The nation watched on New Year’s Eve as Mariah Carey stepped onstage in a sparkling gown to sing half an hour before the ball would drop. As the opening notes began to play, she appeared to sing just fine to the song “Auld Lang Syne.” But when the opening notes to her hit song “Emotions” came on, it all went downhill from there.
While it appeared that she attempted the beginning notes to the song, her voice faltered and she was soon silent. She stopped attempting to sing, and smiled at the audience, fidgeting with something near her shoulder. “Let the audience sing,” she conceded, extending the microphone to the audience, still smiling all the while.
As her last song of the set played, it was obvious that she was meant to lip sync this one. Throughout the course of her song “We Belong Together,” she would stop ‘singing’ and shout out “Happy New Year” or flat out put her mic down. Overall, it was not Carey’s shining performance.
But what actually caused the hit singer to falter and stop singing?
According to Entertainment Weekly, Carey’s manager Stella Bulochnikov said that her ear piece was not working when she went on stage, and that’s what caused her to be unable to sing. With her being unable to hear the song, she was unable to make sense of the surrounding “chaos” of noise, which led to Carey’s moment on stage.
But is that what really happened?
“It was the aliens,” said Carey in an exclusive interview. “It was completely and one hundred percent the aliens. They messed up my earpiece and I wasn’t able to hear anything once I got on stage.”
This would explain why Maryland Sound International, the company that produces the audio equipment for the New Year’s Eve show, said there were “zero technical malfunctions,” according to the New York Times.
“I had no problems with my equipment before the set started, and then when my ear piece went silent I knew that it was probably the aliens,” Carey said. “So while I was on the stage smiling at the audience, my eyes were scanning the horizon. And then I saw them.”
Carey said that she saw a blinking light in the sky, and “knew” that it was the aliens.
“They’ve been trying to sabotage me for awhile because they know I’m onto them,” she said with confidence.
“I wanted to come clean and just tell everyone it was the aliens, but my manager told me that it would be a bad idea — that the government would probably come after me if I did,” she said in response to a question about why her story does not match her managers. “So we fired Anthony [Burrell] as a cover story, but we’re planning on taking him back later in the year.”
Area 51 was not available to comment on why there might have been aliens visiting the New Year’s Eve celebration in Time Square.
