From Jenny McCarthy:
"The truth of the matter is, Mariah didn't do a
sound check, she said it there. She did whatever you would
call like a dance move rehearsal, holding her gold
microphone, and she stood off to the side of the
stage while she had a stand-in do a
sound check. Now, when you're doing a show live in Times Square, this is a location that's tough. Out of all the places that you're going to need to do a
sound check, you do it there."
McCarthy hypothesized as to what could have been the real reason for the performance debacle.
“Now I think, and if I try to give a guess of what happened, I think Mariah was nervous as hell. I think she chose really tough songs to try to sing along with. I think 'Emotions,' that song, I mean her voice is not there anymore. I don't believe there was a problem with her inner ears. I just don't. I think she used it as an excuse. The monitors on the
stage are there, by the way, to blast out the songs to the musician in case this happens."
"How do I know the monitors were blasting? Look at the dancers behind her! They were on
cue for every
beat, right? Every
beat! So, I was like, 'You can hear it.' She's choosing not to see it. Now my other opinion, and this is just mine from being there, being on that
stage, I don't think she expected to be as far away from this
prompter and as small as it was, she could have possibly not been able to see the words to her own song."