Like a beautiful crystal-covered phoenix, Mariah Carey has risen jubilant from the ashes of her “disastrous” New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest performance last year, having put on a perfectly adequate set as part of Sunday night’s show. It appears that pre-show soundcheck worked.
Carey famously suffered one of the most fascinating meltdowns of the Digital age last New Year’s Eve when she claimed her earpiece malfunctioned and gave up halfway through her set, but that didn’t stop her from taking the stage again this year. The woman who made Glitter does not back down in the face of paramount humiliation, after all. And though non-believers waited attentively to see if she’d wreak havoc once again, ABC reports Carey did just fine, performing glitch-free versions of “Vision of Love” and “Hero.”