Tuesday 5 March 2002

Mariah faked herself for film

During the filming of Mariah Carey's flop movie, "Glitter", the diva tried hard to ensure that her songs were not leaked out prematurely. The filming concluded almost a year before the movie was released to theaters - so this aspect, as you can see, was very important to control. Carey asked her somewhat-sound-alike and background singer Mary Ann Tatum, who portrays the voice of young Mariah in "Glitter", to record renditions of the songs scheduled to be in the film. Those versions were used during filming and the real songs were later laid into the actual movie.

Mariah said she could finally rest easy after months of trying to throw potential song scammers off her trail. To ensure this, she even went as far as having Tatum record a song titled "Every Time" and had it leaked out onto the Internet - on purpose. "The whole thing was me saying, 'OK, how can this not get ripped off?' Let me come up with a fake title and not put my voice on this yet," she said.

Though her plan worked for the most part, several of Carey's ideas for samples supposedly hit the streets before the "Glitter" soundtrack was available on store shelves. "That's the result of the thievery. But it's OK," she said.

Many thanks to Mariah Land.



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