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1:44 pm - 01/31/2013

Beyonce speaks out on National Anthem lip sync controversy at Super Bowl press conference


Beyonce broke her silence Thursday on the National Anthem lip-sync controversy that has dogged her since the inauguration — and she broke it in style.

At a press conference in New Orleans to preview her Super Bowl halftime show, the superstar began with an unusual request of reporters: “Can you please stand?”

And then she sang the National Anthem — live, unaccompanied, and loud.





Her concert over and her point made, Beyonce offered a nuanced and vaguely apologetic account of what happened at the U.S. Capitol last week: She did rely on a pre-recorded vocal track, but she also sang along with it.

I am a perfectionist,” she explained. She said she was afraid she wasn’t prepared for the inauguration performance — having missed a rehearsal with the Marine Band because she was preparing her Super bowl show — and so she used the tape.

She maintained that she will sing live at the Super Bowl, but not because of the inauguration backlash: “I always sing live.” Except, obviously, for last week in Washington. But in that case, she said, “the event wasn’t about me” in the way her halftime show will be..

I will absolutely be singing live,” she said. “This is what I was born for. This is what I was born to do.”

Why didn’t she speak out sooner? “I’m happy that I could tell my story on my terms,” she said.

Video at source + YT
jbants 31st-Jan-2013 10:26 pm (UTC)
I think she does typically sing live. I think that's why the inauguration was such a big deal. Am i wrong?
kanyesus 31st-Jan-2013 10:59 pm (UTC)
she does. that user is a troll.
jbants 31st-Jan-2013 11:00 pm (UTC)
Gah, those bastards always get me.

Lucille is not impressed.
okgoawaynow 31st-Jan-2013 11:54 pm (UTC)
That word has completely lost its meaning around here.

Someone disagree with you?

Call them a troll.

Someone not stan for the same singer as you?

Call them a troll.

Someone asks a relevant question in a Beyonce post?

Call them a troll.



kanyesus 1st-Feb-2013 12:56 am (UTC)
i have seen you in PLENTY of beyonce posts spouting nonsense about her so what else would u have me call u?
okgoawaynow 1st-Feb-2013 01:13 am (UTC)
Again:

Someone not stan for the same singer as you?

Call them a troll.

Evidently, my general opinions of Beyonce are now "nonsense" because they conflict with yours. What should you call me? In all honestly, you shouldn't be calling me anything as it reflects quite poorly on you to be calling people "trolls" or any other pejorative for simply expressing their thoughts on a matter in the same fashion you do on this site.
okgoawaynow 31st-Jan-2013 11:57 pm (UTC)
A simple YouTube search will prove that she has lipped on many occasions. Hence, me wondering what would possess her to so non-nonchalantly proclaim that she always sings live.
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