.MariahCarey's iconic TheEmancipationOfMimi album was released 15 years ago today! Below, she reflects on choosing the album cover, why she decided to kick off the album with “It’s Like That,' her favorite tracks from the LP & much more
opened to the second highest first-week sales of Carey’s career and spawned the singer-songwriter’s 16was immediately dubbed as her comeback album.] definitely was a very successful album, so people were like, ‘It's a comeback album,’” Carey tells. “For me, it was like a coming together of a lot of things with that album more than a comeback album. But they can call it that if they want to.
That was a major decision. L.A. Reid really wanted an uptempo song, and I have to give him credit for inspiring Jermaine [Dupri] and I to go in [the studio] and do an uptempo record. We had “We Belong Together” and then I was like,"How can we not go with that song first?" But L.A. [Reid] planned to release something with a little bit of tempo and then we'd do “We Belong Together.”
Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you learned “We Belong Together” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100? We did a few different photos, and actually my favorite shot is the one that's featured on the Platinum Edition. That thing I'm wearing is not even a dress. It's something that wraps around your body. It's so weird, but you just had to be confident in wearing something like that and just be really present. I was just in a moment where it's like,"Look, people may have written me off, but I will never write myself off, and this is an important time for me.
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