Top 10 Disastrous Live Performance Blunders

MsMojo

Live performances can be thrilling, but sometimes they go terrible wrong. Join us as we countdown the most disastrous live performance blunders, from wardrobe malfunctions to technical failures, and everything in between. From Beyoncé to Mariah Carey, and Janet Jackson to Justin Timberlake, we're looking at the most cringe-worthy moments in music history. With performances on live TV, awards shows, and concerts, these mistakes will leave you speechless. Get ready to relive the most epic fails in music.

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00:00welcome to ms mojo and today we're counting down our picks for live performances that went so wrong

00:09so fast i just want to take a sip of tea if they let me they told me there would be tea

00:14oh it's a disaster number 10 beyonce's run-in with a fan

00:20when you're this famous fans always want a piece of you this time we mean that literally audience

00:32members at beyonce's 2013 montreal concert captured a potentially show-ending mishap between queen bee

00:39and a stage-side fan a different kind of fan took took hold of her hair wouldn't let go always the

00:46consummate professional though see that fan behind her her hair is totally wrapped in it while singing

00:51halo the pop icon found that her hair had become tangled up in the fans blades her voice faltered

00:58for only an instant before she went right back to singing while her team attempted to free her from

01:04the machine's grip she never stopped singing halo even as crew members are cutting her hair out of

01:11the fan that cannot feel good and yet she never lost pitch the clips quickly went viral beyonce was a

01:21good sport about it rewriting some of the song's lyrics to address the event in an instagram post

01:27number nine nikki minaj's zipper trouble at the mtv video music awards

01:36the chart-topping rapper is one of the most confident and audacious artists out there

01:41but a distracting wardrobe malfunction at the 2014 mtv vmas shook her confidence

02:00as nikki minaj ran on stage to join jesse jay and ariana grande for their huge hit bang bang viewers

02:07noticed she was holding the front of her dress the entire time as she told ellen degeneres afterwards

02:13her zipper busted while doing a quick change from the outfit she wore during her anaconda performance

02:19and there was no time to fix it before her cue she put in a good performance but it's easy to tell

02:25she was distracted it was a i don't know no but knowing that and seeing how calm and collected you

02:31were walking holding your outfit together with nothing on underneath it and singing in front of

02:37millions of people yeah pretty calm you know i think you handle it really really well number eight

02:43sears good morning america performance chandelier is probably one of the most vocally demanding pop songs

02:49those incredibly high and powerful notes don't come easy even for the artist who wrote and first

02:55performed it in fact sia is known for her voice cracks they're a part of her style but during this

03:102016 performance on good morning america her voice didn't just crack it was gone

03:28she struggled through her hit song with some expletives and frustration creeping into the

03:33performance sia copped to being incredibly nervous beforehand she was afraid she didn't have the

03:38voice to hit her usual notes that day whatever was going on with her voice it's a performer's worst

03:43nightmare number seven iggy azalea's audio issues on dancing with the stars she's so fancy but not when

04:01she can't hear the track australian rapper iggy azalea appeared on the season 18 finale of

04:08dancing with the stars millions were tuning in and the pressure was high when she started performing

04:13too early she suddenly panicked and told the crowd there was something wrong with her earpiece

04:28instead of rapping behind the beat she just silently made her way down the stairs as the track kept

04:34playing she didn't start again until the chorus by then it was time for charlie xcx to come out and

04:40save the show

04:47well there is one upside at least we know she wasn't lip-syncing

04:52number six madonna at the eurovision song contest

05:09the eurovision song contest garners millions of viewers a year in 2019 over 182 million people across

05:16the world tuned in to see four hours of euro pop goodness and they had a huge guest for the year's

05:22half-time performance the queen of pop herself madonna performed a medley of her hits across the

05:28decades however it didn't exactly go as planned

05:31madonna's pitchy and off-key performance was a shocker it also heavily overshadowed her would-be

05:45controversial on-stage political statement a heavily pitch corrected version later appeared

05:50on madonna's official youtube channel but anyone who tuned in live heard what really went down

05:59so

06:04number five mariah carey on dick clark's new year's rocking eve ringing in the year 2017

06:12turned disastrous once the song emotion started to play mariah carey instantly realized something

06:18was wrong she began telling the crowd she couldn't hear the track

06:21just walk me down

06:27well happy new year

06:31we can't hear but i'll just get through the motion okay

06:35the technical failure led to her spending the whole song half-heartedly doing some choreography

06:41and commenting on how they didn't have a soundcheck watching carrie narrate her frustrations is almost

06:46as entertaining as the planned performance would have been we're missing some of this

06:51we'll go but it is

06:59i'm gonna say let the audience sing okay unfortunately she faced a lot of blowback for

07:04the disastrous performance and there were some competing narratives about what went wrong but

07:09it didn't stop her from returning with a real powerhouse performance the following year

07:22number four fergie's national anthem performance at the nba all-star game

07:27what separates many musicians is style that's why we have our favorite renditions of the star

07:33spangled banner but that's also why it can go very very wrong

07:44fergie in the 2018 nba all-star game is a perfect example the former black-eyed peas

07:50vocalist definitely put her own spin on the national anthem

07:53her jazzy groaning approach was definitely a choice dropping entire letters from the ends of

08:05words and sending her voice on side quests she created an instant viral classic the players were

08:11actively trying not to laugh but by the end it was impossible not to artistic license is one thing

08:17this was a misfire of epic proportions but sometimes a bad performance is its own reward

08:32number three ashley simpson's lip-sync on snl

08:41bombing on the saturday night live stage is no laughing matter ashley simpson found that out during

08:47her 2004 appearance taking the stage for her second song of the episode her vocals on pieces of me

08:54began to play the problem was she'd already sung that track earlier that night she had lip-synced and

09:06was planning to do so again for her second performance her awkward jig as she leaves the stage just puts a

09:12period on the cringe simpson explained the incident by blaming her band at the end of the episode later

09:19she explained that she woke up with no voice and lip-synced as a last resort it was a blemish on her

09:25burgeoning career that didn't go away for a while i had the number one song it was like everything was about

09:32to go like somewhere and then it was just like whoa the humility of not even understanding what grown-ass

09:41people would say about you like growing awful awful things that must have been really hard it was so

09:48hard oh my god number two millie vanilli's track skips on club mtv fab morvin and rob pilates were taking

09:56the world by storm in 1989 known by the name millie vanilli the duo were one of many groups formed by

10:11super producer frank farian an infamous club mtv performance made clear what people already suspected

10:18their hit song girl you know is true began skipping revealing that they were lip-syncing the whole time

10:32this led to a snowball effect farian revealed that they had not even sung on their own records although

10:39he was pulling the strings morvan and pilates shouldered the brunt of the criticism this culminated

10:45in having their grammy award rescinded their careers never recovered people were just not

10:51that interested in the spectacle anymore

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11:18your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one janet jackson and

11:26justin timberlake at super bowl 38 this wardrobe malfunction is still one of the biggest scandals in

11:32music television and sports history you knew it was going to happen right you didn't know it was going

11:37to happen no i didn't you didn't know it was going to happen so it came as a complete surprise to you

11:44yes really yes it was totally an accident it wasn't a stunt at the end of their electric super

11:50bowl halftime show in 2004 justin timberlake was supposed to tear away a piece of janet jackson's costume

11:56a little too much tore away suddenly for a split second jackson's bare breast was broadcast live to

12:03millions so he was supposed to pull that off and we just see the red yes there and he ripped the

12:09whole thing so he he had you practiced or whatever before yes we did uh-huh and so the moment that

12:15happened you immediately covered your breast because you didn't want to be exposed if you'd

12:20wanted to be exposed you wouldn't have covered it exactly okay very embarrassing moment needless to say

12:25this violated the fcc's rules about indecency in television broadcasts cbs was fined as a result

12:32timberlake escaped a lot of scrutiny but jackson's career and reputation took a major hit you think

12:39people were too hard on you i think they were i think they did put all the emphasis on me and uh

12:49uh as opposed to us what moments did we miss let us know in the comments i want a holiday too can i not

12:57have one i'm trying to be a good sport here

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