Beyonce has another controversy under her hands: The Inauguration! Yesterday, it was confirmed that Beyonce indeed did lip-sync her performance of The Star Spangled Banner. When the news broke, Twitter and all the major blogs reported on this event. Some fans didn’t care if she did lip-synch, while others found more reason to dislike the Superstar.
Aretha Franklin, who had sang at the 2009 Inauguration, has chimed in on Beyonce’s pre-recorded performance.
4 years ago at The Presidential Inauguration, Aretha Franklin braved the brisk weather when she ‘My Country ‘Tis Of Thee’. Hearing about Beyonce’s pre-recorded performance, Franklin reportedly laughed.
When I heard that I just really cracked up. I thought it was really funny, but she did a beautiful job with the pre-record … next time I’ll probably do the same,” she told ABC News.
Franklin chose not to lip-sync her performance because she wanted everyone to get the “real-thing”.
“In 2009, I wanted everything to be live and on the real side for the moment as it actually happened. Those were my feelings for my performance, but having come face to face with 28, 22 degrees I am not surprised she pre-recorded…..I wanted to give people the real thing and pre-recording never crossed my mind.”
She later explained why Beyonce chose the pre-recorded performance.
“She wanted her performance to be what she wanted to be and she realised it wasn’t going to be the way she wanted it to be or she was going to be running a risk. That’s probably why she pre-recorded exactly how she wanted it to be heard.”
UPDATE: “Regarding Ms. Knowles-Carter’s vocal performance,” Capt. Gregory Wolf, spokesman for the Marine Corps band, said “no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded,” reports the Washington Post.
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