Performing live is an essential part of the music industry. Live music creates energy in the audience that can’t be felt on a recording of the song. Seeing your favorite artist perform live can be the best of your life or the worst. As concert tickets get more and more expensive, we have to be wise with our money. Some artists perform better in the studio than on the stage. I know that it is heartbreaking to find out that your favorite artists use such an extreme amount of vocal modification that they can’t recreate it on stage, but finding out before you spend all your money will help you.
Here is a list of the worst performers to see live:
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey emerged on the music scene in 1990 and she blew the world away with her vocal talent. She has a 5-octave vocal range that has been praised throughout the decades. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and as time went on so did her voice. Now she gives shaky performances with lip syncs and I’m sure everyone remembers her 2017 New Year’s performance:
Adam Levine has never been a person to shy away from a paycheck. In 2002 Maroon 5 got their start and obtained a few Grammy awards in the process. Although they are complete superstars, they actually aren’t the best vocally. Adam’s voice has no range and stays the same on almost every track. You don’t have to see him live to realize what he is all about.
It’s definitely known that Jennifer Lopez is not the best singer. She can thank her success off of her few hits and her looks. A lot of people in the industry are not happy about her level of success when it seems like she doesn’t have a lot of back up, besides her butt.
I love Lana Del Rey’s music but I will never buy a ticket to see her live. Her eerie vocals can really only be felt through a track. When she is performing live her whole persona falls apart. Lana tries to cover up her pitchy and shaky vocals by putting in a lot of production on her songs but her lack of talent is apparent when she’s forced to perform live.
And no, she can’t delete her SNL performance
Could Katy Perry ever really sing? It is shocking that she has even gotten to this level of stardom with her voice. Her record company promoted the fact that she was sexy before her vocal talent, which she doesn’t have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXz2EGp7aIo
Of course, Britney Spears is on the list. This girl can barely sing a note. All of her songs are highly auto-tuned with no vocal range. She really doesn’t step out of her comfort zone and basically, all her live performances are lip synced. Britney’s career was defined by her girl next door char, her dance moves and catchy lyrics. Singing was almost the second thing on her mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCE1zYhn8A
Nothing makes me angrier than Selena Gomez. This girl’s fame is truly based on her being semi-pretty. She was the star of a Disney Channel show, “The Wizards of Waverly Place” and it was a crap show with horrible acting. I never understood why they would hire such a bad actress and when she tried to get into singing I laughed at the fact that she even thought she could do it. But here in 2018, Selena Gomez is on the Hot Billboard 100 chart. She can’t sing at all and every track is autotuned. If people could just actually think about the music before they decided to buy it, maybe she wouldn’t have had this level of popularity. But since everyone seems to have lost their brain, artists like this can become insanely popular.
Just look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5YKLrbQWIQ
Selena Gomez has got me believing in miracles. Maybe I can get rich by being a pretty girl!
It’s definitely odd that famous singers can’t actually sing but I guess that’s just the music business that we live in. Or the artists might have gotten old and their vocal cords aren’t what they used to be. The studio might be able to cover up what they actually sound like, but the performance will tell you the whole truth. Save a couple bucks and continue to listen to the autotuned track. Living in a delusion is better than facing reality.
