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Mariah Carey - Sydney and Melbourne Concert Reviews+Brisbane
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Mariah Carey
Qantas Credit Union Arena, November 10
I was reminded of this scene during Carey's Sydney show on Monday for two reasons. Firstly because Mariah made us actually watch the scene in full on the mammoth gold-framed screen that provided the show's backdrop while she stood to the side of the stage looking on (three Mariahs at once was no doubt a delightfully meta highlight for super fans in the audience).
This week, though, Carey was a completely different prospect: formidable, professional, a diva to be reckoned with.
Kicking off with her 1995 song Fantasy, wearing the first of three elegant fishtail gowns, Carey was in full control of her adoring crowd (crowd sign of the night: "I named my daughter after you, can I please get a hug?"). She covered off the vocal obstacle course that is Emotions early in proceedings, hitting the high whistle notes with an effortlessness that reassured any doubters who might have thought the instrument was in less than top condition. Later, on Cry and Fly Like A Bird, she showed that she was as much an interpreter as a vocal technician, flinging her arms wildly as she dug into the dark core of both songs to produce searing, explosive renditions.
The production was slicker this year, too: dancers, back-up singers and the band were in top form, and music director James "Big Jim" Wright
But then the quirks are part of Carey's charm, and one of many reasons her fans – who roared in almost constant approval during the show – will no doubt fork out again if she returns in 2015.
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Mariah Carey
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Friday, November 7
It's not just that Mariah Carey's famed, five-octave vocal range is still intact. (Though it is.)
It's the sum total of all things gloriously and ineffably Mariah that made last night's Melbourne concert such a multi-sensory delight.
Admittedly, we were nervous. We'd read her recent bad reviews. We'd seen the videos in which she struggles to reach the high notes. Had the world's best-selling female singer lost her touch?
A handful of songs and one costume change in – as Carey hit her stride with a pitch-perfect rendition of Cry – the answer was clear.
What better way to open than with classics such as Fantasy and Emotions? If you're Mariah, you enhance the experience with a full-length, hot pink, fishtail velvet gown – accessorised with a wind machine and synthetic smoke. You stroke your hair a lot. When a high note is on the horizon, you brace yourself by touching your ear and adopting a pained expression, provoking the crowd into losing its collective mind.
Honey, Touch My Body, Thirsty, Supernatural, Fly Like A Bird, and a medley of other hits are all performed wonderfully. Sometimes accompanied by ripped shirtless boys spinning on their heads – and why the hell not?
Hero, which has everyone singing along, is backed by a photo montage.
Almost two hours in, you farewell us with We Belong Together. There is no encore but fans don't seem to expect it. With a flourish, you gather your enormous, electric blue hoop dress – the evening's second fishtail number – and sashay into the night.
Rival divas, take note: this is how it's done.
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Kidding. Hope you didn't break your heels haters.  Mariah has gotten great reviews for Australia too and is slaying again and again. LEGEND.
My All video: http://instagram.com/p/vOHimkm9_2/
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Mariah Carey review – no bells but plenty of whistles for the diva
Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney
The leading lady of R&B and hair-raising displays of melisma admits to feeling bleak, but still hits all the high notes
4 out of 5 Stars
Mariah doesn’t need to dance. She doesn’t need zany costumes or elaborate stage props like Miley, Katy or Taylor. Mariah just is.
You may have scoffed at the cheesiness of the diva, but her influence has become so grand she has become a category unto herself. As St Petersburg Times journalist Sean Daly once wrote, watch any reality TV music show these days and you’re bound to come across three types of auditions: the talented kids, the weird kids and the Mariahs.
The audience witnessed for what reason her physical energy had to be reserved: her third song Emotions, Carey hit that legendary whistle register perfectly – a clean lift that would be the envy of any Olympic weightlifter.
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Grammy winner Mariah Carey wows crowds and silences critics at Sirromet Winery concert
The Grammy winner and former American Idol judge used her greatest weapon — “that” voice — to silence her critics last night when she thrilled 6000 fans at an outdoor A Day On The Green concert at the Terry Morris-owned Sirromet Winery, just north of the Gold Coast at Mt Cotton.
Anyone who didn’t go last night based on her last Gold Coast show: sorry but you missed out, this was Carey to the power of 10.
A true star in the finest old-Hollywood tradition (think Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, Greta Garbo), Carey hasn’t just got it — she flaunts it.
Last night’s show was a reminder why Carey, armed with one of the best sets of tonsils in pop music, has won and kept so many fans — and why she remains the highest-selling female artist of all time.
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Thank god, I was ready to drag you when I saw the title.
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Never write Mariah off 
I hope she performs on TV soon cause she has way too many mouths to shut. 
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LEGEND
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i ran in here. yas mariah prove them wrong
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Living legend. But OP sis learn how to spell break
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BYE. I ran in here to drag 
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Great title it'll get people running  lets who doesn't read the OP now 
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Living legend. But OP sis learn how to spell break
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kii fixed. I was kind of in a rush. 
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Slay Mariah!!! 
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Rival divas, take note: this is how it's done.
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The true tea was spilT.
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hitting the high whistle notes with an effortlessness that reassured any doubters who might have thought the instrument was in less than top condition
Rival divas, take note: this is how it's done
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Poor Madonna, Britney, Beyonce, Rihanna, Katy etc. when will they?
Taking notes won't help them, you either have talent or you don't!
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I love how she is gaining back her confidence. The sensitive Chanteause has gone through a tough time but is coming back!
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Slay!
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