RIHANNA DIAMONDS BACKING VOCALS PLUS

RIHANNA DIAMONDS BACKING VOCALS PLUS

On the plus side, they had fireworks and when the camera panned the audience, Mark Cuban seemed to like it. To hammer home the crossover element, his guest Ke$ha wore cowboy boots and daisy dukes, and she flanked herself with Western-themed backup dancers. Pitbull fit right in as the host of the American Music Awards, but his performance of his country-rap-dance hybrid вЂњTimberвЂќ seemed like a mixed metaphor come to life. Although it was sentimental, the song was slow and the ensembleвЂ™s general dearth of movement, combined with sparse lighting, added up to a pleasant-sounding nonstarter. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, вЂњSay SomethingвЂќДЄlthough Aguilera looked serene and sang beautifully while A Great Big World pianist Ian Axel writhed with emotion, their performance stopped the show in an unintended way: It was a snoozer. Rarely has a chorus seemed so prescient.ДЎ5. Naturally,В it turned out to be Lil Mama, who portrayed Lopes in VH1вЂ™s recent biopic CrazySexењњool and who replaced the late singer on a recent remix of вЂњWaterfalls.вЂќ Predictable guest aside, the performance wasnвЂ™t a total scrub, but it suffered from the groupвЂ™s vocals being mixed low and the trioвЂ™s overall low energy, other than the zealous 24-year-oldвЂ™s rap midway through. Leading up to the AMAs, TLC announced they would perform with a surprise guest in the place of Lisa вЂњLeft EyeвЂќ Lopes, who died in 2002. Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and TLC were among the performers who covered pop, rock, rap and country вЂ“В and even a few genre crossovers.В How did they all stack up? HereвЂ™s our take on each performance, from worst to best.ДЄMAs 2013вЂ™s biggest winners & losers: who really came out on top? Among the 16 performances on the American Music Awards last night, some were diamonds and some were pretty rough.

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