At a Brooklyn holiday show, Mariah Carey signed Rihanna’s chest in red marker—RiRi ditched the promised tattoo—and Mimi teases “Here for It All” album.
At a December 2024 holiday concert in Brooklyn, Mariah Carey made an unforgettable mark on fellow superstar Rihanna—quite literally—by autographing the Fenty mogul’s chest in red marker.
In a clip that quickly went viral, Rihanna gleefully announced, “Wow, this is iconic … Mariah Carey is signing my tit, y’all!” It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime fan moments, but as Carey revealed during her July 24 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (with guest host Fortune Feimster), it turns out even Rihanna didn’t follow through on the promise she made that night.
During the interview, Feimster asked Carey whether she often signs body parts at her shows. Carey laughed that she usually sticks to arms or posters, but noted, “That was a unique moment. We love Rihanna.”
The five-time Grammy winner then addressed the long‑rumored tattoo: although Rihanna had vowed to immortalize Carey’s signature on her skin, Carey admitted with a skeptical smile, “She said she was going to, but somehow, I don’t think that happened.”
This anecdote capped off a conversation about Carey’s enduring holiday tradition of staging Christmas‑time concerts to keep her perennial hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” atop the charts. Rihanna was just one of thousands of enthusiastic fans who attended those festive shows, which have become a yearly staple since the song first hit No. 1 in 2019.
With the holiday run behind her, Carey is now fully focused on new music. She’s gearing up to release Here for It All – her first studio album in seven years – on September 26.
Thus far she has shared two singles: the sultry “Type Dangerous” and the reggae‑tinged “Sugar Sweet,” which features Kehlani and Shenseea. When Feimster quipped about the lengthy gap since her last album, 2018’s Caution, Carey quipped with trademark candor, “I was just getting it together. I would make, like, four songs, and then I’d be like, ‘We can start making an album now,’ and then I’d never do it.
Then I got up to 10 songs and we were basically ready for an album.”
In true Mariah fashion, she’s turned a playful backstage moment into headline news—and shown that even pop icons can break their own promises when life, and a killer music comeback, gets in the way.
