July 1, 2008 - Vienna, Austria (Stadthalle)

[A New Day Has Come]

Thank you so much for the pictures and the videos.

[I Surrender]

Thanks for pix and vids

[artistman2007]

i dont understand what happened was she going to sing it live but she changed her mind while singing or what lol can anyone explain?

[Simon]

i dont understand what happened was she going to sing it live but she changed her mind while singing or what lol can anyone explain?

 

I didn't understand it too...but I'm 100% sure that "I Drove All Night" was live!

[Kyle_Jared]

LOL

 

...........oh Celine we love you to pieces and even don't blame you for lipping some of your stuff...but I bet you were pooping your lil' pants when your little playback didnt kick in!

 

The tech guy got it last night! HA!

Edited July 2, 2008 at 09:35 PM by Kyle_Jared

[Thomas]

I didn't understand it too...but I'm 100% sure that "I Drove All Night" was live!

Well, it was for the first 20 seconds. lol

[Simon]

I didn't understand it too...but I'm 100% sure that "I Drove All Night" was live!

Well, it was for the first 20 seconds. lol

 

Why should she do playback ?

[celine_026]

TO EXPLAIN...

 

the beggining of IDAN is always live...

 

than the A new day... playback comes

 

THIS TIME... lol

 

it didn't...

 

She noticed... then got very nervous, started dancing to deviate from the wrong thing,

 

and stated singing, very nervously...

 

she climbs the piano, still live... than goes "INSIDE"... and can't hold the note...

 

then the PLAYBACK comes in...

Edited July 2, 2008 at 10:34 PM by marcospriateli

[Simon]

TO EXPLAIN...

 

the beggining of IDAN is always live...

 

than the A new day... playback comes

 

THIS TIME... lol

 

it didn't...

 

She noticed... then got very nervous, started dancing to deviate from the wrong thing,

 

and stated singing, very nervously...

 

she climbs the piano, still live... than goes "INSIDE"... and can't hold the note...

 

then the PLAYBACK comes in...

 

I didn't know this Thanks.

[Shaun]

I have to say the beginning of IDAN has been something that was bound to happen to Celine sooner or later. Luckily it was here and not on some really important television appearance for example. Just imagine if it had happened during The Power Of Love!!! Celine, it seems, just did not appear comfortable when she realised she would have to sing "live" at least until the playback issue was resolved. The first "inside" before the chorus i'm afraid to say was painful!

[Thomas]

I'm not sure she realised the playback wasn't active when she got onto the piano. In her ear montiors, it might have been playing as normal as the sound engineers played around with it to get it back on. For me, that "insiiiiiide" sounded far more like the sound you'd make when you're quietly singing along to playback than a note Celine couldn't sing. Even if it was pitchy or she struggled since she was climing up, she could do something far better with ease. It's like she wasn't even trying, maybe because she thought no one could hear.

[artistman2007]

but why cant she sing insaaaaaaaaid isnt that her key i mean the key she sings the song with all the time ,olso can someone explain to me please how can the music play but with no sound isnt that the a new day playback version so its already recorded togethar with her singing? sry for asking too much lol but i want to know

[Shaun]

I'm not sure she realised the playback wasn't active when she got onto the piano. In her ear montiors, it might have been playing as normal as the sound engineers played around with it to get it back on. For me, that "insiiiiiide" sounded far more like the sound you'd make when you're quietly singing along to playback than a note Celine couldn't sing. Even if it was pitchy or she struggled since she was climing up, she could do something far better with ease. It's like she wasn't even trying, maybe because she thought no one could hear.

 

Either way there's really no excusing it is there? Whilst I agree Celine shouldn't have any trouble hitting these notes it's clear that she knew she was live as she sung most of the first verse perfectly in tune when she realised what was going on. I have no doubts Celine could reach that "insiiiiide" note but just wonder why she failed to do so as I think she knew she was live. It's actually frankly a bit depressing to even be discussing the issue as really she shouldn't be lipping at all should she? Or should she?

[Céline's Blues]

You guys have to realize that she has one simple insurance: Her mic is always always ALWAYS on. So she can kick in whenever she likes which then again makes her pitiful lipping efforts look even more pitiful.

 

She was all over with her voice on that one. She was totally nervous it hurts, the technicians got surely a major treatment in French rotten vocabulary.

 

THUMBS UP FOR THE TECHNICIAN

Edited July 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM by Céline's Blues

[Céline's Blues]

but why cant she sing insaaaaaaaaid isnt that her key i mean the key she sings the song with all the time ,olso can someone explain to me please how can the music play but with no sound isnt that the a new day playback version so its already recorded togethar with her singing? sry for asking too much lol but i want to know

You DON'T understand that at all.

 

She sounded all over with her voice but she was on key. Now guess what brought her voice down to this sound? Her voice didn't crack and she didn't lower her voice intentionally.

 

The technicians wanted to fix the playback issue quickly and they evidently pressed the vocoder button which she uses for among others:

 

All By Myself

Alone

S'Il N'En Restait

 

 

They pressed the wrong button. This was actually the vocoder we heard and how it influences the voice. NOT Céline herself.

[Thomas]

It's hard to say since we don't know how it all works technically. I think it could be explained if you think the sound engineers would have been frantically trying to get the vocal track to play and make sure it's in the correct place, so who knows what was coming through her ear monitors. If they turned it on in her ears at the correct place but had yet to play it over the speakers then she would have thought it was fixed and stopped singing with her full voice to make sure she wasn't heard singing over herself. But of course it's no excuse, it's shameful that this should happen. Shameful on one hand that her team could screw something like this up but more shameful she does it in the first place.

 

This is the second playback cockup in what, two weeks? If they carry on at this rate something is going to go badly wrong and the media are gonna be all over it.

[Céline's Blues]

Thomas, what was the first incident? I must have missed that one. Edited July 2, 2008 at 11:17 PM by Céline's Blues

[Thomas]

The playback cut out during IACBTMN in Munich but thankfully when it came back on it seemed like it was simply a mic issue and she got away with it.

[Céline's Blues]

The playback cut out during IACBTMN in Munich but thankfully when it came back on it seemed like it was simply a mic issue and she got away with it.

 

Oh, thanks. I stopped watching the IACBTM performances ever since 2003. But it's interesting OMG.

 

Poor thing, why oh why is it so hard to sing it live if she could do it with ease? Only she knows. And she so deserves that nerdy Ashley Simpson dance she did now on IDAN fall out.

[Shaun]

it's shameful that this should happen. Shameful on one hand that her team could screw something like this up but more shameful she does it in the first place.

 

I think this sentence just about sums the whole issue up for me Thomas. I also missed the incident from the Munich show but can you imagine if something like this had happened in the UK where the press were already having a go at Celine for lipping on TV shows? Celine and her team need to realize that someone somewhere is going to pick up on this eventually and expose it, more so if the same pre-recorded tracks are being used over and over. It is only a matter of time.

[Céline's Blues]

The funny thing is, have you guys noticed that they seem to be actually prepared for such occurance i.e. for a playback failure? Did you notice the additional echo in the verses in between "to get to you" - perfectly in synch with her live vocals extending the range of the song. This song screams to be performed live and it indeed seems to work quite well up to the "inside" vocoder/failure whatever.

[artistman2007]

guys we have to understand something if she have chosen not to sing certain songs live then she really knows herself better than us that she cant deliver them the same way she used to do and thats normal bec shes human but olso she has to sing them bec they are her hits but olso she sings some songs live so she she know what she can and cant do not that shes lazy to sing them and all of u here who sings will know what i'm talking about when u cant sing a certain song perfectly as u want

[Céline's Blues]

guys we have to understand something if she have chosen not to sing certain songs live then she really knows herself better than us that she cant deliver them the same way she used to do and thats normal bec shes human but olso she has to sing them bec they are her hits but olso she sings some songs live so she she know what she can and cant do not that shes lazy to sing them and all of u here who sings will know what i'm talking about when u cant sing a certain song perfectly as u want

 

According to your logic one would categorize each song that she sings and sang in the past live not perfectly sung aka crap! It's nonsense. Absolute and utter nonsense.

 

She chooses to lip-synch cuzz she does not give a damn. Just that. Point blanc.

[mike_z]

OMG IDAN was painful to listen to.

 

she should start training again and sing live

[mike_z]

by the way, i think this was her best LIVE performance EVER of IDAN: (cuz its the only one whose pitch wasn´t lowered)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjQR2RcUk04...feature=related

[Nando Férri]

OMG IDAN was painful to listen to.

 

she should start training again and sing live

That was HORRIBLE. I felt shamed for her. The worst thing was making everybody looks like idiot when they cut the live sound and put the playback just before the first chorus. That sounded SO OBVIOUS. And you still can listen the playback in the background in the beginin of the song, because they were trying to sync that with the live soung.

[CelineTheBest5]

Yep, its terrible Celine tried to "save" the song, but everyone here knows that this song is in playback since the beggining of the tour, so what happend yesterday was unfortunate event and I hope it wont happen again..

[celine_026]

I'm ashamed....

[CelineTheBest5]

I'm not ashamed because Celine is doing A HUNDRED amazing performances in this tour, Im so proud of her, of her voice, of her performances, they are perfect. Im not less fan or ashamed because of this problem... She is still the best singer in the world

[Chula]

OMG! Her voice was very very bad! It was so funny to hear that abnormally-low voice.

 

Sound staff must be blammed for this accident. I think there have been too many mistakes in this world tour so far. The 'Window is shutting down' tragedy ... the IACBTMN error and so on.

 

 

Rene should fix all of these fiascoes before the USA leg begins.

 

 

I believed Celine was scared a lot. But she was still be able to handle with it.

Edited July 3, 2008 at 01:09 AM by Chula