Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Beyonce's leaked Today Show "board feed" audio tape is sort of horrifying

So apparently when some pop singers perform live they aren't really singing their songs or something because they're lip-syncing. Shocking! But as the fancy, technologically-enhanced music they're lip-syncing to is being played for the audience, the performers will often still sing into the mike to make it appear more authentic or something. This is what's known in show business as the "board feed," audio being fed into the microphone that isn't going out to the audience.

Well, Beyonce must've really pissed off some sound engineer at NBC or something because someone over there leaked a tape of the board feed from one of her recent performances, and it's somewhat ghastly. Howard Stern played it on his show today. Here's the clip...

11 comments:

Sunshine1970 said...

Wow. Oh. Ouch. My poor ears.

I wish these performers would just sing live instead of lip syncing

That bit they played of Enrique Iglesias was worse, IMHO

mikeg said...

damn i miss howard since moving out here in the boonies

Anonymous said...

Hysterical! Tx for the post

k

Jim Johnson said...

I hate being one of *those* people but man... mainstream music really does suck.

Remember a few years ago when Madonna got an award for best live performance and Elton John was like, "... really? Is that a fucking joke? Live performance? You call what she does "live performance"?"

sheesh...

Nick said...

I'm guessing she doesn't have a monitor, so it's pretty much akin to singing if you were deaf. Not that big a deal, IMO.

Anonymous said...

it sounds incredibly doctored up...i really think she probably does suck live, but this seems ovbiously doctored...i dont think she is that bad...am sure there is more to come on this.

Anonymous said...

@mikeg - Stern is on Sirius. You can get his show anywhere in the country ( but you have to pay for it. )

Anonymous said...

yeah, i listened again, and this really is not real, you can tell that, its obviously a fake tape

Anonymous said...

sorry haters, but this is fake. Did you not see the woman sing to Obama? I cried like a baby. Cajun Boy, you should put up that video just to atone for doubting Miss B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pzlZPRvx8

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