According to an interview with People, Mariah Carey‘s been hard at work on new material, and she’s calling her upcoming musical project a “labor of love.”
“I’ve been working on my new album for a while,” the Billboard chart-topping singer revealed. This is a labor of love and I’m really excited…My fans just want to hear me express myself and speak from the heart and sing from the heart.”
When prompted about what content she is bringing to the table with the new album, Carey said that fans can expect both uptempo tracks and reflective lyrics.
“Some of the record is lighthearted and fun, and some [songs] I really went deep in terms of the lyrical content,” she said. “There’s a nice cross-section of things.”
Carey is in the midst of her Vegas residency “The Butterfly Returns,” and recently announced she’d be extending the dates into 2019.
“I’ve been loving it so much,” she says about her Caesars Palace show. “A lot of the fans who have come out to see it were really happy having a little more diversity. I want to make it really impromptu and surprise the people who have come out again and again to see the show.”
We can’t wait to her what she’s been cooking up.
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