Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance went off without a hitch Sunday night as she took to the stage once again for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” in Times Square.
Despite the 47-year-old singer’s disastrous performance last year, which saw her stop mid-song and tell the audience “we can’t hear,” she definitely managed to redeem herself Sunday as she braved subzero temperatures for the eagerly-anticipated show.
Carey belted out a two-song set in the lead-up to the countdown at midnight, with her treating fans to a performance of “Vision of Love,” her first single from 1990, and “Hero,” her much-loved 1993 track.
She told the crowd, “Happy New Year! Just want to take a sip of tea if they’ll let me. They told me there would be tea. Oh! It’s a disaster. OK. Well, we’ll just have to rough it.”
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“I’m going to be just like everybody else with no hot tea. But we’re going to try and do this one for you,” the hitmaker went on.
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Carey even stuck around to sing along to Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” before giving a short interview to Ryan Seacrest.
She told the host: “Oh, I’m feeling a lot better than last year, when I had to get my own police escort to walk away.”
