Mariah Carey continues to hold out hope for a covert grunge album

In the 1990s, Mariah Carey recorded a grunge album, which she still hopes to release.

The 55-year-old pop sensation broke away from her musical roots in 1995 to create an alternative album, but it was never released. The singer has now acknowledged that she is “mad” that it has been forgotten for so long.

“Can you drop that grunge album?” questioned the singer when she appeared on the “Las Culturistas” podcast. and Mariah answered: “You know what? I’m furious that I haven’t completed that yet. But with whom do I drop it?

The singer said, “I could do that,” when Rogers proposed that she release it on her own with “Garage Band or something, like, a grungy thing.”

“It is a good album,” she continued. All right, you’ll hear it. Really, I was getting life out of that. It was jokes, as well. They never die.

In a 2020 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Mariah discussed the buried album and disclosed that music bosses had prohibited her from releasing it.

As everything was extremely regulated by the ruling class at the time, she stated: “I got kind of in trouble for making this album – the alternative album.”

“I never really was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to release it.’ But then I was like, I should release it. I should do it under an alias. Let people discover it and whatever, but that got squashed.”

The album -titled ‘Somebody’s Ugly Daughter’ – did get a release under the brand name Chick with Mariah’s pal Clarissa Dane taking over lead vocals. Mariah’s singing was heard only as backing vocals and she was credited as D. Sue.

However, the original recordings with Mariah singing lead are believed to still exist.

The singer opened up about the project in her 2020 memoir ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey’, writing: “I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time.

“You 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.

“I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery – but I also wanted to laugh.”