Mariah Carey asks us to look beyond the image

The AP cuts to the key issues of the day, starting with what the world thinks of Mariah Carey:

Mariah Carey knows her indisputable talent clashes with her sexed-up image as a "ditz."

"It's a dichotomy, I understand," the 37-year-old Grammy winner told Allure magazine. "I understand that people think I am a ditzy moron."

We can see the ditzy moron, jiggling around in a bikini in videos for lightweight pop-fluff; surely, though, to be a dichotomy there'd have to be some other thing in opposition to that?