Mariah Carey - I Still Believe

What this video is

Released in early 1999 as the third single from Mariah Carey's landmark #1's compilation album, 'I Still Believe' is a cover of Brenda K. Starr's 1987 hit — a song Carey once performed as Starr's backup singer before her own rise to fame. The video's deliberate invocation of Marilyn Monroe's 1953 USO Korea performance positions Carey within a lineage of mid-century American glamour and entertainment patriotism,…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal intersection of contemporary R&B balladry and classic Hollywood visual homage within the late-90s pop landscape. As a cover single on a career retrospective album, the video functions as both nostalgia artifact and image-reinvention, cementing Carey's diva iconography through…

The director

Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969, Miami Beach, Florida) is an American film director and producer who graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He began his career directing music videos in the 1990s for artists including Mariah Carey, Madonna, and…