Oh Dear

[237SJ]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTy_vSPkWc

[Islay]

Her reputation is well known, you kinda wonder why they hired her for such an important event!!

[Tilly2]

Pathetic!

[Islay]

I wonder if you have to pay for tickets - if so there will be a few unhappy people this morning!!

[237SJ]

There might be someone who will come along to prove me wrong but I saw our wonderful George Michael a couple of times and he didn`t need to lipsynch

[237SJ]

I don`t think you have to buy tickets. I have been in NY at new year and you have to get down to Times Square by about mid afternoon because after that, they close the roads off. Personally, I wouldn`t bother

[Islay]

I agree he was wonderful and sorely missed

[Islay]

OK I was wondering as in Las Vegas the strip is free but downtown where the concerts are is tickets at $30.

[New Judge]

By "Lypsyncing" do they mean "miming"

[Islay]

Yes

[237SJ]

There is a system whereby the singer can sing but their voice can be electronically enhanced. I can`t remember the name of the system without Google. It sounds like her monitor failed though

[andy-hughes]

Surely, if it's your song, you know it well enough to be able to sing along with a backing track - don't you?

Apparently not!

[New Judge]

Why do they call it Lypsyncing when there was already a perfectly good word to describe the practice?

[pastafreak]

" let's let the audience sing..."
Errr...I don't think they expected to provide the entertainment.
She certainly went off in a bit of a strop....

[andy-hughes]

Because they are not the same thing.

Mining means miming to a complete vocal track. Lip synching is singing along to some of the track, with the tricky notes coming in at strategic times. If you notice, some of the very top notes for which MC is famous kept coming in on the music backing track, what was missing was her guide vocal, and she obviously hadn't rehearsed learning the track, so she was left looking foolish fo what must have felt like an eternity.

I would like to have been any of her 'people' when she got off stage!!

[PankySmooch]

Well they had that and we had Robbie Williams who needed an autocue for his own songs and for the covered classics that he ruined.

[New Judge]

Thanks Andy. I'm suitably enlightened !!!

[Gromit]

Her ear peice wasn't working so she couldn't hear the backing track. So she was unable to sing along to it. Which left the lipsync bits to warble on their own. It was embarrassing but not her fault.
I hate the Carey screechy singing with a vengeance, but this was more of a technical fault.

[jourdain2]

I've sung in choirs (live and in parts) all my life, my daughter is vocalist in a band and has won cups at music festivals, as did my sister. It's a poor singer who cannot perform live. Time to go back to quality perhaps and ignore the glossy?

[Mamyalynne]

Had to have a little giggle at Robbie last night, having been told by the BBC not to swear he got the audience to sing the naughty words.

[Gromit]

jourdain2,
Carey's songs are constructed in a studio line by line and manipulated and cleaned for the final result. Lines are often recorded over many many takes, and the best performance each time spliced into the finished product.
Which is a long way of saying the sound on the highly produced finished product is probably impossible to reproduce 'live' without a bit of help.