Mariah Carey is "on a quest" to find the long-lost "grunge" album she recorded in 1995
A week after declaring that “THANKSGIVING IS CANCELED,” Mariah Carey has reemerged with her upcoming memoir’s most shocking revelation yet. In a tweet on Sunday, the singer says she would unwind from her 1995 Daydream sessions by moonlighting as an alt-rocker with the band Chick. As reported by Pitchfork, Carey wrote, produced, and sang background vocals on every song on Chick’s 1995 album, Someone’s Ugly Daughter, though she went uncredited at the time.
“Fun fact: I did an alternative album while I was making Daydream,” she wrote. “Just for laughs, but it got me through some dark days.” Accompanying the tweet is a 40-second excerpt from the song “Hermit,” which she says features her backing vocals as a “hidden layer.”
“I’m so happy yet thoroughly amused that my little ‘alternative’/‘grunge’ album is finally out there for the fans,” she wrote in a follow-up tweet.
As Rolling Stone points out, Someone’s Ugly Daughter was engineered in part by Jay Healy, a longtime Carey collaborator who also engineered Daydream. Carey, it turns out, was roommates with Chick’s lead singer, Clarissa Dane.
