Saturday, April 5, 2008

Mariah Carey might be a GeneYus.

Before meetin' miss Popper and the handsome Pete and Anthony in Billyburg for delicious chorizo tacos and fish tacos and chips and salsa and margaritas with salt collars, I had a brave day at work.
Hustlin' for Mariah, "on fi'yuh" Carey.

Her new album is titled E=Mc2.

The title a bit of a marvel for me, especially since nobody has been able to give me a proper (propa! please Hammer, don't hurt em'!) explanation for why she's calling it that.
Today I was alllll calling everyone upstairs at DefJam, and asking "what's the significance of this title?" and they were all "MC ...that's her initials" and I was allllll "yeah, I get that. But what does it have to do with Einstein's theory of relativity (there was an awkward pause here). no, seriously. Is it supposed to be ironic or funny?" 
And in short, nobody could give me an answer.
"Mariah likes it." --- about as far I got.
I discussed this with a friend of mine and I don't think anyone could say it better than he did.
And I quote:
"I can't decide what would be more disappointing to Einstein: the fact that his theories ultimately allowed for the development of nuclear weapons, or that his most 
celebrated equation would grace the cover of a Mariah Carey album. Seems like a toss up."





2 comments:

drewthurlow said...

fightin the good fight, one major-label release at a time. you really are on the frontier, erismo...

thisiswhyihatenewyork said...

haha who said that? was that at dinner or were you quoting then? *shakes dust from memory*