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Licia (37,930) by RadChad from United States You said it perfectly. Why even bother with people who will never like MC regardless. Other people's perceptions or misconceptions will never affect my feelings or opinions of Mariah. Though I do always want her to be at her best and exceed what's expected of her, my love for her will always remain unconditional and I will be eternally grateful for her efforts and everything she has already done in her career. I understand wanting her to have that respect and recognition, but at the end of the day no one can't really laugh at/or not respect someone that has already proven themselves in every way already. So I wouldn't care what people thought of my love for her. I would confidently educate them on why she's already lengendary. (Sunday 19 May 2013; 1:18)

You are all right but (37,929) by Lee from USA Another thing irks me about this fiasco. Why is Mimi is getting grief due to appearing to not give J-Lo a standing ovation? These people should know that it is J-Lo, not Aretha or Patti LaBelle. I will never understand the hero-worship that J-Lo has gotten over the years despite underwhelming music and crappy movies. Yet if Mimi puts out a bad song or bad movie, she is exiled from showbiz. (Sunday 19 May 2013; 0:33)

Shade on each other (37,928) by Gerome from Canada AI did not put Mariah's performance before the grand reveal and Mariah did not give AI stage the honor of doing a live performance. It is really funny. The upside on this AI era is that Mariah was exposed to the general public on a bi-weekly basis, giving her enough push for the release of her #Beautiful single and LP. She will never join AI again I guess. Ever. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 20:15)

She did not lip sync it (37,927) by Gerome from Canada It is hard to believe guys, but after very close listen and view, Mariah really did not lip sync at all. The performance may be edited a bit to fit the time limit, but she totally sang every word live. At first I thought that she did it at the beginning of Hero, but I was wrong. Everything was sung live. I love her more for this stellar performance. She might be laughing at the lip sync rumors right now. Hail the true queen of all divas. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 20:09)

Hard to believe (37,926) by Sasha from Nomansland A singer of her level had to cut and past together different live performances to create the perfect performance? On a singer competition show where she was herself a judge? I must be dreaming please, why do things always have to be so complicated with her? (Saturday 18 May 2013; 18:26)

AI performance (37,925) by Licia from USA I have to agree that the undubbed audio was way better. I wish they would have just used that. Nope it was not perfect 90's Mariah, but she still sounded good. All in all though, the performance was not horrible, but the editing was. Someone made a comment about how they have to defend Mariah all the time. You don't have to defend her. Stop feeling like you have to. The one thing that I have learned from being a fan for so long is that if they didn't like her in the 90's when she was at her 100% best, they aren't going to like her now. They were going to find something wrong regardless. So why bother defending her and getting yourself upset? (Saturday 18 May 2013; 17:15)

Sometimes I miss the days before the internet lol (37,924) by Deedre aka MiTodoChop @HBF from Canada I think she sounded strong, gorgeous and looked stunning in that gown. It's clear the editing was very questionable, but I truly understand why MC is such a perfectionist with the way people are so ready to pounce after every performance. Sometimes I just wish we could go back to the days where she performed and everyone was just happy to see her. Lol. Don't get me wrong, here, I fully support differing opinions, that's the reality of the internet these days and I wouldn't change or deny anyone's right to feel the way they do. More than anything, I'm just embarrassed her publicist had to make a statement she wasn't lipping. For me, that was always clear listening to it that it was done live. It wasn't until I saw the article did I realize the level to which people must have been talking about it. I really don't think it was the hairy deal some are making it out to be. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 17:07)

Umm (37,923) by Anthony Early from Wales I thought the performance was gorgeous. I can't for the life of me appreciate "opinions" on this board when they seem like trash. Seriously. I have been embarassed myself of some of her previous live performances, but these past few years I feel and hear that she still has the voice I fell in love with. Her voice is shot? What the hell? Am I even on a fan board anymore? Am I even living in reality? Mariah, you're on fire, and they can't take that away. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 16:10)

AI performance (37,922) by Marise from Russia To me it sounds live. I really don't think she was lip-sync, except maybe some parts in Hero. That performance was not breathtaking, but amazing nevertheless. And I do enjoy it. The problem is Mariah's voice is not so powerful now as it was in 90's, so she has to be static on the stage to hit high notes instead of moving. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 16:05)

My opinion (37,921) by Anonymous from She still has her voice. She's just never been comfortable performing. Her nerves get the best of her and her voice cracks. She's never been known as a live performer, she's in her element in the studio. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 15:51)

MC did great (37,920) by jaker20 from US I thought she did a great job guys. Quit being so hard on MC making her work her behind for you and serve you whistles all the time. How sad are you? She did great. I have to say though that they butchered the editing, for example, she did a very good, in fact, fantastic job with My All, but they showed it with the camera overhead. WTH. All of them were live, except for Hero. But even that part was part was badly edited. If you listen to the undubbed, her vocals on that part were not perfect, but again, they butchered the editing. All in all, this is one of her best vocals guys. I've been a fan for so long, I know when's she's dubbed, lipping, or singing with a track. I'm no fool. Sorry to say, but some of you are for being swayed by negative media and haters (mostly from that other girl's camp I'd rather not name). (Saturday 18 May 2013; 15:25)

Daily Mail (37,919) by Will from England You know something is wrong when the Daily Mail and its readers support Mariah (the majority of them anyway) and lambs don't. I'm still not getting why some people thought that the performance was bad? As I said before: the vocals were on point and the editing wasn't. It is as simple as that. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 14:57)

Undubbed (37,918) by Lee from UK I've just listened to the undubbed fan recording of the American Idol Medley. Sure it wasn't perfect, but it wasn't awful either. Why on earth she chose to edit together a mash up of different recordings to create this fake product is beyond me. She should have just chose the best out of the 3 and put that one out for all to hear. I don't think anybody was fooled by the production trickery. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 13:20)

So... (37,917) by Jamie from UK Mariah set the bar so incredibly high for herself in the 90s that even now that her voice is shot she feels obliged to live up to that expectation to avoid severe criticism. She can't afford to mess up and especially not on American Idol. I don't believe the Idol performance was lipped, but say it was, people would be more willing to forgive that than an awful performance. Personally I think she did a great job. In fact I think she should start doing medleys in her concerts to spice it up a little. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 9:39)

Solution (37,916) by Orkun from The Netherlands Even the fans who did like the Idol taping are referring to the so called live and raw recording and calling it better, which I agree. Still, parts were playback (Hero). The problem: Being diva-ish and working the image is totally fine with me. But not if this is the only thing she's doing on stage. The solution: Read between the lines dear Mariah. No matter what we all think of the taping, we all refer to the raw audio. The part where she salutes Randy on stage is the raw Mariah. So intimate and gracefull. That's why Jimmy Fellon performance was a success too. Deserved succes. Precious movie? Same succes for the same reason. She said during her Billboard Artist Of The Decade Award: "Forget the image, forget the ensamble, forget the big hair, forget the rumors." Well, I'm trying. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 8:19)

Disgusted (37,915) by Anthony Early from Wales That's how I feel with a lot of comments here. In my opinion Mariah sang amazing. And I'm not a fairweather friend, I'm a huge fan of over 12 years and I've seen her many incredible live performances. I've actually seen her live in concert. It was amazing. And for me, the Idol show was brilliant. If you have watched these performances as much as me, you can tell when she lipped. I'm confident she didn't. Can I please congratulate her on a bloody brilliant show and her new song. Call this fan blind if you want, but that was beautiful. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 5:01)

The next Ashlee Simpson (37,914) by enwar00 from usa I think she was lip synching before WBT when she said "Sing along if you know it. And if you don't, try." (Saturday 18 May 2013; 2:53)

Vocal changes (37,913) by Chase from USA In the first years of Mariah's career, she discussed spacing live performances apart to keep her voice strong and healthy, although many legendary vocalists perform night after night and are no worse for the wear. I think her singing style, which requires incredible stress and strain, began to damage her vocal cords early on. That damage became particularly apparent during the Butterfly era and significantly more so in the following decade. Perhaps the lifestyle changes that followed her separation from Tommy added to this. She was liberated from a heavily-moderated and otherwise unhealthy lifestyle that probably helped to preserve her voice. I am only speculating. I'm sure Mariah knows the truth and is very much aware of these vocal changes, which have likely troubled her greatly. I am grateful that she is still doing her thing at 43, after spending over half of her life performing on stage and recording in the studio. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 2:22)

Medley served its purpose (37,912) by Chase from USA As others have mentioned, the live medley bumped #Beautiful back to the iTunes top 10, keeping the song alive longer, after it had begun to slip down the iTunes chart. As we (myself included) speculate about lip syncing, vocal issues, etc., let's keep in mind that this performance served its purpose and was a success. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 2:08)

Production (37,911) by nikki from usa How quickly they all forget. It's amazing when someone else makes the bed, everyone blames you for the sheets. When Mariah did Triumphant live and the medly, she had so many problems with her ear peice and couldn't hear herself. The sound glitches kept cutting in and out when she sang live. She got so much flack for it too. It makes since this time around for: reason 1. To avoid another "sound glitch" during a live show, instead have 3 live versions to ensure a great deal of awesome material that will be cut and pasted together later for quality. Not suspecting AI would be so shoddy at production. (I have to say in this day and age, if someone were to lip, they would've taken care of the sound problems in production. There's no way it would be that obvious and that bad. The fact that it was makes me think AI is ticked about that 18m.) 2. Mariah is a diva and AI has a time slot. For those who were there, she did the songs 3 times, talked to the fans in between, and sang other songs at random "for the nastalgia". You're not going to get a medly from Mariah Carey that's under an hour. So, they're going to want to pick and choose "moments" and be able to cut for time if necessary. That's production. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 1:30)

Oh and BTW (37,909) by RadChad from United States There is an undubbed audio of her performance on Idol on YouTube and it sounds just as good of not better than the dubbed version. She just sung a with a backing track on #Beautiful to harmonize with the whistles at the end. So in reality her voice is improving a great deal. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 1:13)

Randy, Lee, Idol performance (37,908) by Edward from USA Randy and Lee, I couldn't have said it better. Why do we have to be so nervous everytime Mariah is going to perform even a single song? She's not touring, singing every night or anything like that, yet rarely she can pull a decent performance of a single song. I have to say I am so thankful we do studios, because if Mariah sounded like this in a CD, I would die. It was the perfect opportunity to close the Idol chapter with a "this Is a real diva" performance, but it wasn't, it was the same struggle. I get mad because I can't explain what happened to her voice, and no, I am not expecting her voice from the 90's, just something decent and consistent. Everybody paints Tommy like this monster and I agree he was a control freak, but one thing we all have to agree on is that while he was still in her life, her voice was flawless. I didn't even want to give my opinion on the performance, but I often wonder if I am the only one who sees, or maybe my ears are shot. I'm always hoping and hoping and hoping that maybe with enough rest, 5000 humidifiers, vocal coaches she'll blow me away, but I am still hoping. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 1:12)

The shocked and appalled? (37,907) by RadChad from United States I'm still surprised at how people act as if they don't know what's going on with Mariah's voice. I mean, it's been years since her live vocal glory days (that I am fortunate to remember). I'm sure there's a legitimate reason her voice isn't the same: there's the vocal nodules, insomnia, over using/singing for several years. Obviously her voice has gone through. Now I just see it as Mariah's trying to the best she can with what she got at the moment. At least she has already proven herself live on countless occasions. Trust me, I understand the frustration of wanting consistent stellar performance from your favorite vocalist (I actually pray that day will return ASAP), but you must still consider the source of the issue and also that it could be out of her control at this point (or perhaps something she diligently working to improve). (Saturday 18 May 2013; 0:51)

AI medley (37,906) by Matthew from USA When I watch MC giving an interview, she is always so real and genuine and down to earth. When I watch MC perform, I usually get the impression that she is posing for her life. I'm not sure why it's so hard for her to bring the MC from interviews to the stage. I think this medley did some damage to her image, mostly because everyone else who has ever performed on this show has done so as part of the live finale celebrations. MC had the theater cleared out so she could bring in only people who were already fans, the lighting was just so, the production was just so, none of the contestants were involved. It was like some weird interlude and then they got back to the show. Even Aretha, who didn't sound that great, came off better because at least the contestants were part of it. I know she is the diva, but she probably should have done a song with one of the contestants. Even if she was somehow outsung, which I highly doubt, it would have been a nice gesture and people would be saying that she held back out of respect to the contestant since this is all about them. As for the voice, I believe it's still there. I believe she sung live. I do think she needs to let her hair down and go unplugged or acoustic to silence the critics again though. Maybe we can hope for small intimate unplugged/acoustic tour? Knowing Mimi, it will be just the opposite. (Saturday 18 May 2013; 0:19)

Brandon, Jono (37,905) by Lee from UK Mariah made such a big deal about getting vocal rest before performing on the Adventures of Mini tour. That didn't work out too well for her then. ono, I don't think we expect Mariah's voice to be as strong as it once was. But why doesn't she just let us hear her voice the way it is now? We don't expect it to be perfect, we just expect it to be live. Whether her performance is really good, or really bad, we don't care. We just don't want her to think that she has fooled us into thinking she is singing live when, as fans, we know for a fact that it was either lipped or over dubbed. (Friday 17 May 2013; 23:02)

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