Gary LeVox, lead vocalist of Rascal Flatts admitted to lip-syncing the hit song “Rewind” during their performance at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night in Las Vegas.
Surprise, surprise. Artists lip-syncing during a “live” performance. But for country music fans, this was a surprise. Unfortunately for Rascal Flatts, co-hosts Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton made a joke about lip-syncing in their opening monologue: “If you don’t like live music, then you need to go down the block and see Britney Spears.”
AWKWARD.
During and after the performance, once fans were skeptical, Twitter and Facebook flooded with controversy. Rascal Flatts answered the public uproar on social media Monday night.
— Rascal Flatts (@rascalflatts) April 8, 2014
Blaming it on the fact Gary had lost his voice and canceling wasn’t an option, Rascal Flatts gave in and confessed to lip-syncing. Trying to save face, they expressed excitement for singing live again in the “very near future.”
At least they admitted to being terrible at it. Canceling doesn’t seem so bad now does it, boys? Perhaps LeVox can contact Ashlee Simpson for some pointers.
Fans are completely disappointed in Rascal Flatt’s performance:
When was it ok for rascal flatts to lip sync a song
— family jewels (@be_JEWELS_ed) April 7, 2014
Thanks for the cheesy lip sync Rascal Flatts…… Fail! #ACMs
— Michael Lee – Backwoods Life® (@BackwoodsLife) April 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/msbeheyven84/status/453002668877680641
https://twitter.com/trevornickerson/status/453003719517278208
https://twitter.com/BryanLejaWSU/status/453002900453613568
Hey it turns out that I can lip sync Rascal Flatts songs better then Rascal Flatts can! #lipsmoving
— Was Dude Walker (@k105dudewalker) April 8, 2014
Photo credit: Adam Keats
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