Following Mariah Carey’s disastrous, technical hitch-ridden live TV performance in New York on New Year’s Eve, her manager has hit back to defend the singer.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Stella Bulochnikov said, attempting to explain the incident: “Right when it goes live, she can’t hear anything… The ears (referring to Carey’s in-ear monitors) are dead. They’re dead. So she pulls them out of the ear because if the artist keeps them in the ears then all she hears is silence. Once she pulled them off her ear she was hoping to hear her music, but because of the circumstances – there’s noise from Times Square and the music is reverberating from the buildings – all she hears is chaos. She can’t hear her music. It’s a madhouse. At the point, there’s no way to recover. On the third song when she could hear her track playing it was so bad she said, ‘Fuck it, I’ve had enough.'”
Following claims by Carey’s representatives that the New Year’s Rockin Eve producers “set her up to fail”, Dick Clark Productions vehemently dismissed the claim, describing it as “defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd”.
Watch Carey’s performance below:
