![]() ![]() Carey performed "Bye Bye" for the final time on the seventh season of American Idol, where she was featured as a mentor for the top-seven week. Carey first performed the song on T4, followed by Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Bye Bye" was performed on few live televised appearances, in comparison to the large promotional boost given to "Touch My Body". Throughout other countries where it found release, the song achieved relatively weak charting, peaking within the top ten in New Zealand, and in the top-fifty in Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom. Though expected by critics to have surely become Carey's nineteenth chart-topping single in the United States, following the success of "Touch My Body", the track only managed to reach a peak position of number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100. Many reviewers complimented its simple production, as well as its very personal and inspirational lyrics, while some criticized it for being too simple for an artist of Carey's caliber. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics, with many considering it a highlight from the album. Lyrically, the song features a dialogue in between Carey and her deceased father throughout the verses, and a universal salute to departed loved ones on the chorus, where she sings "This is for everybody, just lift your hands to the sky, cause we won't ever say bye bye". The song draws influence from pop and R&B music genres, and features a piano and keyboard-driven melody. It was released as the album's second single on April 15, 2008, in the United States, Australasia and select European countries. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen and Johntá Austin, and produced by the former three. “Young Patricia had big dreams-many of which she realized.Bye Bye" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, taken from her eleventh studio album, E=MC²(2008). Mariah’s mother was disowned by her family after eloping with a black man, her father Alfred Roy Carey.ĭescribing the opera singer of Cork descent as a “rebel”, she said: “My mother not only ignored the moral code of her hometown, she rebelled against it, later becoming active in the civil rights movement. ![]() But black? Black people were always at the absolute bottom of the order.” “To my mother’s mother, all “others” were below the Irish. ![]() “Blue eyes were a symbol of the purity of whiteness, and being of 100 percent “pure” Irish descent was central to her mother’s entire identity. “My mother was known as the “dark one” because her hair wasn’t blond and her eyes were a mix of brown and green, not pure blue like her brother’s and sister’s. Una Healy stuns as she heads out for brunch with friend.RTE's Ryan Tubridy confronts man who called him a 'f****t' and squared up to him in the street.“And her father never had a chance to know her he died while her mother was pregnant with her. Her mother certainly didn’t understand her. In her new book released last year, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the star admitted being “pure Irish” was central to her family’s identity but told how her mother rebelled against it by marrying her father.ĭiscussing what her heritage meant to her, the book reads : “To a certain extent, I know how my mother became who she is. Her father, Alfred Roy Carey, was an engineer of African American and Venezuelan descent. Her mother, Patricia Hickey, was an opera singer who was born and raised in the US to parents who came from Co Cork. (Image: Mariah Carey/Twitter)Ĭarey, 51, grew up as a biracial Irish-American in New York. Mariah Carey said the Black Irish brand was two years in the making. ![]()
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