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Black America Web
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
[Exclusive] Mariah the Scientist Unveils New Album Details
Source: Reach Media / Radio One Hot 107.9's iconic Birthday Bash 2025 was a night to remember with R&B sensation Mariah the Scientist hitting the stage as a surprise guest. She sat down with DJ Misses for an exclusive interview backstage, and gave listeners a glimpse into her upcoming album and creative process. Mariah's enthusiasm was evident as she revealed, 'This project feels like my best work yet. It's different from anything I've done before.' She also disclosed that for the first time, she crafted some of her songs without instrumentals, building beats around her lyrics later. This shift from her previous process, where she'd often source beats from platforms like YouTube, allowed her to take a more hands-on, intentional approach. READ MORE STORIES When pressed about the release date, Mariah shared an August timeline, hinting at an exciting summer for her fans. While she's still narrowing down a title for the album, her creative indecision only signals the depth of thought she's pouring into the project. 'I don't want to say I'm indecisive,' she laughed, 'but I've been going back and forth. It's hard because this one means so much to me.' DJ Misses couldn't help but get hype about Mariah's hit single 'Burning Blue,' noting how it 'tears the club up' even as a slower track. For Mariah, the night was about more than just teasing new music; it was a celebration of artistry, resilience, and connection. 'I love coming home,' she said. 'Atlanta's energy is unmatched, and being here for Birthday Bash is so special.' Fans can expect an unforgettable album from Mariah the Scientist, packed with heartfelt lyrics, fresh sounds, and the unparalleled authenticity that has made her a standout in R&B. Stay tuned for August—this is one project you won't want to miss. TRENDING STORIES: Mariah the Scientist Talks New Music & Teases Joint Project at Birthday Bash 2025 | #BirthdayBashATL Young Thug Walks BET Awards Red Carpet Wearing A Fur Mask The article '[Exclusive] Mariah the Scientist Unveils New Album Details' was created with the help of SEE ALSO
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The books I loved as a teen have dated, but they got one thing right
Before I discovered teen romance novels in the early 1980s, I wrote my own version of unrequited love in my red vinyl-covered diary about an older boy who went to the private school up the road. While I was still wearing skinny jeans and a pale pink Esprit jumper to primary school, he had graduated to grey flannel shorts, a pale grey shirt and a grey blazer with the arms pushed up. You'd think dressing entirely in grey would have dampened his look, but somehow it didn't. With golden curls and a flashing smile that I'd only witnessed from a distance, he was perfect teen magazine material. He never spoke to me directly, but his brother and I had been friends when we were little, and his mother had named her prize cow after me, a fact I found both strangely flattering and deeply embarrassing. Around the time I developed my crush, I discovered the Sweet Dreams book series. If it was the sealed monthly Dolly Doctor column that taught me all I needed to know about sex, it was Sweet Dreams and later, Sweet Valley High that taught me all I needed to know about love. Sure, it was the sort of love that only 16-year-old American girls with flawless skin, perfect hair and eyes that sparkled ever experienced, but I was happy to pretend. And pretend I did. Writing about all the ways my crush would save me when the horse I was riding in the bush bucked me off. The fact that I didn't own a horse, or ever ride alone in the bush, didn't deter my fantasy life. The first Sweet Dreams book was published in 1981, and I found it a year or so later in the mobile library van. Called P.S. I Love You, it's the only title in the 233-book series without a happy ending, making it my favourite. Romance was one thing, but sobbing over the impossibility of romance was even better. The story of 16-year-old Mariah, who is dragged unwillingly to Palm Springs for the summer with her single mother and younger sister, was a heady read for a 12-year-old. Mariah is openly scathing of the rich families in Palm Springs until she meets the boy next door, who happens to be loaded, lovely and dying. This book cemented my obsession with romance, while also making me terrified that the boy of my dreams would discover a cancerous lump in his neck, too. The Sweet Dreams books were mostly standalone romances, written by different American authors. The covers used portrait photographs of teenage girls who I wanted to look like but never did, including Courteney Cox on the cover of The Last Word. The protagonists were always beautiful, and the teenage boys they fell for equally so. And if the girls didn't start out that way, then they quickly transformed, losing any necessary weight and overcoming their shyness. These worlds excluded anyone who wasn't the right size, race or look. By the time the Sweet Valley High series appeared two years later, I'd moved onto another crush. One who actually knew my name. We were in the same class and I used his library card when I wanted to borrow more romance books than I was allowed. We didn't really talk, but I did practise writing his name over and over again in my best bubble writing. Written by Francine Pascal and her army of ghostwriters, the Sweet Valley High series became a sort of bible for my generation. Sure, the protagonists were 'perfect size six' identical twins with 'sun-streaked blonde hair' and 'blue-green eyes the colour of the ocean' who shared a Jeep and lived in a mansion, but we still managed to see ourselves in Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. Jessica was the impulsive and reckless twin, who frequently made questionable choices, while Elizabeth was older (by four minutes) wiser, more reserved and born with a conscience. Where the Sweet Dreams series was almost entirely focused on finding love, Sweet Valley High attempted something slightly different. Crushes, boys and romance were still at the centre, but the books also delved into the minutiae of high school life. And while Sweet Valley High School was nothing like my outer-suburban school, we did share many of the same concerns. We gossiped over break-ups, traded crushes, drank underage at parties, fought and made up with friends and talked about love like there was nothing else to talk about. Nothing was out of bounds for the writers of Sweet Valley High. Conceived like a soap opera, the books tackled everything from kidnapping to cults, cocaine deaths to comas, paralysis to underage drinking, and I loved it all. Sadly, none of the boys I had crushes on while I was reading Sweet Dreams or Sweet Valley High seemed to feel the same. Or if they did, their feelings remained as buried as mine. But the books gave me company while I was trying to work out how to behave and how to feel, at a time when hormones were wreaking havoc. Remembering what reading romance books meant to me when I was 12 and 13, I decided to write my own version of a romantic comedy for younger readers. I've published many books for readers aged 11-plus, but mostly they have been stories tinged with sadness, and I wanted to write something hopeful and gentle. For research, I reread some of the titles in both series. P.S. I Love You no longer made me cry, but the horror of Elizabeth's diary being stolen by a boy at school and used against her in The Stolen Diary did make me check my teenage diary was still hidden away. The books haven't aged particularly well – it was the height of diet culture in the 1980s, after all. But what they did do, and what I suspect I, and millions of others responded to, was to centre the importance of taking a teenager's emotions seriously. So often we dismiss the young as having foolish crushes or feelings that aren't worthy of conversation, but I still remember how I felt about that boy in his grey school uniform and how I longed for him to see me. Loading My new book is not angst-ridden like a Sweet Dream s romance, or soapie like a Sweet Valley High. It is the story of dual protagonists, Sonny and Tess, both nearly 14, who meet outside a fish and chip shop, and develop a mutual crush. It was important to me to write both perspectives, in a way to counter the absence of a boy's voice in the books that educated me as a teen. I want my young readers to see that we all have messy and confusing feelings when love strikes, and that it's not up to a boy to rescue a girl when her horse bucks her off in the bush, but that the girl can do rescuing too.
The Age
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The books I loved as a teen have dated, but they got one thing right
Before I discovered teen romance novels in the early 1980s, I wrote my own version of unrequited love in my red vinyl-covered diary about an older boy who went to the private school up the road. While I was still wearing skinny jeans and a pale pink Esprit jumper to primary school, he had graduated to grey flannel shorts, a pale grey shirt and a grey blazer with the arms pushed up. You'd think dressing entirely in grey would have dampened his look, but somehow it didn't. With golden curls and a flashing smile that I'd only witnessed from a distance, he was perfect teen magazine material. He never spoke to me directly, but his brother and I had been friends when we were little, and his mother had named her prize cow after me, a fact I found both strangely flattering and deeply embarrassing. Around the time I developed my crush, I discovered the Sweet Dreams book series. If it was the sealed monthly Dolly Doctor column that taught me all I needed to know about sex, it was Sweet Dreams and later, Sweet Valley High that taught me all I needed to know about love. Sure, it was the sort of love that only 16-year-old American girls with flawless skin, perfect hair and eyes that sparkled ever experienced, but I was happy to pretend. And pretend I did. Writing about all the ways my crush would save me when the horse I was riding in the bush bucked me off. The fact that I didn't own a horse, or ever ride alone in the bush, didn't deter my fantasy life. The first Sweet Dreams book was published in 1981, and I found it a year or so later in the mobile library van. Called P.S. I Love You, it's the only title in the 233-book series without a happy ending, making it my favourite. Romance was one thing, but sobbing over the impossibility of romance was even better. The story of 16-year-old Mariah, who is dragged unwillingly to Palm Springs for the summer with her single mother and younger sister, was a heady read for a 12-year-old. Mariah is openly scathing of the rich families in Palm Springs until she meets the boy next door, who happens to be loaded, lovely and dying. This book cemented my obsession with romance, while also making me terrified that the boy of my dreams would discover a cancerous lump in his neck, too. The Sweet Dreams books were mostly standalone romances, written by different American authors. The covers used portrait photographs of teenage girls who I wanted to look like but never did, including Courteney Cox on the cover of The Last Word. The protagonists were always beautiful, and the teenage boys they fell for equally so. And if the girls didn't start out that way, then they quickly transformed, losing any necessary weight and overcoming their shyness. These worlds excluded anyone who wasn't the right size, race or look. By the time the Sweet Valley High series appeared two years later, I'd moved onto another crush. One who actually knew my name. We were in the same class and I used his library card when I wanted to borrow more romance books than I was allowed. We didn't really talk, but I did practise writing his name over and over again in my best bubble writing. Written by Francine Pascal and her army of ghostwriters, the Sweet Valley High series became a sort of bible for my generation. Sure, the protagonists were 'perfect size six' identical twins with 'sun-streaked blonde hair' and 'blue-green eyes the colour of the ocean' who shared a Jeep and lived in a mansion, but we still managed to see ourselves in Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. Jessica was the impulsive and reckless twin, who frequently made questionable choices, while Elizabeth was older (by four minutes) wiser, more reserved and born with a conscience. Where the Sweet Dreams series was almost entirely focused on finding love, Sweet Valley High attempted something slightly different. Crushes, boys and romance were still at the centre, but the books also delved into the minutiae of high school life. And while Sweet Valley High School was nothing like my outer-suburban school, we did share many of the same concerns. We gossiped over break-ups, traded crushes, drank underage at parties, fought and made up with friends and talked about love like there was nothing else to talk about. Nothing was out of bounds for the writers of Sweet Valley High. Conceived like a soap opera, the books tackled everything from kidnapping to cults, cocaine deaths to comas, paralysis to underage drinking, and I loved it all. Sadly, none of the boys I had crushes on while I was reading Sweet Dreams or Sweet Valley High seemed to feel the same. Or if they did, their feelings remained as buried as mine. But the books gave me company while I was trying to work out how to behave and how to feel, at a time when hormones were wreaking havoc. Remembering what reading romance books meant to me when I was 12 and 13, I decided to write my own version of a romantic comedy for younger readers. I've published many books for readers aged 11-plus, but mostly they have been stories tinged with sadness, and I wanted to write something hopeful and gentle. For research, I reread some of the titles in both series. P.S. I Love You no longer made me cry, but the horror of Elizabeth's diary being stolen by a boy at school and used against her in The Stolen Diary did make me check my teenage diary was still hidden away. The books haven't aged particularly well – it was the height of diet culture in the 1980s, after all. But what they did do, and what I suspect I, and millions of others responded to, was to centre the importance of taking a teenager's emotions seriously. So often we dismiss the young as having foolish crushes or feelings that aren't worthy of conversation, but I still remember how I felt about that boy in his grey school uniform and how I longed for him to see me. Loading My new book is not angst-ridden like a Sweet Dream s romance, or soapie like a Sweet Valley High. It is the story of dual protagonists, Sonny and Tess, both nearly 14, who meet outside a fish and chip shop, and develop a mutual crush. It was important to me to write both perspectives, in a way to counter the absence of a boy's voice in the books that educated me as a teen. I want my young readers to see that we all have messy and confusing feelings when love strikes, and that it's not up to a boy to rescue a girl when her horse bucks her off in the bush, but that the girl can do rescuing too.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tessa Hoped Time Would Help but Y&R Spoilers Hint June 18 Brings the End of Her Patience
The Young and the Restless spoilers for Wednesday, June 18, push Tessa to the breaking point with Mariah! Mariah (Camryn Grimes) came back from her business trip, obviously upset. Everyone could see it. Sharon (Sharon Case) asked about it. Mariah blew her off. Nick (Joshua Morrow) asked about it. She blew him off even more. Tessa (Cait Fairbanks) asked about it. Mariah looked, for a minute, like she might confess. And she did tell her a few things, like how she met a mystery man (Michael Swan) and got drunk. But that was as far as Mariah was willing to go. She clammed up again. Tessa tried to give her space. And time. Well, now Tessa is out of space. And time. She needs her wife to come clean. Because they can't go on like this. MORE: Is this what Adam and Chelsea have cooking? Tessa tried to distract herself from her and Mariah's troubles by giving Daniel (Michael Graziadei) guitar lessons. Daniel is also trying to distract himself, in his case, from the death of Heather (Vail Bloom), and wherever it is Lucy (Lily Brooks O'Briant) is, and what she's plotting (because that child is a plotter). He's got Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) on one side, screaming about how she's the smartest person whoever lived and why won't anybody — everybody — recognize it and worship her like the goddess she obviously is. And Danny (Michael Damian) on the other. Offering his son unconditional love and support. Is it any wonder Danny is the one who got custody of Daniel back in the day? Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) and Adam (Mark Grossman) have decided they won't slander Billy (Jason Thompson). Well, Chelsea decided. And Adam went along with it. Because that's what Adam does these days. They discuss how wonderful they are. And then they make out. Because while the Victor (Eric Braeden) is away, the minions will play.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What Happened on Y&R Today? Mariah's Shocking Decision to Leave Tessa
Secrets and heartbreak fill The Young and the Restless episode for Wednesday, June 18. Mariah makes a heartbreaking decision, Chelsea accuses Adam of betrayal, and Tessa finds herself in emotional turmoil. Mariah (Camryn Grimes) faced a difficult moment on the Crimson Lights patio when she had a tearful conversation with Tessa (Cait Fairbanks). Struggling with her emotions and memories of her past mistakes, Mariah finally made the painful decision to separate from her wife. Mariah explained to Tessa that despite their love, it wasn't enough to fix the damage she had caused. The weight of her guilt led Mariah to insist that they take some time apart. Tessa, heartbroken and confused, tried to understand but refused to let her go. She promised that no matter what happened, she would stand by her side. However, Mariah insisted that she couldn't move forward and needed space to figure things out on her own. Tessa, unable to understand fully, tearfully accepted, leaving Mariah to walk away. WATCH THIS: Did you know Soap Hub has a podcast?! Check it out here Meanwhile, Danny (Michael Damian) and his son, Daniel (Michael Graziadei), had a heart-to-heart at Society. As they reminisced about Daniel's recovery and his musical therapy, Danny offered some fatherly advice. Daniel, still haunted by his past and missing his late wife Heather (Vail Bloom), opened up about how playing guitar was helping him process his emotions. Though he tried to focus on moving forward, there was still a part of him that felt empty without Heather by his side. Danny reassured him that he was doing well and was proud of his progress. He told Daniel that it was okay to move on from the past. As they joked and bonded, Daniel admitted he appreciated the support, but it was clear that the emptiness he felt was still a heavy burden. However, the conversation took a more serious turn when Danny asked Daniel how he would feel if he proposed to Christine (Lauralee Bell). Daniel didn't have any objections to that possibility. In Adam's (Mark Grossman) office, Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) confronted him. She accused him of breaking his promise not to work on the smear campaign against Billy (Jason Thompson). Chelsea believed he had betrayed her, especially after they had promised to put their relationship above all else. Adam tried to explain that he hadn't published any negative stories about Billy and had just been spending time with their son, Connor (Judah Mackey), playing a zombie game. Chelsea calmed down but admitted that her fear stemmed from not being able to trust her judgment, especially when it came to Adam. She had always held back a part of herself, but now, she was all in with him. Adam reassured her that he would never break her heart and promised he was growing and learning. They shared a heartfelt moment of reconciliation, acknowledging the weight of Victor's (Eric Braeden) influence. Adam and Cheslea decided they would face everything together.
