Pregnant diva Mariah Carey kicked off the 78th Annual ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’ special on NBC with a performance of her Holiday Hit ‘Oh Santa’. The term ‘hit’, of course, being relative given the single’s failure to ignite mainstream charts globally; it has however performed well on the Billboard Holiday Chart. Take from that what you will.
In any case, check out the mother-to-be in action below…
Given Ms. Carey-Cannon’s condition, she somewhat gets a pass for this so-so performance. By no means was it ‘bad’, yet when one is bored a quarter-way through, clearly something isn’t quite right. Speaking of things not being right; so loud was the singer’s backing track, that it made it almost impossible to decipher which parts of the song were live and which featured her now-trademark lip-synching (save for a few obviously live adlibs, I was Confused.com).
Still, with a bun in the oven, Ol’ Mimi deserves to be cut a bit of slack. Ok, performance.
Trent’s Edit:
For those of you who actually watched the show you would know that Carey was the only person who attempted to sing live. Does anyone else remember when Boys II Men’s vocals mysteriously started playing during Charice’s performance? Obviously Sam is too deep in his illusions of Kelly Rowland’s relevancy and Whitney Houston’s former vocal glory to have known that piece of information.
Remember when Houston was on tour and could not finish her easiest songs because her “soprano friend does not like air conditioning”? Sam must have forgotten that.
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Could someone shoot this fat bullldog for good!
Fake boobs, backup track, fake album cover= HILLARIOUS FAILED !!! 🙁
HO’rrible !
Y’all stop trippin and hail the DIVA!
really mariah oky #fail
I think that the relationship between her and Nick is fake and that she is gonna dump him after the baby. Do you see any chemistry me not. She always looks like she is in planet Mariah. I don’t know why Trent always says Christina is a b**** even though Mariah is the biggest diva and b****.
THE QUEEN! 🙂 BOW DOWN! MARIAH SOUNDED AMAZING. I WAS SO IMPRESSED. I REALLY LOVED THIS PERFORMANCE. SUCH A FUN FESTIVE SONG ALSO. IT WAS LIVE YOU CAN CLEARLY TELL BY MIMI’S AMAZING ADLIBS, SHE WAS SINGING WITH THE BACKING TRACK ON SOME PARTS NOT LIPPING! DUH. & THE WHISTLES WERE SOO LIVE & SOO AMAZING!! (WHITNEY COULD NEVER!) OVERALL GREAT PERFORMANCE . SIDENOTE: MARIAH IS SO FLAWLESS. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PREGNANT WOMAN IVE EVER SEEN!
MissImpartial WHO IS CHRISTINA DOE? & YES MC IS THE ULTIMATE DIVA, WHO MAD!? BUT SHE’S NO B****.
@JP
Mariah is not the ultimate diva. Ever heard of Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, those are the ultimate divas not Mariah. And by the way Christina is someone who sold 46Mil albums and has 5 grammys so please start to respect.
I quite like this. Some people are being very mean. The woman for goodness’s sake she still sounds great.
She did fine. Quit being mean!
Mariah was great!
You can tell she’s singing live by watching her facial expressions. When she lipsyncs she looks much more comfortable and “sings” without any effort: it looks and IS too good to be true. She was singing live, with an annoyingly loud backup track.
LOL @ TRENT’S EDIT.
BTW, did you mean to be sarcastic and say *irrelevancy.
THANK YOU TRENT for clarifying that! Lambs should support each other and of course supoort the QUEEN!
BEST SELLING FEMALE ARTIST OF ALL TIME = MARIAH CAREY
BEST SINGER IN THE WORLD = MARIAH CAREY
enough said!
She still got. Period.
Mariah did lip-sync only the high notes and there is a reason for that
Watch this video where she explains how her HIGh notes work
2:23 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185XyDE17mw
F*** YOU HATERS
go Mariah!
LOL @ the Sam and Trent drama….where Trent obviously won!!! And by the way, Mariah’s performance was actually recorded last week in New York when the temperature was in the 30-40s degrees!!!! So for her voice to so strong in that cold weather should let people (especially DUMMIES like Sam and other delusional Whitney fans) know for a fact that MARIAH is the only icon who STILL HAS IT!!!!!!
THANK GOODNESS for her ALWAYS proving such haters wrong…which she shall continue to do so gracefully (even while pregnant yall)!!!!!
Trent are u forgetting that Sam is your BOSS and can DUMP u from at any second.
TRENT R U MAD?
@ Team Rowland
TRENT FOR PRESIDENT
I realy do like sam , but you are quit delusional on this one … Stop bashing other real SANGERS cuz mimi was lipsynching and it looked like she was going to have her baby right on that stage…
That song is AWESOME tho !! Such a great Xmas song !
LMAO AT TRENT
THANK YOU…..Mariah was teh ooooooonly person that attempted to sing live. Charice lip sang…..boyz 2 men lip sang ….and the queen of england lip sang her new christmas song.
So back the f*** off Mariah….thank u
Charice has never lipsynced except when she was on Glee. But then all of the Glee cast were forced to lipsync.
Queen Mariah was amazing. F*** all of you haters. Her perfomance was amazing. She sounded and looked amazing. You mad?
She sounded great and looked adorable. Mariah still remains one of the most successful artists in the world 20 years late, that’s why she performed in Egypt, Brazil, and Singapore this year in front of thousands of people for millions of dollars. Sam, you’re simply jealous Mariah’s THIRTEENTH studio album will end up selling more units (with poor promo) than Kelly’s THIRD. Oh, that’s if it ever gets a release date…
lol comparing mariah to christina! mariah is much much better than christina
christina is only 30 years old but little by little shes loosing her voice what more if she reach the 40s!
this song is gonna be a classic!
I liked her performance! Trent is right, I saw all the performances and you can tell none was singing live but Mariah.
She looked and sound great! Well done Mimi, looking forward to seeing her ABC special! 🙂
It went #1 on the Holiday charts (while AIWFIU was sitting pretty at number 2) and Adult Contemporary….Sam, you sound dumb. I was here, and i have a better video, She sounded great and her whistle, both times she performed it, was amazing.
LMFAO @ Trent not being able to accept the truth. Mariah Carey lip synched her way through “Oh Santa” … just accept it. Why bring up other artists just because yours underperformed?
HER PREGNANCY IS NO PASS. SORRY DESPITE THE BS U ARE FED PREGGERS DOESN’T AFFECT THE VOICE ADVERSELY . THAT VOICE IS JUST OFF NOW
IDIOTIC Trentisha ! this FLOP performance was 100% NOT LIVE !!
I LOVE ME SOME MARIAH, but that back track was too fucken loud. It did look like she lipped some parts. This song definitely grew on me!
For the record though, Charice sang live. She has no reason not to with a voice like that!
Go, Mariah! Sam and the other Whitney fans are just pissed because Whitney sounds like a cat dying in the back of an alley!
Mariah is still a great singer, and she definitely has the vocal chops!
I guess some people forget there are times when Celine Dion lipsynchs to reserve her voice. She wouldn’t have sung live had she been apart of this event.
Even with the lipsynched parts, Mariah sounded GREAT on the parts that were live.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dDkQPTAdUs%5D
She tweeted that she had gotten some bad news the day of this filming and I believe that is why she looked so down, Lambs in the audience said that she broke into tears at one point. Also!! Those in attendance agreed that she sang completely live
Mariah was the only one to sing live!!! Great job mariah!
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done deal…enough about her!
She cant sell…anymore.
ANOTHER FORGET-ABLE PERFORMANCE FROM THE SAME OLD S HIT DIVA !!!!
M…A…R…I…A…H !!!!!! lOVE THE SONG, PERFORMANCE AND HER PREGNANT LOOK.
you all just wish you looked and sounded as good as her!!!
Now yall now DAMN WELLL MAriah sing live 20% of the time- stop it. And Trent- Stop Hating on Whitney, we know you’re a CLOSET fan of hers. *keyword closet- in more ways than one. 🙂
Mariah sucks and she has been lip -syncing for almost 13 years now..whats new?
Mariah’s performance is okay..not spectacular but okay. Charice was singing LIVE, what you heard was a “backtrack” of a Boyz II Men song… try to google what a backtrack is and stop saying it’s lip synching. With a voice like hers, why would she even do a lip synch to that event when her live performances sound better. 🙂