Being In Love helped shape Mariah Carey’s new ‘Memoirs’

‘Everything changes when you’re in love,’ she says of husband’s effect on Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.

It’s not the first time Mariah Carey has recorded music as a married woman. In 1993 Carey wed record executive Tommy Mottola and released her mega-hit album Music Box. But the couple separated in 1997 and divorced the following year. A decade later the singer found herself in wedded bliss with Nick Cannon.

So, has their marriage changed the music she’s making these days? “Everything changes when you’re in love,” she told MTV News. “We have a connection that I’ve never experienced before. So that’s amazing and it’s something that I can’t even really put into words.”

She added that in some ways her relationship with Cannon did affect her new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, due this fall. She explained, “So everything that I do when I go into the studio — I mean, there are songs that are directly [about our relationship]. They come from the place where I’m at right now with him.”

But that wasn’t the only relationship she had on her mind when she was working on Memoirs. Certain tracks touch on past relationships and experiences. “There are some songs that are about years ago,” she said. “There are some songs that are about old friends, stories they told me. So it’s like every time I go in to write something new we go somewhere, and it’s like I don’t know that everybody would know that I’ve been through half of these situations.”

Source: MTV News