Blog #8

         I chose Amanda Petrusich's article "Mariah Carey's Rather Perfect Farewell To 2016" because  I like how Mariah Carey is as a person , the way she dresses and the way she does her make-up. By reading this article I found out that  Amanda Petrusich's main point was  to show how the leading events Carey went through ended up not going the way they were supposed to. But at the end, it really didn't matter because she didn't care. In fact Carey said,  "Shit happens" ; all she wanted to do was say her farewell! Petrusich defended her point in this article when she talks about Mariah Carey's launch into her song "Emotions",  an "airy disco track about falling in love", which was released more than twenty years ago in 1991.Petrusich begins to bring up how Carey had to sing in "whistle register" the highest range a human can originally produce, which also leads to define when Mariah couldn't go on with her performance due to technical glitches. Other people believe she could have went on because, there were so many monitors amplifying her music , how could she forget ?.I really like how Mariah Carey says "Shit Happens" because everything isn't going to be perfect , even if you're famous things happen , nothings ever perfect. I've learned so much new vocabulary while reading this article like when Petrusich says "Artists lip-synching during high-stakes live appearance is so ordinary now as to be tedious to discuss" or when she says in the first paragraph "A pleasantly inane variety program broadcast". Amanda Petrusich did an amazing job by stating her point and defending it , Mariah  Rather Perfect Farewell To 2016 was a good read and something I really enjoyed reading. Here is a link to view Amanda Petrusich's article ,http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/mariah-careys-rather-perfect-farewell-to-2016.