Is Mariah's Las Vegas Residency Already in Trouble?
EntertainmentIt pains me to write this, because my love for the oeuvre of Mariah Carey is lifelong, fierce and true, but: just a few days in, Mimi’s Caesar’s Palace stint is already running into problems.
Problem number one: she cancelled last night’s show, with no plans to reschedule. Former Jezebel staffer Tracie Egan Morrissey posted this photo from Vegas with the caption “Literally spent thousands of dollars to see @mariahcarey in Vegas and she fucking cancelled.”
According to E!, Carey cancelled the performance, which would have been only her fourth since beginning her Vegas run, due to a bout of “bronchitis.” That sounds like the oldest excuse in the book, but have you been to Las Vegas? The contrast between scorching desert heat and embalming-levels of A/C refrigeration indoors is enough to give anyone an illness; she’s just lucky it’s not pneumonia. (Not that I totally believe the bronchitis excuse, but I’m just saying, it’s feasible.) Mariah “promise[s] to make it up to you,” but as the sign above shows, the hotel people beg to differ.
Since opening last week, Carey’s show has received good reviews in outlets not prized for their music criticism—People, TMZ—and reviled in the New York Times, which is valued for it. (Jon Caramanica called it “a minimum of imagination and effort.”)