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This woman has always been one of the most horrible divas to work with. It really is no surprise that this happened. She's a nightmare performer for anyone that manages anything to do with her performances. From the extreme over the top demands on her riders to the fact that she never shows up on time, I'm surprised these fuckups do not happen more.

 

[Beer Monkey]

I sing with bands sometimes and I can't do it without a monitor. There is SO MUCH sound coming from everywhere and you can't even tell what the band is playing.

 

[Priz]

She makes Fab Morvan (& Rob Pilatus who's deceased) from Milli Vanilli look good! True musicians don't lip-sync, they do the best that they can.

https://youtu.be/u-MeUmpLH-s

Fab actually told the story behind it all and it was fascinating to listen to. Check it out if you get a chance.

 

[Mollymauk]

 

[Dalek]

Hahaha

 

[CrispyBoar]

https://youtu.be/u-MeUmpLH-s

Fab actually told the story behind it all and it was fascinating to listen to. Check it out if you get a chance.

Thanks for that!

 

[jbluzb]

No earpiece so can't hear the band. Sad though that she doesn't do sound checks anymore.

 

[CadetMahoney]

oh how low mariah and pop gaf have fallen.

next stop for mariah is donald trump's inauguration.

savage af.

 

[Desperado]

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

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So first, let’s talk about the rehearsal. There are anonymous production sources quoted as saying Carey skipped it?
Stella Bulochnikov: Not true. Not only did she not ditch rehearsal, we got to Times Square at 2:30. They weren’t ready for her until 3:20. We waited around for their stage manager. We had the stage from 3:20 to 3:50. She had a dance stand-in for the musical number. She sat on the side of the stage with her ear-pack and her in-ears and her microphone to make sure she could do the sound check. The most important thing to her was the sound. The sound was coming in choppy. She was assured it would work by the evening.

She did an interview with Ryan Seacrest at about 10:35 where her in-ear was very choppy. She could barely hear Ryan. She was struggling to hear him through the noise of Times Square.

We then went to [producer] Mark Shimmel’s assigned talent executive to Mariah. And I said, “Her in-ears do not work, it’s choppy, we need new ears for the performance.” She said, “Those are not the ears she’ll be working with for the performance. The ears she will be working with are in the trailer.” We went to the trailer at 10:45. She did touch-ups because she’s supposed to go on at 11:38. We put in the ears and did the mic pack. We walked to the holding tent about 11:20. We told both stage managers — remember this is not our production team, we’re out-sourcing our team which we never do — we told them the mic pack is not working. She can’t hear it, it’s faint. They brought her a new one, and that one didn’t work either, the mic pack was dead. They changed the battery pack. She said she still couldn’t hear. The second stage manager said, “It doesn’t work here in the tent, it will work on the stage.” She said, “Great, let’s go to the stage.”

It’s now four minutes to showtime. She says, “I hear nothing in my ears, my ears are dead.” The other stage manager says, “It will work right when we go live.” Then things start to get chaotic. They start counting her down — four minutes, three minutes. Mariah: “I can’t hear.” Them: “You’re gonna hear when it goes live — two minutes!”

So, right when it goes live, she can’t hear anything. The ears are dead. They’re dead. So she pulls them out of the ear because if the artist keeps them in their ears then all she hears is silence. Once she pulled them off her ear she was hoping to hear her music, but because of the circumstances — there’s noise from Times Square and the music is reverberating from the buildings — all she hears is chaos. She can’t hear her music. It’s a madhouse. At the point, there’s no way to recover.

 

[chrislowe]

No earpiece so can't hear the band. Sad though that she doesn't do sound checks anymore.

Its also used to hear yourself. It can be hard to stay in tune when you dont hear yourself .

 

[Slayer-33]

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

Welp, totally fucked up.

 

[Takyon]

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

Holy shit that's the nightmare scenario

 

[seanoff]

Unfortunately the damage has been done to her.

But that's an impossible situation for her. She couldn't hear. That much was obvious on first viewing.

The production should have said this early on. "Sorry, she had no monitors, she couldn't hear"

 

[perfectchaos007]

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

Dick Clark Productions was also in charge of the Golden Globes, and the teleprompters went out while Jimmy Fallon was trying to give a monologue. That's potentially 2 major fuck ups on Dick Clark productions in a row. That company may not be used again going forward.

 

[lenovox1]

Dick Clark Productions was also in charge of the Golden Globes, and the teleprompters went out while Jimmy Fallon was trying to give a monologue. That's potentially 2 major fuck ups on Dick Clark productions in a row. That company may not be used again going forward.

Don't pay attention to the bluster of Carey's manager. Dick Clark Productions claimed zero involvement in the NYE disaster.

And, again, the woman said at the beginning of the freaking song that he never had a soundcheck.