Mariah Carey has been brutally roasted online over her MTV Video Music Awards performance, with users slamming her for doing the ‘bare minimum’ on stage.
The singer, 56, was presented with the Video Vanguard Award during the 2025 VMAs.
Dressed in a sparkly gold body suit, she performed a medley of her hits afterwards, including Sugar Sweet, Fantasy, Honey, Obsessed, and It’s Like That.
But the hitmaker was mocked on social media afterwards, as hordes of fans felt her performance was lackluster.
Many X users called her out for seeming ‘stiff’ and walking extremely slowly around the stage, while others accused her of lip syncing.
Mariah Carey was slammed over her VMAs performance
‘Mariah Carey being introduced as the queen of vocals and she’s just lip syncing…’ one user wrote.
‘Mariah Carey doing the least possible movement,’ noted another.
‘Mariah stay giving us the bare minimum,’ penned someone else.
‘Mariah out here all stiff and s**t… Girl if you got back problems tell ’em you can’t perform…’ read a fourth tweet.
A fifth said, ‘Mariah just existing on stage.’
‘Mariah don’t be moving at all,’ scathed a different person.
Mariah Carey was roasted over her MTV VMAs performance due to her lack of energy
Following the performance, Ariana Grande presented Mariah with her award. ‘I can’t believe I’m getting my first VMA tonight,’ the singer said, before jokingly asking MTV. ‘What were you waiting for?’
Earlier in the night, Mariah also won the R&B VMA for ‘Type Dangerous’.
This is not the first time the famed singer has been called out for a low-energy performance. In February, fans expressed concerns for Mariah over videos of the singer’s Las Vegas shows, in which she could be seen moving slowly around the stage.
The videos prompted some fans to question whether she was in pain, while others wondered whether the clip was from a dress rehearsal rather than a real performance.
