Mariah Carey fans have been waiting for the moment the chanteuse will unveil Someone's Ugly Daughter, the alt-rock LP she worked on with her band in 1995 while simultaneously recording her album Daydream. Now that the superstar is nominated for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, it seems fitting for her grunge album to see the light of day.
"I mean, I really want to release it, but I want to do videos, and I have just so many ideas for that," she told Associated Press in a new interview. "I don't think I'll be able to pull it together by the summer (before the Rock Hall ceremony) but maybe, maybe I'll release a few songs from it."
As for her Rock Hall nomination, she gushed, "That's a huge honor. I don't know if I'm going to win it, so I don't want to get too excited about it. So, I just want to say that, again, it's a huge honor and I guess I didn't expect it. I wasn't really thinking about it. And here we are."
The Grammy-winning singer detailed in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that she and her band wrote and recorded Someone's Ugly Daughter to blow off steam while working on Daydream. She initially wanted to drop it as it was, but ended up releasing it under the pseudonym Chick with her friend Clarissa Dane on lead vocals.
Carey later confirmed to Rolling Stone Music Now in 2020 that she'd uncovered the original version of the record with her voice at the forefront. "I think this unearthed version will become something that, yes, we should hear," she said at the time. "But also, I'm working on a version of something where there'll be another artist working on this with me as well. Possibly something built around the album. I'm just full of surprises."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's The Class of 2025 will be revealed in late April, and the induction ceremony will take place in Los Angeles this fall, with more details to be announced in the coming months.
(Billboard)
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