December is here, and her reign continues...
This is the story of Mariah Carey, the unofficial "Queen of Christmas."
This is the story of Mariah Carey, the unofficial "Queen of Christmas."
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00:00I write my songs, produce my songs. Not many people know that, because as a female, sometimes people forget.
00:06They just see glamorous, da-da-da-da, but they don't think you're the one writing, you're doing these things.
00:11But that's what I'm most proud of.
00:30I just think I'm a human being that's trying to live like everybody else.
00:50She quit doing that at a certain point, and then she kind of struggled, and I didn't grow up having a lot of money or a lot of things.
00:58I had a lot of ambition, and I started writing songs when I was 13.
01:08It's different when you grow up as a biracial person. It's really different, particularly in America, where we think we're over this racism situation, but we're not.
01:18We're really not. People look at me, they don't know what to think I am. They're just confused sometimes. They've been confused for years.
01:28The thing that I've always done, even from the time that I was little, is when there were negative things going on, like in my childhood or in my life, or anything that would bring me down,
01:55or people who maybe weren't encouraging me to be a singer, who weren't encouraging me in my life, I would kind of take that and use it as inspiration for writing songs or for singing.
02:25I feel very blessed to have everything that I have. But most importantly, I'd sing and make music if nobody ever heard it but me and whoever I played it for. It's something I do to live, really.
02:55It's something I do to live, really.
03:25Yes, it feels commercial in some ways, but for me it was an honest representation of how I feel about the holidays when I first wrote it. I was very, very young, and it was the first Christmas song that I ever wrote. I love it.
03:55I love it.
04:24I love it.
04:44Celebrity and music business and whatever other projects you're involved in, first, before the human being, that's when anybody will crash physically. Your body just literally cannot go on one hour of sleep for two months. It doesn't work. No matter how tough you think you are at a certain point, you just have to stop.
05:14We have this room at the top of the house and also the roof. They're both designed in Moroccan style. So we spend a lot of time up there, Nick and myself. And anyway, one of the babies ended up being called Moroccan.
05:44I'm this princess that fell down from Never Never Land and grew up exfoliating my skin with diamonds. No, that's not who I am. I really had a lot of intense things happen to me as a child and growing up and stuff like that. So I think all of us in this film understand what it's like to be a little bit, a slice of what Precious's life is.
06:44Some awards are about statistics and things like that, and some are about something a little more real. Do you know what I mean? And this feels like one of those moments, so I think it's great.
07:14It becomes a part of people's lives, like the soundtrack to maybe at least one holiday moment, and hopefully it's a good memory.
07:44Santa!
08:12It's time!