Mariah Carey Explains Album Delay In Facebook Post

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So what's with the delay, Mimi? (Also, does anyone actually ever call you Mimi?)

On the first question, Mariah Carey took to Facebook to explain why her hotly-anticipated 14th studio album, The Art of Letting Go, was pushed back from its original July 23 release date to an indeterminate date in the future. In the post, Carey writes:

Hiiii lambs!

I’m so happy to be able to catch up with everybody here on Facebook. The last three months of my life have not been easy. Getting through this injury has been the toughest experience of my life. It took me three months to get to this point but thank God I was able to recover and get my arm back. It’s a huge deal, it should have taken eight months and even my doctors can’t believe it. It’s been a long journey, the physical therapists have been incredible and I am very grateful to all of them for helping me.

When people expected me to go “Here I am, I’m back and everything’s great!”, it didn’t happen because my hand was still in tremendous pain and it took this long for it to heal. I’ve been working day and night, and it took a lot of rest (though I did sneak in to the studio a couple o’ times!) but I can finally say that I am on my way to a full recovery.

There’s a lot of excitement that I’m going to reveal to you very soon, and sooner than you know it, you’re going to understand why but more than that, you’re going to feel what I’ve been feeling for the past- not three months- but three years.

This is, to me, one of the most important albums I’ve ever made in my life. If you’re a lamb, a fan, or just a human being that needs to feel good, happy, sad, miserable, joyous… “I gotcha” (said like Roc- you haven’t heard how he says it yet but you will soon, it’s a complete+total classic!)

LYM!!!! –MC

Carey has already seen considerable success with the album so far, as its first (and, to date, only) single has gone platinum: "#Beautiful," featuring R&B crooner Miguel, peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 this summer, showing that rumors of Carey's diminishing mainstream relevance are pretty much false. Hopefully, the album arrives before the buzz wears off.