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Mariah Carey has revealed she is close to completing the tracks for her next album, just days after her new deal with Universal/Def Jam was confirmed. Carey, who suffered an emotional and physical breakdown last summer, said many of the new tracks were upbeat, despite her high-profile recent troubles. "There are a lot of songs I´ve done in the past that are very introspective and personal," she explained. "This album has a lot of those type of songs. But it also has celebratory, fun songs; I´m not going to sit there and dwell." She added: "People are always asking, ´Is everything OK?´ Look, I was not depressed; I was freaking exhausted." The US diva, last year given a £19.6 million golden handshake to end her contract with Virgin Records, said she was delighted to be working under a new contract. She told the Hollywood Reporter: "My gut has always been to go with Universal, even before I did the [Virgin] deal. I learned a big lesson: You´ve got to go with the people that really know what they are doing." Mariah was dropped from Virgin following the commercial failure of her last album Glitter, a movie soundtrack that sold a relatively disappointing two million copies worldwide. She said of the album: "I feel like it was a domino effect, where the ignorance gets passed along. Glitter was a soundtrack record that was a concept album. It was not a studio record. And even still, I feel there were a lot of good songs on there that no one ever heard because they didn´t get a chance to." She added: "Many multi-platinum artists have been on soundtrack records that were not Titanic. It happens, and it doesn´t warrant the world having this huge [reaction]." According to Billboard.com, Carey´s new deal is worth somewhere in the region of $20 million and will involve Universal/Def Jam distributing material though Mariah´s own new label. Source: Dot Music http://www.dotmusic.com/news/May2002/news25023.asp
Mariah Carey has revealed she is close to completing the tracks for her next album, just days after her new deal with Universal/Def Jam was confirmed. Carey, who suffered an emotional and physical breakdown last summer, said many of the new tracks were upbeat, despite her high-profile recent troubles. "There are a lot of songs I´ve done in the past that are very introspective and personal," she explained. "This album has a lot of those type of songs. But it also has celebratory, fun songs; I´m not going to sit there and dwell." She added: "People are always asking, ´Is everything OK?´ Look, I was not depressed; I was freaking exhausted." The US diva, last year given a £19.6 million golden handshake to end her contract with Virgin Records, said she was delighted to be working under a new contract. She told the Hollywood Reporter: "My gut has always been to go with Universal, even before I did the [Virgin] deal. I learned a big lesson: You´ve got to go with the people that really know what they are doing." Mariah was dropped from Virgin following the commercial failure of her last album Glitter, a movie soundtrack that sold a relatively disappointing two million copies worldwide. She said of the album: "I feel like it was a domino effect, where the ignorance gets passed along. Glitter was a soundtrack record that was a concept album. It was not a studio record. And even still, I feel there were a lot of good songs on there that no one ever heard because they didn´t get a chance to." She added: "Many multi-platinum artists have been on soundtrack records that were not Titanic. It happens, and it doesn´t warrant the world having this huge [reaction]." According to Billboard.com, Carey´s new deal is worth somewhere in the region of $20 million and will involve Universal/Def Jam distributing material though Mariah´s own new label. Source: Dot Music http://www.dotmusic.com/news/May2002/news25023.asp