Britney lip-syncs her concerts (The Sun)

[trogdor]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2004191397,00.html

By MARTEL MAXWELL
at Wembley Arena

POP babe BRITNEY SPEARS stunned a sell-out UK crowd last night by MIMING through her entire set.

Britney, 22, looked sensational in a skin-tight PVC catsuit as she kicked off her tour in London.

But the 12,000-strong Wembley Arena crowd — who had paid at least £30 each for tickets — could not believe it when she started lip-synching to a backing track.

One angry fan said: “If I wanted to see somebody mime to music, I would have gone to Top of the Pops.”

Fake boobs, fake voice, nothing between the ears. We knew this already, but thanks go to The Sun (brit tabloid) for confirming it.

[Skittles]

1. Lord, what do they freaking expect?

do they think that bimbo has real TALENT???

[T Roosevelt]

2. Oh SAY IT ISN'T SO!

I am SO devastated! I can't believe this...OMG, what are we going to do now? She's no better than Milli Vanilli! Agggghhhhhhhhh!

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. most acts lip synch

Most singers do, at least pop ones. When your audience is composed of young teenagers do you expect artists to take them seiously?

[tridim]

6. It's a good thing you qualified your post's title

because I was about to yell at you.. I've seen probably 500 bands play live in my lifetime and have never seen someone lipsync a show. Well, actually I take that back, I've seen one. I saw the Mannheim Steamroller Xmas show as a favor to a friend and they lipsynched some stuff. I was so pissed at how much they sucked that I actually booed them.

[wicket]

4. She always has

It's because she can't really sing, at least not without a bunch of audio processing.

[No2W2004]

5. Ya mean,

they didn't know about "magic microphone"....hell, most of the "corporate mill" pop stars can't sing without a little help

[NewJeffCT]

7. Oh My God! I'm shocked! Next thing you'll tell me is...

Next thing you'll tell me is that she got boob implants!

[rocktivity]

8. To paraphrase a critic of a Madonna concert

You can go to a strip joint and see a lot more of what Britney does for a lot less money.

:headbang:
rocknation

[youngred]

9. and this surprises whom exactly?

She's never been about the "music" just a pretty face and body they could market the shite out of.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

16. The funny part is that she isn't even pretty

Unless plastic is pretty ;)

[bluedog]

10. delete please

*note they did have a live audio feed to this on C-Span 3.



By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Constitution gives presidents and vice presidents power to gather advice and make decisions without being forced to reveal every detail of how those decisions are made, the Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer argued Tuesday.






"This is a case about the separation of powers," Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the justices at the start of lively arguments about privacy in White House policy-making.


The nearly three-year fight over access to records of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s work on a national energy strategy came to the high court after a federal judge ordered what Olson called a broad, unconstitutional release of White House documents.


The White House is framing the case as a major test of executive power, arguing that the forced disclosure of confidential records intrudes on a president's power to get truthful advice. Environmental and other interest groups claim the records will show whether the energy industry got special access or favors.


Justices were told that former Enron chairman Ken Lay and others were players, but until the government produces records, it won't be clear if they actually drafted the government's policies.


"The question is what happened at those meetings," said Alan Morrison, the attorney for the Sierra Club (news - web sites).


The legal issues in the case have been almost overshadowed by a political controversy involving Justice Antonin Scalia (news - web sites). He has refused to step down despite a controversy over a hunting trip he took with Cheney, an old friend, weeks after the high court agreed to hear Cheney's appeal.


Scalia took his seat behind the court's high bench as usual Tuesday, and almost immediately posed a hard question to the administration lawyer. Since the case concerns whether outsiders influenced the outcome of the task force's work, why not release voting records of the energy task force, Scalia asked.


Told that such a disclosure would raise privacy concerns, Scalia sounded skeptical.


"All I'm saying is, why would that be such an intrusion ... just to know whether anybody who voted on any of the recommendations was a nongovernment employee?" he asked.


But later, Scalia fired question after question at Morrison, at one point telling him his arguments were implausible.


The high court is expected to rule by July. The case began in July 2001 when a government watchdog group sued over Cheney's private meetings. The case has never gone to trial, but a federal judge ordered the White House to begin turning over records two years ago.


The Bush administration has lost two rounds in federal court. If the Supreme Court makes it three, Cheney could have to reveal potentially embarrassing records just in time for the presidential election.


Most of the talk among spectators who began lining up the night before was about Scalia, not the case.


"The big deal is Scalia," said 23-year-old law student Peter Stockburger of Austin, Texas. "It was dumb that he went on the hunting trip. It was stupid, but it wasn't illegal."


Watchdog group Judicial Watch and the environmental group Sierra Club sued to get the task force papers. The Sierra Club accused the administration of shutting environmentalists out of the meetings while catering to energy industry executives and lobbyists.


more at:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20040427/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_cheney

[bobbyboucher]

11. No shit.

That phony is an untalented hack.

[Van Helsing]

12. It doesn't suprise me...

but who really wants to hear her sing anyways??? Not me. :evilgrin:

[maggrwaggr]

13. they all do it

Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul (back when she did concerts, I was there backstage for many of them), Britney, Madonna.

You can't dance and sing at the same time. It just doesn't work.

That's why they have the big "show", nobody's really there to hear them, but to see them.

[No2W2004]

21. That reminds me

You can't dance and sing at the same time. It just doesn't work.

So thats why if you went to a Pink Floyd concert in the 70's, as one critic put it "you could just put 4 cardboard stand ups on the stage and play their record and you couldn't tell the difference." :D

God, I miss bands like that...didn't care what they wore on stage or how they looked, or even if anyone was watching them play...they just wanted their audience to hear the music. (and watch the giant exploding pig!)

[republicansarewhores]

28. "You can't dance and sing at the same time. It just doesn't work"

You haven't seen a Prince concert.

Many artists can, it comes down to their commitment and dedication to fans. We saw him at Staples Center in L.A. He made a joke that "there's no lip synching here" (it was the day after Britney's Showtime concert.)


Talk about an amazing show.

RAW

[Cocoa]

14. Special prosecutor!

Now!

[midnight armadillo]

15. Very, very common

Pop stars do this all the time, even in small performances - my wife told me JEssica Simpson went out of sync with her tape during a single sone on Ellen Degeneres' show. You may have noticed Shania Twain's sloppy mic work at the 2003 Superbowl show...clearly lip synced. Why not just send a CD for them to play? The whole point of a concert is performance...including the vocals!

It's frickin' pathetic. Many of these pop stars are rumored to need help from pitch shifters in the studio too. It's not really that different from the 80's when a number of hair metal bands had much of their instrumentation recorded by Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro and co. since the bands couldn't get their sh*t together for the recording. At least when you saw the bands live they were supposed to be playing.

[KamaAina]

17. Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Now I know how Mom must have felt when she heard the Beatles were breaking up! </sarcasm>

[doc03]

18. Who in the hell is watching her lips anyway!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. I am

Oh, the other ones. Never mind.

[troublemaker]

19. Fake boobs?

Unlike the rest of her scene, her breasts are real.

[GregW]

26. Really?

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/britneys_breasts.asp

[bigtree]

20. so, Bush lip-syncs his presidency - Cheney voice over

[pinniped]

22. So what the hell took them so long to figure that out?

Anyone who has ever seen her perform on tv could've figured that out.

Britney:loveya: is ok in my book.

[VolcanoJen]

23. NAW!!!!! NFW!!

Seriously????

I mean, this is a No-Duh, yes?

[DrWeird]

25. This isn't the first time this has happened.

Spears audio broke down in concert a few years ago and it was revealed she was lip syncing.

Of course it was obvious all along. Human beings can't dance like that and sing like that at the same time.

There are suckers born every minute.

[pinniped]

27. The funniest audio breakdown occured when Milli Vanilli was...

performing at Club MTV. One of the dudes got scared and ran off the stage while the track was still repeating. The other dude kept bobbing his head around.

Julie Brown forced him back on stage.

[nostamj]

29. WHY isn't this in the LOUNGE ?

:shrug:

talk about a worthless topic!

[name not needed]

30. NO!

Next thing you know you'll be telling me James Hetfield is an alcoholic and that Ted Nugent is a dumbass!

[southpaw]

31. SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!! WHATEVER WILL I DO?!?!?!

Really... I'm shocked.

[knight_of_the_star]

32. Actually that's quite normal

If you've ever seen the kind of dance moves that they do while "singing" there is no possible way they could sing GOOD and dance at the same time.