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After her mother, a nightclub performer, is fired, Billie Frank is placed in a foster home. In 1983 she dances in clubs with her friends Louise and Roxanne. A record producer, Timothy Walker, signs the trio to sing and dance behind the singer Sylk, whose voice is dubbed by others. At a nightclub hosted by the DJ Julian "Dice" Black, Sylk performs a song and Dice recognizes Billie's voice behind it. He wants to produce her himself, so Billie asks Timothy about her contract; Timothy agrees to let her go if Dice pays him one hundred thousand dollars. Billie and Dice begin recording together and start to fall in love.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Glitter (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Glitter's soundtrack was released on September 11, 2001, the same day as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, and Carey said in a 2010 interview that she believed the film's failure at the box office was largely due to that release date.
- Virgin Records dropped Carey from the label due to the poor sales of the album and bought her out of their $100 million contract with her for $20 million; the album itself has since been certified platinum.
- Seemingly anxious and exhilarated, Carey began giving out individual bars of ice cream to fans and guests, diverged into a rambling monologue regarding therapy, then walked to host Carson Daly's platform and began a striptease, leading him to exclaim "Mariah Carey has lost her mind!"
- In 2018, almost two decades after the release of the soundtrack for Glitter, a social media campaign called #JusticeForGlitter sent the album to number one on the iTunes charts in multiple countries and back onto Billboard's Soundtracks chart at number 14.
- In December 2013, on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Carey said she considered Glitter the biggest regret of her career, that it wreaked havoc on her career, and that she would not let anyone around her mention the film, which was known as "the G word".
- On July 26 Carey was hospitalized citing "extreme exhaustion" and a "physical and emotional breakdown", and after admission to an undisclosed hospital in Connecticut she remained under a doctor's care for two weeks, during which she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
