MARIAH CAREY: PART 2 (with NPR's Aisha Harris)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
For the second in our three-part series on Mariah Carey, NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour's Aisha Harris joins the show to unpack some of the most fascinating, liberated and enduring music Mariah has made, as well as a professional nadir from which it once seemed she'd never recover. Louie and Aisha pick up with Mariah's self-described magnum opus, 1997’s Butterfly, then move on to her final album under her deal with Sony and Tommy Mottola, 1999’s Rainbow, before digging into the embarrassing blunder of 2001’s Glitter film and soundtrack, the first and only release on Mariah's historic $100 million with Virgin Records. Finally, they tackle Mariah’s initial attempt at a comeback in 2002, Charmbracelet.
Join us next week for Part 3 which will cover Mariah’s triumphant comeback with 2005’s The Emancipation of Mimi, her later period work, her legacy and her impact on pop. Plus, we'll rank Mariah Carey in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
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| 0:38.8 | least three bonus episodes of the show per month, available at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by |
| 0:43.1 | clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. And as a reminder, germane to our topic of today's |
| 0:49.0 | episode, our last Patreon episode is a deep dive into how Mariah Carey became the Queen of Christmas. |
| 0:55.2 | Before we get back to Mariah Carey, I want to remind you that gorgeous, gorgeous, |
| 0:59.0 | the last one of the year will be happening in Los Angeles on December 16th. |
| 1:03.1 | This is my queer pop party, obviously. |
| 1:04.6 | This party will be at resident in downtown Los Angeles and tickets are available in the |
| 1:08.7 | show notes of this episode. |
| 1:10.1 | We are also still |
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| 1:17.8 | ended up in the Pop Pantheon in this year's episodes, please write to us or send us a voice |
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| 1:27.0 | yourself on that episode coming up. All right. Cir. Let us know why. Give us your argument and you might hear yourself on that episode coming |
| 1:29.0 | up. All right. Circling back to Mariah, as I mentioned, we have been rolling out Mariah |
| 1:35.1 | episodes recently and this will be the second installment of our main feed episodes on Mariah Carey. |
| 1:41.5 | Last week, we talked about her early life through her seminal |
| 1:44.6 | 1995 album Daydream. And this week, we are picking up with her magnum opus in her own words, |
| 1:50.8 | 1997's Butterfly. So we'll be talking about that and obviously her cleaving from her husband, |
| 1:56.1 | Tommy Motola, and her 1999 album Rainbow, her epic catastrophe, 2001's film and soundtrack Glitter, |
| 2:02.8 | and then her attempted comeback with 2002's charm bracelet. |
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