Dick Clark Productions is not pleased with accusations from Mariah Carey’s team about ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ performance
Who knew that we’d have a war of words between Mariah Carey’s management and Dick Clark Productions in the aftermath of her super-controversial “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” performance? We thought that everyone involved would just try to let this go, and instead they’re throwing around quotes and comments on it like a hot potato.
Earlier today, we shared a quote from Carey’s management suggesting that the artist was set up in some way for higher ratings, saying that the producers for the show were terribly unprepared and completely botched all technical aspects of the performance. In turn, this supposedly led to Carey being unable to find her place in her songs and more or less stand there for an extremely awkward two minutes complaining about his they should’ve had more of a proper soundcheck.
Now, we’ve got the following statement from Dick Clark Productions, who of course did their part to remind you of all of the great shows they’ve put on over the years that didn’t have any of these problems:
“As the premier producer of live television events for nearly 50 years, we pride ourselves on our reputation and long-standing relationships with artists. To suggest that [Dick Clark Productions], as producer of music shows including the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and Academy of Country Music Awards, would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd. In very rare instances there are of course technical errors that can occur with live television, however, an initial investigation has indicated that [Dick Clark Productions] had no involvement in the challenges associated with Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance. We want to be clear that we have the utmost respect for Ms. Carey as an artist and acknowledge her tremendous accomplishments in the industry.”
In other words, they just view this entire situation as not their problem, and they’re made more than anything else that the idea was floated about that they intentionally wanted attention from Carey screwing up. As we said earlier, that claim is mostly absurd because if nothing else, the botched performance likely took away viewers who opted to go and watch the moment on YouTube after the fact rather than sitting around and waiting for the show to get to it.
Are you surprised that DCP took as hard of a stance against the accusations as they did? Be sure to share now in the comments below. Personally, we understand it given that they need to keep their integrity intact in order to recruit artists for future editions of some of their shows. (Photo: ABC.)