![]() One is songs that could be for the scripted series or a documentary. One is a project that I’m almost finished with that I was doing some background vocal tweaks on. “It’s about three or four different things. It’s gonna be an interesting task also because the person being ambiguous, looking and being of mixed race, is gonna be important to me.” Carey spent the pandemic recording all sorts of music in her Butterfly Lounge studio, from a new remake of “We Belong Together” to what sounds like more than one potential new album - and she may also release a documentary of the sessions. I’ve done my vocals, and I can redo any of my vocals at this point. It really does matter that the actress nails that part. ![]() “It is a thing! I really care more about the acting than the person being a singer. I mean, ‘Tha Crossroads’ was such a big record!” She’s spent a lot of time thinking about how to cast an actress to play her in Lee Daniels’ planned scripted series about her life - but she wants to do the singing herself. “People did not believe in it, or believe in me in that genre and that moment,” says Carey, who talks at length in the podcast about her label’s ludicrous fears that her music was becoming “too urban.” “By people, I mean the corporate morgue, the entities that run things. As if, you know, ‘Here’s all you have to do, and it’ll all be good.’ But really it was too late for that.” Carey is still irked that the ahead-of-its-time track “Breakdown,” featuring members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, wasn’t promoted more heavily as a single from the label. Snippet: Carey reveals the real origin of the “Butterfly” chorus: “If you should return to me/We truly were meant to be/So spread your wings and fly.” “If you listen to the lyrics of the song ‘Butterfly,'” she says, “that’s what I was kind of always hoping that Tommy would say to me.
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