Muni Long has responded to criticism after she shared a pair of videos with a Mariah Carey impersonator promoting her new single.
In the first comedy skit, the impersonator delivers a performance of Muni Long’s track, “Delulu.” The impersonator tells Long about how she should perform her own song, and cautioned her against overhead lighting. Long then proceeds to stamp “Delulu” on the impersonator’s headshot and says, “I just don’t like when other people sing my songs.”
In the caption, she wrote, “And maybe… I can come around to people singing my songs if this who singing it!”
In the second video, Long is thrilled that Carey came to her rehearsal, though the impersonator reminds her that she’s number one and throws her aside. Instead of being upset or annoyed at the interaction, Long instead tells her, “Thank you.” In the caption, she added, “She could push me off of every ledge in sight.”
Fans suggested that she was throwing shade at Carey, with whom she previously collaborated on “Infinity” and “Made For Me,” with the videos. However, she insisted that’s not the case.
“Y’all don’t be delulu,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories, suggesting the promos were nothing more than comedy sketches. “I would never disrespect Queen Mariah!!!!!! Forever a Lamb.”
Earlier this year, Long paid tribute to Carey with a performance of her 2005 track “We Belong Together” during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. She said after the performance that Carey asked her to sing and thanked her for the tribute.
“Nobody can sing Mariah’s songs like Mariah,” she said, noting that Carey told her she did a “great job” and “appreciated” the performance.
In an interview in September, meanwhile, Carey said that she believed Long was performing her own song, “Made for Me.”
“I just didn't know that she had done ‘We Belong Together’ [as a cover] ‘cause her song was so similar to ‘We Belong Together,’ Carey said. “I had no idea that she did ‘We Belong Together.’ … Well, I'm very honored and flattered that she did it. I love Muni Long, she's a great person, umm, but I just don't like people doing my songs.”