Dick Clark Productions denies sabotaging Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance
While ringing in 2017, Mariah Carey claimed the dubious honor of spawning the first viral post of the year. The multiplatinum artist was set to close out Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (now with more Ryan Seacrest!) with what should have been a three-track prerecorded medley, but quickly devolved into a three-ring circus. The diva started off with “Auld Lang Syne,” but stumbled not long after launching into her 1991 hit “Emotions”. Carey told the audience and production team that she couldn’t hear the backing track or vocals, and claimed there had been no sound check. She then stuck to ad libbing, preferring to describe the success of “Emotions” instead of singing it: “It went to number one. We’re missing some of the vocals, but it is what it is.”
Next on the list was the Emancipation Of Mimi single “We Belong Together,” but the problems persisted, and Carey eventually took her leave of the audience. “I wanted a holiday too. Can’t I just have one?,” she sighed. But not long after, she shrugged the whole thing off, posting to Twitter that “shit happens.”