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TyronneOops Britney Spears did it again...
November 17th 2009 01:49
Not surprisingly, Britney Spears was caught lip synching again. She's been doing this for 10 years people, stop acting like your surprised. At her Perth, Australia "concert," hundreds of enraged fans stormed out after only the first three songs. Honestly, I don't understand why they left. Why would they buy the tickets in the first place? It was common knowledge that she'd be lip synching. She'd done if for the entire first six months of the tour. I'm definitely not saying it was wrong to walk out. What they did makes a lot more sense than the thousands of fans that stayed in the arena. But I still just can't even begin to wrap my head around the motivation people have to go to popstars' concerts. Their music is terrible. They don't even write it. They usually lip sync their concerts. Even if they do actually sing, the focus is on the show stage. All the dancing and shit. If you want to see dancing, go to a ballet. Or a strip club. Or whatever floats your boat. If you want to see Britney doing a bunch of circus shit, might I suggest the incredibly talented Cirque du Soleil. Tickets for their shows are between 25.00$USD to 95.00$USD. Versus the up to $1500AUD ($1300USD) you'd pay for premium Britney seats. And to see Britney perform, you'd have to get the best seats because they disabled the big screens to hide the fact that she was lip synching. "You couldn't tell if it was Britney or not," said Mel McGuigan, 25, who paid about $150AUD for her ticket. How is listening to a recording of a "singer" that is supposedly there, but you can't really see, worth anywhere near the ridiculous prices charged to go to this concert?
Not only did she not actually sing, but basically the entirety of her interaction with the audience was saying: "What's up Australia?, How you feeling tonight? It's so good to be here tonight. Your country is beautiful." She didn't even take the effort to think up something original to say to the crowd. Just replace Australia with any other country, and you could use that anywhere.
Then the reaction by Britney and her promoters is just incredible. Incredible in the sense that it is utterly inconceivable. Her Australian concert promoter said: ”Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it. She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.” Totally inaccurate reporting? Is he trying to convince me that she didn't lip sync when literally everyone knows she did. Her biggest fans admit that she lip synced. Her tour promoter even said: “It’s been all over the Internet for nine months, this show is about an incredible spectacle, which it is.” Or is he claiming that no one actually walked out of the concert? What about all the people on the internet that were interviewed after walking out? You're embarrassed to be part of the Australian media because they reported that some upset fans walked out of Britney's concert due to her lip synching? You're embarrassed because the Australian media actually has the balls to call Britney out on cheating her fans?
And Spears said concerning all this: “Some reporters have said they love it and some don’t. I came to Australia for my fans.” For your fans? Maybe it's just me, but if I were a Britney Spears fan, and I went to her concert, and I saw her lip synching, I'd be downright insulted.
If someone who likes Britney Spears or anyone like her could explain to me how any of this makes any sense whatsoever, that'd be amazing. Because I still just don't get it at all. Said one fan, "I paid $1,500AUS, to see a fantastic artist perform and sing in front of me is my dream come true. I love you Britney." WHAT?!? "Are you familiar with the old robot saying 'Does Not Compute'?" (That's something Bender said on Futurama, but I think it is applicable here.) $1500 to see someone lip sync? I'd do that for free if you asked me to. In this economy, how are people willing to spend $1500 to see any concert, even if there wasn't any lip synching? A much better use of that money would be to give it to charity to feed the hundreds of thousands of people that die every year of starvation in Africa. Or to invest it for retirement. Or to burn it as fuel.
If what you really want is a concert with spectacle, go see a punk show where they go crazy on stage and break guitars and shit. Or go to a Flaming Lips concert. I saw them this year at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Here's a video of just their stage entrance.
But then they followed that up with legit music too, that clearly was not lip synched.
Some countries are considering forcing concerts to clearly state on the tickets and elsewhere that the concert is a lip-sync performance and not really performed with live singing. God I hope this passes.
This is actually the same image I used on my Beats Review post, Britney Spears' New Single Makes Me Want To Puke
Not only did she not actually sing, but basically the entirety of her interaction with the audience was saying: "What's up Australia?, How you feeling tonight? It's so good to be here tonight. Your country is beautiful." She didn't even take the effort to think up something original to say to the crowd. Just replace Australia with any other country, and you could use that anywhere.
Then the reaction by Britney and her promoters is just incredible. Incredible in the sense that it is utterly inconceivable. Her Australian concert promoter said: ”Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it. She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.” Totally inaccurate reporting? Is he trying to convince me that she didn't lip sync when literally everyone knows she did. Her biggest fans admit that she lip synced. Her tour promoter even said: “It’s been all over the Internet for nine months, this show is about an incredible spectacle, which it is.” Or is he claiming that no one actually walked out of the concert? What about all the people on the internet that were interviewed after walking out? You're embarrassed to be part of the Australian media because they reported that some upset fans walked out of Britney's concert due to her lip synching? You're embarrassed because the Australian media actually has the balls to call Britney out on cheating her fans?
And Spears said concerning all this: “Some reporters have said they love it and some don’t. I came to Australia for my fans.” For your fans? Maybe it's just me, but if I were a Britney Spears fan, and I went to her concert, and I saw her lip synching, I'd be downright insulted.
If someone who likes Britney Spears or anyone like her could explain to me how any of this makes any sense whatsoever, that'd be amazing. Because I still just don't get it at all. Said one fan, "I paid $1,500AUS, to see a fantastic artist perform and sing in front of me is my dream come true. I love you Britney." WHAT?!? "Are you familiar with the old robot saying 'Does Not Compute'?" (That's something Bender said on Futurama, but I think it is applicable here.) $1500 to see someone lip sync? I'd do that for free if you asked me to. In this economy, how are people willing to spend $1500 to see any concert, even if there wasn't any lip synching? A much better use of that money would be to give it to charity to feed the hundreds of thousands of people that die every year of starvation in Africa. Or to invest it for retirement. Or to burn it as fuel.
If what you really want is a concert with spectacle, go see a punk show where they go crazy on stage and break guitars and shit. Or go to a Flaming Lips concert. I saw them this year at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Here's a video of just their stage entrance.
But then they followed that up with legit music too, that clearly was not lip synched.
Some countries are considering forcing concerts to clearly state on the tickets and elsewhere that the concert is a lip-sync performance and not really performed with live singing. God I hope this passes.
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