Mariah’s Lip Synching - From Obvious to Painfully Obvious
The clip above comes from Mariah Carey’s performance on today’s episode of Good Morning America, and it shows an Ashlee Simpson-level snafu. At the start of her “Touch My Body” performance, her backing track comes in too early. And then a second backing track, so that the song takes on a singing-in-the-round effect. Mariah plays it off without so much as a jig, and sings the rest mostly live. But then, after the bridge a particularly impassioned pre-recorded “Touch my body!” rings out, and Mariah coos to a backup singer, “Stop singing my parts, now baby!” Uh, isn’t singing your part exactly what backing tracks are supposed to do? [via ONTD]
April 26th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Mariah has LOST HER VOICE. this was very apparent during the american idol, oprah, and gma. her voice wass craking, she was straining…hott mess
April 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Who really cares????
April 26th, 2008 at 10:04 am
It just confirms my comments to my friends also she does not sign like she used to and it is painfully obvious since I am a huge fan of hers
April 25th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
how to say nice woman.she is wonderful in music.She was said to be fond of internet recently. Some of her fans found her on a interracial dating club ~~intimatemingle.com~~. She has a personal account there with her pictures, blog and something about her albu
April 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I don’t understand how these singers, who make millions and millions of dollars, have the gall to go on stage, in front of a camera, and lip sync. they’re all guilty of it from time to time, not just mariah. britney, celine, ashlee, and more. mariah used to be able to sing… did you see her on the vh1 unplugged show, like a billion years ago? if you can only sing in the studio, you don’t need to go in front of a crowd, lip sync to prerecorded lyrics, while your back up dancers and band do all the work.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
The backing track screwed up so she had no choice but to sing it live. That obviously wasn’t the original plan.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
she wasnt lip syncing
a backing track error happened…it was a major glitch
she sung live…pls atleast hear the performance fully.
ALSO DONT DISS HER…BE PROFESSIONAL. THIS IS VH1
I EXPECT MORE
GOD!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
What’s the problem here? Who doesn’t use a back up track these days. Nothing good entertainment news to post today VH1 employees? GOT’S to do better!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
You’re an idiot! A backing track began playing in the background?? Big whoop!! Everyone uses a backing track.. Just a few days ago Leona had one playing while performing on Idol..
Mariah WAS NOT miming to the song.. She sang it COMPLETELY differently and even involved the audience with certain phrases during the song (e.g. when she’d say “Sing” or “What?” to boost audience involvement).. She was 100% live, the only problem was there was technical difficulties at the beginning.. What’s the big deal?? Get over it and stop trying to create drama!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Mostly live? eveything was live baby.