Mariah Carey's First Interview on The Ellen Show (Full Interview) (Season 2)

first guest is the highest selling female artist of all time 150 million albums sold and 15 number one hits her latest CD is called the emancipation of Mimi and a debuted where else number one please welcome Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey thank you all right you're you're just yellow I don't know why you're yelling and screaming except that you love her but I we have a story we have a story and I I heard this might be the case but you tell it okay so you know that sometimes it's all about the Ensemble I'm doing

two songs today and I tried couple dresses and one of them wasn't working so Ellen was nice enough to say if you want to borrow a suit or something joking right joking knowing that I could like my body like is sort of rebels against suits and jackets of All Sorts you know it's minimal clothing for me usually so everybody backstage was like yeah right and then we were like okay we'll try to find some jeans we had no jeans anyway I knocked on Ellen's door this is true story I didn't know if she was gonna

say get out of here whatever and I said can I really borrow the suit so she was so nice and she let me look through a bunch of different options and this was the option [Applause] I've never worn it like that I think Ellen can wear it like this very well no thank you for dressing me to this I know this is like the highest paid stylist in the world yes yeah well now when I said you could borrow a suit I meant also a shirt but well we're working towards that we're working towards that

all right no you look fantastic I didn't like I said I didn't know it could be worn like that because we talked about it first that you were going to wear your prom dress right you went to you went to the prom right ah darling it's a long story yes I went yeah it was a whole ordeal uh why well okay when I was growing up and I had like an identity crisis and all these dramas because I was you know biracial and we moved around 13 times so it was like my dream to be

prom queen so by the time I got to 12th grade he was like okay I have my chance I have my shot I learned how to do my hair had 500 hours Beauty School it was a whole thing so me and my best friend um decided a guy decided to go to prom together of course we were inspired by like 16 candles and all those movies you know everybody's on the prom so we had no money to do this so I had to throw a keg party and um and it really it was like a

very Bleak party because it was only one keg but everybody thought it was going to be this hot party and my boyfriend at the time was a bouncer so he was like a real bouncer for a real bar and he was like six foot five so he was charging people like how he liked them if he liked them they could get in for cheaper if he didn't like them they have to pay like ten dollars so we raised like a thousand something dollars so we paid for our limo and my dress which I had personally

specially made by a lovely one Woman Who Lived like somewhere around where I lived and my prom dress was a scandal because not dissimilar to the dress I have out in the it's like that video it was like a one shoulder number white with the midriff open and clinging to the body down with a slit towards the bottom it wasn't the suit but it was yeah yeah somewhat so so oh but the drama was I was nominated for prom queen because my friend Nick got on to the committee for the student council only to nominate

me for prom queen so we could be prompt queen and king of course right yeah so so anyway so I get on to that close this close to being prom queen and they shipped me who who made it do you remember her name still yeah um kind of oh you know I'm not sure it could have been one of two girls darling I was two it was too distraught yeah no but I really wouldn't have been appropriate for me to win because I really wasn't yeah you know I didn't participate much in clubs between your

boyfriend being The Bouncer and also you said he charged more for people that y'all didn't like well a lot of people that did you didn't like that came to that place because you raised a lot of money not even that he didn't like but like like a lot of the underclassmen people would come just to be cool they were going to like whatever they can't party and it was not even an inside party you know that was they kind of got jipped but I got a dress yeah you got a dress and if you want

you can wear my tiara goodness you can feel [Applause] but I think that it would be nice to see you with one on two if they had two I only have I only have one should we share it I don't think that's possible well if you saw the movie Mean Girls they she broke it oh no don't break my kids material I think you should wear it no no all right well I'll put it on sure just to see yeah sure just to see it yeah you can tweak it and everything yeah I can't believe

you went to Beauty that's what you're gonna do well no that was like I knew that I was going to either have to waitress or do something like in the interim of you know getting a deal or whatever so I was like I like doing hair okay let me try the beauty school thing so I was always singing during beauty school and my teacher hated me it's unbelievable how successful you are and and you've been how long has it been since the the last CD it's been four years um I think like three and a

half yeah around there and I think what people don't know because I was wondering where you were and you write every single one of your songs yeah did you know that she writes [Music] you know it does take a while and with this record I really wanted to over record so I did like 20 songs and um I had to eliminate some or whatever but the the lyrics take me a little bit longer and but this was actually a cool experience because I collaborated with a lot of people hadn't worked with before Pharrell the Neptunes

that's great producers yes a duet with Nelly and Snoop which was cool and just that whole writing process was more collaborative so it was like gave me a chance to say stuff I wouldn't necessarily say on my own yeah um well I would in private but um you know a lot of really great people Kanye West Jermaine Dupri who I love who's the best in the world yeah yeah and everybody wondered can you be gone that long can you be gone for four years and and still pick it right up and and you have well

I have to thank the fans because they're the ones who stuck with me hold on one second we have we have to go to break and uh and then you're gonna sing but I just want to give you a quick gift before I know that growing up Mariah was a hard name for you because you can't find any keychains nothing I heard that story and I thought it was sad and uh I wanted to make sure that you have a keychain a little butterfly keychain of course the most important thing a flask with Mariah on

it a license plate a doll you're all set now oh that is so nice [Applause]