Background
Mariah Carey, who plays the protagonist of the film, began working on a film and soundtrack project titled All That Glitters. However, during that period, Columbia Records pressured Carey to release a compilation album, in time for the favorable holiday season in November. Consequently, Carey put All That Glitters on hold, and released the compilation in November 1998. Following an additional studio album in 1999, titled Rainbow, but when the project was delayed, she published some of the material on Rainbow, in which she fully exerted creative control over the album and its sound, and then, Carey completed her contract with Columbia Records, and later, she signed a deal with Virgin Records (EMI Records). Carey has said about the film, "It's in the early '80s, in the club scene of that time. I play a singer, Billie, who's mixed-race, from a white father and a black mother. Billie grows up in a foster home, because her mother abandoned her. Later on she meets a DJ and becomes a star in just one night. The point is, that all this time she waits for her mother to return. As you can see, this is far away from my reality, because I couldn't have a closer relationship with my own mother. When she's not with me, she calls like every five minutes."
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