This wasn’t the first time Mariah Carey has urged us to practice patience. In 2021 she posted a video to hype us up for Christmas by showing her kids interrupting her bathtime to ask if it was time to play the song and decorate the tree. Her response then was the same as now: “Not yet!”

Ahead of her appearance at Sunday’s American Music Awards and an upcoming Christmas tour that kicks off in November, Carey spoke with The Associated Press about the advice she would give to young artists navigating fame and the use of her song, “Always Be My Baby,” in Ari Aster’s 2023 horror comedy, “Beau Is Afraid.”