She was doing it before too, nothing new. She was winning back then, and she is still winning now. So keep on hating
Are you honestly proud that she doesn't sing live? To me, a singer that cannot at least sing live is inexcusable. Would you like your surgeons to not know how to perform surgery? Or your firefighters to not know how to extinguish fires?
I like Britney and I commend her for everything she's done. Calling me a hater is a cop out.
All that has been confirmed so far is that Britney will definitely be doing a medley of her hit songs, and will most likely conclude the performance with a couple of tracks from her new album.
Are you honestly proud that she doesn't sing live? To me, a singer that cannot at least sing live is inexcusable. Would you like your surgeons to not know how to perform surgery? Or your firefighters to not know how to extinguish fires?
I like Britney and I commend her for everything she's done. Calling me a hater is a cop out.
Are you honestly proud that she doesn't sing live? To me, a singer that cannot at least sing live is inexcusable. Would you like your surgeons to not know how to perform surgery? Or your firefighters to not know how to extinguish fires?
I like Britney and I commend her for everything she's done. Calling me a hater is a cop out.
Britney is a performer and an entertainer before she's a singer. Also if you think that everyone in the industry sings live then you're extremely naive! Alot of people use pre recorded vocals - britney doesn't bother using them because she simply doesn't care and the proper track sounds better.
Are you honestly proud that she doesn't sing live? To me, a singer that cannot at least sing live is inexcusable. Would you like your surgeons to not know how to perform surgery? Or your firefighters to not know how to extinguish fires?
I like Britney and I commend her for everything she's done. Calling me a hater is a cop out.
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If you have followed Spears' career in even the most passive of ways in the past decade and a half, you'd be pretty well aware that she lip syncs. In her Las Vegas show, she performs for about 90 minutes, and even her manager has helpfully pointed out to the public that it would be basically impossible for a human being to dance and perform the way Spears does while singing live and sounding even halfway decent. Spears performs pop songs. No one is expecting her to suddenly become Aretha Franklin in the vocals department.
Not trying to defend Britney, but she does happen to sing live when it comes to ballads. Everytime. Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know. From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart. I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman.
Yes this site TRICKED me yesterday into thinking this was going to be anything less than a stellar performance!
She did GREAT! Britney is blatantly uncomfortable performing solo by herself, and she absolutely NAILED the choreography with the hand shadows at the start and she looked amazing (makeup was a SLIGHT mess but oh well) and it was just SO Britney to the core. Her verison of "Me, Myself & I" slayed, G-Eazy was... well hi, and she was just a sexy, confidant icon. Couldn't be more proud!
As for her lip-synching... it's definitely something that grinds my gears. Why doesn't she just go ALL out and just dance, or at the very god damn least not play the CD vocals - cause no one's buying it. Still, she does what she does, and I can't help but love and respect her for even being on that stage performing a great new song in 2016 when in 2007/2008 I felt like we were saying goodbye.
Truly the princess of pop and she's back - yet again - to prove us wrong.
This was awful. I'm sorry, but I don't see how anyone could excuse this mess?
Compared to all of her other VMA performances this looks so amateurish and poorly produced.
Britney herself was awkward as **** on the stage, didn't pull off enough choreo, and that pointless mic was just embarrassing.
Both Britney and MTV should be ashamed of this mess. I hope Britney never performs there anymore if they are going to treat her like this. Extremely disappointed overall.
Yes this site TRICKED me yesterday into thinking this was going to be anything less than a stellar performance!
She did GREAT! Britney is blatantly uncomfortable performing solo by herself, and she absolutely NAILED the choreography with the hand shadows at the start and she looked amazing (makeup was a SLIGHT mess but oh well) and it was just SO Britney to the core. Her verison of "Me, Myself & I" slayed, G-Eazy was... well hi, and she was just a sexy, confidant icon. Couldn't be more proud!
As for her lip-synching... it's definitely something that grinds my gears. Why doesn't she just go ALL out and just dance, or at the very god damn least not play the CD vocals - cause no one's buying it. Still, she does what she does, and I can't help but love and respect her for even being on that stage performing a great new song in 2016 when in 2007/2008 I felt like we were saying goodbye.
Truly the princess of pop and she's back - yet again - to prove us wrong.
Yes this site TRICKED me yesterday into thinking this was going to be anything less than a stellar performance!
She did GREAT! Britney is blatantly uncomfortable performing solo by herself, and she absolutely NAILED the choreography with the hand shadows at the start and she looked amazing (makeup was a SLIGHT mess but oh well) and it was just SO Britney to the core. Her verison of "Me, Myself & I" slayed, G-Eazy was... well hi, and she was just a sexy, confidant icon. Couldn't be more proud!
As for her lip-synching... it's definitely something that grinds my gears. Why doesn't she just go ALL out and just dance, or at the very god damn least not play the CD vocals - cause no one's buying it. Still, she does what she does, and I can't help but love and respect her for even being on that stage performing a great new song in 2016 when in 2007/2008 I felt like we were saying goodbye.
Truly the princess of pop and she's back - yet again - to prove us wrong.
Yes this site TRICKED me yesterday into thinking this was going to be anything less than a stellar performance!
She did GREAT! Britney is blatantly uncomfortable performing solo by herself, and she absolutely NAILED the choreography with the hand shadows at the start and she looked amazing (makeup was a SLIGHT mess but oh well) and it was just SO Britney to the core. Her verison of "Me, Myself & I" slayed, G-Eazy was... well hi, and she was just a sexy, confidant icon. Couldn't be more proud!
As for her lip-synching... it's definitely something that grinds my gears. Why doesn't she just go ALL out and just dance, or at the very god damn least not play the CD vocals - cause no one's buying it. Still, she does what she does, and I can't help but love and respect her for even being on that stage performing a great new song in 2016 when in 2007/2008 I felt like we were saying goodbye.
Truly the princess of pop and she's back - yet again - to prove us wrong.
I keep watching it over and over. She is confident and you can see the old Britney is returning. The crotch grabbing, the wig shaking and bouncing all over the floor in front of G-Easy resembled the iconic "I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)" VMA performance back in the day.
The Me, Myself and I version she looked very eager and happy like she owns that song. The ending when she smiled. Everything about this performance was top notch. I think ATRL (and the public) can't get over the 2007 VMA performance. And then they want her to go over and beyond her I'm A Slave 4 U // Satisfaction performances around 2001.
For Britney to come back from the tragic publicly acclaimed worst performance in her career and try to prove people wrong, this performance exceeded any doubts I had. Imagine being Britney and never forgetting 2007 and trying to come back from it. It put her into deep stress that the public won't accept her again and judge.
Britney also has undergone major knee surgeries since and has gone through a lot of mental problems, but to come back to this? She is finally back
This was awful. I'm sorry, but I don't see how anyone could excuse this mess?
Compared to all of her other VMA performances this looks so amateurish and poorly produced.
Britney herself was awkward as **** on the stage, didn't pull off enough choreo, and that pointless mic was just embarrassing.
Both Britney and MTV should be ashamed of this mess. I hope Britney never performs there anymore if they are going to treat her like this. Extremely disappointed overall.
Did you not ever see her "Gimme More" performance? Not trying to body shame, but she looked like she gained 50 pounds (on the chubby side) and her eyes looked drained (like a zombie) and she walked around the stage clumsy (like she was drunk) and embarrassed herself in front of the entire world and made people think Britney was over with.
Now to come back with THIS Britney performance, she exceeded that. Apparently since you know the stage so well I'd love to see you go back on stage after a 9 year hiatus and try to prove the world to forget such a tragic event in her career.
It's people like you that make Britney stress. She did fine. No she did great. Britney was shaking her body all over the floor in front of G-Easy and bobbing her weave and owned this performance. The only...ONLY...tragic thing about this performance is the lip sync, but she's always done that.
You guys are sad. Like Chris Crocker, "Leave Britney alone." I give kudos, alone to the fact, that Britney had ENOUGH courage and guts to get back on that stage again and give it her best. Any other celebrity would've ran.
Are you honestly proud that she doesn't sing live? To me, a singer that cannot at least sing live is inexcusable. Would you like your surgeons to not know how to perform surgery? Or your firefighters to not know how to extinguish fires?
I like Britney and I commend her for everything she's done. Calling me a hater is a cop out.
These examples make perfect sense because you might definitely come in a situation where your life depends on some live vocals from a singer
These examples make perfect sense because you might definitely come in a situation where your life depends on some live vocals from a singer
It could be applied to any profession. Obviously I don't mean it in that way and that those two were just the examples that I chose, obviously not on the same level on importance.
So some news came up from a PJ insider that the guy in charge of turning her mic on didn't do it. It really didn't make sense that Brit would lip a major performance like this especially after 07, it makes sense that MTV tried to sabatoge her. Britney has sang playback before so there's hope perhaps in future performances there will be some vocals.