Which live performance do you think was the biggest disaster? Let us know in the comments below! For more content like this, click here: ruclips.net/video/n0bkdD5BnqA/видео.html
You forgot Corey Feldman's Something In Your Eyes, where it was so obvious he was lipsyncing to his own song! It was so bad, someone tried to hijack the broadcast in the middle of the performance, and replace it with eerie fooage of a woman, tied to a bed presumably being tourtured. Oof, talk about being messed up. Look it up, if you don't believe me. Its on youtube!
No different that other low effort channels like this. Go online, find a list of anything, grab the youtube videos in question, edit it together and then have some dude read off a script.
@@sonablom The right thing to say would have been "sorry guys, I lost my voice and had to improvise." The Led Zep is not even that bad, so WatchMojo was just trying to be edgy.
Absolutely! I was shocked when it wasn’t number 1. Everyone remembers Live Aid for all the absolutely great bands there, everyone remembers SNL worst bands for Ashlee Simpson
Whoever asked Roseanne Barr, a non-singer and a comedian - to do the national anthem - they're the ones to blame for the whole performance. You ask for Roseanne, you GET Roseanne. And is anyone surprised that Kanye West can't sing without autotune?
My favorite parts were Jimmy Kimmel standing in the shadows, capturing this moment for his monologue, and Fergie's proudly throwing a fist as if she nailed it.
There were a lot of issues in this show, but - sadly - Phil Collins was one of them. He just didn't know the material and missed the mark on pretty much every tune. He was not the right choice, but he wasn't the only one that made people cringe. Page was still "altered" at this time, and most would agree that Plant's vocals were less than sub-par. A shame, really..... I expect that anyone there who thought they were going to see Led Zeppelin in their prime were disappointed.
@@ulrikesextro4187 The same Roseanne who has gone full mental case and tries to tell us that she is a patriot. Yep, she's lost what little plot she had.
The American National Anthem is extremely hard to sing publicly, except by singers with a wide vocal range...it starts low, and ends on a very high note... try singing it out loud when you're alone some time. "America The Beautiful" would make a much better National song, one everyone is capable of singing
Britney's performance also needs the caveat that on top of dealing with being trafficked by her family, mental health, divorce etc, people were MOCKING HER on this very show, she'd had a panic attack, and had run into JT prior to (and we know what HE DID to her), and she'd endured relentless media bullying for not being a twig after two babies. The fact she got up at all is a testament to her determination to keep trying. I defy anyone to even deliver half of what she did that night.
@@lowkeysava7854 And back when it was first used, it was for one reason, and one reason only... for when a singer in the studio couldn't hit the correct notes.
21:20 We have to give Collins... His drumming made Jimmy Page drunk and out of tune all while making Plant sing like he was at a karaoke party! Those drums had magical powers!!! 😒
I never got why he received quite so much stick for it. Its obvious Page’s guitar is out of tune, and Plant isnt match fit. It wouldve been bad no matter who drummed.
Haha,you said it.Nothing wrong with the drummers and it wasn´t that awful performance overall.Page had a poor work ethics already in 70´s.Good musician but not much of a man,blaming others.
On top of that they ask Phil Collins to play the same day while he was playing the London Live Aid. He had to fliy to Philly and didn't even have time to learn the songs. To make thing worse they "forgot" they had already invited the Chic drummer who had actually learned the songs, so they ended up playing with two drummers one of whom didn't even know the songs. Totally surreal.
Milli Vanilli DID NOT RECOVER! their career was over after this concert, and Rob Pilatus drowned in alcohol and drugs, and died in 1998 of an overdose.
Van Halen at the US Festival without a doubt. David Lee Roth was completely wasted, forgot the lyrics, slurred his words when speaking and dropped F-bombs every other word.
Rule One: Don't Invite Fergie Rule Two: Don't let Fergie sing Rule Three: Don't cover the Star Spangled Banner with Jazz Rules listing by:Francis Scott Key
Probably shouldn't include the Sex Pistols, as they were literally formed by bad musicians on purpose, because playing well is not punk or anti-authority. Also, keep aiming high WatchMojo. Pretty sure you've released a video like this (in many different version) every week for the past decade or so.
@@PhukRUclips-zs4xw They're what I like to call ADD watching material. People with poor attention spans. It's not different from the brain rot of TikTok or RUclips Shorts.
Sex Pistols bad musicians? Steve Jones is one of the finest and tightest rhythm guitarists ever to pick up the instrument and is revered among the world’s top players for that reason. Glen Matlock is a superb bass player and Paul Cook a very able drummer. I have been playing music for more than 40 years on five different instruments to performance level and feel kinda qualified to comment on this. What are your credentials for assessing the abilities and quality of musicians? 😂
@@philknight6844 I'm a musician myself, and Steve Jones admitted himself he didn't know what the fuck he was doing when he first began stealing instruments. Read his book, "Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol" to enlighten yourself on their beginnings.
A big problem with live anthem singers is they don't know the difference between a song in 4/4 and 3/4, so they completely botch the American anthem and it sounds absolutely terrible. Actual musicians often understand, and can play well, but tons of performers aren't musicians and don't understand the difference.
The Star Spangled Banner is an extremely difficult song to sing... most people don't realize it because they either sing it in a large crowd of people, or softly to themselves. Consider the range between "Oh say can you see..." and "...for the land of the free...". Most people don't have the vocal ability to cover that range. And 99.9% of Americans don't know that the version they're used to hearing at sporting events is only the FIRST verse...there are alot more words, most describing very violent scenarios!
@@klmullins65 The Star Spangled banner requires a two octave range. A two octave range for men and women is common. The Star Spangled Banner was written in the key of Bb major, and most singers sing it in the key of G (the most popular key for many genres) for comfort reasons. If you start off the song in a familiar key and at a lower octave of your register, there really shouldn't be much issue hitting the notes towards the end. The most complex parts of the anthem require good vocal control during the longer notes and being able to feel the 6/8 or 3/4 time signature. When professional singers struggle to sing it, it more often has to do with choices they made that made the song harder to sing to hit those upper power notes. In the end, it's a song that's as complex as you want to make it. If you aim for a range and key that's comfortable for your voice, it isn't all that difficult to nail. But obviously singers want to show off a bit too haha. People are use to hearing it in a "pushing the limits" kind of way hence why people think it's extremely difficult to sing. But it doesn't have to be sang that way. Jack Black's rendition is a perfect example. Didn't overdue it, sang in a range that's comfortable, and nailed it.
@@calebhohneke8482 Yes, but its not an easy song to sing if youʻre NOT a professional, or at least a talented non professional. Bresth control, and singing songs in the proper pitch in order to nail the whole song…those arenʻt techniques that your average person consider when singing a song. Iʻve been a musician for decades, and i now struggle to sing along with hymns at church now, because I run out of breath before i can get the words out, especially Episcopalian hymns. Im not a trained musician, but i am a talented instrumentalist, and iʻve had a “decent” voice, given the right material. Imo, our National Anthem should be simpler, and more folk-based….”This Land is Your Land”, “America the Beautiful”, “God Bless America”… any of those songs would be better, plus theyre not about bombs and rockets, and slaughtering Red Coats. I picture a song that kids could sing along to, and enjoy doing it
@@calebhohneke8482 Jack Black has a very powerful and bombastic voice, and even if he kept it toned down properly, his is the kind of voice that best fits The Star Spangled Banner
True if you can't do without it. Although singers have used it without needing it: Cher has proven countless times that she can sing without it, still she used it on "Believe".
@@SchimmiSensei73 True, but we know that’s a different situation 😉. I’m old enough to remember watching ‘The Sonny & Cher Show’…she didn’t need any encouragement at all to belt out a few notes. She’s one hell of a fantastic vocalist, especially in her younger years ☺️.
Depends..if you are doing it for artistic purposes or not. Kanye, for example, did it to achieve an artistic sound. This isn't unlike Peter Frampton or Roger & Zapp using a vocoder.
Here's another one. Poison at the 1990 MTV VMA's. Guitarist C.C. DeVille started playing the wrong song instead of the one planned for the performance, mostly because he was wasted. This led to lead singer Bret Michaels getting into an argument with C.C. backstage after the performance and C.C. later got kicked out of the band, at least temporarily.
Me and some buddies went backstage after the show when he was at Pine Knob, Michigan. He was charging 5 bucks for an autograph and 20 bucks for a picture. My friend had his cassette tape liner and wanted to have it signed. No one was paying him for anything and he just sat there chastising everyone for not running up to give him money. Deville was a complete douche and many of the people there just turned abound and walked out.
I always liked Kesha's SNL performances. She was different and it was fun! I don't know how you can put her on the same list as the Rosanne and Fergie National Anthems!
@Supasmartguy No, There Was No Announcement Everyone Wanted It To Happen And Just Got Pissed Off When It Didn't... I Love SpongeBob And Stephen Hillenburg But We Can't Always Get What We Want And It's Time The Haters Stopped Blaming The Super Bowl For Not Doing What THEY Wanted
I kind of felt for her. I've sung onstage before and it's trippy how you literally can't hear yourself unless you have an ear piece in feeding your own voice to you. It caught me off guard so bad! So if her ear piece wasn't working she can't hear herself sing at all.
Her new years eve performance was a technical problem & she didn't really sing. The following year she more than made up for it with an acclaimed, highly rated performance. ❤🎉😊
@@dhsaunders4185😂😂😂😂😂😂😂....the next year the person in charge of pressing the bottons was paying more attention...😂, without her prerecorded vocals she just can't perform.
Every time I think about her I feel really sad. She was considered a joke during most of her fame because she couldn't stay sober and it eventually got her.
@@gregarmstrong6077 The only sad thing about her story is that neither her family nor her friends could or wanted to really help her. She was gone way before she finally died.
Wait. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Kesha’s performance. Because you think there was too much going on during it? Okay… that’s a matter of opinion and it doesn’t make it bad. She’s an entertainer. She entertained.
I think I'll have to choose Fergie because of the song and the arrangement. The first time I heard it, I laughed so hard I pulled a stomach muscle. Not proud of it, but true.
My Mom and I were laughing so hard that we had to replay it in order to actually hear it. Then we had to hold back our laughter as we played it for my Dad who had missed it because he was at work.
Rosanne Barr's performance should be higher. Her performance was unconstitutional- cruel and unusual punishment. Fergie's performance was poor embellishment choices. Rosanne Barr's was an inability to sing.
When are these singers going to learn that they will NEVER be equal to Whitney Houston's version at the 1991 Super Bowl and Marvin Gaye's version at the 1983 NBA All-Star game. And even Whitney Houston said that she was inspired by Marvin Gaye's performance to do the arrangement she did at the Super Bowl. The rest of these artists need to just sing it straight as intended because only those two people have added style to the anthem it and it worked. Stop trying to updo the anthem. We have Whitney and Marvin's, that's good enough for us. 🤷🏻♀
@@dhsaunders4185: because it was a requirement, there were jets flying over the stadium, imagine the sound that makes. She sang it fully live in her show Welcome Home Heroes and she sounded amazing. For the Super Bowl she did it in one take and they recorded and extra take just in case. Whitney's was the best ever regardless.
7:11, "Gimme More" performance by Britney Spears, even with vocal difficulties and the fact that she didn't sing live, is still one of the most iconic VMA performances of all time. This is especially true if you watch it after knowing what happened to her.
The worst concert I ever went to was The Beach Boys, and I was STOKED my dad got us tickets! But because a storm had been predicted, they kept “waiting for updates” for FIVE FREAKING HOURS until they finally canceled it-and we all got stuck in traffic, and the storm, and the floods, with no bathrooms or places to take shelter because everything was closed. Had they just done the concert on time, with the scheduled set, we all would have been done and out before the first raindrops fell. 🙄
Sometimes, artists should not let themselves be pushed beyond their limits. I think many times artists are just not ready for the shows they agree to perform. But they have signed contracts, etc. out of wanting fame, fortune, etc. But if they are not prepared for it, then they should not perform. Carly Simon and Barbra Streisand are known to not give live performances because too many things can go wrong. So they won’t perform. A lot of these young artists should learn that lesson. If you’re not up to it, stay home.
It's amazing how many famous singers can't actually sing when singing is supposed to be their thing. I don't like Mariah Carey, but this was not her fault and 100% a technical issue. She couldn't hear herself sing in a noisy environment. It would have been like trying to sing pitch perfect when you're in the middle of a crowd at a rock concert when everyone else is singing.
Most of todays "singers" use autotune and they lipsync any live performances. Its not surprising that the majority sound awful when they actually go live but thats a rare event nowadays
The fallout was so bad, one of them self-deleted. I was shocked to see them come up in the list, then notice that there were 5 more "worse" performances to follow.
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention Ingrid Andress singing the national anthem at the 2024 MLB Home Run Derby. She admitted a few days later that she was intoxicated while singing and announced that she was checking herself into rehab
Not fair. Ashley Simpson (while completely untalented and unworthy of stardom) did the same thing that Michael Jackson did during “the greatest superbowl halftime show of all time” according to half of you.
The Led Zeppelin Live Aid performance was ATROCIOUS! Just a train wreck. It's interesting to see THAT one against The Who at Live Aid, which also was plagued with technical problems, but they pushed through just playing their hearts out despite the screw ups. The Who salvaged their set while Zeppelin fell apart. There is a video out there going over all the viewpoints of that mess where everyone, I think, takes a share of blame, but some got dumped on harder than others, unjustly so. They had no rehearsal, Plant's voice was gassed, and they just had no synergy. Collins was paired with another drummer that I don't think he enjoyed playing or working with. It was not going to work out AT ALL!
@@josephsavich2451Best drummer ever! Tons of credits-Bill Ward in Brand X singing lead vocals and playing drums. Wicked talent. Bass player? WTF was that?
I was watching with a few of them. I had seen LZ live so I was disappointed. . I even remember yelling out during a page solo " come on , play play "A few others loved it
Don't blame Phil Collins for that Trainwreck Led zeppelin Live Aid thing .. They didn't even get JPJ to play bass... seriously .. they put him on keyboards at the last minute..
Maroon 5’s 2019 Super Bowl performance is, in my opinion, the worst sports event performance of the 21st century so far. The Kaepernick drama aside, Adam Levine (lead singer) performed with very little enthusiasm, and he looked as if he was fighting through sleeping pills. Even when he took off his shirt for “Moves Like Jagger,” the moment gave off zero excitement.
@@popmans9999 Maybe not 45 years, but at least 20 years ago. Basically when she started taking attention seeking to a new level. American Pie was a turning point for me.
Tbh, performances on TV rarely translate well, they often seem to employ the worst sound technicians and it ends up sounding completely different to what it sounds like in reality.
That's because we don't matter to America as they are the world riiight? I loved Meatloaf. Let's let that one stay under the carpet. Let's keep that performance to ourselves please.😉✌QLD.
I just wanna give some form of credit to all the musicians that was on the drug train in the 60-90s and still could deliver fantastic live performances even though they had amounts that would kill anyone else in their bodies
Now days Will Smith’s daughter doesn’t even try to hide that she’s lip syncing to a track and nobody says anything. What ended careers years ago is totally acceptable today
I was physically present the time Macy Gray attempted to sing the national anthem at the hall of fame game and it was an atrocity that makes all of these look professional and smooth.
Which live performance do you think was the biggest disaster? Let us know in the comments below!
For more content like this, click here: ruclips.net/video/n0bkdD5BnqA/видео.html
They are all funny in a bad way. 😂
You missed the Ingrid Andress national anthem. Quite possibly the worst live performance in history. 😂
@@aLousyBum83 She's not exactly a household name, but that has to be the absolute worst thing I've ever heard. It's an easy #1 for this list.
typical; mojo channel, more talk than video
You forgot Corey Feldman's Something In Your Eyes, where it was so obvious he was lipsyncing to his own song!
It was so bad, someone tried to hijack the broadcast in the middle of the performance, and replace it with eerie fooage of a woman, tied to a bed presumably being tourtured.
Oof, talk about being messed up.
Look it up, if you don't believe me. Its on youtube!
These videos suck because you don't get to hear how bad it is...some dude just talks over it telling us.
Seriously!! I hate that!!
Yep. I was thinking the same thing.
No different that other low effort channels like this. Go online, find a list of anything, grab the youtube videos in question, edit it together and then have some dude read off a script.
there's 20 other versions of this list you can watch
Exactly what I was going to say. How tf does this channel have 25 million subs??
Ashley Simpson should be #1 because that performance literally ENDED her recording career.
NOBODY took her seriously after that
Really don’t like how she blamed her band right away.
@@sonablom The right thing to say would have been "sorry guys, I lost my voice and had to improvise." The Led Zep is not even that bad, so WatchMojo was just trying to be edgy.
Absolutely! I was shocked when it wasn’t number 1. Everyone remembers Live Aid for all the absolutely great bands there, everyone remembers SNL worst bands for Ashlee Simpson
Twice SNL but also the orange bowl halftime show
"NOBODY took her seriously after that"
Or before..
Good singers: lack of confidence
Bad singers: overflowing confidence
Dunning-Kruger Effect.
so true...
The Yoko Ono effect
Case in point. Madonna. Can’t sing her way out of a paper bag and look at her career.
Like in everyday life, intelligent people : full of doubts
Idiots: full of confidence.
The narrator talks way too much. One doesn't hear what's going on cause the narrator is always talking. Makes it hard to watch.
I think this dude thinks the narrator talks too much
That's the common complaint about Mojo and all their vids. I tuned out after the fourth singer.
thats why i stopped watching after the first couple. these watch mojo videos all do this
I so agree and posted the same thing...
@@bellabubbles1974 same...
Whoever asked Roseanne Barr, a non-singer and a comedian - to do the national anthem - they're the ones to blame for the whole performance. You ask for Roseanne, you GET Roseanne. And is anyone surprised that Kanye West can't sing without autotune?
It's like when someone (I forget the event) invited Chris Rock to be their guest and then were surprised that he was using profanity.
I laughed and got second hand embarrassment when Fergie sang the National Anthem
I just had to mute it because my cat started panicking lol
Least she tried but wow
Apparently Fergie wasn’t given the memo that the national anthem should never get sexed up!
@@bandicootmania4599 lol 😂
My favorite parts were Jimmy Kimmel standing in the shadows, capturing this moment for his monologue, and Fergie's proudly throwing a fist as if she nailed it.
We all did.
Every couple years i accidentally click a watchmojo video.
Right?! They SUCK! So hard! 🤮
Which is definitely enough...
Yep. It's an optimism I share too. "maybe... just maybe..." But nope.
same
You are doing fine, then. Don't forget to downthumb and avoid ever subscribing.
It used to be a mark of shame and ruined Milli Vannilli's career, now fake backing tracks are common practice.
The one difference was Milli Vannilli didnt even sing on the records.
@@mmsiphonevinyls1027 True, they were a complete sham. At least The Monkees sang on their records.
_"You shouldn't put your own twist on the Star Spangled Banner"_
Jimi Hendrix: "Hold my joint..."
If the narrator perhaps shut up a little, we could hear these bad performances for ourselves
Exactly he loves his voice more!
Is this your first WatchMojo video?
@Aivottaja
Watched for years, this is the worst. If you look at other comments, im not only one who thinks so.
You related to narrator?
A great shame that Led Zeppelin tried to blame Phil Collins for their own disaster.
There were a lot of issues in this show, but - sadly - Phil Collins was one of them. He just didn't know the material and missed the mark on pretty much every tune. He was not the right choice, but he wasn't the only one that made people cringe. Page was still "altered" at this time, and most would agree that Plant's vocals were less than sub-par. A shame, really..... I expect that anyone there who thought they were going to see Led Zeppelin in their prime were disappointed.
Imagine blaming Phill Collins for your bad performance lol
right. I am going to say I doubt that was the problem.
Should've gotten Peter Gabriel
Madonna's never been a super strong vocalist.
Oddly, some of her songs can be challenging to sing.
She flat can’t sing. Period.
True
She's never been a vocalist period
I agree...in comparison to today's talent...think just her dancing and hunger for fame what worked for her off course back in the 80s😂
Why would anyone invite Roseanne to sing
@maryroberts2099 I know right. Roseanne's singing is like fingers nails scratching across a chalkboard.
Deaf people
Too many words. I would have stopped at 'Why would anybody invite Roseanne'
I am not American but listening to this mockery of an anthem hurt me deeply.
@@ulrikesextro4187 The same Roseanne who has gone full mental case and tries to tell us that she is a patriot. Yep, she's lost what little plot she had.
Roseanne looks crazy but they should not have invited her. She’s not a singer
Plus she did it in exactly how Rosanne should have done it, so I don't get how it goes over so many people's heads. hahahah
She's showed herself to be much crazier than that recently
The American National Anthem is extremely hard to sing publicly, except by singers with a wide vocal range...it starts low, and ends on a very high note... try singing it out loud when you're alone some time. "America The Beautiful" would make a much better National song, one everyone is capable of singing
A Roseanne is going be a Roseanne
Britney's performance also needs the caveat that on top of dealing with being trafficked by her family, mental health, divorce etc, people were MOCKING HER on this very show, she'd had a panic attack, and had run into JT prior to (and we know what HE DID to her), and she'd endured relentless media bullying for not being a twig after two babies. The fact she got up at all is a testament to her determination to keep trying. I defy anyone to even deliver half of what she did that night.
She did better than me because I would have never shown up in the first place
Yes very true
The performance was so bad that it’s actually good. It adds to her legend title.
It’s such a memorable moment of contemporary pop culture.
You forgot- she mimes at her own shows
❤
Many current "artists" require auto-tune, because they didn't develop their talent.
They can't develop what they don't have in the first place!
nice one grandpa
This is not true😂. Autotune been used for years.
What? When's the last time you've been to a live show?
@@lowkeysava7854 And back when it was first used, it was for one reason, and one reason only... for when a singer in the studio couldn't hit the correct notes.
Corey Feldman Today Show performance should get a dishonorable mention
That's what I was thinking
Is it performance art?
no it was actually awesome, don't disrespect the king like that
Lord yes that & his old Howard Stern show classic
21:20 We have to give Collins... His drumming made Jimmy Page drunk and out of tune all while making Plant sing like he was at a karaoke party! Those drums had magical powers!!! 😒
I never got why he received quite so much stick for it. Its obvious Page’s guitar is out of tune, and Plant isnt match fit. It wouldve been bad no matter who drummed.
Haha,you said it.Nothing wrong with the drummers and it wasn´t that awful performance overall.Page had a poor work ethics already in 70´s.Good musician but not much of a man,blaming others.
@@mmsiphonevinyls1027 Agreed. This "reunion" never should have happened in the first place.
They all thought they were super stars who didn’t need to practice. They would just get up and blow everyone away like it was 1975.
On top of that they ask Phil Collins to play the same day while he was playing the London Live Aid. He had to fliy to Philly and didn't even have time to learn the songs. To make thing worse they "forgot" they had already invited the Chic drummer who had actually learned the songs, so they ended up playing with two drummers one of whom didn't even know the songs. Totally surreal.
Madonna is a very good performer but a very, very ordinary singer.
Milli Vanilli DID NOT RECOVER! their career was over after this concert, and Rob Pilatus drowned in alcohol and drugs, and died in 1998 of an overdose.
Van Halen at the US Festival without a doubt. David Lee Roth was completely wasted, forgot the lyrics, slurred his words when speaking and dropped F-bombs every other word.
That's a normal show for Dave.
@@ryankibler7973 Well, he can't sing live-that's just a fact
Thank goodness I have never bought any of these 'artists' music. And I never will...
Rule One: Don't Invite Fergie
Rule Two: Don't let Fergie sing
Rule Three: Don't cover the Star Spangled Banner with Jazz
Rules listing by:Francis Scott Key
Rule four: don't talk about Fight Club. With Fergie.
Probably shouldn't include the Sex Pistols, as they were literally formed by bad musicians on purpose, because playing well is not punk or anti-authority.
Also, keep aiming high WatchMojo. Pretty sure you've released a video like this (in many different version) every week for the past decade or so.
Thank YOU!!!!
They’re the absolute biggest joke on this platform seriously! 🤮
@@PhukRUclips-zs4xw They're what I like to call ADD watching material. People with poor attention spans. It's not different from the brain rot of TikTok or RUclips Shorts.
Sex Pistols bad musicians? Steve Jones is one of the finest and tightest rhythm guitarists ever to pick up the instrument and is revered among the world’s top players for that reason. Glen Matlock is a superb bass player and Paul Cook a very able drummer. I have been playing music for more than 40 years on five different instruments to performance level and feel kinda qualified to comment on this. What are your credentials for assessing the abilities and quality of musicians? 😂
@@philknight6844 I'm a musician myself, and Steve Jones admitted himself he didn't know what the fuck he was doing when he first began stealing instruments. Read his book, "Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol" to enlighten yourself on their beginnings.
A big problem with live anthem singers is they don't know the difference between a song in 4/4 and 3/4, so they completely botch the American anthem and it sounds absolutely terrible. Actual musicians often understand, and can play well, but tons of performers aren't musicians and don't understand the difference.
The Star Spangled Banner is an extremely difficult song to sing... most people don't realize it because they either sing it in a large crowd of people, or softly to themselves. Consider the range between "Oh say can you see..." and "...for the land of the free...". Most people don't have the vocal ability to cover that range. And 99.9% of Americans don't know that the version they're used to hearing at sporting events is only the FIRST verse...there are alot more words, most describing very violent scenarios!
It's a terrible song with an awkward melody . We could do better
@@klmullins65 The Star Spangled banner requires a two octave range. A two octave range for men and women is common. The Star Spangled Banner was written in the key of Bb major, and most singers sing it in the key of G (the most popular key for many genres) for comfort reasons. If you start off the song in a familiar key and at a lower octave of your register, there really shouldn't be much issue hitting the notes towards the end. The most complex parts of the anthem require good vocal control during the longer notes and being able to feel the 6/8 or 3/4 time signature. When professional singers struggle to sing it, it more often has to do with choices they made that made the song harder to sing to hit those upper power notes. In the end, it's a song that's as complex as you want to make it. If you aim for a range and key that's comfortable for your voice, it isn't all that difficult to nail. But obviously singers want to show off a bit too haha. People are use to hearing it in a "pushing the limits" kind of way hence why people think it's extremely difficult to sing. But it doesn't have to be sang that way. Jack Black's rendition is a perfect example. Didn't overdue it, sang in a range that's comfortable, and nailed it.
@@calebhohneke8482 Yes, but its not an easy song to sing if youʻre NOT a professional, or at least a talented non professional. Bresth control, and singing songs in the proper pitch in order to nail the whole song…those arenʻt techniques that your average person consider when singing a song. Iʻve been a musician for decades, and i now struggle to sing along with hymns at church now, because I run out of breath before i can get the words out, especially Episcopalian hymns. Im not a trained musician, but i am a talented instrumentalist, and iʻve had a “decent” voice, given the right material. Imo, our National Anthem should be simpler, and more folk-based….”This Land is Your Land”, “America the Beautiful”, “God Bless America”… any of those songs would be better, plus theyre not about bombs and rockets, and slaughtering Red Coats. I picture a song that kids could sing along to, and enjoy doing it
@@calebhohneke8482 Jack Black has a very powerful and bombastic voice, and even if he kept it toned down properly, his is the kind of voice that best fits The Star Spangled Banner
When you have to “sing” with the assistance of auto tune, you aren’t actually a singer.
True if you can't do without it. Although singers have used it without needing it: Cher has proven countless times that she can sing without it, still she used it on "Believe".
@@SchimmiSensei73 True, but we know that’s a different situation 😉. I’m old enough to remember watching ‘The Sonny & Cher Show’…she didn’t need any encouragement at all to belt out a few notes. She’s one hell of a fantastic vocalist, especially in her younger years ☺️.
Depends..if you are doing it for artistic purposes or not. Kanye, for example, did it to achieve an artistic sound. This isn't unlike Peter Frampton or Roger & Zapp using a vocoder.
Here's another one. Poison at the 1990 MTV VMA's. Guitarist C.C. DeVille started playing the wrong song instead of the one planned for the performance, mostly because he was wasted. This led to lead singer Bret Michaels getting into an argument with C.C. backstage after the performance and C.C. later got kicked out of the band, at least temporarily.
Me and some buddies went backstage after the show when he was at Pine Knob, Michigan. He was charging 5 bucks for an autograph and 20 bucks for a picture. My friend had his cassette tape liner and wanted to have it signed. No one was paying him for anything and he just sat there chastising everyone for not running up to give him money. Deville was a complete douche and many of the people there just turned abound and walked out.
Poison with Ritchie Kotzen rocked. CC sucks.
How about the other Poison appearance where the curtain came down and hit Brett Michaels on the head, LOL.
@@CrazyCooter-ld6sz You paid money to see Poison? You got taken long before you went backstage...
Tickets were free thank God.
Ha ha, the Rosanne Barr bit was brilliant! 😀
I thought it was funny.
@@courtneysands6646 - Me too. Very much so.
I always liked Kesha's SNL performances. She was different and it was fun! I don't know how you can put her on the same list as the Rosanne and Fergie National Anthems!
Yeah, I didn't see anything wrong with it. Simon LeBon missing the high note at Live Aid or Vince Neil slurring lyrics way worse.
That's Ke$ha.
I found it super cool!
The Kesha performance was pretty fine. She sounded good!
Did we watch the same performance?
Your headphones have a problem
No 2019 super bowl halftime show? They straight up lied there, saying that they would play Sweet victory to honor Stephen hillenburg, and then didn't.
They Never Said That
@@andrewleduc3364 I think they did mere days before the disappointment.
@Supasmartguy No, There Was No Announcement Everyone Wanted It To Happen And Just Got Pissed Off When It Didn't...
I Love SpongeBob And Stephen Hillenburg But We Can't Always Get What We Want And It's Time The Haters Stopped Blaming The Super Bowl For Not Doing What THEY Wanted
@@andrewleduc3364 I remember hearing some people say that they did officially confirm it.
That's bad Wumbo 😮
Mariah Carey was Drunk you can tell
🤭 that's a good theory
There are two things that I took away from this video. 1. non-musicians singing to backing tracks. 2. Drugs
Mariah Carey's Christmas performance was hilariously bad. 🎉
Not as bad as her new years eve performance.
@tylergoodman3560 You should watch the American Idol worst performances, they're also bad but I find them rather funny.
I kind of felt for her. I've sung onstage before and it's trippy how you literally can't hear yourself unless you have an ear piece in feeding your own voice to you. It caught me off guard so bad! So if her ear piece wasn't working she can't hear herself sing at all.
Her new years eve performance was a technical problem & she didn't really sing. The following year she more than made up for it with an acclaimed, highly rated performance.
❤🎉😊
@@dhsaunders4185😂😂😂😂😂😂😂....the next year the person in charge of pressing the bottons was paying more attention...😂, without her prerecorded vocals she just can't perform.
The bad Led Zeppelin performance at Live Aid was absolutely not Phil Collins's fault.
Milli Vanelli did not " return " their Grammy. They were ordered to return it as well as being eliminated from Grammy winners.
Amy Winehouse - Belgrade 2011 . Her last performance, but nice of you not to include her in the list. She died next month.
I still haven't re covered from her passing. 😢
Every time I think about her I feel really sad. She was considered a joke during most of her fame because she couldn't stay sober and it eventually got her.
@@gregarmstrong6077 The only sad thing about her story is that neither her family nor her friends could or wanted to really help her.
She was gone way before she finally died.
Unfortunately she wasn't well
NEVER throw your bandmates under the bus. NEVER.
It made Ashlee Simpson look unlikeable as well as untalented.
Singer: completely fails at US anthem. Team Canada: courteously helps her off the ice.
The US national anthem sucks anyway. She should've done the Canadian one in the first place!
That PCD 2006 AMA performance was Gold, love that one, you can see nicole's pissed, best video ever
Wait. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Kesha’s performance. Because you think there was too much going on during it? Okay… that’s a matter of opinion and it doesn’t make it bad. She’s an entertainer. She entertained.
No...either you sing or don't.
I think I'll have to choose Fergie because of the song and the arrangement. The first time I heard it, I laughed so hard I pulled a stomach muscle. Not proud of it, but true.
She seemed so pleased with what she was doing.
My Mom and I were laughing so hard that we had to replay it in order to actually hear it. Then we had to hold back our laughter as we played it for my Dad who had missed it because he was at work.
Fergie's performance of the Star Spangled Banner was bad, but Roseanne singing it was worse
Screeching, not singing
Big difference, Roseanne is not a singer, never been 😂
Huge difference. Fergie: dead serious.
Roseanne: did what she was hired to do & wasn’t serious at all!
Rosanne Barr's performance should be higher. Her performance was unconstitutional- cruel and unusual punishment. Fergie's performance was poor embellishment choices. Rosanne Barr's was an inability to sing.
Strange how the lana Del Rey part is ok to my ears.
Carl Lewis’ National anthem at a 1993 NBA game definitely deserves mention.
It seems once you mess up one performance, people sure seem dead set on making sure you never forget it.
@CreepyStalkersGoAway Pathetic
@CreepyStalkersGoAway imagine having multiple accounts just to agree with yourself.
@Lucid_speed same here he needs to find some human interaction atp.
@CreepyStalkersGoAway you are looking for attention by bullying people
@CreepyStalkersGoAway no one is triggered except you
When are these singers going to learn that they will NEVER be equal to Whitney Houston's version at the 1991 Super Bowl and Marvin Gaye's version at the 1983 NBA All-Star game. And even Whitney Houston said that she was inspired by Marvin Gaye's performance to do the arrangement she did at the Super Bowl. The rest of these artists need to just sing it straight as intended because only those two people have added style to the anthem it and it worked. Stop trying to updo the anthem. We have Whitney and Marvin's, that's good enough for us. 🤷🏻♀
Whitney lip synced, as all super bowl performances are.
Faith Hill was good too.
@@dhsaunders4185: because it was a requirement, there were jets flying over the stadium, imagine the sound that makes. She sang it fully live in her show Welcome Home Heroes and she sounded amazing.
For the Super Bowl she did it in one take and they recorded and extra take just in case.
Whitney's was the best ever regardless.
7:11, "Gimme More" performance by Britney Spears, even with vocal difficulties and the fact that she didn't sing live, is still one of the most iconic VMA performances of all time. This is especially true if you watch it after knowing what happened to her.
I don't know which is worse, the tons of interruptions from ads and commercials or the nonstop jibba jabba from the narrator.
When there are highs, there are also lows.
Lana Del Ray sounded fine to me.😊
I thought she sounded way better than the studio recordings.
She's a queen
The worst concert I ever went to was The Beach Boys, and I was STOKED my dad got us tickets! But because a storm had been predicted, they kept “waiting for updates” for FIVE FREAKING HOURS until they finally canceled it-and we all got stuck in traffic, and the storm, and the floods, with no bathrooms or places to take shelter because everything was closed. Had they just done the concert on time, with the scheduled set, we all would have been done and out before the first raindrops fell. 🙄
I was greatly expecting Maroon 5's Super Bowl performance to be on this list.
Festival de Viña del Mar (2020) too
No Beatles show? Where Yoko Ono yelled over everything?
Madonna is a performer. NOT a singer.
How about Jane's Addiction in Boston a few weeks ago.🤦♂️
If I were a singer, I would definitely avoid doing SNL... Seems to be disaster prone show...
That Fergie and Mariah have to be in the top 10
At least Mariah has 15 years of world class vocal performances to make up for it.
Fergie has been bad and always will be bad.
@@SilentAssassin01234 I like her in Black eye peas
@@SilentAssassin01234 true
I didn’t see a thing wrong with that Lana Del Rey SNL performance. That’s literally how she sings.
Less narrator more video. PLEASE.
Exactly, they are idiots.
Sometimes, artists should not let themselves be pushed beyond their limits. I think many times artists are just not ready for the shows they agree to perform. But they have signed contracts, etc. out of wanting fame, fortune, etc. But if they are not prepared for it, then they should not perform. Carly Simon and Barbra Streisand are known to not give live performances because too many things can go wrong. So they won’t perform. A lot of these young artists should learn that lesson. If you’re not up to it, stay home.
In the words of Futurama's Calculon: That was so terrible, I think you gave me cancer. LOL XD😅😂
😂😂😂
Funny thing is I just finished the series up to 1999-2013 earlier today.
Seems like SNL is the common denominator 👀😂
It's amazing how many famous singers can't actually sing when singing is supposed to be their thing.
I don't like Mariah Carey, but this was not her fault and 100% a technical issue. She couldn't hear herself sing in a noisy environment. It would have been like trying to sing pitch perfect when you're in the middle of a crowd at a rock concert when everyone else is singing.
Too much talks, total waste of time
Nails on a chalkboard don’t even start describing how bad Fergie’s “Star-Spangled Banner” performance was. Even I could do better!
Queen at Live Aid they are not.
Lip synced songs shouldn't even be on this list. It should be the worst LIVE performances
Narrator will not be outdone, posts the worst performance of them all
Would like to hear a bit more of the vocals !
Most of todays "singers" use autotune and they lipsync any live performances. Its not surprising that the majority sound awful when they actually go live but thats a rare event nowadays
I thought Milli Vanilli would be higher on the list. That performance led to the end of their career.
To be fair, they never had a career in the first place. I seem to remember they were dancers, and/backing singers at best.
The fallout was so bad, one of them self-deleted. I was shocked to see them come up in the list, then notice that there were 5 more "worse" performances to follow.
The transformation from Robert Plant from a perfect front man besides being one of the greatest rock singers ever, into a scarecrow is frightening.
MTV did Britney dirty😢
That outfit was dirtier
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention Ingrid Andress singing the national anthem at the 2024 MLB Home Run Derby. She admitted a few days later that she was intoxicated while singing and announced that she was checking herself into rehab
Who?
I was looking for this comment
Did you watch this video... "Checked into rehab" is how the PR tries to gain sympathy.
@@laartwork Of course, because saying you were drunk during a live performance is famously a good PR strategy
Not fair. Ashley Simpson (while completely untalented and unworthy of stardom) did the same thing that Michael Jackson did during “the greatest superbowl halftime show of all time” according to half of you.
Ashley was famous because of her sister. Who, as proven by the Noxzema/Proactive slip-up, didn't have an ounce of brains or talent either.
The Led Zeppelin Live Aid performance was ATROCIOUS! Just a train wreck. It's interesting to see THAT one against The Who at Live Aid, which also was plagued with technical problems, but they pushed through just playing their hearts out despite the screw ups. The Who salvaged their set while Zeppelin fell apart. There is a video out there going over all the viewpoints of that mess where everyone, I think, takes a share of blame, but some got dumped on harder than others, unjustly so. They had no rehearsal, Plant's voice was gassed, and they just had no synergy. Collins was paired with another drummer that I don't think he enjoyed playing or working with. It was not going to work out AT ALL!
Before I clicked, I immediately thought, "Live Aid Zeppelin is gonna be number 1." Wasn't disappointed.
If they had Bill Ward from Black Sabbath play drums for them, they would have sounded better than with Phil Collins.
@@josephsavich2451Best drummer ever! Tons of credits-Bill Ward in Brand X singing lead vocals and playing drums. Wicked talent. Bass player? WTF was that?
It was a great moment for a lot of people
@@josephsavich2451 The original members were complete shit... pretty bogus of them to blame it on Phil Collins.
I was watching with a few of them. I had seen LZ live so I was disappointed. . I even remember yelling out during a page solo " come on , play play "A few others loved it
Don't blame Phil Collins for that Trainwreck Led zeppelin Live Aid thing .. They didn't even get JPJ to play bass... seriously .. they put him on keyboards at the last minute..
I'm glad Billie got the help he needed and Green Day are now better then ever! Their tour this year was legendary, they sound amazing.
Maroon 5’s 2019 Super Bowl performance is, in my opinion, the worst sports event performance of the 21st century so far. The Kaepernick drama aside, Adam Levine (lead singer) performed with very little enthusiasm, and he looked as if he was fighting through sleeping pills. Even when he took off his shirt for “Moves Like Jagger,” the moment gave off zero excitement.
The first one is genuinely pain the to my ears
They bullied me backstage!
They bullied *ME!*
Madonna should have retired 45 years ago.
Excuse me. But she has done well for pretty good time. I think 5 years ago could had been the right time.
no 🤡
@@popmans9999 Maybe not 45 years, but at least 20 years ago. Basically when she started taking attention seeking to a new level. American Pie was a turning point for me.
🤭
I'd say 20 years ago.
It's so sad to see Lana's performances prior to the SNL show, she was much more comfortable with herself😢
Frank Drebin's version of the Star Spangled Banner is the best 😂
enrico palazzo!
Tbh, performances on TV rarely translate well, they often seem to employ the worst sound technicians and it ends up sounding completely different to what it sounds like in reality.
As an Australian, I'm surprised Meatloaf's performance at an Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final wasn't mentioned!
I was expecting it to be there. It was a masterclass in what not to do.
That's because we don't matter to America as they are the world riiight?
I loved Meatloaf.
Let's let that one stay under the carpet.
Let's keep that performance to ourselves please.😉✌QLD.
Yeah but I saw him do the Star Spangled banner and he was great. Cindy Lauper did a good job too.
Carl Lewis’ Star Spangled Banner is so bad it’s actually hilarious
I just wanna give some form of credit to all the musicians that was on the drug train in the 60-90s and still could deliver fantastic live performances even though they had amounts that would kill anyone else in their bodies
Never fuck with the star spangled banner.
You gotta be kidding. That Pistols show is one of the best Live performances
They didn't spit or vomit on the crowd but it is still a classic performance.
The Ingrid Andress national anthem was quite possibly the worst live performance in history. 😂
Milli Vanilli is the norm now with most all bands. They were just ahead of their time.
I'm just learning that Dick Clark's New Year Rockin' eve is a real thing and not just made up for Friends
Now days Will Smith’s daughter doesn’t even try to hide that she’s lip syncing to a track and nobody says anything. What ended careers years ago is totally acceptable today
I actually have her on my play list of her singing Wait A Minute live, and she has a really, REALLY good voice!!!
I was physically present the time Macy Gray attempted to sing the national anthem at the hall of fame game and it was an atrocity that makes all of these look professional and smooth.