The biggest story this weekend was by far Mariah Carey‘s NYE flub. As you know, the songstress performed at Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve in Times Square, and had quite the lip-syncing malfunction. She awkwardly got through the first song, “Auld Lang Syne,” but then “Emotion” played with no vocals, and she was unable to lip-sync to anything so she walked around on stage saying that she “can’t hear” and that they “didn’t have a check for this song, so we’ll just say it went to number one… I’m going to say let the audience sing.”
Afterward, her team called out ABC for it, saying that they knew her ear piece wasn’t working but had promised it would be fine for the performance. They also say the teleprompter with the lyrics wasn’t on, and at one point, ABC execs even changed the battery pack for her ear piece saying that’s probably why she can’t hear. In other words, this is all their fault and they knew it. Even in the pre-interview with Ryan Seacrest, you can hear Mimi tell him that she can barely hear him.
Mariah‘s team say that after the performance, people from Dick Clark Productions were “screaming” about the malfunction, with one production person saying, “I don’t care that her ears didn’t work. She could’ve just winged it.” This, they say, is further proof that it wasn’t Mariah‘s fault. Dick Clark Productions says Mariah‘s claim of sabotage is defamatory, but her team says she did Dick Clark Productions a favor after they begged for her to sing, and she did it for free.
Meanwhile, a man named Mike McKnight, who is reportedly Mariah‘s sound engineer, took to Facebook revealing that ABC wouldn’t let Mariah bring her own sound people. I don’t know, I’m with Mimi on this one. I know how hard it gets to hear ANYTHING on stage, and you can’t sing if you can’t hear the music – especially at her pitch. What do you think? Check out the videos below, along with the rest of the weekend’s stories!
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