Mariah Carey recently shared the excitement she is feeling around her upcoming album. Carey says she is feeling positive about the album, which she has been working on for a while.

“I’ve been working on my new album for a while. This is a labor of love and I’m really excited.This is me at this moment in my life being able to express myself as a writer and a singer. I’m just really in a good place […] Although the new record will be able to rock with its contemporaries, the diva is not trying on “anybody else’s trends.”

Carey says the new album has her thinking of what the fans might want to hear from her at this stage in her career and the feeling it’ll have.

“My fans just want to hear me express myself and speak from the heart and sing from the heart. Some of the record is lighthearted and fun, and some [songs] I really went deep in terms of the lyrical content. There’s a nice cross-section of things.”

Carey is gearing up to have winter dates for her new shows, which indicates an album is on the way sooner than later.