
As Britney Spears returned to the studio to record her new single this week, we were pointed towards an excruciating video on YouTube of the singer performing live with what the producers say is the actual vocal feed straight from her microphone.
The footage - filmed in Las Vegas for HBO - apparently reveals how Brit really sounds when she struts through those energetic dance routines.
We can't vouch that it's 100% authentic, but next time someone whinges about Britney miming at concerts, maybe they should just feel Lucky.
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This is definitely not her. I was watching her lips and the feedback. They don't match up all the time.
Even if she did sing like this, then first of all they were obviously picking out her worst moments, just to exaggerate it. Secondly, she was moving and dancing around so much in basically all her tours that I wouldn't be suprised since shes working hard at trying to do both. Quote why so many people lipsynch (*cough*Ashely Simpson*cough*)
By Soph.. Posted February 11 2010 at 6:40 PM.
i disagree with this , britney spears is a wiked singer i want to be just like her and really dont think dissing her will make anyone see her any different , nobody is perfect on singing mind!!!!, loadfsd of celebs do different music vids and that so she will be a bit crckly , esspecially if its her first time of singing the new song!dont you think shes had anough greif pepople?X everybody goes through bad stages and maybe sore throuts and so on , so please just leaver it out
By megan b.. Posted February 11 2010 at 8:01 AM.
It's no secret that Britney's natural voice is thin. As we say in Texas, she's all hat and no cattle. Her dancing is basically pre-mating sexual presentation, much like apes grunting in unison, or moose pawing the ground to arouse a potential mate.
By Denise.. Posted February 11 2010 at 6:41 AM.
Seriously, I think we need a new Pop princess and Miss Britney Spears should retire.
By Crazy Kitten.. Posted February 10 2010 at 12:03 AM.
I love Britney and think she has a beautiful singing voice considering how hard she is dancing. I'd like to see Celine Dion pull it off as well.
By Kim Millard.. Posted February 8 2010 at 10:09 PM.
Total fake! it was taken from loads of different clips but the voice was the same all the way through. dont people have better things to do with their time!
By louise.. Posted February 8 2010 at 7:01 PM.
Thats pretty cruel. She obviously has a cold. You should try singing when youre working out.
By jb.. Posted February 8 2010 at 3:28 PM.
Saw this on youtube, I think its fake cause most of the time her lips don't match the horrible voice.. But if it is real she used to really dance hard back then. Shes got no excuses in recent performances tho.. but I think the clip is fake.
By Steot13.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:09 PM.
just to mention, but the people filming r the once singing, except of some areas where u clearly can hear britneys voice!!!
By Siw.. Posted February 7 2010 at 8:51 PM.
She's no Streisand, is she.
By Paul.. Posted February 7 2010 at 8:28 PM.
it's very difficult to danse and sing at the same time...part true but...in France we had a tv show a bit like xfactor...ALL the people in there who were beginners could actually sing great and danse energically all the way at the shows!!!ALL of them!!!!surely not a case of this being difficult but more about a total lack of voice an talent...here is the knowing truth !!!
By clito.. Posted February 7 2010 at 6:35 PM.
it definitely sounds like her but it does sound like its been doctored abit.. people are right she didn't get where she was/is now by her singing..
By elaine c.. Posted February 7 2010 at 6:33 PM.
But in the concert this is what you carnt hear cuz the music is played over the voice so she doesnt have to sing properly. She hasnt got the best voice but she can sing live. I didnt think she could until I typed it into the youtube search engine.
By Arwhyran.. Posted February 7 2010 at 6:08 PM.
I am extremely tired of hearing- "It's really hard to sing and dance at the same time" - Really? Try LIVE musicals. We sing and dance at the same time all the time. I've had to sing upside-down, lying flat out in a reverse plank position. However Brit has never really been known for her voice and frankly would rather see her dance well than sing well. They'll mix-master that anyhow with pre-recorded tracks.
And we can see when you are in good enough condition with proper breathing technique - you can sing and do a lot of things at the same time (get your minds out of the gutter) a la Pink at the Grammys. She rocked it and I have no doubt that - that was not lip-synched at all!
By Jennifer.. Posted February 7 2010 at 5:08 PM.
It's clearly a fake!!!
By Anita.. Posted February 7 2010 at 4:49 PM.
Oh come on....no-one can sing in tune and perform physical exercise at the same time, have you ever tried it. In the studio she recorded the track properly when she had voice feedback. She only sings while dancing so her mouth does the right moves to the music, she knows it will not go over the speakers. She needs the live mic to talk between songs.
By Malcolm Abbott.. Posted February 7 2010 at 4:50 PM.
I am definitly not a Britney fan, but this clip clearly sounds to me like someone singing into a mic at home! This clip is fake!
By Mel.. Posted February 7 2010 at 2:40 PM.
she is talentless
so this figures
By andip.. Posted February 7 2010 at 2:21 PM.
Definately sounds like her - although to be fair it is very hard to sing spot on tune when dancing and the fact that she probably can't hear herself on the monitors wouldn't help either.
I don't think Britney was ever about singing, more about being very cute - was very cute anyways.
By Jac.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:55 PM.
Aw , it's a tough call... I guess the only way we could tell, is if we witnessed an unrehearsed live performance, with just her and an acoustic guitar played by a busker out on a street. Guess that's never gonna happen though.
By gater2010.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:57 PM.
I wouldn't listen to ANY recording of hers. Unforgiveable, another glaring example of the complete lack of talent, diversity and originality in popular music.
By o.c... Posted February 7 2010 at 1:40 PM.
you'd think with all that money she could afford some singing lessons lol
By Legoman.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:35 PM.
....they all sound iffy when they dance, its impossible to dance and sing well, unless you are operatically trained, even then its hard.
By H.Leate.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:30 PM.
That's better than her records!
By daves.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:31 PM.
I think this video does sounds like Britney's voice (in parts, at least) but at the end of the day if she was simply miming and singing to herself to keep in time with the words, she's not going to sing perfectly is she? Her thoughts were clearly on the dance routines rather than hitting the notes. It sounds to me on the video that she's almost talking her way through it.
By r.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:29 PM.
fake
By j kinney.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:16 PM.
The Beyonce one was fake (they admitted it) and that obviously is too as it sounds the same.
By MIZMEGANE.. Posted February 7 2010 at 12:41 PM.
Maybe its just me.. but.... i thought lip syncing meant she didnt sing at all, just mimed. What did the audience hear? For her sake i hope that wasnt her voice because if thats the case I could do better and thats saying something :-)
By sharon.. Posted February 7 2010 at 12:35 PM.
I can't believe that anybody of sound mind would go and pay to see her.
By nalin.. Posted February 7 2010 at 12:02 PM.
i am no fan of brit brit, but in all fairness, if this is her voice i would not be surprised if it did not sound more than amazing, have any of you have tried dancing and singing at the same time... it's not easy...
By cc.. Posted February 7 2010 at 12:04 PM.
whoa! i had to turn it off half way through
painful!!
By me187.. Posted February 7 2010 at 11:52 AM.
of course its her real voice!
When you lip synch you have to sing a bit of the words otherwise it looks fake, it doesn't mean she cant sing, just means she's not bothered about pitch or hitting the notes.
Id like to see most of you do those dance routines and sing live!!
Britney fans, dont be so in denial, everyone is human!!
By laura.. Posted February 7 2010 at 11:29 AM.
One thing to say about that...bring on Jedward,they sound much better live :)
By Hazzie.. Posted February 7 2010 at 10:28 AM.
I bet Britney rocks on Singstar!!!!!
By Lei Spencer.. Posted February 7 2010 at 10:01 AM.
There is a similar video of Beyonce on Youtube. Britney may not be able to sing whilst dancing but that is a fake soundtrack, you can tell the way it sounds like a chewed tape.
Check out the one for Beyonce and you'll see it's exactly the same sound distortion that has been used. Both Britney and Beyonce can sing - or have they lost their voice since they were young? I don;t think they use autotune in talent competitions.
By SteveG.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:52 AM.
Fact: Nobody can sing properly prancing and dancing around like she does, excess movement distorts the voice.
Fact: What comes out of the mike doesn't necessarily mean that the audience is hearing the same thing.
Fact: Her voice is doctored to sound ok that's why you will never hear her sing "live".
Fact: The only reason she is famous is because of her sexy act.
By Peakays.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:31 AM.
If that is her i'll eat her hat! Ok we are not fans of the old Brit, but really?? Her lips are moving at different time to the recording?
By Helen and Morgan.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:28 AM.
she should be made to sing live,she'd have no career
By lindy.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:24 AM.
Damn funny, had a good laugh this morning but that definitely is not Spears singing live, Oknawax (the person that edited the video) did a great job!
By Janie.. Posted February 7 2010 at 9:17 AM.
That's hilarious!
I'm not convinced it's real, but it is funny...
By John.. Posted February 7 2010 at 8:14 AM.
It seems real enough to me, it's synced too. You can tell it's her at the end when she's locked in her 'casket' she says: "sigh sigh ... it was an emotional moment, I was retarded ... did ya'll see the sailors and all those people the airforce base waving. It was so adorable ya'll, it was so adorable. It was beautiful."
The bit you hear where it looks like it's not in sync, seems to be because we're hearing the voice from a remote source, possibly a speaker some distance away. You can see the same effect on Robbie Williams videos, just check he talks then 5 seconds later we hear it on a speaker somewhere.
Also, if you're NOT receiving the Image and Audio in sync, there's more than likely something wrong with YOUR CONNECTION. As it appears perfectly synced to me. Try downloading it, then listening to it, or better separate the audio from the video then re-sync them, you'll hear they sound fine and synced.
By dave.. Posted February 7 2010 at 6:49 AM.
That is definitely her. Because she only has to lip synch she is not putting any effort into actually singing the words rather he is just mouthing and trying to keep in time. There is no way I will ever spend a cent on her to see a concert. She should go to a Pink concert to see how it is really done.
By enigma.. Posted February 7 2010 at 6:09 AM.
Even if it is her.. and it does sound like her.. there is amazing things people can do these days with making voices sound good and bad.. plus i've been to her concert and her dancing and energy is amazing, so i would love someone else to dance like that and sing perfectly.
Also why dont you all search for her live performance of when she sings 'everytime'.. that's real and she's great at it.
Give her a break...
By brit brit.. Posted February 7 2010 at 3:30 AM.
It's her voice alright. I feel sorry for the people who have the sit through her recording these albums. It must take a week to record one song in the studio
By Ryan.. Posted February 7 2010 at 1:34 AM.
that doesn't sound like Brittney at all. I'm not a fan of hers and have heard of all the lip syncing at concerts, but I have to admit that does not sound like her at at all.
By bon.. Posted February 7 2010 at 12:05 AM.
Sounds about right to me, she has always had a sickly little voice.
By L. anne.. Posted February 6 2010 at 11:06 PM.
wow,if she sounds like that,what would the spice girls sound like,,aaaarrrgggg
By brian.. Posted February 6 2010 at 11:29 PM.
If it's her 'real' voice then how come the voice doesn't match up with her lip movements? Especially at the beginning of 'Oops, I did it again' and in the segment where she is speaking. Normally you'd ask that if a fake tape had been matched up with a live performance. That's just how this sounds - a fake tape recorded to make her look bad.
By Maria in London.. Posted February 6 2010 at 7:52 PM.
She can sing perfectly well.
By Lara M.. Posted February 6 2010 at 8:43 PM.
Sorry although I do not like Britney, I do not think that this is her voice because I have heard her when she was young in Micky Club and she sounded good despite her young gae.
By Eman.. Posted February 6 2010 at 8:33 PM.
That is terrible. I also heard a similar atrocious tape from a Beyonce performance. Thank God for Autotune!!
By Botflyguy.. Posted February 6 2010 at 8:24 PM.