Mariah Carey sets September 29 release date for memoir 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey'

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[iznanassi]

How deep do we think this will actually go?

[queer_bee]

I hope she tells all. But knowing Mariah, I’m a little doubtful she’ll go all out because her walls are always up so high lol. We shall see.

[hjalmartazar]

Ohh I'm interested in reading this

[hazypink]

Ooh, maybe I’ll check this out. I have been very in the mood to read some juicy and/or interesting celeb memoirs. Does anyone have any recommendations?? I heard Jessica Simpson’s and Demi Moore’s were pretty good?

[maidenhell]

I read both. I really liked Jessica's and highly recommend it. She is an open book with her writing. Demi Moore's was okay. It didn't go into depth as much as I thought it would, considering she was once the biggest actress in Hollywood (and the first to score the highest paycheque for a film, if I recall). She does blast Ashton Kutcher though, so it may be worth it for that.

[hazypink]

Thank you! I’ll check them both out

[basedgoddess]

celebrity is a stretch but i really enjoyed holly madison's two books.

[triviagogo29]

What's an "image activist"?

[friarsfire]

Preorder to find out!

(I kid. I kid. I have no damn clue.)

eta: I just skimmed a bunch of articles (such as this) about her and it’s never explicitly defined in them. The best sense I can get is using one’s image to flout social norms and to challenge the stereotyped images placed on others, especially black women. A more cynical person might think that someone with the name “Angela Davis” within her name was trying to play up that association.

Ultimately, I still don’t have a damn clue - but now it’s not for lack of trying.

[ghastly]

From Google about the cowriter: "Michaela Angela Davis is an image activist. She coined the term herself some ten years ago when she started Take Back The Music, a campaign that challenged how black women were represented in hip hop music videos. Based in Brooklyn, she herself challenges perceptions, as a light-skinned black woman, and uses her position to spark debates in mainstream media outlets like CNN and MTV, from how we talk about ‘afro hair’, to how black women are under-represented in Hollywood. A writer, public speaker, stylist to stars like LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige and Prince - and a magazine editor formerly at Essence, Honey and Vibe - today Michaela works with organisations such as Black Girls Rock! to make negative images a thing of the past."

[kidviciousdonna]

She sounds interesting

[topismine]

I will be preordering. I feel like she has a lot of interesting stories to tell.

[jeterluva]

I pre-ordered the audiobook. I'll probably get the print copy too.

[girl_overboard]

If Mariah's doing it I will too.

[syntheses]

i haven't seen you around in forever! how are you doing?!