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| Mariah Vindicated: Her Song was 'Swiped' Mariah Carey may finally have been vindicated. It seems that the was more that a little truth in her accusations last summer that someone was out to get her. In the new issue of a rap magazine called XXL, record executive Irv Gotti admits that Tommy Mottola, Ms. Carey's ex-husband and head of Sony Music, instructed him to him to make a record for Jennifer Lopez that sounded exactly like one Gotti's company had made with Carey for her movie. Glitter - even though Glitter was not finished and Lopez would beat Carey to the punch and undermine a project she was recording for Sony. "Ja wrote a song with him and Mariah singing back and forth on the title track. I get a call from Tommy Mottola, who I have a great relationship with, and he's like, 'I need you to do me a favor. I want you to do this remix for Jennifer Lopez. I want you to put Ja on the record.' Immediately I knew what he was doing because we just finished the Mariah record." The Mariah record Gotti refers to is "Loverboy," from the movie, Glitter. Carey had picked out a sample from Yellow Magic Orchestra's recording of "Firecracker" to be used on daily viewings from the filming of Glitter. But Glitter was a sony Pictures release, which is a sister company of Sony Music. Mottola, according to sources who worked on the movie, was surreptitiously viewing footage of the movie while his ex-wife was shooting. "Mariah was so paranoid about the music getting out that we had another singer sing temporary versions," says a Glitter insider. Indeed, Gotti's statement to XXL suggest that once Mottola heard Carey's song and - and knew Glitter was months away from completion - he stole the idea and gave it to Lopez for the remix of her song, "I'm Real." The hit version of "I'm Real" that features Ja Rule was released after Lopez's album was already out. It's substantially different from the original version. |
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