Acceptance speeches
Mariah won the Female Artist of the Millennium Award at the World Music Awards. Here is her acceptance speech:
"Uh... this is like... I wrote a little speech. I usually just wing it, but tonight I said I gotta write something down before I forget. Ok. I have to say first of all this is a completely and totally bizarre experience for me... to be receiving the award for artist of the millennium, Hello! I mean, it's the same award that Michael Jackson is receiving. I mean he's been making number one records prior to my birth. He's truly a legend and I just feel blessed to be here tonight. The funny thing is, I still actually feel like that little girl living on a mattress, on the floor, making a demo tape and just trying to get heard and there's a lot of those people out there. So everybody out there keep your head up, if you're... if you're working towards a dream, don't give up and don't stop. Umm.. (laughs) I would like to thank the World Music Awards for supporting me for so long. Thank you Prince Albert especially. Umm... thank you God for carrying me through a lot of desperate situations in my career and in my personal life, in fact. And, uh, I truly believe I have survived because of you. And my fans around the world, I love you and I always, always will."
Later Mariah came out again to accept the award for the Best Female R&B artist. Here is her second speech:
"I just wanna say to everyone around the world, to all my fans internationally, I appreciate you staying with me through people saying 'Oh, she went too R&B, she went this way, she went that way.' I'm still me. I'm still doing the records I've always done. I'm just allowed to be a little bit more of myself, in fact! Because you see, that's the most important part of being an artist. You must be yourself. So, I would like to thank Louise McNally, Michael Richardson, everyone at Maroon Entertainment, umm, Ree-Ree, everybody that helps me out every day of the week. And just say that I'm very proud to be here tonight, and I'm very grateful to all my fans. I love you very much. (laughs) Thank you, thank you Sony Music worldwide, internationally, and thank you so much for being here tonight. I enjoyed ya... and I love ya!"
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