Mariah Carey has shed light on why she pays no attention to the concept of time, and destroyed our brains in the process.
The All I Want For Christmas singer has made her feelings on getting older very clear over the years, and previously declared that she only celebrates her ‘anniversaries’.
Unpacking this further in a new interview with Capital FM ahead of her Summertime Ball performance over the weekend, the 56-year-old made her feelings very clear.
When asked whether it was true that she doesn’t ‘acknowledge the passing of time’, she conceded: ‘That is true … I just don’t believe in it.’
Touching on if she means time zones, Mariah simply replied: ‘No, no. just time. Let it go!’
As the baffled interviewers attempted to get to the bottom of exactly what this meant, the mom-of-two clarified: ‘I don’t have a birthday, no. Anniversaries, yes.’
She added that, if she was meeting someone at a specific time, she would ‘have somebody call you and figure it out.’
It truly is Mariah’s world and we’re all just living in it…
However, it must be noted that the Fantasy musician does see ‘time’ at some points, as she annually reminds us that ‘it’s time’ for winter to begin the very second the clock strikes midnight on November 1, ushering in her Christmas celebrations.
This isn’t the first time that the Grammy-winner has spoken publicly about looking at time differently, as she has been vocal about shunning traditional ‘birthdays’ in favor of ‘anniversaries’.
Speaking to Out Magazine in 2014, she opened up about her reasoning behind this, and why she stays ‘eternally 12’.
‘I don’t count years but I definitely rebuke them … I have anniversaries, not birthdays, because I celebrate life, darling,’ she explained. ‘As a kid I literally made this pact.
‘There had been some sort of argument with my mom and the man she was dating at the time, and somehow I became a part of it – I was around 8 or 9 years old, and I said, “I’m never going to forget how it feels to be a kid, and you can’t be seen or heard.”
‘It’s as though your opinion doesn’t mean anything, or your feelings are not real.’
We hope we get an invite to Mariah’s next 12th anniversary party.
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