Posted on 10/06/2014 8:42:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maybe Mariah Carey was just having a bad night? Bad timing though. Because the OPENING NIGHT of the ex-American Idol judge’s Elusive Chanteuse World Tour, in Tokyo Japan, revealed several “vocal malfunctions.”
In the video below, Mimi is off-pitch at times. She’s unable to reach that whistle register that put her name on the map. At one point, a mic stand broke and she lost her place in the song.
Could it be jet lag? Opening night jitters? Impending divorce from Nick Cannon weighing on her mind? There has been evidence that the singer’s voice isn’t what it once was. But that’s a normal function of age. Take the songs down a few keys and rely less on that whistle register. Mariah wouldn’t be the first singer to have to change her approach to an aging voice.
It’s a little tougher for Mariah, however, as she’s KNOWN for her incredible range and stratospheric upper register. But she has contributed so much to pop music already, I think her fans would forgive her if she had to scale the vocal gymnastics back. It’s better that she sing on key, rather than sounding terrible (and a little pathetic) attempting to hit notes she can no longer reach.
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Sounds drunk to me.
She is just plain horrible. In all of America, I believe she may be the most “full of themselves” person. Seriously she just thinks her crap doesn’t stink.
She’s a singer?
Mariah wouldn’t be the first singer to have to change her approach to an aging voice.
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Aging male rockers hire female backup singers.
That was horrible!! She would have been better off lip-synching! She was either drunk or high or something else....
Heard this morning.
I have a 4 octave voice and use to sing semi-professional.
Some days ain’t nothing working.
You can hear pitch and make tone and bonus: can’t hit a high note.
I am tired of all that crap diva music.. vocal calesthenics from these singers all trying hit more notes in succession than the last set of curvy legs and hair...
very tired of it..
Geeze it makes me yearn for that communist Woody Guthrie, or Bob Dylan, James Taylor... just anything but this vapid music of today.
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey
She’s probably doing drugs. Gee what a surprise. I don’t understand this arse kissing of one hit wonders today anyway, what is the deal with that? In the past a band or singer would have one hit and you would never hear from them again unless they got another hit song. Today it’s one hit and they get relentlessly promoted for the next 100 years.
Dang, that was a hot mess!
Think I will stick with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.
Hyperbole plain and simple, she may be right up there with other current and past their time "stars", but nobody tops the obamas!
Autotune can make anyone a star.
She was really annoying on American Idol. Her “critiques” of the contestants were all, “I, I, I, I, I, I, I.” Mariah is a true narcissist.
I’d still hit it.
At least we have some reliability in this world.
Brad Delp (Boston) R.I.P. had a wonderful voice.
Geddy Lee (RUSH) has still got it.
Screw this wench.
Urban yodeling, as Neal Boortz called it.
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