Diva Mariah Carey performed a set today on Good Morning America to promote her ‘E=MC²’ LP. During her rendition of ‘Touch My Body’ a technical slip-up occurred. To say things didn’t go as planned would be an understatement. Check it out:
On the one hand, I’m in hysterics, on the other I’m thinking, damn. Absolutely inexcusable. Here we have someone who is commonly referred to as one of music’s greatest voices, inadvertently exposed lip-synching on live television. SMH at Mariah asking her backing singers to stop singing her part, when it was obviously her pre-recorded backing track playing up. Knowing full well I’m probably volunteering myself to be ‘Lamb Stew’, this really was like watching the death of ‘The Voice’. I mean, come on now; when she tried reaching for the notes at the end she sounded like she’d been chewing on cigarette butts. A mess.
Anyway see the performances of ‘I’m That Chick’ and ‘Bye Bye’ below:
I’m That Chick
Bye Bye
Your thoughts?
I’m confused – what happened exactly?
lip synching? It’s called GMA messed up the audio. Most notably in the beginning. What was that mess? I’m sorry, but Mariah doesn’t need a backing track for “Touch My Body” one of her EASIEST songs to sing live. And the “backing track” came in at the beginning for the verse… how does that make ANY sense? Are you saying Mariah couldn’t sing the whispery verse of “Touch My Body” lmfoa. It should have came in at the end… but *GASP* she sang the ending live like she has every time she actually sang it live.
AS WELL, she obviously sang every note of this concert live, you can tell. Her voice is very raspy.
She did fine to me! She’s a true DIVA tho. lol… GO MARIAH!!!
damn bro.. You’re seriously out looking for her to mess up.. Face it, Mariah isn’t Britney, she’s an icon.. And her vocals aren’t perfect, but that shows a true voice in live performance. Danity Kane’s voice’s aren’t perfect, but they as Mariah still perform live and sing well during their live performances.. Focus all of your energy on the rejects of the industry and leave Mimi alone. damn. all those bias remarks just make me think you’re Wendy Williams in disguise bro
PLS LEAVE MARIAH ALONE
it was a tech glitch
have a little respect
the woman has been at it for 18 yrs!
Yeah like people said it was a minor glitch at the beginning of the song, she wasn’t lipsynching at all. She sand the high notes of bye bye and touch my body very well. And she did SING them because there were noticable differences. You can tell when she breathed in, you hear the breaths. Clutching at straws dude.
you be like it was her fault that they messed up the intro. smh
plus we all know she doesnt sound like she used to. its time to stop already pointing that out over and over again. get over it.
Haha, the irony of the line “I best not catch this flick up on YouTube” !!!!
Haha, and here it is, showing her in all her “average” glory! LMAO
Mimi did her thing…she sang mostly live…it was GMA’s mistake not Mimi’s
Please! It sounds like a small tech hitch, but its obvious that she’s singing live.
See, blogger, i think your head is so far up Leona Lewis’ ass that you cant hear anything clearly, it’s like there camp is paying you. This blog has become less about music a more about your hype and ego. Now, before you state that i don’t have to look on your site… already done.
SAM SHUT YO GAY ASS UP SHE DID GOOD. THEY JUST F***** WITH HER TRACK SO YOU CAN EAT A D*** WITH YO D*** IN THE BOOTY ASS. ALWAYS TRYING TO TALKING ABOUT MARIAH WELL IT AINT GONE HAPPEN TODAY UGLY ASS TROLL FROM THE DIRTY STREETS OF LONDON. IF THIS HAD A BEEN BEYONCE YOU WOUNDN’T HAVE SAID S*** OH SHES BEYONCE ITS OKAY WELL IT AINT ALL THAT B**** DOES IS THROW HER WEAVE EVERYWHERE AND SCREAM LIKE JAY-Z POUNDING HER WITH HIS D***. MARIAH CAREY IS A LEGEND EITHER YOU LIKE IT OR YOU DON’T SO SHUT THE F*** UP.
Thank you that b**** leona lewis ain’t got s*** on Mariah Carey and plus that leona lewis b**** is fat and ugly. Anyway i agree she did great when they messed up her track. The person over this site has some serious issue that he needs to get worked out because aint no way in hell Mariah’s every going to lose her voice and there will never be another Mariah Carey so please get over. Mariah darling you did a supurb job go head boo!
oh gawd.. wait until Perez Hilton’s fat ass gets a hold of a copy of the performance..i freakin hate his ass.. he’s so far up Madonna’s cooch she’d have to go into labor to get him out.
We all gotta remember, Mariah aint a morning person… its VERY hard singing in the morning..and thats for anyone..
Altho not a perfect performance, she pulled through the glitch in the beginning of TMB and finished up nicely.
HAHAHAHA THE BACKING VOCALS F***** UP WHO CARES? SHE SANG THE REST LIVE AND IT SOUNDED GREAT!
THE END OF THE VOICE? HAHAHHAHAHAA!
MELODRAMATIC LOSER!
Mariah is still Mariah! I totally agree with others when they say she was a trooper and pulled through even though the track was messing up! LOL! And for some reason, I loved the ‘stop singing my part now baby’ she sang at the background singers. So ‘Whitney Houston-esque’ lol! But I still love Mariah and the album is great!
mariah is amazing.who cares.she has already proved herself
mariah caught lip syncing? are you kidding me? it was OBVIOUS that she was NOT lip syncing!!!! It was ALL live. GMA f***** up the back up vocals. SO WHAT!
Huhhh, maybe it’s just me but I don’t really see what the big deal is. Yeah it’s definitely obvious that the first voice got messed up cause the backing track got screwed up, but she sang the rest of the song completely live and sounded pretty damn good I think.
I would HARDLY consider this the “death of the voice”! LMAO! That’s a little over-dramatic if you ask me, especially considering the rest of it was totally live.
BTW, maybe it’s just me but I thought she sang “Bye Bye” EXTREMELY well! That was probably the best performance I’ve seen of it so far. Keep up the hard work MC!!
Your starting to bad mouth people like perez hilton….Don’t make it seem like none of your favorite artist have never lipped a performance everybody does!!!!!!!
DAMN IT WAS ONLY A GLITCH I COULD OF SEEN IF SHE SANG ALL THE DAMN SONGS LIPSYNCING BUT SHE DIDNT, SO WHAT THE F*** IS THE DEAL, SHE STILL SHITS ON YOUR BROKE FLOPS SO WHAT………AND HAS TEN TIMES BETTER VOICE THAN THAT SAGGY WRINKLED ASS MAN-DONNA……..BUT I DONT SEE U BASHING HER….GET THE F*** OUTTA HERE…….
No disrespect but the individual who writes these blogs really has a bad ear to music…..I was personally at Mariah’s good morning america show….she sang live…even gave the fans a chance to hear her live vocals during audio check….she was great….try not to express your opinion too much on the website….I’ve noticed that you tend to be wrong more than right alot of times.
Well, singing so early in the morning, especially if you’re a ‘nights’ person, is very tiring. I can barely walk and I feel my body and mind are still sleeping and not cooperating at that time of the day… :)))
So, Mariah lip-syncing… Whatever…
You see, nobody cares cuz she’s MARIAH!!! We know who she is and what she can do. IT JUST DOESN’T EVEN MATTER AT ALL NOW…
You saw the crowd. They are happy JUST LOOKING AT HER. 🙂
Brainwashed? Stunned? Hypnotized?
Me too… 🙂
-Bobby from Bulgaria-
Sam? Are you still alive? Did the big, bad, mean Mariah Carey fans snatch you yet? LOL! Anyway, this performance sucked just like this lame ass song. I’m so tired of hearing it. Here’s an idea for the people who don’t like and complain about your opinion of Mariah, yet they continue to visit your site. Stop writing about that b**** altogether!
It’s only a matter of time before somebody brings up the Madonna, Janet or Leona comparisons. Oops….too late.
I mean who doesn’t lip sync…my favorite artists do (Bey, Xtina) but very and I do mean very little. That doesn’t take away from their artistry and what they have established. Mariah did here thing. I guess for some people, the older you get, the less power you have. But she still has it.
Ok we get it, you obviously have something against Mariah but a lot of people do so thats not that shocking. I was there this morning for Mariah’s performance. She did rehearse in front of the audience and she sounded GREAT. Touch my body had no mistakes or background singers trying to sing the song. Mariah does have playback track during her performance of Touch my body but she sings along with and it’s not through the whole song. You can obviously tell she was singing. At the end I think that she was unsatisfied with the situation and wanted to finish the song already. Plus she sang Bye Bye and That Chick and sounded GREAT. I saw her sing those notes and she was NOT lipsyching. After so many years of singing of course her voice is not gonna be booming like it use to but she got it and duh she’s MARIAH
I can’t believe all the vicious things people are posting about Sam! You visit his damn blog for christ sake, show him some respect!
im sorry bt the b**** shud nt need a backing track to lip to…wot u dumbass lambs dont realise is that tha woman intended to lip 80% of the performance and fool u sheep into following her once more thinkin shes amazing wen she isnt anymore…the flippin track skips in front of your eyes and u still think she amazing…wake the f*** up…Leona is a better live performer at the moment and has never used a backing track or lipped to one in ANY of her performances… and guess wot? thats because shes never had to…so please…the diva has died…get over it and move on
Sam seriously now you’re hating. I’m not a lamb by any standards and I’ve seen when Mariah is lipsynching and I hate it. They just started playing the backing track too early. Everyone has a backing track otherwise she would be singing A Capella and background vocals are a massive part of contemporary R&B they make a track sound awesome. The rest of the song was blatantly live… WTF Sam?
Sam you need to back the f*** up and shut the f*** up. MC was all live if you had a decent ear you’d know that and you probably do you just need an excuse like all the other haters to bash her cuz u know she shittin her #1’s all over your hatoration. 100% live you deaf f***. get your s*** together cuz u jus speaking lies mofo. “death of the voice” that’s a little exterme clearly its the death of your ears and that jealousy ringin in those ears cuz janet aint tha business like Mariah. go cry your ass in diarrhea cuz your words you be bloggin stank! Mariah worked it out like a pro that she is and even had jokes with it although we all know someone’s gonna get a b**** slap for that technical. whatever s*** happens she was amazing and live get over it.
leona lewis used a backing track on AMERICAN IDOL. u can tell she used one, so dont come with that nonsense.
Ok so I’m sure I’ll get slayed for taking up for the Sam(whom I am assuming is the one who owns this site) I come to this site often, though I dont always agree with the postings..its your blog you can say whatever the hell you want to say! To all of the LAMBS! that tried to bash this site PLEEASE REMEMBER (keep in mind I am a huge Mariah fan and have all her cd’s and love the new one)
1. She MOST CERTAINLY lipsynced the s*** outta Touch My Body-yes she cleaned it up(as she damn well should) and lashing out at her back up dancers was not a good look MIMI!(they helpin yo ass out-dont you pay them to make you look good…hmmm)
2. It was not too damn early she was too damn late and didnt catch up to the track so stop making excuses for poor performances you braindead slauthered gyro meat LAMBS I’m sure even MC herself would NOT get into fans defending such a WHACK TO DEATH ASS..LAZY ASS TIRED RENDITION OF A # 1 HIT!(im just sayin)
3. Attacking the person who writes the comments on this site does not changed the fact that Mariah sounded like a strained cat(and I’m being nice)
4. Mariah Carey is a ICON…PERIOD! She can sound a hot mess if she wants too..we still go ga-ga over here voice(or lack there of) she can still sing the house down..some s*** you just cant fake(I WISH YOU WELL-IMPECCABLE-CANT FAKE A VOICE LIKE THAT)
5. Even if she is lipsyncing-and has a backing track…ITS HER F*&^ING VOICE!
I just had to say my peace!
@ all these upset people
yal need to calm down and chil
mimi messed up or GMA messed up who ever….
The reason why she said “stop singing my part baby” was because she said f*** the background track…i got this…that’s what true divas do even when they struggle….and let perez hilton get a copy of this…do you honestly think she cares about his opinion…and smh at yal bringing leona lewis in this and who ever said she was fat and ugly is just a hater…let her be.
she wasn’t lip syncing I was there and she did a live run through before that and it went perfectly…she sounded great the whole time…no ashlee simpson moment involved they f***** it up..not Mariah – Jay (Jay Loves It)
SHE BETTER NOT CATCH THIS ISH ON YOUTUBE!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
You think Leona Lewis sings Keep Bleeding I keep keep bleeding love throughout the whole song. NO, it’s a playback track so yes even the very good ones use it.
but Leona sings on top of her backing meaning she sings the whole song…mariah lips until the lambs come home
Sam, you get more biased as time goes by.
Please give what’s left of this blog to someone else, you obviously have no damn brain.
I don’t even see the part the supposidly lip-synched? If you’re talking about the beginning, UMM, THAT WAS THE LOWER BACKGROUND VOCALS THAT ARE THERE REGARDLESS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!
That’s not even anything to make a big deal out of!!
MARIAH IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!
And may I say, the ending of Bye Bye (which was absolutely and obviously LIVE) was for the first time…BRILLIANT!!!!! LOVED IT!!
The backing track was supposed to be there only for Mariah’s monitor/ears, but it played on the speakers, making Mariah appear to lipsynch on Touch My Body, but she sang it live. The adlibs were better too.Honestly, with the 3 cops who murdered Sean Bell being found NOT guilty, there are bigger and more important things in the world. Never the less – who gives a sh*t? People use backing tracks ALL the damned time, to sing along with. Mariah’s been kicking b*** in the game for 18 years despite having nodes on her vocal cords. Why can’t she have some help? She still has an album on top of the charts for two weeks and had a 1 single, breaking the record by Elvis (who often sounded a hot mess in the end of his career). So whatever, baby! “Shake it off.”
THAT WAS A HOT ASS MESS. ITS OFFICIAL SHE JUST CANT SING LIVE. AND TO TRY AND BLAME IT ON THE BACK UP SINGERS WAS WRONG. BUT WHAT I DONT UNDERSTAND IS WHY IN THE HELL PEOPLE EVEN BRINGING UP BEYONCE AND LEONA BECAUSE LAST I CHECKED THEIR NOT THE ONES THAT GOT CAUGHT LIP-SYNCHING. THIS IS ABOUT MARIAH. AND I DONT GIVE F*** WHAT ANYBODY SAYS CAUSE THAT B**** AINT GAVE A GOOD PERFORMANCE SINCE HER LAST ALBUM.
im sorry bt the b**** shud nt need a backing track to lip to…wot u dumbass lambs dont realise is that tha woman intended to lip 80% of the performance and fool u sheep into following her once more thinkin shes amazing wen she isnt anymore…the flippin track skips in front of your eyes and u still think she amazing…wake the f*** up…Leona is a better live performer at the moment and has never used a backing track or lipped to one in ANY of her performances… and guess wot? thats because shes never had to…so please…the diva has died…get over it and move on
WHO EVER WROTE THIS S*** NEED TO BE SHOT, WRITING AND SPELLING IS FUNDAMENTAL YOU ASS CLOWN
Im not even a huge mariah fan but that was clearly a tech glitch. She sang all of those songs live and sounded pretty good to me.
f*** THAT THA B**** CLEARLY WAS CAUGHT!!! NOW EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE EXCUSES IF IT WAS JANET AND THAT S*** HAPPENED TO HER EVERY LAST ONE OF YALL WOULD OF BEEN TEARING HER DOWN.
Gosh , the way he described it like it was sumthin major . Wasnt tht bad .. She is singin live , u are allowed to have backin tracks ..
I RELI DNT UNDERSTAND Y BEYONCE NAME IS MENTIONED
MARIAH DOES SUMTIN WRONG SO BEYONCE NAME GET MENTION
PLZ TELL ME WER DA TRUTH IS IN DAT
SHE LYP SINCS WHU CARES ITS BETTA DAN LISTEININ TO HER REAL WHISPERING VOICE LOOOOL
SHE A SINGER NOT RELI A PERFORMER
BUT SHE DID DO QUITE A GUD JOB
BUT PPL STOP MENTIONIN BEYONCE NAME PLZ SHE DA QUEEN ND YALL KNO DAT LOOOOOOOOL
LOL
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I AGREE WID DA COMMENT ABOVE
ND ITS TRUE
SAM DOESNT RELI AVE A GUD HEAR TO MUISC MEMBA WEN I SED BOUT USHER LOVE IN CLUB
IT WAS A HIT
I saw the performance and I seriously doubt if she lipsync. I did not see the whole thing, but I thought she did a good job. I do sense this thing that Sam is alway looking when MC would slip up. LOL. I am not a fan at all, but to say that she supposely lipsynch when she clearly did not is not right.
Please leave Beyonce out of this because to be honest Beyonce would KILL Mariah in a live performance.
And to the c*** who types in all caps; Mariah’s hair ain’t all exactly real.
LAUGH THE F*** OUT LOUD @ Beyonce being the Queen!
First and Foremost, Beyonce aint all that, the b**** lipsynchs and she got caught on MTV UK Awards. Why the hell does she always seem to have to PROVE that she can sing??
Beyonce also uses the f*** outta that echo machine! I hate Beyonce, that overrated b****!
i ain’t no big Mariah fan, but i dont believe she lipsynchs in the U.S. If anything, she sings OVER the playback. She just got lost cause they started when it OBVIOUSLY wasnt time to sing. She did sing the rest of that song as well as the others LIVE! So why you m************ hating?! If you don’t like it, THEN DON’T WATCH IT!
Mariah is clearly loosing it with her diva antics. ‘stop singing my line’ part was classic. True preofessional right>?! lol
Leona & Beyonce much better at live performances. Don’t get me wrong Mariah has/dad an amazing voice however the years are piling on.
i dunno why people have put beyonce on this pedestal she ain’t no queen that statement is a big f****** JOKE! beyonce hasn’t even done that great as a solo artist b**** can’t even write irreplaceble and takes credit for it on top of gettin sued by desree for stealing her song among others. b**** can’t even dance or act she jus good for falling down stairs due to her BIG head and getin caught lip synching. Mariah is a DIVA she is the QUEEN OF MUSIC f*** all the Queen of rnb, pop, hip hop b******* mariah runs every damn genre so she be the QUEEN of all music get that right b******. Beyonce will never and can’t ever touch Mariah cuz she can’t swag like her. B will be poppin kids soon anyways her career is coming to an end and she knows it. Mariah is the QUEEN of the people she represents the masses in that she accepts people for who they are is not judgemental and its all conveyed through her music. Beyonce is conflicted in being independant then catering to ehr man then saying she can replace a dude then saying she wants to get bodied cuz she a s*** then she like she wants to ring the alarm wtf?!?! b**** is confused and needs to get her mind right LMAO never seen someone so unsure of themselves. she sending mixed messages flaws and all she got no character. Atleast Mariah’s always displayed consistencies through her music and ain’t tellin people to do one thing then pull a 180 and do something exact opposite for what she ‘stands’ for lol, B is twisted!
You guys need to wake up! Mariah is not a performer anymore. I was just talkin to some friends and we all agree and wonder how she went from being a powerhouse performer to what she is now (mtv unlpugged, award shows, even shows like gma). She lip sings the whole part that u heard out of sync and then comes in with the “camera” part. and she has a few “pre-recorded” adlibs at the end. Have u all not seen the HILLS performance??? Proof that she has lost her performance swag. You also can tell when she’s lip syncing because she moves around the stage and has more energy. When she’s really singing she stands still like she’s in a box. She did this the whole last album, lip-syncing the bug endings on songs like we belong together and fly like a bird. Say what u want but u will only be in disbelief and fooling yourselves. She will always make good music and sell a lot of records, but ever since that breakdown she hasn’t been a good performer. I think it has given her some kind of anxiety and I hope she gets over it. Because when you are an established powerhouse, you do not need sub-par performances like this, and from what I’ve seen, that’s all she has been giving these last two eras. The last album rocked tho!
I just took the tech glitch as a little remixing…she was still adlibbing so she covered it up… BUT!!!! I’m sorry…I just can’t stand to watch her. From the “look at me, I’m trying so hard to be s***” to the “clothes are are bubble gum pop princess show everything and not age appropriate” to the “no energy when I’m on stage because I’m trying to look soooo s***…” Give me a break! Her voice is TOO NICE to just have all this nonsense going on. She needs to step up her style and step up her performances…bottom line for me.
Ok…I went back and TRIED my best to watch the whole thing after reading some of the comments. I retract my first statement but stand by the rest – SHE MESSED UP THE BEGINNING OF THE SONG, but hey, it happens. It was good she kept adlibbing. Now! Wow…she doesn’t sound that great and it was VERY unprofessional for her to say that to the backup singers. Wow… I’m just in awe. I knew she was “into” herself but goodness. Come back down to earth… 🙁 I’m sooo disappointed. But the world will keep spinning!
Mariah is the best