Mariah Carey rep: Technical problems bungle New Year’s show
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Mariah Carey performs at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in New York.
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Mariah Carey performs at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in New York.
NEW YORK >> After a brief, flawless “Auld Lang Syne,” it was all downhill for Mariah Carey on New Year’s Eve.
A representative for the million-selling superstar cited technical difficulties for a disastrous appearance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” which aired on ABC and was the subject of widespread mockery on social media.
Carey’s mood seemed to range from frustration to resignation as she struggled with the pre-recorded musical tracks. Telling the revelers jammed into Times Square that there had not been a sound check for her hit song “Emotions,” she lamented that “we’re missing some of these vocals, but it is what it is.”
“Let the audience sing,” she decided as she paced the stage.
“I’m trying to be a good sport here,” she said, adding her own sarcastic review of the performance. “That was … amazing.”
The next song, “We Belong Together,” went no better. At times, she lowered the microphone from her mouth and the music, vocals and all, kept playing, making it clear she was lip-synching.
“Unfortunately there was nothing she could do to continue with the performance given the circumstances,” Carey spokeswoman Nicole Perna said Sunday.
A representative for Dick Clark productions did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Carey later tweeted about the night, starting with a brief profanity, throwing in a couple of sad emojis and concluding with, “Here’s to making more headlines in 2017.”
On Twitter, commentators called the fiasco a fitting end to a traumatic year for the music industry, marked by the deaths of Prince, David Bowie and George Michael among others. One tweeter, referring to the 2016 presidential campaign, joked that Carey’s show had been hacked by the Russians.
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she’s way over the hill
and way too wide to be wearing that kind revealing outfit…should have borrowed someone’s pantsuits.
Hillary has a lot of pantsuits.
that she won’t be using much now?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa stop it with the revealing outfit stuff and the Hillary Pantsuit….my sides are hurting. Haaaaaaaaaa! Happy New Year to you both!
Looks like her diva meter overtook her talent level.
Wonder how much they paid her for her “performance”. The whole deal is that it didn’t seem like she cared.
Reliance on lip synced performances has backfired in the worst way.
Cant trust anyone who lip syncs. Just wondering how much of that was done when she performed here?
for something like this the songs are always lip-synched. The artist has the option to “sing along” with himself or herself and the guy at the soundboard or “mixer” adjusts levels as they go. Some artists refuse to lip-synch even though events like the SB require it.
I mean wake up!
Besides it took more guts for her to own up to it than continue the charade.
She lip synced here too. Hope you didn’t pay money to see it.
Really? That’s a pure ripoff then! Shouldn’t be allowed!
Gotta love her psychedelic smile.
She’s the pencil in the box that never got sharpened.
Happy New Year Ms. Carey! Here’s hoping a better and good year for 2017!
“Technical problem?”…like her voice track playing without her moving her lips…and long as we’re debating fake news…we might as well talk fake performers.
Probubly gets paid in the millions to preform and all she can do is lip-synch ?
Why would anyone be surprised that a performance done outdoors in a non-controlled environment would use pre-recorded music? Especially by a singer who doesn’t have a backup band with guitar rifts and drums to help cover problems with the projection/utilization of the singer’s voice? (Of course its a different issue than when pre-recorded music when it is not your actual voice, a la Milli Vanilli, yikes.)
No inauguration for this super star.
Yo-Yo Ma faked playing the cello, while using a prerecorded version, at a previous inauguration. So it’s not like that particular glass floor hasn’t already been broken.
He attributed the decision to the cold weather that day, and yeah, it was brutal. But the pianist who accompanied him was out on the balcony in the same weather, and she played live while wearing fingerless gloves.
All these nice folks trashing her for a technical glitch that she had nothing to do with.
Mr.Luke, you don’t get it. People went to see her perform and not to listen to prerecorded music. They would not have known she was faking it if the technical glitch had not occurred. They could have listened to prerecorded music in the comfort of their homes.
Aw, c’mon! They all lip-sync. EVERYBODY knows they’re faking it!