Mariah Carey Feeds the Schadenfreude Cycle
Her botched New Year’s performance had something for everyone.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Jan 03, 2017
2 minutes
On New Year’s Eve, Mariah Carey gave 2017 an by grimacing and complaining, rather than singing or even correctly lip-syncing, through two songs, later saying that technical errors prevented her from hearing her backing tracks. It was the kind of moment a fiction writer wouldn’t put on page for fear of being too unsubtle. Without 29 years in the public spotlight, without her unbeaten slew of, the , the —and without her every singing having gone viral, the internet might have served up some “welp, 2016” jokes and moved on.
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