How is a lip-synced performance meaningfully less real than a non-lip-synced one?

Ah, I don’t think that’s why people go to concerts, at all. Maybe concerts for shitty fake artists; I wouldn’t know. I have always gone to concerts to see the artist perform live, as has everyone I’ve ever met. Watching Prince live was life-altering; he sounded much better than he did on any album. And lip-syncing…

Who are these morons who would rather listen to a prerecorded track than hear the actual singer’s voice? WTF? I have seen Adele and Maroon 5 live. Both sounded better live.

Yeah, this made me roll my eyes. I expect someone like Britney Spears to lip-synch or at least sing to a backing track, because, while she has a serviceable singing voice, she’s more of a performer than a singer. She’s up there dancing like crazy, doing all these acrobatic things...and it’s very difficult to sing well…

Did you really just ask how someone not singing is less real than someone singing?

It’s categorically false to say Spears “gets nothing but praise.” There is plenty of criticism of her lip syncing.

She strikes me as lazy. Why her fans love her for her “give no fucks” attitude is beyond me. She’s basically giving them all the finger. Can’t be bothered to rehearse or prepare and she’s continually rewarded for it, so why would she bother.

It seriously makes no difference to you whether your favorite artist performs at a concert you attend, or just moves their mouth and pantomimes the thing? Like if Eric Clapton just pretended to play guitar, that’d be just as good as hearing him actually perform his art?

Okay, I’ll bite. I think live music is thrilling. A terrific singer can change up phrasing and intonation, decide to come in ahead of or behind the beat, respond to what’s in her heart or what’s going on in the world. She can keep the material fresh. There is a reason fans of acts like the Grateful Dead or Bruce…

I always imagine at a certain point of insulated wealth, you forget the money comes from fans who pay to see you do the thing you do, and not just for existing.

“Why do people like her?”

She had a special team of handlers just to get her there on time. She didn’t get there on time. She didn’t have a sound-check because she missed it. That mess up was all her own fault. I felt most sorry for her dancers. She just left them hanging. Whatever happened to “the show must go on”?

Can you really not answer these questions for yourself?

if nothing else, marvel in the author’s god-tier yoga flexibility in twisting the rest of the human population into the one’s who screwed up here.

I know you’re trying to make me feel sorry for her, but she has a huge ego and this should’ve been prepared better, so whoops for feeling schadenfreude 😉

Fuck Mariah Carey for this. Fuck anyone who wants a big paycheck to fake a performance.

Hahahaha! I have watched MC’s teevee show and this is totally to be expected. MC probably had a hair issue or forgot what time it is in NYC (daylight savings is over) or was too busy eating smoked salmon and capers for her sound check. She’s a dizzy mess! Her manager/fluffer is a cost cutting cut-up! Her dancers are…

“The incident upset some people on the Internet, who I suppose expect performers to mask their lip-syncing better.”

Well aren’t you a pleasant person. Yes, throw shade on children that don’t know better.

Also, it’s super-dickish to act this way to her while she’s with her three small children. She’s flying coach at the holidays with three tiny kids in tow - that’s already more of a punishment than what this guy doled out.