Everything below is probably not exactly what Mariah said, but it gets the idea.
An live interview via satellite with Mariah Carey. Here is how it went... K: Host (Keeth Williams) M: Mariah Carey (HONEY PLAYS AT BACKGROUND..) Around today Austereo network live via satellite from L.A. Home Free (program name) with Mariah Carey. HONEY fades in the background. K: We welcome you around Australia, Hi this is Keeth Williams, and in Los Angeles via satellite - Mariah Carey. K: Hello Mariah. M: Hi..Hi Keeth K: Now this is..is..a..a.. technological achievement I never heard of before. You are in a Hotel. At the Mondriana Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. Is that right? M: Well now you've given me away.... Both giggles K: I was talking about the wonders of technology rather than where you were. M: Oh NO..NO.. It is pretty amazing. K: It is indeed. We keep on talking to you, this is the second time we've spoken to you via Home Free. When are we going to get to see you in Australia? M: January may be..I'm coming out there you can't stop me. K: Your world tour start at Oct 7th. Have you definitely scheduled in Australia is that right? M: Oh, Definitely, I'll be in their in January, I'm looking forward to the beach and all those things. Because it'd going to be summer right? K: It is going to be as hot here than as it is in Los Angeles today I believe which is something like 100 degrees. M: Yeah, it is 105 but I'm in hotel room all day, so I didn't experience it really. K: So January we can expect to see you as part of world tour, I know you had some hesitancy and limited live touring before you really going for it this time right? M: giggles. Its not that I was hesitating. It's just that I had got into this you know started singing and writing and doing all that stuff, producing when I was in studio and then it just sort of happened and I have to tour. You know I don't think I was quite prepared at the beginning. But now I loved it. So I'll be there see you all. K: And how long are you expecting the tour to go for Mariah? M: Ahm, I think its just going to be simply be.. I'm going to be in the States from October to December than I'll be down there with you guys in January and in Japan and stuff. So a few month. K: Well you played Japan last year as well didn't you? M: Yes I did. Should have come over there then.. K: Yes you should have. That's the answer. M I know. That wasn't my fault. K: Mariah Carey is with us on the line from Los Angeles and this is a number one song from a number one album. Always Be My Baby from Daydream. On Home Free ABMB plays K: This is Home Free with Keeth Williams and we are talking to the biggest selling female artist of the 90's and that just so far. Mariah Carey in Los Angeles. So Mariah you are not pregnant but a new baby is due in September your seventh. M: giggles. What? Both laughs K: Butterfly M: You talking about my album and trying to be tricky. K: It takes just about as much time and effort to produce an album as does a baby doesn't it? M: Well I can't speak from personal experience, but it definitely a lot of time and effort. I'm very proud of this one so.. K: What is the biggest difference do you think with this new album? M: ..Hmmm there is a lot of kinda of urban feel to the whole thing, but I definitely still have the ballads that I have been known for. And occasionally there but I have a lot of collaboration on this record. I worked with "Bone Thugs and Harmony" on one song kinda a combination but it came out really great. It's one of my favorites on the album. And I worked with Puffy, Q-Tip, The Track Masters, and Foxy Brown. And then I worked with Walter again, who's done a lot of ballads from Hero to Any Time You Need A Friend, and all other songs. K: We would imagine from all of those people who had an R&B in it and Hip Hop groove and shall that Puffy Combs or Puff Daddy No. 1 album I believe on Billboard this weekend in America and his song I'll Be Missing You is a huge hit here. He worked with you on the single of course didn't he? Honey M: yeah so I worked with Puffy, Q-tip and Steve Jay and on the single, call it a collaborative effort though that one was. K: So is Honey indicative of the most of album in terms of feel. M: No. I mean it varies goes from song like Honey and the one I did with Bone Thugs and which is called BREAKDOWN which is a sort of like Always Be My Baby and a way it reminds of that, because it has the Bone Thugs feel the way they do their rhythms so uniquely. I was very inspired when I wrote the idea and they came in and they wrote the bridge. So I thought it is a really good collaboration. And then I had ballads of course. So it's pretty wide range on the album it's not just hip hop or something. HONEY START PLAYING K: We going to play now the brand new song of Mariah Carey. It's Honey on Home Free. Plays the entire Honey song. K: Mariah is our guest. This is Home Free with Keeth Willams. And Mariah Carey in Los Angleles via a satellite believe or not. She is in a hotel room in Los Angeles don't ask me about the technology but I think it's great. Convenient for you Mariah. M: What do you think of next? What they think of next. K: Look. It is pretty well documented that you've separated from your husband. Sony music chief Tommy Mottola. I know noticed on the Wire the other day. That you changed managers and lawyers and of course a new album coming up with what we fairly say has a different feel to it. Are all these changes all one of the same Mariah. M: Oh. Of course not. I mean.. You know as always making personal to separate from professional and it's still that way. It's just now, In my life it was time for a new beginning in a lot of ways professionally and so you know. That's how I've been handling things. But everything is great, there are no hard feelings and any of these areas its just the right time for me. And the album it does have a different feel, but it's still a Mariah Carey album, It's not like a fan enjoy what I did in the past look at it and not get what they expected. You know.. its not like suddenly I went psycho and I thought I going to do rap now. It's not like I'm rapping you know. Both cracked up K: Mariah Carey does the Fugees. M: Right K: I also read the article in New York Newsday where Liz Smith wrote. She say even though you separated from Tommy Mottola. In fact you were probably better friends now then you ever be. M: Definitely. We definitely are we had a great relationship we still hang out together you know we still see each other. He came by the studio the other day, so it's great. He actually gave us a listening party for the album. I think the whole label is behind him and excited about it. K: Well we certainly are. And we talking to Mariah Carey who was is our guest on Home Free. Without You Plays K: Reference to earlier Mariah she mentions while you are recording the Butterfly album I think in the Manhattan, you caught taking a nap in your car. (laughing) in the street in New York. What is going on? M: I wasn't in my car I'm on top of the car. Ok I had two recording session going on down the street of each other. So I'm kept going back and forth from session to session and at one point I was waiting for someone to show up and I just kinda sat down on the car reclining so I felt asleep for a brief moment. K: (continue laughing).. It's not a good look M: I'm working. They tell me I'm the hardest working women in show biz. I think I believe that. K: Well you just stick to it. What sort of car was it? M: It was sort like a Gramlin you know like 1970, it wasn't a limo. K: Ha..Ha.. A Gramlin I got one of those, every car I got has a gramlin in it. So you got all those work. I understand the pressure of recording etc. So what do you do to relax. Do you have a sport? M: Hmm. I'm not really a sports gal. But I like to go sailing and snorkelling and stuff like that. And that's actually where I got my idea for the Honey video. Because I was down at Puerto Rico jet skiing and doing all that kinda of stuff sailing. So that's where I got my idea from the video there. Seen it yet? K: No I haven't seen it. Yet the song has only been out a week or so. M: Ok. K: Is that reprimand that I feel down the line here. Both Laughs M: I had to sent to you Keeth. K: No, I'm sure Sony upon hearing this will have one by the end of the hour. M: Get on it guys, come on K: So you say you are not much physical thing so much in another word sport that much. But you certainly have to get to a level of fitness to do this tour aren't you? M: Oh.. I'm not saying I'm not physically fit, I'm athletic but I don't really play sport, not out there with my tennis racket you know and my tennis skirt. K: Is world tour and lots of dates more mentally or physically enduring? M: Physically because it's my voice. Because voice is a muscle like anything else gets tired. People are coming here to hear me sound like the record. I wanted to do that so that's why I have to take it easy and slow and I can't drain myself. K: I want you to rest your voice and we will be back to you in a moment. AD K: We also believe you've been negotiating a movie deal. M: Yeah, I've been working on that. It's something I can't really get into because its not totally finalized and done. But I'm very excited about it. K: Can you telling us apart giving us detail, can you tell us what sort of role do you like to play? M: I didn't really go into that right now. Because everything is still being worked out and its been written as soon as I can. I'll call you directly Keeth and I'll tell you the whole scoop K: Who would you like to work with in movies? M: Um.. there is countless you know amazing people I love to work with. But I'm just exciting now by the prospect of doing it and it's going to be another career outlet for me something different than being in studio and sing. Which I always love to do and totally live for it. It's going to be a great experience. K: Now Mariah I'm taking your word, you will be here in January . If the next time we see you in movie we will all be very disappointed down here M: ..What!! Both laugh M: I will never tell you I wasn't going to come. It's not I'm going to come or I'm not going to come. I'll be there. I can't wait to get to the beach. You gonna take me personally, show me the beach. K: You know what I'm quite happily to do that, you know what, I'm looking at the beach as I speak. M: You are, good alright I'm looking forward to it. K: You've sold over 80 million album so far with your last 6 albums I guess a reasonable target would be 50 or 60 with this new Butterfly album Wouldn't it? M: Heh I never ever ever count the check ins before. I just hope for people like the album and it definately is my favourite album that I've done. I listen to it every night before I go to sleep. K: Oh well, with Honey as a indication that it's going to be a great album we are looking forward to seeing you we are going to hold you to your word on your world tour for January Butterfly is out on 16 September Mariah Carey thank you for your time M: Thank you Keeth. Dreamlover plays.