Why did Britney stop singing live?

[Andreuph]

Why did she stop singing live? Her voice is so beautiful and iconic. Did they want her to be more of a performer rather than a singer? 

[YeezusChrist]

Cause her voice was so beautiful that the audience would tend to faint so they had to use playback instead

[queenofhearts]

someone made a thread several years ago claiming the cship doesn't let her sing live bc she would scream for help lol........maybe they were onto something backthen

[Brother Shawn]

5 minutes ago, thedoughboy said:

someone made a thread several years ago claiming the cship doesn't let her sing live bc she would scream for help lol........maybe they were onto something backthen

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"It feels illegal doing this with the mic on my hands right now"
 

https://youtu.be/FCYAibuiLLo

[Jamie Lynn Forever]

I think that the studio versions of her songs are quite complicated to do live for a few reasons :

1.  Her original voice is deep , she has a deep vocal range but her producers/music label made her to do this iconic nasal, throaty, "baby" voice, it's not a natural way to sing, it's a damaging vocal technique and it would be destructive/stressful for the vocal cords to sing in this way during a whole concert let alone a whole tour.

2. her songs are very overproduced and fast-paced, there's a lot going on , lot of FXs, lot of autotune, pitch correction, comping etc, it's pure entertaining pop candy and it's quite complicated to do it live unless they rework/re-adapt the songs to make them work live.

3. she dances a lot and you need a great cardio/breath control in order to sing live + it's not a healthy vocal technique.

[boyinthemirror]

3 hours ago, thedoughboy said:

someone made a thread several years ago claiming the cship doesn't let her sing live bc she would scream for help lol........maybe they were onto something backthen

I’d like to believe that but the tradition was already established like… since 2001. It’s true she used to sing live a song or two up until Onyx Tour. So maybe there is some truth to that after all 

[Stefani]

What do you mean? She always sings live.

[FemmeFataleBrit]

Honestly, even earlier, she always did a bit live and she put in that effort.

After a point, I felt like she simply stopped caring and knew her shows would be very successful anyway. Also, when she did make an effort, she was always criticised so she probably thought ‘well, what’s the point of singing live anyway?’.

[PokemonSpears]

stopped singing live?

[OutofKontrol]

Id imagine its prolly difficult for her to sing live in that made up robo-chipmunk- baby voice they have her record in.

[princessmimi]

I feel like its a combination of several things like her music, doing choreography and also she has no passion

for her work.

Since the conservatorship, she has shown lack of passion and love for performing.

(But obviously we know why)

I do feel like she should make more of an effort but I know its not her fault

 

[Work_Guilty]

How dare you she always sing live ! Hater 

[FrenchToast]

I guess she is not comfortable when she has to sing with her high pitched voice, this is not natural to her.
Honestly, when she sang Everytime live in the Onyx Hotel Tour, it felt painful for her (and for our ears )
It was much better during the BOMT era, and even the very last time I heard her live on "Something to talk about" when the range is deeper.
I also think she's very nervous and lack confidence to sing live in front of an audience.

Plus, as someone said above, the overproduced songs difficult to recreate in live, and the choreos. 

[Adam Wiatrowski97]

She simply doesnt care. She started lipping to CD vocals in 2001 (I always hated that, how can a Singer lip sync to autotuned vocals?) . Its not like she stopped to sing live because of the conservatorship. No conspiracy

[Yomanda2010]

Honestly who cares. We know she can sing. Did you see Sam’s IG post of her singing to her own song? That’s her showing everyone including her cship team that she’s not performing because she can’t, she’s not performing because she doesn’t WANT to. Her own artistic abilities have been held back a lot, for a long time. Not her fault. 

[ronron]

if youre an old fan you can totally notice why they shifted to playback during performances, go back and watch the bomt era promo performances she did completely live watch how little she danced, she didnt even attempt some of the moves but vocals were on point.

then enter the oops era when she completely shook the world with her high energy vma performance and that was it, thats when they knew the world wanted to see her dance her *** off and her career really shaped after that

Live vocals were quickly replaced by harder and harder choreography and for the oops, britney and itz era she only did the ballads live

and in that particular everytime performance from the onyx hotel that someone mentioned before she sounded out of breath cuz she had just finished performing one of those songs with hard choreo and there really wasnt anytime to catch her breath.

tbh we may complain from time to time about the lipsynching but britney wouldnt be the same without it, cuz its literally humanly impossible to perform like she did while singing live

 most of the artists that dance today (which are not a lot) sing only the verses live while they walk on stage and when the chorus starts the playback does too so they can dance and yell some random word live here and there without worrying about staying on key

problem is britney set the bar so high for herself that her fans would crucify her if she dared to walk through a performance for enough time to sing a bit live

 

 

[Britney671]

This is why we need a acoustic remake of her music. 

I would go see her live. 

[jennyj]

For a few reasons:

1. She doesn't have creative control anymore like she used to.  She will once she's free.  In the past, she would mainly lip-sync during heavy choreographed routines, but at least she did live bits or occasional live performances.

2. Her c-ship abusers prevented her from singing live. They don't even let her do live interviews anymore (you'll notice they must be pre-recorded now - because as we saw in the UK she spoke out about it, and then it was cut out of the actual airing).  Even back during the Circus tour, she would blurt our random things during those quick moments while the mic was still on as she was leaving the stage. The only times they let her talk or sing live are very carefully timed moments where they can pay attention and cut her mic when needed.  That's also most likely why her Domination announcement mic was off too.

[cillaward]

Tbh I think she stopped singing live at the same time as a lot of other artists in the early 00s. It was a big trend back then, especially as more and more artists were pressured to dance etc.

I think the reason she still does is one of two things (or both):

• She’s had the same team for a long time and for some reason they seem to think what worked in the 00s works today
• They think it’s part of her brand at this point and they know they can get away with it (why sing live when you can lip sync and get paid the same) 

[BritneyItaly]

Just yesterday I listened to the entire Baby One more Time album, comparing different songs with each other ... there is an incredible difference in tone ... all because she had to have a more baby voice. As the albums progressed, they obviously kept that kind of pitch. But doing an all live show with a tone of voice that isn't yours .... well it's really tough.