NEW YORK (AP) — After a glittering career stuffed with No. 1 hits — not to mention a two-year pandemic delay — Mariah Carey was finally inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday, but not before challenging her new fellow members to do better by women.
She noted that out of the 439 total inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, only 32 have been women until now.
Carey was the headliner, following the inductions of the weirdly cool producers the Neptunes, the British electro-pop band Eurythmics, psychedelic bluesman Steve Miller and the iconic Isley Brothers.
Special guests included Smokey Robinson, Leslie Odom Jr. Questlove, Jon Batiste and Usher.