14 DAY TRIAL // Mariah Carey performed on Today’s Summer Concert Series in New York the other day and, as you will see from the two videos embedded below, it was an imperfect (but still utterly amazing) number that has, unfortunately, gotten many viewers thinking she was lip-synching.
The diva performed a medley of “You Don’t Know What to Do” and “Always Be My Baby” and, first off, she fumbled the words to her own song, as seen at around the 1:55 mark in the first video embedded below.
However, as she always does when this happens, Mariah simply shrugged it off, singing, “I don’t know the words to my own song and I don’t caaaaare,” and smiling her brilliant smile for the fans in the audience. No one minded, most definitely, and you have to be honest: of all the ways she could have brushed this off, Mariah definitely chose the funniest and most musical.
However, that wasn’t the only mishap that occurred during the performance. Also in the first video, at around the 2:37 mark, Mariah’s mike went off while she was supposed to sing those trademark high notes of hers.
Oddly enough, NBC did broadcast it differently, as the second video confirms: on it, you can definitely hear that part of Mariah’s song as well, and she’s hitting the notes flawlessly.
One of two things probably happened here: either Mariah’s microphone happened to malfunction precisely at that moment and her team had the NBC staff add the sound within that 5-second delay in the broadcast (which is highly unlikely), or she always relies on a backing track when she gets to this part, which is why her mike was cut off.
The latter would also explain why NBC had the segment with precisely those notes at the ready, to be inserted into the actual live broadcast.
Check out the two videos below and decide for yourself what happened. For the record, this isn’t the first time that Mariah makes headlines with lip-synching allegations: while most pop stars of today either do it shamelessly or rely heavily on backing tracks, Mariah is always proud to say that her act is 100 percent live.
This is why fans and non-fans usually get so heated when this topic starts making the rounds online.
And it’s not hard to understand why: if she’s relying on a backing track for the most difficult notes, which she presumably can’t reach anymore, then her 100 percent claim isn’t entirely accurate.
