Mariah Carey 'Set To Release Her First Ever Grunge Album Next Year'
The R&B singer, 56, who kicked off a limited run of her Christmastime in Las Vegas residency on November 28, is said to be dropping the album in the second half of 2026, with the exact date yet to be confirmed.
Titled Someone's Ugly Daughter, the album is
said to have been secretly recorded by Mariah Carey back in the 1990s.
A source told The Sun: 'Ever since she let slip
about the existence of the album, fans have been desperate for it to be
officially released and put on streaming.
'After years of casual talks about what to do, everyone
has now agreed the album will be released in the second half of 2026. It’s
been a long time coming, but hopefully fans think it’s worth the wait.'
The source added that the new album is certainly Mariah Carey
as fans have 'never heard her before'.
The grunge project first came to light when
Mariah mentioned it in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
She wrote: 'I think this unearthed version will become,
yes, something we should hear. I’m working on a version of something where
there’ll be another artist working on this with me as well.'
She claimed the album was a response to feeling
over-controlled by her record label at the time, adding: 'I had no freedom
during that time. That was my freedom, making that record.'
In the book, she also revealed her inspiration: 'I was
playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers
who were popular at the time. You know, the ones who seemed to be so carefree
with their feelings and their image.
'I honestly wanted to put the record out back then under,
you know, the same pseudonym, just put it out and be like, you know whatever,
let them discover that it’s me. But that idea was kind of stomped and
squashed.'
It comes after Mariah kicked off
her Las Vegas holiday residency last month - complete
with a sparkly candy cane gown, giant snowflakes, and the holiday classics
she's been performing every December for decades.
However, the Daily Mail revealed
last week that the 56-year-old star had struggled to fill seats.
Tickets were selling for as little as $89
last Friday night at the Dolby Live theatre at Park MGM. Yet, when checking the
seating chart days in advance, it appeared that only about half of the tickets
had sold.
'But you know what? Nobody on her team is gonna tell
Mariah,' a veteran Vegas security chief told the Daily Mail exclusively.
'They go out and give comp tickets away and Mariah will
come out and be looking at what seems like a big audience and she won't be the
wiser.'
Carey's show at the 5,200-seat theatre is divided into
three acts that include holiday hits like Carey's monster 'All I Want for
Christmas is You', along with songs from her most recent album, 'Her For It
All', which came out in September.
The album, her first in seven years, got decent reviews
but was her lowest-selling record in her 35-year career and disappeared from
the charts after about three weeks.
Even worse, her massive holiday hit, which normally
rockets to number one on Billboard's charts on December 1, was supplanted by
rival Taylor Swift's 'The Fate of Ophelia.'
'Vegas is in trouble – and so is Mariah Carey,' a
celebrity publicist told the Daily Mail.
'She's past her peak. No disrespect there but she hasn't
realized it yet. She still thinks it's the 1980s.
'She shouldn't be playing at a venue as big as the Dolby
Live. Adele sold out the same size venue but Mariah is no longer at Adele's
level.'
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