Following a brief bout of flu, Mariah Carey bounced back last during Busta Rhymes’ HOT 97 concert in New York.
Mimi joined the rapper on-stage to perform their 2003 hit ‘I Know What You Want.’
Recent years haven’t been the kindest to the duo commercially, but there’s no denying that their respective legacies are enduring.
As such, it was awesome seeing Carey honor Busta’s invite despite her health issues.
How did she sound, though? Find out below…
Granted corners of that vocal made us wince with an unease (which is sadly routine with Mariah these days), her voice sounded generally better than it has in recent years. – continuing a solid precedent set at her Vegas shows this year.
Mimi’s Lambs can catch her this week for her annual Christmas concerts at the Beacon Theater.
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STRUGGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMAO! ok. But still a legend so she gets a pass
Lol She’s not on no JLo type of b******* though. The b**** could sing back in the day.
This was everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhJKnPKlqc
I love Mariah, I truly do.
Is she medicated here? High? drunk?
She has to be helped to the stage and seems dazed. To be one of the greatest singers of all time – how can she not blow a 1 min verse in this song.
Come on Mariah, what is going on. Get it together or bow-out gracefully. Seriously getting tired of her lazy performances.
THAT ENDING WAS EVERYTHING!!
FUQING LEGEND!!!
UGH…
The Queen of Pop/R&B and always will be.
This iconic song is still fire!
Did she have to run from her Tribeca apartment all the way to Newark to be gasping for air like that??
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MC, time to wear a corset that doesn’t squeeze your liver up your lungs, and find some leather pants that actually fit.
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And let’s not forget that slimmed down Instagram picture…. I see you Mariah, I’m seeing right through you like you’re bathin’ in Windex.
Doe is even normaal verrekte gek, zo doen we dn dees nie he
Like for F?CK SAKE just be for once positive. After this comment I WILL NEVER return to this horrible ”blog” so much hate and negativity. Ughh I want to just puke. For once just be reasonable and if you find her irrelevant don’t try to get clicks of her name.
Thought she was sick? Told you LAMES that MooMoo make a huge deal over the smallest things. What a clown.
She was sick. Flu can be serious, but we live in 2015, so it’s not exactly hard to treat.
Great to see them perform this song after so many years. Also from watching other performances the Mics and in-ear devices were f****** up all night. I hate when concert promoters and venues don’t have the sound right.
I liked this performance, but I seriously hope that she’s resting her voice appropriately and preparing her vocal chords for those Christmas concerts. I don’t want what happened last year to reoccur, especially when the media had a field day with the memes and “acapella” videos. When you’re black, you fall harder than everyone else everytime you mess up…and just because she’s a legend, they were PERCHED AND WAITING for the perfect moment to discredit her all the way to hell and back.
Get out of here. Britney Spears says hi. If you’re wack, you’re wack.
Lol! You and I BOTH know how the media DRAGGED Jan and Bey (even though she didn’t mess up) after their Superbowl performances. The only person that could NEVER recover from a Superbowl performance would undoubtedly be Britney because she’d be dragged to the point of no return. Mariah still can sing and she proved it during her residency shows.
This was a hot mess and all over the place. But Mariah sounded ok…
Overall she sounded good. It was one spotty moment & that’s it. She gets so tight when she performs in front of others. The ending was amazing. She just sung. She should start moving around! Her recent performances have been really good. But you (Sam) are a hater so you don’t post them! She could sound great & haters would still complain. People just love to hate on her..
“Lower it down, I want to HEAR Mariah.” *voice craks* *Failed notes* *Off Keys* *Stains* lol, Studio Vocalist.
Its funny u should say that considering how, Rihannas a studio vocalist
Sure is and a pop star. And?
Yet, you’re trying to bash Mariah Carey. The jokes write themselves.
MooMoo can’t sing. Have a bad day.
She could at your faves age. Rihanna on the other hand, has never been a good singer. So you have no room to talk. Have a blessed day!
MAKE THEM MAD SIS. TRUTH ISMARIAH NEVER HAD ANY VOCAL POWER. ALL SHE EVER HAD WAS RANGE. SHE’S SO DAMN STIFF ON STAGE &HER VOICE IS SO FRAIL AF. SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY CONTROL OF WHAT COMES OUT OF HER MOUTH. SHE SINGS OFF KEY&HER WOBBLY VOICE IS ONLY STRONG IN THE STUDIO. tHE LAMES ALWAYS TALKING S*** WHEN IT COMES TO ARIANA, BUT MARIAH LIVE HAS NOTHING ON HER.
Man wish it was Busta and Janet what’s it gonna be that was the official hit Busta just tried again with Mariah it just didn’t stick as well.
it was released in 2003, not 2002. Sam, go to any elementary school to learn how to check the facts.
Janet’s song with Busta was great too. But this one is as well.. Sit TF down. Mark is probably Sam. She’s so salty about anything Mariah. Don’t get it twisted she did a good job. You know people are haters when they have to knit pic. Sam always has a speech to a Mariah performance. He’s just mad that the person who left this site is better than him..
You’re probably the person who left.
This was a mess.com.
It’s beyond me how lambs can call this a great performance.
And the lambs have the nerve to come for J.Lo, one of the greatest performers of all time, OK, she has never sound like 90’s Mariah but she doesn’t sound like present-Mariah neither, this was really bad.
Plays: Mile in These Shoes by J.Lo 😉
I agree, J Lo is a way better performer & I’ll say singer (nowadays) than Mariah. Which is pretty sad when you think about it, cause Jennifer is soooooo basic & just a background dancer with a phat ass & shitttty catalog of non-factor asss music. J Ho aged WAY better too.
LOL That´s a real delusion sorry. JLo can´t sing not even when lipped (beginning of AMAs performance). Mariah can definitely give you great vocals when lipping nowadays, and some days, live too.
PS: loving Honeymoon now. It costed me a little bit cause it really is not as good as Ultraviolence, but now I´m enjoying it for what it is. She´s very special (can´t sing live either though 🙂 ).
The delusion
The performance was cool but on another note Busta Rhymes needs to hit the gym like yesterday he looked liked a fat sloppy funk box up there. MC looks great and even with technical problems and a few off keys moments she still did a good damn job. As I say on MC’s worst vocal day not too many pop singers can touch her greatness.
She sounded decent for 2015 standards. Those rappers were all over the place.
She sounded good considering she’s recovering from the flu. I can’t wait to see her at her Christmas show next week! 🙂
Wow she sounded like s***!
The way Ciara has sounded her entire career?
She is a totally different singer in an intimate setting. JLo isn’t a singer.. Mariah was good here minus one hiccup. Y’all are haters. Even when she does good y’all hate. Haters will hate everything from a person that they generally hate. MC you did your thing. and she kilt the ending. They want her to sound bad desperately.. And Busta stopped the music for MC. That’s not a big deal. Stop the silly A** reaching..
hippo and cow
I live Mariah but this is tragic. I cannot stand behind vocals that I wouldn’t even give a dollar to a bun for presenting. Horribly IMO.
No where near the 1991 Mariah Carey voice..
Besides that hiccup nothing about this was tragic. She sounded very close to the song actually. Stop being a groupie. You don’t have to say I luv this & then say something that contradicts it right there after. Just get to the damn point. With Mariah it’s common to pick on every single note. If she’s off by a twitch it’s bad. Sit y’all silly Azzes down. Just because something ain’t perfect doesn’t make it terrible haters. And the crowd enjoyed it, she did a good job. She’s just very tight within her stage performance.. Also, she looks very good & youthful.
I will always love Mariah.
Thats all
Mariah is a p** and a joke. She needs to retire so badly it hurts.
Why do you hate this woman so much? Sam always has to bring up “recent” years. We know about her voice as of 2015 damn. Why don’t you guys ever talk about the nodules on her voice