You got what you deserved if you attended one of her shows.

Look - you've got two choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear.

You may only choose one.

/it is for this reason that live shows suck ass!

drestin: Look - you've got two choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear.

You may only choose one.

/it is for this reason that live shows suck ass!


3) Musicians who are actually talented and can actually sing and even sound as good as, if not better than, in the studio.

It's a good thing I listen to musicians that posess...you know...talent.

If a band can't perform at least as well live as on their albums I don't listen to them. Audio editing is no substitute for talent.

drestin: Look - you've got two three choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear. routed straight from the CD to the desk

3) Musicians who perform, you know, music.


You may only choose one.

/it is for this reason that live shows by no talent hacks suck ass!

FTF all of fark

Refresh is a handy thing. Well put Kliffoth.

Is it just me, or is this a very strained grimace?



She looks like she'd rather burst into tears.

Poor thing...

Also, dying Bridget Jones's underroos black doesn't make them sexy!

i wonder if i'm the only x-factor "fan" here.....

Kliffoth: 3) Musicians who are actually talented and can actually sing and even sound as good as, if not better than, in the studio.

It's a good thing I listen to musicians that posess...you know...talent.

If a band can't perform at least as well live as on their albums I don't listen to them. Audio editing is no substitute for talent.

A touch of "THIS!"

I can listen to studio artists, but that's in the form of mp3's on my way to or from work, or while working out.

I still tend to prefer artists who can actually perform live, because a great live event is one hell of a drug!

I am ashamed that i heard her when I was growing up and am still more better tnan most farkers. LOL is makes me sad

Barton Fink: i wonder if i'm the only x-factor "fan" here.....

Nope.

Saw it Saturday. Yes, she was quite obviously miming. Because- SHOCK HORROR- she's NOT THAT GOOD A SINGER.

So what? Like anybody was really watching the performance thinking "Oh I can't wait to hear Britney's dulcet tones again" anyway.

Kliffoth:

It's a good thing I listen to musicians that posess...you know...talent.am a typical Fark Music Elite^TM and can pontificate at length on why my taste in music is so much superior to everything you've ever heard, and I am therefore better than the vast majority of human beings.

FT*FY*

/For the rest of you effeminate punk-poseur snobs, sometimes a well-polished, cleaned-up item is actually better. Shocking.
//No, I don't want to 'dig that crazy energy vibe' with you and 5,000 of your obnoxious 'friends'. Get a hair cut and take a damn bath already.

LowbrowDeluxe:

FT*FY*

/For the rest of you effeminate punk-poseur snobs, sometimes a well-polished, cleaned-up item is actually better. Shocking.
//No, I don't want to 'dig that crazy energy vibe' with you and 5,000 of your obnoxious 'friends'. Get a hair cut and take a damn bath already.

This is an example of musicians with talent playing live. A studio recording may be cleaner and technically "better" but I defy anyone to say a live preformance like this doesn't have something you can't capture in a studio.

Or this if you want to see another performance where every single person on the stage has more talent in their little finger than Britney could even imagine in her wildest dreams.

zz9: LowbrowDeluxe:

FT*FY*

/For the rest of you effeminate punk-poseur snobs, sometimes a well-polished, cleaned-up item is actually better. Shocking.
//No, I don't want to 'dig that crazy energy vibe' with you and 5,000 of your obnoxious 'friends'. Get a hair cut and take a damn bath already.

This (YT: While My Guitar Gently Weeps) is an example of musicians with talent playing live. A studio recording may be cleaner and technically "better" but I defy anyone to say a live preformance like this doesn't have something you can't capture in a studio.

I think I just had an eargasm.

SJKebab: drestin: Look - you've got two three choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear. routed straight from the CD to the desk

3) Musicians who perform, you know, music.

4) Great musicians who can't sing well but are worth listening to anyway. e.g. Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix ...

drestin: Look - you've got two choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear.

You may only choose one.

/it is for this reason that live shows suck ass!

You are teh FIAL Drestin. Must be a troll.

FAIL


FAIL


FAIL


Shall I continue?

Madbassist1: You are teh FIAL Drestin.

No, when a grown man voluntarily types that gibberish, he is "the fail".

Simon: I'm not going to patronise you, Britney, but I've seen better pub singers in the bars of Tenerife than you. What were you thinking? If the public don't vote you out tonight, I'll be very surprised. Awful. Just awful. Completely the wrong song choice, sloppy dancing, and the vocals were all wrong. Pathetic.

Cheryl: I liked it, pet. Simon, you're out of order. Why can't you be nice for a change, pet? She did reeeally well after her troubles and to mime isn't a big deal. I should know, pet.

Danii: I'm with Cheryl. Great dancing and vocal range. I don't think she mimed at all, though. It was her faulty mic. Britney's back....you go, girl!

Louis: I was pleasantly surprised it was her own hair. Still a biatchubby round the arse and hips but she did well. Not as good as Westlife, but she tried, and you have to give credit for that, Simon. I think you're just jealous.

Simon: Are you mental? Have your senses left you?

Louis: Simon, simon, I'm not going to argue. Go wax your chest. Britney is back, she's here, she's queer, live with it.

*wild applause*

Simon: Pathetic.

GungFu: Still a biatchubby

She is, is she?

permaculture:

4) Great musicians who can't sing well but are worth listening to anyway. e.g. Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix ...

I always thought Hendrix was a decent singer.

Whoever covered a Hendrix song with better vocals?

/Does Not Approve

Poor live performances kind of ruin a band for me. I wouldn't want to go to a concert to listen/watch a person lip synch, moreso not at the price of a Spears ticket.

Useless side story: I was introduced to two "local" bands not too long ago. One of them was decent, the other was "holy shiat this is awesome". Saw them both live and the decent band turned out to be amazing live. Conversely the awesome band turned out to be really mediocre live. Since then I seem to be straying more from one to the other.

// Bands are slowcoaster and grand theft bus.

Even factoring in the humongous pics, I've seen indepth dissections
of the Bush Administration's foreign policy failures that weren't
half as long as this....

drestin: Look - you've got two choices:
1) Singers who stand in one place behind a microphone stand warbling as best they can to try to even come close to what the studio sound was like, but comes out sounding nothing like what you heard on the radio or your iPod and what you wanted to hear.
or
2) Singers can prance around putting on a show while the sound is like the sound you hear on the radio or your iPod and what you want to hear.

You may only choose one.

/it is for this reason that live shows suck ass!

No, this is the realization that you listen to shiatty musicians. Most of the live performances I've seen have been wonderful. There are always exceptions but good musicians can do it live. They don't use the studio to hide inadequacies, they use it to enhance what's already awesome.

Britney has another fan besides Chris Crocker?

DenisBergkamp: Useless side story: I was introduced to two "local" bands not too long ago. One of them was decent, the other was "holy shiat this is awesome". Saw them both live and the decent band turned out to be amazing live. Conversely the awesome band turned out to be really mediocre live. Since then I seem to be straying more from one to the other.

Was at the release party of a band consisting of friends and acquaintances, which was farking great, some of the best rock I'd heard since 2000 or so, inspired by people like Chris Cornell, Metallica, Pantera and so on. I was on farking clouds after that concert, got a free copy of the CD from my friend in the band, got home, put it in the CD-player, turned the volume to "Who need eardrums anyway?" and was sorely disappointed to find out that the CD sucked donkey's balls, and was more Soundgardenish radio-rock without the greatness of Soundgarden.

Still love to see the guys live whenever I can, but still highly dubious of their CDs.

Britney spears does not know how to sing. she just vocalizes, enhanced by computers.All she is is a pop performer, a manufactured product.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Britney has another fan besides Chris Crocker?



LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

dougfm: Madbassist1: You are teh FIAL Drestin.

No, when a grown man voluntarily types that gibberish, he is "the fail".

Why dont you take that corn cob out of your ample ass there, farktard?

mr.crowley: I am ashamed that i heard her when I was growing up and am still more better tnan most farkers. LOL is makes me sad

"more better"? "MORE BETTER"?? Seriously? Here's a little tip: if you want people to actually listen to your thought process, try not sounding like an idiot.

Wanna see someone jumping around AND singing better than the records?

Hows 'bout PAUL STANLEY

crack head: Hows 'bout PAUL STANLEY

Yes, but at no point in his career did i ever think i wanted to fark Paul Stanley.

dougfm: Madbassist1: You are teh FIAL Drestin.

No, when a grown man voluntarily types that gibberish, he is "the fail".

I'm sorry MadBassit1, but I'm going to have to agree with him on this one.

"Live music sucks"

That's the goddamn stupidest thing I've read in 3 minutes.

Marla Singer's Laundry: That's the goddamn stupidest thing I've read in 3 minutes.

Wait for it ...

WAIT for it ...

towatchoverme: Marla Singer's Laundry: That's the goddamn stupidest thing I've read in 3 minutes.

Wait for it ...

WAIT for it ...

"Durr, the crappy musician I like isn't very good. Uh, and jazz sucks, because they don't sing a song I can hum in the tub"

Jesus Christ, I hate the average American.

mr.crowley: I am ashamed that i heard her when I was growing up and am still more betterbetterer tnan most farkers. LOL is makes me sad

Sorry. Pet peeve.

Mangoose: dougfm: Madbassist1: You are teh FIAL Drestin.

No, when a grown man voluntarily types that gibberish, he is "the fail".

I'm sorry MadBassist1, but I'm going to have to agree with him on this one.

you fail.

Madbassist1: Mangoose: dougfm: Madbassist1: You are teh FIAL Drestin.

No, when a grown man voluntarily types that gibberish, he is "the fail".

I'm sorry MadBassist1, but I'm going to have to agree with him on this one.

you fail.

Anything that isn't Jaco fails.

Some musical performances are priceless:








For everything else, there's sitting at home and listening through tinny speakers.

/shameless photographer

dokool: Some musical performances are priceless:

For everything else, there's sitting at home and listening through tinny speakers.

/shameless photographer

Durr, listening is for pussies. I want you to jump around an vomit BLOOD. I need entertainment, because I'm goddamn TASTELESS.

dokool: Some musical performances are priceless:


damn, boy...that first pic borders on ICONIC. Who's the band?

For everything else, there's sitting at home and listening through tinny speakers.

/shameless photographer

Radiohead is another band that sounds fantastic live. I was fortunate to see them earlier this year.

Here is a perfect example.

Link (new window)

Britney is fascinating to watch, but I wouldn't buy an album or go to one of her shows.

Most bands I listen to I judge on their live performances. I can't stand listening to something I know can't be emulated outside of a studio. Not to sound pretentious, but is it a musician thing?

And I know if I mentioned Dave Matthews Band I'll get slaughtered, but whatever, I stand by love for them, and my preference over their live stuff than the studio stuff.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Durr, listening is for pussies. I want you to jump around an vomit BLOOD. I need entertainment, because I'm goddamn TASTELESS.

Dig your work, man, but you're better when you don't care as much about the subject.

Them what likes Britney ain't worth angrying up yer blood over.

Kliffoth: If a band can't perform at least as well live as on their albums I don't listen to them. Audio editing is no substitute for talent.

I see the studio as more of an expansion of a sonic palette. I think that the "great in the studio, sucks live = shiat band" kind of depends on the genre.

Been to Rush and Queensryche shows that kicked complete ass and sounded as good as the album.

LowbrowDeluxe: Kliffoth:

It's a good thing I listen to musicians that posess...you know...talent.am a typical Fark Music EliteTM and can pontificate at length on why my taste in music is so much superior to everything you've ever heard, and I am therefore better than the vast majority of human beings.

FT*FY*

/For the rest of you effeminate punk-poseur snobs, sometimes a well-polished, cleaned-up item is actually better. Shocking.
//No, I don't want to 'dig that crazy energy vibe' with you and 5,000 of your obnoxious 'friends'. Get a hair cut and take a damn bath already.

Wow...you are so off.

-Not a 'Punk Poser'

-Doesn't have long hair

-Showered this morning

-The shows I go to tend to be smallish....far less than 5000

Sounds like someone is pissed off that he listens to shiatty talentless music. Don't take your shiatty taste in music out on me.

Here's a bleach douche to get some sand out of yourself, you vagina.

Kliffoth: Here's a bleach douche to get some sand out of yourself, you vagina.

I'm sorry about this part of my post. It was really insensative of me and I apologize. Vaginas are very beautiful things (most the time) and it was COMPLETELY wrong of me to compare LowbrowDeluxe to such a wonderful thing.

What I meant to say was 'Infected Scrotum'.... I think we can all agree nobody likes those.

I don't think my taste in music makes me better than everyone else. I DO believe there are ACTUAL musicians out there and there are HACKS out there that can't play a decent live show if their lives depended on it. A band that can't replicate their studio albums to a resonable degree is a farking Hack band. They were essentially created in a sound studio.

-Bands that can't perform live suck... purely and utterly. Sorry.

-There are MANY true artists that are great in the studio and excellent live. Many of these bands are bands whos music I don't particularly care for. While I don't care for the music much I respect their artistry.

-I don't believe my taste in music makes me better than anyone else. I do think that the music I listen to is better than any studio Hack crap you like, simply because the musicians I listen to are artists with talent who can...you know... PLAY.

Deal with it.