Yes. Moreover when she proves it live on Welcome Home then what else do you have to say? Lipsyncing shouldn't be an excuse to let down singers like her who proved it elsewhere but lipsynced somewhere
@@philipcohen958 I believe the reason people think she lip-synch it was because it was so perfect. Accept the fact that she did it and she did it extremely well, perfectly. It’s just a guess but that’s my guess.
Her lipsynched version is the absolute best! Others have lipsynch it and never came up with anything close. The welcome home live version wasn't anywhere near as good as that and about the same as others.
She gets credit for her voice but I think ppl don’t realize how much of an artist and musician she was. She didn’t write much but she understood arrangement and composition, could read music and could play piano
For those of you who think she was lip synching, go listen to her sing it for the Welcome Home Heroes concert. She sang the first part acapella (meaning no music) and sounded the same as when she sang it at the Super Bowl with music. That is all :)
People are so ignorant. They know nothing about singing and nothing about music. Anyone who doubts Whitney Houston could actually sing never heard her live.
The musical director of the show said she lip synced. Who's the ignorant now? They usually do it for this kind of show, but for me it's unprofessional.
@@luisalejandroguidomartinez4351 He never said she lip-synced. He talked about the controversy and rumors about her lip-syncing. That's why when she did the anthem at the Welcome Home, Heroes HBO concert she started it off acapella, to put an end to those baseless rumors. Anyone who thought she lip-synced the Super Bowl performance is ignorant and if you think she did, then yes, YOU are still the ignorant one. By the way, if you think lip-syncing the national anthem is unprofessional, the ones you should be criticizing are Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and others, NOT Whitney Houston.
Whitney is #1 in this lifetime and #1 in the next lifetime as well. I am not convinced that ANYONE will come even close to her vocal genius. I have always supported her from the early days and I have never spoken one--no, not one ill word of her and will never. I feel like this, as long as I can hear her voice by turning on one of her records, she is alive as sound is energy.
While she did perform the anthem live at the welcome home heroes special, it wasn’t in the same key as she performed it at the super bowl, I just take comfort knowing she performed the anthem in an even higher key than both performances in 1988!
@@philipcohen958 actually she wrote and co-wrote SEVERAL of her songsAnd she was also a piano player. So she was a musician as wells as a singer as well as a producer and songwriter too. Whether she wrote them or not… NO ONE and I repeat NO ONE could perform them and arrange them the way she did.
I think that was all real; she did it live to me, she sung it from the heart. I mean come on did you see those vines popping out of her neck? that had to be live!
If she’s singing into a dead mic, why wouldn’t her veins still be popping? She’s singing, but according to multiple people what we heard at home wasn’t coming from the mic, but from the studio recording she did (in one take)
At 1:42, he raised the issue of her lip singing then he skated around the issue to the HBO show not admitting or denying it. NO ONE EVER questioned Whitney's ability to sing. The question was, did she lip sync to a pre recorded track? I think so. At 2:38 and on on, I infer that he's admitting to her lip syncing. So what? It doesn't take away from Whitney's greatness. I believe she sang along with a pre recorded track but without live mics. That explains the veins and sweat seen in the video.
You misinterpreted. She sang the whole song for the troops live. The point was for her to start it acapella, so people would know it's real and her singing the song, so there would be no questions
Arnold Herrington that does not mean that she sung it live in the stadium. He was saying that she didn’t in so many words. He said I’ve done it a lot and I know that’s the best way to do it at the end.... that is referring to lip syncing. How does she sing it live if she doesn’t know where the first note begins? I’m the biggest Whitney Houston fan but I accept it for what it was. Broke my heart a little too. But there is no question, she can sing!
@@lakayabrooks276 it only broke my heart because I always told people THAT IS LIVE and I believed that she did it live. That was a heck of a lip sync!!! It would have been JUST as amazing if she had done it live. But… she used to be known as ONE TAKE WHITNEY so that’s not a surprise neither. The woman was amazing. My favorite voice I’ve ever heard in the world. There’s GOD, then Whitney is next. Lol. Those are my favorite voices lol. God was SHOWING OUT when he made her!
I knew she lipsyched the anthem. But I'm so glad to know she sung it in one take in the studio! You guys heard that? She did the whole song once in the studio and that was it. That's just as amazing!
Ryan Vicentillo She did it a second time to PROVE SHE COULD DO IT LIVE...... You need to watch again.... how does singing it again on a show prove it’s not lip synced...
Of course she could. Ricky said it was recorded in one take. Anyway nobody can do it better live or on record. And most of the singers lip synched the anthem on the Superbowl for the same technical reasons, i.e. Luther Vandross, Cher, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Jordin Sparks and so on.
It seems that she sang it fully or partially live with her mike turned off to make it look more believable but the audio track we heard was obviously prerecorded.
Veins were busting out because she was really singing but the mics were off. Kathryn Holm McManus, former executive director of the orchestra, in an interview with St. Petersburg Times in 2001 said "At the game, everyone was playing, and Whitney was singing, but there were no live microphones."
The comments sections on channels that show Whitney Houston as a true United States diva shows the divide in generational demographics between Whitney's and Lady Gaga's, Beyonce's, and other fanbases today. According to the internet anyway it seems that all of these divas from today have fan bases devoted to deceit, hate, and seeking controversy while the people from 30 years ago seemed more interested in love and truth.
Whether that voice was prerecorded or not, you can tell she was SANGING that song for real. She started to sweat and everything, and you Whitney ain't playing around when she starts to sweat. Plus you can see the veins on her neck, her jaws moving... Whitney was definitely singing every single note to the fullest. If it was for her there wouldn't have been any back up track
for the people saying it wasn't live it was... her producer ricky minor mentioned she recorded this in one take in studio which was for album sales during golf war however if you read clive davies book he mentioned the night before Super Bowl his team snook in studio equipment to record this version which you can hear it one on the first word "o" and they put out a single of it instead of the studio version which sold over a million copies and all proceeds went to the red cross. dont play
Dang. I didn't know this was lip synced. Well, it's still her voice. I didn't think about crowd noise, etc. Mr. Minor is a genius. Whitney is an incredible actress to have done this so perfectly. But, now, after watching reaction videos, I understand when they say, 'she does that so effortlessly.' Well, yeah! But still...it was all Whitney. ----
U know when somebody is so good at what they do we have haters yes haters question everything cause they dont believe anyone can just be that damn good its sad cause she is that damn good RIP whitney #1 in our lifetime PERIOD who cares she can sing the words yes or no and it would be amazing she sold 3 million singles of the anthem now thats believable
I'm wondering whether the people who insist that Whitney was only miming her Superbowl National Anthem performance can actually sing. If you're still asking, check out her Superbowl video and watch her neck veins bulge as she sings. You don't get bulging neck veins if you are only miming.
What you have to understand is... Whitney was a very dramatic woman. She was a master of the show business. She didn't lipsynch unless to was required of her. but when she did do it, she did it very well. If you watch the video again, you'll see that she was lipsyching. Whitney is known as an effortless singer. but that was too effortless. I always knew it was lipped.
Why on earth would they make her lip sync when she is more than capable of giving a flawless performance? And if it is lipped I'm sure Whitney didn't want to...she was aways against that sort of thing. That's why she sang live even when her voice was already weak during her final comeback around 2010.
I'm so tired of people not giving people their just due on something. Everyone always have something to say because they are either jealous or just a plain hater. Just give her the credit that she deserves and go on about your sorry lives.
Rickey is saying here that there was a version for the show w home heroes and to sing acapella and that what what Whitney did in the stadium live. He never said that she lipped , whitney herself said that she never did such a thing.
I was feeling chills listening to what I think is the best version of all time. I was too embarrassed to admit it and then I heard everyone else saying the same thing. Anyway, whether she prerecorded 20 minutes before because the hopeless noise level in the stadium made it impossible for her to judge her pitch, I really don't know or care. Whatever. The only important thing is that it was her singing it. Like who else could give such a performance?
I don't care how "good" people think Lady Gaga's 2016 version was (it was awful by the way), neither she nor anyone else could give a performance like the ones Whitney gave in 1991.
Did you just watch the video? He just told you she lip synched it. How am I hating? And why would I hate on Whitney Houston? I love Whitney! I'm a huge Whitney fan. But she lipped the song. I could tell way before Ricky Minor told anyone.
for the people saying it wasn't live it was... her producer ricky minor mentioned she recorded this in one take in studio which was for album sales during golf war however if you read clive davies book he mentioned the night before Super Bowl his team snuck in studio equipment to record this version which you can hear it one on the first word "o" and they put out a single of it instead of the studio version which sold over a million copies and all proceeds went to the red cross. dont play
Yes she lipsynced. Did you listen? He said the record we heard was the first take though. If you want to hear her singing it live, she did for the troops in 91. th-cam.com/video/L3FdTKhzZWU/w-d-xo.html
@@delvictor7570 it wasn't all a lie she sings it live just like the superbowl at her welcome home heroes concert th-cam.com/video/L3FdTKhzZWU/w-d-xo.html
@@mariahyohannes She lip synced during her most famous “live” performance. Her whole career is tainted. She should not be considered one of the greatest.
After all this years yall are still at it she lipsinging la! la! la! So what if she lipsings. She did recorded the song and she sang it ,she did not put someones song and mime along!!!!! Let it go already.may she have some peace now!
In fact Whitney gave us so many and many LIVE AMAZING presentations that she NEVER had to prove she knew to sing, because Almost ALWAYS she sang live, so pre-recorded or no It's irrelevant. By the way to recorded she sang before live so It's really irrelevant in her case.
I don't give a damn. Her version was still the best ever. Hands down.
yes, I don't know why ANYONE bothers after that....
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Bottom line Lip synced or not, Whitney's version is the only one that gives chills and penetrates to the heart.
Yes. Moreover when she proves it live on Welcome Home then what else do you have to say? Lipsyncing shouldn't be an excuse to let down singers like her who proved it elsewhere but lipsynced somewhere
@@philipcohen958 I believe the reason people think she lip-synch it was because it was so perfect. Accept the fact that she did it and she did it extremely well, perfectly. It’s just a guess but that’s my guess.
Her lipsynched version is the absolute best! Others have lipsynch it and never came up with anything close. The welcome home live version wasn't anywhere near as good as that and about the same as others.
Best vocalist- E.V.E.R. That's it. PERIOD.
I don't think so
Gold Coast Records Inc. I definitely agree
@@wassapdood1445 yes you do think so. LOL
Nah
Gold Coast Records Inc. PERIODT
I like what the female interviewer said: her voice hits you and there is a connection. It's so true!
She was gifted. I dont care what anyone says she WON.
Yes she did
She gets credit for her voice but I think ppl don’t realize how much of an artist and musician she was. She didn’t write much but she understood arrangement and composition, could read music and could play piano
... lol
Having to constantly prove herself was so STUPID! Smh. Makes no SENSE.
Were she a man, she wouldn't have had to endure such shear and utter nonsense.
Whitney touched your soul.RIP Whitney
For those of you who think she was lip synching, go listen to her sing it for the Welcome Home Heroes concert. She sang the first part acapella (meaning no music) and sounded the same as when she sang it at the Super Bowl with music. That is all :)
Elee Moussa she backtracked, not lip sync. correct those haters lol
Brandon Mejia She did sang it but in a dead mic
The wording and spelling in the replies here should show the worth of what they should mean to you.
Brandon Mejia huh?
@@onepleiadian mic was on
I was only 9 years old seeing that performance. I remember that performance was a huge deal at that time. It hit home with everyone
People are so ignorant. They know nothing about singing and nothing about music. Anyone who doubts Whitney Houston could actually sing never heard her live.
The musical director of the show said she lip synced. Who's the ignorant now? They usually do it for this kind of show, but for me it's unprofessional.
Yeah she lip'd it. It's still her voice though regardless so I don't mine. It's not like she's the only person whose done it.
@@luisalejandroguidomartinez4351 He never said she lip-synced. He talked about the controversy and rumors about her lip-syncing. That's why when she did the anthem at the Welcome Home, Heroes HBO concert she started it off acapella, to put an end to those baseless rumors. Anyone who thought she lip-synced the Super Bowl performance is ignorant and if you think she did, then yes, YOU are still the ignorant one.
By the way, if you think lip-syncing the national anthem is unprofessional, the ones you should be criticizing are Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and others, NOT Whitney Houston.
@@MrSpy13011 Whitney did NOT lip-sync any of her anthem performances. Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, however...
Alexander Hall He said everything you heard was live. She sang it in the studio live. You’re the ignorant one.
Whitney is #1 in this lifetime and #1 in the next lifetime as well. I am not convinced that ANYONE will come even close to her vocal genius. I have always supported her from the early days and I have never spoken one--no, not one ill word of her and will never. I feel like this, as long as I can hear her voice by turning on one of her records, she is alive as sound is energy.
She did the first verse acapella on Welcome Home Heroes concert.
While she did perform the anthem live at the welcome home heroes special, it wasn’t in the same key as she performed it at the super bowl, I just take comfort knowing she performed the anthem in an even higher key than both performances in 1988!
Whitney Houston is the best musician ever
Musician? She didn't even write her songs
@@philipcohen958 actually she wrote and co-wrote SEVERAL of her songsAnd she was also a piano player. So she was a musician as wells as a singer as well as a producer and songwriter too. Whether she wrote them or not… NO ONE and I repeat NO ONE could perform them and arrange them the way she did.
I think that was all real; she did it live to me, she sung it from the heart. I mean come on did you see those vines popping out of her neck? that had to be live!
If she’s singing into a dead mic, why wouldn’t her veins still be popping? She’s singing, but according to multiple people what we heard at home wasn’t coming from the mic, but from the studio recording she did (in one take)
I think the US should use her version at every major event...
It was perfection, hence the haters.
Why would the greatest singer in the world need to lips sing. She was absolute perfection!! ........
At 1:42, he raised the issue of her lip singing then he skated around the issue to the HBO show not admitting or denying it. NO ONE EVER questioned Whitney's ability to sing. The question was, did she lip sync to a pre recorded track? I think so. At 2:38 and on on, I infer that he's admitting to her lip syncing. So what? It doesn't take away from Whitney's greatness. I believe she sang along with a pre recorded track but without live mics. That explains the veins and sweat seen in the video.
You misinterpreted. She sang the whole song for the troops live. The point was for her to start it acapella, so people would know it's real and her singing the song, so there would be no questions
Exactly! He said in so many words that she did. He answered the question by skating around it.
Arnold Herrington that does not mean that she sung it live in the stadium. He was saying that she didn’t in so many words. He said I’ve done it a lot and I know that’s the best way to do it at the end.... that is referring to lip syncing. How does she sing it live if she doesn’t know where the first note begins? I’m the biggest Whitney Houston fan but I accept it for what it was. Broke my heart a little too. But there is no question, she can sing!
@@JeMone -Whether she lip synced the sing or not. Let the fact that she sung that mug in one take without rehearsing at all, un-break your heart 😉
@@lakayabrooks276 it only broke my heart because I always told people THAT IS LIVE and I believed that she did it live. That was a heck of a lip sync!!! It would have been JUST as amazing if she had done it live. But… she used to be known as ONE TAKE WHITNEY so that’s not a surprise neither. The woman was amazing. My favorite voice I’ve ever heard in the world. There’s GOD, then Whitney is next. Lol. Those are my favorite voices lol. God was SHOWING OUT when he made her!
I knew she lipsyched the anthem. But I'm so glad to know she sung it in one take in the studio! You guys heard that? She did the whole song once in the studio and that was it. That's just as amazing!
I think you should watch this interview again.
swamprat's rants Her music director said it was.
@@lordvoldemort5725 you should watch again her director did not say she lipsyched they also did it second time to prove that she did not lipsyched
Ryan Vicentillo He said everything the audience heard was prerecorded, but she was singing along to it..... that’s literally lip syncing...
Ryan Vicentillo She did it a second time to PROVE SHE COULD DO IT LIVE...... You need to watch again.... how does singing it again on a show prove it’s not lip synced...
Thank you she still sang it thee best.
@dazah00. You are so correct. And she was that good. Incredible.
Of course she could. Ricky said it was recorded in one take. Anyway nobody can do it better live or on record. And most of the singers lip synched the anthem on the Superbowl for the same technical reasons, i.e. Luther Vandross, Cher, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Jordin Sparks and so on.
deminora Aaliyah didn’t
Not Luther! No!
Mariah Carey didn't.
correction,He didnt say "RECORDED" he just said that "ITS JUST ONE TAKE"...
Galaxy Universe Mariah’s is lip-synced. She’s done it other times where it wasn’t, but it was at the Super Bowl.
It seems that she sang it fully or partially live with her mike turned off to make it look more believable but the audio track we heard was obviously prerecorded.
As stated in the interview, it had to be that way. The proper term with regards to what occurred is that she sang into a "dead microphone."
Veins were busting out because she was really singing but the mics were off. Kathryn Holm McManus, former executive director of the orchestra, in an interview with St. Petersburg Times in 2001 said "At the game, everyone was playing, and Whitney was singing, but there were no live microphones."
100% true
Sang to a dead mic! Makes total sense
She didn't lip anything. That's the true definition of vocal perfection (Whitney Houston's voice). She wasn't named The Voice for no reason LOL!
+T Payne honestly, it doesn't matter if it was liped or not. Its historically the best ever done!
T Payne she backtracked, but it was good
T Payne amen! Exactly!!
pre-recording
I hate it when people where suspicious if the national anthem was lip synch or not. C'mon thats her real live voice!!
The comments sections on channels that show Whitney Houston as a true United States diva shows the divide in generational demographics between Whitney's and Lady Gaga's, Beyonce's, and other fanbases today.
According to the internet anyway it seems that all of these divas from today have fan bases devoted to deceit, hate, and seeking controversy while the people from 30 years ago seemed more interested in love and truth.
Whether that voice was prerecorded or not, you can tell she was SANGING that song for real. She started to sweat and everything, and you Whitney ain't playing around when she starts to sweat. Plus you can see the veins on her neck, her jaws moving... Whitney was definitely singing every single note to the fullest. If it was for her there wouldn't have been any back up track
for the people saying it wasn't live it was... her producer ricky minor mentioned she recorded this in one take in studio which was for album sales during golf war however if you read clive davies book he mentioned the night before Super Bowl his team snook in studio equipment to record this version which you can hear it one on the first word "o" and they put out a single of it instead of the studio version which sold over a million copies and all proceeds went to the red cross. dont play
Yeah white people was tryna make her look bad by saying that! Damn haters she would never have to lip sing.
Exactlyyyyy
Dang. I didn't know this was lip synced. Well, it's still her voice. I didn't think about crowd noise, etc. Mr. Minor is a genius. Whitney is an incredible actress to have done this so perfectly. But, now, after watching reaction videos, I understand when they say, 'she does that so effortlessly.' Well, yeah! But still...it was all Whitney. ----
It seems the easiest thing for them to have done would be to release the safety tape version so we can compare
U know when somebody is so good at what they do we have haters yes haters question everything cause they dont believe anyone can just be that damn good its sad cause she is that damn good RIP whitney #1 in our lifetime PERIOD who cares she can sing the words yes or no and it would be amazing she sold 3 million singles of the anthem now thats believable
I'm wondering whether the people who insist that Whitney was only miming her Superbowl National Anthem performance can actually sing. If you're still asking, check out her Superbowl video and watch her neck veins bulge as she sings. You don't get bulging neck veins if you are only miming.
@talul101 i dooooo i agree with no. No one even in the next life i guess. Well she is just the ONE.
What you have to understand is... Whitney was a very dramatic woman. She was a master of the show business. She didn't lipsynch unless to was required of her. but when she did do it, she did it very well. If you watch the video again, you'll see that she was lipsyching. Whitney is known as an effortless singer. but that was too effortless. I always knew it was lipped.
She was a phenomenon, a true, true gift from God, just a pity she didn't know it herself.....
Marvin Gaye's version wis fantastic too
Very few singers can sing a song that’s not officially their song and make it theirs. She did just that. She made it hers. Impeccable
Why on earth would they make her lip sync when she is more than capable of giving a flawless performance? And if it is lipped I'm sure Whitney didn't want to...she was aways against that sort of thing. That's why she sang live even when her voice was already weak during her final comeback around 2010.
I'm so tired of people not giving people their just due on something. Everyone always have something to say because they are either jealous or just a plain hater. Just give her the credit that she deserves and go on about your sorry lives.
There will never be another
He keeps saying studio so is he talking about the making of the safety tape or rehearsing for the live performance?
Rickey is saying here that there was a version for the show w home heroes and to sing acapella and that what what Whitney did in the stadium live. He never said that she lipped , whitney herself said that she never did such a thing.
I was feeling chills listening to what I think is the best version of all time. I was too embarrassed to admit it and then I heard everyone else saying the same thing.
Anyway, whether she prerecorded 20 minutes before because the hopeless noise level in the stadium made it impossible for her to judge her pitch, I really don't know or care. Whatever. The only important thing is that it was her singing it. Like who else could give such a performance?
I don't care how "good" people think Lady Gaga's 2016 version was (it was awful by the way), neither she nor anyone else could give a performance like the ones Whitney gave in 1991.
Did you just watch the video? He just told you she lip synched it. How am I hating? And why would I hate on Whitney Houston? I love Whitney! I'm a huge Whitney fan. But she lipped the song. I could tell way before Ricky Minor told anyone.
for the people saying it wasn't live it was... her producer ricky minor mentioned she recorded this in one take in studio which was for album sales during golf war however if you read clive davies book he mentioned the night before Super Bowl his team snuck in studio equipment to record this version which you can hear it one on the first word "o" and they put out a single of it instead of the studio version which sold over a million copies and all proceeds went to the red cross. dont play
Prove it...
I'm confused! So did she lip sync during the anthem or not!?
Yes, it was all a lie
Yes she lipsynced. Did you listen? He said the record we heard was the first take though. If you want to hear her singing it live, she did for the troops in 91.
th-cam.com/video/L3FdTKhzZWU/w-d-xo.html
@@delvictor7570 it wasn't all a lie she sings it live just like the superbowl at her welcome home heroes concert th-cam.com/video/L3FdTKhzZWU/w-d-xo.html
@@mariahyohannes She lip synced during her most famous “live” performance. Her whole career is tainted. She should not be considered one of the greatest.
@@delvictor7570 watch this performance it's completely live th-cam.com/video/L3FdTKhzZWU/w-d-xo.html
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Ricky Is hemming... just tell us flat out was it live or not
amen agreed
Lip synching HA! dont make me laugh.
After all this years yall are still at it she lipsinging la! la! la! So what if she lipsings. She did recorded the song and she sang it ,she did not put someones song and mime along!!!!! Let it go already.may she have some peace now!
He also said to shut down the rumors she did it acepella so which one is it. Don't matter to me she's still the best.
One think that Whitney did not do was lip sync. She sang it live.
In fact Whitney gave us so many and many LIVE AMAZING presentations that she NEVER had to prove she knew to sing, because Almost ALWAYS she sang live, so pre-recorded or no It's irrelevant. By the way to recorded she sang before live so It's really irrelevant in her case.
Elis Cardoso Actually her 1988 version live is the best
Elis Cardoso Actually her 1988 version live is the best
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