Mariah Carey, Sugar Sweet | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 77^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “Sugar Sweet” performed by Mariah Carey.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 77^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “Sugar Sweet” performed by Mariah Carey.

“I’ma keep it nice, nice, neat, neat, sugar, sugar, sweet, sweet.” Iconic, Grammy-winning R&B/pop singer/songwriter Mariah Carey keeps things sugar and sweet on her single, “Sugar Sweet”. “Sugar Sweet” is the fourth track from Carey’s 2025 comeback album, Here For It All. The single was released near the end of July 2025. She tapped Grammy-nominated Jamaican 🇯🇲 singer Shenseea (Chinsea Lee) and Grammy-nominated R&B standout, Kehlani, for assistance on this sugary sweet R&B track. Featuring multiple songwriters, including Carey, she produced it with HARV.

“Sugar Sweet” features a sleek contemporary R&B backdrop with a hint of tropical flavor. Carey sounds smokier here, singing in her lower and middle registers. “Walk to the car and there you are / Can’t explain the rush that I feel,” Carey sings, and continues, “Open up the door, you pull me towards you / Then you put your lips on me.”  In the pre-chorus, Carey asserts, “Baby, I’m / Gonna use my expertise / I’ma keep it nice, I’m a keep it neat / I’ma keep it sugar, I’ma keep it sweet.” Word. Indeed, the memorable chorus, excerpted earlier, is sugary sweet. Kehlani sings the second verse, memorably referencing Carey’s 2005 The Emancipation of Mimi single, “It’s Like That” (“‘Cause I wanna take a ride / Let me blow your mind / Ride it from the passenger side (Side) / It’s like that y’all (That y’all)”). Shenseea sings the third and final verse, where she asserts, “And mi guarantee to love you proper (And mi guarantee) / So sweet, like a gizzada.” Ultimately, Mariah Carey, Shenseea, and Kehlani make a formidable trio that makes music that is indeed “Sugar Sweet”!