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January 1, 2017

Mariah Carey bungles her New Year’s Eve show, stops singing

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Mariah Carey performed at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.

MARIAH Carey has a reputation as one of the biggest divas in showbiz.

And true to form, she had an epic meltdown in front of millions after botching her headline performance at America’s biggest New Year’s party.

Carey lost the plot after her attempts to lip-sync completely fell apart, crying: “I’m trying to be a good sport here.”

It’s believed the wrong song was played and Carey couldn’t hear what she should have been singing on stage.

Mariah Carey performs during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square on December 31, 2016 in New York.
Mariah Carey performs during the New Year’s Eve party in Times Square (Photo: Getty)
Mariah Carey performs during a concert in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, U.S. December 31, 2016.
Carey was the headline act but appeared to suffer technical problems (Photo: REUTERS)

With a face of thunder, she stropped around the stage saying: “‘We didn’t have a check for this song… we’re missing some of the vocals, but it is what it is.

“I’m just going to let the audience sing.”

Mariah Carey performs during a concert in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, U.S. December 31
The singer appeared to give up and asked audience members to sing instead (Photo: REUTERS)
Mariah Carey performs during a concert in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, U.S. December 31, 2016
Carey moaned: “I wanted a holiday too, can’t I just have one” (Photo: REUTERS)

“We didn’t have a sound check for this New Year’s baby, it is what it is.”

“Get these monitors on please.”

During a second song, she frequently gave the mic to audience members in the front row ,before saying to one of her backing dancers: “Just for laughs, do the lift.”

Carey added: “I wanted a holiday too, can’t I just have one.”

As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand trucks and some 7,000 police, gathered in the “Crossroads of the World” to watch the glittering sphere complete its minute-long drop, marking the beginning of 2017.

With the throng counting down the seconds, the crystal-paned ball slid with smooth precision down its pole, mounted on a tower at the head of the plaza. At the stroke of midnight, it touched home, illuminating a giant “2017” sign and sending a shower of fireworks into the sky.

The sights and sounds were experienced by a veritable sea of humanity, sectioned off in block after block of temporary corrals set up to better control the crowd.

Millions of others around the world watched the spectacle on television and the internet.

Despite the heavy police presence, or perhaps because of it, thousands of people, many from overseas, arrived early to be dazzled by the flashing signage and entertained by live musical performances by Carey as well as Thomas Rhett and Gloria Estefan.  www.mirror.co.uk

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