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Mariah Carey Secretly Made An Alt.Rock Album In The '90s
Pop legend Mariah Carey once wrote and produced a '90s alt.rock album according to her upcoming book
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It's 2020 and anything is possible, but nobody saw this news coming. Pop titan and Christmas superfan Mariah Carey once wrote and produced an alternative rock album in 1995, according to her new autobiography – published this week.
The singer has been sharing excerpts of her new book The Making Of Mariah Carey on Twitter, and yesterday she revealed that while working on her multi-platinum-selling 1995 album Daydream, she also wrote and produced an alt.rock album for the band Chick.
"Fun fact: I did an alternative album while I was making Daydream. Just for laughs, but it got me through some dark days," Mariah tweeted, along with a snippet of the book.
"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," she writes in the autobiography.
"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."
Along with the words onscreen, the track Demented by Chick plays in the background, before the video reveals the artwork for their Someone's Ugly Daughter album.
The album isn't available on streaming platforms but there is an entry for it on Discogs which credits Mariah as producer, art director, backing vocals and songwriter for every track except the cover of Cheap Trick's Surrender.
Two official videos from the album are on YouTube, though. Malibu and Demented, which you can watch below.
