Queen Aretha Didn't Even Think Of Lip-Synching When She Sang At The Inauguration
Wigless, denim capris, Chucks, a pearl necklace, lounging chichis and a suede blazer from the early 90s.... Aretha Franklin serves up more glamour than all of the Knowles women combined and she does it without even trying. A foreclosure notice goes up on the House of Dereon's front door every time Aretha Franklin steps out.
As the House Committee on Un-American Activities prepares to hold a hearing on Beyonce lip-synching at the Inauguration, the media is asking everybody about this shit. I mean, they asked JLo about this and Fab Morvan knows more about live singing than JLo does. The only person they should ask about Beyonce's performance is Queen Aretha, because her opinion is the only opinion that matters. ABC News knows this, because they asked Aretha her thoughts on the living singing not heard around the world. Aretha said when she first found out that Beyonce lip-synched, she let out a laugh and you know it was one of those haughty "HA! These amateur bitches..." laugh.
"[Beyonce] did a beautiful job. But, when I heard the news this evening that she was pre-recorded I really laughed. I thought it was funny because the weather down there was about 46 or 44 degrees and for most singers that is just not good singing weather. 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."
When Aretha sang "My Country Tis of Thee" at the Inauguration in 2009, the thought of singing along to a track never entered her brain:
"I wanted to give people the real thing and pre-recording never crossed my mind.
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. She wanted her performance to be what she wanted to be and she realized 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."
Aretha did admit to ABC News that she lip-synched the National Anthem at Game 5 of the NBA Finals in 2004.
What's really surprising is that Aretha lip-synched once. I refuse to believe this. Aretha is just saying that, because she's trying to make newbie Beyonce feel better. What a heart that goddess has. It's not possible for Aretha to lip-synch. Every time she opens her mouth, a solid gold musical note wafts out. I also refuse to believe that she has sung along to a backing track. That's also impossible. Every time Aretha is in the car and tries to sing along to a song on the radio, the radio immediately turns off, because it will not make music while in the presence of the ultimate music maker. Every time Aretha is outside and hums to herself, the birds turn off their vocal cords and shut the fuck up, because the queen is singing. Nice try, Aretha, but I rebuke that claim.
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Lol, right? That's a big ass bottle
haha that's the 180, for when your doctors gave up doing the 90. She's happy, she knows she got it, she's going to the pharmacy lol.
Hello vicodin refill.
Hillary Clinton is testifying about what she knows about the lip-syncing scandal: http://hollywoodandswine.com/hillary-clinton-testifies-before-congress-a...
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Pretty nice comment by the Queen Aretha, she kept it real and mentioned that maybe she'd have done the same. Nuff said.
I can't believe I've never seen her looking so casual. Lovely! ☺
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Submitted by Señor Loco on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 7:05pm.
I just want to know what's in that giant prescription pill bottle that she's holding.
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Lol, right? That's a big ass bottle
TEAM REE!
You look great and sassy! WOOT! Loving me a true royalty moment.
Fuck talking about that low rent, no talent, lip synching turd.
If I want lip synching, I can watch the neighbour kids prance around to Kidz Bop. Much more entertaining.
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I just want to know what's in that giant prescription pill bottle that she's holding.
Submitted by JoRN on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 3:52pm.
sorry Beyawnce, you will NEVER be the icon you think you are. Chaka, Aretha, Tina, Diana & Donna could sing.
All hail the Queen!!!
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I agree she's trying way too hard to be legendary and an icon. She does fit the mold amongst this generations set of megastars: I mean look what's become of her peers, Timbertwat, Britney, Xtincta, then down to Bieber?! RiRi is seriously overshadowing her, but Ri was indebted to Beyonce anyway. To be fair she doesn't hide her ambition, like saying she wants an Oscar but enough already.
She does have the tunes however which she pretends to write - several anthems already, with her distinctive girl power themes.
And I'm just at a loss as to why people say she can't sing, I mean wtf. And I love Miss Ross who is a very underrated singer, but Bey's voice is clearly much stronger.
She lips a lot and concentrates on dancing (the only vocal diva with an emphasis on performance) but I don't blame her for miming the Star Spangled Banner - as said that one usually is and it certainly did Crustina Aguilera no favours the times she did it.
Lest I sound like a Bee stan, I know she's a dull barely literate bitch but I can't resist that glamour. <3
Aretha was clearly having a laugh there. Remember Ree HATES Bee after her perceived diss when she called Tina Turner "The Queen" instead of bowing down to her lard ass.
Now I love me some Aretha musically, but by all accounts she is the superdiva of divas which you'd expect, but I lost some major R-E-S-P-E-C-T for her with that tantrum, she really shown herself up there.
About ten seconds into B's national anthem, I turned to Landwhale and declared she was lipsynching. Why? Because there is no way she sings that well. I have heard her sing, and she doesn't sing nearly as well as that anthem sounded. She isn't a bad singer, better than most, just not nearly as well as that sounded. What she did took a couple of days in a recording studio with some autotune. You can never bash an American for singing the anthem real and from the heart. Look at how horrible Steven Tyler sounded. But it was real. And that is what counts. Not only did she deceive people by lipsynching (which can be given somewhat of a pass), but it wasn't her real voice (unforgivable). Piece of fucking shit.
Aretha looks good. I think she looks cute. She's reminding me of my granny here.
And fuck Beyonce. I was annoyed that she was even THERE, regardless. I wish she and her ugly husband would just go away.
Foxxy, so far all GUralnick has said is that nobody at Stax was keen to work with Pickett because he was "an asshole." I started the book at the Otis Redding chapters, somewhere in the middle, so I may have missed some dirt along the way.
I'm in a chapter that's all about James Brown, and finishing up "The Warmth of Other Suns" (great book by Isabel Wilkerson on Black Migration during the 20th Century - brilliant and eye-opening), and books on yoga anatomy.
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God don't like ugly.
Obviously, Etta James is working her karma and justice magic from the heavens above on these bitches. How absolutely delightful that one narcissistic diva is upstaging the other : Beyonce > Barack!
Affirmative action at work for talentless pop stars!
Cheers Poopele that was awesome!!!!!
Wow for someone who was so enormous a few years ago Aretha looks fucking amazing! and her titties don't seem to have suffered too much. I don't get why people think Beyonce is some sorta star. I saw her in concert a few years ago, she basically lip synced the whole concert, she does those pre recorded vocals in the studio to make it seem like it sounds live, but it ain't! She also claims credit for songs she doesn't write. Bitch is a total fraud.
Didn't Aretha get married recently? She looks healthier now. Good for her.
Wow, she's looks great! She lost weight, or am I imagining it?
Damn, Aretha looks great, like she lost half her body weight and that will add years onto her life.
Why is the inauguration all about Beyoncé?
I'm so cool I posted TWICE!
The media always has to do something to make boring ass ceremonies like Presidential Inaugurations all controversial so they have something to talk about which in turn gives us the general public something to talk about. Case in point, Beyonce lip synching. The National Anthem is hard to sing, Whitney's legendary Super Bowl performance was lip synched for crying out loud. People probably don't really give a shit about this but I guess those few who are outraged cuz the media convinced them to feel that way would be a bit more understanding if her camp would just admit to the obvious already. But it's fucking Beyonce and fuck that bitch. Idk, it probably wouldn't be so bad if she didn't make all those facial expressions that looked like she was trying to take a shit and ripping out her earpiece and all that. Bitch knew she was lip synching, she shoulda just fucking went with it and not do all the extra dramatics. It doesn't matter how much emotion and drama she put into that shit. President Obama is still not going to invite the dumb fucking power hungry bitch to sing him "Happy Birthday Mr. President" in private. Marilyn Monroe and JFK did not end well in case she doesn't know. She really should just get off his nuts already.
Queen Urethra is proud to be who she is. I love her "SUCK IT, BITCHES" attitude about everything.
Submitted by Hekki on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 1:22pm.
AND I'm mad that it was a fucking Presidential Inauguration and everyone's talking ABOUT BEYONCE. She couldn't help attention-whoring and upstaging the fucking President of the United States. Hubris.
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Submitted by letinstar on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 3:27pm.
i'm shocked jack, Whamo, bambam et al were not all over this one. smdh
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Submitted by can be a pushy broad on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:29pm.
Why??? are so many famous people defending Beounce?
It's almost like they are scared. Whatever.
She is not an icon by any stretch of the imagination.
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Thank you, @pushy broad! Now the Marine Band Leader is backtracking on what she said about Beyo-wolf's lip-synching. Why would the Marines backtrack if someone didn't get to them and threaten. Probably Jay-Z's thugs. Jay-Z thinks himself on par with the Russian mobsters who helped build the Barclays Center.
But also I heard that the Inauguration handlers were pissed that Beyo-wolf decided to lip-synch instead of singing live over her own voice.
Beyonce is really over-rated, but her people are good at making her into a darling. If you are sick of her now, wait for her biography on HBO http://www.hbo.com/#/documentaries/beyonce and the Super Bowl.
Puke!
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sorry Beyawnce, you will NEVER be the icon you think you are. Chaka, Aretha, Tina, Diana & Donna could sing.
All hail the Queen!!!
sorry Beyawnce, you will NEVER be the icon you think you are. Chaka, Aretha, Tina, Diana & Donna could sing.
All hail the Queen!!!
Submitted by Hekki on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 1:22pm.
AND I'm mad that it was a fucking Presidential Inauguration and everyone's talking ABOUT BEYONCE. She couldn't help attention-whoring and upstaging the fucking President of the United States. Hubris.
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Right on, Hekki! Again, Beyonce making it all about her.
Ugh.
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Aretha Franklin is neither a diva nor a queen. She's a goddess.
Submitted by Nanners on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 1:11pm.
LOL, I see that all the time. That's the mistake--taking them shopping with you in the first place.
At our mall, you see quite a few retired couples shopping and the guy sitting ouside the dressing room with the handbag. It's a little cute.
Submitted by Poopele:"Lip-synching is just affirmative-action for pop stars."
Is it wrong that I find this hilarious?
@foxxy: titty wrangling? Why was not informed until just now that a show like this existed.. I hate myself for setting up to record this...
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I've heard Carly Simon suffered from crippling performance anxiety, not James Taylor.
Regardless of singing, Aretha looks pretty awesome. She's lost a LOT of weight.
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I know Retha betta not Lip Synch with as much money as she charges. It's not just the fact that Beyonce mimed it's the fact that the recording should have been much better. I think the denial people are in is really sad. Beyonce can't even dance. You could do better with Solid Gold Re-runs on Youtube.
Just so's I'm clear: James Taylor overcomes crippling performance anxiety to play (live) in public, Kelly Clarkson sounds fantastic (again, live), and Beyonce gives us a lipsynched performance wherein she pulls out her earpiece.
Because it's cold.
Ok.
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Submitted by letinstar on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:48pm.
it is freakin' hilarious to me, letinstar! similar to Shhhhhh It's A Wig they custom make lingerie in an, um, interestingly decorated shop in a southern small town environment. it's basically a show about titty wrangling and the first episode had a woman who has twice the titties as Aretha at her largest. i am dead serious, no exaggeration. they made her a custom bra that got them boulders lifted and separated.
plus the shop assistant is like if you took Britney and Kei$ha and combined them into one gum chewing idiot. but she's kinda sweet too. one of the shows had her bringing in her mom for the first bra after a double mastectomy
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
Submitted by chaka1 on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:53pm.
On a more serious note, Aretha looks great and 20 years younger! She rocked the afro back in the 70's and it looks good on her now...
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She is rocking it! I love her hairstyle too.
On a more serious note, Aretha looks great and 20 years younger! She rocked the afro back in the 70's and it looks good on her now...
The orchestra or whatever u call it was ALSO pre-recorded. I mean if u were there wasn't THAT extremely obvious?
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ETA: Actually, during the brouhaha yesterday, I was wondering if Beyonce could be MV, but she wasn't married with child/ren during the timeline.
Submitted by Foxxy Brown on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:02pm.
Submitted by letinstar on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 1:52pm.
they need to do an entire hour of the "Double Divas" show just to help her
that show is hilarious, by the way. it's like the "Shhhhh It's A Wig" of lingerie stores, lol
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something like this exists?!! do i need to record this on my dvr?
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"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." --
Roseanne Barr
Quite a few years ago,Ecce worked room service at a fancy dump and when Ms. Franklin ordered, my co-workers MADE me deliver the order, pumping my little head full of horror stories about what a demanding Prima Donna bitch she was. By the time I knocked on her door I was quite terrified, but she was sweetness and graciousness personified (even to the point of making small talk).
However, she WAS big as a house, and she's looking fabulously fit in this picture.
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Digging the lo-top Cons.
Lip-synching is just affirmative-action for pop stars.
Submitted by mike on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:13pm.
Racism reported, Hush Pussy!
Hush Pussy makes me laugh every damn time!
Submitted by stefystef on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 1:03pm.
They are really trying to make Beyonce into an icon. Icons are not MADE, they JUST ARE!
Why??? are so many famous people defending Beounce?
It's almost like they are scared. Whatever.
She is not an icon by any stretch of the imagination.
Gotta agree with womanoftheyear. I've not only heard women sing in a choir as well as BEy but
better!
Aretha Looks great! Love the pearls.
edit: re: the son carrying the purse. No shade from me. I think it's very considerate, not emasculating. If a man is comfortable in his own skin, helping a woman out does not take away his manliness IMO
LOl shut up
Mike
I prefer the natural look for her anyway
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Submitted by snowpiece on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:08pm.
believe it or not, i think - think - over the years Aretha has more wigless album covers than bewigged
/way too lazy to test my theory by googling
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
at the superbowl she'll be in Hawaii.
correct: that's the pro bowl.
still, the SB will be in New Orleans.
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Submitted by snowpiece on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 2:08pm.
kind of OT but it must suck to always have to wear a wig....
Racism reported, Hush Pussy!
" 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."
Just the perfect amount of shade. That's why she's the mothereffin' queen! Beyonce, girrllllll, just go away now. Retreat, bitch! RETREAT!
kind of OT but it must suck to always have to wear a wig....
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