Mariah Carey delivered what could easily be classified as the worst performance of her 25+ year career on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest’ tonight (December 31).
Helping more than one million people camped out in Times Square painfully ring in the new year (and don’t forget the millions watching at home), the annual ABC special got a dose of updated versions of the diva’s hits ‘We Belong Together,’ ‘Emotions,’ and more.
When not talking through the songs, Carey’s backing track gave out at multiple points during the performance. Guess who gave zero f*cks? That’s right…Miss Mimi.
Watch the horror inside:
Mariah Carey is currently the #1 trend after ending 2016 with this disaster of a performance. pic.twitter.com/FDn7maIuyC
— Pop Crave (@PopCravings) January 1, 2017
Even Milli Vanilli is embarrassed by Mariah Carey’s debacle. pic.twitter.com/8179cHu7jA
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 1, 2017
And never a post on when she did exceptionally amazing
She did eff that up tho!!
She been worked to hard for her status in the industry… When stars start acting out.. Bad things happens… She said you dont get no better.. She cant even sing her songs anymore #prayforher
Why don’t you post a link to a recent “exceptionally amazing” performance. I would love to see a video. I have yet to see an “amazing” performance from her in the last 5 years.
Oh, you know management and lawyers had any clips pulled ASAP eastern, western, pacific, middle eastern and European time zones to show no saved evidence. Probably contacting YouTube now! Nick 1-Mariah .5 I’ll give her that she looked good tonight. That’s for tonight otherwise Nick is -25
https://youtu.be/ZJel4zdEwPk
I’m not going to say that she should always do amazing because when it comes down to it, she is still human. However, it should never NEVER EVER be THIS BAD….and this standard is in place because she is considered a lengend. The industry might have to revoke her lengendary status. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be one of her die hard fans, because watching her perform would give me anxiety, sitting on the edge of my seat like, I hope she doesn’t mess up, lord let her hit that note…lol when my favs perform I can sit back and enjoy. For example, Jazmine never slips up and while I’m not a member of the hive, Bey never does either.
I’ll give Beyoncé her credit, she will always keep her performance together, no matter what glitch may happen. She’s just that good st performing where you wouldn’t even be able to tell there was an issue. HOWEVER, Beyoncé ALWAYS lip sing. Like always, she doesn’t do it the entire performance but if you listen to the sound quality the 1st 75% of her performance and the last 25% if never sounds the same. You can tell when she turns on her mic to sing and say little words here and there.
Way to go out of the year with a bang! Wow!!!
The wad a back a up whistle hheeeuuuuuuhhh
More than 50% of the worlds population was drunk as a skunk. What’s the problem?
Drinking and being “drunk as a skunk” are too separate things. Where are your receipts?
12 year old get off your mothers computer! Tell her to read you a story and put your A S S to sleep. Happy new year????????
I love both, but atleast when Whitney was alive in her later years though her voice changed she still sang “live” where Mariah relies to heavy on prerecorded or lip sync uping the original song. Overall Mariah can get it lol and still able to to sing too, they did her foul on the technical difficulties.
Stop making excuses. None of the other performers that came on before her reported “technical difficulties.” The same sound engineer for the whole show. Mariah was drunk, her waist trainer was on too tight, and she was too concerned with playing with her hair and necklace rather than remembering the words to lip synch too. Unprofessional!
Why she is always squeezing her sponge Bob shaped body in an outfit made for someone with a nice shape? Oh, and chivk can’t sing no more.
Hee career is filled with the good. Her attitude and cockiness and arrogance is why she ia where she is now. Godbdont like ugly and ugly in the sense that she forgotnher gift was God-given
You made the Dumbest statement I ever heard in my life
OMG! Mariah, I have no words, sis. Fire your team and start fresh.
no don’t blame her team, blame Mariah, i am a long time fan it hurts me to say but honey needs to put the alcohol down. she is making a fool of herself. her team is doing a good time they booked her on the New Years Eve show which is viewed by millions, they booked her on the Lionel Richie tour, they got her her own Docuseries on E!. its not her team, Mariah has been notorious alcoholic in the industry for yeeears. hopefully my girl would get the help she derseves
Don’t even blame the alcohol either. She seemed 100% coherent.
She looked good tho.
Lathargic, drunk, and too out of it to remember the words to your own songs looks bad to me.
Beautiful gowns?
I have no words. At least she looked good. I feel bad for her but maybe she needs to stop lip syncing! Stop drinking and take care of your voice! Bad end to 2016/start of 2017. Get it together! I still love you, Mariah. Lol.
Get her some milk….. She needs some milk!!! We all know Mariah at her best and that’s the way I’ll always remember her at her best. In saying that this performance was really bad, but Sis looked good. “If you can’t be better than them, dress better” ??
How are the the worst vocal of her career Whe she hardly song?
I think she was just enjoying herself on New Years!
You are delusional.
The excuses! AtleAst when rihanna was performing American oxygen that time she still sang. And better might I add. Mariah hadn’t been trying for years and you guys continue making excuses for her. ????. She just lost her legend status.
She’s legendary for her discography, but just as much for giving bad performances. She needs real people around her to get her together! This diva crap ain’t s*** if you can’t sing your song at least once during a technical emergency. It’s so amateurish. And sad.
She did not lose her legend status because that came from being one of the highest selling artists of all time. She was never a big live performer, even in her prime. She is a studio singer…that is why she does not tour often.
The main word being “Singer”. If your track breaks, Sing! She’s just lazy with no technique now! It’s bleak. And I’m a day one Lamb! But, it’s just become stupid. If you build a legacy based on your voice. You must sing. Y’all didn’t see Whitney attempting the same keys when she knew her voice was beyond repair. It really comes down to her needing a Reality check. I’d never disrespect her, because she’s made some of my favorite albums of all time. She’s not respecting her own legacy.
Tell that boy bye! Rihanna couldn’t see Mariah on her worst day
Amerikkka
LOL Yas! Someone has to be truly delusional to think Rihanna sounds better, even now in 2017. Mariah didn´t even try here. This wasn´t about vocals.
Stop lying ?. I hate when people try to take away from Rihanna’s talent.
@truth
What talent ? Seriously ….
Who´s lying??? Now Rihanna is more talented than Mariah Carey? Some of you really lack all types of perspective.
Honey a Mime can see Mariah on her best day. She is finished. She ended her career in one night. ??
Chile…smh. If there were technical difficulties, a professional would’ve pulled through somehow. She’s too busy trying to show off a fake relationship instead of caring about her career.
I bet you someone got fired for that mess!
Wendy is going to have a field day on tuesday smh dead !
Well, at least she looks like a queen at least.
I don’t even know what to say
This is horrible like really Mariah.
Honestly I can expect this from her tbh.
This is up alley.
BAYYBAAAYYY @Stephy sissss what is she doing?!
GIRL I HAVE NO F****** CLUE! LORD!
BOY IM GAGGINGGG
Lmfao!!! Maybe if she concentrated on rehearsals rather than throwing petty shade to try to deflect from her ever dwindling voice and lack of stage prowess like some of the girls she shades she wouldn’t have looked like such a dumbass. This might be as bad as Britney’s VMA performance during her meltdown! Haha! Karma is a b**** ain’t it!
Well, I’m used to her hit and miss performances so I’m not even bothered that this happened again, at least she looked amazing. And besides, it didn’t even seem to phase her one bit, which was hilarious! And all this negative trolling field day chatter talk shall pass. #Pow
Lmfaooooooo!!!! Mariah said F** it, where’s my drink??? HAHAHA!!!
Arianna,Demo and J-lo would never dahhhling
Would never have those songs in their repertoire? I agree 🙂
Mariah Carey had the last AND worst performance of 2016.
She performed right after, immediately after JENNIFER LOPEZ first set of IF YOU HAD MY LOVE and GET RIGHT. Jen killed it and the quality was amazing. There was some fur backlash but whatever.
However, Mariah had a similar bodysuit and feathers LOL She barely lipped it and gave 0% to the terrible performance. Soundcheck or whatever, it was a mess and she’s prissy.
JLO DESTROYED COWRIAH …. and they are almost the same age. But Now jennifer is better than her in every way.
JLo still behind Mariah in sales,vocals, awards, critical acclaim, etc., none of this changes because of a bad performance.
Olivia Pope really came thru for Kim Burrell because this Mariah disaster is going make everybody forget about homogate lmaoooo!
I love Mariah but this was worse than any Britney performance. There is no excuse. Id rather see her sing with back up singers and ad-lib the parts she can’t sing anymore than lip like this. This was shameless and she didn’t even try to fix it. Maybe it wasn’t rehearsed? Who knows.
But XXLTINA can’t even sing above Eb5 without screaming, so wyd?
Legendtina
Are you slow???? She didn´t try to sing. How was this about not being able to sing? Haven´t you pucking watched her last whole two years of great Emotions performances? Too much ignorance for “loving” Mariah…
John, the only slow one here is you. Calm down and take off your stan glasses. Where in my comment did I say she tried to sing? Please read again. I said I would rather see her try to sing than shamelessly lip sing like she’s Britney Spears or Paula Abdul. I would have rather seen her stop the performance, cut the track, apologize, and take it from the top again than have the trainwreck continue. At the very least an apology at the end would do. That was just unprofessional and a mess.
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What an entertaining performance ??????????
Excuses.. She barely sang. She has sounded pretty good all yr. wtf. She has to get it together.. She looked great. But this was a disaster..
Girl her T has been clocked! A sad day for us lambs.
This was really unacceptable to be honest
This was not her fault Mariah came to perform her hits!! there was sound issues which messed up her performance please tell me how you sing the song and you can’t hear the track like seriously she didn’t forget any of the words it’s just the simple point why would she sing over the track and the track is saying one thing and she saying another it would be pointless you guys are going to critique her until the day you die or she does I love Mariah and I can’t wait to see her on tour with Lionel!!
Delusional. Nobody is perfect but there is no need to lie and make up excuses for Mariah. She is a legendary artist and this will past. People that lie or are too delusional make themselves look like a fool.
I’m afraid Mariah is going to make me regret buying a ticket to her show with Lionel Richie. I just don’t understand her lack of preparedness. If her dancers could hear and perform to the music without trouble then Mariah should’ve been able to do the same, except for the fact that she set herself up for failure by not bothering to take care of her voice so she could sing live and not rely on backing tracks. She does this time and time again and never seems to learn from the same repeated mishaps. If you’re not willing to do better just retire and watch Celine Dion and the other greats show you how it’s done.
I agree. All of her notes were off tune when she tried to sing live. She was not prepared. Hell, plenty of the performers sang live. She should have been prepared to sing live too or not do the performance. Mariah blocked another artist from closing out the night (closing out 2016) with a good live performance.
I guess she got nothing more to prove.
Yeah it was a bad performance she f*ucked up but some of people are delusional if they think this performance erases the 26 years of hard work and success that she’s earned.
Ok. Prob the worst…ever for Mariah. Pains me to say but she should be ashamed. Not sure how she or the world will get passed this
Mariah. How you gonna saaang the whole year flawlessly then do THIS to us fans. WTF!!!!
Wow she’s so tacky
She killed every other performance this year but yet she’ll be judged on this one performance, like the Rockefeller performance! This is what happened. So,in a pro audio environment artists use reference monitors either on stage or in-ear to hear music they are singing or playing. ALL live performers do this. Every last one. They cannot hear what the crowd hears. The PA speakers are in front of them and pointing at the audience or patched in directly to the video monitors. If you notice at the beginning of her performance,she couldn’t hear anything in her in-ear monitor and missed her que to walk to walk on stage and actually perform. She then took it out of her ear to try and hear it from the PA monitors and still couldn’t. The fail was 100% technical. I’m sure the audio personnel or company will lose their jobs. It wasn’t her fault. She actually couldn’t hear anything. She not a Machine She Human She not Perfect S*** Happen we need to deal with it.
Her dancers heard the music without missing a beat, and Mariah heard it too because she sang a few words in sync with the music. She simply wasn’t prepared to sing live if need be and it shook up her whole world. No other performers had trouble because as singers they know their voice is all they have to rely on, not on someone in the back to hit play on some pre-recorded vocals. It was the worst performance in the history of television and she needs to take responsibility and learn from it. No excuses.
Again, can´t be you see this isn´t about vocals? She had had some drinks obviously.
Her earpiece gave out and she couldn’t hear herself. It was a bad performance but she could have sang it accapella and got another earpiece maybe.
And then u haters have the nerve to insult jlo…look at this mess it is infront of you…Mariah carey hasn’t been able to hit a note for years now, she isn’t even able to mime properlly
What???? LMAO Not a single note? So have you missed the dozens of concerts offering great vocal showings this whole 2016? Get lost!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvGTi9EOgeY
Oh dear
Did she walk off!? Omg that gave me life.
I think some people are truly ignorant or something. This is obviously NOT about bad vocals for crying out loud! She´s been sounding great singing Emotions for two whole years now in all of her tours. She clearly was either drunk or just couldn´t ear a damn thing and opted for not even try so that they wouldn´t crucify her like they did two years ago for one bad Rockefeller Xmas performance. That´s all. She opted for being funny.
It´s a pitty cause she looked gorgeous and could have been a really great showing with thsoe epic songs of hers that truly fit the festive moment. One thing is for sure: this always happens when millions of people are watching her 🙂 🙁
Your whale of a fav is a joke boo deal with it old dirt bag.
Hang it up flat screen
What a fat ugly pathetic mess
STFU! This is JLo at her best in the following video LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWb4pmOm8I
This was for Jlover. A clearly deaf person.
At least J.Lo dances and that’s what she’s known for primarily.
What about that whale you stan for? An alcoholic shell of her former self who’s best years are way behind her.
K A R M A
that’s what happens when you make it your job to be a shady fat c#nt to other people.
She deserves every whack performance she gets.
P.S. She lost her voice. Fat wh#re.
I’m so sorry my #Lambily dahhhlings! Let me explain. I asked for Butterfly tea dahhling at the dinner beforehand. What I didn’t realise was that they were Long Island iced teas that miss Stella was giving me! So I thought, well you know, I’m in New York for New Years Eve dahhhling. We all have our festive moments dahhlings, I hope you all understand. Love you much my #Lambily. I am praying profusely that you shall forgive me dahhlings ?
Shut up and take your fat ass to AA immediately
This is a sad sad thing to see especially for fans that have been following her since her glory days. How bout dropping that diva s*** and focus once again on the voice? Anyway, happy new year i guess
Kiii she’s horrible. A professional would’ve sang through it. I’ve seen Whitney do it. ?
Yeah you right Whitney would never
https://youtu.be/N_65O5Oz4w8
At least she sang and didn’t strut around speaking a bunch of incoherent mumbo jumbo??
Yes atleast she sang even though she shouldn’t have hence why I said Whitney would never you dumbass?
And I was agreeing with you TROLL. ?
Can’t believe people are actually making excuses for this mess. Delude yourselves in blind worship all you want, this was worse than Corey Feldman’s Today Show performance. She can shade JLo all she wants, fact remains that JLo destroys her on stage, regardless of Mariah’s bloated sales. A Legend would never give a show this horrific.
The Lambs are experts at making excuses. I’m glad my fav is a professional at all times. ?
J.Lo did great as always, this woman truly proves that age ain’t nothing but a number.
She looks amazing though!! I love Mariah. Lol… she is a mess though.. ?
Beyoncé a true legend would never
As if Mariah weren´t a legend? LOL All I want for Xmas alone will outlast Beyonce. So be quiet. Mariah being drunk one night has nothing to do with Beyonce.
Truly unprofessional, Mariah’s ego is bigger than her talent.
I see you Mariah.
Fk it ?❤
Disaster is an understatement tbh but Mariah will always be a legend; that won’t change just because she’s drunk or whatever the hell happened.
Not the Hive throwing shade when Beyoncé worships the ground Mariah walks on
Mariah is legend and has nothing to prove! She still cashed that check at the end of the night and looked great while doing so. J.Lo who?
Lawd Mimi just stop please. Humble yourself now. I’m legit scared for her after all the great ones we lost in 2016.
Who gon’ do her tribute concert, her failed playback vocals? Mariah don’ dissed and dismissed all the girls who looked up to her…
That was a disaster but she already earned her spot.
Publicity stunt
Lambs Aint s***. They always tear down female artist, but excuse mariahs drunkedness. She’s a boring club singer that should retire. Her shade she throws constantly only makes it only worse.
Gloria Estefan, who is 59, went up there in heels and served good vocals and gave good energy…what Mariah’s excuse? And why was she up there on stage dressed like it was summer time!? It was in the 40’s and everyone else had coats on and was bundled up and she went up there shivering and looking like a fool! Mariah needs to fire all her “YES” people and get a team that is going to tell her the truth. I love Mariah but gurl get it together! Stop trying to keep up with these young girls. You are one of the Blue Prints of what it means to be a singer and a class act. Bring the girls up to your level, stop stooping down to their level.
Patti would NEVER
Aretha would NEVER
Gladys would NEVER
Celine would NEVER
Barbra would NEVER
Diana would NEVER
Beyoncé would NEVER
Mariah is a disgusting drunken has-been who can’t even be on point the only time of year she’s relevant. RIP.
The sad part is that when she started to sing emotions it actually sounded nice but she was so afraid to sing without the backing track that she just gave up. I’m so dissapointed and there is no one to blame but her. I don’t think that she ever rehearses. She looked great, the dancers were great and the set was great. It’s always her that doesn’t deliver. I’m done with her live performances because I get dissapointed by them ever time. She needs a coach or something to help her with live performances. She’s been in the game way to long to be performing like that live on TV.
Jesus be a FENCE!
Wow Britney’s VMA preformance of Gimme More was 10 better than this garbage. Britney at least tried lol Mariah shame on you!!!
Drugs are NO BUENO…..
She looked stunning, but wow this is the worst performance of this century. It’s all down to Stella her new manager, you’d think she would get Mariah to be on point for this show. She is damaging her career and turning her in to a reality star, this was worser than Britney VMA 2007. I am a Mariah fan but gosh this will be bad for her career. She should have stopped it in the first few seconds and ended the performance after one song. It’s all down to bad management. Stella needs to go.
Nice