You can now add lush to Mariah Carey’s extensive “entertainment” resume. How one gets blasted and walks out on stage to give or receive an award is beyond Mo’Kelly. Yes, there’s Kanye West but you’d think that Mariah would have grown up by now.
The skirts are still getting higher, the neck lines are increasingly lower and unfortunately Mariah is on the wrong side of 40. Time waits for no one and Mo’Kelly used to love some Mariah.
This is just sad. No, check that. This is quite humorous and also sad. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome Mariah Carey as she sloshes her way across the stage at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. I kid you not, I actually had to stop watching the video mid-way through, Mo’Kelly was too embarrassed for her to finish.
Good luck with that Nick Cannon. She’s all yours.
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20 responses to “Mariah Carey – SLOSHED At Awards Ceremony (Video)”
Morris,
Seriously, take a poll from others but from my POV you are over-reacting. Hey, she admits up front that she's tipsy, and she stays on point during her spiel.
I haven't seen the movie yet but I read that her performance was so good that you could hardly recognize her, so she may very well deserve a "breakthrough" award, and she talked about how the book inspired her, how she had 48 hours to get ready for the part, how Lee promised to reinvent her, which he did. And since it was this reinvention which led to the breakthrough, that was all on point.
I've seen funnier drunks but she was OK funny; I've seen obnoxious drunks and she was in no way obnoxious; I've seen angry drunks and she had no anger at all; I've see stupid-ass don't know where they are drunks and that wasn't her either.
She was probably a half hour too late taking the stage, and to her credit she didn't try to act like she had it together. She needed to be leaning on somebody and she needed time to get her thoughts together, and she played that for the reality it was.
And Mo, "other side of 40" or not, she's hotter than half the ladies half her age.
Man, you dissed on Mariah! God's gonna get you…
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Don't get me wrong, Mariah is still "hot" in a plus 40 sense, but I would really like for her to act her age as opposed to trying to appeal to men half her age. It's not like she's hurting for money or career. The largest music buying public is and has long been adolescents. Mariah belongs to my generation, the parents of these adolescents. She is like somebody's mom trying to hold on in many respects.
And yes, she acknowledged she was "tipsy" (read: drunk) but that doesn't excuse the behavior. You're at an awards ceremony, act like it. She wasn't the worst of drunks, but that doesn't somehow excuse the behavior. Yes, Kanye was a "worse" drunk, but that doesn't mean Mariah's ok with her behavior.
There is something to be said for class. Getting liquored up when you know you're either presenting or receiving an award is not commendable.
MO, YOU TOOK THE WORDS SMACK OUT OF MY MOUTH. It was class-less. I've always said that by the time you're 30, you should know what drink "works" for you – which one doesn't leave you so hammered you can't speak or work the next day. Obviously, M.C. has a LOT to learn. She was sloshed. She was NOT tipsy. You're at an awards ceremony for Pete's sake, AND, it's not even the Golden Globes… where the frickin liquor is on the table in plain view and where celebrities are known to get hammered.(But, I'll be damned if they don't pull it together before they get in front of that microphone.) @Walt, sweetie, you can't get past her fake-tit-and-plastic-surgery-hotness to identify this for what it really is, 20ish behavior unbecoming on a 40 year old. "In no way obnoxious"? She used PROFANITY dude! It's a PUBLIC EVENT. She should have known better. Mariah, Mo and me were all born in the same year. Take it from a black female who has no problem holding her own and giving props to a million other females over 40 who know how to conduct themselves properly in a public setting. She should have saved herself the embarassment and just said, "Thank you very much!"
Aw, you guys! She was alright! What's a little silliness now and then?
I mean, she's not a gate-crasher and she didn't set her leg on fire, right? And she was coherent although the words came slowly.
I honestly saw nothing offensive or truly embarrassing up there. If I were her I'd laugh it off and ask "Where was the harm?"
I don't think there was any "harm." I just happen to think it's in poor form. "Embarrassing" is truly relative but I was embarrassed for her. There is such a thing as decorum. There's no written rule as to not being visibly drunk on stage at an award show but there isn't one for interrupting someone else's acceptance speech either. You just shouldn't do either.
Mo, I guess this boils down to different takes on the same behavior.
I'll take a silly drunk over almost any other kind. You'd rather she just wait til later to go be drunk.
That's true too 🙂
Alright Walt, I think that you are viewing this as an isolated incident. I, on the otherhand, view it as a sordid piece of the collective puzzle we affectionately call age-inappropriate behaviour. (FYI – I'm not a prude…I show cleavage, often) There's a fine line between sexy and slutty. Seriously. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE 40. When Halle was dating Eric, she wore a few really short, really revealing, SEXY outfits. But, Halle has class. Mariah wears stripper shoes, man! STRIPPER SHOES! (I ain't knockin stripper shoes; I'm just sayin… save them for your private home-based stripper pole). But, you know… I probably should not have mentioned Halle in the same paragraph, cuz they're not in the same league. Kinda like, how she mentioned meeting Helen Mirren… now she's a CLASSY LADY, M.C. could stand to take a few pointers from… and then wanted the audience to clap for Lee Daniels calling Helen a queen, and her a diva… alright, I'm done. We're gonna agree to disagree here. But, this is not one of those "no harm, no foul" incidents. This is one where you shake your head knowingly from side to side as you sigh and speculate why.
Because MC is a ditzy diva, always has been.
And yes, her speaking voice and behavior do not jibe with that voice, never have, never will.
Correct. Just a lack of discretion. And to have such poor judgment at this point in her career smacks of lack of class. Time and place for everything. That wasn't the time and surely wasn't the place.
At this point in Mariah's career she should be moving more toward being a true diva, and icon in the industry. She is less in the room of a Celine Dion and more in the room of Rihanna. It shouldn't be that way after almost 20 years in the biz.
Yeah but let's be honest: This is who she is.
I agree…that's who she is. This isn't new territory for her. She's had mental episodes and all. But being "consistent" doesn't mean we should excuse consistently below average behavior.
I saw this video and what happened at the People's Choice awards. All I can say is that any PR is good PR.
But does Mariah "need" PR at this point in her career? Is she really in need of exposure? I would argue not.
I guess Christmas/New Years is just a magical time of the year when the renewal of our childhood innocence beguiles us, and our inured jaded hearts open to all the possibilities of life rekindled…then Mariah has to go and get "faced" on national tv and pop that gosmer balloon all to hell!
I mean, I was jumping to the tv whenever I heard the music to her NFL soft porn promo spots; watching her wink and kiss and smile and wave, flip her hair…(would I or wouldn't I? I probably would!)
Now there she is at the podium looking all the world like the trashed, once hottie who lives in your building whose hair you have to hold back while she hurls on your shoes in the elevator. Not a good visual. And just when I was beginning to put the "crazy Mariah" image in the cupboard. Oh well.
As she basically said the next day, she will always be "crazy Mariah" and if we can't take a joke, well, that's on us.
Mo…
Folks will always need PR. You've worked in the industry since I was in 2nd grade. (Almost 20 years ago) That's makes us both really old by the way.
She just doesn't need introduction. She just needs media relations.
Let's face it Walt, you're not your most objective when it comes to Mariah. Let me put it this way: I'd venture (in your personal mental remake of the commercial) if you were the guy that comes out of Mariah's hotel suite, you would emerge, disheveled, lipstick prints head-to-toe, cigarette dangling from your lip, and the line on the cell phone would be: "Nailed her!" {:>0]
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That is awful. I hope she doesn't do that again.