I’m not a fan of hers, but this is standard practice for all who perform this song at major events. I called this out in your post before the papers did yesterday.

My only thing was it was just an ok performance. She’s done leagues better with Destiny’s Child. I was expecting that quality of vocal. Either way she wins, because everyone will forget when Alicia screams it in couple of weeks.

whitney or jhud did not perform live at the super bowl they all use pre record tracks

cant say im not a little disappointed

“At one point, Beyonce even dramatically removed her earpiece – which now
seems even more ludicrous, as she wasn’t even making any noise.” NY Post

Done. Have a great evening, ladies and gentleman.

Another one of Beyonce’s tricks from her LIE-brary.

SMH

Wow! and people were saying it on here too lol

Whether it was or wasn’t isn’t a big deal. We know she can sing. Lots of people chose to do it. For a pre-recorded track it wasn’t perfect. Near perfect but not. But just to keep this going lol.

UPDATE, 5:28 p.m. ET: The U.S. Marine Corps is backing off earlier statements that Beyoncé lip-synced the national anthem, the Associated Press reports.

According to a statement, the band did not play live, however, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Gregory Wolf tells AP no one in the band is in a position to know whether Beyonce’s vocal performance was live or pre-recorded.

The veins on her neck though? Did she draw those on?

Come on, it’s clear as day that she sang live. Even the Marines changed their statement saying that they cannot tell whether she used the backing track or not.

I am not a huge beyonce fan, but i respect and love her music, one thing i must point out about beyonce beeyhive and die hard fans, is that they can never take the bitter with the sweet, or when she is wrong, they find every way to say shes right… as a stan i feel like you should be honest and say when shes wrong, she is human like everybody else snd makes mistakes… clearly she was wrong for lip syncing, like any other artist would be wrong… damn take ya bitter with your sweet…

BEYONCE = LYING ASSHOLE

I am not a huge beyonce fan, but i respect and love her music, one thing i must point out about beyonce beeyhive and die hard fans, is that they can never take the bitter with the sweet, or when she is wrong, they find every way to say shes right… as a stan i feel like you should be honest and say when shes wrong, she is human like everybody else snd makes mistakes… clearly she was wrong for lip syncing, like any other artist would be wrong… damn take ya bitter with your sweet…

C’mon people. Does anyone really think Beyonce can’t sing? Does anyone thing Kelly Clarkson has never lip sync’d to her own voice? Beyonce haters make big deal about everything. Guess what Obama reads from a teleprompter..WOW

Beyonce the Lying Asshole in her biggest dramatic moment:

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/721213543.gif

Now y would she go into the studio to record a fucked up version of the song???? That doesn’t even make sense. And they say the stans go hard >_>

Great, now all the haters who sit in the mucky shadows of life will come out in full force and rejoice because now they finally found a flaw. No doubt they will make a HUGe deal out of it, because they are so jealous they can barely breathe. Sit your asses ALL the way down because everyone uses a backing track, especially at huge events and when your band hasnt rehearsed. Calm down and try and not be so damn pressed.

I’m sure not story will be written about how Beyonce DID NOT lip sync. The story is out today. But who needs the truth when it comes to Beyonce smh

Beyonce DIDN’T mime at the inauguration. BUT…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tCNth-N9Z0&feature=player_embedded

…she did sing along with a pre-recorded backing.

The video above clearly shows Beyonce singing live at President Obama’s
inauguration, despite the fact that many news outlets are claiming she
mimed.

You can also clearly hear the pre-recorded backing in the video, made
earlier in case of technical problems. (Thanks to Daniel Holter for
posting a heads-up on this video.)

But the live vocal is the one most people heard.

The evidence

You can tell by listening carefully to the two performances audible in the video above and comparing them to this live feed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DSFrGnQrk&feature=player_embedded

For more clues that she sang live, listen for these points:

When she starts singing, her voice is hard to hear – the microphone
gain is too low. The sound-man quickly corrects this – but if we were
listening to a recording this wouldn’t happen – in fact back-up
recordings are used to solve exactly this kind of problem.

At 1’16? in the video above, she tilts her head slightly closer to
the mic and the sound gets suddenly more bassy. This is because of an
acoustic effect known as the “proximity effect”.

At 1’52? she takes out one of her earpieces. Some people are citing
this as more evidence she was lip-syncing, but in fact it’s what singers
do when they’re having trouble hearing the pitch of their own voice
through the earpiece. By taking it out, she can hear her own voice more
clearly and sing in tune more easily. (In fact, if the pre-recorded
vocal was going to her earpiece, she may well have been finding it
distracting.)

At 2’17? she smiles slightly, and you can hear this “smile” in her voice.

None of these clues are conclusive, but to fake all of them, plus the
details of the performance itself, would make Beyonce the best lip-sync
artist in the world !

And anyone who has heard her sing live knows that’s not where her true talents lie…

So why are people saying Beyonce mimed ?

Because the band did mime.

Why ? Probably because it can be next to impossible for a large group of
musicians to play in tune in extremely hot or cold temperatures – and
it was cold at the inauguration.

The original “reports” were confirmed by players in the band, who said
that Beyonce asked for the pre-recorded backing, and that’s almost
certainly true. (The band has since issued a formal statement saying
that “no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it
was live or pre-recorded.”)

Any singer would find it seriously difficult to put on a great
performance to a band that was struggling to play in tune, and for
something this high-profile it’s understandable that you’d want the best
chance to get it right.

But the video at the top of this post uses both audio feeds, probably by
mistake, and combined with the other clues leaves me in no doubt that
Beyonce sang live – and that her live performance is what most people
heard.

Update:

So, it’s been 24 hours and Beyonce’s team still haven’t made any comment
– meanwhile CNN are quoting an inauguration official who says she
decided to use the pre-recorded version the night before.

There are several different versions of the video available, all with
slightly different sound – how can this be ? Why are there two voices
audible on some versions, and not on others ?

The answer is that it’s standard practise at an event like this for all
the audio to be made available to broadcasters, so that each of them can
do their own mix – their own blend of presenters, music and ambient
crowd noise.

All of which makes it very difficult to know exactly what we’re hearing!
And some people are even claiming that Beyonce’s mic wasn’t switched on
at all.

Plot thickening

But here’s a clue I haven’t mentioned before – in the first WSJ clip
above, you can clearly hear wind noise on the mic (and Beyonce’s scarf
flapping) at 0’36?. This proves the mic was live – and that it was used
in this broadcast, at least.

You can hear the same thing in other versions, for example here – and in
the video on Beyonce’s blog, too, at 0’48? – even though this version
has been cleaned up, with added reverb and compression, and the wind
noise has been reduced.

Conclusion

My verdict ?

The mic was live

Beyonce sang

Whether she wanted it or not, the live mic sound was made available and used in many, if not all of the broadcasts

Her performance was every bit as good as the “safety” pre-record –
in fact it was so close that it’s hard to tell them apart !”

We have no way of knowing exactly why Beyonce chose to use the recorded
backing, or if she really wanted us to hear her live performance. But we
did – and it was great.

She didn’t mime, she sang great – what’s all the fuss about ?

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