2:09.

She knows.

OK. We all know she needs to quit it with the high squeally stuff that made her famous. She's older and has had a couple of kids and her voice can't do it anymore. But I still think she's a really good singer. And I'll give her a pass on this one because it's obvious there's a problem with her monitor. She keeps touching her ear piece. That's the universal sign for "Hey sound guy, I can't hear myself, turn up my monitor". At about 2:00, she takes it out of her ear completely which is not a good sign. You can tell she's shaken and at that point she's just trying to get through it. Add to that how hard it is to sing in the cold, and I'm impressed she finished the song as well as she did.

BTW, Lady Gaga is awesome. I'm liking the new direction her career is taking.

Still the object of my erection. She could sound like Bukowski and I wouldn't care.

Hard as hell to listen to. This song is bad enough on its own.

I listened for a minute or two and heard nothing wrong :(

Was she an asshole to the crew or something? Not much really forgives leaking this isolated track from a live performance. She's not a full-on career-long poser like Courtney Love where she deserves it for being a fraud.

She actually sang her performance.
Probable ear-piece monitor problem.
It's cold.
Maybe she has a cold.

Why expose her for a bad live performance??

I don't even like her, not even a little, and I'm completely in her corner, barring a longer story about how awful she is to the crew. It's just- I've had to sing on stage where I could hear myself 0% and it sucks. Totally sucks. Not everyone is the world's perfect technical singer where they don't even have to hear themselves.

For the first minute or so I heard nothing wrong, and then...

Honestly, it's not THAT bad (most people still can't sing this song this well) but that signature high pitched angel scream thing that made her famous in the 90s is what's fucking her over here. She probably can't do it anymore, which is why she shifted away from vocally demanding music so sharply in favor of the hip hop side of things.

If you want to hear some truly horrifying isolated mic feeds, look up that of Britney Spears.

I'm not a fan of Mariah Carey and i hate that style of singing, but there's nothing scandalous here.

I don't really know her or her music but I would smugly enjoy the sight watching an alleged diva fail spectacularly on stage.

Nothing happened here, she obviously has a voice that is better trained than the best singer you know. The reports feel like a deliberate smear job on a performance that was obviously hampered with technical issues.

Yeah, she doesn't sound too bad. She carries herself professionally, and props to her for not lip-synching, even on an "off" night.

The thing that I hate about this is all the dancing kids. They look so stupid, twitching around behind Ms Carey without any music to back them up. I also hate the fact that it's Christmas, because fuck Christmas, and the nerve of whomever thought that having a song and dance routine to celebrate the lighting of some dumb Rockerfeller Christmas Tree would be something that'd entertain me, either sincerely (because I'd like to hear Mariah Carey sing?) or ironically (because I'd love to see her fail?). Well, I don't care either which way, Mr Rockerfeller Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Entertainment Director Guy, I really don't. If I wanted to see Mariah Carey and/or people failing at things they enjoy doing, I'd just fire up the Internet like I always do. Rome is burning, and you can keep your twitching children and your big stupid tree and your slightly overweight songstress against whom I bear no ill-will.

Asshole!

I dunno. She still sounds a hell of a lot better than a lot of current pop stars.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=47103

That bit surrounding 3:20 or so is pretty bad. The rest isn't bad.

I laughed. Holy chirping divas, Batman!

I see it as a vindication of my belief that most modern music is crap. It's so loaded with superfluous runs and unnecessary trills and shit that it only sounds good if you have two weeks in a studio to perfect it. Basically, I think this song will always sound terrible live. Not that it's any good digitally, either.