"Make It Happen," Mariah Carey (1991)
An unusually vulnerable story from the queen of diva fantasies
Peak: #5 on the Hot 100
Streams: 9.5 million
Along with her voice and her songwriting chops, Mariah Carey’s curated eccentricity is a crucial part of her legacy. On Twitter, she’s so coy about her age that she acts like she doesn’t know what decades are. If you’d like to amuse yourself, just google the phrase “Mariah Carey acts like a diva” and see what t…