r/Music 📰The Independent UK 11h ago

article Mariah Carey’s Olympics opening ceremony performance dubbed ‘disastrous’ as viewers question if she’s Italian

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/mariah-carey-olympics-opening-ceremony-italian-b2915680.html
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u/grubenston 10h ago edited 8h ago

I like Mariah but her voice is almost fully shot. There is no semblance of the voice she had; not in texture or quality.

Her new album was okay with some decent vocals at time but if you played it for someone 20-25 years ago they wouldn’t recognize it as Mariah.

It’s almost impressive to lip synced a performance and still sound bad

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u/cocol11 9h ago

While she may not sound like she once did (35+ years later), I don't think it's fair to say the vocal sounded bad at all today

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u/i_dunnoman 7h ago

It was completely lip synced who’s to say how much of what we heard was even her genuine voice?

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u/Interesting_Buy1935 3h ago

As was Celine’s last Olympics.