Hot 97 asked Mariah Carey if she liked being on American Idol and she said “No, I hated it.” Then she went on to explain that when she signed on, she was told it would be a three person panel. As we know they added a fourth person, Nicki Minaj, and the two Divas famously did not get along. At one point in the interview Mimi said, “It was like hell, like going to work every day in hell with Satan.” You have to wonder if she is referring to Minaj with the last part of that statement. I am going to say, yes.
Not only did she admit that they lied to her about how many people would be on the panel, but she also admitted they dangled some nice money in front of her. While the money was good, it doesn’t sound like it was worth it to her.
And there was one more revelation in the interview, she said she liked the contestants but was not happy about which ones moved on. She revealed, “It was disappointing when they would, for political reasons, not put people through.” What that means? I think it is up to all of us to read into it, as we would like. And if we are reading what she said correctly, then I think that Fox is going to have to make some more changes to the show when it returns in January. Even more than they already have because the ones they have made are like putting a Band-Aid on a failing dam.
