OT: Mariah Carey performance was an epic meltdown

[DerHntr]

No idea what happened but damn it was funny

 

[CoastDawg18]

Yea that was a disaster!

 

[bsquared24]

Wt17 was that? Disaster ...

 

[Lettucexxxx]

 

[Shamoan]

Hilarious. She was in straight meltdown mode. after talking to my wife, she pulled the same **** in 2014 tree lighting except not nearly as bad.

 

[EngDawg]

Everyone 17s up once in awhile.

 

[fishwater99]

That's what happens when you can't sing live and only lip sync.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Did she seriously ask the promoters what time the ball was supposed to drop?

 

[dawgman42]

Mistakes were made.

nm

 

[RightOfCenter]

Is there a good link for those of us that did not stay up late?

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

And she should not wear that rig in public... anymore.

 

[goodknight]

Doesn't know the words to her own songs and therefore couldn't lip sync. What is sad is she asked for teleprompters and didn't even try to hide the fact she didn't know her own damn songs. Watched about 5 minutes and tried to find something else. None of the shows on tv last night were decent. 5 minutes then 3 minutes of commercials.

 

[JungRebel]

Best tweet of last night, perhaps of 2016:

"ISIS has claimed responsibility for Mariah Carey's performance."

 

[mcdawg22]

Biggest NYE Meltdown?

Mariah Carey or Ben Garrett.

 

[DerHntr]

Is there a good link for those of us that did not stay up late?

https://youtu.be/UkTy_vSPkWc

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Earlier in the night, she seemed heavily sedated. This performance confirms it though.

 

[thf24]

Her monitors weren't working. There was no "lip syncing" involved. If you're not a musician and have never performed live, know that it is very difficult to perform in a loud live setting when you can't hear your own output, practically impossible in the setting she was in.

I'm not a Mariah Carey apologist or anything, I've been saying for a while that she needs to either retire or rework her style because of how badly her upper vocal range has broken down over the past 4-5 years. It's just irksome as a musician to see her getting railed so badly for something that was a huge technical error by someone else.

 

[DerHntr]

Her monitors weren't working. There was no "lip syncing" involved. If you're not a musician and have never performed live, know that it is very difficult to perform in a loud live setting when you can't hear your own output, practically impossible in the setting she was in.

I'm not a Mariah Carey apologist or anything, I've been saying for a while that she needs to either retire or rework her style because of how badly her upper vocal range has broken down over the past 4-5 years. It's just irksome as a musician to see her getting railed so badly for something that was a huge technical error by someone else.

I don't know what happened in the first song. There was music but no words.
Later in the performance though, she was clearly trying to sync with the vocals. By that point she was so flustered I think she just said screw it.

 

[thf24]

I don't know what happened in the first song. There was music but no words.
Later in the performance though, she was clearly trying to sync with the vocals. By that point she was so flustered I think she just said screw it.

Yes, she needed to sync her melody part with harmony backing tracks that she couldn't hear either. That's not lip syncing. No surprise she got frustrated and gave up; as I said, not having monitors in that environment would be absolutely debilitating.

 

[Sutterkane]

I think she's gonna end up having to do the same thing Julie Andrews did. Unfortunately, that surgery can royally 17 up somebody's voice. It's very hit or miss.

 

[DerHntr]

I was surprised she didn't just walk off stage and the network cut back to studio.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Make me jelly af people like that are super rich

 

[Todd4State]

Yes, she needed to sync her melody part with harmony backing tracks that she couldn't hear either. That's not lip syncing. No surprise she got frustrated and gave up; as I said, not having monitors in that environment would be absolutely debilitating.

I thought I heard her say something about "that's the wrong track" during the performance too.

 

[CoastRat.sixpack]

Clearly you didn't watch the whole thing.

Her monitors weren't working. There was no "lip syncing" involved. If you're not a musician and have never performed live, know that it is very difficult to perform in a loud live setting when you can't hear your own output, practically impossible in the setting she was in.

I'm not a Mariah Carey apologist or anything, I've been saying for a while that she needs to either retire or rework her style because of how badly her upper vocal range has broken down over the past 4-5 years. It's just irksome as a musician to see her getting railed so badly for something that was a huge technical error by someone else.

The first song you may be right, but the second song was clearly a pure lip sync. She takes the mic away from her mouth multiple times, yet the lead vocal continues. It is awful what music has become.