mariah. Y'all this foreshadowing is so heavy, I think it can officially be classified as contour.

Stella's daughter wants Tanaka to jump out of a cake for Mariah's "anniversary." Mariah doesn't have birthdays, she celebrates the anniversary of her birthday. So… a birthday.

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We start with a replay of the shot of the Elusive Chanteuse posing with a zoo full of fans. It continues to be one of my favorite visual metaphors.

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The crew is on a plane between concert stops. They are blowing bubbles and passing the camera around like the beginning of a found footage movie about fairies and woodland nymphs. Would watch.

I need you listen closely to what happens next. They are filming this in early April 2016. They are blowing bubbles. Everyone, for some reason, describes the bubbles as snow. Then they start playing Christmas music and dancing along and it's all very disorienting because, like, do I have a very basic misunderstanding of what snow is? It's five minutes into the episode and I'm already staring blankly at the screen like Molly Frizzle.

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By the way, the Christmas music is not "All I Want for Christmas" but Mariah's new song "Santa's Gonna Come and Make You Mine" which, like, you tried it but no. Like, it's a fine song. But when you say "Mariah Carey is going to emerge from her diamond encrusted chrysalis and sing a holiday song," you're not sitting there crossing your fingers that she'll do "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Like, ma'am, you're the Pavlov of jingle bells. Give us what we want!

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Mariah's laughing and drinking with Lee Daniels. Random!

Mariah and Lee met on the set ofShadowboxer,a movie, I kid you not, where Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Helen Mirren play contract killers and lovers. Also, she is his stepmother. Y'all this movie is WILD. Also, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it as a doctor whose drug-addicted girlfriend is played by Mo'nique and it is everything you'd expect that scenario to be.

(ELLE)