MiMi Caters Her Music To The “Ethnic” Crowd; Discusses Rihanna And Breezy

Mariah Carey was on Larry King talking about her demographic makeup, her own abuse, and Rihanna. She mentions that she has been catering her music towards us Negroes:

CAREY: Oh. KING: “Who does Mariah see as her audience, still kids and teens or more mature?”

CAREY: My audience — well, there’s some — some of them are outside right now.

KING: Yes.

CAREY: My audience is something that I think — you know, at the — there are the die hard fans and then there are people that like a specific song. And they may be older for that, you know, for that song. And then when it’s a song that I may do, like a collaboration with perhaps a rapper or I just do my own song that’s kind of like — like the “Obsessed” song that’s out there, then it’s — then it really skews younger and more ethnic.

So I did because I wanted to be like, OK, I will give you a straight vocal performance, and that’s what we’ll do. And I actually — you know, I know that the — the people that like my older stuff like that.

But, see, I’ve evolved. And I’ve been doing different music — I mean, musically, by the time I got out of my first marriage — well, actually, one year before that, I worked with an artist called Ol’ Dirty Bastard, may he rest in peace. And we had a number-one record for eight weeks on the hip-hop chart with a song called “Fantasy,” based on a loop by the Tom Tom Club. And that’s what I love.

Mariah was getting popped at an early age by the top person at Sony, so she was doing the “white thing.” They say back then she was secretly getting chopped down by rappers behind her hubby’s back, which lead to her becoming a Butterfly.