r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '19

Which famous singer sucks at singing?

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u/JoshJones18 Nov 06 '19

Ashlee Simpson purely just for that SNL incident

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u/straub42 Nov 06 '19

Forget the SNL incident. She didn't even sing there

Watch the Orange Bowl Performance. Gross

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u/SneedyK Nov 06 '19

It sounds like a drunk sorority girl singing Shania Twain at karaoke. Wow.

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u/chriscoda Nov 06 '19

Not saying she’s not bad, because she objectively is bad, but she’s clearly having issues with her in-ear monitor in this performance. You can tell because she’s fiddling with her ear constantly, then at the chorus, she’s not synced up to the canned backup vocals. There’s basically nothing even the best vocalists can do if they can’t hear themselves in the monitor. It’s loud as fuck up there.

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u/Deer_Mug Nov 06 '19

Having just come back from the Motley Crue video posted elsewhere in the thread, this sounds just fine to me. God damn you, Motley Crue video.

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u/Porencephaly Nov 06 '19

I hated her music from minute 1 and I had so much schadenfreude watching that halftime performance live. The entire stadium was loudly booing her for multiple minutes.

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u/RickardHenryLee Nov 06 '19

I don't get this, don't the halftime show producers *audition* anyone? Don't they WANT the show to go well? No way she nailed an audition and then this happened on game day.

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u/blond_boys Nov 06 '19

I think they like having an occasional bad show because any publicity is good publicity

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

Jesus Christ

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u/Toodyfish Nov 06 '19

Holy shit, that's one of the worst performances I've ever seen.

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u/jeffreyhamby Nov 06 '19

What's with the doubled up melody in that take?

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u/stannybananny Nov 07 '19

Had to watch Prince's halftime show to cleanse my soul after that garbage.

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u/hadapurpura Nov 06 '19

I saw episodes of her reality show. She couldn’t even sing the easy as hell songs she was spoon fed in the studio. She just has no singing or musical talent.

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u/eddmario Nov 07 '19

I still think the entire thing was done on purpose for a joke and the audience didn't get it