Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today we are going to be talking about a brilliant book.

This book is called The Meaning of Mariah Carey, and it is by none other than Mariah Carey.

It is a truly excellent memoir that quite honestly should be a movie. It has the perfect arc for an amazing

bio pick. I have with me Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield and we're going to do a

book club on the greatest book of this and perhaps any year.

What were your biggest initial takeaways from this book?

Because there's a lot there.

I would say just, I don don't know Moriah has such a

a way of writing in the character of Moriah Carey it's I mean it's just so extraordinary and even like I haven't listened to the audio

book version but I saw a lot of the clips go viral and I mean just even like the

way that they kind of like jump off when she's reciting them back. I mean it's just so like it's just so vivid the way that she's able to write in this like the Mariah Carey diva a character that we all know and love so much.

How about you, Rob? You wrote a great review of it for the site everyone to check out

Yeah, it's it's fascinating. It's so full of her voice. It's this really sustained performance.

It's really one of the great moments in her career.

Every single page has just the most amazing lines.

And we should mention her co-writer, Michaela,

Angela Davis, who did a great, great job.

And I think, quite honestly, to quite a phrase, it did in fact have me feeling emotions.

I thought it was a really moving book actually. It's one of those

celebrity memoirs where you're so rooting for the thing to happen that you of course know is going to happen. She so deeply

deserves her success on some level in the sense that so much of what happened early

on was so so awful. Am I crazier is this one of the more moving celebrity memoirs I've ever read?

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