.MariahCarey released Rainbow 20 years ago this month, showing fans a different side of herself, and empowering fans to find themselves
That liberation was right there in the name of the album. By Mariah’s account from a 1999 interview with, she came up with the title on a particularly rough day. “I was going into the studio in L.A., and there were two really clear rainbows, one on top of the other — I’d never seen that — and I was just having this really stressful day, which is standard for me,” she said.
After battling with Sony to make it a single, “Can’t Take That Away ” became one of Mariah’s most treasuredcuts, largely because it resonated with fans who had also experienced the adversities of being biracial. “My reality is that I grew up an interracial child,” Mariah said in a “” 1999 interview with an unnamed outlet that was preserved and uploaded on YouTube by fans.
Keisha, a biracial woman from Chicago, found inspiration through Mariah’s own journey. “As a biracial woman, in general it’s hard to feel accepted. And I know a lot of people don’t think that because they assume, ‘Oh you’re light-skinned, you have good hair, you have it easy,’ and people put that on a pedestal. That’s only a portion of what you really go through.
By enlisting a roster of hip-hop guests and collaborators — like Jermaine Dupri, DJ Clue and Ken “Duro” Ifill, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Brian-Michael Cox, Kandi Burruss, and Craig B of No Limit’s Beats By Da Pound — Mariah also helped kick down the doors for rap music to be embraced within pop, even during, and even performed “Heartbreaker ” alongside Missy on, which was unprecedented territory for hip-hop in the late ‘90s.
“Mariah had broken so many barriers in that area and for us [young women] it was important. She used her sensuality in a coquettish way that wasn’t trashy and was more on the classy side with her album cover and music,” said Traci, a hip-hop lover who became a Mariah fan because of heavy rap infusion on. “Also, watching the remix of ‘Heartbreaker’ meant a lot because it had all women.
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