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SoulAlive

Surprise,surprise: Britney Spears accused of lip-syncing her Vegas shows

Britney Spears accused of lip-syncing

By Lisa Respers France, CNN
updated 8:39 PM Spears began a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on December 27, 2013, with the debut of her show "Britney: Piece of Me."EDT, Mon August 18, 2014 (CNN) -- Oops, she did it again.

Some fans of Britney Spears are accusing the singer of lip-syncing to her song "Perfume" during her Las Vegas show. According to gossip site Oh No They Didn't, Spears' mouth is moving but the audience is mostly hearing singer Sia's version of the track.

Billboard points out that Sia -- best known for her hit song "Chandelier" -- is credited as one of the writers of "Perfume." An acoustic version of the song as performed by Sia is big on YouTube.

"If you listen closely to the performance video, you can make out some of Spears' vocals under Sia's more charactered voice," Colin Stutz writes for Billboard. "That's because, most likely, Spears uses Sia's track as an in-monitor guide when she sings. Only this time it was put into the house mix, making for an embarrassing act. It's not the first time Spears has been called out for the vocalizations during her Vegas show, which is part of a two-year residency. In reviewing the show for the Los Angeles Times, writer Mikael Wood points out that the singer's show appears to take its title, "Piece of Me," literally.

"Whatever the scale of the number ... the singer's presence felt so diminished -- her dancing a tentative shadow of what it used to be, her vocals apparently lip-synced for the majority of the show -- as if to make the production's title seem a taunt," Wood writes.

While her manager Adam Leber initially denied that Spears wasn't singing live during the show, he later backtracked during an interview with Medium.com.

"To put on the show that she puts on, it's virtually impossible to sing the entire time and do what she does," he said.

"She's singing on every song, basically, when she has the ability to sing. There's no way you can dance for 90 minutes straight and sing the entire time."

[Edited 8/21/14 20:21pm]

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Reply #1 posted 08/21/14 8:20pm

SoulAlive

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Reply #2 posted 08/21/14 8:29pm

SoulAlive

I feel like,if you're gonna lip-sync,at least do it convincingly! nuts Britney doesn't even try.She's just a talentless puppet who can't even lip-sync properly.

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Reply #3 posted 08/21/14 8:33pm

SoulAlive

lol

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Reply #4 posted 08/21/14 8:39pm

617automatic

She was always one of the worst. She just never put in the effort to hide it. It seems like when she performs now or the last ten years, she just sleepwalks through life.

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Reply #5 posted 08/21/14 8:59pm

SoulAlive

617automatic said:

She was always one of the worst. She just never put in the effort to hide it. It seems like when she performs now or the last ten years, she just sleepwalks through life.

Yeah,she seems so out of it.On some songs,she doesn't even use her own recorded vocals anymore! She's lip-syncing to Sia's vocals.

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Reply #6 posted 08/21/14 10:12pm

alphastreet

girl you know it, girl you know it...

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Reply #7 posted 08/21/14 10:14pm

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Everybody knows she lipsyncs. Why bring this up all the time?

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Reply #8 posted 08/22/14 6:19am

JoeBala

All that dancing she does it's very hard. Even JJ does it, but she is good though.

Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It!
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Reply #9 posted 08/22/14 11:04am

mjscarousal

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Everybody knows she lipsyncs. Why bring this up all the time?

I think people do it to put her down. She has never made excuses or pretended to not lip sync. The other ones who act like they sing live 100 percent of the time need to be called out more.

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Reply #10 posted 08/22/14 11:18am

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SoulAlive said:

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yeahthat It's well known bitney has always lip synched her stuff giggle what's new?

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Reply #11 posted 08/22/14 3:21pm

CynicKill

90's babies accept lip syncing as art.

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Reply #12 posted 08/22/14 10:09pm

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