![]() Afanasieff says Sony renamed the band from Eel Tree to Chick, and made Carey-who co-wrote every song except for the cover of Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”-sanitize many of the more explicit lyrics. “We were pretending to be drunk and stoned, like that really dark punk rock scene.” One song on the finished version of the album, titled “Hermit,” opens with the lyrics, “I am vinegar, and water/I am someone’s ugly daughter/I am wading in the water/I am locked inside a closet/I am dripping like a faucet/I am twisted like a sausage.”īut when the powers that be found out about the album, Sony Music (the parent company of Carey’s then-label Columbia) refused to release the record with Carey’s vocals as the lead. “She was always clowning around and doing voices and characters,” he says. just wanted a bunch of people putting vocals on the record.”Īfanasieff saw Carey’s personality as the perfect fit for an alter-ego project. “It didn’t matter if you could sing or not. “We were calling people into the studio-friends that were hanging around, staff, people with Mariah,” Chappelle recalls. ![]() Cirimelli says the band would pull in studio staff and interns to contribute background vocals and ad-libs. How could one of the most visible pop stars in the universe quietly release an alt-rock album under an alias? And what did Carey hope to prove with the side project?Īrrangements evolved organically, too. It was enough for her fanbase to go on: the Lambily discovered that a band named Chick released an album called Someone’s Ugly Daughter in 1995, the same year as Daydream, sparking questions. She described it as “irreverent, raw, and urgent.”Ĭarey revealed neither the band name nor the project title in her memoir, but alongside an excerpt on Twitter, she included the hashtag #Chick. ![]() ![]() But arguably its most surprising morsel was that, amid the recording of her smash fifth album Daydream, Carey released a secret alt-rock album. An instant New York Times bestseller, The Meaning of Mariah Carey offered colorful details about Carey’s personal life, including her contentious marriage to former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola and her fling with Derek Jeter. When Mariah Carey released her memoir last fall, it came with infinite revelations. ![]()
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