Playbacks

Today we are going to talk about such an curious matter as the playbacks. Firstly, we are going to define this word: it is the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially to check a recording that is newly made.

Due to the huge amount of artists we have in the history, as the page we have used for the bibliography, we are going to make a little resume of some of them and this way it will be more enjoyable for you.

Beyoncé: sang the Star-Spangled Banner hymn in Washington DC at the inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama in 2013. She did a playback and she said that she couldn't prepare it because she had the US Super Bowl next month.

Obama's inauguration- 2013

Ariana Grande: led the show of the All Star Game of the NBA on February, 15, 2015, during the halftime of the match and shared prominence with Nicki Minaj and Christina Aguilera. She used the playback in some parts of her performance due to a technical problem.

NBA All Stars- 2015

Red Hot Chili Peppers: acted together with Bruno Mars in the song " Give it Away " in the Super Bowl on February, 2014. They used the playback before the request of the NFL, who thought that it was too difficult to do an absolutely live performance and that there might be possible problems of sound.

Super Bowl-2014

Britney Spears: is one of the figures that uses more this resource, according to it some videos demonstrate of her in the social networks. She used it in a concert in Australia in 2009 and, in Chile and Colombia in 2011, among others.

Tour Britney: Piece of Me- Las Vegas

Kesha: was embarrassing when in a presentation of the television program Saturday Night Live, appeared singing her song 'Tik Tok' with playback.

SNL-2010

Justin Bieber: It is said that he has used playbacks from the beginning due to his change of voice but finally, in that video you can see that he used it in a concert in Santiago of Chile in 2013. Also, he used it in Ariana's Grande concert in 2015 in Los Angeles when he forgot the lyrics or in 2012 when he vomit in his concert in Arizona.

Concert in Santiago of Chile-2013

Madonna: gave her ninth concert tour in 2012 called "MDNA Tour" which visited the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East and in which she did playback, but it is not the only one, as you can see in the video when she took down the microphone and the music continued sounding.

MDNA Tour-2012

Mariah Carey: acted at the Jazz and Blues festival in Jamaica this year, in 2015, and she used a hideous lip sync performance.

Jazz and Blues festival, Jamaica- 2015

Katy Perry: simulated to touch the flute in 2011 in a concert in Manchester. Also, she did playback in the song "Roar" in the NRJ Music Awards in 2013 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in 2015.

Manchester, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJZRuSlLeI (NJR Music Awards- 2013 in Cannes, France)

Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull: led the ceremony of opening of the world Cup of Brazil, in 2014, together with Claudia Leitte with the song " We are one " using the playback what led to the jeers in the social networks.

World Cup of Brazil- 2014

There is a video with the top 10 lip sync fails in which there are some of that were showed to you previously. 

To sum up, whatever statement that they will say, such as a technical problem which is the most usual, some people say that most of them do playback in their performances with the aim to be able to realize well their choreographies. In spite of this, he continues being singers who continue filling entire stadiums.

We hope you have enjoyed this post and that you very much for your visit. I have talked about many of the artist, but there are much more, you can research about them and sure you will be surprised.

Best regards!

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