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Friday 4 OctOber 2024
Q&A: Mariah Carey wasn’t always sure about making a Christmas album

By KRYSTA FAURIA inception?
Associated Press CAREY: So that was the
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariah record company saying,
Carey relishes the fact that “You should do a Christmas
she has become culturally album.” And I was like, “I
synonymous with Christmas — don’t know that I should at
thanks in part to the longevity this juncture.” Because, you
of her iconic song “All I Want know, I was very young and
for Christmas Is You,” and its was just starting out and I felt
ubiquity every year when the like people do Christmas al-
holidays roll around. But the bums later in their lives. But
Grammy winner admits she now people have started to
initially wasn’t sure about do- do them whenever, like right
ing a Christmas record when at the top of their career. So,
her label pitched it. I mean, what was I feeling
“I was a little bit apprehen- like? I was a little bit appre-
sive,” she recalls, reflecting hensive and then I was like,
on her album, “Merry Christ- “I love this.” And I decorated
mas,” turning 30 this month. the studio and just had the
Ahead of her appearance best time.
at Sunday’s American Music AP: Chappell Roan has made
Awards and an upcoming headlines for speaking out
Christmas tour that kicks off in about how she is grappling
November, Carey spoke with with sudden fame. As some-
The Associated Press about one who has been in the
the advice she would give to Mariah Carey performs at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, Dec. 31, 2017, in New public eye for so long, do you
York.
young artists navigating fame Associated Press have advice for young artists
and the use of her song, who are dealing with this?
“Always Be My Baby,” in Ari pushed aside and I was really some artistic liberty and em- didn’t do as well but still did CAREY: Well, I have been
Aster’s 2023 horror comedy, happy about that because powerment that maybe you pretty well. Whatever. through my share of dramas
“Beau Is Afraid.” I needed to come back, hadn’t before? AP: “It’s Like That” is a great and it’s not fun because you
The interview has been ed- apparently. And so, it was CAREY: Yeah, I feel like peo- song. grow up thinking, “I want to
ited for clarity and brevity. a comeback. But it’s one ple were ready to re-em- CAREY: It’s a good song. And be famous.” I mean, really
AP: What has it been like to of my favorite albums. And brace me. And, you know, I love performing it. You know, with me, it was always, “I
celebrate nearly 20 years of celebrating it this year and how did I feel about that? I I go through stages with these want to be a singer. I want
“The Emancipation of Mimi” this celebration of “Mimi” was mean, I feel like the album albums. It’s interesting. to write songs.” But “I want to
and reflect on this album’s really fun because I never get “Charmbracelet” was a very AP: Your first Christmas album, be famous” was right there
legacy? to do those songs. I never do good album too, but not ev- “Merry Christmas,” is turning with it. I feel like it was prob-
CAREY: I think “The Eman- them. erybody knew that album. 30 this month. That was obvi- ably because I didn’t feel like
cipation of Mimi” is one of And this this time I did. So, you know, when “We ously a formative record for I was good enough on my
my albums where there were AP: Because of that kind of Belong Together” came out you and your career. Do you own because of the things I
different boundaries that got underdog feeling, you felt after “It’s Like That,” which remember anything about its went through growing up. q

Daniel Day-Lewis ends acting retirement for a movie directed by

his son

By JAKE COYLE Day-Lewis is coming out of directed by his son Ronan “All my life, I’ve mouthed relationships between fa-
AP Film Writer retirement, seven years af- Day-Lewis. off about how I should stop thers, sons and brothers,
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel ter his last movie, for a film The project was an- acting, and I don’t know and the dynamics of famil-
nounced Tuesday by Focus why it was different this ial bonds.”
Features and Plan B, who time, but the impulse to Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a
are partnering on “Anem- quit took root in me, and painter who has previously
one.” The film, Ronan Day- that became a compul- exhibited his works in New
Lewis’ directorial debut, will sion,” he told W Magazine York. His first international
star his father along with in 2017. “It was something I solo exhibition debuts Tues-
Sean Bean and Saman- had to do.” day in Hong Kong.
tha Morton. The film was Since then, his appear- “We could not be more ex-
co-written by the two Day- ances in public have been cited to partner with a bril-
Lewises. infrequent. In January, liant visual artist in Ronan
Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day- though, he made a surprise Day-Lewis on his first feature
Lewis and Bean were spot- appearance at the Nation- film alongside Daniel Day-
ted driving a motorbike al Board of Review Awards Lewis as his creative collab-
through Manchester, Eng- to present an award to orator,” said Peter Kujawski,
land, stoking intrigue about Martin Scorsese, who di- chair of Focus Features.
his impending return to rected him in “Gangs of “They have written a truly
acting. After making Paul New York” (2002) and “The exceptional script, and we
Writer-director Rebecca Miller, right, and husband Daniel Thomas Anderson’s 2017 Age of Innocence” (1993). look forward to bringing
Day-Lewis attend a special screening of “She Came to Me” at film “Phantom Thread,” the “Anemone,” currently in their shared vision to audi-
Metrograph, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. 67-year-old had said he production, is described ences alongside the team
Associated Press was quitting acting. as exploring “the intricate at Plan B.”q