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The song sends you to a dark, dark place, and that is the opposite of what Mariah and the baby Jesus want. They want you to be happy and bask in the holiday spirit. While the sound of those opening notes may now send movies down your spine, take a gay to celebrate the glory of Mariah Carey.

Remember her comeback, fifteen years club, when she clawed her way back from a particularly unpleasant movie abyss that stemmed, partly, from one dismal professional decision. Most of us will remember the shame and infamy this film brought upon Mariah, but very few people I know have actually seen it. So, for some reason our story takes place inand we meet Billie, a club dancer who grew up in foster care after being taken from her mother, a jazz singer.

Did someone ask Santa for invaluable life lessons? She added a Razzie Award for Worst Actress to her awards club. She gay the film have been critically panned since its release, but the film also performed poorly at the box office: granted, it had the misfortune of being released on September 11thwhen no one was going to the cinema, but the film was not destined to succeed.

Never has a film had a more ironic title. Can Mariah Carey act…? After all, she gives a heart-wrenching turn in Preciousplaying an exasperated social worker with surprising grit and poignancy. In real life, she demonstrates real wit and acerbic comic timing, which is seen in glimpses throughout Glitter.

Now, are we anxiously awaiting her Inside the Actors Studio? Good Lord, no. But believe me, this film is bizarre. It follows the tried and tested rags-to-riches, star-is-born story but there are so many strange creative choices with gloriously camp consequences. The film opens with some eerie singing from the young Billie, allowing the audience to see her innate talent.

The club Mariah is discovered in can only be described as a camp, Batman Forever -like hellscape. The costumes are completely unhinged: at one point, there are four different characters wearing leopard print. For context, that is more than the cast of Josie and the Pussycatsand they were literally dressed as cats.

And only Mariah would, in the middle of the countryside, reunite with her long-lost mother in a glittery ball gown. Oh, and Dice performs a marimba solo to seduce Billie, which is hilarious and utterly unnecessary. However, there is no denying that what makes Glitter tolerable is its stellar soundtrack.

Mariah is, of course, one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time, and the music for the film is overshadowed by, well, the film. It was, however, a commercial disappointment, relative to the gargantuan success she had enjoyed for a decade at this point.

Queer Cinema Enthusiasts

Five years ago, a social media campaign called JusticeForGlitter helped the soundtrack album reach number one in the iTunes charts in multiple countries. So what has Glitter taught us? Absolutely nothing.