Jermaine Dupri On Mariah Carey Upcoming Album
Jermaine Dupri celebrated the opening of his new nightclub, Studio 72, in Atlanta last night.
While there,he spoke with the media of Mariah Carey’s upcoming album:
“I’m mixing one of Mariah’s records today,” JD said. “I don’t know if it’s her first single, but I’m mixing one of the records that I think L.A. [Reid, head of Island Def Jam] is thinking about as one of her first singles.”
He later added:
“I don’t even know,” he answered when questioned about the record’s specifics. “You know what’s crazy about the Mariah records? When I work on a Mariah record, she always goes home and records her vocals without me. I ain’t heard the song! She calls and tells me, ‘I finished, let’s go and do it.’
“She’s a person that you have to respect her for doing her job,” he added. “She respects me for doing my job. When I’m in the studio, she don’t question what kick [-drum sound] I use. She don’t question if I’m using the right snare. She might say, ‘I ain’t feeling it.’ I could say the same thing. There’s been plenty of times when I’ve said, ‘Mariah, I think you need to sing this part over.’ But after the last album, we got a pretty good understanding. She knows what I’m looking for from her now. We’re hoping we have the same formula this time.”
Carey’s eleventh studio album will be released during Thanksgiving week of 2007, according to Dupri.
