Mariah Carey's performance at the 2025 Video Music Awards had the Internet talking for all the wrong reasons. Before receiving the coveted Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, the iconic performer put on a mini-show for the assembled crowd, gamely belting out some of her biggest hits from Carey's celebrated, decades-long career. However, it was difficult not to notice that while she walked around the stage for nearly five minutes, her hair did not budge an inch.

mariah carey perfoming a medley of her biggest hits 'fantasy', 'honey', 'heartbreaker', 'obsessed', 'it's like that' and the classic 'we belong together' at the vmas

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Naturally, this prompted people to speculate that she was wearing a wig, and they took to

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