Mariah's kiss-off of kid brings on the heartbreak
It was a fantasy come true for KISS-108 music director - and budding pop star - "Kid" David Corey: A shot at opening for dippy diva Mariah Carey at her Wang Theatre gig last night. But, alas, all that glitter(s) is not gold. Because Mariah decided to disinvite Kid David because she felt his Meffa pop station was dissing her new single.
"KISS didn't add her new release, Bringin' On The Heartbreak, to the station's playlist," said Someone Who Knows. "So she told David not to bother to show up for the gig." Talk about a heartbreaker. Corey declined to dish. But our station spies say when he was first approached to open the show, he was told Mariah really liked his new single, "Now That I Love You", a romantic ballad getting a lot of airtime on KISS and other Boston stations.
"If they had told him that the gig was conditional on him adding her song to the playlist, he would have said no," said our spy. "But that was never mentioned." Corey, who hopes to launch a pop music career, wrote nine songs with Eliot Sloan of Blessid Union of Souls, and released a CD on his own. So Mariah probably figured that giving the budding artist a break would be good karma.
Ah, no. Station sources say Corey and KISS got behind "Through the Rain", Carey's last single off the "Charmbracelet" album, but it bombed. So they were reluctant to play the new one. "Nobody in the pop world is playing it, she's having a tough time," said our spy. "People don't think it's a hit and the prevailing wisdom is that Mariah's lost it." (Boston Herald)
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