Through The Rain

On this song, Mariah sings about how you can make it through anything if you truly believe in yourself and have faith. Never lose hope. If someone says you can't do something, don't listen and prove them wrong. Even if you mess up, try, try again because you can do anything.

The Dave Meyers-directed video was loosely based on Carey's parents, Alfred Carey and Patricia Carey, who faced prejudice over their interracial marriage. At the beginning, a pregnant teenaged girl named Kirsten is having an argument with her mother. Jamie-Lynn Sigler of The Sopranos played the '60s teenager who runs away from home on a rainy day to be with her boyfriend (J.D. Williams of Oz). Carey got the idea for the concept when she was looking through her father's photo album just days before they were set to shoot the video.

Carey had been through plenty of rain in the lead-up to Charmbracelet, her ninth studio album. After her divorce from Sony Music president Tommy Mottola, she left the label for what she thought were greener pastures at Virgin Records, where she landed a five-album, $100 million record deal. But after the Glitter soundtrack, and its movie, failed to impress, the label cut her loose. Her high stress levels and undiagnosed bipolar disorder caused a nervous breakdown. She recuperated in Capri, Italy, where she recorded the bulk of Charmbracelet, but she was dealt another blow when her father died of cancer on July 4, 2002. She wrote "Through The Rain" to show herself and her fans that they could weather the storms. "People are going to read into it as, 'This is Mariah and her struggle,'" she told MTV. "But the way I try to word it is, 'It's OK once you say I can make it through the rain.' Not just me going, 'I can make it through the rain,' it's me telling people that if you believe you can get through whatever you're going through, you can get to the other side."