***Mariah Carey***

Mariah has come together with iRiver to release the new N20 Mariah Carey Special Edition MP3 player. Five (5) lucky fans received the new Mariah MP3 player during the CD signing at Evan Records. During the October 13th press conference and right beside the press room, the iRiver room was set up and Mariah took time to take pictures with iRiver's President and CEO Kuno Kim and sign iRiver's staff the new item.

N20 is a two gigabyte MP3 player which comes pre-loaded with 17 tracks from Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel. Mariah's new album cover can be seen on the box of N20. It is a fashionable and stylish new MP3 player which provides outstanding sound quality. As Mariah is THE vocalist who can transcend all ranges and is at the same time a style icon, iRiver found Mariah to be the best artist to collaborate with on its new cutting-edge product.

iRiver is currently holding an event where users write congratulatory messages for the new N20 release. Twenty (20) lucky users will be selected and presented with the new N20 Mariah Carey Special Edition.

Below are pictures of the new product, and the Mariah-autographed N20s given to staff members.

: Disk #1

Betcha Gon Know

Obsessed

H.A.T.E.U

Candy Bling

Ribbon

Inseparable

Standing O

It's A Wrap

Up Out My Face

(Up Out My Face (The Reprise

More Than Just Friends

The Impossible

(The Impossible (The Reprise

(Angel (Prelude

Angels Cry

(Languishing (The Interlude

I Want To Know What Love Is

: Disc #2

(Obsessed (Cahill Radio Mix

(Obsessed (Seamus Haji And Paul Emanuel Radio Edit

(Obsessed (Jump Smokers Radio Edit

(Obsessed (Friscia And Lamboy Radio Mix

(Obsessed (Video

(Obsessed feat Gucci Mane (Video Remix

Other world-famous acts taking part include Whitney Houston, Usher and Brit schoolboy sensation Shaheen Jafargholi, with legends Stevie Wonder, 59, Diana Ross, 65, and Lionel Richie, 60, also expected to lay down tracks.

The idea came about after a succession of stars sang cover versions of the singer's hits at his memorial service. Producers are asking the stars to perform their favourite Jacko songs.

Mariah, 39, will sing I'll Be There and Britain's Got Talent star Shaheen, 12, who wowed fans at the Los Angeles memorial with his version of Who's Loving You, will be asked to record that track and Jacko's 1970s smash Ben. Madonna, 50, could be tempted by Beat It or Billie Jean, while other songs expected to be covered include Rock With You, She's Out Of My Life and Bad. And Robbie, 35, is being lined up to sing Man In The Mirror amid reports his former Take That bandmates could cover ABC, Working Day And Night or Don't Stop Til You Get Enough.

A live tribute concert is also being planned at O2 Arena, involving the singer's family and other guests, on what would have been his 51st birthday on August 29.

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In this exclusive interview clip from MTV News, Mariah talks about the producers she's worked with on her new album, Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel.

MTV: With regards on who you worked with on the album, producers and collabos, who did you work with on this album? We know The-Dream did "Obsessed" with you as well. Who else?

Mariah: I worked a lot with Tricky and Dream. I worked with JD again. I always love working with Jermaine. Everytime it's just like it reminds me of the first time we worked together which was "Always Be My Baby." It's just like you can't... once you do a song like that and you have it forever it's like you want to just continue to try to re-create that magic. And so that's what we do. But I worked with Timbaland for the first time...

MTV: How was that?

Mariah: That was really... I mean, I'm a fan of Timbaland's so I enjoyed it. It hasn't been mixed yet but I think it's really cool. And I worked with Big Jim Wright who worked with Sounds of Blackness a lot. So there's live feeling songs on the album. A lot of my fans are like, since I've been twittering a lot, "We want some live sounding stuff," "We want some stuff like this, we want stuff like that," and so you have to find that middle ground.

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When Mariah Carey's latest single "Obsessed" hit the airwaves, speculation swirled that the song is directed at Eminem as a response to his track "Bagpipes From Baghdad." Fuel was added to that rumor's fire after stills from the video were released – photos that seem to suggest that Carey dressed as Eminem for the clip.

But the video's director, Brett Ratner, insists that as far as he knows, the song – off Carey's latest album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, out next month – isn't about Eminem.

"It's not about Eminem – we weren't like, 'Let's find an Eminem look-alike,'" he told MTV News about the stalker character in the video, which he originally wanted to be played by Ellen DeGeneres. "We weren't talking to any Eminem [look-alikes]. I guess it's a good rumor, but I don't think it's true. I don't really know. I never asked her, but then when I recommended Ellen, that's where she got the idea."

Ratner had heard the Eminem rumors, but insisted that Carey never told him the song was penned about the MC. The look Mariah rocks in the video was devised simply as a way to hide Mariah's lady assets.

"Mariah never talked to me about that," he explained. "You know, Mariah ... she's like the most feminine girl you can imagine, so the more I covered up the less work I had to do on the transitions of changing back and forth. I kind of told the wardrobe guy, 'Let's bulk her up with layers and stuff' – first of all, to hide her breasts, because they're prominent, and to kind of make her more boyish. A b-boy made sense."

Ratner, who worked with Mariah on many of her videos including last year's "Touch My Body," explained that the video was more inspired by two films rather than Eminem: his love for the classic Martin Scorsese flick "The King of Comedy" and Carey's love for the Lindsay Lohan flick "Mean Girls."

"It was inspired by a movie that I love called 'King of Comedy,' when Sandra Bernhard was stalking Jerry Lewis – and that's why I wanted to move it to New York," he said, adding, "Mariah loves 'Mean Girls.' I think it's funny [when the stalker gets hit with the bus like in the film] ..."

The director explained that so many of their collaborations show the funny side of Mariah Carey because they share a special bond and are "like kids – we love playing and role playing. We love telling stories and making movies."

"She's really like a kid. All her nuances ... she's like a big kid. That's what I think we're trying to capture. It doesn't have to be all serious and sexy and everyone thinks she's a big diva," he said. "She's very comfortable with me. And she's so smart. Like Madonna, she knows where her light is ... she'll know if she's out of focus."

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Mariah is scheduled to be "Live on the Plaza" at the TODAY show on Friday, August 28th to perform songs from her new album, Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel.

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