lrh2310

Kanye West’s appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend led some people to believe that he was lip syncing. What ended up happening was that there was a malfunction in the equipment of Kanye’s voice overs. Many artists use this. They will have their own voices in the background as back up. This will only enhance their voices when they sing live. Rather than singing completely on their own when singing live and making their music completely original every time they sing their songs they choose to wimp out and use back ups. Kanye also tried special effects in the back ground which didn’t help the performance either. You could hear his voice and then you hear part of it. You wouldn’t be able to hear him at all if he was lip syncing as the music went off and on. You could still hear Kanye but the quality wasn’t very good.

I am not a big fan of the egotistical rapper/singer. Yet, I do defend his performance on the live SNL show. I don’t believe he was lip syncing at all and even if he was, so what. No one paid to get into the show. These artists only make fools of themselves when they do lip sync and they lose respect of fellow artists. They will not be as respected as some artists as Mariah Carey who will never lip sync since she knows she’s got a great voice. Whitney Houston and Celine Dion will never lip sync either. There’s no need. And when a true artist appears on a show that is live and the stage isn’t very big then they shouldn’t treat it as though it is by having lights flashing and big screens with various forms of light. Sing your song and leave the stage. Kanye thinks he is great which is a much bigger problem than lip syncing or equipment malfunction.