The Emancipation of Mariah Carey | “Against All Odds” | 81
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Mariah’s star is on the rise. She just scored a record-breaking deal with Virgin and nabbed the lead role in a big Hollywood production. But becoming a double threat won’t be easy. Mariah’s stardom will have to implode before it can finally go supernova.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | This episode contains descriptions of pregnancy loss |
| 0:10.3 | that some listeners may find distressing. |
| 0:12.3 | Please be advised. There will also be some explicit. that some |
| 0:15.0 | explicit language. |
| 0:16.0 | There will also be some explicit language. |
| 0:17.0 | It's July 2001. |
| 0:22.0 | It's July 2001, a few days after the TRL debacle. |
| 0:28.0 | Mariah Carey is pacing around her new Tribeca apartment trying not to pull her hair out. The media fallout from her |
| 0:35.2 | appearance has been disastrous. Mariah thought her little stunt would be a fun way |
| 0:40.3 | to engage with her fans and boost record sales. |
| 0:43.6 | Instead, it's turned her into a joke |
| 0:46.4 | and confirmed some of her worst fears. |
| 0:49.5 | Right now, it feels like the whole world |
| 0:51.8 | is telling her that she's worthless by herself, |
| 0:54.0 | that she needs a man like Tommy Matola to keep her from screwing up her career. |
| 0:58.6 | Mariah thought that finally being in her own place would at least be some comfort, but it isn't. |
| 1:05.9 | She spent so little time here since she bought it that she still doesn't know where things like the |
| 1:10.7 | light switches are. She hasn't even had time to unpack her stuff, but the |
| 1:15.8 | worst part is that the phone won't stop ringing. But Mariah already knows exactly who's on the other end of the line. |
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