{"id":281225,"date":"2017-01-02T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281225"},"modified":"2017-01-02T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:31:41","slug":"mariah-carey-row-over-new-years-eve-performance-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/mariah-carey-row-over-new-years-eve-performance-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey: Row over New Year’s Eve performance debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"
There have been bitter recriminations after Mariah Carey’s televised New Year’s Eve performance went wrong.<\/p>\n
The pop star’s live appearance in New York’s Times Square was beset by problems as she complained of sound difficulties and struggled to sing.<\/p>\n
Her representative told Billboard the producers “set her up to fail”.<\/p>\n
But Dick Clark Productions said any suggestion it would “compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd”.<\/p>\n
Carey was live on ABC just before midnight and began with Auld Lang Syne, but hit trouble during her 1991 hit Emotions.<\/p>\n
Complaining that she could not hear, she did not sing for much of the track and her dancers led her though an awkward stage routine.<\/p>\n
She told the crowd: “I want a holiday, too. Can I not have one? I’m trying to be a good sport here.”<\/p>\n