{"id":97135,"date":"2025-10-01T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:16:07","slug":"mariah-carey-is-finally-revealing-her-secret-scrapped-90s-grunge-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/97135\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey is finally revealing her secret scrapped \u201890s grunge album"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like Mariah Carey<\/a> is finally going to share her secret scrapped \u201890s grunge album.<\/p>\n

The album has been known about since 2020, when the singer shared her memoir, The Making Of Mariah Carey, and revealed that she worked on an alternative rock album in the 1990s.<\/a><\/p>\n

While the album was never shared, she did say that the vocals were from \u201cmy friend Clarissa\u201d, and that her own vocals were more of \u201ca hidden layer\u201d. The album dates back to 1995, and was called \u2018Someone\u2019s Ugly Daughter\u2019, and with the band Chick.<\/p>\n

While the album has not been heard before, barring a couple of snippets posted on YouTube, Carey did share hints that she was wanting to release the record back in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2024, she raised fans\u2019 hopes again when she spoke to Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang on the Las Culturistas podcast, and said that she was \u201cso mad I haven\u2019t [released it] yet.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, it looks like the plans to track down and share the record are still on the singer\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n

Last week, Carey spoke to SZA<\/a> about the album and described the cover artwork and a song on the tracklist seemingly called \u2018Hermit\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Since then, she has also appeared on Fallon and said that she has looked into what would be required for the album to come out.<\/p>\n

Telling the host that she was behind the scrawled writing in lipstick on the album artwork, Carey added: \u201cI don\u2019t know which record label this is owned by. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any of them because it\u2019s just the way that it went down. But let\u2019s discuss\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Fallon<\/a> then played a different song from the band Chick called \u2018Prom Queen\u2019, and joked that she should find the album and release it in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always regretted not putting it out, but they kind of stopped me at that point,\u201d Carey responded. \u201cIt was Sony at the time. We love Sony now, but back then\u2026a little controlling, a little controlling.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Carey first announced the album\u2019s existence in her memoir, she wrote: \u201cI\u2019d 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. I actually started to love some of the songs. I would fully commit to my character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time,\u201d she added. \u201cYou 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery \u2013 but I also wanted to laugh. I totally looked forward to doing my alter-ego band sessions after Daydream each night.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Carey shared her new album, \u2018Here For It All\u2019, after teasing it under the moniker \u2018MC16\u2019<\/a>. It was given a four-star review from NME<\/a> and praised as \u201ccarefree and occasionally brilliant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong the pantheon of Mariah\u2019s 16 albums, \u2018Here For It All\u2019 might not rank very high. The record isn\u2019t as cohesive or experimental as \u2018Caution\u2019, it\u2019s not a big musical transition moment like \u2018Butterfly\u2019 was, and it\u2019s not as viral-worthy as \u2018Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel\u2019 \u2013 but it\u2019s still pretty darn good,\u201d it read. \u201cFor someone who\u2019s had the ability to stop caring about making music long ago, Mimi remains committed to the craft that she\u2019s had so much influence over, and we, too, are staying here for it all.\u201d<\/p>\n