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Originally posted by LeonaLewisThunder
You can clearly see when she hides the mic with her hair and stuff, She is a ****ing genius when it comes to lip syncing and her fans buy it
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Whilst I LOVE her performances, I've noticed over the years that the lip syncing is pretty sly. The other thing too, which - being that it's not fake, is actually impressive and commendable - is that she and her musical director and band do a wonderful job of live mixing. Her performances always sound "complete", but if you watch it back you notice that she's not even singing for half of it. I don't consider that cheating at all, which is why I think it's actually pretty clever. I think most performances of 'Crazy In Love' are a great example - during the chorus (and post-chorus) her backing vocalists take on the chorus, so all she's gotta do for a good 40-50 seconds if strut and say "sing, your love!" or something which is a
huge space for cooling off in what's only like a 3 min performance (and those breaks occur again for pretty huge blocks).
Lip syncing and pre-recording stuff is shameful, but genius mixing and arranging I can get behind
Case in point:
'Crazy In Love' at the Superbowl. It's a 3:29 performance, occupied by an extended band intro and then a sung intro in darkness (so could opportunistically be lipped, especially given her history). Followed by a pretty simple strut, the verse doesn't kick in until 1:40 - that's already almost halfway through the performance until she starts singing. Then she's only got to do it with choreo for less than 20 secs, and gets a huge cool off period where the backvox take over whilst she gets to walk around and hype up. She does like 15 secs of some phenomenal ad-libbing, then after a scream gets the whole back end of the song off. The result? A performance that impresses, shows off in the right places - and all with pretty minimal vocal work (under a minute). No hard yards, but gets to the good stuff. That kind of thing is impressive I reckon.