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Mariah Carey’s Saudi Arabia Album Covers
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Images purporting to show Saudi Arabian versions of Mariah Carey's album covers have recently appeared on the web. Mediabum.com says that "Because of the laws over there her album covers had to be touched up to be made less sexy." Maybe. It sounds like something that would be done in Saudi Arabia. However, the lack of a clear source for these images makes me suspicious. They could equally well have been created by somebody playing around with photoshop. (And why is there no arabic script on these Saudi Arabian covers?) (And incidentally, I just read that Mariah Carey has 17 Number One singles, tying the number that Elvis had. This is odd because I'm unable to name a single song by her. With 17 #1 songs, I figured I'd know at least one of them.) |
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Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Dec 22, 2005 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 32
Category: Celebrities, Photos/Videos
Category: Celebrities, Photos/Videos
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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oh, and a bit of crop/resize
Posted by Greg Schoppe on Thu Dec 29, 2005 at 10:06 PM
On the "megastar" website above, I noticed
this picture of a Britney Spears album cover.
Compared with the original picture, a less revealing shirt has obviously been photoshopped in, although it was done slightly better than the Mariah Carey covers. So there you go.
Posted by mia in chicago on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:44 PM
this picture of a Britney Spears album cover.
Compared with the original picture, a less revealing shirt has obviously been photoshopped in, although it was done slightly better than the Mariah Carey covers. So there you go.
I have to admit, Mariah does look a lot better when she is covered. Though im not a fan, she doesn't need to show the amount of skin she does show, she has a great voice
Posted by Eva in New York on Sat Mar 18, 2006 at 04:23 PM
These covers are genuine. I own a few algums listed on this site. Proof:
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/3254/1qq0.jpg
Posted by Mick on Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 02:28 PM
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/3254/1qq0.jpg
I can attest to the fact that the cd covers are altered, but the pics shown here are way too detailed. 99.9% of the time, the "offending" body part or object was just blacked out with a permanent magic marker. No one there would take the time to put any effort into making the "offending" item seem like part of the picture.
Posted by Scott Brison in UA on Tue Feb 20, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Posted by Al Strada in Memphis TN USA on Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 08:42 PM
Well, the REAL Mariah Carey album covers are almost completely Photoshop paintings anyway. The only difference is that they're BETTER paintings than these Saudi coverups.
Posted by rokusan on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 03:56 AM
Yes, Mariah Carey has had that many number one singles. She's an incredibly talented singer with an 8 octave range, although much of the material she performs is quite forgettable and for some reason sounds uninspiring. She has sold more records than the previous queen of pop/soul (Diana Ross), however I don't think she's sold more records than Madonna. Madonna is currently the queen as fas as record sales go.
The only thing I find difficult to believe about these retouching jobs is how bad they are. They look pretty cheesy, but I can definitely imagine a country like Saudi Arabia only permitting album covers with subdued or altered graphics of the originals
Posted by mediapusher in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. on Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 09:29 AM
The only thing I find difficult to believe about these retouching jobs is how bad they are. They look pretty cheesy, but I can definitely imagine a country like Saudi Arabia only permitting album covers with subdued or altered graphics of the originals
if u dont know any mariah song or mariah herself means ur a loser! MARIAH IS THE BEST EVEN IN ASIA! IM AN ASIAN
Posted by crybabydoll on Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 04:18 PM
I was once a regular customer of the Megastar store here in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. It does sell Western Music like Ashley Pomeroy said. The store was located in Heraa Mall. The Best of wham tape I had right now was actually manufactured by one of Megastar's companies here in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by Abdulla Sulaimani in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 06:53 AM
Mariah Carey - forever young! forever sexy singer!
Posted by CD Reviews on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 05:18 AM
I was in Saudi for 10 years, and yes some of the album covers were doctored by marker pen (washable off if a suitable solvent is available) sometimes they didn't unwrap them so the marker pen was on the cellophane wrapper (that was easy to get rid of).
Posted by Rob in On a Boat on Sat May 16, 2009 at 01:22 AM
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