As Mariah Carey can tell you, "shit happens", then memes happen and then the late night hosts happen.
The singer's televised New Year's Eve performance in New York's Times Square was hit by gremlins of some sort – Carey's people saying technical difficulties meant she couldn't hear anything; the producers saying nothing went wrong at their end; everybody else wondering "what the … ". While hardly the first, or last, live TV moment where things went wrong, it left her not singing, not dancing and not looking happy and quickly became the butt of online jokes and gratuitous life advice.
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Stephen Colbert does a Mariah Carey
Stephen Colbert has a field day following Mariah Carey's disastrous New Year's Eve performance.
Was she miming? Did it matter? How awkward was that dance routine? And who ordered the feathers?
While seemingly relaxed about the debacle, posting a video online saying that "shit happens", with a shrug, and that she was looking forward to "making more headlines in 2017", Carey has disappeared from public view since New Year's Eve.
In her place are people like talk show host Stephen Colbert who, after declaring he was "on Team Mariah", opened his show this week with a parody of Carey's performance including dancers, feathers and technical difficulties of his own.
There may yet be life in this joke.