October 25, 2007

Mariah Carey Drops Hints About LP

By MTV.com

Mariah Carey paid TRL a visit on Wednesday (October 24) and gabbed about her new fragrance line and upcoming studio album.

"I've been working on this record while I'm working on the fragrance," she revealed, saying that her yet-untitled LP and just-released M by Mariah Carey line "kind of work together."

"I wanted [the fragrance] to be sensual. ... It's really been like writing a song ... this was almost the same creative process."

She also explained why she pushed back her yet-untitled album, which had previously been scheduled for December 4, to next year.

"You can't really put records out in December if you want the whole world to have a chance to actually hear it, [and] my fans all over the world are very important to me," she said, adding that she also wants to put out a pair of singles before the album drops.

Carey dropped another hint about the effort, saying she "just had a really, really hot session with somebody in Miami," and while she was stubborn about letting us know just who the person in question is, she did let it slip that it's a man and that he's "somebody very popular."

When asked what advice she might give Britney Spears, Carey didn't mention Spears specifically but said, "You gotta go through the ups to have the downs; you gotta go through the downs to have the ups. You have to go through life like any other person. To me, you just stay grounded spiritually, get your rest, and don't take it all so seriously."