But really, Mariah Carey was just trying to say something nice about Jennifer Lopez

Mariah Carey was not intentionally shading Jennifer Lopez. Really.

Over the years, "I do not know her" has become the gif to end all the gifs and one of the best memes of all time. The Guardian even nicknamed the moment "movement the most shadi power of pop." The singer, however, insists that she was just trying to be cordial when asked about J.Lo, not something else. In a large interview with Pitchfork Carey said that she had learned to adopt her "diva role" and to be able to become a timeless sensation on the Internet.

Carey told the publication that she was seeing "some" gifable moments. "That's what it is," she says. "You have to kiss him."

"I was really trying to say something nice or to say nothing at all," he said. Shine singer affirmed to Fork. "I really was."

J.Lo and Carey were both nascent musical forces at the same time, so it can be difficult for some people to believe that Carey did not really know the singer "I'm real". But Carey repeated over the years that she did not want to hurt that. She told TMZ in 2016: "I again do not know her! "

J.Lo laid a kind of olive branch a few years ago and denied any rumors that they would argue. "I'd love to meet her and would like to be friends with her … I think she's incredibly talented and I've always been one of her fans," said Lopez Andy Cohen in 2014. "My All" is one of my favorite songs of all time. I really like it. It saddens me to hear all that is negative because I am one of his fans. "

In 2016, however, she contradicted these comments on The show of Wendy Williams. So they've already met? J.Lo said Wendy Williams"She's forgotten, I suppose, we've met several times, I do not know … I do not know her very well."

So there you have it?