Tommy Mottola
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Sep 23, 2026
Rachel FisherHOST
I
Desi JedeikinHOST
mean, and it's like, She even we saw that she did the same kind of thing in her music career, which we which we talked about in one of our Mariah Carey episodes where she got with Tommy Mottola.
Rachel FisherHOST
Yeah.
Desi JedeikinHOST
After the fact.
Rachel FisherHOST
There was an article about her being like one of the big payola, like they were paying cause she had like all of the biggest names in music backing her.
Rachel FisherHOST
Yes.
Rachel FisherHOST
Like Benny Medina, Tommy Mottola, like pushing her, uh, to play her records.
Desi JedeikinHOST
Uh, I was never a fan of her music.
TylerHOST
We don't even have to question it anymore.
JohnnyHOST
Excuse me? Excuse motherfucking me? If I'm not Mariah Carey, Then why are you Tommy Mottola?
TylerHOST
I am not Tommy Mottola.
TylerHOST
Do
JohnnyHOST
you take that back? I will not.
Yasmin ShirazHOST
Michael Jackson versus Sony with his Invincible album of 2001.
Yasmin ShirazHOST
Jackson was publicly critical of Sony and label head Tommy Mottola.
Yasmin ShirazHOST
saying the label wasn't promoting the album with the aggression his career had always gotten, despite Invincible still selling millions worldwide.
Yasmin ShirazHOST
Let me give you another example.
Michael FrondelliGUEST
Electric Lady was a rock studio.
Michael FrondelliGUEST
I mean, we were meeting Tony Orlando and Don, Hall and Oates had come in, Dr. Buzzard's original Savannah band at Broadway Recording, Tommy Mottola in his early days was bringing artists in, and then the Latin sessions.
Michael FrondelliGUEST
When I got to Electric Lady, it was completely different.
Michael FrondelliGUEST
It was rock and roll.
Trevor HornGUEST
And Randy was part of a management company.
Trevor HornGUEST
It had Tommy Mottola in it.
Trevor HornGUEST
Randy Hoffman, maybe, his name.
Trevor HornGUEST
Anyway, and so we went out for dinner and there was me, the head of Warner Brothers, Malcolm McLaren, this guy, Randy Hoffman, and Gary, I think.
Adam LanganHOST
[laughs] Yo, I, my theory with him, with, like, for example, that Roger Waters story, is I feel like this guy's been famous for so long, and he's ha- he's had a script to read for so long, as a, like, from a, from a three-year-old, that, like, I think to him, like, reading a script in his mind or real- uh, like, it doesn't even matter to him.
Adam LanganHOST
Like, it's just like, "Okay," like, "if this is what I want reality to be, this is what it's gonna be, and I'm just, like, reading a script from my mind." And when he asked for Roger Waters' blessing to basically borrow [laughs] his keyboard player, Ro- Roger Waters was like, "Absolutely." You know? When, when, when Michael Jackson offered to get What's Up with Youth, um, to To- no, who was it? It wasn't Tommy Mottola, was it? It's, like, one of those, like, big, like, big record exec dudes.
Adam LanganHOST
He was like, "No, Michael."
SamHOST
Yeah.
PrincessGUEST
Right.
PrincessGUEST
And she was dragged along because Tommy Mottola was trying to force Mariah Carey into the nuthouse.
PrincessGUEST
She left him.
PrincessGUEST
He was like, nah, I made you.
NaomiHOST
By 1997, Mariah Carey was already one of the most successful pop vocalists in history.
NaomiHOST
But behind the scenes, she was struggling under a highly controlled public image and a dissolving marriage to Sony music executive Tommy Mottola.
NaomiHOST
Seeking both artistic and personal liberation, Mariah poured her newfound independence into her sixth studio album, Butterfly, a deeply personal project that transformed her career and reshaped the landscape of late 90s music.
NaomiHOST
Moving away from the polished, adult contemporary pop ballads that defined her early years, Carrie leaned heavily into R&B and urban hip-hop soul.
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ShalinaGUEST
I don't remember.
ShalinaGUEST
I
NaomiHOST
think there might be some symbolism there from her divorce with Tommy Mottola where she got to spread her wings.
ShalinaGUEST
Oh yeah.
H.E.R.GUEST
... those, like, little moments that kind of one thing led to another.
H.E.R.GUEST
And eventually, you know, we're walking out of the Today Show building, and, like, Tommy Mottola's like, "Oh, hello," Kenny, my dad, you know.
Michelle ObamaHOST
Mm-hmm.
H.E.R.GUEST
Uh, "We wanna meet your daughter." And he's like, "What is happening?" Like, all these people-
Heather McDonaldHOST
... quite young to-
Matthew AddisonGUEST
Tommy
Heather McDonaldHOST
...
Heather McDonaldHOST
Tommy Mottola.
Matthew AddisonGUEST
Mottola.
Matthew AddisonGUEST
Yeah.
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