Unless Beyonce-Gate refers to her magically having her most famous asset, her rear-end not her voice, removed I don’t care. I probably shouldn’t care about her arse either – but those of us with a little junk in the trunk need to stick together.
Despite having “All The Single Ladies” on my playlist, I don’t like Beyonce. The only thing larger than her arse, is her ego. This was evidenced by the evening gown she wore to sing (or lip sync) the National Anthem on Monday. Wasn’t it 30 degrees?
Kelly Clarkson wore this:
Maybe she didn’t have time to change between the Inauguration and the Inaugural Ball. But either way, as soon as I saw her I couldn’t pay attention to how well she was singing or if she was singing because I was too busy wondering why she was wearing an evening gown to an outdoor event in the middle of the day. (Official fashion police citation from a person wearing flannel pajama pants and a Guinness t-shirt. You’re welcome.)
That said, who cares what they wore, about FLOTUS bangs, or whether or not the song was sang live when our President said this:
“…Our journey is not complete until our wives, mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are listed in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit, to the hills of Appalachia, to Newtown know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.”
I’m not a singer (unless karaoke to “Ice, Ice, Baby” counts) but I’m sure singing a song as difficult as The National Anthem, in that temperature, allegedly with a cold was not good for her vocal cords. At first I thought, if she was sick she should have given someone else the opportunity to sing the song. But there was probably a program and lots of security garbage, she was just inches from the most powerful people in the country after all. And Newt Gingrich.
She’s certainly not the first person to lip sync and she probably won’t be the last. At Obama’s first inauguration Yo Yo Ma mimed playing his cello because it was too cold and the strings would have snapped. It doesn’t make him less of a musician because what we heard was his music and him playing it. Just not at that moment.
Beyonce is a great singer, everyone knows that. I think the reason people get upset about lip syncing is the flood of “not real” music and musicians. Ashley Simpson got in trouble for lip syncing on SNL. Not a big offense, except she’s a terrible singer anyway. Kid Rock “sings” on some of his albums. But he’s not really singing, at least not in any tune that humans are capable of repeating. He sounds like one of those people with the electronic trach thing. Any Real Housewife who has an album is so auto-tuned that you might as well listen to The Chipmunks. (At least Chipmunks are cute.)
Do we need to go all the way back to Milli Vanilli? Girl, you know it’s true – they were faking it the whole time.
I’m tired of being faked out. If you’re going to lip sync, but you’re a real singer, that’s totally fine. If you have to be auto tuned just to make your voice detectable to human ears? Step aside and let someone with real chops have a shot.
Also, if Beyonce, Faith Hill, and Jennifer Hudson have to lip sync – can we just once have Kate McKinnon impersonating Ann Romney impersonating Beyonce sing it for us?
So, I’m not the only one who thought that dress was totally odd for the occasion! Everyone else is wearing wool coats, scarves and gloves and she shows up dressed for the Academy Awards! Odd! But seriously, the girl can sing, who cares if she fakes it now and then. I was more concerned with why the president was chomping on gum during the ceremony. So tacky. At one point, it looked like his oldest daughter was checking her Facebook status, or inspecting the hem of her coat? Most definitely NOT paying attention. Lol
I kind of liked how the kids were acting like normal kids. Jackson would have been scaling the congressmen and yelling CHICKEN!
Im a fan of Beyonce. I admit it. That girl can sing! However, I was very disappointed that she wasn’t singing live. James Taylor and Kelly Clarkson sang live. Kelly was awesome! It was a great honor to be asked. If she didn’t want to she should have let someone else do it. The inauguration is a big deal. She must have been afraid it wouldn’t be perfect and people would talk about it. Guess what? This is worse. This is the big story from the inauguration. How dumb do you think the band felt? They had to “pretend” to play their instruments! If you are a singer and asked to sing at an event then sing at the event. Otherwise,we can just pipe in the music over a speaker .
True, the did sing live – but The Star Spangled Banner is really hard. Or so I’ve heard. But you’re right, she really should have sang live, I hadn’t thought about those poor guys faking playing their instruments.
I have to say I love Beyonce, not only is she talented but she has class and a giving heart. She just doesn’t happen to flaunt it like others do like ohh look I did this. I did not watch the inauguration, it really did not interest me. I agree the dress was odd, unless she really just didn’t plan on being out there that long and thought oh hey I can pull this off here.. not.
The dress was bad, she looked great in it though.
Beyonce’s kind of dumb. I didn’t watch, as Boy Meets World was on and I couldn’t waste a perfectly good morning off of work. However, she and Jay-Z blocked off the maternity ward with security when she gave birth…that’s right, no one could even get in to see their babies/families because *Beyonce* was having a baby. That’s what led me to believe she’s dumb and has an ego problem.
Ha, Boy Meets World! Awesomesauce.
well at least she wasnt wearing one of those stupid beaded leotards she got so popular for wearing…..like she was taking up jazzersize or something!!! i cant stand beyonce. she can sing,yes, but i find it extremely annoying to listen to her talk or act. as for her lip syncing, at least she was able to lip sync the correct words and didnt totally blow it like that moron christina aguilara (i probably spelled her name wrong but i could really care less because she is also annoying as hell!!!)
She totally should have worn the leotard, then no one would have cared if she sang for real or not.
Christina Aguilera looks like a Bratz doll.
Although I’m supposed to be this bad ass protector of the rock and roll throne music snob, I’m numb to lip syncing. The anthem is a very difficult song. Francis Scott Key composed it after French and Italian operas with the idea that it would be an instrumental or sung by 7 octave operatics. He didn’t think pop singers with mediocre talent would be handling it.
Everyone had fun that day, except conservatives, and Mrs Z’s seemed to make people happy with her recorded version so whatever.
Did you see the picture of Bill Clinton checking out Kelly C’s junked trunk? hilarious….
I thought he was just photo bombing!
It has been cold on the East Coast! I think many of these things are staged – do you think she’s singing LIVE at the Superbowl? I think not. I’d rather they really do it and don’t do it perfectly. At least it’s a real concert!
If I went to a concert and found out they were lip syncing I’d be upset – but then, I never go to concerts where they are dancing around, so they have no excuse.
Okay, that makes twice today you mentioned “Ice Ice Baby” to me, anyways. Milli Vanilla Ice, whatever, only with enough vodka shots could I listen to Beyonce-nonsense and the other vocal acrobats without puking. Why couldn’t Obama get Tina Turner?