Few understand Mariah's lifestyle
You'd really need to have walked in Mariah Carey's shoes to understand how she ended up with a complete physical and mental breakdown. These are the sentiments of producer Jimmy "Jam" Harris, who helmed the soundtrack for Carey's upcoming "Glitter" film with his partner Terry Lewis. "I heard somebody say the other day, 'If you're exhausted, don't you just go lay down and turn off the cell phone?' And I thought to myself, 'Yeah if you lead a normal life, but Mariah is never at home to do that. She's either in a hotel room or on a plane, and there's always something going on... You push yourself too hard, and there's a point where your body and mind goes 'unn, unn.' A lot of times we are not the best judge of where we're at and what our limits are."
Harris first heard about Carey being hospitalized when he logged on the Internet. "We really saw no warning of it. The last discussion I had with Mariah was a day or two before she'd been hospitalized. She called me at home to go over some notes about a single and was totally coherent." Harris recalls that Carey did seem "a little bit scattered," but says, "she always sounds scattered because she always has a million things going on with her."
Carey exec-produced "Glitter" and was also totally hands-on with the soundtrack album that features such guest artists as Eric Benet, Da Brat, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule and Mystikal(cq all). He says, "Mariah was very energized and excited about the project and very pleased with the result of the movie and the music. I hope not only that she gets better, but that she gets a chance to enjoy it and bask in the glow of something she worked really hard on." (Teen Hollywood)
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