Mariah Carey didn’t have a imaginative and prescient of affection when it got here to how followers perceived her tenth studio album, “The Emancipation of Mimi.”
The 2005 album, which marked its twentieth anniversary on April 12, represented what Carey has referred to as “an incredible part” of her life — however the best way followers labeled it wasn’t one thing she was notably obsessive about.
“At the time, it annoyed me when they called it a comeback album,” Carey advised Folks in interview revealed April 18. “But now I’m just like, ‘Oh yeah, my comeback album.’”
Carey, who first hit the airwaves in 1990, continued to say, “It’s like, how many comebacks do I have to have?”
However she confessed that the outline was, in actuality, “somewhat accurate.”
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The “We Belong Together” singer acknowledged that “not everybody knows the album,” but delights in the idea that listeners can still discover its deeper cuts and experience something that resonates anew.
To celebrate the milestone, the icon sat down with Spotify to reflect on the album — artistically and spiritually.
“‘Fly Like a Bird’ is probably the vocal take that I’m most proud of,” she said. “It was such a strong message that I was kind of writing to God, to myself, to my fans. It still feels that way to me.”
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In a video for Vevo Footnotes, Carey also revealed the story behind the wedding dress she wore in the “We Belong Together” video. Rather than splurging on a new gown, she opted for the one already in her closet — the very dress she wore when she married record executive Tommy Mottola in 1993 and divorced in 1998.
“Since I was going to do a scene with a wedding dress, rather than spend tons of money on a new dress, we just used the one I had lying around!” she wrote.
