Butterfly is the seventh album and fifth studio album by American pop/R&B singer Mariah Carey, released in the United States on September 16, 1997 by Columbia Records. It was Carey's first album to be released following the ending of her marriage to Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola, and it includes contributions from producers such as The Trackmasters, Puff Daddy, Stevie J and Walter Afanasieff. In a 2006 interview with MTV Overdrive Carey referred to the album as "ahead of it's time", and said she considers "Babydoll", "Breakdown" and "The Roof" as "still some of my favourites".

Carey had visualized the title track "Butterfly" as a house record; the legacy of which is in the David Morales produced "Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)" (based on the Elton John song "Skyline Pigeon"). However, the song evolved instead into a ballad, which she co-wrote with Walter Afanasieff. She has said the album's closing track, "Outside", is "about being multi-racial and feeling like I was from another planet".

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