Mariah Carey, one of the best-selling pop musicians of all time, announced this week that she was canceling three of her annual Christmas-themed concerts in New York City. In an upbeat Instagram post, the 47-year-old singer explained she needed "a few more days" to recover from the respiratory infection that interrupted her tour earlier in November.
Carey's annual Christmas themed tour was originally scheduled to begin November 27, but Carey will instead start in New York on December 2, wrapping up in Las Vegas on December 22.
The singer has said in multiple interviews that she doesn't identify as the queen of Christmas. And yet you can understand the assumption that she is, somehow, the ghost of Christmas present: Carey has written a children's book about the holiday, voiced an animated feature about it, released a Christmas-themed make-up line, and trots out her massive 1994 hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You" every year. "I'm just a person who likes Christmas, OK? Who happened to write some songs," she told The Hollywood Reporter this month.
Carey famously pretends she's never heard of - or met - any pop stars in her age range, but here's the thing: At 47 (or 48), she has joined her peers in what has become something of a club: The sad options open to powerful female stars who have aged out of pop stardom.
Consider Christina Aguilera, 36, and Britney Spears, 35, both dirty girs in their youth: The former segued into TV as a judge on The Voice. The latter now has a residency in Vegas. Former punk princess Gwen Stefani, 48, has also joined The Voice, where she now sits alongside mainstream country star boyfriend Blake Shelton. Jennifer Lopez, 48, went the Vegas residency route.
Are these really the only options for female pop stars as they age? Is this what Taylor Swift, 27, and Rihanna, 29, have to look forward to when they hit their mid-thirties? Will they, like Carey - one of the most talented pop singers of all time - be relegated to Christmas music on Spotify? Maybe that fate is what Carey is sick of.
In the meantime, should Carey recover, her "All I Want for Christmas Tour" begins Saturday.
(Newsweek)
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A human being is sick and needs to recover. That's all. Should be better and article about the illness or how many times she'd been sick blah blah than Mariah is "sick" of Christmas hahaha come on man. You can do better. 
