HEARTS SOLD SEPARATELY is Mariah the Scientist’s exciting and emotional follow up to 2023’s To Be Eaten Alive. Thanks to the explosive launch of “Burning Blue,” Mariah’s meteoric rise to becoming one of the top women in R&B is evident and punctuated by this piece. The album is Mariah’s contemporary take on what she describes as “the war on love” and our collective duty to fight for it. She pictures herself, and most women, as toy soldiers who will lay their lives on the line for the sake of love— just to realize that men view them as nothing more than disposable playthings used strictly for entertainment.