Reports: Beyonce lip-synched national anthem
Mrs. Insider took one look at Beyonce at Monday’s inaugural ceremonies and told me this was the case. But would I believe her? Oh, no. It couldn’t possibly be so. The tweet from Jim Acosta of CNN:
CNN has confirmed Times of London report that Beyonce lip-synched the National Anthem during #inaug2013
The Times report cites a spokeswoman for the Marine Corps Band.
Look, the lady has fine pipes and obviously came down with a case of nerves, complicated by a driving need for perfection. But at any inaugural, whether Democrat or Republican, it seems to me that the object should be authenticity rather than unrivaled excellence.
What was that line from Obama’s inaugural speech? Ah, yes:
“We must act, we must act knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial.”
Otherwise, let’s just have Chuck Schumer say, “Roll tape.”
On the other hand, my AJC colleague Melissa Ruggieri, over at the Music Scene, has a different take. Check it out.
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tim
January 22nd, 2013
3:13 pm
She took a page from britney spears……she lip synches her concerts.
Beyonce is fake….just like our president.
Catlady
January 22nd, 2013
3:15 pm
It is not surprising. Too many egoes to let imperfection happen.
Sick of Mess
January 22nd, 2013
3:15 pm
Tim, you’re a fake. You must still be sore that Mittens didn’t win. Get over it, there is a Black Boss runing things.
Catlady
January 22nd, 2013
3:18 pm
I mean if Mr Chief Justice can’t get it right…
Watchful Eyes in Dixie
January 22nd, 2013
3:18 pm
This is news? What a waste of time.
LOL
January 22nd, 2013
3:18 pm
Bey… say it isn’t so!?!?
kgray
January 22nd, 2013
3:18 pm
Tim, apparently you must have thought plastic Romney would have been better and of course you were among the 47 percent who receive some type of government assistance? Romney didn’t win and the rest of you IDIOTS needs to get over IT; because, the AMERICAN PEOPLE have SPOKEN and they wanted OBAMA not ROMNEY who walk as if something is stuck up in his A??!
mae
January 22nd, 2013
3:19 pm
You all need to stop. I do not believe it and if it was so the president would know. If you all are not talking about Beyonce then you talking about somebody else
LydiasDad
January 22nd, 2013
3:21 pm
Hey “Sick of Mess”, you spelled “ruining” incorrectly.
Don Coyote
January 22nd, 2013
3:24 pm
This just in. American Bandstand and Soul Train performances were lip synched as well.
BBB
January 22nd, 2013
3:29 pm
Right on, Lydiasdad, i was thinking the same thing. sorry I missed everything, I had better things to do than watch MILLIONS of the TAXPAYERS money being wasted !!!
Fenton Hardy
January 22nd, 2013
3:30 pm
Maybe they should have brought in Milli Vanilli?
Bob Loblaw
January 22nd, 2013
3:30 pm
Fooled me.
the truth
January 22nd, 2013
3:32 pm
kgray, yep the people spoke indeed. They don’t really want King Obama, they just want their check. Know what i be sayin ??
blkshepherd
January 22nd, 2013
3:32 pm
@TIM You calling Obama fake? and that trick Romney is not? Get OVER IT ALREADY Romney did not win ok, he lost fair and square. also so you DONT get it CONFUSED, it was Not the Blacks that re elected Obama, it was the whites who put him in there the first time.
So beyonce lip synched hers and Kellie Clarkson sang My country tears of thee..Whatever, whether she lip synched or not thats STILL her voice on the recording duhhhh..You folks cry worst than new born infants.
Fenton Hardy
January 22nd, 2013
3:33 pm
Maybe they should have asked Milli Vanilli?
the truth
January 22nd, 2013
3:34 pm
Is it true that 700,000 people attending that waste of taxpayers ( people with jobs ) money. But only 300 had to miss work ?
kgray
January 22nd, 2013
3:37 pm
Truth, unfortunately I wouldn’t know what your are saying. I nor any member or my family ever received a check from the government. Both sets of my grandparents were educated and they insisted on their children being educated and the only check they received was from being employed. Now let’s hear about your family tree. Ignorant Idoit; because, more of you guys have received checks that we ever got. Now don’t get that TWISTED!
Q
January 22nd, 2013
3:39 pm
Lets talk about Michelle’s bangs instead.
Grasshopper
January 22nd, 2013
3:40 pm
She faked her entire pregnancy so no surprise here.
A phony rendition of the anthem for a phony ‘leader’ of the people in front of two faced politicians is exactly what we should expect.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 22nd, 2013
3:41 pm
Uh oh, now you got all the american idolaters all upset.
bigmama
January 22nd, 2013
3:44 pm
Whether she lipsync or not Bey pulled it off. Go Beyonce!
Denise
January 22nd, 2013
3:52 pm
@ Don Coyote…I don’t think you were a regular to Soul Train. Al Green, James Brown, Barry White…just to name a few, did not lip sync. They were known to give live performances. Yes…there were those that did but not ALL artist.
johnny fontane
January 22nd, 2013
3:54 pm
I’d still hit it.
Austin
January 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
Mathematically, nobody can look that good and sing that good at the same time. It was a recording of her actually singing the anthem though, right? So this wasn’t Milli Vanilli. Yo Yo Ma’s cello performance was recorded in 2009, too. You aren’t going to get anything to sound right in the wind and freezing cold. When they used to light the tree downtown, they would pre-record the choirs. This isn’t that big of a deal.
mugglemikki
January 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
At least she didn’t use performance-enhancing drugs for over 15 years, lie about it and then sue anyone that spoke up and told the truth…
mugglemikki
January 22nd, 2013
4:15 pm
And Whitney Houston also used a backing track…
Mike
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
How apropos!
Nothing New
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
This is nothing new, Whitney Houston did it at the Super Bowl, so was the music for Yo Yo Ma at the Inauguration 4 years ago. Duh
Nothing New
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
This is nothing new, Whitney Houston did it at the Super Bowl, so was the music for Yo Yo Ma at the Inauguration 4 years ago. Duh
Dave
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
Obama won – congradulations to him. But it was by no means by a huge majority. This was no “mandate” election by the people…but alot think so. Even though His Holiness thinks it was – we can not and must not let him take us down the Socialist road to becoming a third world country.
Nothing New
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
This is nothing new, Whitney Houston did it at the Super Bowl, so was the music for Yo Yo Ma at the Inauguration 4 years ago. Duh
Highlander
January 22nd, 2013
4:26 pm
Seriously??!! THIS is supposed to be an issue? Was it really that slow of a news day? As some others have pointed out, as long as it was her own voice, I don’t care. It wasn’t a concert.
Regarding someone’s inane comments about how many “working” people were there… You do realize that Monday was a national holiday and all government workers, banks and many other businesses were closed in observance of MLK Day, right? …Try using at least a little common sense.
Astrid G.
January 22nd, 2013
4:27 pm
Nothing new, we get it,we get it.
rightwingextreme
January 22nd, 2013
4:31 pm
FAKE! FAKE! FAKE! From Bouncy to Bammy. They’re all FAKEs.
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January 22nd, 2013
4:33 pm
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MANGLER
January 22nd, 2013
4:37 pm
Um, y’all … the DNC paid for the entire thing from their donated cash. This event didn’t use tax dollars.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 22nd, 2013
4:39 pm
At least she didn’t use a Teleprompter like obozo did.
ad
January 22nd, 2013
4:46 pm
@aesop fatuous – Lincoln read his speeches from paper. Obama uses a teleprompter (as did Bush, etc.). What’s your point (other than the one on top of your head)?
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
January 22nd, 2013
4:48 pm
At least we know BO did not lip sync the oath.
Deborah
January 22nd, 2013
4:50 pm
Who cares — she sounded and looked great.
Deborah
January 22nd, 2013
4:50 pm
Who cares — she sounded and looked great.
Durrrr
January 22nd, 2013
4:51 pm
Fake singer. Fake prez. Real drug dealer husband though. And michelle obama confirms sasquatch to be real. Oh I am so confused. Wait, they are humanzies!
Deborah
January 22nd, 2013
4:51 pm
Enter your comments here
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 22nd, 2013
4:52 pm
The speech was written for morons and obozo couldn’t remember it?
G-dub
January 22nd, 2013
4:52 pm
Who cares…She can’t sing a.nyway
West Georgia
January 22nd, 2013
4:52 pm
Must be a slow news day . Nothing wrong with faking it sometimes
Durrrr
January 22nd, 2013
4:54 pm
@ad the point is everyone is surprised that the humanzie (genetic cross between humans and chimps) can actually read. Licoln was also a republican and democrats fought tooth and nail until the 1970’s to keep segregation.
DJ Sniper
January 22nd, 2013
4:57 pm
You’re asking for common sense from some of these neo-con? Good luck with that.
Aesop, Obama is not the first president to use the teleprompter. Please stop putting your ignorance on display.
Starik
January 22nd, 2013
4:58 pm
Funny. Inconsequential.
Kris
January 22nd, 2013
5:16 pm
Deborah “”Who cares — she sounded and looked great.””
Great job..
What’s the big shady deal about lip-synching, every time Governor crooked Deal ( term loosely used) opens his mouth he’s lip-synching… They have to prop him up he’s too crooked to stand on his own..
God Bless America. God Bless President Barrack Obama.
By Shady 2014 and some of your cronies…
Clinton/ Biden 2016
Patrick Romano
January 22nd, 2013
5:18 pm
WE GETZ OUR CHICKEN FROM POPEYES…
Patrick Romano
January 22nd, 2013
5:20 pm
Sincere Ignorance & Conscious Stupidity & Free Crap entitlement mentality is what won this elitist idiot the election. Best thing about the inauguration is the Countdown to 2016…
Anothermommy
January 22nd, 2013
5:49 pm
Really??!! and guess the USMC band accompaning her FAKED IT too , YOU EOLE NEED TO Get a life!!
LG
January 22nd, 2013
6:00 pm
I wanted Jennifer Hudson to be the singer for all events. Bey has a great work ethic, but I’m sick of her and she needs to stop with all the burlesque stuff. And JHud has MUCH better vocals.
I don’t know if this is a big deal (celebs do it a lot), but it doesn’t seem right for such an important event. So it may not be a big deal.
td
January 22nd, 2013
6:17 pm
And who really cares if someone did or did not sing live at an event. The more important event of the day was Obama’s speech laying out his leftest agenda of gay marriage, global warming tax, gutting the 2nd Amendment and increased spending on more social programs. .
honested
January 22nd, 2013
6:20 pm
What a waste of keystrokes.
This would have been a great opportunity to pick out the half of the defense budget to eliminate!
honested
January 22nd, 2013
6:20 pm
td,
Obviously, you missed the speech.
DJ Sniper
January 22nd, 2013
6:39 pm
Nobody is gutting the 2nd Amendment td. That’s nothing but right wing paranoia from a bunch of sore losers. As usual, you neo-cons will take anything Obama says and twist it to fit your agenda.
missnadine
January 22nd, 2013
6:39 pm
It bothers me that she faked it – sorry. Aretha Franklin sang live 4 years ago, and though her voice had seen much better days, I don’t think her old-school professionalism would have allowed her to be fake. What an ego on her, or anyone else that faked it, including YoYo Ma from 4 years ago.
FarTrain
January 22nd, 2013
6:43 pm
I’m noticing that most news outlets, liberal pundits, music reviewers, etc. are taking up for her. This is to be expected as it goes right along with the “fake and phony” stuff being normal. Reality is no longer their main objective. Nothing has to be real or right anymore. Or, if it feels good do it, not matter what others think, or if it’s morally or civilly right or not. This world is so upside down it’s plum scary!
An observer
January 22nd, 2013
6:50 pm
I hope they did not pay her for lip synching. Does she get a big paycheck anyway?
Kris
January 22nd, 2013
6:52 pm
DJ Sniper “””Nobody is gutting the 2nd Amendment td.”””
Yet another senseless shooting..!
The Lone Star Campus System is a gun-free zone,
http://www.ajc.com/news/ap/crime/some-attacked-at-houston-area-college-campus/nT4K8/
Two Cobb County high school students were arrested Friday for allegedly having unloaded guns after another classmate tipped off school officials.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/student-tips-off-school-officials-to-guns-on-campu/nT37D/
If anyone drops their wallet in near the Gold Dome, I’d suggest they kick it to Canton before bending over to pick it up.
God Bless America. God Bless President Barrack Obama.
By Shady 2014 and some of your cronies…
Biden/Clinton (pick a Clinton 2016
FarTrain
January 22nd, 2013
7:02 pm
OK now I understand it. Scott Pelley on CBS News explained it to perfection-NOT!!! He said it was ” a pre-recorded version that was done live” What? Now we know why the liberal media has turned into pure mush and so unbelievable! “Sync-lipping” (sounds just as good) is dishonesty at it’s worst! She was trying to pull one, otherwise she would not have had a mic in her hand and an earpice!
gm
January 22nd, 2013
7:04 pm
BO is another artist of today who has no soul, Marvin, Witney, Michael , did have to do this, for all you Gobers in Georgia who hate the Pres, jump in your trailers and leave America””
Pompano
January 22nd, 2013
7:04 pm
Disrespectful to the President. You’re invited to sing so you should sing (if you really can). Sounds like she is more interested in her image than paying respect to the leader of our Nation.
Doubt we’ll be seeing a live performance during the Superbowl either.
123
January 22nd, 2013
7:07 pm
Another day and the td and assop crying continues
Seeing they both stated numerous times that Romney would win, it is no surprise that their usual tears would be a downpour since yesterday
clem
January 22nd, 2013
7:07 pm
maybe they should have asked romney to sing…get him out of his funk
FarTrain
January 22nd, 2013
7:10 pm
Concerning the shooting in TX, nobody would have even heard about it outside Houston if it had been knives involved. Media has gone berserk with their anti-gun agenda!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 22nd, 2013
7:14 pm
Well, at least with the new slogan from the mindless that “you SAID Romney would WIN” we don’t have to hear “it’s Bush’s fault.”
123
January 22nd, 2013
7:18 pm
Right on the money…. Assop cries
Pavlovion to say the least
123
January 22nd, 2013
7:20 pm
Cry on assop, cry on
See you around little bitter baby…
Wear your bib tomorrow… Your drool is dripping all over your garanimal shirt
Bwhahahahahaha
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
January 22nd, 2013
7:43 pm
What a surprise…something else that’s phony and worthless about Obozo and his failed regime.
Don Coyote
January 22nd, 2013
7:47 pm
@Denise – I didn’t say everyone on those shows lip synched. However most did. Including The Jackson Five running around strumming guitars and portable keyboards with no cords in an era that preceded capable FM pickups. I wasn’t even implying that it was any fault of the artist only that it is done and historically this is setting no precedent whatsoever. Jim Morrison insisted that the Doors performance on Bandstand not be lip synched but the record company forced the issue so he deliberately flubbed the synchronization. Hell, even Whitney’s famous Super Bowl anthem was lip synched.
As for the President Obama teleprompter debate. I’m pretty sure that as President, Ronald Reagen hardly ever uttered more than a sentence on camera without one.
Don Coyote
January 22nd, 2013
7:49 pm
Reagan.
oh well
January 22nd, 2013
7:51 pm
Little brain who call others liars, cried like a baby at wingfields for being called a liar
What a little bit@h
You are a punk… At best
oh well
January 22nd, 2013
7:52 pm
Little brain is a big talk…. Little walk weasel
td
January 22nd, 2013
8:10 pm
123
January 22nd, 2013
7:07 pm
First there was liberallefty (Representative Hank Johnson) and now we have 123 (formally known as Auntie Christ/satan/Billy mays hayes.
SBinF
January 22nd, 2013
8:10 pm
“Obama won – congradulations to him. But it was by no means by a huge majority. This was no “mandate” election by the people…but alot think so. Even though His Holiness thinks it was – we can not and must not let him take us down the Socialist road to becoming a third world country.”
Right….and if the results had been switched, same numbers but in Romney’s favor, I’m sure you’d be singing from the same page in the hymnal.
He won, handily. Get over it. Why not talk about how all Obama supporters are mooches. That’s a start, right?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Vote American)
January 22nd, 2013
8:13 pm
oh well’s buddy JamVet got smacked down and he’s not taking it well.
td
January 22nd, 2013
8:15 pm
honested
January 22nd, 2013
6:20 pm
td,
Obviously, you missed the speech.
No I did not miss the speech. I read the entire thing and it is clear the progressive agenda that Obama is going to put forward. He knows it is not going to pass but he is going to do this agenda in hopes that he can make the 2014 election about giving him the house he needs to get it passed. I think he needs to read Nate Silver’s article on the chances the Dems have of taking back the house before 2020.
Buckhead Boy
January 22nd, 2013
9:54 pm
td: “I think he needs to read Nate Silver’s article on the chances the Dems have of taking back the house before 2020.”
Of course, Silver’s article was written before the Legacy Conference in DC Sunday. I am confident that Organizing for Action combined with continuing to make two moves soundly (in the Chess sense) against the Republicans will yield earlier results.
Lynn43
January 22nd, 2013
10:46 pm
As a classical musician, my thought when I heard that Beyonce would be singing the National Anthem was that it would be just another insult to our nation and foul-up performed by another entertainer. I was wrong. Her rendition was wonderful. I don’t care whether it was pre-taped or live. It was great. There are many factors which make a live performance very risky, and performing outside especially in very cold weather is one of them. If it was a pre-tape, more power to her for caring about our National Anthem and her performance of it to making it the best performance possible. It is a difficult song to perform in the best of circumstances.
Kris
January 22nd, 2013
10:48 pm
One would think that with the Democrats (President Obama) win over GOP slime (rape, war on women) that they might get a clue, alas they are to dimwitted to realize that America sent them a message.
To all the GOP they do not return in 2014 a early good riddance.
God Bless America. God Bless President Barrack Obama.
By Shady 2014 and some of your cronies…
Biden/Clinton (pick a Clinton 2016
R
January 22nd, 2013
10:51 pm
Recorded? Why not?
We send taped band music to bury our veterans, so why not just roll tape for the
“King of the Corpse-men?”
Lynn43
January 22nd, 2013
10:52 pm
Oh by the way. I also am glad that Mr. Obama is our President. And before you say that I am most likely “one of those freeloaders”, I am 70 years old, white, 3 college degrees, still work about 14 hours a day 6 days a week, and am not on medicare.
Rule .303
January 22nd, 2013
11:19 pm
Jim, seriously, you need to talk to your cohort Rodney Ho. This is stale news! They’ve been lip syncing for the Super Bowl since Jesus walked the Earth…why wouldn’t they do it for this?
More importantly, why was this failure re-elected???????
Why are voters so stupid?…oh wait, they expect another handout in the form of extended UI benefits!
But of course you’ll never write about that will you?
Attack Dog
January 23rd, 2013
5:59 am
Dubya lip-synched for eight years, and to make matters worse, he messed up his speeches with or without a teleprompter. So what’s the problem?
Weetamoe
January 23rd, 2013
6:47 am
Notice how Obama has infected his followers with the *blame the other side for everything * spirochete. The fact that Beyonce is a fake is the fault of Romney and the people who voted for him. Really?
GB
January 23rd, 2013
6:58 am
What is troubling is not the fact that the song was not sung live, but the horrible rendition.
liberalefty
January 23rd, 2013
7:06 am
why didnt TED NUGENT sing the anthem…hehehehe
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 23rd, 2013
7:28 am
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Fewer than four-in-10 Americans (39 percent) rate the US in a positive manner – the most negative feedback the country has produced since 1979.
Welcome back karter.
liberalefty
January 23rd, 2013
7:49 am
@ass hop 7:28
but they love OBAMA…lololololololololololol…WELCOME BACK indeed…hehehe
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 23rd, 2013
7:53 am
ll fool j – I’m just curious, how old are you?
honested
January 23rd, 2013
8:08 am
Maybe today Jim will have an article questioning whether the rumor is true that the “noted philanthropist” Arther Blank has informed charities that he will be withholding contributions until he gets taxpayer funding for his new stadium?
Isn’t there a legal term for such behavior?
Lester Maddox....
January 23rd, 2013
8:12 am
Who cares ?….Her performance only proves that she’s about three grades below Whitney Houston….. …….
Granny Godzilla
January 23rd, 2013
8:16 am
All of Obama”s Hollywood friends are phonies…just like him!
liberalefty
January 23rd, 2013
8:17 am
THE PEE PARTY is so confused right now….just read these comments from the racist christian rightwingers!…OBAMA wins again..hehehehehehehehe
Who Cares
January 23rd, 2013
8:17 am
AJC becomes more and more irrelevant every day. Waste of reporting.
liberalefty
January 23rd, 2013
8:18 am
who will the Pee Party nominate in 2016…?…CANT WAIT
curious
January 23rd, 2013
8:18 am
At least pro wrestling is real.
rock in my shoe
January 23rd, 2013
8:25 am
Shoulda had bocephus.
1776
January 23rd, 2013
9:42 am
Figures. Urban YOdeler BeYOnce has zero talent (beyond overrated looks) and latched unto that (equally untalented) “G@y-Z” because he’s raking in the $$$. If not for that, “diva” BeYOnce wouldn’t have given that ugly-mug the time of day.
Shark Punch!
January 23rd, 2013
10:10 am
Did she need a teleprompter?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 23rd, 2013
10:31 am
My goodness, hillary gets fuglier every day.
Jon Lester
January 23rd, 2013
2:38 pm
The entire thing was fake, orchestrated for no other purpose than to give donors a party and bilk them once more. Sunday’s actual, Constitutional inauguration is how it ought to be every time, with no flourish and no controversies over who’ll give a benediction, when none has been mandated.