Mariah Carey

[TLSnell1981]

I am not one to support a Diva (TRUST!) but as someone who works in the live music industry, there was nothing this poor woman could do...if your inner ears aren't working and you're on stage, let alone Times Square where your sound is reverberating off of every non flat and odd angle POSSIBLE, with every type of delay bouncing back at you with NO way of knowing which echo is your true live soundtrack to sing or lip sync to, you're done!! Her saying "this is as good as I get" bravo my love, lol, that took mad sass, she was blushing so hard cuz it was so out of her control. I would not want to have been the sound engineer that night, ooof!!

ITA.

It's not quite as simple as some want to believe.

 

[Uncranky Donald]

I do think she could have done something though. She could have taken the faulty ear piece out of her ear and told her sound engineer to turn off all the monitors that weren't working anyway. Than speaking through the Mic which was working tell the audience that they were going to join her in an A Capella version of one of her really famous songs or even Auld Lang Syne. If she would have done that instead of walking around the stage talking to the audience while her dancers kept on dancing and didn't really know what to do she would have been praised up and down by everyone.

She did, 2minutes and 15seconds into the performance she said "get these monitors ON" (there were 6) meaning she had neither, no ear buds, no monitors, all she was hearing was crazy music flowing through Times Square. Getting ALL the music OFF so she could do whatever she wanted is not a call she had authority to make on live TV during the most televised moment of the year, the network would NEVER let that happen!! Silence? oh dear no!! And also we talk about it now like there were HOURS to sort this through, it happened in moments, they were troubleshooting from second 1...must have been chaos!! For everyone.

Nobody has sung without a backing track before? I didn't know that.

She had a live mic, she is suppose to know the words to her own songs, she could have just sang the song with none of the tech.

No one likes a lip sync, but this is a pop star, not James Taylor. This had nothing to do with her not knowing the words to her song, thats just silly and mean. If any of you have ever heard a car go by playing loud music and heard the song go out of pitch as it speeds away, well this is called the Doppler Effect. In places like The Macy's Day Parade, SuperDomes, and Times Square the amount of space and sound waves moving around can create the same effect on stage for the performer. Live mic or not, without the correct track that is synced up to the audio feed that is being broadcast to OUR live television screens its like trying to tap your foot on the 1 count when all you hear is white noise!

 

[declansdad]

She did, 2minutes and 15seconds into the performance she said "get these monitors ON" (there were 6) meaning she had neither, no ear buds, no monitors, all she was hearing was crazy music flowing through Times Square. Getting ALL the music OFF so she could do whatever she wanted is not a call she had authority to make on live TV during the most televised moment of the year, the network would NEVER let that happen!! Silence? oh dear no!! And also we talk about it now like there were HOURS to sort this through, it happened in moments, they were troubleshooting from second 1...must have been chaos!! For everyone.



No one likes a lip sync, but this is a pop star, not James Taylor. This had nothing to do with her not knowing the words to her song, thats just silly and mean. If any of you have ever heard a car go by playing loud music and heard the song go out of pitch as it speeds away, well this is called the Doppler Effect. In places like The Macy's Day Parade, SuperDomes, and Times Square the amount of space and sound waves moving around can create the same effect on stage for the performer. Live mic or not, without the correct track that is synced up to the audio feed that is being broadcast to OUR live television screens its like trying to tap your foot on the 1 count when all you hear is white noise!

Sorry but she blew it. The dancers were able to here the music and continue to dance; as a professional she should have been able to do something more than act the way she did. She isn't some new singer giving her first big performance; she handled it terribly and continues to do so.

 

[Albort]

Sorry but she blew it. The dancers were able to here the music and continue to dance; as a professional she should have been able to do something more than act the way she did. She isn't some new singer giving her first big performance; she handled it terribly and continues to do so.

have u read her side of the story? im curious cuz it does sound terrible what she had to go through.
Makes me wonder if she shouldnt have even gone on stage instead and let the production company hanging.

 

[Uncranky Donald]

Sorry but she blew it. The dancers were able to here the music and continue to dance; as a professional she should have been able to do something more than act the way she did. She isn't some new singer giving her first big performance; she handled it terribly and continues to do so.

You don't have to be sorry. The dancers looked like deer in headlights too. Hey, agree to disagree. If I were under that kinda pressure, not getting paid Id be like screw this noise too, but as Mr Bobby Brown said "That's Myyyyyy Prerogative!!"

 

[declansdad]

have u read her side of the story? im curious cuz it does sound terrible what she had to go through.
Makes me wonder if she shouldnt have even gone on stage instead and let the production company hanging.

I've read both sides of the story and I fall on believing the production company's side. Again, she could have handled it better and she chose not to.

 

[declansdad]

You don't have to be sorry. The dancers looked like deer in headlights too. Hey, agree to disagree. If I were under that kinda pressure, not getting paid Id be like screw this noise too, but as Mr Bobby Brown said "That's Myyyyyy Prerogative!!"

I agree, nobody is going to change their minds here. As for the dancers, I think the look had more to do with them thinking "What the heck is she doing?"

 

[RedAngie]

In case anyone is interested in an additional pathetic attempt at damage control, Mariah's rep gives the (so-called) play by play action of what happened.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/02/mariah-carey-nye-what-really-happened/

The rep says Mariah handled the incident graciously????? That paid toadie sounds even more delusional than Mariah herself.

Gracious would have been issuing a statement apologizing to viewers for technical problems and a disappointing performance (even if it wasn't her fault). And just leave it as that.

While her "[poop] happens" response wasn't bad in itself, she then allowed or instructed her stooges to accuse the production of setting her up to fail, of deliberately sabotaging the performance to garner ratings. Please. That reaction is the antithesis of graciousness.

If anybody wanted to cause a scene to get attention, even negative attention, it was Team Mariah.

 

[RedAngie]

I've read both sides of the story and I fall on believing the production company's side. Again, she could have handled it better and she chose not to.

Let's see:

1. Dick Clark Productions has an unblemished reputation in producing a New Year's Eve show for over 45 years.

2. Mariah Carey's reputation, on the other hand....................

Gee, this a tough one.

 

[Nurse Sully]

She did, 2minutes and 15seconds into the performance she said "get these monitors ON" (there were 6) meaning she had neither, no ear buds, no monitors, all she was hearing was crazy music flowing through Times Square. Getting ALL the music OFF so she could do whatever she wanted is not a call she had authority to make on live TV during the most televised moment of the year, the network would NEVER let that happen!! Silence? oh dear no!! And also we talk about it now like there were HOURS to sort this through, it happened in moments, they were troubleshooting from second 1...must have been chaos!! For everyone.



No one likes a lip sync, but this is a pop star, not James Taylor. This had nothing to do with her not knowing the words to her song, thats just silly and mean. If any of you have ever heard a car go by playing loud music and heard the song go out of pitch as it speeds away, well this is called the Doppler Effect. In places like The Macy's Day Parade, SuperDomes, and Times Square the amount of space and sound waves moving around can create the same effect on stage for the performer. Live mic or not, without the correct track that is synced up to the audio feed that is being broadcast to OUR live television screens its like trying to tap your foot on the 1 count when all you hear is white noise!

Instead the network allowed her to walk aimlessly around the stage saying things through a live microphone that they had no clue what was going to come out of her mouth while she was obviously flustered and they still stayed on her through the entire bit of chaos. I think they would have rather had her stopped it and started singing A Cappella Auld Lang Syne. At least that way they knew what was going to come out of her mouth with that song.

 

[RedAngie]

Thanks for reviving this thread.

I got a few chuckles from the comments posted the day after the fiasco.

 

[RedAngie]

She did a pretty good lip sync job at the Macy’s parade.