If we discard taste preferences, then pop music is criticized mainly because performers in this genre do not disdain to sing to the soundtrack.
Try to recall at least one case in which a rock musician caught on plywood was mentioned. Even those who do not like rock do justice to vocalists who work honestly in front of their listeners.
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 a career and reputation.
In Russia, the soundtrack at the performances of pop stars is commonplace. The reason is not only that the domestic listener is used to it, but also because most of our performers simply do not know how to sing alive, because they have neither a voice nor a hearing.
Today we’ll talk about a dozen extremely popular celebrities who cannot be listened to without a soundtrack.
10. Anna Semenovich
Anna Semenovich in her youth was an excellent skater: she has the title of Master of Sports of the international class, and her duet with Roman Kostomarov was once considered the second most powerful in Russia after the pair Irina Lobacheva - Ilya Averbukh.
After a meniscus injury, due to which skates had to be hung on a nail, Anna refused the offer to perform in ballet and decided to try herself in music.
At that time she was 21 years old (now she is 39) and now, after almost 20 years, one can safely say that Semenovich became popular, but she did not become a singer.
Her feature is a big bust, but not strong vocals. Even in studio recordings, she sounds pretty expressionless, so singing live for her is akin to a sentence.
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 can even say an outstanding feature - a large chest. 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 festival “There are only girls in rock”.
Later, she completely went into pop music and even tried to break into the West with the English 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 to the fans to the soundtrack.
8. Kristina Orbakaite
The prima donna’s daughter 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 one of the reasons is called weak vocals.
Orbakaite has a lot of slow, calm songs, in which she doesn't smell like high notes, but she even manages to perform this whisper to the soundtrack.
7. Vera Brezhnev
This singer has a rather pleasant and soft timbre of voice and she, in principle, knows how to sing. To see this, just watch her performances on the air of "Autoradio" (can be found on their Youtube channel). There, although a backing vocalist helps her, Brezhnev herself does a good job.
The reason why she prefers "plywood", most likely, is that working out a whole concert on her own is simply too lazy. The current popularity allows her to collect full halls even with this approach to business.
6. Julia Kovalchuk
And again I have to mention Anna Semenovich and her big bust, because Julia Kovalchuk sang with her in the group “Brilliant”. Well, as she sang .. She opened her mouth in time, like the other girls on the stage.
In the early 2000s, this was quite enough, since then there was a real boom in pop groups consisting of figured beauties. Few people paid attention to whether they could sing.
5. Glucose
The first track of Natalia Ionova's “Suga” appeared on the Web in 2001 and, with the participation of producer Maxim Fadeev, began to turn 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 nobody saw her alive, her vocal abilities remained a mystery.
For the first time before the public, 17-year-old Glucose appeared 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 they should not expect anything alive.
4. Julia Samoilova
The saddest story in our collection, but you can not ignore it.
Julia Samoilova became famous after the show “Factor A”, where she took 2nd place, although she had been making music since childhood and even had her own group. The girl in a wheelchair won the hearts of many listeners, therefore, the flaws in singing were forgiven, but this was before Eurovision 2018.
At this show, phonograms do not exist in principle, and Samoilova sang frankly badly live. Not surprisingly, she prefers not to take risks at concerts.
3. Nyusha
Born Anna Shurochkina released the first single “Howling to the Moon” in 2009, accompanied by a clip. Although her singing was not unbelievable, her voice seemed strong. Alas, he was such only thanks to the magic of sound engineers.
She sang Alive back in 2007 on the show “STS lights a superstar”, where although she won, she was clearly not at the expense of her strong vocals. Her natural singing on the air of the same “Autoradio” is a shame.
2. Olga Buzova
The host of “House-2” seriously took up music recently: the first single “To the Sounds of Kisses” dates back to 2016. The fact that she does not know how to sing was obviously hard of hearing, but she does not pretend to be a “vocal” singer.
She is one of the most hated people in the media space, due to which she is talented “highpit”. She is hated for Dom-2, for appearing in other programs, and now also for singing. It seems she should go to the movies (so far she has appeared only in small cameos).
1. Maxim
The phrase “Give me back my 2007th”, popular in the last couple of years, also affects Maxim’s work in many respects, because her hits “You Know”, “Become the Wind” and “My Paradise” were released that year.
How many tears were shed by the girls who were experiencing problems in relationships for these songs .. But what’s there, the guys are people too and let in a mean tearful tear on the words: “Don’t lose and don’t break”.
When the singer began to give the first concerts, the fans cried right in front of the stage. Someone because of sad songs, and someone because of arrogant phonograms.