Now before anybody gets all up in their cheese about that title, let me explain.  Britney went on X Factor, a sort of British American Idol-forerunner show, to promote her new single Womanizer and to get some good exposure for a change.  She sang and danced her way through the number, which quite frankly looked sort of like a Gimme More clone minus the spangly bikini, and she managed to do it fairly well.  I mean, if you compare the Gimme More performance with this one, they’re like night and day.

But some of Brit’s Brit fans were left disappointed, because not only did she not actively participate in the mentoring of the contestants or even watch the show:

Unlike other guest stars such as Take That and Mariah Carey, Miss Spears failed to mentor the contestants ahead of the show.

She also refused to use a Winnebago motorhome at the studios, instead taking over Simon Cowell’s green room along with her entourage and security guards.

To make matters worse, she did not even watch the contestants’ performances from her dressing room.

Dermot was left baffled after he asked her what she made of the five acts, who each performed one of her hits.

After he handed her his microphone - hers appeared to be switched off completely - she said: ‘Yes, awesome, thank-you. Amazing, I met so many different people, the place is beautiful.’

…but she appeared to be lip synching her vocals:

She mimed to her new hit Womanizer on the ITV show on Saturday night, apparently because she wanted to concentrate fully on her dance routine.

By contrast, all the contestants, who are not professional singers, had to deliver their own performance live.

Miss Spears, who turns 27 on December 2, was said to have feared that trying to sing and dance at the same time would prove too much for her.

A spokesman for the show insisted that there had been ’some live vocals’.

However, one of the American’s aides told the Mail: ‘Everyone knows Britney’s performances are about the dancing and performing.

‘Just as she would have mimed five years ago, she also mimed on the show on Saturday.’

No.  Really?  Professional singers go on these shows and they don’t sing live?  When did this happen?

Srsly.  If these people are surprised about this, don’t tell them about Santa Claus, they won’t be able to handle it.

Everybody knows that Brit mimes her way through her performances, aided by a state of the art system, because girlfriend can’t sing:

“I’m good friends with some of her producers and have heard first hand what kind of nightmare Britney is to record,” Medelgi said. “Out of 250 takes the sound engineer had to pick one word at a time and paste it all together. My good friend was flown out to Dallas for one of her performances, got paid 4k to operate the software which lets her lip sync. One can’t tell the difference, it sounds so real. As soon as the signal of her real voice goes into the mic the recorded vocal track is triggered by the sound engineer. When she thanks her fans at the end of the song and talks to the crowd the software automatically turns off and turn back on her microphone.
“What concerns me most here is that people are paying huge amounts of their hard earned money and are being cheated. If they want to hear her recorded voice they’re better off buying the CD for $14.00 instead of being deceived into believing she’s live on stage singing.”

What’s that?  Brit’s voice is mainly manufactured in the studio?

If only Britney Spears could sing in studio the way she’s able to cash in on her All American smile she’d be much more pleasant to work with, according to one of her New York record producers. The shapelessness of her psyche during recording sessions transcends into a living recording hell. The incensed producer said Spears has the blank schizoid fever of white southern trash when it comes to laying down her vox. “She’s the only artist I’ve ever worked with where it takes at least 250 takes to record a vocal,” the producer told IUC. “If you could hear just her voice tracks on solo play you’d have to block your ears. You hear the blank tones of her annoying southern drawl. Simon Cowell would have a heart attack hearing her.”

And in case you need yet moar proof, here is audio and video of what she actually sounds like during a concert:

Now, this is not dissing Brit for mouthing her way through Womanizer.  You get up there, run around a stage, dance around and jiggle your hips, prance up and down wearing high heels, and try to sing on key, all to the beat, all at the same time.  She’s no Broadway star…not a diss, just a fact.  Of COURSE she didn’t sing it live, just like she doesn’t usually sing live.  It sounded like there might have been a couple of spots where she was actually live-singing, but not much, and they were fairly easy parts.  But most of it sounded like it wasn’t live, because she doesn’t sing live at stuff like this, and neither do most stars.  Duh.

I mean, I think she pulled it off, if this is the sort of thing you like in a performance.  And that’s the key…people are confusing performance with concert.  Brit doesn’t give concerts, she puts on a performance.  If you watch her performances expecting a concert, you’re going to come away disappointed.  If you’re expecting good singing, you’ll be disappointed.  But if you’re expecting computer-manipulated vocals and some dance moves, then you’ll accept it for what it is and move on.

Source: k