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Lip-Synching Affecting Musician's Performance

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First, lip-synching negatively affects the quality of a musician’s performance. Imagine a fan anxiously anticipating her first live concert. She has listened to the singer’s albums over and over again. She longed for something new. So, she saved hundreds of dollars to be squeezed into a corral with thousands of rowdy strangers. Now, she stands in shock. What she is hearing is not new. In fact, she has paid a small fortune just to listen to the album again. This girl, like many others before her, has had an experience ruined by lip-syncing. As someone who has been to multiple concerts, I have also felt the burn of a bad performance. I saw Rihanna live at the Air Canada Centre. She was two hours late to her own concert, she had no energy, and, …show more content…

Now, in an era where anyone can use the internet to find free music, live concerts should rely more on talent, not less. Good live concerts are still great experiences. If a singer is actually singing live, fans get to hear his or her raw, unedited performance. The pure power of a singer on stage sets live shows apart from the tuned and tweaked perfection of a recorded track. However, the prevalence of lip-syncing often turns casual music fans away from pop concerts. People are even still more likely to drop money to see old-fashioned rock bands live than current pop singers. Four of the top five best-attended concert tours in the 2010s have been for rock groups. The only exception is Madonna, who has been performing for decades. No Taylor Swift or One Direction here. Instead, older rock acts like U2, Roger Waters, AC/DC, and Bruce Springsteen have the highest attendance for their tours, proving that rock still endures as the most popular genre to see live. These sales illustrate how the quality and authenticity of a performance remain more important for concert-goers than the flashy facades that popstars use to market

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