Mariah Carey, the biggest diva in the world: ‘I’ve never had a diva moment’
Mariah Carey has wrapped on her first Las Vegas residency, #1 to Infinity, and to celebrate that achievement, Mariah did a Vegas-themed editorial with Paper Magazine. The photos are… not good. I mean, Mariah is a beautiful woman who knows her angles. But she also very likely had a “Needs Massive Photoshop Wizardry” clause in her contract. This is not her waist, people! Mariah will also be returning to Vegas this December, when she’ll do another, shorter residency/show called All I Want For Christmas Is You. That show will be Christmas-themed, obviously. You can read Paper’s interview here, and here are some highlights:
Whether she’s having any good moments lately: “I like good moments. There’s often moments that I’m like, ‘This is not a good moment.’ But usually when I’m like, ‘It’s a moment,’ I really mean it in a good way.
Any diva moments: “I’ve never had a diva moment.”
What, no diva moments? “No…Actually, I have had diva moments, and then people can’t handle it. I guess it’s a little intense, because I come from a true diva: My mother is an opera singer. And that’s a real diva, you know — Juilliard diva. And so other people that are like, ‘I’m a diva,’ it’s like, ‘Honey, you don’t know what a diva is, you didn’t grow up with my mom.’ And I mean it as a compliment, or I wouldn’t be the person I am without experiencing that. And so when people hear me say, like, ‘Dahling da da da da’ and talk that way, it’s kinda like I’m channeling my mother. Not that she says ‘dahling’ all the time, but like that voice is… it’s like I inadvertently do it, and I don’t do it to be disrespectful, I just do it and it just happens and it’s like, [in diva voice] ‘I don’t even know why.’ I can’t fight it, no.
The last time she was starstruck: “There’s always people who I admire and when I see them [I get starstruck]. The last time I saw Prince, he came to my dressing room. I had said I wanted to go visit him to say hello because we’ve met before.When he was living we had had lots of conversations, and he helped me through certain moments that were not easy. I don’t want to get too depressing, but I was having a conversation with Prince and then I looked around the room and I noticed that everyone in the room was looking up and staring like they couldn’t believe he was standing there. But I would always be a little bit starstruck [when] I [saw] Michael Jackson as well.
[From Paper]
“I’ve never had a diva moment” is possible the most diva thing that Mariah has ever said. You know why? Because she truly doesn’t believe that she’s being a diva, or that she’s being difficult, or that she’s being a pill. She’s just existing in her Mariah World, making everyone wait on her, expecting the world to revolve around her, and she’s like “diva what, this is just how I live!”
Photos courtesy of James White for Paper Magazine.
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