Mariah Carey has expressed a wish to work alongside Lenny Kravitz.
The 57-year-old singer publicly urged the American Woman creator to reach out about a possible collaboration because she is a major admirer of his work.
During a Reddit AMA session, a fan nudged her about a potential duet with Lenny, and she replied to the suggestion: “I love Lenny too… Lenny if you’re seeing this, call me!”
The All I Want for Christmas star was also questioned about her long-rumored unreleased grunge project, Someone’s Ugly Daughter, and offered a hint about when listeners might finally hear it.
She wrote: “I get asked this about once a week. My answer is…#notyet (this is a hint!)”
Carey first revealed in 2020 that she had recorded the grunge LP back in 1995, and she has previously admitted she still hopes to release it one day.
During an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast in October 2024, host Matt Rogers asked the Fantasy singer: “Can you drop that grunge album?” and Mariah replied: “I know, right? I’m so mad that I haven’t done that yet … but who do I drop it with?”
Rogers then proposed releasing it independently—perhaps with GarageBand or something along the lines of a raw, grungy project—and the singer added: “I could do that.”
She continued: “It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”
Previously, Carey had opened up about the shelved album in a 2020 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, where she revealed that music executives had blocked its release.
She said: “I got kind of in trouble for making this album – the alternative album – because back then, everything was super-controlled by the powers that be.”
“I never really was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to release it.’ But then I was like, I should release it. I should do it under an alias. Let people discover it and whatever, but that got squashed.”
The collection did eventually see the light under the band name Chick, with Mariah’s friend Clarissa Dane taking the lead vocals. Carey’s voice was heard only as backing vocals, and she was credited as D. Sue.
The singer discussed the project in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, noting that she was experimenting with the breezy-grunge, punk-light vibe that white female singers of that era often embodied.
“You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every move I made was so calculated and manicured.”
“I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery – but I also wanted to laugh.”
