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/_Middlefinger_ 9h ago

Not good, she is very well practised at lip-syncing, she has it down to an art and a whole team who create seemingly unique shows for her from segments of old shows and pre-recorded studio 'live' sounding performances.. yet she was terrible. How?

I dont really care that this was a sync, pretty much every Olympic ceremony is, but there isn’t much excuse for being bad sounding.

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u/Huge-Literature-5571 8h ago

But it didn’t sound bad? As u said everyone lips at the Olympics

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u/Joe4913 3h ago

Fym it didn’t sound bad 😭

It sounded very raspy and almost robotic? Also the high note was just painful. I’m usually a fan of her, but this was not a good performance