Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey Naked Personal Life

Billboard's Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, Mariah Carey parted from Columbia and signed a contract with EMI's Virgin Records worth a reported US$80 million. Mariah Carey often stated that Columbia had regarded her as a commodity, with her separation from Mottola exacerbating her relations with label executives. Just a few months later, in July 2001, it was widely reported that Mariah Carey had suffered a physical and emotional breakdown. Mariah Carey had left messages on her website complaining of being overworked, and her relationship with Luis Miguel was ending. In an interview the following year, she said, "I was with people who didn't really know me, and I had no personal assistant. I'd be doing interviews all day long, getting two hours of sleep a night, if that." During an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, Mariah Carey handed out popsicles to the audience and began what was later described as a "strip tease". By the month's end, she had checked into a hospital, and her publicist announced that Mariah Carey was taking a break from public appearances.

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Critics panned Glitter, Mariah Carey’s much delayed semi-autobiographical film, and it was a box office failure. The accompanying soundtrack album, Glitter, was inspired by the music of the 1980s and featured collaborations with Rick James and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; it generated Mariah Carey’s worst showing on the U.S. chart. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dismissed it as "an absolute mess that'll go down as an annoying blemish on a career that, while not always critically heralded, was at least nearly consistently successful", while Blender magazine opined, "After years of trading her signature flourishes for a radio-ready purr, Mariah Carey left with almost no presence at all." The lead single, "Loverboy" (featuring Cameo), reached number two on the Hot 100 thanks to a price cut, but the album's follow-up singles failed to chart.

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