Mariah Carey found the one duet partner who could whistle back.
Today’s Monday Motivation: that one time Mariah Carey hit the dolphin note… and the majestic aquatic mammal basically said, excuse me?
The gloriously random clip first made the rounds after Carey shared it in 2019. Swimming alongside a dolphin, Mimi lets loose one of her signature whistle-register notes and gets an immediate reaction from her new duet partner.
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Years later, it remains peak Mariah: casually deploying a vocal register most singers spend careers chasing while hanging out in the water with a dolphin. No stage. No spotlight. Just Mimi, marine life and an accidental cross-species vocal battle.
Was the dolphin actually judging pitch? We will leave that to the marine biologists. Did its reaction make the whole thing approximately 400 percent funnier? Absolutely.
Watch Mariah Carey Whistle With a Dolphin in the Viral 2019 Clip
Carey answers the dolphin with her famous whistle register, prompting an immediate reaction in the throwback clip.
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Source: Mariah Carey; iHeart.
