{"id":422927,"date":"2026-04-29T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:43:10","slug":"mariah-explains-her-hit-producing-songwriting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422927\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Explains Her Hit-Producing Songwriting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six Times critics to choose the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/magazine\/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 Greatest Living American Songwriters<\/a>. One artist who made the list was Mariah Carey. The writer Danyel Smith met Carey in Los Angeles to talk about writing era-defining hits like \u201cFantasy\u201d and \u201cAlways Be My Baby,\u201d the pleasures of collaboration and some of the ways she\u2019s been undercredited as a writer \u2014 despite having created more No. 1 hits than any other American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1p889w5 etfikam0\">Interview by Danyel Smith<br \/>Directed by Joshua Charow<\/p>\n<p>Video Credits<br \/>Camera Operator: Mike Dalton<br \/>Sound Mixer: Tessa Murphy<br \/>Gaffer: Michael Tellup<br \/>Editor: Abraham Howard<br \/>Colorist: Stephen Derluguian<br \/>Post Sound Mixer: Bobb Barito<\/p>\n<p>Archival Image Credits<br \/>Mariah and Patricia Carey: from Mariah Carey; Carey and Dupri: Scott Gries\/Getty Images; Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis: Raymond Boyd\/Getty Images; Videos: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six Times critics to choose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[185122,60379,321,13470,93,61,60,60378,183484],"class_list":["post-422927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-americansongwriters2026","tag-carey","tag-celebrities","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mariah","tag-pop-and-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}