Mariah Carey’s 2016 ended on a low note as the singer had to deal with a series of technical malfunctions during her performance on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.”
Carey appears to have been prepared to lip sync, but many of her vocals didn’t play at all ― and when they did, she was often far out of sync with them:
Mariah Carey's Times Square meltdown was an appropriate finale to 2016 https://t.co/rjiKuQVmF9 pic.twitter.com/BiB83fEzhr
— Deadspin (@Deadspin)
”We didn’t have a soundcheck but it’s New Year’s, baby,” she said as her music played without her vocals. “It’s OK, you guys.”
Carey gamely strutted across the stage and encouraged fans to sing as her dancers did their routine around her.
“I’m trying to be a good sport here,” she said.
But viewers weren’t buying it. Here were some of the reactions from Twitter:
Any time one of the greatest voices of my generation lip syncs an angel loses its wings
— josh groban (@joshgroban)
this Mariah Carey performance is 100% my 2016 experience summed up
— Ben J. Pierce (@BenJPierce)
Ohio State should thank Mariah Carey. They no longer have the worst performance of the night.
— Dave Zangaro (@DZangaroCSN)
Everyone in Times Square was singing Mariah Carey except Mariah Carey. #lipsyncfail2016
— Becky Stark (@stark_becky)
I'm sitting here singing to Mariah Carey while Mariah Carey is pretending to sing to Mariah Carey.
— C (@GaddyChelsea68)
Mariah Carey: I should practice for the preformance.
— Evol Law (@OhLaw_)
Mariah Carey to Mariah Carey: Nah just wing it@MariahCarey pic.twitter.com/UBSC3Jt6g5
When you're Mariah Carey you don't even have to know the words to your own songs.
— Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond)
If Mariah Carey's performance doesn't sum up 2016 then I don't know what does
— Austin Axline (@Austin_Ty_)
2017 baby pic.twitter.com/xfJ7ngaoRD
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff)
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