Does it have any relation to the Mimi in La Boheme?
MC: That’s actually pretty great, but I never thought of that. It’s just my nickname. There was a time when a lot of people used that for me, and then it turned into just two or three people who are close to me. I felt it was appropriate because this album was like a new beginning for me. It was like losing the baggage. MH: You needed your own valet for all that baggage. MC: I’ve been through the ringer. On my own label. Emotionally, not physically – I haven’t been around the block; I’ve protected myself from that. I don’t want to say that I’m judging anybody. I’m just saying I know people who are 16 that have been around the block too many times and you see it in their eyes. MH: It seems like those who are the types of people who would relate to your ballads. MC: I have a song called “Petals” that’s completely about me growing up and my family. And so many people relate to it. And it’ll be people from other countries, like a girl from Germany who’ll talk to me. Songs like that usually
