Ike would hit that!

+1

Also, it was a technical error which can't really be attributed to her. It looks like the music wasn't being fed back to her. The speakers are being pointed towards the crowd so the music is traveling away from her so no feedback there. Instead she's likely just hearing thousands of screening fans with maybe just a tiny bit of music. It doesn't look like she have an earpiece in and she mentions her monitor isn't working either. So basically she has no reliable reference of what song is playing and when to jump in and begin singing. But she's famous, so she'll get endless shit across the internet from people who have never been in that position and understand the logistics

She actually had a phenomenal vocal range (something like 5 octaves) and was, at least among pop stars, a very talented singer.

That was in the 90's though. Whether she still has it or not, who knows. As for lip synching, all pop performances have synched tracks. I don't know why it's even still a thing to make fun of performers over anymore. Everyone does it.

"The truth of the matter is, Mariah didn't do a sound check, she said it there. She did whatever you would call like a dance move rehearsal, holding her gold microphone, and she stood off to the side of the stage while she had a stand-in do a sound check. Now, when you're doing a show live in Times Square, this is a location that's tough. Out of all the places that you're going to need to do a sound check, you do it there."

McCarthy hypothesized as to what could have been the real reason for the performance debacle.

“Now I think, and if I try to give a guess of what happened, I think Mariah was nervous as hell. I think she chose really tough songs to try to sing along with. I think 'Emotions,' that song, I mean her voice is not there anymore. I don't believe there was a problem with her inner ears. I just don't. I think she used it as an excuse. The monitors on the stage are there, by the way, to blast out the songs to the musician in case this happens."

Once again, the former Playmate gave her eyewitness account.

"How do I know the monitors were blasting? Look at the dancers behind her! They were on cue for every beat, right? Every beat! So, I was like, 'You can hear it.' She's choosing not to see it. Now my other opinion, and this is just mine from being there, being on that stage, I don't think she expected to be as far away from this prompter and as small as it was, she could have possibly not been able to see the words to her own song."

Jenny McCarthy, who co-hosted the show with Ryan Seacrest, offered this up:


http://www.foxnews.com/...nye-performance.html

Seriously though, she is a legit singer/songwriter that sold more songs in the 90's than anyone.

She actually had a phenomenal vocal range (something like 5 octaves) and was, at least among pop stars, a very talented singer.

Yeah. Unless Jenny wants to tell me what its like to pose nude for Playboy, I really don't care what her opinions are.

Also, it was a technical error which can't really be attributed to her. It looks like the music wasn't being fed back to her. The speakers are being pointed towards the crowd so the music is traveling away from her so no feedback there. Instead she's likely just hearing thousands of screening fans with maybe just a tiny bit of music. It doesn't look like she have an earpiece in and she mentions her monitor isn't working either. So basically she has no reliable reference of what song is playing and when to jump in and begin singing. But she's famous, so she'll get endless shit across the internet from people who have never been in that position and understand the logistics