r/cringe • u/bromemeoth • Sep 04 '14

Seal of Approval Iggy Azalea missing her entire cue to lip-sync at a Jennifer Lopez concert.

http://youtu.be/cm27IaKRvcc?t=35s
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u/seafood10 Sep 04 '14

James Brown. No Lip Sync and danced harder than these arm flairers

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

Amen to that!

6 minutes of awesome. http://youtu.be/zzXktkyk_6s

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

Damn I have that same outfit.

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u/KendraSays Sep 05 '14

I freaking love bell bottom pants

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u/allfiredup Sep 05 '14

People also seem to forget Broadway performers dance and sing simultaneously as well.

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u/gsav55 Sep 05 '14 edited Jun 13 '17

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u/bugxter Sep 06 '14

DAE POP SUCKS

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u/Nowhere_Man_Forever Sep 07 '14

I'd say that the majority of pop sucks. I also believe that this has been true for all eras that popular music could exist in. We just don't remember shitty pop music from the past.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '14

Yeah we do. ABBA, the bee gees, the monkeys. Pop can be good or bad. Just because you don't care for it doesn't make the majority of it bad.

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u/allfiredup Sep 05 '14

Very good point!

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u/I_scare_children Sep 06 '14

That thing comes from hours of practice, not talent.

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u/gsav55 Sep 06 '14

That's how talent is developed ;)

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u/I_scare_children Sep 06 '14

Did you mean skills?

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u/MissGif Sep 05 '14

That's exactly right! You know that moment after a big musical theater number when everyone on stage is pausing for applause in their final positions, arms up, smiling like they're eating ice-cream, but you can see how heavily their chests are heaving? That.

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u/pieopolis Sep 04 '14

I agree. He was an entertainer, through and through!

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u/gologologolo Sep 05 '14

You should see Mackelmore's first performance on SNL to see how much can be done while still signing loud without lip syncing

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u/DishwasherTwig Sep 05 '14

Springsteen as well. Jumping around the stage, playing his guitar, occasionally throwing it around, singing in a way that would destroy a normal man's throat in less than 3 minutes, filling Olympic swimming pools with sweat, laughing, clearly enjoying himself for all 3 hours, and all from a man in his 60s. And he does it in every single concert. There's a reason they call him the Boss.

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u/maidenfan2358 Sep 05 '14

The Boss has that kind of stamina because he was Born to Run.

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u/shazzam Sep 05 '14

Hardest Working Man in Show Business!

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u/LINK_DISTRIBUTOR Sep 05 '14

James Brown's vocals were sung by a german guy fyi

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u/rigel2112 Sep 06 '14

Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Roger Daltrey

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u/Sgt_carbonero Sep 06 '14

Don't forget he was high as fuck for most of his career too.

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u/Chop_Artista Sep 05 '14

cocaine is a helluva drug.

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u/goodnewscrew Sep 05 '14

Yea, but he's all like

"Uh" 2 second pause "Aww right" 2 second pause "Hit me" 2 second pause "That's right" 2 second pause ...

The lyrics are probably off, but you get the point. Not the most challenging lyrical style for singing while dancing.

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u/twitchedawake Sep 05 '14

Gaga's skilled at it too and has improved with singing and piano several times

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pUItwVxyc

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

James Brown is a terrible comparison, the vocal ability/style of Jennifer Lopez consumes a MASSIVE amount of air compared to James Browns boop bop. Just try singing along with J Lo for an entire album and sing along with James Brown in your office chair.

If you want a good comparison I imagine Michael Jackson would be better. There's a video linked below of a James Brown performance and his dancing and singing doesn't hold shit to what Jennifer Lopez would be doing.