Due to her mother's actions, Billie is fostered. Years later, in , the adult Billie is a club dancer along with her foster-care friends Louise and Roxanne. They meet Timothy Walker, who offers a contract as backup singers and dancers to the singer Sylk and the three are contracted. Dice discovers that Billie is the real singer of the song, as a means to cover up Sylk's absymal singing ability. Billie and Dice start working on songs. Ultimately they sign with Guy Richardson of a major record label. With success in their hands, he asks her up to his apartment and they sleep together.
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Billie's first major single, " Loverboy ", is a success. Billie is called to perform at an awards, where she meets singer Rafael. Billie gets a threat from Timothy concerning the debt that Dice failed to pay. Billie, upset about how Dice lied about her contract and his arrest, argues with and leaves him. Following the break-up, Billie collaborates with several songwriters, including Rafael, with whom she makes another hit single, "Want You", and her debut album becomes a massive success.
Billie begins writing a song on her own, due to her emotional pain. Dice also misses Billie, and also begins writing a song.
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Billie goes to Dice's apartment to reconcile with him but discovers he is not home. Billie discovers that the music he has written, and realizes they wrote the same song: Dice, upon seeing her lipstick prints on the sheet, plans a reconciliation, but is shot dead by Timothy. Before playing at Madison Square Garden , Billie sees the news report of Dice's death, and onstage after, commands the band to stop playing "Loverboy". She tells the audience not to take the ones they love for granted, and she then starts to sing "Never Too Far".
Afterwords, Billie reads a note Dice had left her, where he tells her that he loves her and that he has found Lillian. Billie's limo takes her to the secluded rural property where she is happily reunited with her mother once again. She published some of the material on Rainbow , in which she fully exerted creative control over the album and its sound, and then, Carey completed her contract with Columbia Records.
Following commencement for Glitter and the release of the soundtrack's lead single " Loverboy ", Carey embarked on a short promotional campaign for the song and its parent album. However, during the campaign, Carey exhibited what was reported as "erratic behavior.
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During the interview, Carey hid her thighs behind large pillows and ranted that her life was "one day that was continuous". Seemingly anxious and exhilarated, Carey began giving out individual bars of ice cream to fans and guests on the program, while waving to the crowd down below on Times Square , while diverging into a rambling monologue regarding therapy. Carey then walked to Daly's platform and began a striptease , in which she shed her shirt to reveal a tight yellow and green ensemble, leading him to exclaim "Mariah Carey has lost her mind!
The next day, on July 20, Carey held a record signing for the soundtrack's lead single "Loverboy" at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island before fans and the media. As a camera crew covered the event, she began rambling on several subjects before finally discussing radio-host Howard Stern , and how his form of humor on his program bothered her greatly. At that point, Carey's publicist Cindi Berger grabbed the microphone from her hand, and asked the news crew to stop filming.
On July 26, she was hospitalized, citing "extreme exhaustion" and a "physical and emotional breakdown". Following Carey's publicized breakdown and hospitalization, Virgin Records and 20th Century Fox delayed the release of both Glitter , as well as its soundtrack of the same name.
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When asked regarding the motives behind the delay, Nancy Berry, vice chairman of Virgin Music Group Worldwide, addressed Carey's personal and physical condition:. Mariah is looking forward to being able to participate in both her album and movie projects and we are hopeful that this new soundtrack release date will allow her to do so. She has been making great recovery progress, and continues to grow stronger every day.
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Virgin Music Worldwide continues to give its absolute commitment and support to Mariah on every level. Carey's first promotional appearance to promote the film itself was on its opening day on Fox Theater, Westwood Village in jeans and a black tank top adorned with an American flag, paying homage to victims of the September 11 attacks. After giving interviews and signing autographs, Carey sat in the center section of the theatre flanked by security guards and handlers, along with audience members who had won tickets through Los Angeles radio station Power During her appearance, Carey said she hoped that Glitter would provide movie-goers an emotional escape during the attacks' aftermath in the country.
Fashions in the film were highlighted by costume designer Joseph G. Glitter was released in the United States on September 21, In an interview in , Carey stated that she believed that the film's failure at the box office was largely due to the soundtrack's release date being September 11, , the same day as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. I don't even know that many people even saw the movie. The consensus states " Glitter is a hodgepodge of movie cliches and bad acting that's sure to generate unintentional laughs.
Unfortunately, the movie is not bad enough to be good. The Village Voice proclaimed, "For her part, Carey seems most concerned about keeping her lips tightly sealed like a kid with braces, and when she tries for an emotion—any emotion—she looks as if she's lost her car keys. It never seems like it's fun to be Billie Frank. Intended as a vehicle to break Mariah Carey as a movie star, it instead became a year-long punch line.
Carey might have a five-octave voice, but her performance as a burgeoning singer was strictly one-note and garnered her a Razzie for worst actress. This isn't so bad it's good, it's so bad it's actionable An inept star vehicle that starts out desperately tedious and gets less interesting. Live , Carey revealed to host Andy Cohen that she considered Glitter the biggest regret of her career, calling it a "kitsch moment in history She told Cohen that the film wreaked havoc on her career; "It was a horrible couple of years after the film's release and then I had to get my momentum back for people to let it go"; she also added that she wouldn't let anyone around her mention the film in conversation and that it was known as "the G word".
The accompanying soundtrack, Glitter , became Carey's worst showing on the charts. The first single, " Loverboy ", peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot chart, but that was only after Virgin Records spurred sales of the single by dropping the price down to 99 cents. Carey was unable to film a music video for the single, as she was still recovering from her breakdown. Instead, a video was created using a scene taken directly from the film, where Billie Frank played by Carey sings the song at Madison Square Garden during her first sold-out concert.
Frank's performance of the song in the film omits its entire second verse, and the song's development runs in parallel with the film's love story. Directed by Sanaa Hamri , it features the theme of southern bayous and lifestyles, and presents Carey and Mystikal in "southern style" clothing and hairstyles. Billie Frank is a shy, young multiracial girl who is sent away by her alcoholic mother at a very early age. At an orphanage, she befriends Louise and Roxanne. Flash forward to Billie and her friends are spotted by a record producer, Timothy Walker, who wants them to sing backup for his latest pop-music discovery.
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But when super DJ Julian Dice hears Billie's incredible voice, he makes a shady deal with Timothy to get her out of that dead-end situation. Soon, Billie and Dice are making hits inside the studio, and falling in love outside of it. Eventually, the pressure of her newfound celebrity puts too heavy a strain on Billie, forcing her to decide what it is she really wants from Dice, and what she wants for herself. I personally feel that Ms Carey took a bad rap for this film.
Sure this movie was not of the caliber of an Oscar nominated film, but it was fairly well acted, and entertaining. I honestly feel had Jennifer Lopez been in the starring role as opposed to Mariah Carey, no one would have had a problem with the film. I gives kudos to the cast and crew of this film. A grossly underrated film. Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video.
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