Monday 1 November 1999

Mariah, Luis - not a perfect duet

Are Mariah Carey and Luis Miguel still making beautiful music together? Carey had hoped to feature a duet with her Latin heartthrob on her CD, "Rainbow," out tomorrow. But their first collaboration didn't go so well. In fact, a well-placed source tells us that Miguel was so unhappy with their recording of "After Tonight" that he took a scissors to a tape of it and sent the pieces back to producer David Foster. Foster, who co-wrote the song with Carey and Diane Warren, confirms, "Luis didn't like the end result." He also offers, "I don't know if (Luis and Mariah) are still together." But he insists the tape did not come back to him as confetti. He also maintains the duet fizzled for musical reasons, not because of a romantic clash.

"The song was written just for Mariah," says Foster. "I had Luis and Mariah record it several different times, but it never sounded right. So she ended up doing it by herself." (Foster had better luck marrying the voices of Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra on "All the Way," the title song of her new CD.)

Carey says "After Tonight" just wasn't in Miguel's key. "To change it," she tells Gala magazine interviewer Jesse Nash, "I would have had to redo my vocals, and I didn't have time. We're not gonna get into a fight over it. Why?"

At least at the time of the Gala interview, Carey said she and Miguel were still a couple. As for her past men, she reflects that she might still be married to Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola if they'd had children.

"If I had kids, it would be another whole story," the 30-year-old singer reflects. "I would be totally obsessed with trying to make something as perfect as it could be with that kind of situation."

And, speaking of perfection, the siren reveals she's most self-conscious about her back. She used to have a mole there and, when she was 18, "someone who didn't know what they were doing" did a bad job of removing it. The star, who does a nice acting turn in "The Bachelor" (opening Friday), tried covering the "stupid scar" with a washable butterfly tattoo. Last year, she went to another dermatologist, but it still isn't gone. Asked if she might have some skin grafted from her lovely behind, she laughs, "I don't have enough skin there to begin with."

(New York Daily News)



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