Marah Carey Talks ‘We Belong Collectively’ Video for Vevo Footnotes

Mariah Carey mirrored on the making of her music video for “We Belong Collectively,” the second single off her 2005 album, The Emancipation of Mimi, for Vevo Footnotes. In chyrons that play round her video, she remembers writing the track with Jermaine Dupri and the way gratifying it was to make a music video that carried over the story from a earlier clip: “We Belong Collectively” continues the story of Carey (Mimi’s) love triangle with characters performed Wentworth Miller and Eric Roberts in her “It’s Like That” video.

“I used to be excited to have the ability to inform a narrative that spanned over two music movies,” she mentioned. “It was the primary time I ever did that, and I knew we’d have the ability to carry them collectively regardless of the songs being sonically completely different. I additionally actually liked the style selections, going from carrying a black two piece to carrying a marriage costume by Vera Wang.”

That costume has an attention-grabbing backstory, because it’s the identical one she wore at her first marriage ceremony, to file exec Tommy Mottola in 1993. They divorced in 1998, lengthy earlier than Mimi’s 2005 emancipation, so it’s an attention-grabbing alternative for her to revisit her previous within the video, a reality she type of shrugs off within the Footnotes. “Since I used to be going to do a scene with a marriage costume, relatively than spend tons of cash on a brand new costume, we simply used the one I had mendacity round!” she wrote.

She additionally revealed that the manufacturing ran out of time whereas making the video, in order that they needed to minimize corners on filming places. “We didn’t have time to shoot all of the scenes on the unique shoot day, so I ended up filming the scenes within the white kaftan and after I’m mendacity in mattress after I was in London on a promo tour for the album,” she wrote.

Finally, she wrote that the video was a constructive expertise. “I’m actually glad that the label believed in me and let me have this massive dramatic video, and I’m happier that it resonated with lots of people who’re nonetheless having fun with this track at this time,” Carey mentioned.

Carey can be celebrating The Emancipation of Mimi additional this 12 months with a deluxe reissue of the file, which features a cappella variations of songs, instrumentals, and unreleased cuts, amongst different rarities. “This album has a few of my greatest hits to this point, in addition to some private favorites which are very particular to me,” she mentioned in a press release.