Here is Mariah Carey as a man. She went transgendered for the video shoot for “Obsession”, her new single. I don’t even know what to say about this. Mariah Carey is not the woman I thought she was. I thought Mariah was all about butterflies, sparkles, bubbles, pink, glitter, and basically everything “girly”. But Mariah makes a half-decent man, doesn’t she? And by “half-decent” I mean “exactly like the kind of skuzzy faux-gangster boys I went to high school with.”

Not to go on and on about this picture, but what’s up with the eyebrows and the goatee? I like how even though Mariah is playing some kind of scumbag, her goatee is still beautifully manicured. Michael K at Dlisted is making a joke about how Mariah is playing Eminem. I don’t really see that – Eminem’s facial hair isn’t that luscious.

You know what I’ll give Mariah credit for? Two things – first, she looks younger as a man. Second, props for not taking herself so seriously that she always has to be butterflied and baby-oiled. Or is this just narcissism? Did Mariah tell her music video director that the only man she could have in her video would be herself?

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