Mariah the Scientist’s World Tour: Soft-Power Heartbreak on a Global Layaway Plan
When Mariah the Scientist announced her modestly titled “The Experiential Tour,” the collective yawn from the northern hemisphere was almost loud enough to drown out the stampede of passport-clutching Gen-Zers in Lagos, Jakarta, and São Paulo. After all, a 24-year-old alt-R&B singer from Atlanta promising “an immersive, genre-bending odyssey” sounds like the 400th such pledge…