Mariah Carey officially popped the cork on her upcoming era by performing an 8-song set for Jimmy Kimmel‘s ‘Plot Your Escape’ multi-artist concert event.
The quality of the octave-jumping diva’s voice was exceptionally clear, strong, and agile–a complete 180 degrees from her leathery live performances pre-‘Merry Christmas II You’.
Watch Carey deliver the best rendition of her self-written r&b/pop hybrid ‘Shake It Off’ after the jump and sound-off below.
A truly amazing showcase that allowed the 41-year-old’s voice to soar and take center stage. Usually during ‘Shake It Off’ (which is no easy song to sing) Carey is carried by her background singers and backing-track, so it’s an unusually special to hear it performed almost unplugged and with a revamped intro.
Having the pleasure of being in attendance last night we can confirm Carey’s voice was 100% live, proving that she’s still indeed that chick when it comes to vocal prowess.
Missed the entire show? Don’t fret, the ‘Plot Your Escape’ concert event will air on NBC‘s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Saturday, March 3rd. In the meantime keep it locked on ‘TGJ’ for more updates from the innovative free global concert featuring performances from Mary J. Blige, Adam Levine, and Lil Wayne to name a few.
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MARIAH OWN THE STAGE THIS 41 YRS OLD WOMAN SLAYYED!
I can´t wait for new music!!!
she sang 8 song and all they can stream was only f****** 1 song from Mariah> that was the worst Live Stream EVER!!!! VERY DISAPPOINTED!!
She sounded amazing. The Voice is still there. WE CAN HEAR IT LIVE! LOVE IT! MARIAH LOOK SOO BEAUTIFUL AMAZING
That was a good performance. Lil’ Wayne at a free concert? Wow.
Was their any reason to flip that picture? Y’all stay shady.
I love MC to death, but no her vocals are still the same pre-kids.
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Loooove the intro. Hope that was a taste of the kind of music to come!
Watcha talking about grapejuice! This song is super dupa easy to sing because the melody is basically fast talking. It doesn’t require vocal skill. I was fond of Mariah but it’s time for her to give it a rest. Her perfomances are so boring. In addition her background singers carried the song anyway.
Ummm as usual, the end went into a track for the high lead vocals! As a lamb and a person that can HEAR, that was obvious. She sound really good at the beginning though. Her depth and fullness is back!
You better sang Mariah!
Welcome back!
ppl b honest that wasn’t a strong live performance. y is mariah going breathless on a ballad?
@ dee you said it right it was boring. Now it is just like watching 15 of this in a concert. quit boring. like i said previously i like mariah but her performances don’t move me at all . too boring thanks to the back up singers. This is not the business for someone who is know for great vocals. she is startign to sound just like Alicia keys damn
I didn’t see the same performance then because her voice was mediocre at best. She can longer kill the high notes like before. It was a little boring and safe. Honestly, nothing special. I am glad she is trying to make her comeback tho.
mariah can never hit her high notes live NEVER. her studio vocals drove me two of her concets and she keeps disappointing me. it sickens sometimes when some people try to cling to what was there before. to all the lambs including myself reality check mariah doesn’t have it anymore and i am mad cause i love this woman. randy jackson, her manager as a panel judge would disapprove of this s***.
mariah I will give you 3 more changes. upcomign album and 2 live performances and I will give my card out. Stop riding on the past and try to keep your voice, patti labelle kept hers.
OWWWWW! MARIAH SHE OWNED THAT! YES SHE IS BACKKKKK!
wat she slay??? not nun!!!! only thang good about that was the dress i been saying it for years now face the facts Mariah is now a studio artist. She still doing the scream at the end of every song which is pre recorded because every single one on every single song is the same
i don t think she was so great juging just by this perf i she still has improvment to match her old swag and voice i hope she will becoz damn ………….shesjust
Uggh, this wasn’t vocally all that good and she was hoarse in many areas. She might as well go back to lip synching
WOW HER VOICE SOUNDED AMAZING AND I HATE MARAIH!
I know haters gon hate, but MC’s songs are crazy hard to sing. People don’t understand her songs, her voice, the quality loss over technology. She sounds great! Obviously she sounded stronger 15 years ago… So… No one else can sing like her still!
Stans are delusional. That was subpar
My God I’m crying because it was LIVE and she KILLED DIS S***!
Being pregnant and resting her voice for a entire year was the best thing that could have happened to her.
Welcome back 90s Mariah Carey!
@Whatever, there are so many females in the game who would slay Mariah in vocals. Melanie Fiona, Ledisi, Kelly Price, Kelly Clarkson, and even Beyonce would slay today’s Mariah
Some people here are just HATING. I think she sounds really good, u can tell her voice its rested!! One thing that i have always noticed its that “Shake it off” its a song that it doenst come across well live. I was talking about it in another page the other day. The intro its just a perfect example of what she needs to do for this song but for the whole song.
Anyway here is a clip of her singing ill be there http://yfrog.com/5s4piz she sounds AMAIZING if u ask me.
Her voice is strong or her voice is weak Damn it doesnt matter the most important is she is the only Diva left in this earth who had the VOICE in the 90s era . We had already lost our lagendary singer Whitney Houston RIP appreciate our fav sInger while she still with us and grace us with their performance cuz life is short.
We love you Mariah Carey you are the lagendary and the Greatest Artist of All Time
Whatever
March 2, 2012 at 8:51 am
I know haters gon hate, but MC’s songs are crazy hard to sing. People don’t understand her songs, her voice, the quality loss over technology. She sounds great! Obviously she sounded stronger 15 years ago… So… No one else can sing like her still!
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Her songs are not hard to sing, it is just all the layered backing vocals she does that make them seem hard
The greatest singer of a ll time died on 02/11/2012, now Mariah has to rep for. I did not particularly like this performance, but the other ones were pretty good. I wouldn’t go as far as saying she sounded like the 90s Mariah, but still better than in recent years.
Woooow. Look at all of these pathetic low life zoo animals hating on Mariah Probably a bunch of morons using different usernames from what it looks like.
Mariah sounded beautiful, and you gotta love how every time she puts on a good vocal performance here comes the same morons claiming that she wasn’t live and how she can’t hit the right notes and crap.
You see….I don’t watch people I don’t like perform. Maybe if you all weren’t so obsessed with Mariah you would do the same.
Mariah owns your faves 24-7 a day, and they will never be able to touch her vocally.
Mimi sings way better than many so-called singers today, and I’m guessing these clowns are Rihanna and Beyawnce stans.
And no, morons. Mariah’s songs can’t be song by just anyone because of all of the chest notes, low notes, big notes, melisma and so on. It is a proven fact that many of her songs are to sing, and that is why many singers don’t touch but they do sing Whitney.
When was the last time you clowns heard a singer do a Mariah Carey song justice? And I’m talking about her classic melisma songs. I’ll be waiting.
Mariah’s voice is out of this world versitile, because she can do so much with her voice in just one song. VOL for example…her voice is THAT crazy.
BeyonceNeverHadABaby
March 2, 2012 at 9:29 am
And no, morons. Mariah’s songs can’t be song by just anyone because of all of the chest notes, low notes, big notes, melisma and so on. It is a proven fact that many of her songs are to sing, and that is why many singers don’t touch but they do sing Whitney.
When was the last time you clowns heard a singer do a Mariah Carey song justice? And I’m talking about her classic melisma songs. I’ll be waiting.
Mariah’s voice is out of this world versitile, because she can do so much with her voice in just one song. VOL for example…her voice is THAT crazy.
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People sing Whitney’s songs because she was the vocal standard that these singers inspire to be. Idk why it is so hard for Mariah’s stans to accept what has been the standard for the past 25 years for upcoming singers and even professional singers, which is Whitney’s voice!.
I have seen many people sing Mariah’s songs real good so stop with the bs
@BeyonceNeverHadABaby you are so nieve: Mariah is/was and not the only singer who can sing in low notes, mid notes, high notes and melisma all at the same time. To me, she did not sound that good here. She was more talk-singing and when she did sing she sounded a little on the raspy side.
It’s okay to say her voice will never be the same w/o the help of the studio
I’m half-half on this one….
*Sigh….No, no Sam it wasn’t 100& live!!
As USUAL, The tough part/ climax of her song are dubbed!! It’s almost embarrassing how u can hear, and visibly see her actual hoarse straining voice up under the magically perfect track!! Mariah has sung all she ever will…I can live with that!!
Not bad MC…. I wish there was another performance. But I think she sounded good…much better than she has been sounding for the past few years… Not sure if the end was live, but she did good in the beginning
She looks good too…
Her voice is strong or her voice is weak Damn it doesnt matter the most important is she is the only Diva left in this earth who had the VOICE in the 90s era . We had already lost our lagendary singer Whitney Houston RIP appreciate our fav sInger while she still with us and grace us with their performance cuz life is short.
We love you Mariah Carey you are the lagendary and the Greatest Artist of All Time
@SALEM
Didn’t I already expose you for posting under multiple accounts the last time you was in a Mariah post hating, but forgot to change your e-mail address? LOL – Dumbass.
People, rest assured that every single comment hating on Mariah is Salem on a different username. He/she/it is infamous for it.
Example of Salem’s double-posting under different usernames:
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2011/11/report-mariah-carey-hires-american-idol-judge-manager/
(See first few comments)
LMAO YOU ARE NOT SMART SALEM. GURL BYE.
Pple are always acting like high notes are what makes someone a great vocalist
She’s obviously singing the verses and half singing along with the studio adlibs at the end and if you can’t tell, you need to get your ears checked. This is the same stuff she was doing before Merry Christmas II, nothing new here.
Shake it off is hard to sing? HUH since when? she didnt sound bad but she didnt sound really good either, she was out of breath and i thought the upper notes were live, but maybe we will see her singing a few of the ballads to see if she was in good voice or not
LUV MARIAH!
If u watch ‘Always be my baby’ or ‘Ill be there’ she sounded amazing!
Yeeees.!! Mariah is one of the greatest.
She sounds good i watch the whole performance, she is a vocalist, this is what she give to us her voice and she wasn’t nervous, Mariah is a nervous person on stage, i think because she is still shy, she give the best, she is not Madonna or Lady Gaga they are very theatrical, they dance and could sing but they are not a vocalist like Celine, Whitney or Mariah, the other day i was talking with this person that drives me crazy, is f****** s*** and that person told me “Mariah is the only female singer that i could listen”, i say you don’t like Whitney or Celine (answer : No), you don’t like Madonna (answer: i preffer Debbie Harry) hahahahaha, i love all those women but if i have to choose between Whitney, Celine and Mariah (i choose Whitney, then Celine) and between Debbie Harry and Madonna (i choose Madge, but i f****** love Debbie), but i do love a lots Mariah songs, We Belong Together, Never too Far Away ect, ect, oh! and i love more the Spanish version of “My All” (Mi Todo) so passionate.
I LOVE HER MUSIC, BUT LIVE SHE IS JUST BLAH!
WOW! Mariah! Wow!!!!
Own it!
The voice that, 22 years later, still got the industry buzzin’ !
She sounded amazing!!
Listen to i’ll be there and always be my baby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8sZnV-xnAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAi2T2cxFI
Still think she lost it?? I don’t think so!
Great to see that most know that she did awesome. She was hardly hoarse. Haters keep making excuses. That woman’s voice was very clear, and she used her voice like a real vocalist. Some of the power notes were clear and strong. Great.
Mariah is baaaaaack! Haters gon hate as they saying goes!
ok glad im not deaf i read what sam posted and i was listening like Mariah did not kill this…if you are too young or just have never saw Mariah perform live when she REALLY HAD IT youtube her 90’s live perfomances where she used to blow you away..I love Mariah but this performance was not the business it wasn’t horrible but i def expected more from her even on a bad day
I’m a fan and i can & will say this was an average performance… I’m sure the other performances are better tho, This song was just not a good choice IMO
um this is song they streamed? I mean she sounded good but this performance was boring as hell.
Her music is usually good (if not great) but her performances are always weak and boring. This is no exception. And she was struggling to reach those high notes at the end which she ultimately failed to do. I’m not hating. I’m just being honest. Some of you delusional stans need to try that out some time.
TIMMI
March 2, 2012 at 10:47 am
Example of Salem’s double-posting under different usernames:
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2011/11/report-mariah-carey-hires-american-idol-judge-manager/
(See first few comments)
LMAO YOU ARE NOT SMART SALEM. GURL BYE.
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Dumb ass b****, the only thing that link proves is that I make other comments on other posts under “Salem., where is the proof that I am all of these other posters? #TryAgainHoe
Just as you think I am the one making all of these negative comments, I guess it would be fair for me to say you’re the one making the positive ones ha?
Fact is, people are seeing what I am seeing: Mariah does not sing the hard parts live, and when she does sing live, she’s a raspy mess with choppy, sloppy runs.
Take a seat
WHAT? She did not sound good and that was not 100% she didn’t hit ONE of her high notes!
The VOICE has returned, plus she looked lovely
Can’t wait for the new LP 😀
I love Mariah and she looked good. But I’m gonna be honest, vocally, her performance was not good. She seemed out of breathe most of the time when she was singing, and it seemed like some of her notes were difficult for her to sing, even her riffs weren’t smooth to me. I think she needs to re-do some vocal training, just to get her voice back into tip top shape.
Salem sit your dumb a** down, alot of what she sung was very smooth as was her voice. You are a known Mariah hater. So shut your bogus a** up. You stay in her post. Go find something to do.