Britney's mic live
 

Please tell me that isn't real. Is she really THAT BAD? Perhaps thats someone elses voice lip synced or ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_tune

Most music is auto-tuned these days. There are no homely girls on the pop charts.

There are a couple, I think. Country charts, however... :headshake All the auto-tunin' on earth doesn't help Taylor Swift.

I can't stand the auto tune. It gives me a headache right when I hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

haters.

She sounds so out of breath...

She's dancing, and only singing in order to easier maintain the lip synch. A pre-autotune voice track from the studio would be a better test of her voice.

Yeah, I defy anyone to sing and dance like that at the same time. You can't bend down and touch your toes while you're singing, it changes the shape of your diaphragm. There is no such thing as a performer who dances aerobically and sings live. She's not bothering because she knows it's lip-synched.

While I agree mostly with you Clod (re sotto singing to match lip-synch) I have to point out that many, many talented musical performers sing and dance aerobically. Even less talented ones (my two ex-housemates who performed on cruise ships for example).

Okay they get far longer breaks between the combined singing and dancing thanks to talky bits and/ or a change of cast for different numbers, but they do manage to do it.

Like HM, I'd like to hear a pre tuned version of her singing.

But that's just to prove a point. I'm not that impressed with the post-processed stuff. There's a lot better pop-tarts out there now.

I guess what I really mean is bending and crawling a lot, the stuff that looks like what is referred to as "aerobics" exercise here in the US. You can do a lot of prancing and spinning and such, as long as your torso is relatively straight. But bending over in the middle of a lyric (a la 2:30 in the video) just isn't happening.

I get what you're saying.

Musical theatre is choreographed to take this into account - something I hadn't really appreciated before, seeing only the hard work of rehearsal and from a performing side.
Bending and crawling and furious dancing do happen, but not at times when real belting out is needed. Makes sense - her choreographers don't need to work within the same boundaries. Both look effortless, but one is carefully planned to fit around real singing and the other is planned for maximum visual effect.

So, y'all are saying if there's that much dancing involved, then the singers aren't really singing live at concerts???

I'd venture to say a decent number aren't really singing live even if there isn't any dancing involved.

First off, I'd be willing to be Brit isn't much of a singer to begin with, *but*...

In all likelihood, she isn't getting a monitored feed from that mic...no in-ear monitoring, because her singing isn't going to go out over the mains, and she doesn't need monitoring for when she is just speaking to the audience.

All this to say that, even though she isn't much of a singer, if she's dancing and standing amongst all the cacophony of crowd and PA system and such, she can't hear what she's singing - even for lip sync purposes - so she has no way to even remotely stay on pitch. Throw in dancing on top of that, and yeah...she's gonna sound like shit.

I'm agree with Elspode on this. I'm NOT a fan of Britney's, although some of her music is catchy. But if she's lip-syncing, dancing and trying to keep her choreography in sync with the song being played, she will probably need to sing the song softly to herself.

Combine not really trying with running, jumping, contorting one's body about and I'd bet the best singers there are would sound like crap.

Ok, I would.:blush:

I remember when we were doing CMEP... quite a few people commented that they don't like live music. I think this type of entertainment is the result of that sentiment (which obviously isn't uncommon).

Fuck Britney. And fuck cancer too.

My only problem with live music is when the stupid audience keeps cheering over the song I like. If the audience behaves, the impromptu nature of a live performance can be great. I have some awesome mp3s of Eric Clapton, Warren Haynes, and David Wilcox giving live performances where the audience listens appreciatively during the song--actually, now that I've typed that out, I realize that the latter two of those were both from CMEP. :)

Live music can be incredible when it is about the *music*, and not the frigging spectacle. Limited amounts of spectacle are great (Tina Turner had a wonderful stage show, but she sang her ass off, and it was clearly live singing), but the spectacle should add to the musical presentation, and not be the point of the show. Either be a musical artist, or be a snatch-showing, pop culture dance ho.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. :haha:

Completely off-topic, but, i dunno if i ever mentioned, my sister was best friends with/went out with david wilcox's son while we lived in maryland. i'd never heard of him till she gave me one of her friend's dad's CDs. now i'm always weirded out when other people have actually heard of him.

Blame glatt, he was the one who included a David Wilcox song on his collection. I'd never heard of him until then.