Country Star Caught Lip-Syncing During Macy’s Parade Performance
- Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:53am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Yesterday was not a good day for young country stars who got their start on “American Idol.” Just hours before Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina flubbed the National Anthem before the Packers-Lions game, Idol winner and fellow country star Scotty McCreery was caught lip-syncing during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
To be fair, McCreery wasn’t the only one who did it. If you watched (like my wife and I did) you would have found several examples. However, McCreery’s stands out because it was so obvious: he missed a cue and you could hear his voice for almost two seconds before he even brought the microphone up to his lips:
“Yes, everyone I saw yesterday at the parade was lip-syncing so that’s not the issue,” writes Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “He just missed the first three words of his song so he made it really obvious.”
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Comments (79)
Tirabi
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:33amIf this is the kind of “story” you’re going to run on the Blaze, then I’m going to stop coming to read stories here.
Report Post »mils
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:38ami don’t care about this…so what…
i DO DO DO care about the national anthem being flubbed
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:56amThey all lip-sync .. and as for the National anthem . they SHOULD lip-sync that also .. if they don’t know the words. Better yet .. learn the words!
TEA!
Report Post »BrianM
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:26pmTirabi: Please leave or move to another story if you don’t like the post. The Blaze covers entertainment news as well. Please stop wasting your time and ours. …brian
Report Post »wingman723
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:47pmTarabi, what kind of “stories” are you looking for in the Entertainment section of The Blaze? If not interested in entertainment news, don’t read the entertainment section.
Report Post »greensteam
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:43pmtirabi is gonna boycott the blaze if they dont start playing stories about how marijuana is not so bad. after all people only like ron paul while they are stoned.
Report Post »MTCOWBOY711
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:04pmIn other irrelevant news falling autumn leaves are clogging storm drains and creating nuisance water puddles for drivers and pedestrians.
Report Post »123456beatriz
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:05pmHey Soros!. Good, get out of here!
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:39pmTirabi is a troll who made the account today. This is the only post on the account. It’s probably Your Sensei or Encinom or one of the other everyday trolls. They say the same things all the time… The Blaze doesn’t attack “such‘n’such“ because they want ”such‘n’such” elected… The Blaze focuses too much on “such‘n’such” … The Blaze doesn’t focus enough on “such‘n’such”…
Report Post »In the end, the trolls come back and spend hours each day continuing to post stupid comments while threatening to never come back. Good! Don’t come back, Encinom, Your Sensei, JZS or whichever troll you are. Go read some Liberal blog site that has been proven to lie repeatedly, like Huffpo.
symphonic
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:35pmI agree, this is a non story. It was a parade. Everything is probably prerecorded. So? Its a parade. You don’t have LIVE performances of music on a FLOAT for crying out loud.
Report Post »FireWolf
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 12:33pmI agree. This story is a waste of my reading. I thought “THEBLAZE” was going to be an innovative news organization. But it seems most of it is regurgitated blather that the MSM is already doing. :: YAWN ::
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:29amNon-story.
Report Post »Joey8
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:33amits under entertainment, what are you expecting in entertainment?
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:19pmEven in entertainment it’s a non-story, because the whole thing is lip-synched and has been for years. Everyone knows it, so why is it a story if a couple of guys have trouble matching their mouths to the music?
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:27ammake songs with a longer lead in there buddy. that way you can lip sync better.
Report Post »JCAMERICA
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:17amIt is so funny to see this story on the blaze. I was watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade yesterday and I saw him screw up! I knew someone would write about it!
Report Post »Binkley
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:14amWhy is this news? The lip-syncing in the parade has been going on for decades. And what importance does it have on anything?
Report Post »hud
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:47amProbably has something to do with the acoustics in that part of the parade.Scotty’s a good kid and will live this down.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:00pmit was funny because i seen this happen live, and not long before it i was thinking how do they keep their voice consistent when it is cold, and you can tell they want to shiver. Then that happened, then i started paying attention to them all…some were convincing but some were not. There was one where these girls were jumping all around the float singing, and there was no way they could do all that moving, and still sound like a record recording….lol…
my guess is they do it normally because of the weather.
Report Post »CATPBJ
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:07amNo surprise here. I am waiting for the time when GOPTP senators and/or congressmen get caught lip-syncing. For example, when John ***** or Paul Ryan or any of the other “performers” are giving a speech and instead of their voice it is the voice of Grover Norquist (the commie anarchist who hates the US Constitution) or the voice of one of the Koch brothers comes out in its stead! For, as we all know, these GOPTP douchebags actually are worshiping at the altar of these men in the name of Greed rather than protecting and serving our Constitution and their constituents!
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:33pmBravo, Bravo! Well stated!
Report Post »MinnesotaMARINE
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:55amAre we even sure it’s even his voice?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:47am.
Report Post »He holds on to the mic like a, well I can‘t say I promised I’d be good………..
HTuttle
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:43amEVERYONE lip synchs the parade.
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:37amI have to admit I didn’t watch I was watching the dog show and cooking and just enjoying the day and thanking GOD for all his blessings.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:24amThat staged stuff that they do in front of Macy’s is crap anyhow and we hate it. Frankly, we assumed that all of it was lip-synched, pre-recorded, enhanced, etc. So this is about as surprising as finding out that Barack Hussein Obama is a radical leftist.
To the networks (especially NBC): your parade coverage is insufferable! This staged garbage isn’t entertaining – it’s just lame. Just show the damn parade! THAT is all we want to see.
This kind of stuff is why we switched to WGN to watch the parade in Chicago.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:19amThis isn’t news, and neither is Lauren’s misstep singing the National Anthem (she recovered and finished well.) Neither ruined my day, as they apparantly did to Seidl.
Now, the chaos going on during “I really need this stuff, and I don’t care who I hurt to get it” black Friday is newsworthy, and sad.
Report Post »mils
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:22ami don’t care
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:26amLauren? You mean that random girl in Detroit that nobody in the room had ever heard of? The one who flubbed the Anthem? Yeah, we felt sorry for her. Thought that she was just some girl that they picked at random.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:37amIf Milli Vanilli was performing there… now THAT would be NEWS! Lol.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:45amYep, and they would be the only ones trying to sing, and thus, we would find out why they originally lip-synced. :-)
Report Post »mils
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:09ami don’t care…not o nly do i not care…but, i htink they alllllll did this..he just got caught..
Report Post »I DON’T CARE!!!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:18amThey suck.
It’s called rehearse and perform, not perpetrate.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:15amI’m outraged. What’s this world coming to??
Cough…cough….arghhhh.
Thanks to Scott Bker for getting us the important stories of the day. How about covering this?
I spent Thanksgiving watching riots in Portugal on RTP. 3 million on strike. 3 Molotov cocktails through bank windows. The world is preoccupied with the financial crisis and not paying attention to the Iranian threat.
“Iran is a tiny country. What threat do they pose?” – Barack One-bama 2008
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:13amThey have always lip-synched that parade! It is easy to tell the difference between a studio recording and a live outdoor recording because there is no background noise in a studio recording and there is a big difference in the tone as a result of the acoustics of a recording studio verses the acoustics of a city street.
But we are just a bunch of rubes out here in flyover country so we won’t know the difference.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:12amWhat else is new.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:10amThey all lip sink. He’s new at the game. There’s no big story here. AGAIN; tabloid reporting prevails. CARRY ON McDUFF
Report Post »voidzm
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:10amRemind me: why is is news?
Report Post »Xavier_Holden
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:46amBecause the Blaze has nothing better to report than sensationalizing non-news.
This site is getting old, real quick.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:09amAll of this modern technology and they copy the 1950′s.
Report Post »notalib56
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:07amNot sure why it’s a big deal they have been lip-syncing at these parades for years.
Report Post »matinva
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:07amGood grief! Singers in parades have been lip-syncing for decades! Where have you been? The real news should be if you find one that ISN’T doing it!
Report Post »bee guy
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:02amEvery performer was lip synching, for the parade. This is not a news story
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:00amI don’t blame him. Trying to sing all through that parade would have had his voice down to a forced whisper before it was over.
Report Post »MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:58amSo what?! That platform he’s on probably stops 30 times during the parade and he “sings” every time. It’s his voice, it’s his recording. Geez…get over it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:55amThey have been lip synching that stuff for years. I’m not shocked or disappointed.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:59amme neither
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