Mariah Carey Ends 2016 With An Awkward New Year's Eve Performance, and Twitter Went In

Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve performance went sour, and Twitter gave her the business.

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While we'd hope that the majority of you are (safely) turning up to celebrate the New Year, there were a number of you sitting online, watching ABC's annual New Year's Rockin' Eve showcase. Broadcasting live from Times Square in New York City, there are a number of performances going down, and this year included the ultimate diva, Mariah Carey...who seemed to not be here for it.

During her set, things seemed to go awry early. After an awful lip-sync performance of "Auld Lang Syne," it looked like Mariah was startled that the backing track for "Emotion" hit. Then she let it be known to the millions in Times Square and the millions watching at home that she "can't hear" and that they "didn’t have a check for this song, so we’ll just say it went to number one… I’m going to say let the audience sing." Instead of doing what her back-up dancers did, she visibly let it be known that she wasn't here for the performance, smiling through the truly awkward moment.

Mariah Carey is currently the #1 trend after ending 2016 with this disaster of a performance. pic.twitter.com/FDn7maIuyC

While she said "put these monitors on please," the damage was already done. While she went through the motions during "We Belong Together," Twitter let her have it.

[Mariah Carey]: sing for the audience

[Mariah Carey to Mariah Carey]: don't do that. Walk around. Talk awkwardly. #rockineve pic.twitter.com/bMuQn64sku
I just watched Mariah Carey's NYE performance and just.... pic.twitter.com/v8tAXWvZM2
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Any time one of the greatest voices of my generation lip syncs an angel loses its wings
This Mariah Carey performance is truly the perfect representation of what a year 2016 was...
Everyone in Times Square was singing Mariah Carey except Mariah Carey. #lipsyncfail2016
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I'm sitting here singing to Mariah Carey while Mariah Carey is pretending to sing to Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey was like that one person in a group project who didn't do any of the work and now has to present the whole project
mariah carey and ohio state both forgot to show up tonight
Ohio State should thank Mariah Carey. They no longer have the worst performance of the night.
I cannot believe I'm actually watching this. Live. Irl. Mariah Carey. Oh god. #RockinEve pic.twitter.com/0aNlIA8DFk
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