Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Broadway Joe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/10
#2Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 12:21am
LOL unreal and embarrassing. That's going down in the books.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#3Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 12:38am
Gee...and I just paid some big coins for her concert in May with Lionel Richie. I thought the worst thing was she wouldn't show up. Now it's, if she shows up, can she lip sync correctly?
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#4Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 12:54am
Maybe I'm not understanding properly, but from what I'm hearing, weren't only her pre-recorded high notes the parts intended to be fully lip-synced? And I'm just hearing a slight sweetener track over which she was supposed to sing live. I think that's what she's generally been doing in concert these days.
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BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#8Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 2:01am
And with that performance, Mariah Carey's career became the final casualty of 2016.
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#9Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 2:35am
She could've at least improvised the singing to look less foolish (if that's possible). She does know the lyrics, right?
#10Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 3:33am
Why not "do a hoedown" like the great Ashlee Simpson?
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#11Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 3:46am
For what it is worth... while the responsibility of this performance is hers... Mariah was setup to fail. Shame on the segment producers and the producers of the show in general. I am not a big fan of Mariah's. But I have seen her in concert recently and she puts on a great show. Why couldn't she just go up there with her band and sing live?
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Updated On: 1/1/17 at 03:46 AM
#12Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 5:46am
I told my friend that withyhat performance, she basically let the world know that she can not sing live without a significant amount of help anymore.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#13Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 7:07am
Heck...from what I saw, she could barely walk without assistance.
I'm not sure I can see how she was set up to fail. Performers know how to lip synch. It's not like she was a last minute replacement.
Many performers won't sing in the cold.
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10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#14Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 8:49am
She seemed out of it during the interview with Ryan Seacrest an hour or so before the performance...
#15Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 9:12am
Ouch. I hope it got better than the clips I saw where she spent most of the time complaining about the sound check and feedback and almost no effort in singing/miming or the choreography. She could have had an extra hour of rehearsal time if she'd opted to wear something more appropriate (for the climate, setting, audience AND her) instead of being stitched into whatever that was.
I'm sure it still wasn't bad enough to have her taken off of Donald Trump's inauguration wishlist though...
#16Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 10:50am
reports are that she was drunk, but that there were also audio problems. Her monitors weren't on & she apparently couldn't hear the track. Yet all of her dancers were on point.
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#17Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 11:07am
It's pretty sad to think about how incredible she was in the 90's. I feel sorry for the younger people who weren't really around for that and know her for this. Even her 2005 comeback was miraculous, but in the past several years she's been a train wreck with flop albums, American idol, strange tv performances, a hallmark movie, and a reality show that isn't rating very well.
Updated On: 1/1/17 at 11:07 AM#18Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 11:17am
She, and her devoted fans confuse the hell out of me. I know several people who are LIVID that anyone suggested last night that she couldn't sing. And don't you dare say that this was in any way her fault and she gave an AMAZING performance "under the circumstances". Like her AMAZING performance at the Christmas Tree lighting last year when the vocals were leaked proving she no longer is able to sing, well "it was cold out and nobody can sing in the cold". People will excuse her any and everything, never acknowledging the fact that she sadly, just can not sing anymore.
And I don't understand why.
#19Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 11:28am
What exactly happened?
I hear the hight notes on the track, but other than that, I just hear an instrumental track and she was supposed to sing to that but she did not sing because she couldn't hear the monitor?
Why didn't she just say: stop the track please, I can't hear myself. It's not like we heard a fully recorded vocal or anything.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#20Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 12:26pm
Dave28282 said: "What exactly happened?
I hear the hight notes on the track, but other than that, I just hear an instrumental track and she was supposed to sing to that but she did not sing because she couldn't hear the monitor?
Why didn't she just say: stop the track please, I can't hear myself. It's not like we heard a fully recorded vocal or anything.
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From what I saw, her second song was a complete track with which she attempted to lip sync to but didn't succeed. Stars at 3:56 mark. https://youtu.be/ZU1pGJW5aLs you can see she completely stops singing while you still hear her voice.
#21Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 12:59pm
She lip synced (badly) the first song. She was supposed to lip sync Emotions but they played the wrong track without the vocals, the monitors would not have been on because she was not supposed to live. When she realised it was the wrong track she just talked, she didn't even really try. Her whole 'I can't hear the music' is bollox, the dancers (bless them) heard it fine. She just knew she couldn't sing that song live anymore so didn't bother.
on the 3rd song she could sing along to her own voice but decided against that as well so put the mic down and just made an ass of herself. She could barely walk, she was a hot mess. This seems to happen to her a lot.
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#22Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 1:58pm
On the third song she actually says "this is the album track, I'm just going to sing along"
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#23Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 2:03pm
It's the exact same medley she did in her Christmas show, and for that she was sining live because when she went to do her trills at the end of Emotions, she got the first one, missed the second one, and got the third one. Not sure if the other high notes were prerecorded or not, but she sold it well regardless.
I think she def was just lip synching given the conditions. I mean, didn't we all rip on Idina for butchering "Let It go" on the same telecast a few years back? It's tough to sing that late and that cold and with minimal rehearsal, plus you're outside battling the elements.
#24Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 2:08pm
Why is everything she wears it's all about her tits and ass? Maybe to distract from the voice.
#25Mariah Carey new years eve performance
Posted: 1/1/17 at 3:08pm
I'm not a Mariah fan, but I think that, with whatever was going on, she got through it admirably; as admirably as one could.
She saved her ranting for Twitter...
