Mariah Carey may have laughed at herself after her disastrous New Year’s Eve performance, but apparently, Josh Groban can’t! 
 
 The 35-year-old singer removed a tweet he sent out in the early hours of Sunday morning, mocking the “Fantasy” singer as sound problems caused her to fumble her way through three painfully awkward performances on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. 
 
 “Any time one of the greatest voices of my generation lip syncs, an angel loses its wings,” Groban joked in the deleted tweet, while watching Carey drop the (figurative) ball live from New York City’s Times Square. 
 
 Groban knows a thing or two about singing live. He does so, eight shows a week at Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 – the Broadway show he stars in at the Imperial Theatre, just steps away from where Carey had her mishap. 
 
 But later, Groban explained why he had removed the comment. “Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended,” Groban wrote. “Not out to diss artists.” 
 
 Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended. Not out to diss artists. — josh groban (@joshgroban) January 1, 2017 
 
 He may not have been out to diss artists, but other people on Twitter were. 
 
 As Carey’s live performance aired, it quickly became a viral hit – with fans making fun of the singer for the lip-syncing fail. 
 
 2016's last victim was Mariah Carey. — Abenezer (@abbbii__) January 1, 2017 
 
 No matter how hungover you feel tomorrow just know Mariah Carey feels worse . — Evangeline Demuro (@EvaDeMuro) January 1, 2017 
 
 Mariah Carey about Mariah Carey tonight pic.twitter.com/qmBlboCZB3 — Max Grossman (@GrossmanMax) January 1, 2017 
 
 Mariah Carey was like that one person in a group project who didn't do any of the work and now has to present the whole project — Jennifer Sheng (@Jennifer_Sheng) January 1, 2017 
 
 Mariah Carey lost her lip sync battle. — Matthew Kick (@MatthewKick) January 1, 2017 
 
 The pop diva’s in-ear monitors appeared to be at fault for the mishap, causing Carey not to hear the audio track playing for “Auld Lang Syne,” “Emotions” and “We Belong Together” — her three numbers. 
 
 “Well, Happy New Year! We can’t hear, but I’ll just get through the moment,” the visibly frustrated star said — pleading with the production crew to “put these monitors on, please.” 
 
 She tried her best at the choreography “just for laughs,” and invited the audience to sing along at times — reminding them “we’re missing some of this vocal, but it is what it is.” 
 
 This Vine will go down in history as the final moment of 2016 and it's perfect. https://t.co/3d82rH7vAj — T. Kyle (@tkylemac) January 1, 2017 
 
 “I want a holiday, too. Can I not have one?” she asked at one point. “I’m trying to be a good sport here.” 
 
 As one of the songs ended, Carey looked completely defeated — sarcastically telling the crowd,”You just don’t get any better.” 
 
 But before the haters could get to her, Carey laughed off the New Year’s Eve nightmare, tweeting a GIF of herself afterwards and writing: “S— happens. Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here’s to making more headlines in 2017.” 

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 Twitter may have melted down over Mariah Carey's disastrous performance just before the ball dropped on New Year's Rockin' Eve, but the Grammy winner blew it off in a tweet. 
 
 "S--t happens," the "Hero" singer, 46, tweeted in the early hours of Sunday, January 1, along with a GIF of her shaking her head. "Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines in 2017." 
 
 
 
 The trouble began almost as soon as the superstar took to the stage singing "Auld Lang Syne" in Times Square. It was quickly evident that her backing track didn't match up with what she was singing. (Watch the much-talked-about performance in the video above.) 
 
 Shit happens 😩 Have a happy and healthy new year everybody!🎉 Here's to making more headlines in 2017 😂 pic.twitter.com/0Td8se57jr — Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) January 1, 2017 
 
 Wearing a sequined bodysuit and surrounded by dancers holding feathers, she then launched into "Emotion" but appeared to not be able to hear the track. 
 
 
 
 After singing a couple of words she told her dancers to walk her down the steps to the front of the stage. "Well, Happy New Year," she told the audience as she appeared to reach for her earpiece. "We can't hear but I'll just get through 'Emotion.'" A moment later she appeared to give up, saying, "All right, we didn't have a check for this song, so we'll just say it went to number one." 
 
 
 
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 She then sang a couple more words before giving up again, saying, "We're missing some of the vocals, but it is what it is … I'm gonna let the audience sing. We didn't have a sound check for this New Year's baby, it is what it is." 
 
 
 
 Carey then asked, "Get these monitors on, please," while her voice could be heard hitting the song's iconic high notes on the backing track. 
 
 
 
 With her dancers continuing their routine, the Mariah's World star walked over to them and said, "Just for laughs, do the lift," and she sang a few notes as a dancer lifted her leg in the air. 
 
 "I wanted a holiday too, can't I just have one?" she asked before declaring, 
 
 "That was … amazing," as the song ended. 
 
 Then as the next number, "We Belong Together," began to play, Carey tried to sing along but was a little out of sync with the backing track. She soon gave up on that song too, telling her dancers to "bring the feathers" as the tune ended. 
 
 
 
 "It just don't get any better," she said before walking off the stage. 
 
 Viewers quickly took to Twitter to share their thoughts about Carey's performance and she soon became a trending topic. 
 
 "Mariah Carey's performance pretty much sums up 2016," one person tweeted. 
 
 "Just when you thought 2016 wasn't taking anything else, it took Mariah Carey's career with it too," wrote another. 
 
 Frozen actor Josh Gad tweeted, "#MariahCarey doing a Second City improv workshop on live TV is giving me life right now." 
 
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 Mariah Carey performs at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — After a brief, flawless "Auld Lang Syne," it was all downhill for Mariah Carey on New Year's Eve. 
 
 A representative for the million-selling superstar cited technical difficulties for a disastrous appearance on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," which aired on ABC and was the subject of widespread mockery on social media. 
 
 Carey's mood seemed to range from frustration to resignation as she struggled with the pre-recorded musical tracks. Telling the revelers jammed into Times Square that there had not been a sound check for her hit song "Emotions," she lamented that "we're missing some of these vocals, but it is what it is." 
 
 "Let the audience sing," she decided as she paced the stage. 
 
 "I'm trying to be a good sport here," she said, adding her own sarcastic review of the performance. "That was ... amazing." 
 
 The next song, "We Belong Together," went no better. At times, she lowered the microphone from her mouth and the music, vocals and all, kept playing, making it clear she was lip-synching. 
 
 "Unfortunately there was nothing she could do to continue with the performance given the circumstances," Carey spokeswoman Nicole Perna said Sunday. 
 
 A representative for Dick Clark productions did not immediately return an email seeking comment. 
 
 Carey later tweeted about the night, starting with a brief profanity, throwing in a couple of sad emojis and concluding with, "Here's to making more headlines in 2017." 
 
 On Twitter, commentators called the fiasco a fitting end to a traumatic year for the music industry, marked by the deaths of Prince, David Bowie and George Michael among others. One tweeter, referring to the 2016 presidential campaign, joked that Carey's show had been hacked by the Russians.
– Mariah Carey's Times Square performance for ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve Saturday night was ... not great. After a rendition of "Auld Lang Syne," Carey attempted to launch into her hit "Emotion," but apparently couldn't hear it properly and repeatedly told the audience no sound check had been done for the song, Us reports. It was downhill from there, with "We Belong Together" going similarly, as Carey failed to sing, asked the audience to sing instead, appeared to be lip-syncing, and said things like "That was ... amazing" and finished off with the declaration, "It just don't get any better" before walking off stage. Afterward, she tweeted to fans: "S--- happens," she wrote, alongside a GIF of her shaking her head. "Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines in 2017." Her rep later blamed technical difficulties, the AP reports, and added, "Unfortunately there was nothing she could do to continue with the performance given the circumstances." Some of our favorite Twitter reactions to her performance: Greg Neumann: "This #MariahCarey epic meltdown couldn't be more fitting for the end of 2016." Joshua Watkins: "Looks like the Russians hacked Mariah Carey's performance." Jessica Winters: "Mariah Carey's backup dancers deserve Oscars for their performance of having to act like nothing was wrong." Jason Gilliss: "So brave of #MariahCarey to sum up 2016 in an interpretive dance." Austin Grube: "Mariah Carey is killing it. I mean like she's literally stabbing the New Year's Eve celebration in the neck & letting it bleed." Bruce Rosenberg: "ISIS just took responsibility for Mariah Carey's performance." Jack Cappellucci: "Damn guess Mariah Carey was the last celebrity death of 2016." One person who apparently regretted his critical tweet: Josh Groban. The singer initially tweeted, "Any time one of the greatest voices of my generation lip syncs, an angel loses its wings," People reports, but he later deleted the tweet and wrote in its place, "Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended. Not out to diss artists."