Mariah Carey has EPIC meltdown after lip-sync performance goes horribly wrong during New Year's bash in Times Square

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With a face of thunder, she stropped around the stage saying: "'We didn't have a check for this song... we're missing some of the vocals, but it is what it is. "I'm just going to let the audience sing." "We didn't have a sound check for this New Year's baby, it is what it is." "Get these monitors on please." During a second song, she frequently gave the mic to audience members in the front row ,before saying to one of her backing dancers: "Just for laughs, do the lift." Carey added: "I wanted a holiday too, can't I just have one." As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand trucks and some 7,000 police, gathered in the "Crossroads of the World" to watch the glittering sphere complete its minute-long drop, marking the beginning of 2017.

With the throng counting down the seconds, the crystal-paned ball slid with smooth precision down its pole, mounted on a tower at the head of the plaza. At the stroke of midnight, it touched home, illuminating a giant "2017" sign and sending a shower of fireworks into the sky. The sights and sounds were experienced by a veritable sea of humanity, sectioned off in block after block of temporary corrals set up to better control the crowd.

Millions of others around the world watched the spectacle on television and the internet. Despite the heavy police presence, or perhaps because of it, thousands of people, many from overseas, arrived early to be dazzled by the flashing signage and entertained by live musical performances by Carey as well as Thomas Rhett and Gloria Estefan.