IT CONTINUES: Mariah Carey’s Manager Goes Fkn Off In Tell-All Interview

I’m calling it early: Mariah Carey‘s manager Stella Bulchnikov might just be my favourite new person of 2017.

Following the pop diva’s disastrous NYE‘s performance on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest‘ (someone please make renaming that show their 2017 resolution), there’s been a back-and-forth between Carey’s management and Dick Clark Productions (DCP), each laying the blame squarely on the other for that total effing cockup. (Catch up here.)

Now Bulchnikov has gone off at DCP in a tell-all interview with Entertainment Weekly, giving us the all-time quote that she asked DCP’s Head of Talent Management Mark Shimmel “Are you on glue?” 

Here’s the quote:

“[Carey] should have walked off and thrown the mic at somebody’s head — that would have been a great moment,” said Bulchnikov. “After the show, I called Mark Shimmel — who begged her to do the show and had her cut her vacation short from Aspen. This is a verbatim conversation. I asked, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I just talked to my guys and I confirmed her in-ears didn’t work. Couldn’t she just wing it’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about ‘winging it’? Are you on glue?’ He’s like, ‘What do you want me to do?’ I said, ‘I want you to cut the West Coast feed.’ He calls me back and says, ‘We can’t do it.’ So I’m like, ‘You would prefer to air a show with technical glitches so you can have a viral moment rather than protect the integrity of your show and Dick Clark Productions?’ He said, ‘We just won’t do it. Do you want to do a joint statement?’ And I said, ‘No, I want you to go f— yourself.’ And that was it. I don’t think it was an unfair ask to ask them to cut [the segment from] the West Coast feed after they had this huge mechanical glitch.”

ARE. YOU. ON. GLUE.

Perfection. 

Bulochnikov also cleared up several rumours that Carey had skipped rehearsals (she didn’t) and that she was lip-syncing (she wasn’t).

“It’s not lip-syncing,” she said. “Lip-syncing is when people don’t sing at all. This is what people should understand. Every artist sings to a track, especially in circumstances like that when it’s really loud and impossible to have a great musical performance. You’re not singing at the Philharmonic. Every artist who goes out there sings to tracks. What Mariah was doing was singing to tracks. What you heard on the second song, ‘Emotions,’ was her going to sing it live. That’s why you heard no vocals. It’s a song she sings every other day.”

Read the full interview here.

Photo: Getty / Nicholas Hunt.