Mariah Carey was supposed to have pre-taped her segment for the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony on Tuesday evening. According to TMZ, Mariah prioritized talking to her divorce lawyer for three hours over showing up to the taping on time. NBC execs were so incensed that they sent her home. On Wednesday, NBC execs had a change of heart and allowed Mariah to perform live at the ceremony. A word of advice to Mariah: show up to future tapings on time, because this is what happens when you sing live
That was BRUTAL. I was at a friends who had it on by fluke in the background and the conversation literally came to a halt when we realized there wasn't something wrong with the TV or the cable, it was just good old MC.
ReplyDeleteGuess booze and pills and God knows what are bad for your voice. Who'd a thunk it? {sarcasm}
ReplyDeleteI absolutely hate myself for thinking "Where is Bieber? He would actually save this performance"
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@Bacon Ranch :)
DeleteI know!! I know I know I know! Actually the only time I've heard that twerp sing was in the (Macy's?) commercial with her. It was bearable enough, then again it was only 30 seconds. :)
DeleteThey should've just used the clip of last year's performance :-(
ReplyDeleteI hate the new fangled way of singing, especially for women, of sliding from one note to another. I know it's supposed to be edgy and all that, but to me it just sounds sloppy. I suspect it's employed as a way to make the Mariah's and Britney's, et. al. of the world sound more talented than they are.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad for Mariah. I bought her MTV Unplugged CD 22 years ago and she had such a great voice. She's certainly lost the range she had years ago and her breath control is terrible in this video. This is what comes of artists who refine their music at the control panel, who put together a recording like a jigsaw puzzle - bit of this and bit of that and then lip-sync on stage. They don't have to have a good voice or know how to sing because it's taken care of by other means. Mariah needs to put in some hard work and go back to basics or she'll become Whitney as far as vocal quality is concerned.
She's become lazy, such a waste.
Karen I am so with you. FFS pick a note and hold it! Truly the vocal acrobatics can only be done by a few or with a lot of editing in the studio. I hate this almost as bad as auto tune.
DeleteAll she wants for Christmas is a louder backing track.
ReplyDeleteRock that LiLo Courthouse blush, Mooriah!
I think I was in 8th grade when her first album came out and I played that tape TO DEATH. She's just resting on her laurels at this point and they are becoming less dignified with each live performance she does. Girl, get back into vocal training!
Sounds good to me.....
ReplyDeleteMe too. She didn't hit the high notes, true, but she sounds better than 90% of "top" pop singers, who never sing live or without their auto-tune and back up tracks.
DeleteWait what? I thought she did great last night and thought her voice was good! Do I carry on with this illusion or watch it again so I can look for her flaws?
ReplyDeleteWell you know who's voice is still as perfect as it always was? So perfect that if there was plastic surgery for voices I'd assume she had it. The chick from Heart. Nancy? Please don't tell me I'm wrong about her too!
Ann was the vocalist. That woman had pipes. I heard her and Nancy on a TV show a couple of years ago. You're right, she's as good as she was decades ago.
DeleteAnn Wilson can still bring the talent to a song. As a former singer drinking, drugging and smoking can kill your voice aside from the fact that age will do it. Even my lovely Ella lost her vibrato towards the end but she was amazing well into her 60's. Even Beverly Sills knew when to retire.
DeleteKat you need to see the video of Heart doing Stairway to Heaven. It's totally worth it.
DeleteI used to have a good singing voice, but I can't hit the high notes or hold notes like I used to. The thing that gets me with Mariah in this video as well as the one from her concert not long ago is that she's so off key. I get that she can't sing as high, but damn girl needs find the right tune.
I am still suffering from the ear ache I got when she did a remake of Def Leppard's Bringing on The Heartache somewhere back in the 90s. But hey, at least she sung live and that is something a lot of today's recording artists have never done---be it on record or on a tv show--and in a lot of cases in concert.
ReplyDeleteSad thing is that's still better than one of her Xmas performances last year I which it sounded like she was singing in a completely different key. This sucked too tho lol
ReplyDeleteWas there not a cast off from rupaul's drag race to do her *contouring*??
ReplyDeleteHer microphone was too far away during her lip synching and let's face it mimi the hand gestures don't trick us into thinking you're really live.. you and Beowolf are always trying to fool us with the constant hands to ear piece and such as if it matters you're lip synching.
I posted photos in last night's instagram of LeAnn rimes going as Santa's Slut ty Mistress
and if you missed the saxophonist behind gaga giving her the side eye you should watch it..
Mariah is MV!
ReplyDeleteApparently the track of her isolated vocals has leaked and it's not pretty
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear those isolated vocals!
DeleteHoly Smokes! That is sad. Her voice cuts out, she clears her throat and she is unable to hit the high notes.
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oooo! think you could find the link, Rose?
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I'm heading into meetings for a few hours, but I know TMZ has a post about it. im sure there is a youtube link somewhere in their post.
Deleteoops nevermind, I see Karen W is on it :)
DeleteOh. I heard it. I could totally hear her singing over a backing track. I hate technology.
ReplyDeleteLast night I watched in the kitchen on the tiny 7" TV so maybe that's why I was amazed. I still don't think it was awful. A couple times she made very ugly faces trying to pretend she hit the note and other times she took the scenic route to get to that damn note. I just love the song so much that I still don't care.
Wait a minute I listened to part of it and I didn't think it was that bad either. Never heard the original but she started out ok here. And she's fiddling with her ear monitor. They do have one to hear where they're supposed to lip sync the words so very real when they push it back in.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine had a recording of Brit from a show. To the audience it was the recording but to the sound booth it was her winded and off key singing along softly.
Bless you Sherry, I'm not crazy lol!
Delete@Sherry, listen to the whole thing. The end is awful.
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oooohhh Karen...I just watched that link and even though she can still outsing my deaf toned ass...that was painful to watch. That was not the Mariah I grew up on as a teen, poor gal.
DeleteWent right back to thinking about Whitney
DeleteI was too distracted by the dancing kids and their hot mess choreography number, to pay attention to MC. They sole her thunder! Beginning, I thought "cute kids, how exciting for them" to "bejesus, who let the kids out of the asylum?".
ReplyDeleteClearly the Christmas spirit hasn't affected me yet, still cynical and Grinchy.
I do not think Mariah is MV - she had the voice but with her mental issues and boozing and probably pills she did not take care of her voice, see Whitney for another example of someone who did not take care of her voice. You could hear it even in her speaking voice with Whitney.
ReplyDeleteCeline Dion is obsessive about taking care of her voice but it's her money maker. There are some singers who get surgery on the vocal chords and they are fine, they are other singers who get surgery and never fine, and in Mariah's case did she need surgery and did nothing and it was too late, beyond her other issues. What has happened is her range just gets smaller and smaller. She sang live a few years ago and she was fine and she changed the high notes to lower notes. She was being smart. But she just can't do those runs anymore.
Because young Mariah was not that hot looking for them to hire her and get someone else to sing and Tommy only came into the picture when she already attracted attention.
I often wondered if she overdid it when she did sing in that high octave with all those runs, I am not sure what kind of training she had but you can do your own voice in or you can be Rod Stewart who always sounded like he smoked too much.
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ReplyDeleteSomeone mentioned Heart there is a show called Crossroads, which is just awesome they pair together a country artist with a rock/pop artist for a live concert and magic happens - I remember Heart was paired with Wynonna Judd and Ann still has that powerhouse voice. Them chicks still touring.
ReplyDeletePat Benatar and Martina McBride were another good match I remember. Pat too still has that dynamite voice and is still touring.
Come on its not that bad!
ReplyDeleteI didn't think it was terrible, just not up to Mariah's best, but then watched the link Karen provided. It is truly horrible! Mariah needs to get rid of her yes men, and get someone who will be honest with her. She can keep drinking/drugging/smoking (whatever her vices are) and quietly retire OR she can take a serious look at what it will take to overcome her issues and make a serious attempt at a comeback.
ReplyDeleteWell folks. It's a good day. I just learned that I can now sing better than MC. High fives! lol
ReplyDeleteHere is Cyndi Lauper & Billy Porter's Rockefeller performance:
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKKSyk8PI8Y
Why are we not talking about Cyndi's vocal performance as we are Mimi's? I love Ms Lauper but she did not vocally bring it either.
Mariah,Gaga, and lee ann limes need to dress right.
ReplyDeleteSounded fine- she just needs to drop about 30 or 40 pounds.
ReplyDelete@texas - you should really check out the unaccompanied vocal track, holy Jesus. Her voice cracks, she can't hit any high notes, she warbles in and out of pitch, she's a mess with a capital S.
ReplyDeleteI hear you but that must be the case with a lot of unaccompanied vocal tracks because I don't think she sounded bad in that clip.(although not her best rendition.)
DeleteRight now I am in a dentist's waiting room, so I can drive my mother home after her root canal. The radio station the office has on just played the unaccompanied, isolated track. I can see the receptionists cringing and saying how awful MC sounds, and they are right.
ReplyDeleteThose poor patients, stuck in their chairs, having painful dental work done while having to listen to that. My poor mom. Before I drop her off, I'll see if she wants a milkshake to help ease her mouth and ear pain.
She did totally tank. But knowing she was gonna have problems, i gv her credit for going on live and soildering thru. Shes lost alot of range and she should work on maximizing what she has left. And wtf with those dancers in white outfits??!! They were like a bunch of drunken sperm lurching around for an egg!
ReplyDeleteI love you Liddy!! You certainly have a way with words!!!!!
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