Mariah's manager tries to validate why it was okay that Mariah acted the way that she did.
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00:00 In case you missed it or have been living under a rock, Mariah Carey led us out of 2016
00:04 with probably one of the worst performances ever on New Year's Eve in Times Square.
00:13 And as you can imagine, the blame game started immediately.
00:15 Was it Mariah?
00:16 Was it the Dick Clark producers?
00:17 Was it 2016?
00:18 Was it Donald Trump?
00:19 Who was it?
00:20 Now, Mariah's team is coming forward in an interview with Entertainment Weekly claiming
00:25 what really happened that night.
00:27 Saying it was all because of technical difficulties.
00:30 Yet Mariah had nothing to do with it.
00:32 She didn't drink too much, she wasn't on something, she just didn't fail.
00:36 It was because of technical difficulties.
00:37 According to Mariah's manager, Mariah tried many times before the show to tell the stage
00:41 and sound management that the earpiece they had given her wasn't working and that she
00:45 couldn't hear any music for the tracks she was supposed to sing.
00:48 So apparently without that thing in your ear, a performer can't hear what is happening and
00:53 when the song is coming in and when they're supposed to sing and basically can't perform
00:57 it properly.
00:58 Which is strange because you always see those performers taking it out of their ear.
01:02 And like I'm always like, "Yeah, they're into it now.
01:05 They've got it.
01:06 They're like on it."
01:07 We wanted to know if this is a one-off thing or if Mariah actually does this consistently
01:11 on stage when things go wrong, so we dug a bit deeper.
01:15 Here she is performing a concert from a while back, and this is what she says and does when
01:19 she cannot hear the sound coming from her earpiece.
01:21 "Absolutely nothing in the right ear, so..."
01:25 Not being able to hear is one thing, but completely destroying your performance because of it
01:29 is another.
01:30 And while all of us are up in arms, no one is really surprised because why would a diva
01:34 not act diva-ish with something like this happening?
01:37 The fact is, some performers can handle this kind of pressure live and some can't, even
01:41 if they're a legend.
01:42 And you gotta love her response to it all.
01:44 After her performance, she tweeted, "S*** happens.
01:47 Have a happy and healthy new year, everybody.
01:49 Here's to making more headlines in 2017."
01:51 And girl, you'll be making those headlines.
01:53 Work it.
01:54 People have always said that I look like a younger version of Mariah Carey.
01:56 Did you hit her curly hair?
01:58 You see it?
01:59 So, do you buy her team's excuse for a lame performance?
02:01 Was it technical difficulties or was it indeed Mariah's fault?
02:04 Let us know in the comments below.
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