It’s my sneaking suspicion that Jordin Sparks’s performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl was less-than-live. But mostly I’m just curious to see what will happen if I’m one of the first people to blog about it.
Of course, it’s already been about two minutes since she finished, so I’m sure hundreds of others beat me to it.
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7 responses to “Did Jordin Sparks lip-sync at the Super Bowl?”
All of the performances for the national anthem HAVE to be pre-recorded for live tv.
watch whitney houstons or mariah careys, they both were ;-)
My guess is you are not the first to blog about this… it is all over the internet already! Yeah, she probably did lip sync, but it might have been delayed a bit, so it is hard to tell. Her breathing didn’t look right for someone singing live, but it was HER regardless. She sounded great, although she looked really nervous (who could blame her?)
Yes she lip synced.
Pretty obvious
Thanks for the comments. My experiment was a success! ;) Now I just need to see if there’s a spike in my Google AdSense revenue.
An update for all of you we now have a definitive answer. I am here in NY and was listening to the Z100 radio station on my way to work. They had Jordin Sparks on the aire. I already knew she was lip-syncing and thought she either wouldnt admit to it or that legally she couldnt admit to it. To my surprise she admitted that for legal purposes they made her lip-sync. They didnt want to risk it being messed up. So thought was lip-syncing, we cant look down on her for it as she had no choice in the matter.
For legal purposes they wouldn’t let her sing live? You mean they were afraid people would sue the NFL and/or Fox if the national anthem got botched?
Where were these litigants when Roseanne sang it?
I still love Jordin, and it’s a shame that she didn’t sing it live, but I can understand that they require you to pre-record the song and lip sync it. She totally wouldn’t have needed it. She’s sung the National Anthem plenty of times, acapella even. I just wish they would have given it a try in her case!