Mariah Carey doesn t give a damn about Grammys

L0os Angeles March 9 (IANS) Five-time Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey says she doesnt care about them.

"In the music business if you care about the Grammys and submitting your stuff before a certain time frame you want a single out in the summer " Carey said in an interview with V Magazine.

"And then you want to have a record (out) before the Grammys (consideration) deadline which has changed. Frankly my dear I don t give a damn " she said referencing the iconic line from the film "Gone With the Wind" reports people.com.

She further said: "I mean I have five Grammys. That s cute. There s people that have been doing this half the time that have twice as many.

"I won two Grammys the first year I started but after that (the Grammys) are like ‘We don t go with the people that are selling a lot of records and are popular; we re gonna go the opposite way .

"So I got screwed out of certain years. I wasn t bitter about it. I was just like okay well I guess I m not standing here barefoot onstage singing and trying to go a certain way. I m just me."

The "We belong together" hitmaker said that while the music industry is a business she considers herself an artiste.

"I consider myself more of a musician first than a business person I don t necessarily think of things that way; it s music first " she said.

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