A wise person once said, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” That’s exactly what Mariah Carey is planning to do when we all ring in the new year of 2018 next week. In other words, she’s taking a page outta the Old School nursery story, “The Little Engine That Could.” Why? Because last year, on New Years Eve, Ms. Carey failed miserably when she performed on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2016.
Many of y’all may recall that nightmare of a fiasco that caused for ol’ girl to be the butt of many jokes and the face of many hilarious memes across social media.
Basically, as Mariah and her dancers started performing on that outdoor stage on that cold New Year’s Eve night, her prerecorded vocals and backup dancers received far more shine, than her actual performance. That was because as the track for her song, “Emotions,” started playing, Mariah appeared to be lost as hell and didn’t start singing along to it on time. When she did attempt to catch up to the music, she still failed and then eventually gave up all together, opting for her audience to sing it for her instead.
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The bright side was that at least her dancers never stopped hitting their marks and her pre-recorded background vocals were crystal clear. On second thought, neither of those factors weren’t so bright after all though, because they only highlighted Mariah’s missed cues even more.
After Mariah’s NYE disaster aired on live TV, then came the finger pointing. Mariah blamed Dick Clark Productions for intentionally sabotaging her set, by screwing up the sound in her in-ear monitors, just to boost ratings. Her lead dancer/choreographer also said he was fired because Mariah blamed him as well somehow. The production crew shot back at Mariah and blamed her team for not being on point.
However, today is a new day. A day that many assume is, in fact, a plot to boost ratings for the NYE event, because Mariah will definitely be hitting that stage again on December 31, 2017 to try to reclaim her crown.
In all honesty, I couldn’t care less about watching Mariah redeem herself on that stage on New Year’s. BUT what I do care about, is bumping her FIRE 1994 “Christmas” album this Christmas season. Mariah created one of the last classic Christmas albums ever recorded and I give the “Butterfly” diva her props for that. With that said ILOSM fam,’ pardon me while I go blast her ’94 remake of “All I Want For Christmas.”
