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Friday, December 4, 2009

Opinion / Jeff Hahne / News Should lip-synching singers give notice to fans?

Posted By on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM

I'll throw the target immediately on to Britney Spears, since she's the most famous lip-syncher of all. Here's the debate — should lip-synching pop stars be forced to tell fans that they will not be singing live at concerts?

I'm not sure it would stop the people who enjoy the concerts, but it would be a nice admission. Last month, fans in Australia walked out of a Spears concert after it became clear that she wasn't singing.

To those fans, I say, "Really?!? You thought she was going to sing live??" What's strange to me is that most artists don't get any heat for it until they're "caught." No one cared that Ashlee Simpson or Milli Vanilli was doing it until their tape skipped/played the wrong song.

Who else does it? It's hard to say, but you can easily put a bet on most pop stars that are doing choreographed dances on stage. The artists are usually so focused on dancing and wearing themselves out that they are too out-of-breath to sing.

On the other hand, you have a singer like Gwen Stefani, singing live, that didn't dance around during the recent No Doubt tour, but she did start doing push-ups in the middle of a song to prove it.

So, who else is lip-synching? ABC News did a story on it where they talk about Spears, Kanye West, Madonna and others.

Are people going just to see the performance? It seems ridiculous to me to spend so much money on a ticket to basically listen to a CD while someone does a dance. I guess they should be labeled "performers" instead of "singers."

Taylor Swift didn't sound fantastic in her CMA performance, but at least she was singing live.

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I guess that's the difference between me and those pop fans — I'm going to a concert to hear the music. I'm going to hear the mistakes and changes in a song. If I wanted to hear a CD, I'd stay home.

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