The fallout from Mariah Carey’s NYE performance continues. According to TMZ, MC’s team is saying that Dick Clark Productions (DCP) knew the earpiece was broken and admitted as much. A source close to DCP reportedly said:
I don’t care that her ears didn’t work. She could’ve just winged it.
MC and company are claiming sabotage for ratings and this appears to be the early 2017 celebrity story. Of course this is nothing more than he said, she said. MC is an accomplished proven performer, it doesn’t seem likely that she would appear on stage with faulty equipment. She’s too much of a pro for an amateur move like this. It does seem like this was a last minute performance and preparation was shoddy at best. A source close to MC inferred as much:
We could be in Aspen right now having the best time instead of being in dog s*** Times Square that smelled like a f****** sewer.
As a native New Yorker, Times Square on NYE sounds awful.
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