Mariah Carey is still hoping to release her secret grunge album which was recorded back in the 1990s.
The 55-year-old pop icon moved away from her musical roots back in 1995 to put together an alternative record but it was never released, and the singer has now admitted she’s “mad” it’s been buried for so many years.
During an appearance on Las Culturistas podcast, host Matt Rogers asked the singer: “Can you drop that grunge album?” and Carey replied: “I know, right? I’m so mad that I haven’t done that yet… but who do I drop it with?”
Rogers then suggested she should release it independently using “Garage Band or something, like, a grungy thing” and the singer added: “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,” the Christmas Queen said.
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Carey previously opened up about the buried album in an interview with Zane Lowe in 2020, revealing music executives banned her from releasing it.
“I got kind of in trouble for making this album – the alternative album – because back then, everything was super-controlled by the powers that be. I never really was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to release it.’ But then I was like, I should release it. I should do it under an alias. Let people discover it and whatever, but that got squashed,” she recalled.
The album, Somebody’s Ugly Daughter, did get a release under the band name Chick with Carey’s pal, Clarissa Dane, taking over lead vocals. The mother-of-two’s singing was heard only as backing vocals and she was credited as D. Sue.
However, the original recordings with Carey singing lead are believed to still exist.
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The singer opened up about the project in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, writing: “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,” the Grammy-winner added.
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