Girl, You're Going to Carey that Weight

Realizing she most likely has shot her career wad as Mariah Carey, the patron saint of American Idol over-emoters everywhere has opted to change her name in an effort to trick fans into buying her new CD The Emancipation of Mimi.

“Mimi is a very personal nickname only used by those closest to me... just one of those little things that I’ve kept for myself in an attempt to have some delineation between a public persona and a private life,” Carey explains on her Web site. She goes on to explain that since she has had very public breakdowns that most of us would want to keep private, it's OK if a few million of us call her Mimi. As long as we buy her new CD.

INOTBB looks forward to Mimi's duet with Gene Simmons.