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• In 2025, Mariah Carey released Here For It All, her first studio album in seven years. With a runtime of 6:37, the emotional title track serves as the album's closer. It starts out as a soft piano ballad about sticking with her man through life's ups and downs before rising into a full gospel finale with the singer praising the Lord in a spiritual fervor.
  
  While it wasn't released as a single, "Here For It All" was so important to Carey that she had to name the album after it so the song wouldn't get lost among the other tracks. "I just feel like this is such a 'Mariah Carey record' in a way that other songs I've done however long ago weren't, because it's got a soulfulness to it, just the way that it's arranged," she told Apple Music. "I just feel like it's something very personal, but also very like it's giving this to other people that need to hear something like that."
• In the chorus, Mariah sings about being committed to her relationship while she's apart from her significant other, whether she's walking the red carpet at the Cannes film festival in France where luxury cars abound ("Bugattis, whatever they're called") or snuggling up in bed for a virtual sleepover night to stay connected during difficult times. "Still baby, I'm here for it all," she sings.
• Carey and her musical director, Daniel Moore II, began working on the album in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic at the singer's home studio, Butterfly Lounge. With the rest of the world shut down, the intimate space gave them the freedom to explore whatever creative path they chose, first jamming on a Valentine's Day revamp of her 2005 hit "We Belong Together" before experimenting with the love ballad turned gospel song.
  
  Moore told GQ in 2025: "'Here For It All' was kind of birthed in that same space. It kind of feels like a love song, but then it does take that turn because that's what we were doing when we [were] in The Butterfly Lounge. It was like, no more rules, no more 'It has to be three minutes and 30 seconds to make the radio.'"
• The album explores different genres, including the hip-hop soul of the lead single "Type Dangerous," the dancehall vibe of "Sugar Sweet," the Motown-inspired throwback "Play This Song," and the worship song "Jesus I Do." But the songwriting sessions started out with a focus on classic Mariah ballads, which led to tracks like "Here For It All" and "Nothing Is Impossible," the album's fourth single.
  
  "I didn't really know where they were going, what we were doing," she told Apple Music, "I just knew that I was in ballad zone."
• Carey spent years working on songs with a variety of collaborators until she had enough material for a full-fledged album. In the meantime, there was a renewed interest in her back catalog thanks to a surprise resurgence of "It's A Wrap," a track from her 2009 album, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. The R&B breakup tune went viral as part of a TikTok dance challenge in 2023 and landed on charts around the world, including the R&B chart in the US. By the time Here For It All dropped two years later, the buzz was still going and the album debuted at #7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart - her 19th Top 10 album on the tally.