Mariah Carey confirms Bryan Tanaka is her ‘boyfriend’

Perhaps Mariah Carey's whirlwind romance with backup dancer Bryan Tanaka really is a vision of love.

The pop star officially confirmed she's dating the 33-year-old Tanaka — who she's been linked to since breaking off her engagement to James Packer — by referring to him as her "boyfriend" in a new interview, even though she wants to keep her personal life private.

"I'm just going to be like 'I really don't talk about my personal life.' Because that's what I used to do and it really worked for a minute, back, a while ago," Carey told the Associated Press.

"I just don't feel comfortable talking about my personal life … Me and my boyfriend don't want to do that."

Carey, 46, has been spotted frequently with Tanaka in recent months, perhaps most notably during a PDA-filled beach rendezvous in Hawaii in November where the dancer was photographed holding and kissing the "Vision of Love" singer. Last week, she shared a photo of them together in the hot tub on Valentine's Day.

Their close bond has also been a major plot point on Carey's reality show "Mariah's World," though she'd never publicly confirmed that she and Tanaka are actually dating.

Her relationship with Tanaka had apparently bothered Packer — an Australian billionaire — while he was still engaged to Carey, and he reportedly even had a verbal confrontation with the dancer at one of the singer's shows last year. Carey and Packer later split in October.

Carey's ex-husband Nick Cannon, meanwhile, recently speculated that her romance with Tanaka was artificially generated for the cameras.

"I think the whole reality show is fake," he told radio shock jock Howard Stern this month. "I'm a producer, so you can't have a well-lit private conversation. Like, that s--t doesn't happen," he explained. "I don't buy none of that s--t."

"They like, wrote that story," he said of the relationship. "That s--t is like a soap opera."

Carey, who shares 5-year-old twins with Cannon, wrapped up the eight-part reality series last month and is set to tour with Lionel Richie beginning in March.