Amerie's Tiny Desk Concert Is The Worst Thing I've Seen Today

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Anyone saying this is good does not know music.

Amerie is pure karaoke. The background singers were off key. The background singers are supposed to save weak vocalist but they were worse than Amerie and brought a shtty lead vocal performance to even shyttier depths.

The best thing about this performance was Backyard Band
 

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This was.... interesting.

Plus usually the background singers can carry you and they seemed to struggle. Seemed like the octave was too high for them too.
 

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She's a bad singer. She always been a bad singer. And she can't dance.

She was/is pretty, unique looking in the landscape of female artists (Blasian), and she made music that we liked or still like.

The songs are good, and still hold up, we can't take that from her. But go back and listen to 1 Thing. She's essentially yelling on that song and even then her voice is cracking and breaking. Great song, terrible performance, but it was different and it was a banger, so it slides through.

She never was and never will be a good singer. No vocal training or practice can make someone who can't sing, sing well.
 

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:mjlol:

shout-out to the go go band though.

BLASEPHEMY :noah:
 

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Mr Fantastic reach. This performance wasnt as bad as people making it out to be.

As some mentioned, Amerie aint no powerhouse singer from a gospel background or nothing.

She was doing well & seemingly just got winded for the grand finale. The slander dont seem thread worthy, to me
I wish people would realize that everybody don’t have to be Aretha or Whitney out here to make good music. Amerie made some damn good music but I don’t think anybody was saying she’s this amazing singer. We all know why people are mostly clowning her.. it’s just funny to me.. especially with the current singers people celebrate.
 

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When u listened to this song in the day did u think it was great vocals?

But I agree. Subpar vocals live, but the song didnt make me think she had a strong voice in the first place. If Mariah Carey sounded like this then I'd get ur point
 

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I wish people would realize that everybody don’t have to be Aretha or Whitney out here to make good music. Amerie made some damn good music but I don’t think anybody was saying she’s this amazing singer. We all know why people are mostly clowning her.. it’s just funny to me.. especially with the current singers people celebrate.

You don't have to be Aretha or Whitney to be able to sound good singing your own songs. It's the bare minimum any artist should be able to do.
 
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