socialney Britney Switching between Completely Live and Completely Tracked vocals

[flip37]

So I've always thought that during this performance of "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman", Britney starts and ends live, but in the middle they switch to a vocal track. What do you all think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qe7KhfYn1Q

Important times in the song:

• 2:07 -- She presses her ear piece, as some sort of cue that maybe her track is about to start
• 2:41 -- Definitely sounds like track from this point on...i.e., it's identical to the recording
• 3:29 -- She presses her ear piece and her vocals become noticeably less perfect 

Having said that...I have to say these are some of her best live vocals of this song.

 

[jwkrusie]

It sounds live to me the whole time. You can tell during the bridge that it's live.

[Avatar]

This was really weird. Never saw this performance. And never seen the switching between live and prerecorded. If that’s what’s happening.

I was going to say that the whole thing was prerecorded, but as great as she use to be at tricking us with vocals, she was never that great at little changes she added (see Boys on snl) .

Theres definitely a track there. The background vocals are from the album because her live singers during that era were the worse and always screaming over the track, which they kind of are here. The black one even attempts to sing Britney’s part by accident in this video  

My only theory is maybe some the vocals were dubbed before the show aired because they sounded bad. 

Yeah I watched it again, the vocals were dubbed with studio vocals. Someone thought she sounded bad and fixed it  

 

[Guest Brichney.]

Most of it was live, some parts only were not. 

[falka]

24 minutes ago, Avatar said:

Never saw this performance.

 I think it wasn't available apart from one picture or few seconds 

We always gettin something 

[jokobish]

I ALWAYS thought this.. never noticed the war cue tho. There’s another performance like this too 

[Mayenaise]

The mic was suspiciously far from her mouth at certain parts without her voice sounding any quieter 

[sibode]

LIVE the whole time... you can see it from the sinc with her lips and hear from her when she breathes...

It is just perfect.

[Captain Marvel]

4 hours ago, Avatar said:

This was really weird. Never saw this performance. And never seen the switching between live and prerecorded. If that’s what’s happening.

I was going to say that the whole thing was prerecorded, but as great as she use to be at tricking us with vocals, she was never that great at little changes she added (see Boys on snl) .

Theres definitely a track there. The background vocals are from the album because her live singers during that era were the worse and always screaming over the track, which they kind of are here. The black one even attempts to sing Britney’s part by accident in this video  

My only theory is maybe some the vocals were dubbed before the show aired because they sounded bad. 

Yeah I watched it again, the vocals were dubbed with studio vocals. Someone thought she sounded bad and fixed it  

 

All of this. 

She sang it live during the actual taping, but was dubbed when it actually aired.  

[RobRocks]

It's true, the bridge part sounds like the studio version but the rest sounds live  

[NewDisplayName]

she’s just too good at sounding like an album version track..

[It'sJodieeB!tch]

8 hours ago, jwkrusie said:

It sounds live to me the whole time. You can tell during the bridge that it's live.