An interesting Quote:

"Fancy" is my strongest statement for women's lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for — equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights."
---Bobbie Gentry, Singer Songwriter

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Bill Murray as the lounge singer Nick Winters from SNL has been added as a related post - related requested by ant.

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Invocations (related=http://videosift.com/video/Bill-Murray-as-the-lounge-singer-Nick-Winters-from-SNL) cannot be called by makach because makach is not privileged - sorry.

Who is "the Haim"? Never heard of them.
I wanna see Morris sing with Bruno Mars' band, they already sound quite a bit like the Time, and Bruno's backup singers definitely dance better than these.
Side note, did the hype man forget the cape, or is he saving it for the encore? What gives? At least he brought the mirror.
Totally reminds me of seeing Purple Rain at a theater in Oakland...the most appropriate place to see it, even though I was the only white boy in the audience (or maybe because).
*quality

I don't like country music, but she's an amazing singer. The interview was quite awkward. I'm not sure why they couldn't say it - Phil Donahue had an openly homosexual guest on this show more than a decade before this. I guess Arsenio Hall just wasn't as edgy

wtf is up with the background warping when the camera is on her?
(maybe some anti-shaky-cam filter applied to the old VHS recording)

Oh please... She's 44. Either she never could sing (I doubt it) or something happened and she can't sing as well (some actual health problem) or she's just lazy and doesn't want to sing live. No really good singer like she's supposed to be, would have lost voice quality at 44.

I totally didn't get into this because of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwvjElmFCfE

They NEED to be announced for Rock-Am-Ring NOW!

BTW for guys just watching this video - it's a 2 piece. One bassist/singer, one drummer.

I disagree...I don't think it has "always" been this way. But I do think it has been this way since the MTV generation. I think before music videos the worse you would have with a pop star would be them singing live over pre-recorded music...but the singer still sang live.

I go to a lot of concerts and honestly I'm not going to see any of these acts even if they did perform live. I just don't get why their fans put up with it/don't care.

I guess that is maybe the difference between 50 years ago and today. Yes The Monkees were not a band that came together organically...the members were chosen just as they would cast members of a TV show. BUT they were all musicians and singers and they were embarrassed that people thought they were fake and could not even play their instruments. While true they did not play on the first couple of albums (not because they weren't capable but because the studio didn't want them to) they DID play at their live performances and they fought the studio that hired them so that they eventually could also play on their albums.

It was important to them that the fans knew when they came to see a LIVE show that they would actually see and hear them singing and performing the songs live.

That doesn't seem to be of concern to today's pop stars.

While I do get your point, I think perhaps you miss the point that a real live singing/playing concert is different from a 'pop star concert' (although I do think they should be billed as 'pop star performances', not 'concerts').
If I go to the opera, I am expecting to hear people sing live while performing a play.
If I go to a 'concert', I expect to see a singer or band singing or playing live, but not doing much else (old Van Halen and GWAR being the exceptions).
If I go to a pop star performance, I usually expect to see flashing lights, smoke, sparks, special effects, stunts, and crazy dancing while you hear a track of the performer.
It's not possible to do the stage performance AND sing competently at the same time. If I expect to see dancing, I should not expect the dancer to also sing live, that's not realistic to me.

Wow. Kiedis was a crappy singer.

"Singer Gary Fishell is a P.I. who once worked as an investigator for the Federal Government."

So you're correct: he wasn't a retired cop.

Funny that the SINGER, Toby Keith, was one of the only ones who didn't know how to sing along with this song!