But she's always fighting the forces inside of her because she's her own devil's advocate. The song really calls for not anything really fancy. “There was a simpler performance on tape and a more difficult one, with Mariah singing out more, with more licks. The producer went back to the soundtrack people and told them, “You know what? I didn’t come up with anything.” Estefan never heard the tune originally meant for her, and the song that ended up on the soundtrack was “Heart of a Hero,” written, produced and recorded by Luther Vandross.Īfanasieff and Carey came up with a couple of different versions of “Hero” in the studio. After she decided not to give the song away, she completed the lyric and made it her own. Initially, Carey was guided but the subject of the film, but Afansieff acknowledges that the artist made it a very personal song. Hearing the song they were working on, he asked them what it was, and Carey replied, “This is a song for the film Hero.” Afanasieff recalls Mottola responding, “Are you kidding me? You can’t give this song to this movie. The pair was almost finished writing the song when Tommy Mottola, president and COO of Sony Music Entertainment and Carey’s fiancé (later her husband), walked into the studio.
And we went into an area that Mariah didn't really go into-in her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too ballady or too old-fashioned as far as melody and lyrics. In her mind, we were writing a song for Gloria Estefan for this movie. Within two hours, we had this incredible seed for this song, 'Hero'. I was sitting at the piano and told Mariah about this movie. “I went to New York and we were in the studio and came to a break. At the time, the producer was working with Carey on her Music Box album. The film was screened for Afanasieff in Los Angeles and he was told that Gloria Estefan would probably be asked to sing a title theme. So they wanted to try the next best thing, which was to have us write something.” They wanted to have Mariah sing the theme to it, but they didn’t really think they could because at that time you couldn’t get near Mariah to do anything film-wise. Producer Walter Afanasieff recalls, “The people over at Epic Records were going to do the soundtrack for the film.
LYRIC MARIAH CAREY HERO MOVIE
Dustin Hoffman and Geena Davis starred in a movie for Columbia Pictures called Hero. If “Hero” sounds like it was meant to be heard over the end credits of a film, there’s a good reason.
When I sing it live, I don’t sing it anything like the record, but I think it ended up, because the statement is so strong, being a song that was universal. It might have been produced and you know, more towards a middle of the road, mainstream way, it might have been some more towards that way, but I would have preferred to sing it differently. I was going to put a live version of Hero on the album, but they wanted me to just put the regular version. I like to sing ‘Hero’ live ‘cause it’s pretty easy to sing and I can do different things with it - I don’t do it like the record. “Mariah Carey: Revisited” by Chris Nickson, 1998 MC: “One person could say that 'Hero' is a schmaltzy piece of garbage, but another person can write to me a letter and say, 'I've considered committing suicide every day of my life for the last ten years until I heard that song, and I realized, after all, I can be my own hero,' and that, that's an unexplainable feeling, like I've done something with my life, you know? It meant something to someone.” ‘Hero’ is a song that’s basically about looking inside yourself and being your own hero, like not always having to look for some kind of hero to come along and save you, but you can save yourself by looking inside yourself and trying to making it through any situation by really just having yourself to depend on first and look up to, like being your own role model… Jet Magazine ‘Mariah Carey Says: My Mom Taught Me To Believe In Myself” by Robert E. She adds: "I do this because there is a lot of negativity out there and lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.” like with the songs Make It Happen and Hero," the singer/songwriter notes. "I like to try and give positive messages, if I can in my music, whenever I can. “‘Hero’ is about being your own role model,” Mariah explains, “about looking inside yourself to gather strength.” There’s not really one specific inspiration for the song, ‘Hero’ but the basic theme is looking inside yourself - being your own role model.
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