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Take 2: “OMG Mariah Carey, what happened?” VINDICATION!

January 1, 2018
Goodbye 2017, and goodbye to Mariah Carey’s naysayers. The Queen of Christmas valiantly took the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve stage minutes before the ball drop in Times Square, NYC once more for a chance to vindicate herself after last year’s debacle, and succeeded triumphantly. The pressure was sky high and the temperature was below freezing, but Mariah was confident, poised,

The Diva Defense: Mariah Carey is a LEGEND, and a human.

Exactly 365 days ago, the commercials ran: Mariah Carey headlines Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC, minutes before the ball drops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nguYyCUJMtA Unfortunately, Mariah, her team, and Dick Clark Productions all dropped the ball… a little too early. The wrong ball at that. I’m sure you remember

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