Mariah Carey’s — how do we put this delicately? — not-so-great live performance on New Year’s Eve was truly the ending 2016 deserved, with the singer mightily struggling to lip-sync when the stage’s monitors ceased to work properly during her second song. A blame war between Carey’s reps and the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest producers ensued, during which Carey amusingly tweeted a short message saying “shit happens†to alleviate concern. Still, Carey hasn’t expounded on the performance’s many mishaps until now, and frankly she seems pretty mellow about how everything went down. “All I can say is Dick Clark was an incredible person and I was lucky enough to work with him when I first started in the music business,†Carey told Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “I’m of the opinion that Dick Clark would not have let an artist go through that and he would have been as mortified as I was in real time.†When asked if she would be wary about participating in more live events, Carey quickly shot down that assertion. “It’s not going to stop me from doing a live event in the future,†she said. “But it will make me less trusting of using anyone outside of my own team.â€
Additionally, Carey thanked her loyal fan base for staying on her side through the whole ordeal: “My true fans have been so supportive and I am so appreciative of them and everybody in the media that came out to support me after the fact because it really was an incredible holiday season that turned into a horrible New Year’s Eve.†The diva has spoken.