Beyonce Lip Syncs: Do We Care

One of the highlights of the inauguration this past Monday was the performance by Beyonce of The National Anthem. Yesterday word started to filter out that the well lauded performance might well have been a recording, that is a prerecorded track. With all of the problems of the country having been resolved this story seems to be what everyone is talking about today.

Clearly my tongue in cheek statement indicates how little I care about this subject. Did she or didn't she. My position has been that I do not care. Of course to defend the superstar her publicists floated that even Whitney Houston's famous Super Bowl performance of the anthem during Desert Storm was also lip synced.

Those of us who have children have often heard their children defend their actions by stating that someone else did the same thing. It does not prove as a valid selling point to us as parents and does not in this case either.

I did not care about this and still really don't. I do think that with all of us saying what a great singer Beyonce is and with the often denigration of, for example, Taylor Swift not being a great live singer it reduces Beyonce's stature. Let's be honest however this really does not matter, as long as Beyonce is the glamorous star she is no one cares.

I must admit however that when I saw the replay and saw the dramatic move where she pulled her earpiece monitor out of her ear that, perhaps, that act in itself was a little over the top. Lip Sync, ok whatever, but that move was a little bit brazen knowing that she was not actually singing.