Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is gearing up for a major return to music with her first new album in nearly a decade. The Grammy-winning icon teased her return with the single “Type Dangerous” last month, and followed it up earlier this month with “Type Dangerous” remix EP featuring Busta Rhymes, Method Man, Redman, Big Sean, DJ Snake, and Luísa Sonza.
This week, Carey announced the forthcoming release of her sixteenth album Here For It All, set for release in September. For her latest preview of the project, Carey has released the single “Sugar Sweet,” a new collaboration with Kehlani and Shenseea that calls to mind Carey’s classic mashups of R&B, pop, and hip-hop. Carey recruited R&B producer and frequent Justin Bieber collaborator Harv to bring “Sugar Sweet” to life.
“Walk to the car and there you are / Can’t explain the rush that I feel / Open up the door, you pull me towards you / Then you put your lips on me,” Carey sings on the track. “Hate it when you have to leave / But I don’t say a thing / ‘Cause I will absolutely get the ring.”
Getting to be able to work with Carey was a dream come true for Kehlani.
“The earliest video of me singing and first song I ever learned was ‘Hero’ and everybody who knows me knows this is one of my heroes,” Kehlani said of Carey on Instagram. “This woman is the definition of an icon. To have given us so much for decades and never fail to impress us through all the twists and turns music makes. I am so honored and immensely grateful.”
At this point in her career, Carey has nothing to prove, and thus was in no rush to make a new album. Instead, she allowed it to come together naturally.
“I would make like four songs and then be like, ‘We can start making an album now,’ and then I would never do it,” she admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. “And then I got up to like 10 songs and we were basically ready with an album.”
Here For It All is out Sept. 26.