Kanye West Caught Lip-Synching?

[NJNetz]

Kanye West is well-known for two things: his awesome rapping and his arrogance. The guy's music is so intensely good it (almost) justifies his God complex. Every time the rapper gets onstage at some awards show and accepts one statue by claiming he should have won another one, we usually have to agree. West has encouraged us to expect such a superhuman level of perfection from him, it was inevitable he would one day not be able to meet it.

That day was last Saturday, when West performed on Saturday Night Live. Dude did not sound good. He was more American Idol blooper reel than Grammy-winning polished performer. So what was the problem? Well, it had something to do with the Auto-Tune feature--you know the part of "Love Lockdown" where he sings about a system overload and losing control? Well, he was living it! And it was also pretty clear that when he got to the high notes, he pulled away from the mic and let an offstage singer handle the tough stuff. The bottom line is that we saw behind the curtain of Kanye West's seemingly impenetrable awesomeness. So was it satisfying to witness the world's most egocentric rapper all exposed on national television? No, no it was not. People were outraged. How dare he...sound so bad!

The outrage was so intense that it morphed into a bizarre lip-synching accusation. Instead of blaming Kanye West for putting on a sub-par performance, people attacked him for revealing that all those robotic tweaks in his songs are not, you know, organically produced. (Um, guys, there's no Santa Claus, either).

We say the scandal is not that Kanye lip-synched through a live TV performance, but that he failed to lip-synch through a live TV performance. If he'd had all the right bells and whistles on board, we would have been all like, "Wow, this rules," rather than all like, "Wow, this hurts our ears." Just sayin'.

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[DaRizzle]

I dont care for him but I randomly watched that SNL that night...All I could think was for karaoke standards he sounded bad! He couldnt hit a note to save his life

 

[NattaNerNuttaMan]

Sure he spounded like hammered shit, but Kanye IS NOT a vocalist...he doesn't sing...he raps. Much like T-Pain the Auto-tune is what gives him the sound for the song. I commend him for even attemting to try and sing anyway...knowing it would have been easier to just rap another track. But he did still sound like a cat getting beat with a burlap sack filled with rubber dorrknobs....lol

 

[NattaNerNuttaMan]

sorry, double post

 

[DaRizzle]

I commend him for even attemting to try and sing anyway.

well then i have a cd i want to sell you...lol Its called "Best of Karioke 2008"

Commend him for trying to sing? Ive heard a few of his songs, he can hit the correct notes...he just sounded like total trash on SNL


Stephen Colbert is the "voice for this generation in this era" anyways

 

[NattaNerNuttaMan]

well then i have a cd i want to sell you...lol Its called "Best of Karioke 2008"

Commend him for trying to sing? Ive heard a few of his songs, he can hit the correct notes...he just sounded like total trash on SNL


Stephen Colbert is the "voice for this generation in this era" anyways

lol...I ain't buying...lol

Like I said...he still sounded like doo doo...I'm just saying I commend him for still trying that song even though he could've went with something else.

Kinda like when a really bad Karoke singer gets up, but people still applaud him...saying under thier breath "bless his heart....at least he got up there"....lol

 

[DaRizzle]

I'm just saying I commend him for still trying that song even though he could've went with something else.

hmm...or maybe write a song he can actually perform

 

[JE]

Pizzowned.



Good, I cannot stand Kanye West. His music is okay, his arrogance makes me want to punch a goat.

 

[NattaNerNuttaMan]

hmm...or maybe write a song he can actually perform

I'm sure the song when the song written it was intended to be performed with working equipment involved...though it was a wrong choice to perform it without the "crutch"...Kanya in his infinate ego probably figured he was still good enough to do it anyway....ummmmm....wrong....lol The song is good and works for him when the synth works...but oh well....

 

[BasX]

Kanye West is well-known for two things: his awesome rapping and his arrogance. The guy's music is so intensely good it (almost) justifies his God complex.

Umm, What. Maybe his older stuff.

 

[Jurassic]

The thing I don't get about this is how can they accuse him of lip-synching, but they say that he was off key? Am I missing something here?

 

[Giantsfan1]

Auto-Tune and the Vocoder is the worst thing to happen to music in the last 10 years.