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Mariah Carey\u2019s team is fed up with feeling attacked and is ready to candidly elaborate on what exactly happened during the singer\u2019s infamous performance on Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve with Ryan Seacrest<\/em>. Below Carey\u2019s manager Stella Bulochnikov<\/span>, who was by the singer\u2019s side at the event, runs through what went down Saturday in detail to try and clear up the conflicting accounts about the ABC performance \u2014 which was marred by the singer\u2019s audio issues. Over the past couple days, the singer has been accused of lip-syncing and even skipping the show\u2019s rehearsal. Producer Dick Clark Productions has slammed any insinuation that they\u2019re to blame for the fiasco as \u201cabsurd\u201d (see their statement here), but here\u2019s Bulochnikov with her recollection of the events.<\/p>\n

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So first, let\u2019s talk about the rehearsal. There are anonymous production sources quoted as saying Carey skipped it? <\/strong>
\nStella Bulochnikov<\/span><\/strong>: Not true. Not only did she not ditch rehearsal, we got to Times Square at 2:30. The stage wasn\u2019t ready for her until 3:20. We waited around for their stage manager. We had the stage from 3:20 to 3:50. She had a dance stand-in for the musical number. She sat on the side of the stage with her ear-pack and her in-ears and her microphone to make sure she could do the sound check. The most important thing to her was the sound. The sound was coming in choppy. She was assured it would work by the evening.<\/p>\n

She did an interview with Ryan Seacrest at about 10:35 where her in-ear was very choppy. She could barely hear Ryan. She was struggling to hear him through the noise of Times Square.<\/p>\n

We then went to [producer] Mark Shimmel, the assigned talent executive to Mariah. And I said, \u201cHer in-ears do not work, it\u2019s choppy, we need new ears for the performance.\u201d He said, \u201cThose are not the ears she\u2019ll be working with for the performance. The ears she will be working with are in the trailer.\u201d We went to the trailer at 10:45. She did touch-ups because she\u2019s supposed to go on at 11:38. We put in the ears and did the mic pack. We walked to the holding tent about 11:20. We told both stage managers \u2014 remember this is not our production team, we\u2019re out-sourcing our team which we never do \u2014 we told them the mic pack is not working. She can\u2019t hear it, it\u2019s faint. They brought her a new one, and that one didn\u2019t work either, the mic pack was dead. They changed the battery pack. She said she still couldn\u2019t hear. The second stage manager said, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work here in the tent, it will work on the stage.\u201d She said, \u201cGreat, let\u2019s go to the stage.\u201d It\u2019s now four minutes to showtime. She says, \u201cI hear nothing in my ears, my ears are dead.\u201d The other stage manager says, \u201cIt will work right when we go live.\u201d Then things start to get chaotic. They start counting her down \u2014 four minutes, three minutes. Mariah: \u201cI can\u2019t hear.\u201d Them: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna hear when it goes live \u2014 two minutes!\u201d<\/p>\n

So, right when it goes live, she can\u2019t hear anything. The ears are dead. They\u2019re dead. So she pulls them out of the ear because if the artist keeps them in their ears then all she hears is silence. Once she pulled them off her ear she was hoping to hear her music, but because of the circumstances \u2014 there\u2019s noise from Times Square and the music is reverberating from the buildings \u2014 all she hears is chaos. She can\u2019t hear her music. It\u2019s a madhouse. At the point, there\u2019s no way to recover.<\/p>\n

On the third song when she could hear her track playing it was so bad she said, \u201cF\u2014 it, I\u2019ve had enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was there an attempt from her team to get her off the stage earlier? At one point one of her backup dancers seemed to motion her to get off the stage.
\n<\/strong>She should have walked off and thrown the mic at somebody\u2019s head \u2014 that<\/em> would have been a great moment. After the show, I called Mark Shimmel \u2014 who begged her to do the show and had her cut her vacation short from Aspen. This is a verbatim conversation. I asked, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d He said, \u201cI just talked to my guys and I confirmed her in-ears didn\u2019t work. Couldn\u2019t she just wing it?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat are you talking about \u2018winging it\u2019? Are you on glue?\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cWhat do you want me to do?\u201d I said, \u201cI want you to cut the West Coast feed.\u201d He calls me back and says, \u201cWe can\u2019t do it.\u201d So I\u2019m like, \u201cYou would prefer to air a show with technical glitches so you can have a viral moment rather than protect the integrity of your show and Dick Clark Productions?\u201d He said, \u201cWe just won\u2019t do it. Do you want to do a joint statement?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, I want you to go f\u2014 yourself.\u201d And that was it. I don\u2019t think it was an unfair ask to ask them to cut [the segment from] the West Coast feed after they had this huge mechanical glitch.<\/p>\n

What happened with Carey after she left the stage? <\/strong>
\nShe was gracious enough to walk over to Seacrest and do the ball-drop moment and then she left.<\/p>\n

How\u2019s she feeling today about all this?<\/strong>
\nShe\u2019s just ignoring it. She\u2019s got so many more important things to do. And this goes under the heading of \u201cno good deed\u201d because she was doing them a favor. Shimmel\u2019s direct request was, \u201cI\u2019m begging you to do this. America needs this moment after Donald Trump, etc.\u201d What a bunch of nonsense.<\/p>\n

I can understand the frustration there if they knew her audio wasn\u2019t working and then sent her out live on stage anyway.<\/strong>
\nBut even when it didn\u2019t work [when live], when she pulled her ears out, they should have cut to commercial. That says to me they wanted a viral moment at any expense. And that\u2019s not a company with integrity for 50-something years. That\u2019s not who Dick Clark was. He loved artists.<\/p>\n

Fans are also accusing her of lip-syncing. From watching the video, it looked like part of the performance was meant to be lip-synced and part of it wasn\u2019t? <\/strong>
\nNo. It\u2019s not lip-syncing. Lip-syncing is when people don\u2019t sing at all. This is what people should understand. Every artist sings to a track, especially in circumstances like that when it\u2019s really loud and impossible to have a great musical performance. You\u2019re not singing at the Philharmonic. Every artist who goes out there sings to tracks. What Mariah was doing was singing to tracks. What you heard on the second song, \u201cEmotions,\u201d was her going to sing it live. That\u2019s why you heard no vocals. It\u2019s a song she sings every other day.<\/p>\n

At least they are acknowledging there was a technical problem on their end, though, so they\u2019re admitting there was a problem on their end.
\n<\/strong>But to not apologize to her formally? That\u2019s disgusting. We live in this viral world where anybody will do anything for a viral moment.<\/p>\n

Dick Clark Productions didn\u2019t have any immediate additional comment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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