It’s unclear which segment nurtures her desire to heal herself and which makes her feel “worthy and accepted”: Once determined to be embraced by the hip-hop community, Mariah now seems more interested in sating her dwindling pop contingent, though I’m sure she’s torn between both-a position not unfamiliar to her. “My desire to become famous came from the need to feel worthy and accepted.” And so, like her last few albums, Mimi can be split into two distinct parts: half of it catering to her misguided yet genuine passion for hip-hop and the other half attempting to recapture her more soul-oriented beginnings. ![]() “I discovered that my desire to make music came from the need to heal myself,” she said recently. ![]() In fact, all she’s ever really wanted is to be liked. And who is Mariah Carey exactly? Like her peers (you know, 7th graders), Mariah is someone who wants to be popular. Though she’s been “emancipated” before (first with Butterfly, then with Charmbracelet, her first album recorded free of Sony’s watchful eye), Mariah Carey claims she titled her new album The Emancipation Of Mimi because she finally feels free to be who she really is, no apologies.
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