Thursday 25 October 2007

Mariah calls in to Z100

JJ: Here she is, Mariah Carey.

Mariah: Hey.

JJ: What's up Mariah Carey?

Mariah: How are you doing JJ?

JJ: The high school part of me really wants to tell you, you're that hot girl from the "Fantasy" video on the roller coaster, that's you.

Mariah: Oh please. Haha. It's just me, how are you doing?

JJ: Forget about me, how are you doing?

Mariah: I'm doing really good, I'm excited, good things.

JJ: Like this fragrance called "M"?

Mariah: Uh huh.

JJ: How did you decide you wanted to do a fragrance?

Mariah: Well basically it's just been something I always thought would be something fun to do, but I didn't really know like, that it was gonna be. I was gonna be able to be so involved in it, and we started talking to Elizabeth Arden, it was just more like... almost like making an album. If that makes any sense at all, because they actually call the different parts of the perfume that like make up the final scent, they call each element in that a "note". So it's like, we selected the high note, the middle note and the low note. And this was like writing a song.

JJ: Now do they come to you with different versions of it along the way and you can tell me, be honest, that it can be like "this smells like my grandma".

Mariah: [laughs] There was definitely none of that allowed, but basically, what we would do is, we would have like, we had the first meeting up at their offices, and it was an incredible thing. I walk in and I'm like, "I love the island of Capri in Italy" and like all these different type of things that they had asked me like, "what's your favorite...". You know, "what are some of your favorite childhood memories", this and that, and whatever. So, we ended up with a toasted marshmallow thing that was very much like camp fire.

JJ: What? I cannot wait to go and spray my wife with it and huff her endlessly thinking about you.

Mariah: [laughs] You are too much.

JJ: For someone I would not like to huff, Britney, she's having kind of a tough time now, you had some troubles early on, a couple of years ago, but you made a glorious. I don't like that c word, the comeback word, you came back and you appeared again, stronger than ever. Do you have advice for Brit? What are you thinking about that?

Mariah: You know what, I'm just like focusing on my own stuff right now, I don't really know like... I don't believe everything I read so I can't really comment on what's going on with anybody specifically. But I would just say you have to pray your way through anything and just, you know, just focus on yourself and get centered.

JJ: Your album, which is coming out eventually, it's been delayed again. Are you being a perfectionist or are there issues?

Mariah: It's just me being a control-freak diva. No, honestly, every time I go back into the studio, I end up writing another song that I'm like "I gotta put this on the record". And it's just like, I felt like, you know, I could have definitely made the initial, you know, what we all hoped would be the release date. But then I wouldn't have been able to put like these last, like, I just recently wrote about five new songs that I'm in love with. It's the same way that happened with the last record which is kind of ironic that at the end of the project - like my two favorite songs I ended up writing them, so, I'm kinda like... I'm kinda happy about it to be honest, because I'm still gonna get to put like a single or two out this year and then put the record out at the top of the year.

JJ: Mariah Carey, cannot wait to smell your fragrance, hear your music, see you in another video with the lights turned off. Thank you for calling Z100.

Mariah: Thank you, bye bye.

(Mariah Central - Mariah Daily Journal)



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