Mariah Carey says ageing 'just doesn't happen' to her in candid admission
Pop diva Mariah Carey has declared boldly that ageing is a non-event for her as she simply doesn't entertain the concept of time. The 56-year-old singer revealed that she's written a song about her thoughts on getting older, before releasing her 16th studio album, Here For It All.
"I don't allow it – it just doesn't happen," she said in a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar UK. "I don't know time. I don't know numbers. I do not acknowledge time – I have a new song that starts with that line."
Mariah also discussed reflecting on her life while writing her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, with journalist Michaela Angela Davis. The memoir detailed the numerous challenges Mariah faced growing up as a biracial woman in Long Island, New York.
She said: "Working on it together was challenging, but it was also therapeutic. We stayed up late figuring out how we were going to put the story forth.
"I knew it was going to bring up bad memories I didn't want to relive. It was a tough situation to go to sleep listening to it, I'd wake up and be kind of freaked out. Because this is me and I went through that."
Despite this, Mariah mentioned she infused some humour into her latest work, particularly with the album's lead single 'Type Dangerous', which she calls 'tongue in cheek'.
Reflecting on her mother's impact on her illustrious career, she also added: "We didn't always have the world' s greatest relationship but certain things she said or did resonated with me as a kid.
"She once told me, 'don't say if I make it, say when I make it', that just stuck with me, and I never gave up."
Since launching her career in the late 1980s, Mariah has had three UK number-one singles and two UK number-one albums. The singer is perhaps best known for her perennial festive hit, All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Beyond this, the star has appeared in several Hollywood films, including The Bachelor, The Lego Batman Movie, and Precious.
The complete interview with Mariah Carey can be found in the September edition of Harper's Bazaar UK, available from July 31.
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