Mariah Carey introduced the home down with a strong New 12 months’s Eve efficiency.
The Grammy winner, 56, sang “Obsessed” through the Wednesday, December 31, broadcast of Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest.
Whereas Seacrest, 51, and Rita Ora hosted the ABC particular dwell from New York Metropolis’s Instances Sq., Carey carried out in Las Vegas for an adoring crowd. She strutted onstage in a glittery silver-and-pink minidress and silver boots, her hair falling over her shoulders in beachy waves. Carey’s efficiency went easily, because the Grammy-winning diva hit each be aware, backed by a group of dancers and singers.
“Completely happy New 12 months!” she mentioned afterward.
The annual present additionally featured performances by Chappell Roan, Submit Malone, Demi Lovato, 50 Cent, Maren Morris, Likelihood the Rapper, New Children on the Block and KPop Demon Hunters stars Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami.
In 2016, Carey famously suffered technical difficulties through the New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast. Throughout her rendition of “Auld Lang Syne,” followers observed the audio monitor didn’t match up with what she was singing.
Carey then obtained annoyed when she couldn’t hear her backing monitor for her second tune, “Feelings,” and instructed the viewers, “We didn’t have a [sound] verify for this tune, so we’ll simply say it went to No. 1 and that’s what it’s, OK?”
When Carey tried to carry out “We Belong Collectively,” the unique model performed, main her to face uncomfortably and never sing earlier than she stopped fully and exited the stage.
Carey and her group later claimed that her earpiece was not working and Dick Clark Productions sabotaged her efficiency for rankings, which the corporate denied. Days after the headline-making incident, Carey personally addressed the ordeal in an Leisure Weekly interview.
“All I can say is Dick Clark was an unbelievable individual and I used to be fortunate sufficient to work with him once I first began within the music enterprise,” she mentioned in January 2017. “I’m of the opinion that Dick Clark wouldn’t have let an artist undergo that and he would have been as mortified as I used to be in actual time.”
Regardless of the snafu, Carey insisted her expertise didn’t scare her off from performing dwell on TV.
“It’s not going to cease me from doing a dwell occasion sooner or later,” she famous. “However it is going to make me much less trusting of utilizing anybody exterior of my very own group.”
Carey finally made a triumphant return to carry out at New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve once more the next 12 months. In a joint assertion asserting her comeback, Carey and Dick Clark Productions mentioned in December 2017, “We are able to all agree that final 12 months didn’t go precisely as deliberate and we’re thrilled to maneuver ahead collectively to supply America with an unbelievable evening of music and celebration.”
Carey’s subsequent efficiency of her hits “Imaginative and prescient of Love” and “Hero” went off with out a hitch.
