Mariah Carey apologized for her performance at yesterday’s Michael Jackson memorial, saying she “wasn’t able to pull it together and really do it right,” and that she was “sorry.” She made the comments via her Twitter page. Check out her version of “I’ll Be There” and I’ll tell you why I think she’s being too hard on herself:
Mariah Carey sing at Michael Jackson The Memorial Concert
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I don’t think Carey has anything to apologize for. In fact, at a time when so many singers are trying for the kind of note-for-note “perfection” that shows like American Idol have convinced too much of the population is the way singers should sound, I found Carey’s emotionally jagged performance all the more moving. Indeed, this is what first-rate pop singing is truly about: emotion expressed through the grain of the voice, not impeccable, often sterile, pitch and timbre.
Do you think Carey should have apologized?
I think she really butchered that song…I couldn’t even listen to all of it. Really, really bad. And I’m not even a hater! I like Mariah but WOW that was just awful. At the same time, it’s not like she was performing at a concert with paying guests, it was a MEMORIAL – NOT a concert. She wasn’t expected to be her best. So was it a truly, truly awful performance? Yes, I think so. But should she have apologized for it? No, I don’t think it was necessary at all. But still…SHEESH that was bad. Speaking of Idol, like worse tan Sanjaya bad.
think she really butchered that song…I couldn’t even listen to all of it. Really, really bad. And I’m not even a hater! I like Mariah but WOW that was just awful. At the same time, it’s not like she was performing at a concert with paying guests, it was a MEMORIAL – NOT a concert. She wasn’t expected to be her best. So was it a truly, truly awful performance? Yes, I think so. But should she have apologized for it? No, I don’t think it was necessary at all. But still…SHEESH that was bad. Speaking of Idol, like worse tan Sanjaya bad.
I haven’t been a big listener to Mariah Carey since I was very very young. I started to feel like a lot of her performances were contrived. It’s true that her voice cracked a little at first, but she really was singing from the heart and I think it was one of her best performances I’ve seen her do. There are three possibilities to my mind. 1. She desperately wanted to do Jackson justice and feels like she missed her chance to do so. 2. She is as much a perfectionist as Jackson himself and judges herself harshly for the slightest mistakes. 3. She is vain and self-obsessed and is more concerned about what people will think about her than the purpose of the occasion.
I’m not picking one or the other of these. I’m just listing the possibilities.
only for her outfit.
I agree with Mark! That was a really bad performance and it’s kind of selfish to draw more attention to yourself and take it away from Michael by publically apologizing. Puhhlease. Someone buy her an autotuner.
My ears are bleeding.
I agree with with Mark said. All around good assessment. You go boy!
She only need pause to reflect on the appropriateness of her gown.
Was that Mariah Carey? Doesn’t look at all like the hot thing in that last vid…
Are you *sure* that was Mariah Carey??
I think it was the over dramatic hand gestures, the apparent sing-off with her partner, and the plunging dress she should be apologizing for. She was on stage doing her typical over the top Mariah show… not really appropriate for a memorial.
Sorry, but she was bad. Don’t get me started on that inappropriate dress. That was just way too classless. The fact that she actually apologized and tried to make it about herself is nauseating to me.
People need to cut the BS when we talk about this. SHE CANNOT SING LIVE ANYMORE. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
For too long we have been turning the other cheek when she lips her performances. For too long we have been distracted by the “Ladies of the Night” attire that she just falls into. For too long we have looked the other way when she is obviously struggling to get the simplest note out and a backing track or her backup singers are doing all the work.
Just stop it. This woman lives in her own selfish bubble because we continue to let her. The “Emotional” excuse is pathetic. Many people there were emotional and did just fine.
Again, she just hasn’t got it anymore and she hasn’t been able to really “SANG” for over ten years now.
Her performance was mediocre at best. This performance paled in comparison to her original rendition back in 1992 which was effortless, Then her voice was fuller and strong. Anyway Mariah shouldn’t apologize as I am sure nobody actually pay much attention to the quality of her bad singing. Everyone is thinking of Michael. Period.
She cracked in the beginning the rest was outstanding. It’s sad to know that she won’t get her due until she’s gone because everyone today is tone-deaf. No artist, with or without Auto Tune, could do what Mariah did with her voice throughout the 90s. She is hands-down the greatest living female singer. If you only know her number one hits, you don’t know anything.
HA you gurs are funny. Her dress looked like she was going to go perform at bad show on a cruise ship.
Hey? Where was Paris Hilton?? Isn’t she always at these things??
Oh…I get it. Someone else named Paris was there.
Got it…