They weren’t fooling anyone.
The ACM Awards are simply two days away, and Rascal Flatts will as soon as once more be taking the stage (with the Backstreet Boys, for some purpose) after just lately reuniting from their prolonged hiatus.
Again in 2020, the band introduced their farewell tour, which was later canceled attributable to COVID. And with lead singer Gary LeVox and bass participant Jay DeMarcus pursuing solo careers, it appeared like a reunion was fairly unlikely. However final yr, Rascal Flatts formally introduced a comeback with their Life Is A Freeway tour, and earlier this yr they took the stage collectively for the primary time since 2020 with a efficiency at President Donald Trump’s inaugural ball.
Evidently, it’s been a number of years since we’ve seen Rascal Flatts on an awards present. Some would possibly say it’s been a pleasant break. Not that I’m saying it was good to not must see them on awards exhibits, however some would possibly…
Anyway, again in 2014, Rascal Flatts took the stage on the ACM Awards as one of many largest names in nation music.
In fact that’s not saying a lot, as a result of nation music actually wasn’t in an awesome place on the time. I imply, simply take a look at the 2014 ACM Awards. Two of the nominees for Album of the Yr had been Right here’s To the Good Instances by Florida Georgia Line and Crash My Celebration by Luke Bryan. Oh, and “Cruise” was additionally nominated for Single of the Yr.
Yeah, not nation music’s best second.
And at that yr’s ACM Awards, Rascal Flatts additionally had one other embarrassing second for the style when followers started to suspect that the group was lip-syncing throughout their efficiency of their then-current single “Rewind.”
Even fellow nation artist Granger Smith took a shot on the efficiency – with out calling the band out by identify:
Effectively the following day they determined to deal with the controversy, admitting that sure, they had been lip-syncing, and blaming it on their lead singer Gary LeVox shedding his voice previous to the efficiency:
“After having carried out a number of exhibits earlier within the week, Gary misplaced his voice. So, as an alternative of canceling our dedication to do the present, we made a final minute resolution to lip-sync. We’ve by no means completed it earlier than, and we’re clearly not superb at it. We look ahead to singing reside once more within the very close to future!”
And through an interview with the AP, Jay DeMarcus defended the lip syncing:
“I feel half the individuals on the highway touring proper now use quite a lot of tracks and use quite a lot of vocals on tracks, and I feel the entire thing is about presentation. Is it nice to sing reside every time you may? Completely. However generally given the circumstances and what’s occurred previous to a present it’s bodily not possible generally to do, so we had been confronted with the choice to both cancel, which they’d nothing to fill the time slot for, or preserve our spot on a broadly watched nationwide televised awards present.”
LeVox then went on guilty it on his “Vegas throat,” saying that the band had performed a number of exhibits in Las Vegas and that his throat was simply too dry. However the band then went on to mock the outrage by having DeMarcus voice an apology for LeVox, so I’m unsure whether or not they actually cared all that a lot concerning the individuals who had been upset about it.
There’s not any nice video of the efficiency on-line (I suppose they didn’t need that one on the market for individuals to “rewind”), however within the video that’s on the market, you may see what they imply after they say they’re not superb on the entire lip-syncing factor.
Yeah, it was fairly unhealthy.
