"She simply focuses on her voice, and as she whizzes through 18 songs in 60 minutes Emotions, Always Be My Baby, Obsessed, Heartbreaker, Touch My Body it's hard to fault her process. Is Carey a little stiff on stage, waving at odd intervals as though she's an animatronic? Sure, but she sounds impeccable, hitting both her whistle tones and the rich, coarser notes on cuts from her recent album. She's backed by three singers and a live band, all in ivory suits and dresses, with Carey offering plenty of ad libs and vocal runs throughout to prove she's not relying on backing tracks."
"Mariah Carey serenades Sydney for the first time in 11 years, and we greet her with a sea of bald caps and business blazers. Here she is, singing Hero crystalline, mind you to thousands of Pitbull cosplayers, who have just sweated off their drawn-on goatees during the rapper's high-octane set of hedonistic 2010s EDM, and are now swaying along to Carey's ballad. The four-city Fridayz Live festival marks the elusive chanteuse's first Australian shows since 2014, but it's unmistakable: Pitbull was the drawcard for a large swathe of the sold-out audience of 45,000."
"Any gospel airs are dispelled by the seven buff dancers prowling across stage, gyrating while Carey pays them no notice. Carey is the closing act of Fridayz Live, Australia's biggest national R&B and hip-hop festival, which returns to Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne this year after pausing in 2024, citing difficulties in landing a strong lineup. This year's Fridayz Live beginning in Brisbane on Friday, followed by Sydney on Saturday, with Melbourne and Perth next week has no such problem, booking two sure sellers: Carey, an indeli"
Mariah Carey returned to Australia after an eleven-year absence and headlined Fridayz Live, performing an 18-song, 60-minute set including Emotions, Always Be My Baby, Obsessed, Heartbreaker and Touch My Body. She focused on vocal performance, hitting whistle tones and rich coarser notes, supported by three backing singers and a live band in ivory outfits while delivering ad libs and runs that suggested minimal reliance on backing tracks. Stage movement was restrained, with rhinestoned wardrobe and seven dancers who performed while Carey largely ignored them. Pitbull's earlier high-energy EDM set and a crowd of cosplayers made him the primary draw among the 45,000 attendees.
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