The Meaning of Mariah

"Supreme diva Mariah Carey doesn’t reveal every detail of her tumultuous, self-made life in this deeply felt and fun-to-read remembrance, but she does reflect on how her childhood as a biracial social outcast on Long Island and her bad marriage to music-biz executive Tommy Mottola, among other events, gave her primary material from which she shaped her stealth R&B sound and her butter-and-Teflon persona. Carey and veteran editor Michaela Angela Davis also make sure the world knows she is a serious musician who thinks as seriously about her song structures and sampled beats as her perfume lines."

"I LOVED Mariah Carey's autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah. She sent it to me with a box of Kleenex."