1. the rapper and the live band---not talking about the roots or anybody like them...talking about the rapper who doesn't know a guitar from a violin.

2. the lush violin string arrangement on every damn song--i swear i see the same string players on every damn show

3. the black gospel choir/back up singers--you josh groban--do not know that many black people

4. the children's choir---awww...self explanatory

I pretty much agree with you!

when the lead singer stages a "sing along contest" to see which side of the audience sings better. stop that right now. i didn't pay a damn ticketmaster fee to hear the audience sing. i paid to hear the people on stage sing. quit being lazy, put that microphone in your face, and SING INTO IT!

how about the rapper that has ALL his boys on stage with him and they are all yelling out the lyrics. sounds like a hot mess!

pyrotechnics!!!!! janet abused them on the Rock Wit U Tour.

Anxiety said:

you're talking about prince, right? it's got to the point where in
some shows he'll play the opening chords and let the crowd do everything
after that. he'll just throw in a word here and there and pluck a bass.

ehuffnsd said:

my number one pick along with:

-the request to "make some noise"
-follwed by "put your hands together"
-not to be confused with "throw your hands in the air"
-people performing with a towel in hand
-children's choir
-looking out at the audience and pretending to cry... just as you did the night before
-bringing people onstage to dance or sing along
-pretending to sing
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* Medleys, as opposed to one whole song. We do NOT all have Attention Deficit Disorder.
* Star-crossed pairings of veterans with newbies. Diddy and Sting? Pharell drumming with Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and... Sting? Phil Collins and Bone, Thugs and Harmony?!? (Though, in fairness the last mash-up only happened in a video; not live. Thank goodness. )
* Lipsynching, unless you have full choreography
* Half-naked backup dancers onstage
* Performers tinkering with an instrument they've likely never even been in the same room with.
* Mariah Carey. Period. At this point, anything she does onstage comes off as a gimmick.
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video projection... i long for the days before we had giant video screens everywhere on stage.

Doing a political song and bring people in different cultural outfits on the stage


Pretending to cry(Michael, I'm looking at you!)

Singers screaming at the top of their lungs just to impress the audience.

Say ho!!!!!
(Ho!)

Say oooooh weeeee!!!!
(Ooooooh weeeee!)

Say oh oh oh oh!!!!!
(Oh oh oh oh!)

Say na na na na!!!!!
(Na na na na!)

That shit is so played out and gets on my last nerve.

Another thing that gets on my damn nerves is an artist stopping the show and doing a damned acoustical set on a stool with a Buck Owens looking guitar. Hell, I didn't come to hear good jams stripped down sounding like a damn "Hee Haw" hillbilly sing-a-long. Dammitt, if the band needs to change clothes, just have an intermission. That way I can go get another beer and piss out some of the previous beer.

1. mechanical /military dance "sound effects" ...WOOSH wack wack kuh kuh!

2. Very little or choreographed audience interaction ( mike)

3. Not much spontinaety (sp)- MIKE!

vainandy said:

Anxiety said:

do u mean like this?

Anxiety said:

If that ain't Chaka Khan, I'll pay the price.

Krytonite said:

That annoys me too. And yeah them pyrotechnics are VERY tiring.

Madonna pisses me off when she won't continue until she thinks people have sung whatever she wants them to sing loud enough for her. It's almost as if she's saying "Bitches, you best sing or I am not going to continue with the show"

Oh and medleys. I hate them. Give me the full song please.

Calling out to the city they are in...more than once.

Turning on all the lights in the middle of the set.

bboy87 said:

Tito, bring me a tissue!

Female singers doing burlesque. OVER IT. X

lip synching--has to be the worst new standard of performing.

Dancing that looks completely forced and not part of the music in any way. You don't have to be doing some "move" just move to the music.

Rappers saying "uh, uh" before they begin a verse.

Rapper who hold the microphone the "cool" way, so you can't understand a word they say

Professional dancers distracting from the fact that the main performer is not very interesting.

drum solos. They never were interesting to anyone but the people playing them
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I agree with every post on this thread.

carax said:

Co-sign. Although, an exceptionally well conceived and tasteful burlesque performance can still be pretty cool. One of the best I've seen was actually done by a guy! It was at a drag show, but there was an intermission performer -- performing in butch male attire -- who did a sort of burlesque performance with a chair and a whip. It wasn't at all explicit, but it was incredibly sexy... and artistically near-perfect.
[Edited 12/16/08 13:30pm]

and another thing

when a rapper has his ENTIRE entourage on the fucking stage

I loved Tupac, but dude's concert DVD ....

Lammastide said:

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ehuffnsd said:

fuck she is fab.

dawntreader said:

no she is DIVINE

ehuffnsd said:

yes Sir!

do you know that album MUD WILL BE FLUNG TONIGHT?

dawntreader said:

yup

NDRU said:

Over the backup dancer gimmick.