Mariah Carey suffered humiliation in front of millions of people after a series of technical glitches during her New Year gig in New York's Times Square.
The global megastar's live televised performance of Emotions was disastrous from the outset as she complained about being unable to hear her backing track and barely sang a note.
She gave up quickly, shrugging and telling the Manhattan crowd of one million and many more watching at home: "Well, Happy New Year."
As the music continued to play without her, she went on: "We can't hear... We're missing some of this vocal but it is what it is. I'm going to say let the audience sing, okay?
"I wanted a holiday too, can I not have one?"
Pacing the stage, she attempted to continue with her dance moves before adding: "Get these monitors (speakers) on please."
The track finally came to an end with her saying sarcastically: "That was... amazing."
It went from bad to worse with her next effort, We Belong Together.
Carey was supposed to lip sync to the song but before long she was complaining about more sound problems.
She gave up entirely as her pre-recorded vocal continued and at one point appeared frustrated as she turned her back to the audience and walked towards the back of the stage.
As the music cut out, she attempted to put on a brave face and said "It just don't get any better" before leaving the stage.
The cameras then cut back to ABC host Ryan Seacrest, who said: "Mariah Carey there, on our stage. No matter what Mariah does, the crowd absolutely loves it."
Afterwards, she posted an old clip of her shrugging on Twitter and wrote: "S*** happens. Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines in 2017."
The jokes came thick and fast, with some tweeters calling her performance "the final victim of 2016" in an apparent reference to the high number of celebrity deaths last year.
Another wrote: "I'm choosing to believe Mariah Carey's performance was an artistic reinterpretation of the 2016 Presidential election."
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