kitbradley said:

phunkdaddy said:

Oh for gods sake someone just posted a thread about Mariah announcing

a free concert and the shit has turned into whether or not she can sell out

an arena. I'm pretty sure we all have favorite artists that aren't selling out arenas now. If you like the artist it doesn't matter if it's 5000 people there or 12,000.

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I know. the vast majority of the artists that I listen to are from the 70's and 80's and most of them can barely fill up a room at a casino!

Exactly. Tell me about it!

More pics from March 1.

Mariah isn't a good live performer because while she's singing she has to remember all of her hand signals to the guy on the soundboard so he knows when to play her lead vocals, when to cut the volume so she can sing 3 words live, etc. If you're going to go back and forth between singing live and lip synching, at least lip sync to a dry vocal. Don't lip to a processed studio vocal. The sound quality is too different from the live vocal and it makes the lipping really obvious. Watch the WBT performance at the BET Awards for a good example. Lord! When the studio vocal kicks in at the end, the timbre is SO different and so are the treble and bass levels on the vocal.

I love you Mariah! I just tell it like it is.

MidniteMagnet said:

Mariah isn't a good live performer because while she's singing she has to remember all of her hand signals to the guy on the soundboard so he knows when to play her lead vocals, when to cut the volume so she can sing 3 words live, etc. If you're going to go back and forth between singing live and lip synching, at least lip sync to a dry vocal. Don't lip to a processed studio vocal. The sound quality is too different from the live vocal and it makes the lipping really obvious. Watch the WBT performance at the BET Awards for a good example. Lord! When the studio vocal kicks in at the end, the timbre is SO different and so are the treble and bass levels on the vocal.

I love you Mariah! I just tell it like it is.

What do you think happened to her voice?

Musicslave said:

MidniteMagnet said:

Mariah isn't a good live performer because while she's singing she has to remember all of her hand signals to the guy on the soundboard so he knows when to play her lead vocals, when to cut the volume so she can sing 3 words live, etc. If you're going to go back and forth between singing live and lip synching, at least lip sync to a dry vocal. Don't lip to a processed studio vocal. The sound quality is too different from the live vocal and it makes the lipping really obvious. Watch the WBT performance at the BET Awards for a good example. Lord! When the studio vocal kicks in at the end, the timbre is SO different and so are the treble and bass levels on the vocal.

I love you Mariah! I just tell it like it is.

What do you think happened to her voice?

Age.

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Mariah Carey Dazzles During First Post-Pregnancy Performance

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Just 10 months after giving birth to twins Moroccan and Monroe, a soulful and slender ("30 lbs [less] on Jenny Craig," according to her rep) Mariah Carey returned to the stage with a set at New York's Gotham Hall on Thursday night (Mar. 1).

The performance was part of Caesar's Entertainment's "Escape To Total Rewards" launch event, which also featured performances by Lil Wayne,Maroon 5, Sara Bareilles and other artists simulcast from cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans.

Backed by a full band and four more-than-game backup dancers, Mimi strutted across the stage in a tight black dress and clutched a diamond-encrusted microphone over the course of her 40-minute set. In between triumphant renditions of hits like "Always Be My Baby," "We Belong Together," "I'll Be There" and "Obsessed," Carey gave a shout-out to her husband Nick Cannon, who was in the building; got her makeup touched up onstage by a crack team of cosmetic specialists; and spoke candidly about Moroccan and Monroe, whom she referred to as "dem babies."

"Do I bring dem babies out?... They should be in bed!" she told the crowd. "I really wanted to bring them here tonight, but Monroe is sometimes shy and takes a while to warm up to an audience."

Nostalgia has a way of tugging at one's chords, emotionally and vocally. Last night, Mariah Carey blinded her loyal fans of their inability to professionally sing and ignore the consideration of those around them, singing along as if in their own private shower stalls. The highlight of the night came at the end of the show when Carey closed her set with her ballad, "Hero." All, femmes and men, forgot of the morning after's vocal repercussions and sang along from the top of their lungs.

Before Carey strolled onstage, Sean "Diddy" Combs delivered a scattershot performance to the New York crowd, rollicking through songs like "All About the Benjamins," "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" and "Coming Home." Former Spice Girls member Melanie Brown was on hand to serve as emcee at Gotham Hall.

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Mariah Carey Returns to Stage in NYC

Mar 2, 2012

Mariah Carey hid in front of 150 people, patting her face with a tissue, the spotlight turned off at her request. She said she was stalling for time, something "those who know her" would understand. She tossed the tissues aside; they fluttered in the air like her eyelashes, her long hair, her fingertips, her voice.

Mariah high-stepped back to the center of the stage, her black floor-length gown coming to life with every twist of her hips. "I didn't really know it was a big drama like that," she said, "like it was my first time coming to the stage since having them babies."

Everything about Carey's return to the stage last night screamed big and loud – the actual space, New York's Gotham Hall, with its gilded chandelier hanging beneath an ornately hand-crafted ceiling; the press releases; the burly man pushing himself above the crowd outside, opening and closing his otherwise-unused umbrella while leading a call-and-response of "Mariah! Carey!" It was a capital-e Extravaganza where Mariah's opening act was no smaller than Diddy; where she underwent not one but two consultations with her makeup team between songs. It was a half-hour set.

That set started off with some more recent hits – "Shake It Off," "Touch My Body," "Obsessed" – a light workout for a voice that could do much heavier lifting. Freed, the singer minced around, turning "Obsessed" into a melodramatic mini-opera with the help of her backup dancers. (Between spins and kicks, they played fans and paparazzi.) Five songs in, there was a clear shift from flirty and fun to steel-voiced and iron-lunged, as Carey sang to the rafters. "Always Be My Baby" and "We Belong Together" turned the volume knob to fortissimo, with the crowd singing just as loud. During "I'll Be There," a duet with Trey Lorenz, she whispered, "We miss you, Michael." A girl near the bar wiped her eyes.

Leaving the stage, Carey returned for "Hero," saying, "I thought they said I didn't have any time left, I thought I couldn't close with the song I always close with." The performance of her 1993 mega-hit was the saving grace of a very bloated, often slow-paced night.

Mariah was funny, unhinged as only Mariah can be, letting her sentences run on until they got tired. She play-fought with the lighting guys, with the sound techs, with the woman who came out to fix her shoes. During one particularly long break, as someone touched up her lips and someone else changed her jewelry, she said, "Pretend like the band is playing right now!" She mentioned that she'd almost brought her twins to the concert, but she didn't want to be late; besides, "Monroe takes a minute to warm up." Like mother, like daughter. (More serious, but no less joyful, she announced that husband Nick Cannon was somewhere in the room, though still recovering from his recent kidney failure.)

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Mariah Carey Gives First Post-Twins Performance

Mar 2, 2012

"It's my first performance since having the babies!" Mariah Carey told the crowd Thursday at New York's Gotham Hall. We caught the sassy, slimmed-down diva singing publicly for the first time since she and husband Nick Cannon welcomed twins Moroccan and Monroe last April.

Appearing at Caesar's Entertainment Kicks Off 'Escape to Total Rewards,' Carey dressed in a form-hugging black number and crooned It's Like That, Obsessed,I'll Be There and a new rendition of Shake You Off. She also dedicated Always Be My Baby to, well, her babies.

"Do you love them babies?" the proud mama asked rhetorically. "' Cause I do. . . I really wanted to bring them here tonight, but Monroe is sometimes shy and takes a while to warm up to an audience. Rock and roll! Nah, but it's late. It's time for them to be asleep."

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Mariah Returns To The Stage

March 2, 2012

Mariah Carey made her return to the stage since giving birth to twins in diva-like form: She changed her shoes after singing two songs and touched up her hair and makeup in a sleek, sleeveless black dress, all in front of an eager audience.

Carey, who gave birth to fraternal twins via C-section in April, performed for a few hundred fans Thursday night at New York’s Gotham Hall.

Of her return she said: “I didn’t realize this was a big deal.”

The Grammy winner sang a number of her hits during the short performance, from “Hero” to “We Belong Together” to the Jackson 5 cover “I’ll Be There.”

The concert was one of four shows Thursday dubbed “Plot Your Escape: Four Concerts. Countless Celebrities. 1 Epic Night,” by Caesars Entertainment. Diddy was Carey’s opening act in New York, while Lil Wayne and Cee Lo performed in Los Angeles, Maroon 5 and Sara Bareilles in Chicago, and Mary J. Blige and Gavin DeGraw in New Orleans. The concerts were part of Caesars Entertainment’s rewards program.

The shows happened simultaneously and were streamed online.

“We can’t do anything without it being documented,” Carey told the audience. “Doesn’t it freak you out at all?”

Carey said if her son Moroccan was onstage, he would probably beat-box, and that her daughter Monroe would be a diva.

The multiplatinum performer thanked her fans for being there and joked: “Catch me at my real show next time.”

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Identity said:

Mariah Carey performs during Escape To Total Rewards at Gotham Hall on March 1, 2012 in New York City.

after 22 yrs in the biz she still acts like an 7th grader on stage.... WTF!

i would love to see her with more confidence.....bleh

She sounds strong though pitchy at times, but sounds good overall. Just wish she would stop doing those damn head gestures, urgh. It's annoying.

Identity said:

Mariah Carey performs during Escape To Total Rewards at Gotham Hall on March 1, 2012 in New York City.

Nice-me likey

Identity said:

More pics from March 1.

Beautiful