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Mariah Carey's is badly illuminated viral with reaction at the award ceremony

Mariah Carey steel the show at the ceremony of iheartradio Music Awards, when her brilliant reaction to a shady lighting arrangement became viral.

The “obsessed” singer was performed at the Los Angeles Awards ceremony on Monday (March 17th) when she arrived on stage, and immediately noticed: “Is the lighting okay because I don't like bad lighting …”

The audience immediately broke out in laughter and the production team quickly set the lighting to give Carey a better spotlight.

The five-time Grammy winner then asked the audience: “Do you like the ensemble?” Before we swirl for the cheering amount and show your outfit-a black shimmering, figure-hugging dress with a fish tail skirt.

“Thank you, Iheart for this honor,” she started a warm speech.

“As a child, I heard my favorite artists on the radio and dreamed of being in the air myself,” she said. “Well, for those among them who may not know what air waves are, think it as non-WLAN streaming.”

She added: “Even now I am excited when I hear one of my songs playing on the radio.

Carey thanked Ihearttradio, President John Sykes as her first manager: “By the way, he was my first manager.

Mariah Carey accepted the Icon Award at the Iheart Radio Awards 2025 ((Getty Pictures for Ihearrttradio)))

The singer married Mottola in 1993 – the former head of Columbia Records and Sony Music – but her marriage ended in 1998 with a divorce.

Elsewhere in her speech, Carey thanked the DJs and interns who worked on radio stations who were “friendly faces who were there when I arrived at the stations at 7 a.m. – not my ideal alarm time”.

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“On this day of St. Patrick, I would like to honor my mother Patricia Carey for giving me the gift of music,” she said.

The singers Tori Kelly and Muni Long gave a tribut performance to Carey by reporting their hits like “always my baby” and “We Adming Together”.

When Long 2005 performed the song “We Adming Together”, cameras came to Carey, who apparently made an uninterested facial expression that quickly became a GIF online.

The fans praised Carey for their hilarious quip on stage, with a fan on X/Twitter: “Mariah always delivers a moment in her speeches!

“What an icon,” said a fan when another said: “Iconal Mariah moment … she always looks flawless!