After revealing in 2020 that she’d made a huge departure from her sound in 1995 with Someone’s Ugly Daughter, an alternative record that’s yet to the light of day, Mariah Carey‘s secret grunge LP will be released during the second half of 2026.
According tp a reliable source, The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column stated:
“Ever since she let slip about the existence of the album, fans have been desperate for it to be officially released and put on streaming.” “After years of casual talks about what to do, everyone has now agreed the album will be released in the second half of 2026.” “It’s been a long time coming, but hopefully fans think it’s worth the wait.” “It’s certainly Mariah as you’ve never heard her before.”
In a 2020 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Carey said her music executives banned her from releasing the buried album, adding:
“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.”
During her October 2024 appearance on Las Culturistas podcast, host Matt Rogers asked the 56-year-old singer: “Can you drop that grunge album?” to which Mariah replied: “I know, right? I’m so mad that I haven’t done that yet … but who do I drop it with?”
After Rogers suggested that she 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 LP ultimately did get a release under the band name Chick with Mariah’s pal Clarissa Dane taking over lead vocals with Mariah’s voice heard only in the background and credited as D. Sue.
Opening up about the project in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, she wrote:
“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.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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