Posted on 05/24/2007 9:43:39 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Britney Spears booed for lip-synching at Florida concert
10:00AM Tuesday May 22, 2007
Britney Spears was booed by fans after being caught out lip-synching during a 'live' performance.
The troubled singer was performing at the House of Blues in Florida on Saturday night when technical glitches saw her backing CD skip repeatedly, exposing her miming.
A source is quoted by gossip website TMZ.com: "It was an ugly scene. The crowd started jeering and heckling her. Britney looked absolutely devastated."
"When the CD started skipping during the song Do Somethin', Britney hid her face and turned her back. Then, when it resolved itself, she turned around with this look on her face like she was going to puke."
Hundreds of fans had queued for hours and some had spent hundreds on tickets to see the show.
The appearance was part of a series of 15-minute concerts which have seen Britney perform live for the first time in three years under the pseudonym M+Ms.
After the initial hitch, Britney suffered further technical problems, which left her "rolling around on the floor with her headset broken".
Britney is not the first star to suffer the embarrassment of being caught miming.
Ashlee Simpson was left stunned during a performance on US comedy show Saturday Night Live in 2004 when the wrong backing track was accidentally played, leaving her mouthing the wrong words.
Madonna was also famously blasted by Sir Elton John for lip-synching at her stage shows.
Where is the youngest son? He’s never seen.
Is she any good? Can’t say I’ve ever heard a stick of her music?
The troubled singer was performing at the House of Blues in Florida on Saturday night when technical glitches saw her backing CD skip repeatedly, exposing her miming.
That sounds like a non sequitur to me. I believe that people booed because they were upset with the technical glitches rather than discovering that the dumb blond lip-synched the show.
If the projector bulb burns out at the theater do people boo because they realize the picture was projected on the screen? They boo because the show was disrupted.
It was billed as “Live”. It was a “One Woman Show” where she did a bunch of song and dance numbers. Not sure if there was a “live” orchestra. Caused a bit of a flap when it happened.
Nope...but she was succesful for a time.
A bit closer, yes, but considering I’m six inches taller than Brit, it’d almost have to!
You’re right. The “concert” was admittedly lip-synched since she started doing these shows. C’mon, don’t you want to be part of the Brit comeback tour?
I need to find a few pictures from the “Laugh-In” production I did in February. I wore those white boots the whole play! (I got to switch up miniskirts, though.)
I heard that.
It’s all Disney’s fault. I blame Mickey Mouse.
Which end?
HEH
That backup dancer looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar!
They brought Shara Jane Smith back too.
I don’t believe that she can actually read.
Never have! Heck, I gotta admit, I’ve never even watched “Dr. Who.”
I do know what a tardis is, though. ;)
This is what happens when you take off your clothes, (with your parents permission) at 17 years old, on the cover of a national mag, instead of practicing to improve your talent.
Sad, why not take all that money and the kids, retire until she grows up a bit? Then come back after she has written some songs, and raised her kids?
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