Could you imagine asking, for instance, Sharon Jones (RIP) to lip-sync? It’s not going to happen...

Bullshit. If you don’t soundcheck, you are absolutely of some responsibility if the performance has sound issues. A sound engineer needs that soundcheck to get things right. If the artist refuses to soundcheck, it’s not the engineer’s fault if it sounds like shit. The engineer is going to be spending the bulk of the…

A more talented singer could have performed and got the exposure. Mariah Carey took that opportunity away and then wasted it with a lazy shitty performance and attitude. How much I paid or did not pay to see it is irrelevant.

It wasn’t such a shock when Ashley Simpson ran off of the SNL stage since she was a moderately talented teenager. Mariah has been performing for her entire adult life. If the soundtrack fails just fucking sing! I am sure that she could have asked to have the faulty music turned off and her Mike turned up.

That’s pretty shitty and not shocking if that’s the case. With that said though, even if that was the case, Mariah Carey could have handled the situation far better (for example, stop everything, cut and sing acapella) and didn’t.

edit: I initially responded to a different Beyonce lip-sync’d performance (*faceplant*). For the inauguration, it was lame to lip-sync. But on the relative scale of things, it was also a far more important event. So yeah I’m not as outraged.

Yes-like is it too much t expect a singer to actually sing? What if we all did our jobs that way?

From someone who worked the show, I understand she blew off her sound check, then tried to blame others for the malfunction.

On top of the fact that they rented her a Times Sq apt because her own NYC apt was too far for them to be certain she’d make it on time. So much money spent for this.

“The incident upset some people on the Internet, who I suppose expect performers to mask their lip-syncing better.”