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Mariah bares her heart about music and true love
Published on Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:39 in 
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STRIKING A CHORD: I want my fans in India to know how grateful I am for their support, say Mariah.
A five-octave voice, five Grammy Awards, 160 million records sold worldwide, 18 number one singles on the Billboard music charts. She is worth about $225 million and is considered among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. It might seem like it is all about the numbers but pop diva Mariah Carey has found her formula for success. At 38, Mariah is now moving on to physics with E=MC2, her 11th studio album.
CNN-IBN’s Priya Krishnamoorthy speaks to the living legend on her new album, life and more.
Mariah Carey: We are not Einstein and there is no pun intended with E=MC2 as the album title.
Priya Krishnamoorthy: But why this title? A lot of your fans have written on www.ibnlive.com and all of them wanted to know what is with the name E=MC2. We know there is Mariah Carey somewhere in it.
Mariah Carey: It was basically a joke like ‘I am world renowned just like Einstein’. I really don’t think so and it is just supposed to be funny. I was most likely the worst maths student in the history of my school. I was terrible. I couldn’t even get past the seventh grade maths. So the title of the album was a play on words because MC is what most people, who know me, call me. Most people don’t call me Mariah unless they don’t know me.
I have never looked at albums as my comeback but Emancipation of Mimi was seen by many as my ‘comeback’. And this new album is that much more free and emancipated than anything else.
Priya Krishnamoorthy: With E=MC2, you have done what many have not been able to. In April 2008 the single Touch My Body became your 18th number one hit on the Billboard music charts, even surpassing Elvis Presley’s record of 17 number one singles. And there is more reason to celebrate for you are the only singer alive who is likely to succeed the Beatles with 20 hit songs.
Mariah Carey: The people that we have been talking about with these records are legends.
Priya Krishnamoorthy: And you are one now.
Mariah Carey: Well, I make music and I love what I do. I celebrate when I hear my new song on the radio for the first time. It’s still exciting for me. What is fun is being able to write and produce my kind of music. I get a chance to live vicariously through my own songs.
Priya Krishnamoorthy: When we talk about living vicariously through your songs what we have seen is that it’s all about fun. I have heard that you even co-direct the videos. Is that true?
Mariah Carey: Yes, it is. Touch My Body has been directed by Brett Ratner who is a very good friend of mine. He loves comedy and he knows that I have a sense of humour about myself.
A lot of people think that I am this person who stands seriously on stage and sings but they don’t know that I even write my own songs.
Priya Krishnamoorthy: If your music and videos are colourful then so is your life. Recently in a surprise wedding you married 27-year-old actor Nick Cannon within weeks of meeting him.
This is something I came across and I quote you, “I don’t think I have ever experienced a relationship of the calibre I write about in my love songs.” Do you feel differently now?
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