Pop History tells of Mariah Carey's River Deep, Mountain High. In Mariah Carey's world everything was always gigantic: she had the biggest hits (Without You), the most unbelievable flops (Glitter) as well as suffering the most catastrophic nervous breakdown in the Showbusiness. For more than one year she was overtaken by that life, now she is back, and radiating again. For GQ she placed her self before the camera of the photographer Richard McLaren, where she represented the history of the Pop Music. Decade for decade, float for float, feeling for feeling. Critics, who bashed her, will realize : Mariah Carey is again at the top of Pop.
Q: Ms. Carey, I am honered, to speak with you. I am a big fan.
A: Thank You, I'm very glad to hear that. I'm happy to be here as well.
Q: I admit however: Many of my friends dislike your music, respectively, because it's too cheesy. I always tell them "What is a disadvantage about expressing your feelings?"
A: Naturally nothing - The soul is always concerned with feelings.
Q: Nevertheless, they, and I still think you have the best voice in the world.
A: You are very kind to me. How do your friends react when you support me like this.
Q: They say, I should also dislike your music, but I never would.
A: Ha! I really don't believe that you can convince these boys to like my music.
Q: What must you do, to sound like you do ?
A: I only can take two days to relaz and rest my voice, between work. Also, it is important to eat healthy, get enough sleep and best not to give any interviews. Being a singer is a very hard job, you must discipline yourself, and only people with a strong will can do that. Since my 18th birthday, I live almost like a competitive athlete.
Q: Are you constantly enjoying, and partying, as a famous TV quote: "sex and drugs and skirt n roll" Is that why you had a breakdown?
A: In the opposite. My Ex-husband Tommy Mottola worried that I functioned my whole life like a machine. I put out my first record at 18, the first number-one-hit at20. Then almost every year an album or a world tour. I wasn't aware of the word 'rest'. Monthly I worked 20 hours in a day. Also, It would happend that I flew within 24 hours from Paris to London to Madrid in order to give interviews or to appear on television. I always had 15 people around me, that always expected too much of me. Believe me: if I had a free minute in my life, I would slept immediately.
Q: No sex? No skirt n roll? At least a little joke?
A: Only so much how my husband allowed.
Q: Now however it, you are known to have a party reputation; and since you joined the record company DefJam under contract, you are regularly invited to all the parties, and you are named the rappers "girl". Additionally, it's rumored that you host the best Hip Hop parties of the city in your house. Is that true ?
A: I know nothing of this. Maybe when I'm not there, haha. No, really, I live in an apartment, how could I ?
Q: Too bad, I though I would stop once.
A: Unfortunately these parties will not find place in my apartment. Sorry, this rumor is totally false.
Q: Yet more rumors: Have you've slept with Eminem?
A: We are very FAR from the truth, it never happened.
Q: That you don't usually wear underwear.
A: That a journalist must be crazy.
Q: Therefore you do wear underwear?
A: Yes! Of course. I wear totally normal underwear, just as any other women.
