Did Beyoncé Lip-Sync the Star-Spangled Banner?

Washingtonian ^ | 1/22/13 | Sophie Gilbert

[Nachum]

Click source link for article.

[Hot Tabasco]

If I recall, Yo Yo Ma was faking it at the last inauguration due to the extreme cold and the effect it has on his cello......

[manic4organic]

So sick of singers that can’t actually sing. Beyonce sounds like a goat singing through a box fan. Taylor Swift can’t hit a note live. Both are studio manufactured products. My daughter is near pitch perfect and makes me cry every time she sings the anthem.

[al baby]

He is the Color Purple

[Fiji Hill]

Beyonce's version doesn't even come close to being as good as the version by Anna Case.

[oh8eleven]

Does EVERYTHING here have to be racial?
Why should FR be any different than everything else we've faced in daily life for the last 25-30 years?
Now it's gotten to the point that just being born white ... and a recipient of "white privilege" ... automatically makes us racist.
It ain't my doing - we know who the real racists are - and if you don't like me pointing it out - too feckin' bad.

[freekitty]

I didn’t know that. Even their guest fake it.

[bigdaddy45]

Alright, since you brought it up, please demonstate how ESPN’s top 10 “plays of the day” have a skew towards black athletes?

Or are you just throwing crap against the wall because you have nothing?

[Vendome]

Saw that and I’m trying to open the site but it loads slower than a herd of arthritic turtles stricken with emphysema ....

Guess she did fake it and so did the band.

Must be pretty disappointing in bed.

Still, I’d hit it just to find out.

[Hot Tabasco]

No. She pulled the reader out of ear after being restrained and let it all out.

This afternoon, a spokesman for the Marine Corps band revealed that she was indeed lip syncing to their studio pre-recorded national anthem........

[Hot Tabasco]

Beyonce did not show up for rehearsal with the band as scheduled. So at the last minute she decides she wants to lip synch it.

There was nothing to rehearse and there was no last minute decision to lip synch since her singing of the NA had already been pre-recorded in a sound studio with the USMC band.....

As a side note, how do you expect these public performances, along with Super Bowl entertainers, to provide sound studio quality acoustics in an open air public venue? They can't, it's impossible.

[Vendome]

Saw that

Still want to hit and see how far her lip syncing skills go....

[hummingbird]

"Rats. Now Kanye will have to crash Taylor Swift’s next award presentation to give props to Beyonce again."

Stay classy, Kanye.

[randita]

There’s more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2980787/posts

[VideoDoctor]

What inauguration? Did I miss something?

[Nachum]

What inauguration? Did I miss something?

Nope.

[Varsity Flight]

As I recall, Whitney Houston years ago at the Super Bowl fantastic performance, live, and needed little help, if any.

Correct me folks if I’m wrong here.

[tiger63]

Her voice is more like chalk screeching on a blackboard.

[Hot Tabasco]

As I recall, Whitney Houston years ago at the Super Bowl fantastic performance, live, and needed little help, if any.

So we've been told......

Like I said in an earlier post, it's pretty damn hard to reproduce studio quality vocals in a live venue

[apocalypto]

Beyonce appears to be a fake like Milli Vanilli. Can she even sing?

[wastedyears]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJPiUPZxdc

Been done already.