"Mariah Carey, you're dressed up for 20 billion won and you're just smiling?" At the opening ceremony, "Lip sync controversy"... She's the queen of pop. "She cheated on the prompter.""

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Mariah Carey (56), the "Queen of Pop," is criticized for being embroiled in a lip-syncing controversy on the stage of the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.

Carrie selected Italy's Cancione's masterpiece "Nell Blue Deepinto di Blue (Bolaire)" with respect for the host country at the opening ceremony of the tournament at San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan, Italy, on the 6th (local time). The news that she will sing all the lyrics in Italian for the first time in her music life drew attention from all over the world.

The stage composition was spectacular. Carrie overwhelmed the audience by wearing a diamond necklace and earrings worth a whopping $15 million (about 20 billion won) on an art deco-style dress decorated with beads and crystals.

However, as soon as the performance began, criticism poured out as if pouring cold water on it. Foreign media such as the British Daily Mail and the Mirror raised suspicions of lip-synching, pointing out that Carrie's mouth shape and song did not match at all.

SNS was flooded with criticisms, saying, "At first, I thought it was a sound accident, but the other performer's microphone was fine," "It was a rigid posture that only looked at the prompter because I couldn't memorize the lyrics," and "It was the worst stage that didn't even try to hide the fact that it was lip sync."

It is an indelible disappointment to fans who expected her explosive singing skills. Carrie's stage was even more shabby, in stark contrast to the Italian master Andrea Bocelli, who appeared with her. Bocelli performed Puccini's aria "Nessundorma (Princess Can't Sleep) " perfectly live. It was also praised as "a thrilling stage reminiscent of Pavarotti at the Turin Olympics 20 years ago."

In the end, despite her glamorous decorations worth 20 billion won, Carrie damaged her reputation as the 'Queen of Pop' with an unfaithful attitude.

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