'Who needs to drop the ball when Mariah already covered it?' Twitter mercilessly trashes diva for her epic New Year's Eve meltdown on Times Square stage

  • Mariah Carey storms off stage  during ABC's New Year's Eve telecast
  • Carey botched her lip-synced performance in New York's Times Square
  • After appearing flustered and on the verge of tears, she declined to sing lines of her songs 
  • Within minutes, Carey's performance was the hot topic on social media 

By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com

Published: 00:28 EST, 1 January 2017 | Updated: 10:14 EST, 1 January 2017

Mariah Carey's meltdown on national television is the talk of Twitter as 2017 began with a bang.

The diva stormed off the stage in New York's Times Square during the New Year's Eve telecast on ABC after the wrong lip-synced track played during her performance.

Carey appeared flustered and on the verge of tears as she declined to sing some lines of her songs.

Mariah Carey's meltdown on national television is the talk of Twitter as 2017 began with a bang

The diva stormed off the stage in New York's Times Square during the New Year's Eve telecast on ABC after the wrong lip-synced track played during her performance

She stormed around the stage, repeatedly asking for the monitors to be turned on during her performance, before trying to rescue her set by dancing briefly.

However, she didn't last long, and then said into her microphone: 'I'm trying to be a good sport here.'

She then remained on stage as one more song played, before walking off in a huff.

Carey's meltdown became the most trending topic on Twitter, with commenters mercilessly trashing the songstress.

'Hellen Keller could have lip synced to Mariah Carey better than Mariah Carey can lip sync to Mariah Carey,' wrote one Twitter user

Another Twitter user wrote that the jihadist group ISIS 'claimed responsibility' for the meltdown

'Who needs to drop the ball for New Years when Mariah Carey already covered it,' wrote this Twitter user

'I'm sitting here singing to Mariah Carey while Mariah Carey is pretending to sing to Mariah Carey,' wrote Sabrina O'Brien

Mariah Carey's performance reminded some of the infamous duo Milli Vanilli

Andrew Clark tweeted that Mariah Carey's performance gave him reason to watch the telecast

This meme sums up Mariah Carey's apparent lack of preparation before this evening's performance

'Ashley Simpson can rest easy now,' Donna tweeted. 'Mariah Carey just outdid her on the worst lip sync disaster!'

Esther Jenses tweeted that Mariah Carey needed to take lessons from Lionel Richie, who also performed on New Year's Eve

Todd Hall tweeted this quip about Mariah Carey 'bombing Times Square'

'ISIS has officially claimed responsibility for Mariah Carey's performance,' tweeted Brad Benjamin.

'Who needs to drop the ball for New Years when Mariah Carey already covered it,' tweeted another user. 

Others compared her to infamous lip-syncers like Ashley Simpson and 80s pop duo Milli Vanilli. 

 Another Twitter user wrote that 'Hellen Keller could have lip synced to Mariah Carey better than Mariah Carey.' 

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