Friday 26 November 1999

This is how I am (almost)

Cute, kind and popular or a first class bitch? We met Mariah Carey to see what's true. Mariah Carey's been accused of being a cranky and difficult primadonna, but at the same time she's one of the most popular female artists in the world. We met her in London, and thought that we might find out who she really is.

"I'm so tired of false rumours", Mariah sighs, when we start asking her what it's like seeing yourself on the cover of all the world's magazines and newspapers. "I know it's no use bothering about it, but you obviously get more cynical when you know that anybody you talk to can sell the conversation to a newspaper! I've experienced lots of weird and not very nice things these last years!"

Mariah is sitting on a sofa in a large, cold room in a fancy hotel in London. It would cost you a half month's salary to spend a night here, but the room is so cold that Mariah has gotten her assistant to get her a blanket, and she pulls it all they way up to her ears.

"What irritates me the most, is that some people think I'm dumb", she continues. "I'm not going to say that I'm a genius, but I know I'm tough, and I know how I want to live my life! The truth is that I write and produce all of my albums, and I'm very much aware of what happens around me. I am definitely not naiv or dumb, and for other people to set out rumours like that is very cruel!"

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Mariah grew up with her mother who was an opera singer, and they didn't have very much money. Mariah thinks that the feeling of being poor is still in her. "I know I have a lot of money", Mariah says and smiles. "But the thing is that I haven't gotten used to it yet. I still can't buy clothes without looking at the pricetag, and I don't like to spend huge amounts of money. It's only since this fall that I've gotten myself a real appartment, and I still have a pretty old car. It's a limousine, and it looks very cool, but it breaks down all the time! I think that there's a little part of me that just waits for everything to turn back to how it used to be. But I've bought my mother a house, and I'm very proud of that."

A few years ago Mariah divorced her billion-dollar husband, Tommy Mottola, who's also the owner of her record company, Sony. And since that time she's been linked with a whole bunch of celebrities, but she doesn't want to talk about that. "The whole world saw me getting married, and the whole world saw me getting divorced, so now I try to keep these things for myself. But I will admit that I'm in love, and I think I might have found the right one!" (According to rumours, Mariah's new boyfriend is a Mexican called Luis Miguel, but don't tell her we said that...)

And then our time is up. We have met the un-crowned Queen of Pop, but did we get to know her any better? Bitch or not? We haven't actually become any wiser. There's little doubt that Mariah is good at hiding her real self. She's tender and cute, but we're also pretty sure that she's not going to accept any bullshit from anyone!

(TOPP)



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