Mariah Carey Reveals the ‘Hideous’ Commonplace Thing She Can’t Stand: ‘It Makes Me Sick’
If it’s anything but a spotlight, Mariah Carey wants nothing to do with your overhead bulbs.
In a clip from the superstar’s upcoming guest appearance on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas podcast posted Sunday (Oct. 13), Mimi went on a hilarious tirade against a certain interior design choice. “I can’t with the overhead lighting,” she began, zeroing in on her least favorite lighting for the show’s traditional “I Don’t Think So, Honey” segment.
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“I’m the one that gets the most tortured by the hideous lighting in every elevator, doorway, gyms — not that I go to the gym, but I’m just saying,” Carey continued as Yang and Rogers laughed. “The sun is OK, if it’s at sunset. Then I will gladly go outside and put a hat on.”
“Every place I go: Shut the lights,” she added. “Turn them out. I don’t want to see them. No more … Overhead lighting, it makes me sick.”
The full episode of Las Culturistas featuring Carey will drop Wednesday (Oct. 16). It comes as the vocalist is gearing up to launch her annual Christmastime festivities, including a holiday tour for which she’s already started preparing.
The star also recently unveiled two new single covers for her iconic Billboard Hot 100-topping holiday smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” “While it is definitely not time to listen to Christmas music yet I wanted to share a glimpse of #MerryChristmas30 with you!” Carey tweeted Oct. 9. “An homage to the original album cover, here is the cover art for two of the four new ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ physical singles…”
Carey will also soon mark the 20th anniversary of her iconic 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi, which once spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The five-time Grammy winner kicked things off a few months early by performing one of the album’s most enduring singles, “We Belong Together,” at the American Music Awards at the beginning of October.
Watch Carey’s hilarious rant about overhead lighting below.
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