Bad TV musical performances

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According to Watch Mojo, this SNL performance by Kesha is one of the worst ever on that show. I honestly don't think it's that bad. It seems creative and fun to me. But what do I know? Is this a garbagy performance in your opinion? I don't think it is. (Sound quality is a bit bad -- couldn't find another one.)

 

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Just looks like a Ke$ha performance to me. Eh not my thing, but her story is interesting with the legal battle between her, Sony and producer Dr.Luke.
 

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Sucks skunk butt.

But I've seen worse on SNL. That dancing boy troupe from Japan damned near sent me into self deprivation of my sight and hearing.
 

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LMAO. What to do when you and your band don't know what song you are performing. Bounce around, do a little dance and act like that was the plan all along and wait for the encore to come back on stage.

What happened was she was lip syncing that night and she had already performed one song. Then for the second song, they accidentally played the same track as before instead of the second song that had planned. So she danced around looking stupid. Later, at the end of the show, she blamed it on her band, saying they played the wrong song. She should have just kept her mouth shut. The host, Jude Law, had just shrugged and said, "Hey, what can I tell you? It's live TV." She should have just left it at that.
 

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So many bad ones on SNL. I try to block out most of the bad musical acts .Always this pretentious feely into this crappy song that makes most people vomit ballad. That Super Bowl Halftime show last year was awful.
 

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So many bad ones on SNL. I try to block out most of the bad musical acts .Always this pretentious feely into this crappy song that makes most people vomit ballad. That Super Bowl Halftime show last year was awful.

I agree, and I don't even hate Adam Levine. IMO he's capable of putting on a good performance, but that wasn't one of them. He must have been off his game for some reason. I found a video by a vocal coach who broke down piece by piece why the show didn't work. I'll post it when I'm home from work if I can find it again. In short, it just didn't look like he was into it or wanted to be there in any way.

But that Kesha performance on SNL looks okay to me. I was laughing at the goofy spacesuits and choreography. That performance seemed kind of fun.
 

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So many bad ones on SNL. I try to block out most of the bad musical acts .Always this pretentious feely into this crappy song that makes most people vomit ballad. That Super Bowl Halftime show last year was awful.
I usually ff through the music and would prefer it if they just provided music interludes with that house band, they can wail.
 

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Does the Eurovision song contest get aired in the U.S? Madonna did a set while the votes were being counted. She straight up can't sing. It's probably on t'internet but I can't be bothered to look
 

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Okay, I promised to show a couple evaluations of the 2019 Super Bowl show, which I personally thought was awful. I don't personally think Adam Levine is a gawd awful singer, but this performance just wasn't there IMO. When we were here on CZ commenting on the game, lots of us went "ew" for this performance. First thing I noticed was that he kept going off key. He wasn't as drastically off key as Alfalfa, but he was off enough to bug me. Then I noticed that it looked like he was bored, like he didn't even want to be there. Makes me wonder if he was sick or maybe under the influence of some drug. Whatever it was, he came across as "ho-hum" for the biggest performance of his life. This was the bleepin' Super Bowl for crying out loud. Some other guy in the comments here claimed that we were just a bunch of old farts who would complain about any performance, but that's light years from the truth. I remember how in recent history, Bruno Mars killed it. He knocked the ball out of the park with an amazing performance.

Anyway, if you're an Adam Levine fan, I'm not trying to hate on him. I just think he didn't give a very good performance this one time. These vocal coaches pretty much express in different words the same view as me. They know their stuff. They know what they're talking about. The first one, Sam Johnson, reviews the entire show. The next dude, Ken Tamplin just reviews the Adam Levine part. These guys really know how to articulate why a performance works or does not work. I can highly recommend their channels if you're interested in music.



 
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