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If we discard taste preferences, then pop music is criticized mainly for the fact that performers in this genre do not disdain to sing to the soundtrack.
Try to remember at least one case in which a rock musician caught on “plywood” would be mentioned. Even those who do not like rock, pay tribute to vocalists who honestly work in front of the audience.
It is also important to note that in many countries concerts without live sound are prohibited by unwritten laws, and if someone is caught, it will be a very fat stain on their career and reputation.
In Russia, the phonogram at the performances of pop stars is a common thing. The reason is not only that the domestic listener is used to it, but also that most of our performers simply cannot sing live, since they have neither voice nor hearing.
Today we will talk about a dozen extremely popular celebrities who are impossible to listen to without a soundtrack.
10 Anna Semenovich
Anna Semenovich was an excellent figure skater in her youth: she has the title of International Master of Sports, and her duet with Roman Kostomarov was once considered the second strongest in Russia after the pair Irina Lobacheva – Ilya Averbukh.
After a meniscus injury that left her skates hanging up, Anna turned down an offer to perform in ballet and decided to try her hand at music.
At that time she was 21 years old (now she is 39) and now, after almost 20 years, we can safely say that Semenovich became popular, but she never became a singer.
Her feature is a big bust, but not strong vocals. Even in studio recordings, she sounds rather inexpressive, so singing live is like a sentence for her.
9. Masha Rasputin
Despite the fact that Masha Rasputina was not a figure skater and she is 15 years older, she and Anna Semenovich have one very important, one might even say outstanding feature – big breasts. It was with her help that Masha remained popular for a long time, having an equally great passion for shocking.
It is noteworthy that in the early 90s, the singer’s work was positioned as rock, and she even became a laureate of the “Only Girls in Rock” festival.
Later, she completely went into pop music and even tried to break into the West with the English-language album “I Was Born in Siberia” (1993), but the idea failed. At that time, she often gave live concerts, but when her popularity became really big, she decided not to work in vain and dance in front of the fans to the soundtrack.
8. Christina Orbakaite
The daughter of the Primadonna of the Russian stage, who followed in the footsteps of her mother, could not achieve the same greatness (on a local scale, of course) and weak vocals are called one of the reasons.
Orbakaite has a lot of slow, calm songs, in which there is no smell of high notes, but even this whisper she manages to perform to the soundtrack.
7. Vera Brezhneva
This singer has a rather pleasant and soft timbre of voice and, in principle, she knows how to sing. To be convinced of this, it is enough to watch her performances on the air of Avtoradio (can be found on their Youtube channel). There, although a backing vocalist helps her, Brezhneva does a good job on her own.
The reason why she prefers “plywood” is most likely that she is simply too lazy to work out a whole concert on her own. The current popularity allows her to collect full halls even with this approach to business.
6. Yuliya Kovalchuk
And again we have to mention Anna Semenovich and her big bust, because Yulia Kovalchuk sang with her in the group “Brilliant”. Well, how she sang .. She opened her mouth in time, like other girls on stage.
At the beginning of the XNUMXs, this was quite enough, since then there was a real boom in pop groups consisting of curvy beauties. Few people paid attention to whether they can sing.
5. Glucose
The first track of Natalia Ionova “Suga” appeared on the Web in 2001 and, with the participation of producer Maxim Fadeev, began to spin on the air of radio stations.
Gradually, her songs gained popularity, but since in the videos she appeared in the form of a cartoon character and no one saw her live, her vocal abilities remained a mystery.
For the first time, 17-year-old Glucose appeared before the public at the final concert of Star Factory 3 in 2003 and she sang to the soundtrack.
From her very first live concert, she made it clear to everyone that nothing live should be expected at them.
4. Yulia Samoilova
The saddest story in our collection, but you can’t ignore it.
Yulia Samoilova became famous after the show “Factor A”, where she took 2nd place, although she has been involved in music since childhood and even had her own group. A girl in a wheelchair won the hearts of many listeners, so the flaws in singing were forgiven, but that was before Eurovision 2018.
On this show, the phonogram does not exist in principle, and live Samoilova sang frankly badly. It is not surprising that at concerts she prefers not to take risks.
3. Nyusha
Born Anna Shurochkina released the first single “Howl at the Moon” in 2009, accompanied by a video. Her singing, though not something incredible, but her voice seemed strong. Alas, but he was such only thanks to the magic of sound engineers.
She sang live back in 2007 on the show “STS Lights a Superstar”, where, although she won, it was clearly not due to her strong vocals. Her natural singing on the air of the same “Autoradio” is a shame.
2. Olga Buzova
The host of Doma-2 has recently taken up music seriously: the first single, To the Sound of Kisses, dates back to 2016. The fact that she cannot sing was obvious even to the hearing impaired, but she does not claim to be a “vociferous” singer.
She is one of the most hated people in the media space, due to which she is talented in “hype”. She is hated for Dom-2, for appearing in other programs, and now also for singing. It seems it’s time for her to act in films (so far she has only appeared in small cameos).
1. Maxim
The phrase “Give me back my 2007”, which has been popular in the last couple of years, largely affects Maxim’s work, because her hits “Do You Know”, “Become the Wind” and “My Paradise” came out that year.
How many tears were shed by girls who experienced problems in relationships to these songs.
When the singer began to give the first concerts, the fans cried right in front of the stage. Someone because of the sad songs, and someone because of the impudent soundtrack.