Anyone here in 2024?

I know every word to this like it's an actual song. Queen of improvisation.

Who's still listening to this performance on repeat in 2024? I'll never get over this performance.

She can literally sing the phonebook

Mariah's ear and talent for melody and music in general is just sooooo insane. I cant even know what to say. She's a gift from God.

Proof she is still technically better than most everyone else in the industry. love mimi

Her improvisation skills are beyond extraordinary 😭

they said she lost her voice... i said BITCH WHEREEEE???!

Those are lucky Lambs who were there.

that run at 1:23 is utterly unbelievable. that is like human autotune. unbelievable.

The was one of the most agile live riffs at 1:23 that I've ever heard in my whole life.

Her voice is so unreal. This sounds like a professional recording. The change in volume, the transitions, everything!!!!!! I live for this

She's much more than an extraordinary vocalist! She's a huge musician!

I'm sooo ready for a Mariah Carey Jazz album, even if she jazzed her old hits up. I'll take that too. Real talent right here.

3:32 that transition into whistle was just absolutely insane

Mariah can freestyle. She can siiiiiiiing! My wife is from Long Island like her. I’m from the Bronx. I’m in the U.S. Army, & I just returned from being stationed overseas for almost half a decade. Hearing Mariah reminds me of home sweet home, New York.

AND RIHANNA SAID, MARIAH CAREY'S VOICE IS UNREAL! YESS THATS TRUE!

"MARIAH CAREY HAS LOST HER VOICE" yeah sure. She has never lost her voice and she never will. That voice is a gift from God and Mariah is a genius of music. So read, haters, she will never let her voice go, because she knows how to bring it back after a bad day. Singers have bad and good days, just like everybody. Bravo, Mariah!

Just put Mariah in a acoustic battle against any singer and you will see how she will murder them ! Her range alone and tone and also control in the lower register will be enough to put them to shame 🔥

Those melismatic head notes at 0:30 and 1:24 SLAY and I just can not.

She still has such a warm and beautiful tone. Amazing!

I was there and still can't believe I was there. She is the absolute BEST! Soooooooo good! Incredible!

Mariah can write her own songs

Only a real musician/vocalist and a real songwriter can do an impromptu like this with so much musicality and depth. Yes, she was literally joking with those words, but you can feel how deep of a person she is. Her voice is her instrument. She is the Queen :)

She has a BUILT IN autotune. SHe is her own machine.

I actually play this in my car. No lies. It's so ridiculous that after 23 years Mariah's voice continues to evolve into a different instrument with each era. The runs she's doing these days were never present before. She did lots of runs but they were all unique to certain eras. Her runs are so smooth....there is NOBODY that sings like that without sounding like they're doing too much. Sing Mariah!!

she never lost her voice. it's always there from the begining until now. it never goes anywhere.

As long as KZfaq exists I will forever come back to this……this woman, Michael, Prince, Patti, Tina are all the BEST “freaks of nature “

I can't stop replaying at 3:31 ~ "Letting GOOO" Love it!

her voice is so good here omg i can literally see why people would think she "lip syncs" because she can almost always sound like her own studio recording voice. omg

I play this video every time someone attempts to discredit Mariah and say that she can't sing anymore. The truth is nobody is going to sound exactly the same 30 years into their career but when you listen to this impromptu concert with those lightning fast runs, improvisation and ridiculous agility there is no doubt that she is and will always be the world's greatest vocalist (as of 2018 her live vocal range is still 5 OCTAVES at least... who else can do this 3 decades after getting signed?).

Her head voice has gotten so much better! Those runs were out of this world! Vocal Range of this performance: Lowest Note: C#3 (0:36) Highest Belt: D5 (3:28) Highest Head Note: G5 (1:51) Highest Whistle: E6 (3:33)

"she lost her voice" exfuckingcuse me while I laugh my ass off for 12 days. she sounds extraordinary

And singing words off the top of her head. Wow. She’s able to sing without skipping a beat, getting tongue twisted with the words, stringing everything along so smoothly. She truly is a musical genius

None of these basic singers of today got ANYTHING on Mariah's supreme musicality

This is the MARIAH CAREY we all love and made her a LIVING LEGEND. Just pure talent and here runs makes people love her and adore for who she is as an artist. INCOMPARABLE ARTIST ON EARTH!

The run at 0:33 is absolutely mind-blowing... who else on this planet could descend like two freakin' octaves so gracefully and effortlessly?! This whole performance is, as Mimi herself would say, a "tour de force dahhhling"! ;)

The riff she does after " i see you filming me wtf" is my favorite riff ive ever heard her do....the precision, tonal quality, clarity, and tje way it complements the chords being played is just...wow.

she's pissed off and can STILL sing! 1:46 she instantly heard the note change and adjusted with absolute ease. she understands music expertly.

When she sang"I see your iphone, please turn it down, and that was my bad side as well" it gave me chills. I love it when she sings like this. She will always be the queen

Love how fast and accurate her runs are.

Her best live performances are CLEARLY when she is relaxed. This was stunning. Yes her vocals aren’t as reliable as they were when she was younger but I think a lot of her vocal mishaps are actually due to nerves, caused because her voice can be unreliable and her songs require superhuman control/range/agility.

1:17 "oh somebody tell me why" good lord... for some reason that part along with countless other parts sends chills down my spine... the emotion.. the pain... the authenticity in her voice... this is when nick was really hurting her... come to find out this song was about their relationship.. nobody even knew lol it all makes sense now though...haters that doubt her need to come visit youtube & watch this.. this is truly phenomenal... just a total moment of mariah in her essence.. singing her heart out & pain away.. this woman is an angel...

this is why I love Mariah... she is a true musician and artist to give an impromptu live performance. Only the greats can do this. #legend #diva

Best female vocalist ever!

"But I stayed and I stayed and I staaa-yyyy-yeed!"

Is it sad that I sing a long to THIS like a real song? I know every word and run lol

Mariah doesn't only have a God given voice, she has a MUSICALITY that just takes her effortlessly through music. Sure, a lot of other singers can sing, but I don't think they can do this.

I think the people that believe that she is bad and don't care about her lambily are just delusional, and stupid. It's clear that she making music after 24 years of career for all of us. She stay here because all of us. I think she is the most funniest person/artist I've meet in my life. She is fun and sweet with her fans. Seriously people, she is one of the most beautiful person in this business, and has the most beautiful voice too. God bless Mariah!

This deserves a Grammy

Her musicality. If only she wasn’t so shy and humble. Can you imagine if she ad libbed when she was with Whitney. Whitney was always trying to get Mariah to ad lib on When You Believe. Also imagine divas live when celine kept up with aretha and then some. Mariah didn’t want to jump in out of respect

That little note 0:30 was such a dream. This woman doe!

2:52 that Trey look at Mariah says It all « she still got it » ❤️

Mariah is from another planet. Her talent is insane 😮

This video never fails to make me happy!

Blonde lady @ 3:42 is me everytime MC comes on the stage and slayssss

The shift to whistle is everything 😍😍😍

The ad lib was so good !! Especially when she said they got her bad side😂😂😂😂

this is awesome, this women is unbelievable , there will never be another Mariah.

Wow, she's probably the best talk-singer I've ever heard!!!! How the hell does she stay on key when speaking??? I want her to sing live like this more, SO GOOD!

1:06 nonsense, Mimi, you have no bad side

true lambs memorized this whole imrpomptu~

Mariah is so real...but when she opens her mouth and sings her voice blows peoples minds...its incredible and it truly is a gift from above.

This is actually so good like can we have more please. Who said she can't sing anymore? I heard an awesome whistle, and she slaaaayed

She' s superhuman. The best vocalist ever. Love Mimi ❤️

01:22 WHY ISNT THIS A RIFF N RUN CHALLENGE ON TIKTOK

1:23 Unmatched agility always

she can sing a McDonald's menu and still make it sound amazing. haha even when she's messing around she blows my mind away!!! love you mariah!!

And people said she lose her voice... Her voice change but she´s still be one of the best singers in the world!

And wheres The Haters TO SAY thats Lipsync ? WHERE !!!! ????

That fact she randomly hits a whistle Note!! I swear I would have past tff out!!

when she started doing fly like a bird, i lost my shit. she really needs to do her older songs asap. but anyways, this whole performance was just filled with her amazing personality and amazing vocals, and i'm in love.

It's that agility for me dahling 🥹😭

Mariah is amazing! She's a true artist, singer, songwriter, producer, she improvises, she's a poet! What a gifted woman! I love this because she was just jamming and improvising!

1:23 That was too amazing!

She literally connected two songs on the fly... This woman isn't human!!! And her backup singers and pianist are so professional as well. You have to be THAT good to be able to catch up with Mariah!

And who is that on KEYS?!!!! KILLING!!!

So where"s the haters that claim she can't sing? Lol she killed the shit out this impromptu performance

she can turn anything into some type of song

i come back to this video a few times a year and every single time it gets me. mariah is not just an incredible vocalist, as she continues to prove time and time again. she is a true MUSICIAN. perhaps the greatest of our generation. it takes a true musical gift to be able to ad lib these notes and these key shifts and these runs. for example, what she does at 2:40 is beyond words. it's subtle and if you're not musically trained or really paying attention, you'd miss it. but within about 2 seconds, she is able to find both the key and the starting note of a completely different song and modulate it to the key that big jim is playing on the piano. her ear and her vocal control is absolutely awesome. she has truly been blessed, and the fact that we get to witness her raw gift in this video is something i'll cherish forever. thank you so much, mimi. you bring me to tears.

Wonderful, you can still feel that she tries to go to her old register 3:28. It must be hard for her to think " i used to hit those notes" she skipped it brilliantly with that whistle note, but I like when she risks it an when she sounds this good

Her voice sounds perfect here

This video literally canceled Nippy fans claiming that her musicality is nowhere near Whitney's. No one is at Mariah's level, musicality wise. She IS THE MUSIC.

Here in 2017, been listening to this for the past 2 hours as I read through all the comments. She just never ceases to surprise the fuck outta me even though I've seen this a thousand times before.

Everytime I go back to this I just cant believe how good she is damn this audience is sooo lucky

My personal description of The Song Bird Supreme's voice today is first a roaring lower register with GREAT resonance, resonance she lacked in the 90's, even in her prime (94-96). Her mid range voice is weaker yes, but i cant quite explain it some days it's weak yet strong enough to compliment the song or some days it can be strong, thick and raspy which creates great emotion. Her mid-range is most likely where her nodules lie. Her upper register is shrill, more of an effort but if you're a real mimi fan you applaud her for her risk she takes in this range, right when you think shes gonna crack.. she doesn't its amazing. THE MONEY of her voice is not whistle anymore its her falsetto which she has developed so well over the years. Her falsetto has a unique airy tone that can create complex melisma, its absolutely mind blowing those runs she can do. And Finally her whistle, she has better control over it now, but i dont think its anything special as it was in the 90's. Yet i do find it more precise than ever, and does have the signature "ring" it's always has. SO that's my opinion, I LOVE YOU MIMI!

What an insane freestyle!! That's made her a songwriter

Her improvisation and voice is so beautiful and she is funny too! That is a REAL musical gift and also coming from the pianist too.

that low note at 4:05 gave me life

love her giggles its so contagious lol

wow, she is a sheer vocal master.

Not me still listening to this ! I still know it by heart !

Da da, da da, da da, daa daa, da daa daa I knew they were singers And that’s why We know we’re not going to sing this song I don’t think we’re gonna sing this song but Somehow I know that Jimmy Fallon He had a concert/concept(?) And he, he, he, he Oh, Jimmy said: “I like Trey, I like Tiga(?), and I like Tippa-tee-Tots” Just sing it All up for me Won’t you just give ’em a little bit of some kind of emotion on your face like “Oh, I’m feelin’ something even though we’re not sure what Mariah’s doing right now” We don’t know I see you, bla- I see your iPhone Please turn it down And that was my bad side as well Oh hell Oh why Oh, somebody tell me why And I see you filming me, what the f- Oooh Hoah All I know is this part (laughs) But I do recall That I thought we said we’d get the audience’s [unintelligible], when [Unintelligible], love will survive We don’t understand this part at all, Let’s skip through another, one of the songs on the repertoire (laughs) Repertoire Just give ’em some of you, please Give ’em some of you Please sing with me I said please (laughs) I think we’re supposed to be angry when I’m singing this song, ‘The Art of Letting Go’ ‘Cause that song We didn’t write it together but I think we should - try to switch to it, I know we can go How? We don’t care Just play it in the same damn key, I don’t care Hoah Hold on I’m making a statement (I just raised it so much higher) Of my own opinion Just a brief little reminder To help myself remember It doesn’t matter what you do because I No longer Live In that dominion that I once lived in - where there was people that I didn’t like and they were every day and it was Oh so difficult to be there But I stayed and I stayed And I stayed And I wore them dresses and I did that shit that I hated and hated Woah, Oh! (laughs) Letting go Letting go Letting go [whitsle] Ain’t easy ‘Cause somebody you used to know They’re just flinging your world around ‘Cause they’re watching you fall Down That is the real M.F.-er right there He don’t even know this song at all (laughs) Evidently the words were Well we can-there’s a verse, we can change it any way we like To be continued, okay? I’m exhausted, it’s just for laughs [overlapping audio] I would leave you before I really, really go too far {laughs)

The audience reaction is almost as priceless as this performance :) That blond sitting down is like in some kind of permanent awe. I bet her face stayed like that the whole night.

Her tone is gorgeous!

Mariah I'm beging you please.. We need a jazz album recorded by you

Omg her runs her whistle her belt she is a amazing

That was...ridiculous...I love it. Mariah during her impromptu moments is simply ridiculously perfect.

What artistry!! Amazing!!

You know, it's funny... listening to this 3 years later... it still feels like some angel decided to sing magic songs with fairy dust being poured into people's souls giving us all goosebumps. Magic is what this is. She should do more improve like this. My God.