00:00This Christmas, lights twinkle all around.
00:05Next car, honey, next car!
00:06Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're looking at moments where musicians totally forgot the words to their songs in
00:12front of an audience.
00:13It was like watching a queen fall on her face.
00:21Ariana Grande
00:22By 2013, Ariana Grande was on the verge of becoming one of pop music's biggest stars.
00:28That year, the future Academy Award nominee treated fans to an intimate and low-key show for Red Bull Soundspace.
00:36While singing her song Right There, Grande drew a blank.
00:40We started with the second verse again.
00:45I spent 20 hours shooting a music video to the song yesterday, and how do I not know the words
00:50right now?
00:51She recovered only a few seconds later, but then forgot the words again.
00:55She happily laughed the blunder off, and asked the audience to help her out.
01:10She even went as far as to look up the lyrics to make sure they were correct.
01:14Happens to the best of us, Ari.
01:21Elvis Presley
01:22Elvis Presley
01:22At a 1977 concert, the one and only Elvis Presley went off script during his performance of Are You Lonesome
01:30Tonight?
01:31During the interlude, the king of rock and roll stumbled over his words and had trouble getting back on track.
01:37The rules are staged, and each of us play a part.
01:40They had to be playing in prep early in the, what about a plus tax?
01:45He proceeded to playfully babble and question who he was supposed to be talking to.
01:50After a few inaudible words, he started rhyming, which elicited laughs from the audience.
01:56If you've got the words, you seem to change, you fool.
02:00You're acting strange, and why, I never know.
02:05Why have I did it?
02:06For some, this might have been an embarrassing moment, but for Presley, he was totally aware of his mistake,
02:12joyfully laughing through the awkwardness.
02:14And you're all living without you.
02:17Now the stage is bare, and I'm standing there without any hair.
02:23I know.
02:24Drake
02:30In 2012, Drake celebrated New Year's Eve by putting on a show.
02:34However, the celebration was momentarily paused when Drake forgot the lyrics to his song, the motto.
02:45Fans were quick to notice his error, but cheered him on nonetheless.
02:49This wasn't the first, nor the last time he had this issue.
02:53In 2023, during his It's All A Blur tour, some audience members took to social media to express their frustrations
03:00with him for missing his lyric.
03:01However, Champagne Poppy doesn't seem to be in his feelings over it.
03:06Wait, and then the world did the dance, and Will Smith was there, and man, just nobody would stop.
03:11It was, it was terrible.
03:15Chris Martin
03:15Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has been making music for decades, but even he makes mistakes every now and then.
03:23Once upon a time, on the same side, once upon a time, on the same side, in the same game.
03:29While performing in Vienna in 2017, the lyrics to Coldplay's collaboration with Rihanna, Princess of China, slipped his mind.
03:38Oh, so much, oh, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
03:43He asked his bandmates to stop playing, and ended up confessing his mistake to the crowd.
03:49He then jokingly asked for it not to end up on YouTube.
03:53However, his blunder did end up online, and lo and behold, here we are.
03:58Sorry, Chris.
03:59Looks like it was just too good not to share.
04:02This is going to start again.
04:03I'm so sorry.
04:05That's the first time the whole tour.
04:11I'm sorry, everybody.
04:12Miley Cyrus
04:13Breaking free from her Hannah Montana image, Miley Cyrus took the stage in 2009 to show off her new, edgier
04:21style.
04:22Cyrus flew across the pond to appear on UK's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway to promote her new single,
04:29Fly on the Wall.
04:30You wish that you could be a fly on the wall
04:32A freaky little, sneaky little fly on the wall
04:36Everything was going well, until the lyrics flew right out of the singer's memory.
04:41Her voice trailed off, and she turned her head for a brief moment.
04:51However, she jumped back into it, remembering all her words, choreography, and blocking for the remainder of the performance.
04:59All my precious secrets, yeah, you know them all
05:03Don't you wish that you could be a fly on the wall
05:06Patti LaBelle
05:07During her 1996 recital at the National Tree Lighting in D.C., Patti LaBelle was faced with an interesting situation.
05:16At the beginning of this Christmas, her background singers were noticeably absent, so the songstress called them out.
05:23This is gonna be a merry merry Christmas for you and me
05:30We're my background singers
05:31After that, she proclaimed that the lyrics on her cue cards were incorrect, announcing to the crowd that she didn't
05:38know the song.
05:40The sergeant, first class, Rick Perel playing a solo, I have to sing his name in the biggest little car
05:45Give him a big hand, please
05:47Eventually, her trio of backup singers joined her, but by the time they arrived, tensions were already high.
05:54Ever the professional, the Lady Marmalade singer made it through with improvisation and riffing.
05:59My friend Patti LaBelle, you did well with and without your singers.
06:04Guess this wasn't the most wonderful time of the year for Miss LaBelle.
06:08And it went viral like crazy last Christmas time
06:10I never saw that
06:11Oh my god, I love it
06:12But I'm glad I made a mistake, hey
06:14Mariah Carey
06:16Mariah Carey was feeling all kinds of emotions during her final gig of 2016.
06:22Performing live on New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, the prolific singer had a rocky start with her hit
06:29Emotions, announcing to the crowd that she didn't have a soundcheck.
06:33She wasn't feeling those emotions
06:35Just rub me down
06:36Mariah said she couldn't hear her tracks because of a faulty earpiece
06:41Carey proceeded to talk through her song, haphazardly dancing and barely even lip syncing.
06:47After transitioning into We Belong Together, she struggled to redeem the performance and walked off at the end appearing understandably
06:55upset.
06:56And I know how good they are at their job, so my reaction was she was working with the best,
07:00I find it hard to believe that they made big mistakes that night.
07:05A month later, Carey was interviewed about the mishap, naming a failed earpiece, a faulty mic and missing dancers as
07:13reasons for the messy situation.
07:15But I think, you know, I think she was having probably a rough day vocally and didn't even want to
07:19attempt that when it actually came to singing live.
07:23Demi Lovato
07:24While appearing on Good Morning America, Demi Lovato nearly made our heart skip a beat.
07:30In the midst of performing her chart-topper heart attack, Lovato forgot her own lyrics.
07:35Luckily, the Sorry Not Sorry musician took it all in stride and was able to quickly get back on track.
07:49Playing it off by bearing a smile and laughing through the remainder of the performance, Lovato was the epitome of
07:55confidence.
08:02We also can't forget to credit her powerhouse vocals for helping to sweep the awkward moment under the rug.
08:16Adele
08:25Adele could literally set fire to the rain with her powerful vocals, but even this brilliant diva has been known
08:32to make a mistake every now and then.
08:34While doing a concert in Lisbon, the Academy Award winner began to sing the wrong part of her ballad million
08:40years ago.
08:57Adele
09:07Adele
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09:24Justin Bieber
09:25Perhaps Justin Bieber should have reviewed the lyrics to Despacito before his NYC gig in 2017.
09:39While taking the stage at the famed nightclub One Oak, the Canadian pop star belted out the hit song that
09:46he shares with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee.
09:49Unfortunately, things went off the rails as the Daisies artist drew a blank.
09:54Sometimes even the best entertainers forget the lyrics.
09:58Case in point, Bieber's recent attempt to sing the chorus of Despacito.
10:02He then just started rhyming words with Dorito, eventually resorting to singing blah blah blah.
10:08It was a cringy moment for both him and the crowd.
10:11Guess it is a little too late now to say sorry Biebs.
10:15Yeah, not exactly the same, but one thing's for sure, Bieber's Spanish skills totally won over Fonsi and Yankee.
10:22He did his thing, you know, he sang his verse in English, he sang the chorus in Spanish.
10:26Which one of these songs do you think you know by heart?
10:29Be sure to tell us in the comments.
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