Rarebird's Rock and Roll Nest

While promoting her new studio album Here For It All , pop legend Mariah Carey has been answering questions about a "secret grunge album" that she recorded way back in 1995, under the pseudonym Chick. This is not the first time Carey has mentioned this long-lost recording, but she largely avoided talking about it publicly for 25 years after the fact. In her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey , the singer finally began to share details about the alternative rock recording. More recently, Carey spoke with fellow r&b artist SZA on the debut episode of Apple Music's Flowers , during which SZA played snippets of two songs from the unreleased album and begged Carey to release it, saying, "We need it!". On The Tonight Show , Carey told Jimmy Fallon that she has "always regretted not putting it out", and Fallon played a snippet of the song "Prom Queen". Questlove went as far as to call it Carey's best record! Carey has teased a possibl...