Mariah Carey Gets Candid About the Grammys: 'Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn'

Mariah Carey is not letting the Grammys dictate her artistry.

The Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse powerhouse singer opened up about her thoughts on the music industry, and her own career, in an interview with V Magazine published on Wednesday (March 7).

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During the interview, Mariah opened up about the business of being a musician.

“In the music business, if you care about the Grammys and submitting your stuff before a certain time frame, you want a single out in the summer, and then you want to have your record [out] before the Grammys [consideration] deadline, which has changed. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” she said.

“I mean, I have five Grammys. That’s cute. There’s people that have been doing this half the time that have twice as many [Grammys]. I won two Grammys the first year I started, but after that, [the Grammys] are like, “We don’t go with the people that are selling a lot of records and are popular; we’re gonna go the opposite way.” So I got screwed out of certain years. I wasn’t bitter about it. I was just like, okay, well, I guess I’m not standing here barefoot onstage singing and trying to go a certain way. I’m just me.”

For more from Mariah, head to VMagazine.com.