When the lights went up and the cameras were rolling, the earpiece apparently still wasn’t working, which led Carey to rip them out and attempt to sing without.
Mariah Carey’s camp would later state that her earpiece was having issues, which would make it hard to perform.
As the video shows, that didn’t work out so well, so hopefully this year everything is set up for Carey to succeed in her shot at redemption.
Carey’s team went on to say these were issues that were known earlier in the day, and that they were all assured it would be fixed by the time the show went live later that night.