Why do all pop singers lip sync and only Britney is famous for it?

[kevin.]

they usually pre-record a live sounding version of the song in the studio so it's hard to know. Britney has just used the old studio vocals, but who knows if that was even her decision. 

[LaLisaManoban]

17 minutes ago, GlitterRain said:

I remember this show back in the early 2000’s where Britney was walking somewhere before a performance and someone asked her about the vocals and she casually said it was playback. I was like  I can’t remember what show it was or where to find the clip. I could care less if she lip sync, she’s still amazing 

Yes. I think it was for a performance but I'm not sure... someone asks her about rehearsals and she says something like "it's all playback anyway".

[that's hot y'all]

22 minutes ago, MikeHunt said:

Being a Britney fan has really trained me to know when someone is lipping, even using a new prerecorded vocal track!  

yas !!!

me too !!!

[vzlafan]

because britney used the same vocals as the album as because was the easy target! but britney answers in that time was good that having hard routines and sing is imposible!!

but almost pop stars do it for the dancing and male pop stars they need sometimes to get a little bit hard to make enphasys in some parts of their body to make more notorious dancing, so is dificult singing, mastur.... and dancing at the same time 

[GlitterRain]

4 minutes ago, LaLisaManoban said:

Yes. I think it was for a performance but I'm not sure... someone asks her about rehearsals and she says something like "it's all playback anyway".

Yes!!! I was like 

[MikeHunt]

Chloe Bailey and Normani are the lipsynching queens of this generation. Yet their fanbases swear they’re always singing live
 

 

[Rachel Green Geller]

I can understand people being upset over playback. They're paying for a live performance and she should sing over the track.

That being said, it's always been "cool" to bash Britney, so she's always been an easy target whereas some other pop girls havent.

[kevin.]

there's nothing wrong with lip-syncing. it actually gives a better performance imo.

[div]

I love Britney but there's not other major artist that lipsynced as much as her

[Matou]

1 hour ago, MikeHunt said:

Being a Britney fan has really trained me to know when someone is lipping, even using a new prerecorded vocal track!  It’s funny reading the comments on some of these new girlies performances, and people are praising their “live” vocal… the untrained ear 
 

 

I'm dying at this post

"at least Christina Aguilera screams live. Thats what an Artist is all about - authenticity!!!"

[DontNeedAReasonWhy]

Because they can’t dance and she can baby 

[Matou]

At least pre-recorded would have been good but we can't blame her since the cship ... she couldn't do anything. On rare occasions on Circus Tour & POM but she wasn't able to show if she wanted to.

[princessmimi]

1 hour ago, GlitterRain said:

I remember this show back in the early 2000’s where Britney was walking somewhere before a performance and someone asked her about the vocals and she casually said it was playback. I was like  I can’t remember what show it was or where to find the clip. I could care less if she lip sync, she’s still amazing 

I know what you're referring to.

I think it was from her Stages documentary that she made in 2002.

She was wearing a red top and jeans and said that

[GlitterRain]

3 minutes ago, princessmimi said:

I know what you're referring to.

I think it was from her Stages documentary that she made in 2002.

She was wearing a red top and jeans and said that

It was so iconic because she said it so casually and it was during a time that everyone was talking about it. I was like 

[do the thing]

mainly because she's one of the very few artists that lip to her 20+ years old vocals during her entire shows. others usually use prerecorded vocals and include at least some live singing at some point; britney didn't for more than a decade despite being a singer. hence why she's known for this. i mean critics said that FFT was better than circus because of the vocals  

i still think not singing live wasn't her decision tbh bc she didn't use to lip her ballads before the c ship

[LeavinExhaleByYearEnd]

4 hours ago, IamMax said:

I think it was because Britney always used (or almost always) the same vocals as the album. The playback was really obvious lol. 

She was heavily mocked by Brazilian media when she played at Rock In Rio 2001 because of the playback. She’s still remembered to this day here

[mfanbs]

2 hours ago, ItsBeanie****** said:

Britney should've owned it. Her best answer was when she said sometimes it's impossible to sing live due to the dance routines. Her worst answer was "I always sing live." An out and out lie albeit Larry and Vegas probably told her to say it. Like others say MJ lipped too but during his prime when his dancing was still IT. Onyx had amazing performances plus minimal live vocals. Circus onwards kept the minimal to no live vocals but lost the great dancing. Lip syncing to Perfume and Alien and Lucky at POM was unforgiveable imo but then she was a prisoner so why would she make an effort? I wouldn't

this right here had me wondering all this time, should we forget the last 14 years and all music related things because she was in a very horrible situation as  somewhat of a prisoner? 

should we dismiss just like that all the things that happened good and bad?  

we all kind of knew what was going on with the convervatorship yet nothing happened until 2 years ago 

why we didnt fight for her rights in 2009 2010? why her friend cade didnt help her with the lawyer before?

[Simday1]

They tried to make it seem she had no vocal ability...compared to Christina, etc. I'm like Who TF recorded the record she's fake singing to? Her most auto-tuned record was "Anticipating" & "Brave New Gurl", The gurl can sing!

[Gordon]

Lip synching has existed for a long time, not just in pop music.

Go back to the 1960s or 50s and you'll find videos of rock musicians "miming" as it was called back then. they'd mime with their instruments not plugged in, set to a studio recording that played on TV. Elvis Presley did a lot of miming in his TV appearances. 

From a technical standpoint, there's a variety of reasons lip synching and miming have been used. Going back to my example of the 60s, it was done mainly for proper audio with the studio recordings already pre-recorded. Britney and other pop singers have been doing it for years cause the live show is more of theatricals with dancing and a big stage show, where music comes second. 

Lip synching did not become this big taboo until the Milli Vanilli scandal in the 90s. They were busted on live television for using playback. MV were already in a scandal prior to that, cause the real sessions musicians who wrote and recorded all their music had spoken out in a news article after their big Grammy win.

(BTW if you find interest in the MV scandal, look up an Italo-Disco artist named Den Harrow. He was a complete invention by studios. He never sang a single word on his albums. Everything was pre-recorded with an American vocalist while Den Harrow was a model who had the looks to be the star. Den Harrow won the Italian equivalent of the Grammys with "Future Brain" while the true vocalist went uncredited for many years)

TLDR; it's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be. Everyone has been doing it for 60+ years. 

 

[princessmimi]

17 minutes ago, GlitterRain said:

It was so iconic because she said it so casually and it was during a time that everyone was talking about it. I was like 

Lol true.

Britney wasnt embarassed to be lip syncing