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Tami Baribeau
04/22/09

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And here is the link that proves this is fake:

[www.tmz.com]
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Wit is periodically disensouled
04/22/09

@Tami Baribeau: Wow. Remind me to never read the comments at TMZ.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/22/09

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this sounds EXTREMELY doctored.
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electriklights
04/22/09

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I'm not a Bey stan, but we all have our off days. Live and let die.
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Wit is periodically disensouled
04/22/09

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I'm going to side with the "it's faked" folks out there. For one thing, the sound is oddly distorted in places. The notes she has to jump to are hard to pick out of thin air, but the erroneous ones she lands on aren't really the ones she would hit if she had a bad sense of pitch and missed the notes, if that makes any sense. In other cases, where she seems to be sliding off-pitch, the sliding itself is a little to mechanical. My guess would be that the original audio was from a rehearsal where she was having some trouble, and then it was heavily doctored. Asshole move, that.

Also, I've no vested interest in defending Beyonce; no particular fondness or animosity for her.
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kityglitr
04/22/09

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Have we not learned from Aretha that cold weather is a singer's worst enemy? This was outside, in November! I like the idea of knowing Bey is not perfect, cuz sometimes she ticks me off, but the truth of it is not so simple as autotune. Performing outside makes it notoriously hard for a singer to hear themselves, and chances are, she had NO idea she was that far off. Judge not, folks.
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mmstk101
04/22/09

@kityglitr: I know it's fake, but some singers can sing just as well in cold weather. I saw Sarah Slean in concert a few Januarys ago and she was amazing.

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Mama Penguino
04/22/09

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Does anyone remember the wretched performance by the Rolling Stones on SNL in the 80s? Give Beyonce a break.
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RedVelvetCake
04/22/09

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Howard Stern has done this before to others, like Dolly Parton:
[www.foxnews.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if this recording were fake too.
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ZLevee
04/22/09

@RedVelvetCake: That was a silly incident the media made into something it wasn't. it was an obvious joke which nobody was trying to pass off as real.
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tscheese
04/22/09

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She has real power, depth of range, and a strong vibrato, but (and I speak as someone with way too many years of music lessons) it's a little odd that she's switching keys so erratically. Even if she ABSOLUTELY. CANNOT. HEAR. HERSELF, no singer is going to throw herself all over the scale like that. You carry around an internal pitch with you, and if you honestly can't hear yourself you plug up an ear and make sure your internal pitch syncs with whatever's blasting in your monitor.

I don't love Beyonce's music, since it's so bland and overproduced, but the sharp precision of her attacks and vibrato and timing simply don't add up to the meandering all over the scale I'm hearing here.

This sounds digitally manipulated.

There's a difference between being a little bit off key and howling all over the treble clef. I'll buy "a little off key" because no performer is perfect and everyone has a day when your monitor is just terrible; I don't buy that she'd be so tone-deaf that she'd leap all over the scale, especially not when so many other aspects of her singing are technically sound.
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rocknrollunicorn
04/22/09

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Not only do I think this is completely fake, I'm liable to side with ANYONE rather than Howard Stern. I can't believe that guy still thinks he's at all relevant.
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ZLevee
04/22/09

@rocknrollunicorn: He's got bigger ratings than anyone else still.
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rocknrollunicorn
04/22/09

@ZLevee: Wow, bad taste really knows no bounds.
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Trulymadlyme
04/22/09

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@JinxyMcDeath: Oh man. Lilly Allen was bad. Like I wanted the showtime at the Apollo clown to come out and put her out of her misery.

Although I can't fucking stand her, I still think Beyonce's got a decent voice. She's still the most boring thing in the world and "If I Were A Boy" still makes me stabby. Auto tune or no auto tune.
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SpicyTamale is a GA peach
04/22/09

@Trulymadlyme: agreed. Beyonce annys the crap out of me but who cares? And that song blows.
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The Queen of No
04/22/09

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That song is terrible even in perfect pitch.
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vamusical
04/22/09

@The Queen of No is a Sacred Trickster!: Agreed. Intervals like that are tricky, and it's generally just a crappy song. IMO.
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pandorasmittens
04/22/09

@The Queen of No is a Sacred Trickster!: That's my verdict as well. I could care less about the tape, although it makes for a quick laugh, which is probably what Stern wants. This IS Howard Stern, folks. He would go after anyone given the chance.
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liloslifecoach
04/22/09

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I'm a singer and a voice teacher and I've heard Beyonce live. She is AMAZING. And if auto-tune could do all that, why don't all singers sound as good live as Beyonce does? Auto-tune digitizes the voice so that the pitches may be right, but they don't sound the same. She is unbelievably talented.
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vamusical
04/22/09

@liloslifecoach: Thaaaaank you! She had absolutely perfect pitch when I heard her warmup at 6am one day. How could singing poorly on one track warrant you getting awards taken away?
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thecameralovesyou
04/22/09

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Autotune is the bane of my existence. The only time I think it's proved it's worth is making crying babies sound musical

[www.collegehumor.com]
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MarissaExplainsItAll
04/22/09

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I don't know that much about singing, but maybe her turtleneck is blocking her pipes?
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rednrowdy
04/22/09

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i listened to the raw feed and the today show performance at the same time, and i have to think that the raw feed was from a rehearsal and not from the televised performance based solely on the timing.

in the raw feed, she is holding out notes longer than in the performance, and though the camera is not close up on her during the performance all the time, when the camera IS close up on her, the raw feed doesn't match the performance with how long she holds certain notes.

my verdict? raw feed was a rehearsal and she couldn't hear the monitor. i.e. a warm up.
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