Mariah Carey's Memoir Is Further Proof: She Has A Gift For Storytelling
The hitmaker, now celebrating 30 years into her career, has released a memoir — The Meaning of Mariah Carey — as detailed and entertaining as her songs.
There's nothing quite like an intricately designed Mariah Carey lyric. You know it when you hear it, because it involves a kind of vivid wordplay so utterly specific that you can't help but find yourself conjuring images in your own head of blissful romantic entanglements, earnest yearning or the doldrums of deep, intense heartache.
In the dreamy deep cut "Underneath the Stars," for example, she describes a rendezvous with a lover:
One summer night, we ran away for awhile
Laughing, we hurried beneath the sky
To an obscure place to hide
That no one could find
And we drifted to another state of mind...
As the song continues to unfold,
