Mariah Carey still wants to release her secret grunge album from the 1990s: “You’ll hear it”
Mariah Carey has revealed that she still wants to release the secret grunge album she recorded in 1995.
In 2020, Mariah Carey revealed that she had recorded a grunge album ‘Someone’s Ugly Daughter’ in secret while working on her 1995 record ‘Daydream’. However, no music from the grunge project has seen the light of day nearly three decades on.
That might all change soon, though, as the ‘We Belong Together’ singer has now shared that she hasn’t lost hope for its release. Speaking to Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang on the newest episode of the Las Culturistas podcast, Carey said about its release: “I’m so mad I haven’t done that yet.”
Carey then asked where she would release it on, with Rogers suggesting that she release it independently via Garage Band. She replied: “I could do that. It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”
She wrote of ‘Someone’s Ugly Daughter’ in her 2020 memoir: “I’d bring my little alt-rock song to the band and hum a silly guitar riff. They would pick it up and we would record it immediately. It was irreverent, raw, and urgent, and the band got into it. I actually started to love some of the songs. I would fully commit to my character.
“I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time. You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every move I made was so calculated and manicured.
“I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery—but I also wanted to laugh. I totally looked forward to doing my alter-ego band sessions after Daydream each night.”
In recent Mariah Carey news, the singer has experienced a major tragedy as both her mother and sister died on the same day – within hours of each other – in late August. Their causes of death have not been revealed.
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