It is official: Mariah Carey and this costume belong collectively.
The pop star dressed to the nines for the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards in a glance befitting an Icon Award recipient.
In a backstage video shared to X (previously Twitter) by iHeartRadio, the singer, who skipped the carpet, might be seen carrying a body-hugging mermaid robe with sparkles on the bodice and off-the-shoulder sleeves. The extravagant quantity was so off the charts that it even required an escort — presumably somebody on Carey’s group or a workers member — to carry up the in any other case floor-sweeping practice.
Carey wore her honey blonde hair in luscious crimped waves with a deep facet half and added a shiny nude lip to her make-up, which was very harking back to her 2000s glam.
When she took the stage, she requested the group, “I simply need to ask you a query — is the lighting okay? As a result of I do not like unhealthy lighting.”
She adopted up that query with an excellent higher query: “Do you just like the ensemble?”
The “All I Need for Christmas Is You” singer is acknowledged because the bestselling feminine artist of all time resulting in her honorable recognition. In December, she celebrated a historic document when the Christmas anthem “All I Need for Christmas Is You” topped Billboard’s Scorching 100 chart for a record-breaking seventeenth whole week.
“The carol, which leads the Scorching 100 for a 3rd consecutive week this vacation season, additionally solely claims the third-longest domination within the chart’s 66-year historical past,” Billboard wrote in its Instagram caption that includes the R&B icon.
“That is superb!!!! Won’t ever ever ever ever ever take this with no consideration,” Carey captioned the put up on her Instagram Tales. “Merry early Christmas!!!!”
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In the course of the live performance, whereas she was performing “At all times Be My Child,” Carey made her approach into the group for photos and to satisfy followers. As she was making her approach again onto the stage, a safety guard whispered one thing in her ear and the singer made her approach again into the group.
Seems, the detour was to see the Fenty Magnificence founder, who ended up getting her breast signed by Carey.
“I used to be like, ‘You can’t name me a diva once more as a result of I am actually backing down the steps,’” Carey tells ipromiseyoumedia of the second in the course of the live performance.
“That was hilarious,” Carey advised ipromiseyoumedia of the interplay over the cellphone from Aspen, Colo. “I had heard that Rihanna was coming to the present, however I did not suppose she was going to be within the precise crowd. She was enjoyable.”
The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards air dwell from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday, March 17, at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. Followers can even tune in dwell to iHeartRadio stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio app.