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Beyonce's Dad Was Right -- Hoax, Hoax, Hoax!!!

Posted Apr 22nd 2009 3:00PM by TMZ Staff

BeyonceBeyonce has officially been cleared of all bad singing charges -- the atrocious supposed "board mix" of her performance on "The Today Show" last year was altered after all.

Just as Mathew Knowles told us, the audio clip that many people believed was leaked from "Today" was indeed a fake.

In fact, TMZ found the person behind the prank who was surprised it went as far as it did, saying, "It's a little bit crazy. No one in their right mind would sound like that, and no one would cheer for someone singing like that."

Apparently, the dude never went to an Ashlee Simpson concert...

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61. I call shenanigans...

If TMZ really "found the person behind the prank", then who was it? How did they do it? And why?

Or did someone just get paid off? I'll bet Beyonce and her record label have pretty big PR budgets.

Posted at 7:49PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Chris T

62. DUH!! obviously it was fake anybody who thought it was real is an IDIOT!!!! anyone with a computer can alter somebodys voice to make it sound however they like. and if she was really lip synching why bother actually singing all shes gotta do is move her mouth to the words. MORONS!!!

Posted at 8:13PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by heyboykid

63. I don't believe that crap! You know she SCREAMS not sings............She even looks like CRAP out of makeup! Makeup is Hollywoods best friend! Look at plain Jane Britney.........makeup works wonders!

Posted at 8:39PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by London

64. just another Hollywood cover up... seriously people.. you will believe ANYTHING Hollywood tells you. I work in the music industry and the tape CLEARLY wasn't tampered with. anyone with recording knowledge will tell you that her voice was really that bad!

this is a cover up to keep her selling records.


i got a bridge im selling real cheap.

Posted at 8:36PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by ha-ha

65. People will believe anything; especially about someone they already dislike! The youtuber who made the video is named "aladdin82" and he's a big Janet Jackson fan. He also altered Christina Aguilera's vocals and that video is still on his page.

Posted at 9:18PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by lmn

66. This is a complete spin on the original story. I have mixed many live concerts. On live TV they prefer to lip sync for performance and time issues. The band plays over synced tracks. What you are hearing is her singing to the track with no monitor. It makes you almost tone deaf. That is why she sounds like this. There is no way this is faked. I have been listening to her since early Destiny Child tracks and that is her singing. Watch the video and her mic movements. It is perfectly synced.
You cannot believe this is hoaxed if you watch the video and the mouth movements.

She can sing, but at that concert she was tone deaf because of not hacing an earpiece or onstage monitors.

Posted at 9:59PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Vibrentone

67. I smell a cover up, I wonder how much he got paid to say that?

Posted at 10:08PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by paul

68. look, i'm no huge fan of beyonce neither (besides maybe one or two songs) but all yall are some haters. Leave the girl alone. She may not be the best singer, nor write her own music, sure her acting's as fake as her hair, and who knows, she might not be 26, but she's doing her thang (yeah I know it's thing) and I ain't mad at her. Last year she brought in 81 million, she must be doing something right. So haters hate on, I don't like the bitch like that neither but I got to give her her props.

Posted at 10:14PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by cocopuffs

69. shame on beyonce HATTERS BEY IS THE BEST SINGER IN THE WORLD AND HATE MONGERS CANT STAND THAT BEY IS LOVED BY GOD AND WE HER FANS THEIR IS NORTING YOU HATTRES CAN DO ABOUT THAT GOD BLESS OUR BEY

Posted at 10:34PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by fatu sankoh

70. you guys are just haterz because you haven't done anything with your own life. grow up. What have you done so far?

Posted at 10:41PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by notconcerned

71. It's still funny as hell. I could listen to this all day.

Posted at 10:49PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Chrisv

72. I think theres more to the story.Howard stern said she was singing along with the monitor so she didnt know how she sounded and the audience heard lip syncing so they wouldnt have never knew she sounded bad.contridicts how the father said the audence wouldnt have listened to that they wouldnt have had she not been lip syncing. I SAY THE TAPE I REAL

Posted at 11:51PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by TCB

73. TMZ got paid off by Beyonce to call it a hoax...

Posted at 11:11PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by JohnnyMcJohnson

74. Come one people quit hating on her it sounds like some jealousy to me, that is one bad as bitch and you know it. DO YOU BEYONCE!

Posted at 8:08AM on Apr 23rd 2009 by donna

75. I am shocked at all the negative comments abt this artist. i am not a big fan, but i cant deny she can sing....dance ...nice body and fashion (the ones she buys , not the ones her mother pretends to make...and i just so happened to see her taped lie performance it was a show.....Even though i do not buy her stuff....i have to acknowledge her talent...still so shocking the negative spins

Posted at 1:31AM on Apr 24th 2009 by ANTIHATER

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