Mariah Carey Lip Sync Mishap: Diva Shrugs Off NYE Glitch In A Tweet

On New Year's Eve, you were probably busy partying and anticipating the fireworks when the clock struck 12.

But for singer Mariah Carey, she might not have been expecting that night to be her countdown to a year of "making more headlines."

Carey was performing a medley pre-midnight at the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, before a sea of people waiting for the new year at Times Square, when her lips started to miss syncing to the backing tracks.

She removed her earpiece and paced along with the backup dancers while she tried to salvage her performance. Although she lasted up to the final choreography, it was clear that her audience did not enjoy even to the very end.

Was Mariah Carey To Blame For Her Own Mishap?

Mariah Carey, whose name has become synonymous to classic Christmas tunes with her 1994 hit "All I Want for Christmas is You," was said to be having problems with her earpiece even prior to her live performance.

Her manager Stella Bulochnikov told Entertainment Weekly in an interview that she had the earpiece problem as early as their sound check, but the production reassured her that the device would be working fine when the diva went on stage.

Minutes before she came up to the stage, the singer insisted that she could not hear anything from the earpiece.

"It doesn't work here in the tent; it will work on the stage," one of the stage managers told Bulochnikov and Carey.

The singer still went up on stage (and she even stayed on stage to finish the medley) with her inaudible backing tracks through her earpiece, drowning in the music and faint vocals coming from the huge speakers set up in the venue.

A Twitter 'Bash' for Mariah Carey On NYE

At one moment, when her lips no longer matched the lyrics playing in the background, she finally gave up — the device was not working. She continued to gracefully walk around the stage, though the audience was already quick to share online an outburst of lip syncing accusations against the multioctave singer.

"Ten seconds into watching Mariah Carey and I came straight to the Twitter feed ... boy, I couldn't ask for better entertainment," Twitter user @Gold84rz expressed his views on the social networking site.

While many onlookers did not agree with Carey's producers over what really happened at the performance, the singer proved her skill in dealing with the attacks on social media, all in a single tweet.

Here's what the singer had to say to her bashers: