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During filming, tracks using backup singer Mary Ann Tatum were used in place of Mariah Carey`s voice to avoid bootlegging. Carey recorded her vocals close to the release date of the soundtrack, and all lead vocals used in the film are hers.

The movie is based on an idea by Mariah Carey that kept bouncing back from studio to studio starting in 1997, and the singer began writing songs for the soundtrack album prior to the movie even getting a green light. Carey admits that when the project was approved for production (2000), she found songs for the movie that she had written and forgotten about. She was only supposed to do six songs, however many collaborations with current and 1980s producers, writers, and artists including Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and the late Rick James led to growth for her track listing, which became the entire soundtrack. A song by her and Prince was also in development, but it did not make the deadline in time for soundtrack reproduction, packaging, and distribution.

Release of the movie was postponed for three weeks when star Mariah Carey was hospitalized as a result of an "emotional and physical breakdown".

This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlson`s book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.