Mariah Carey returns on New Year’s Eve 9 years after Snafu

Mariah Carey brought the house down with a powerful performance on New Year’s Eve.

The Grammy winner, 56, sang “Obsessed” during the Wednesday (Dec. 31) broadcast. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

While Seacrest, 51, and Rita Ora hosted the ABC special live from Times Square in New York, Carey performed in Las Vegas to an adoring crowd. She strutted on stage in a shimmering silver and pink mini dress and silver boots, her hair falling over her shoulders in beachy waves. Carey’s performance went smoothly, as the Grammy-winning diva hit every note, backed by a team of dancers and singers.

“Good year!” she said afterwards.

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In 2016, Carey experienced technical difficulties during the New Year’s Eve broadcast. During her performance of “Auld Lang Syne,” fans noticed that the audio track didn’t match what she was singing.

Carey then became frustrated at not being able to hear the backing track for her second song, “Emotions,” and told the audience, “We didn’t have any music. [sound] check this song out, then we’ll just say it went to #1 and that’s what it is, okay?

When Carey attempted to perform “We Belong Together”, the original version was played, causing her to stand uncomfortably and not sing before stopping completely and leaving the stage.

Carey and her team later claimed that her earpiece was not working and Dick Clark Productions had sabotaged her performance for the ratings, which the company denied. Days after the headline-grabbing incident, Carey personally addressed the ordeal in a Weekly Entertainment interview.

“All I can say is that Dick Clark was an incredible person and I was lucky enough to work with him when I was first starting out in the music business,” she said in January 2017. “I am of the opinion that Dick Clark would not have let an artist go through that and he would have been as mortified as me in real time. »

Despite the problem, Carey insisted her experience had not deterred her from performing live on television.

“This won’t stop me from hosting a live event in the future,” she noted. “But it will make me less confident about using anyone outside of my own team.”

Carey finally makes a triumphant return occur at New Year’s Eve again the following year. In a joint statement announcing his returnCarey and Dick Clark Productions said in December 2017, “We can all agree that last year didn’t go exactly as planned and we’re excited to move forward together to bring America an incredible evening of music and celebration.” »

Carey’s subsequent performance of her hits “Vision of Love” and “Hero” went off without a hitch.