If you’re won­der­ing, the image is from a copy of the Sunday Times Magazine wherein Mariah Carey describes her music as “hard­core, but not too hard­core.” I love this. It proves you can say any­thing, and as long as you believe it — even if you are the sort of per­son so deluded that you want a mil­lion white kit­tens to ser­en­ade you as you enter a room — people will print it without ques­tion­ing. Okay, so it prob­ably helps to be both extremely rich and superbly fam­ous, but if Mariah Carey can claim to be hard­core without any­one so much as rais­ing an eye­brow, I should be able to get away with more.