For the love of Mimi

I will leave discussion of the zoo of Michael Jackson’s memorial to pretty much everybody else on the planet, but I wanted to mention how cringeworthy Mariah Carey’s performance was. She just didn’t sound good at all. To add insult to injury, Trey Lorenz, the backup singer who appeared with her on her original cover of “I’ll Be There,” still sounded pretty impressive and actually propped her up a few times.

As usual, the commenters on Youtube have shown no mercy for poor Mimi, and are being quite mean about the whole thing. Showing more self-awareness than is her wont, She of the Butterflies wrote on her Twitter account about her performance. She explained that she was choked up with grief, and that her performance suffered for it. Yeah, right.

For comparison’s sake I offer three videos. The first is the performance on Tuesday at Michael Jackson’s memorial. The second is her performing this song with Trey Lorenez at last year’s Save the Music concert. The third is the original from the 90s when she was still really good. Still, I think it could still be said that, even at 50% of her original awesomeness, Mimi can outsing a good 70% of the pop music industry.