[Arneldo]

Simon Cowell has claimed that Mariah Carey is no longer the singer she used to be.

The music mogul said Carey was wrong to try her hand at different styles of music and should concentrate on recording love songs.

"To me, the greatest singer is Mariah Carey, but she's lost it," he told Live magazine.

"She needs to go back to singing ballads. You have to stick with doing what you do best. Be honest. Know yourself."

Cowell added that he believes protégé Leona Lewis could "top" Carey's success in the future.

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[Annie]

I agree. She was only good at ballads and should stick to that

[LemonJam]

I'm 50/50 on this, if Marish wants to be successful, she's going to have to pull out as many ballads out of her arse as she can, but in all fairness it must be boring writing the same stuff over and over and she should be allowed the creative freedom.

[supernoodles!]

i like her newer stuff its a bit corny but its catchy

[Tom4784]

Her ballads got outdated though, they work in this country but she started to slip in America, that's why she does a more RNB sound now, It's more relative to the times.

[MarkWaldorf]

Well her last few albums with this sound have been some of his biggest selling worldwide so

[M X]

I agree but her up-beat songs are good too. I don't know why her Glitter album was so poorly recieved, I loved it.

Same as Charmbraclet.

[Jackie]

I've never liked her.

[30stone]

Shes was awful on x factor and looked a bit wierd like she was never comfortable...

i prefered watching the finalists.


Leona is much better.