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DEM BABIES
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DEM BABIES
Boy meets girl and looks in her eyes
Time stands still and two hearts catch fire
Off they go, roller coaster ride
—“Love Story”
Much of the iconic television of the 1990s missed me. I never got to watch Seinfeld (nowI’m such a stan of Comedians3 in Cars Getting Coffee) and I had no time for—and wasisolated from—actual friends, let alone sitcom4 ones. All my time was spent hustling,working, praying, and making “Mariah Carey.” I barely watched children’s shows when Iwas a child, so I certainly didn’t know of any Nickelodeon shows or their stars. I had noclue All That was all that, and I had no idea who Nick Cannon5 was until 2002, when I sawthe film Drumline (which I loved). I thought he was very good in it (I also thought he wascute—very). That was all.
A couple of years later, Brat6 was telling me, “He loves you. He always talks aboutyou,” referring to Nick. She was a fan of Wild ’N Out, his hip-hop–infused improv sketch-comedy show on MTV, which I also had no knowledge of. Wild ’N Out came out the sameyear as The Emancipation7 of Mimi, which consumed me in a good way—finally. It was anincredible moment of long-awaited, phenomenal success. I was hearing one of several ofmy songs from that album on the radio thirty times a day! It was a massive moment formy fans too. It was what they needed. They need to see me come back like that. I reallybelieve, for better or worse, the Lambily, the fans and I, go through things together.
“We Belong Together” was a colossal8 song. It was breaking chart and airplay recordsall over the United States and internationally. It became my sixteenth number-one recordon the Billboard9 Hot 100 (also making me the first woman artist to concurrently10
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n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像 | |
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dermatologist
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exhausted
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collaborating
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investigator
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