Foo Fighters and Taylor Momsen have joined forces to cover songs from Mariah Carey’s long-lost ‘90s grunge album – watch footage below.
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The mysterious lost record first came to public attention when the singer spoke about it in her 2020 memoir The Making Of Mariah Carey. She lent vocals to the album ‘Someone’s Ugly Daughter’ by the alt-rock band Chick, with influences said to include Sleater-Kinney and L7, but the version that was released in 1995 did not feature Carey’s voice.
Carey was honoured at the annual MusiCares Person Of The Year benefit show in the Los Angeles Convention Center last night (January 30), and among a range of tributes from other big names, Foo Fighters teamed up with The Pretty Reckless frontwoman to give some tracks from ‘Someone’s Ugly Daughter’ a rare airing.
They played ‘Love Is A Scam’ and ‘Demented’, while other performers on the night included Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Kesha, Billy Porter, Laufey, Charlie Puth, Teddy Swims, Maggie Rogers and Adam Lambert.
Watch footage of Foos and Momsen’s performance here:
Taylor Momsen and the Foo Fighters cover a track from Mariah Carey’s secret ‘90s alt-rock band Chick at her #Musicares tribute pic.twitter.com/JoifOnCn8r
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Carey spoke again about the album in 2022, hinting that she still wanted to release the full album, despite only snippets having been shared online to date, while in 2024, she said she was “so mad I haven’t [released it] yet”.
She told Jimmy Fallon last year that she didn’t know who owned the master recordings and suggested that previous attempts to publish the album had been blocked by Sony.
When Carey first announced the album’s existence in her memoir, she wrote: “I’d bring my little alt-rock song to the band and hum a silly guitar riff. They would pick it up and we would record it immediately. It was irreverent, raw, and urgent, and the band got into it. I actually started to love some of the songs. I would fully commit to my character.”
“I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time,” she added. “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. I totally looked forward to doing my alter-ego band sessions after Daydream each night.”
As for Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl revealed on stage in Australia last week that the band had finished work on their new album “the other day”. It would be their first studio record since 2023’s ‘But Here We Are’, while last year they released the new singles ‘Today’s Song’ and ‘Asking For A Friend’.
The Pretty Reckless, meanwhile, released their first music in four years in August with the single ‘For I Am Death’.
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