Speaking to journalists at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour on Wednesday (Aug. 3), where Carey was promoting her eight-part upcoming E! docuseries, Mariah’s World, the singer threw a major jab at the once formidable Fox show -- for which she was a judge alongside rapper Nicki Minaj, country star Keith Urban and producer Randy Jackson during season 12 -- calling it "an abusive experience" and cracking that talking about it would drive her "to drink."
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Certainly, the moment elicited uncomfortable laughs in the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, but what did her American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe think?
"I'm looking forward to Mariah's new series and wondering if Nicki Minaj may guest," the ex-executive producer tells Billboard, in what's a not-at-all-veiled reference to the on-air disaster that was the singers' infamous verbal spat during auditions in 2011 and subsequent bad vibes that lasted all season long.
Reporter: Is there a pop female artist that's up and coming in the mainstream that you think is doing it right? Carey: I mean, I don't know... you'd have to define pop to me. Reporter: Are there any female artists you think are just killing it in the music industry? Carey: There's a few. Reporter: And they would be? Carey: They would be lovely ladies, but it's not their day.
Reporter: Is there a pop female artist that's up and coming in the mainstream that you think is doing it right? Carey: I mean, I don't know... you'd have to define pop to me. Reporter: Are there any female artists you think are just killing it in the music industry? Carey: There's a few. Reporter: And they would be? Carey: They would be lovely ladies, but it's not their day.
But it's not their day. I'm going to be dropping this into conversation all the time.
.. LTT is one of her best.
Why cant she just say who