 It is worth pondering what the title of Mariah Carey 's eleventh studio album could refer to . Emancipation , maybe , in a nod to her 2005 comeback album , The Emancipation of Mimi ; or perhaps the energy of the original equation , a statement that Carey still has what it takes to party all night at the age of 37 , even as she describes herself as " eternally 12 " . Then again , she could just be identifying herself alongside Einstein as a fellow genius . Either way , ' E = MC ² ' finds Carey loopier than ever , embracing her own larger @-@ than @-@ life image with gusto : Mariah Carey Squared indeed . 
