The reason Christina is bad at lip syncing is because she almost never lip syncs! She’s had no practice. The only times she ever really lip syncs is when she’s sick or the microphone is malfunctioning. Just because she’s a veteran pop star doesn’t mean she’s a veteran lip syncer!

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I suppose you’re right in that respect. So then why did she do it now if she’s clearly had no practice?

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because shes always singing and never dancin never givinga agood performance.she wanted to give you somthing diff and dance shes not like beyonce or brit that could belt out a good song and dance she needed to to sing that song very well or not at all so she chose to give a good performance and not sing.and fyi: i think she looked like a hot mom!

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What a #### article. it is bloody clear that this is a Britney fan. Use Britney fans disgust me. Your cheap jibes. Im not a christina fan but loved the performance!!! And i do recall she sang live at the end! If you wanna pick on someone for a bad performance- Rihanna! Now that girl should have lip synched!!!

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sorry but this makes no sense, how can you be fan of the most experienced lip-syncer (lip-syncer meaning bad) and diss someone for lip-synching once? thats like the biggest contradiction ever, it actually makes no sense. i mean im not a fan of either but one things for sure that britneys the most obvious lip-syncher ever created, and i say created as she is manufactured at least xtina wrote the song she lip-synched.

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I <i>never</i> said that I was a fan of either, which is why I <i>admit</i> in the first sentence to saying that I was expecting to see her… People, like myself, who aren’t fans of Britney are still very intrigued with her career, which is why I pointed out that I would’ve liked to see what she came up with after her performance from last year.

Also, I noted that if Christina hadn’t practiced lip syncing enough (they ALL do it), she shouldn’t have done so!

Maybe you can tell me why she did it—I’d really like to know.

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I dont care what unfans of christina aguilera say, she is great and she has a big voice i know this is new for her. nervertheless she did incredible and amazing this performance in mtv 2008 i know a lot of people say that is a copy of britney spears or lady gaga but it ain`t christina makes something new everytime when she is gonna get a nwe record out. christina go ahead i love you i have been your fan since 1999 when i listened gennie in a bottle is incredible that you make 10 years . you really are a singer

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thank you all the christina fans or non fans for stick up for christina everything you guys have said is so true, what makes me laugh is where were all of britneys super fans when she was ill as so as she gets back to normal they all crawl out of the woodwork they were all so quick to diss her at one point, i love christina but i also am glad britney is back on the mend but at least with christina her fans are givin something new and completly diffrent on every record and we nvr get bored of her music and a least christina can actually sing unlike some other artists.

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Ok, so first and foremost… Christina didn’t lipsync the WHOLE song… unlike her “rival” Britney who probably hasn’t sung live once in her lifetime. Lord knows why Christina did it… maybe she wanted to concentrate on the performance or the dancing, but at the end of the day, WHO CARES!!! We all know she’s an amazing singer. Maybe one of the best!! All I know is that her performance was the best one of the night and the songs were AWESOME!! (love the new rendition of Genie in a Bottle). And yeah… someone already said it… Look at Rihanna… damn holmes, she shoulda been the one to lipsync!! I LOVE Rihanna but she clearly sucks at singing live and we all knew that, just like we all know Christina is one of the best live performers. And what the hell does “she doesn’t wanna be outdone by her rival” suppose to mean? The fact that she lipsynced doesn’t even come CLOSE to comparison with Britney’s terrible VMA performance from last year!! And last but most certainly not least… Britney only one all those awards out of popularity of being “back” and out of pity…. you mean to tell me that sorry @$$ of a video, Piece of Me, was the best video of the year? PUHLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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GIve a girl a break!! Shoot… this is the first time she performs in like a long time…She nevers lipsings!.. She still looks hot no matter what!! So if people odnt like her performance…then why are all the critics loving it… Everyone from LA TIMES, NY TIMES, and so on… are loving her performance and new look even lip siging!

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one thing that is bugging me is all these comparisons between christina looking like lady gaga and her song being inspired by katy perrys i kissed a girl how comes no is quick to mention people like pink/t-pain copying christina and who says christina is copying of britney like some one sed b4 at least christina writes her own songs and has a dominant role with the makin of her albums

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All I have to say is, look at her “It’s a Man’s World” performance.
Thanks!

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Clearly written by someone who has never seen Christina live in concert.  She is almost always dancing, and her performances cannot even be put in the same league as Britney Spears (who has lipsynched almost all of her performances) and Beyonce.  She was sick at her 2007 Melbourne concert, still sang, and still gave a brilliant performance without lipsynching!  And this is coming from a concert whore who has seen Beyonce in concert as well as a number of popular female artists, and the only one who was nearly as good as Christina was Amy Lee from Evanescence.

Whatever Christina’s reasons were are her own business.  The fact that you are comparing her performance to Britney’s 2007 is disgusting - Britney was no only lip-synching but drunk and could barely move.

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I believe you read my review incorrectly—I cited that The Rolling Stones compared her performance to Britney’s 2007 VMA performance.

By the way, I wanted to thank you for contradicting everyone on these comments who have defended Christina by saying that her excuse was due to the fact that she is actually dancing in a performance. From someone who *has* seen her live, why, then did she do so Sunday night?

No one appears to be able to answer that for me, even though they continue to tell me how great of a performer she is.

Which, by the way, I NEVER said that I was on Britney’s side—I said that I would have liked to see her redeem herself. Besides, I am an entertainment writer—it’s my JOB to tune into everything revolving celebrities, which would include watching their performances.

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no.1 in my honesty i think xtinas lip-synching couldn’t of been a better.

no.2 in my knowledge being a musician, the second part wasn’t lip-synched; now looking back and listening to that real audio track christina went out of her original adlibs on keeps getting better, she also has an ear monitor meaning vocal control is much better. also seeing as she hardly ever lip-synchs, she most likely has a good reason for lip-synching the first part, im guessing because of the new electro style shes going for i’m not sure how that worked she either lip-synched the track or they used a different form of live compression maybe a vocalizer or vocoder.
i’m not sure what her reasons were entirely but i’m sure they were good, but with good evidence her second part was live, the other suggestion is that it’s track-linked meaning basically she still sings but they put the track over her so it’s mixed.

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She was hot! Have a whole new respect for this woman. Will def be buying this album. Talent wise Britney Spears in nothing compared to Xtina.

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Well you’ve been saying once and again that you want to know why Christina lip syncing…so…why don’t you ask her? or something it prevents you? oh and about the kid rock comment hahahaha i can only laughed about it…he has NO career is like Fred Durst appearing again and saying: ” i did it all for the nookie” so sad…kid rock is a dumb ass drunk…i don’t even know why he was invited..he’s so sad as an artist…I want to see him singing as Christina did on the 2007 Grammy awards…hahaha pathetic loser…wondering why pamela dumps you? uh!

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