what does mariah carey call her fans?
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 Throughout her career , Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide , making her one of the best @-@ selling music artists of all time . According to the RIAA , she is the third @-@ best @-@ selling female artist in the United States , with 63 @.@ 5 million certified albums . With the release of " Touch My Body " ( 2008 ) , Carey gained her 18th number @-@ one single in the United States , more than any other solo artist . In 2012 , the singer was ranked second on VH1 's list of the " 100 Greatest Women in Music " . Aside from her commercial accomplishments , Carey has won 5 Grammy Awards , 19 World Music Awards , 11 American Music Awards , and 14 Billboard Music Awards and has been consistently credited with inspiring a generation of singers . Referred to as the " songbird supreme " by the Guinness World Records , she is famed for her five @-@ octave vocal range , power , melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register . 

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 Carey 's vocal style and singing ability have significantly impacted popular and contemporary music . As music critic G. Brown from The Denver Post wrote , " For better or worse , Mariah Carey 's five @-@ octave range and melismatic style have influenced a generation of pop singers . " According to Rolling Stone , " Her mastery of melisma , the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like " Vision of Love " , inspired the entire American Idol vocal school , for better or worse , and virtually every other female R & B singer since the Nineties . " Jody Rosen of Slate wrote of Carey 's influence in modern music , calling her the most influential vocal stylist of the last two decades , the person who made rococo melismatic singing . Rosen further exemplified Carey 's influence by drawing parallel with American Idol , which to her , " often played out as a clash of melisma @-@ mad Mariah wannabes . And , today , nearly 20 years after Carey 's debut , major labels continue to bet the farm on young stars such as the winner of Britain 's X Factor show , Leona Lewis , with her Generation Next gloss on Mariah 's big voice and big hair . " Sean Daly of St. Petersburg Times wrote , " Depending on how you feel about public humiliation , the best / worst parts of American Idol are the audition shows , which normally break down into three distinct parts : ( 1 ) The Talented Kids . ( 2 ) The Weird Kids . ( 3 ) The Mariahs . " Daly further commented , " The Mariahs are the hardest ones to watch , mainly because most of them think they 're reeeaaally good . The poor , disillusioned hopefuls plant themselves in front of judges Simon Cowell , Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson – then proceed to stretch , break and mutilate every note of a song , often Mariah 's Hero , a tune that has ruined more throats than smoker 's cough . " New York Magazine 's editor Roger Deckker said that in regarding Carey as an influential artist in music , he commented that " Whitney Houston may have introduced melisma ( the vocally acrobatic style of lending a word an extra syllable or twenty ) to the charts , but it was Mariah — with her jaw @-@ dropping range — who made it into America 's default sound . " Deckker also added that " Every time you turn on American Idol , you are watching her children " . Despite her vocal prowess , Carey 's vocal technique particularly with the use of melisma and belting , has been subject to public scrutiny mainly because of young singers such as from talent shows have been overly imitating her singing technique in which critics commented " Mariah Carey is , without a doubt , the worst thing to happen to amateur singing since the karaoke machine " . As Professor Katherine L. Meizel noted in her book , The Mediation of Identity Politics in American Idol , " Carey 's influence not just stops in the emulation of melisma or her singing amongst the wannabe 's , it 's also her persona , her diva , her stardom which inspires them .... a pre @-@ fame conic look . " 

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 The series regularly features songs and musical numbers . Many of the cast members — including Shada , Kenny , and Olson — sing their characters ' songs . Characters often express their emotions in song ; examples of this include Marceline 's song " I 'm Just Your Problem " and Finn 's " All Gummed Up Inside " . Although the background music for the series is composed by Basichis and Kiefer , the songs sung by characters are often written by the storyboard artists . For instance , the " Fry Song " was written by storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar , who storyboarded its parent episode " It Came from the Nightosphere " . Frederator , Seibert 's production company , often posted demos and full versions of songs sung by the characters . The show also rarely but occasionally refers to popular music . 

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 Fans of Glee are commonly referred to as " gleeks " , a portmanteau of " glee " and " geek " . Fox ran a " Biggest GLEEK " competition , measuring fans ' Glee @-@ related activity on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace , and found that the growth of the fanbase outpaced the network 's science @-@ fiction shows . The cast 's Hot Topic tour was titled " The Gleek Tour " . Glee is one of the most tweeted @-@ about TV shows . In 2011 , it was the top trending US TV show . On IMDb , Glee is the seventh highest ranking TV series of the period 2002 – 2012 . Fans have recreated many of its musical numbers in tribute to the show , sharing them on YouTube . Based on this trend , show producers included instrumental versions of some songs on the show 's soundtracks . 

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 In 2011 , Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly commented on the cultural significance of Spears 's voice and music : " We don 't ask a whole lot from Britney Spears as an entertainer ... we 'll still send her straight up the charts simply because she 's Britney . She 's an American institution , as deeply sacred and messed up as pro wrestling or the filibuster . Musically , though , Spears will always have to measure up to her own gold standards of pop euphony : the operatic slither of 2004 's ' Toxic ' and the candied funk of 2000 's ' Oops ! ... I Did It Again . ' Spears is no technical singer , that 's for sure . But backed by Martin and Dr. Luke 's wall of pound , her vocals melt into a mix of babytalk coo and coital panting that is , in its own overprocessed way , just as iconic and propulsive as Michael Jackson 's yips or Eminem 's snarls . " ' Britney Spears ' was Yahoo ! ' s most popular search term between 2005 and 2008 , and has been in a total of seven different years . Spears was named as Most Searched Person in the Guinness World Records book edition 2007 and 2009 . She was later named as the most searched person of the decade 2000 – 2009 . 
