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Heart Shaped Music Box? Mariah Carey reveals secret 90s grunge project

R&B legend tells of channelling 90s singers – ‘angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes’ for alt-rock album with the band Chick

With her immaculate, glamorous image, Mariah Carey is the last person you’d expect to don a plaid shirt, ripped denim and mope over a squall of electric guitars. But the R&B singer has revealed that she channelled singers who were “angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes” for a secret alt-rock project in 1995.

Carey worked with the band Chick on their album Someone’s Ugly Daughter, writing, producing and singing backing vocals on every song. In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, she writes:

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