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Re: NYE performance (70,532) (70,539) by Licia from USA Shezz her singing without the earpiece and monitors is what I didn't understand. Does she really need them or could she have at least attempted to sing without them? People are going to talk regardless. She could have at least tried. I feel like she just gave up. While I could see she was upset and I do feel bad, stuff like this should not be happening to a veteran in the music game. Mistakes happen, but this is happening too often. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 14:14)

Worst start to a year ever (70,538) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines I was dreading this for the longest time but I guess it was only a matter of time before her luck ran out. I'm being more dramatic than necessary, but that's how you officially throw 26 years down the drain. I am beyond embarrassed. I am livid. It's sad when the very woman who wrote Clown as a diss song has become what she once hated. I don't care how and who is responsible for the "Sh*t happens" remark after the debacle, and I guess it doesn't matter, because that's pretty much what both Mariah and her team have become over the past year. Harsh, but true. I hope in whatever's left of my heart of hearts that she can come back from this, but right now, I honestly don't even think she's got it in her to do so. And it's not because she can't - but because it seems she just doesn't want to anymore. The music comes first? These days? Really? That will remain a joke until she proves me wrong. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 14:09)

Re: Beyond weird (70,508) (70,537) by LaCoya from USA I agree with you Nikki. Everything fell apart when it became live. It looks like she couldn't hear herself and she just gave up during the performance. It also look like they tried to salvage the performance by using a backing track, but that also failed. All she can do now is pull a Beyonce now. She is gonna have to prove to people she still got it. I know she thinks she doesn't have to prove herself because she been in the game for a long time but remember Beyonce lip singing fiasco. She held a press confere and all was well. I feel sorry for her but I will and always be a lamb. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 14:07)

Re: NYE performance (70,523) (70,536) by Musti from UK I couldn't watch it. I had to stop once Emotions began. Her job was to get on stage and sing for 5 minutes. I don't understand how difficult it can be to put that together. I don't know whose fault this was but it doesn't really matter as it's Mariah's responsibility to have a team of professionals. The last 2 years have been filled with unbearable f-ups. I really don't get what the hell is wrong with her or her team. If they don't give two shits about her career or her obligations, no one will. They've gone too far this time. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 14:07)

Mariah - car crash (70,535) by Jimbob88 from UK I feel like I'm watching a car crash in slow motion unfolding in front of the entire world. Beyond her professional reputation, which is now in tatters, I worry about her mental and general health. Her life is chaotic, vacuous and there seems to be a deep rooted unhappiness stemming from massive insecurities. Hence the booze, the drugs (?), the manic behaviour, the unpredictablity, the billionaire, the toyboy, the desperation, the vanity, the unfunny "jokes" and ultimately, the tears. It broke my heart when she muttered during the middle of the "performance" that she just wanted to be on holiday too. Mariah, people love you, you are a legend. Take time off, raise your kids (rather than objectify them on social media) and get the help you need, come back stronger than ever. You did it once before, you can do it again. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:41)

What was that? (70,534) by Tiina from Finland This is awful, just awful. I'm not sure what went wrong there? What I don't get is why didn't she even try to sing? She's had problems with her ear monitors before yet was able to save the performance. At this point she can sing this song in her sleep. It certainly did not help to just stand there and even appear to have an attitude about the whole thing. Even if someone else made a mistake, as Mariah herself said, she will always be blamed for everything and the only thing she can do is apologize and keep it moving. Her attitude about it made her seem like the diva everyone thinks she is. The sad thing is that we had just began to gain back our momentum after the AIWFCIY fiasco but now that's all wrecked. And her team thought it was appropriate to address this on Instagram? So messy. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:40)

Re: New Year performance (70,526) (70,533) by Licia from USA You sound so silly. How could you know she had bronchitis when she didn't sing anything? Anyway none of us wanted this performance to end up like it did. Believe it or not most of us root for her daily. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:27)

Re: NYE performance (70,523) (70,532) by Shezz from Pk Wow I'm at a loss for words. Why does she still keep having these mishaps - it was that Jamaica Fantasy performance again but for the entire universe. I am sure there was some technical issue but why it wasn't rectified and why Mariah couldn't sing something without the audio monitors is strange. She did not want to appear like a fool in front of millions I'm sure so this is inexplicable - only some technical sound engineer can tell us why she couldn't attempt to sing over it? She's had similar issues before, TMB at GMA, DFAU at AMAs but always managed to pull it off. She had done half the work and looked great, it was too good to be true I suppose. I for one was sure this was going to be lipped for the most part of it. It's pissing off when people say she doesn't know how to lip well - anyone wh'os seen her SSFT and Beacon series knows she can lip pretty believably when she does. Was she worried about 2 voices coming up if she sang? Somebody once said in such settings you cannot hear the music at all without ear monitors. Lord knows. I don't expect lambs to be kind to her after this but just take a moment and look at her mortified face and imagine what she's going through. Yes she messed up but this wasn't her wanting to mess things up deliberately. And there were other forces at play here believe me as crazy as she is coming off this era, she did not go up in front of millions and deliberately not perform to look like an idiot. I do hold her responsible for not pulling her monitor out and going for it but then we know how her confidence is waning every year. She will bounce back like she did after 2014 Rockerfeller and will give us tons more to be happy and mad about soon enough. Hope she remains strong and knows that behind all these angry lambs messages there is undying love for her. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:24)

Re: NYE performance (70,528) (70,531) by B from USA If she had a team people in the industry took seriously this would have happened. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:23)

What to do now? (70,530) by Liz Archer from Sweden I honestly don't think anything is going to happen after this. She is just going to shrug and say shit happens. If I was her I would fire everyone around her and start to take control or at least hire someone that is experienced with this, real professional and not just someone that is tough and acts like she knows it all. But she will probably blame the production team (not her team) and not take this serious. I have a feeling she won't realise that it's her team that is in the wrong her - and her attitude to the situation. I would have pretended to sing and do whatever act she was suppose to perform. Not just stand there looking upset. Look happy and dance and pretend it's part of the performance. This is not something you can retake, this is a live performance and why isn't she singing live? Why rely on lip sync? I am all type of confused and I am afraid this is just the continuation. I don't understand how she has become so unprofessional with coming late to gigs, mistakes like last performance and her lavish behaviour that is making it all worse. It's like she is in a bubble and not realising how bad it's making her look as a "professional" singer. Yes the audience is hard when things go wrong but that's expected in a business like this. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:21)

NYE performance (70,529) by Dennis from Miami, FL The headlines today are different. The new year began with Istambul attacks. Dozens of people died last night. Let's pray for peace. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:19)

NYE performance (70,528) by Dennis from Miami, FL I don't care. When Beyonce had her national anthem moment, or Christina had her national anthem moment, fans and haters alike were bashing them. Bey turned that into good buzz for her next album at that time. So it all depends on the next step. It's midnight in my spot of the world. Happy NY everyone. "Don't be afraid, stand toll and say...". I respect all of your opinions, just take it easy and don't make harm to your health by all that negativity. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:14)

Re: New Year performance (70,526) (70,527) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I'm glad to see Mariah still has some blind fans who can defend her despite everything. Mariah needs these fans more than ever. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:11)

New Year performance (70,526) by Terna from Nigeria The trolls ever so glad to come out of their hiding holes to spew the hate once again make an appearance smh. She has bronchitis as you can hear in how deep her talking voice sounds in the clips I've seen. Nothing to see here gremlins. Now keep moving. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:04)

Mariah's career (70,525) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I'm afraid that if Mariah doesn't do something dratically, her career might be over. So here are my thoughts on what Mariah should do. Mariah should take a year off so she can: 1. Fire Stella and her entire family. 2. Go to rehab. 3. Exercise, so she gets in top physical form. 4. Remove all the implants. 5. Change her hair to the original colour and style. 6. Ditch the stiletto's, so she can walk on her own. 7. Take vocal lessons. 8. Send her children to school. 9. Record a killer album. 10. Hire a professional team (management and stylists). 11. Learn how to tell time, so she won't be late for everything. 12. Drop all the diva antics. 13. Learn how to be humble again. Have I forgotten something? (Sunday 1 January 2017; 13:00)

I'm glad this happened (70,524) by Anonymous from Mariah has finally had the massive kick up the ass I've been waiting for. No longer does she need to prove to her die hard fans she's worth supporting, now she has to prove to the world she's still got it. Here's hoping she'll fix up now. She's such a numpty. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 12:50)

NYE performance (70,523) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands When I woke up this morning, I was excited to see Mariah's performance in New York (there is a time difference of 6 hours here in the Netherlands, something Stella probably doesn't know). But then I started reading all your messages and read the news and I became terrified. I still can't watch the performance, not even with the sound off. But some of the Twitter messages were very funny, like: "After that performance, Mariah Carey should be required to perform at the Trump Inaugural." (Sunday 1 January 2017; 12:45)

Can we finally stop blaming everyone else? (70,522) by THE TRUTH from USA Mariah got paid big bucks for that epic disaster. She's been in the game far too long to drop the ball like that. In the 90's she very rarely lip synched but had she found herself in that situation she would have ad libbed her way out of the mess seamlessly like the consummate professional she once she was. Any good singer could have managed that situation, played it off and come out looking great, laughing the mishap off later. The fans would have loved her for it. Sorry but the fact that she has to lip synch in the first place is tragic and if people want to still believe that there isn't a much darker scenario going on behind the scenes well denial aint a river in Egypt. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 12:32)

Re: NYE performance (70,506) (70,521) by Licia from USA What I didn't understand about that performance is why she didn't try to sing after the first misshap with Emotions. We hear that earpiece thing alot and I heard her say she couldn't hear. Can someone explain to me about the earpiece and what prevented her from just singing what she could? She just walked back and forward and she pretty much gave up when WBT came on. She didn't even care that her lips didn't match the song playing. Also that Twitter statement was not Mariah. If she was crying afterwards like the blogs are reporting the statement that was made sounded nothing like a woman who was upset about what happened. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 12:14)

New Years Eve performance (70,520) by Luke from United Kingdom This is so sad to watch. I actually thought Emotions was a joke because how can she forget the words to a song she sings at every tour/event. I remember when Mariah once said she'd never lip-sync. I wonder if she actually reflects on what's happened after things like this go down or if she just ignores it, she surely can't feel good about having to lip-sync. Also those dancers are doing my head in. Why doesn't she just sew them to her body à la American Horror Story. If she didn't have the vocals up to scratch then she needs to not sign up for events like this. I'd rather her disappear and release albums for fun compared to committing juvenile muck-ups like this 26 years into her career. Bloody Nora. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 11:25)

NYE disaster (70,519) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter So I woke up to the picture of Mariah looking great in that black outfit on her instagram, I don't know if it was Balmain, but it was exactly the type of Balmain dresses I have been wanting her to wear (I mean the style) so I then went to UKMix and saw fans having meltdown after meltdowns, With one party saying how they are crying and upset about what happened while the other party is going in on Mariah bashing her. I read those and it got me scared to watch the video but then I was like, wait a minute, Mariah fans always have meltdowns whenever Mariah makes the slightest mistakes on stage so I'm sure it's not that bad, I mean they must be exaggerating when they said she was just standing there and talking while her songs were playing. So I opened the video and throughout the video I was sitting there staring, jaw almost hitting the floor, this can't be true. Until finally I came to the end where Mariah says "It don't get any better" and I ended up crying. It looked like she was about to cry too, it was clear she was just holding it in because her years of media training didn't let her lose it on stage but I guess she should have just let it out because people are really coming for her now. This is even worse that the Rockefeller performance. I don't know who to blame at this point, I'm just so upset. I was praying this wouldn't be a Rockefeller moment and this turned out worse. It's just such a tragic way to end 2016 especially considering that between 2015 and 2015 she has been touring/singing live more than she possibly did in her entire career, so you'd expect she would be confident to go at it live during a public appearance. I was then hoping she would release a public apology statement, instead she posted this. This will further show people that she doesn't give a damn. But on stage we could clearly see she was on the verge of tears. This is clearly Stella's post and yes Mariah probably signed off on it to appear bad ass but Mariah open your eyes. I will always love you and I don't have any doubts about your talent but your image is being torn to shreds. I hope Stella does something to fix this instead of sweeping it under the rug. And lame ass hash tags won't cut it. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 10:40)

The most embarassing performance ever (70,518) by Blue Riding Hood from Outside This is 2014 Rockfeller all over again, but much worse. She is getting panned everywhere. She is so bad at lip syncing, she should just stop doing it. Her ego has become too big for her. If she doesn't change her attitude, her demise is not too far. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 10:15)

NYE (70,517) by Lee TS from USA No words. I think it's best she takes some time off. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 10:02)

Epic fail (70,516) by Liz Archer from Sweden Ok, so most of you are wondering why some fans has become negative and critical. The reason for me is because I feel like she is not taking her career serious. For instance all over YouTube now is news about her epic fail performance in the New Year. This should not happen. This is broadcasted all over the world and she *forgets* her song? People will always remember this and haters will critique this. She should have practiced for weeeks. I don't feel like she is doing that. I feel she is getting distracted with a boy toy. She is obviously distracted with her family which is totally understandable, and her team which is not doing their job if they don't let her practice enough and is not able to perform their duties that comes with an big artist. Missing a concert due to time zones, coming to late to performances, cree missing passport. This all comes down to one person who hired the wrong people or can't handle managing a large group of people. Yes, I am worried, because nobody with a good sense of decency is managing Mariah Carey. You don't see this happening to other artists, and there is a reason why. I think it's to much of a circus around Mariah Carey these days. And being a diva and this *darling* act isn't cutting it anymore. I wish Mariah would see that. She is a grown woman, I just wish she would behave like that and take responsibility. This is why I think most fans today are being critical, not because they hate Mariah Carey but because her fans have grown up and she as it seems hasn't. She seem to be stuck in diva behaviour and not taker her career seriously as it seems. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 9:00)

Sad for Mariah (70,515) by RibbonB from USA I really feel sad for her. I'm not sure what happened on that NYE performance, but she seemed mortified. What a terrible thing. Somebody made a big mistake. (Sunday 1 January 2017; 8:52)

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