- Omissions aside, The Meaning of Mariah Carey is at its best when Carey indulges in reliving the pure moments of joy she’s found amid the challenges and flashing lights of her life: cruising uptown.
- Mariah Carey and ex-husband Nick Cannon have been on quite the rollercoaster together — and in her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the singer opens up about her marriage to Nick.
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Brandon Fernandes In her memoir, 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey,' the singer opened up about the traumatic situations that she was put through her family and loved ones. Mariah gets honest about everything from her lack of time estimation to her abusive childhood to her high-profile marriages.
Mariah Carey Music
Mariah Carey has announced a new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. This tale of one of the great divas of all time arrives September 29th. Carey broke the news in a post on social media.
Mariah Carey opened up about the creation of her single, 'Close My Eyes,' in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey (via NPR).
Over 20 years after the iconic songstress and star of numerous Christmas specials released the track as part of her 1997 album, Butterfly, Carey looked back on the exact moment when she wrote the first verse and chorus for the song, which was re-released as an acoustic track for her latest compilation album, The Rarities, in October 2020 (via Variety).
'I was floating in a tub that was larger than the size of my entire living area just five years before, a room bigger than all of the living rooms in all of the 13 places I lived with my mother growing up,' Carey reads in an audiobook shared by Audible, via Billboard. 'The enormity, complexity and instability of the road I had traveled to get into this bath hit me: It was the first time I felt safe enough to peek in on Mariah — the little one — and recognize what she had survived.'
Close My Eyes is a Mariah Carey favorite
Mariah Carey Songs
According to Carey, she was suddenly hit with the lyrics to 'Close My Eyes' during her reflection. However, it wasn't until years later that the song was actually complete. 'Suddenly, the first verse and chorus of 'Close My Eyes' came to me,' Carey revealed. 'It would take me years to finish this song — years of anguish and survival.'
Although 'Close My Eyes' isn't exactly the most memorable Carey track to date, it is one of the artist's very favorites. 'I love the obscure songs because they're very close to my heart, especially a song called 'Close My Eyes,' she shared with CNN in 2012, adding that the track was basically '[her] life story.'
In the song, Carey sings about being a 'wayward child' carrying 'the weight of the world.'
'Life was a winding road, and I learned many things little ones shouldn't know. But I closed my eyes, steadied my feet on the ground, raised my head to the sky. And though times rolled by, still I feel like a child as I look at the moon. ... Maybe I grew up a little too soon,' the song continued.