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Justin Bieber's Fans Waited All Day To Hear Him... Lip-Sync? People Are Furious

IANS, 11 May, 2017 12:35 PM

    Reviews of the singer's concert in Mumbai last night are fairly brutal and fans, many of whom are pre-teen, are furious that much of the performance was lip-synced.

     

    Many fans were disappointed with Justin Bieber's concert in Mumbai last night, and Sonali Bendre, who attended the show with her kids, too was one of them.

     

    "Biebered out!!! Missed d efficiency of @WizcraftIndia n d personal touch of @WizAndreTimmins #wasteoftime," Sonali wrote on Twitter. The actor had attended the show with her son, Ranveer, who is a fan of the Baby hitmaker. Andre Timmins, the founder of Wizcraft, responded to Sonali, saying, "@iamsonalibendre thank you so much for your kind words @WizcraftIndia."

     
     

    There are also reports of mismanagement - there weren't nearly enough toilets and water was overpriced, says some news outlets; actress Bipasha Basu came and left because organisers allegedly failed to give her a VIP car pass.

     

    Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover said that they got “dressed up for nothing.”

     
     
     

    All dressed up for nothing🙈 Ha ha ha!

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    The lip-syncing was another matter entirely. Filmmaker Anurag Basu, who took his daughter to watch the concert, told, "I would have been happy if he would have sung all songs live. He only sang four songs live.

     

    An artist of his calibre should sing live. He was not prepared." Mr Basu was one among a clutch of celebrities who had showed up to the concert - among them Sridevi, Alia Bhatt, Malaika Arora and others. Justin, 23, played to a 45,000-strong crowd at Navi Mumbai's D Y Patil Stadium amid high security and dizzying levels of excitement.

     
     

    So what we could not enjoy at the concert... still it's always fun with you my love. Thank you 😍

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    The excitement was due to the fact that the Canadian singer's Indian audience have been petitioning him to play here for many years. Now that he has, it appears that the concert was not entirely paisa vasool - the cheapest tickets were priced at a little over Rs. 5,000 and fans who paid big money and waited all day to hear him (Justin Bieber went on at 8 pm, 'Beliebers' had queued up starting 9 am) aren't pleased at all. "It's quite clear that he is not singing these songs," an irate man from Pune who had paid Rs. 36,000 for his pass told.

     

    Another fan said, "I attended Coldplay's concert and I think that was much better than this. Justin's performance was low on energy and the worst part was he was lip-syncing to many of his songs." An angry mother of a 10-year-old 'Belieber' told, "I wish I had not paid a bomb for this awful concert."

     

    On Twitter, some are asking if it's too late for Justin Bieber to say he's Sorry. Sonali Bendre hashtagged her tweet #wasteoftime:

     
     
     

    That Justin Bieber lip-synced should surprise nobody. It is a short cut that several musicians take and all too often - Beyonce controversially lip-synced the American national anthem at President Obama's inauguration in 2013, and has been known to lip-sync much of her set list at concerts.

     

    That Justin Bieber should have been low energy on stage should also surprise nobody - he's been on the road with his Purpose Tour since February and has already played at 22 locations including Australia, Mexico, Brazil and Dubai. The tour ends in September and he still has South Africa, much of Europe and North America to cover. None of this is any consolation for disappointed fans.

     

    Justin Bieber's next concert date is May 14 in Johannesburg. He's flown out of India already, cancelling his scheduled visits to New Delhi, Jaipur and Agra, an organizer told.

     

    The singer also arrived in India later than expected - he extended his stay in Dubai for a couple of days and only landed in Mumbai very early on Wednesday morning. He was greeted by a crowd of fans, some of whom had been camping outside the airport for three days. For them, and for other 'Beliebers' at the concert, the lip-syncing was Cold Water.

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