I'll just get through the motion.

Welcome to the New York Times

podcast, your sweet destiny of music, news and criticism.

I'm your host, John Cara Monica.

All right. We didn't have a check for this song, so we'll just say it weren't another one.

And that's what it is.

Okay.

Feels like the truth.

We're missing some of this logo,

but it is where it is.

But I like going to say it's going to let the audience think, okay?

You are listening to one of the last great challenges of 2016 and the first great music critical opportunity of 2017.

That is audio from Mariah Carey on New Year's Eve, singing or something like it or something not like it the song

Emotions which she will have you know went to number one but that's about all you

could have learned from that performance I feel like we have a sort of

of conclave of lapsed Catholics when it comes to Mariah Carey. I am joined by

Rich Jezweak, senior writer at Jezebel.com. Yes, hi. Thank you. Yes, you are very

welcome. And I am joined by Michael Arseno, who is a writer for The Root and The Guardian and many other

places and has a incredibly motivational Snapchat and

Instagram presence. Sorry Lamalie, thank you. Yeah, I feel like we're going to be

saying that a lot today. Yes. Yeah, should we just like blanket up front just be like don't at us to any

Lammelie numbers.

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