Mariah Carey has publicly expressed her desire to collaborate with Lenny Kravitz, telling fans she is a longtime admirer of his work.

During a Reddit AMA session, the singer responded to a fan who suggested she duet with the “American Woman” hitmaker, writing: “I love Lenny too… Lenny if you’re seeing this, call me!”

The 57-year-old star also addressed her long-discussed unreleased grunge album, Someone’s Ugly Daughter, offering a cryptic hint about when fans might finally hear it. When asked about the project, she wrote: “I get asked this about once a week. My answer is…#notyet (this is a hint!)”

Carey first revealed in 2020 that she recorded the grunge album in 1995. During an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast in October 2024, she admitted she was still keen to release it, saying: “I know, right? I’m so mad that I haven’t done that yet … but who do I drop it with?” When host Matt Rogers suggested she release it independently, she replied: “I could do that.” She added: “It’s a good album. OK, you will hear it. I was getting life from that, seriously. It was jokes, as well. They’re everlasting.”

In a 2020 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Carey explained that music executives banned her from releasing the album. “I got kind of in trouble for making this album – the alternative album – because back then, everything was super-controlled by the powers that be,” she said. “I never really was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to release it.’ But then I was like, I should release it. I should do it under an alias. Let people discover it and whatever, but that got squashed.”

The album was eventually released under the band name Chick, with Carey’s friend Clarissa Dane taking over lead vocals. Carey’s singing appeared only as backing vocals, and she was credited as D. Sue.

In her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, she reflected on the project: “I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time. You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every move I made was so calculated and manicured. I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery – but I also wanted to laugh.”