A Black Gay Music Critic On: Mariah Carey’s 10 Most Important Dance Remixes

Craig Seymour
7 min readOct 9, 2020

There’s a moment in the audiobook for Mariah Carey’s illuminating memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (co-written by the ever-insightful Michaela Angela Davis) where she talks about listening to New York City radio in the mid-’80s. Suddenly, she starts singing two of the era’s biggest hits: Jocelyn Brown’s “Somebody Else’s Guy” and Gwen Guthrie’s “Ain’t Nothin’

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