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Mariah Carey talks new album, family loss and resilience: “I don’t know how I processed it”
Music icon Mariah Carey is ending her seven-year break from releasing a new album with her 16th studio release, “Here for It All,” a deeply personal project born out of grief, healing and creative renewal.
The Grammy winner, one of the best-selling artists of all time, worked on the album while mourning the simultaneous deaths of her mother, Patricia Carey, and estranged sister, Alison, who both passed away on the same day last year.
“I don’t know how I processed it. I just know that it was extremely difficult for me to navigate,” Carey said. “It was tough because I have always had an interesting relationship with my mother.”
In her 2020 memoir, Carey wrote about her complicated history with her mother. Even so, Carey found comfort in their final days together.
“Towards the end, I was with her the whole time,” she said. “She said a couple of things to me that were very healing for what I needed. And I felt that that was the right thing to do.”
The loss of her sister also lingers heavily for Carey.
“My sister, I hadn’t seen in years, and I feel really badly about that as well,” Carey said. “But that’s ’cause I tend to have a guilt complex about everything. But it’s tough. My sister had an extremely hard life.”
Carey has long acknowledged her mother’s influence as an opera singer, while also noting their relationship was often fraught. A recent moment with a fan in London highlighted that connection when a young girl asked her to sign Patricia Carey’s 1970s album.
“She gave it to me,” Carey said of her mother’s album.
Mariah Carey on the sound of her new album
Musically, Carey describes her new album, “Here for It All,” as both classic and fresh.
“I would say it’s new Mariah, but still sounds like Mariah, but there’s a little twist to it that makes it a little bit different,” she said.
She also knew from the start what the final track would be.
“The last song on the album I decided first,” Carey said. “I was like, okay, first of all, we’re gonna do the last song’s going to be ‘Here for It All.’ And I’m gonna make it the title track. It’s just something that feels good to me and I didn’t wanna people to miss it.”
Carey collaborated with Grammy-winning artist Anderson .Paak, who appears on several tracks including her next single, “Play This Song.”
“I reached out to him. He’s brilliant,” she said. “He’s really a great artist.”
Their partnership has stirred dating rumors, which the pair have brushed off.
Carey joked, “He just likes to hold my hand. He just grabs my hand. I don’t know what he’s doing.” She called their bond “the handholding club.”
When asked about photos showing .Paak joining her during her famously festive Christmas season, Carey left it playful: “Well, they better know that it’s something special. It’s Christmas. He enjoyed it. I did. There’s a hot tub there. It was nice.”
“I would say it’s new Mariah, but still sounds like Mariah, but there’s a little twist to it that makes it a little bit different,” she said.
The album also showcases Carey’s resilience, especially in “Nothing Is Impossible,” a song she says reflects surviving “a gruesome fall.”
For her, the message is simple but powerful. “I mean, nothing is impossible. That one hits me at the heart,” she said.
- US-Pakistan ties have warmed under Trump.
- Trump has already hosted Field Marshal Asim Munir.
- US ties with India have been tested since Trump took office.
US President Donald Trump is expected to meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the White House on Thursday, a Trump administration official told Reuters on Wednesday, with the meeting coming weeks after the two countries agreed to a trade deal.
The prime minister and the US president are expected to hold detailed talks on global and regional issues, with Field Marshal Asim Munir also likely to join the meeting.
US-Pakistan ties have warmed in recent months under Trump after Washington had for years viewed Pakistan’s rival India as a counter to China’s influence in Asia.
Washington’s relations with New Delhi have been tested under the Republican leader over issues such as visa hurdles for Indians, high tariff rates imposed by Trump on goods from India and Trump’s repeated claims that he brokered an India-Pakistan ceasefire in May after the South Asian neighbours engaged in their latest hostilities.
The United States and Pakistan announced a trade deal on July 31 with a 19% tariff rate imposed by Washington. Trump has yet to reach a trade deal with India.
Officials and analysts have noted that after tensions with Washington, New Delhi is recalibrating relations with China as a hedge.
Trump welcomed army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir earlier this year, the first time a US president hosted the head of Pakistan’s army – widely regarded as the most powerful figure in the country – at the White House, unaccompanied by senior Pakistani civilian officials.
“We’re working through a number of issues when it comes to counter-terrorism, when it comes to economic and trade ties,” a senior State Department official told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday when asked about Pakistan.
“And so the president remains focused on advancing US interests in the region, that includes through engaging with Pakistan and their government leaders,” the official said.
When asked about frictions with India, the official said Trump believed in being frank about frustrations in ties, but the relationship was strong. Washington viewed New Delhi as a good friend and partner and believed their relationship would define the 21st century, the official said.
They added that Washington had been working on planning for a summit of the Quad grouping of India, Australia, Japan and the United States that India had been expected to hold in November. That would happen, “if not this year, early next year,” the official said.
Pakistan has backed Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, although Islamabad has condemned US ally Israel’s bombardments in Gaza, Qatar and Iran.
Shehbaz was part of a meeting Trump had on Tuesday with leaders of many Muslim-majority countries, where the US president discussed Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Washington says the US shared peace proposals with leaders from those countries in the meeting held on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly.
Emma Watson slammed ‘insane’ beauty standards in Hollywood and praised Pamela Anderson’s bold stand.
During a recent appearance on the September 24 episode of Jay Shetty’s podcast, the Harry Potter alum opened up on the hidden toll of beauty expectations and admitted envy of male co-stars over nil beauty pressure.
“I don’t know how to live up to what I look like on the cover of a magazine. There’s such a glamorization that comes hand in hand with being a public, famous person, especially if you’re a woman,” she told the host. “I feel so envious of my male costar who can put on a T-shirt and just show up without this whole rigmarole of becoming acceptable enough to be on camera.”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower star said elsewhere in the chat, “It’s wild. The expectations are insane. It’s impossible. The beauty expectations are so difficult to reach, and the bar gets raised all the time, so you’re constantly on a survivor island game show beauty nightmare.”
The 35-year-old actress also lauded Pamela Anderson’s courage for her bold move against beauty norms in the industry.
“Kudos to Pamela Anderson recently doing the thing because the amount of courage that it takes to do that, I can not begin to even express to you.”
In a recent interview with Hollywood Authentic published on September 21, the actress talked about her hiatus from acting after she last starred in 2019’s Little Women.
“I think I’ll be honest and straight-forward, and say: I do not miss selling things,” she shared.
“The most important thing, really—or the foundation of your life—is your home and friends and family,” Emma further told the outlet. “I think I worked so hard for so long that my life sort of bottomed out. So I needed to go and do some construction work.
Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s family has grown into a family of five!
The 37-year-old singer took to her Instagram account on Wednesday, September 24, to announce the birth of her and longtime partner Rocky’s third baby, and their first daughter.
In the heart-melting post, the Barbadian singer posted a sweet picture of their newborn baby girl.
Rihanna revealed that the baby girl’s name in the caption, “Rocki Irish Mayers,” adding the date of birth, “September 12 2025.”
In the snap that appeared to be captured right after her birth, the newly minted mother can be seen holding the little girl, warmly snuggled in her arms.
The little girl was in baby pink pajamas while Rihanna let loose her black locks and wore two pink bows around her elbows.
The Diamonds hitmaker lovingly gazing at her newly born daughter in the gush-worthy snap.
The second slide in the carousel featured a cute small pink boxing gloves placed over a pink sheet.
For the unversed, the Unapologetic singer and ASAP Rocky are also parents to two sons RZA and Riot.
This came after Rocky revealed in a recent interview with Elle that he is hoping for a girl.
“I hope it’s a girl. I really do. We’re praying for a girl. Our first time, we wanted to know the sex of the baby. The second time, we didn’t want to know. Third time, we don’t want to know until, you know,” he shared.
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