Mariah Carey wants to collaborate with Lenny Kravitz.
The 57-year-old singer has made a public appeal for the American Woman hitmaker to “call” her about working together because she is such a big fan of his work.
During a Reddit AMA session, she told a fan who urged her to duet with Lenny: “I love Lenny too… Lenny if you’re seeing this, call me!”
The All I Want for Christmas hitmaker was also quizzed on her much-discussed unreleased grunge album, Someone’s Ugly Daughter, and offered a “hint” as to when fans will finally get to hear it.
She wrote: “I get asked this about once a week. My answer is…#notyet (this is a hint!)”
Mariah first revealed in 2020 that she had made the grunge album back in 1995 and she previously admitted she is still keen 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 suggested she should release it independently using “GarageBand or something, like, a grungy thing”, and the singer added: “I could do that.”
She went on to say: “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.”
Mariah previously opened up about the buried album in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 in 2020, revealing music executives banned her from releasing it.
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 album did get a release under the band name Chick, with Mariah’s pal Clarissa Dane taking over lead vocals. Mariah’s singing was heard only as backing vocals and she was credited as D. Sue.
The singer opened up about the project in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, writing: “I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time.
“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.”
