Saturday 23 October 1999

Mariah Carey opens her purse

This is what superstar Mariah Carey has in her purse: A little make-up bag, an advanced beeper, fanletters and a spray that makes you fall a sleep easier.

"Everyone asks about this with the purse after the Rolling Stone interview," the 29-year old smiles and opens the Yves St. Laurent purse that's laying next to her on the sofa - and then she pulls everything in it out. She's wrapped up in a pink blanket on one of the sofas at fashonable Lanesborough Hotel in London where she's giving interviews to groups of journalists about her new album, "Rainbow", which is released by Sony Music.

"Look here's a letter I got from the daughter of my Brazilian housekeeper. 'Dear Mariah. You're the best singer in the world' it says. She's so sweet, and her mother is an angel. She takes care of me," Carey says. "I think that the purse-thing has something to do with when I was growing up. I was always nervous and felt that I had to have everything with me."

The new album "Rainbow" won't be released in Norway until November, but the superstar is already busy marketing her first studio recording since "Butterfly" in 1997.

"You see, I've just been sick, and I still have a cold." The superstar smiles and gives the journalists a lose handshake. After a while she happily answers all sorts of questions about the film she's working on, her ex-husband, and what it is she dreams about finding at the end of the rainbow.

"I hope to find happiness and peace in my soul, the biggest-selling female artist of the 1990's with 14 chart-toppers and more than 115 million albums sold declares."

On "Rainbow" she's trying to tell a story, which partly reflects her own life these past years. In the opening cut, "Heartbreaker" she's feeling down, whilst she in the last song "Thank God I Found You" is feeling happy.

(Tønsbergs Blad)



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