Mariah Carey Reveals 1 Time She Was ‘Annoyed’ With Her Fans — But Admits They Were Right

Mariah Carey didn’t have a vision of love when it came to how fans perceived her 10th studio album, “The Emancipation of Mimi.”

The 2005 album, which marked its 20th anniversary on April 12, represented what Carey has called “an incredible part” of her life — but the way fans labeled it wasn’t something she was particularly obsessed with.

“At the time, it annoyed me when they called it a comeback album,” Carey told People in interview published April 18. “But now I’m just like, ‘Oh yeah, my comeback album.’”

Carey, who first hit the airwaves in 1990, continued to say, “It’s like, how many comebacks do I have to have?”

But she confessed that the description was, in reality, “somewhat accurate.”

The “We Belong Together” singer acknowledged that “not everybody knows the album,” but delights in the idea that listeners can still discover its deeper cuts and experience something that resonates anew.

To celebrate the milestone, the icon sat down with Spotify to reflect on the album — artistically and spiritually.

“‘Fly Like a Bird’ is probably the vocal take that I’m most proud of,” she said. “It was such a strong message that I was kind of writing to God, to myself, to my fans. It still feels that way to me.”

In a video for Vevo Footnotes, Carey also revealed the story behind the wedding dress she wore in the “We Belong Together” video. Rather than splurging on a new gown, she opted for the one already in her closet — the very dress she wore when she married record executive Tommy Mottola in 1993 and divorced in 1998.

“Since I was going to do a scene with a wedding dress, rather than spend tons of money on a new dress, we just used the one I had lying around!” she wrote.