Why MariahCarey's 'Never Too Far' Could Have Been a Post-9/11 Anthem (Column)
and her legion of fans have tried to to get #JusticeForGlitter before, but now, 18 years after that soundtrack album’s initial release, the time has never been more right to celebrate it — or at least “Never Too Far,” the song that transcended Carey’s catalogue and deserved to become an anthem.” album, a soundtrack to the film of the same name in which Carey starred, was the pop diva’s least successful album when it dropped, netting barely more than 115,000 copies in its first week of sales.
On 8:45 a.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2001, I was standing in line at the Borders in the World Trade Center with a copy of the “Glitter” soundtrack in hand, eager to purchase the newest album from one of my favorite singers before I had to start my day at Stuyvesant High School so that I could listen to the songs in between classes. One minute later it was my turn to pay, but as I stepped forward, the lights flickered, the computers blinked off, and the building shook.
Listening to that security guard, I crossed the street to see a burning hole in the New York City skyline. I ended up calling my home, where my mother promptly informed me that because it was only the fourth day of school, I could not miss class. So dutifully I trudged to Stuyvesant.
Perhaps it was because “Hero,” which was originally released in 1993, had become such an iconic piece of Carey’s catalogue already , or perhaps it was because it would have felt too self-serving to perform something off the new album, but it was that almost decade-old single that became something of an anthem after Sept. 11. Carey performed it during “America: A Tribute To Heroes,” the New York telethon that took place to raise funds after the terrorist attacks.
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