The singer drops the sugar-coated simpering and shoots from the lip about the music industry and her new business model to save it -- which could make her the world's richest recording artist...

'Frickin' idiots! Big, powerful music-industry executives made a giant mistake, and now we're all paying the price... 'Those stupid executives may have given up on the music business but I haven't. It's bleak out there for musicians. We have to do something.' ...

She might have stumbled upon the secret formula to save the music industry from financial fade-out...

Carey is pioneering a new business model for music. She's cutting deals with the kind of partners musicians have traditionally shunned, pushing herself into new areas such as publishing, tourism and food and drink. She's partnering with the biggest retailers in the world. And she's harnessing the power of the internet, not just to sell music... but to market herself using social-networking sites, notably Facebook and Twitter...

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is released in Japan. When you buy the CD in key markets... you also get... a copy of... 'Elle for Mariah'... all about Carey... some ads are for Carey's own products... some are for products produced by companies in which she has a stake... Every time one of Carey's fans buys one of the products she's marketing, she gets a cut.

The 'product integration' deal has covered most of the cost of recording Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, estimated at #4m. It has also created new partnerships and strengthened existing ones. And, of course, it gives fans something tangible and unique -- but only if they buy the physical CD...

The physical magazine is not available online...

The traditional business model for the recorded music industry is bust. Has been for years... Carey is furious that music-industry executives failed to realise how the internet would change the way fans consume music...

'A lot of big powerful music-industry executives made a giant mistake,' she says. 'They gave the music business away on the internet. If they had just sat back and said, 'Maybe let's figure this internet thing out, it could be something cool,' we could have found a way to distribute music online on our own terms, not somebody else's. Prince had already shown them the way. He was so far ahead of the curve, putting out his own records on the web. Everyone else was stupid'...