By Newsdesk
December 12, 2025 |
Mariah Carey's long-rumoured grunge album is officially set to arrive next year.
The Fantasy singer first shared in 2020 that she had completely stepped outside her usual style back in 1995 to create an alternative project, although it has remained unheard by the public ever since.
Now, her record label has decided to release Someone's Ugly Daughter in the latter half of 2026.
A source told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: “Ever since she let slip about the existence of the album, fans have been desperate for it to be officially released and put on streaming."
“After years of casual talks about what to do, everyone has now agreed the album will be released in the second half of 2026."
“It’s been a long time coming, but hopefully fans think it’s worth the wait."
“It’s certainly Mariah as you’ve never heard her before.”
In October 2024, the 56-year-old artist admitted she still wants the grunge project to come out one day.
During an interview on the Las Culturistas podcast, host Matt Rogers asked, "Can you drop that grunge album?" and Mariah responded, "I know, right? I'm so mad that I haven't done that yet ... but who do I drop it with?"
Rogers suggested she could release it independently using "Garage Band or something, like, a grungy thing" and Mariah answered, "I could do that."
She continued: "It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting."
The All I Want For Christmas Is You singer previously discussed the hidden record during a 2020 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, explaining that music executives prevented her from putting it out.
She said: "I got kind of in trouble for making this album the alternative albu because back then, everything was super-controlled by the powers that be."
"I never really was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to release it.’ But then I was like, I should release it. I should do it under an alias. Let people discover it and whatever, but that got squashed."
The album did surface under the band name Chick, with Mariah's friend Clarissa Dane handling lead vocals. Mariah’s voice appeared only in the background and she was credited as D. Sue.
The singer revisited the project in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, writing: "I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time."
"You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every move I made was so calculated and manicured."
"I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery but I also wanted to laugh."
