While singers are often criticized for lip-syncing when performing live on television, the opposite can happen.
The X Factor UK producers reportedly threatened to cut Miley Cyrus from the show unless she agreed to pre-record her performance of “Wrecking Ball.”
Miley Cyrus stuns in a gold crepe dress by Marc Jacobs during her live performance on The X Factor UK (Credit: The X Factor) (Credit: The X Factor)
However, the 20-year-old refused to pre-record and insisted on performing the song live. Unfortunately, her decision led to a performance that received largely negative reactions from fans and critics.
Miley Cyrus underwhelmed fans with a poor vocal performance (Credit: The X Factor)
Miley began her rendition of the hit single while seated atop a fake sand dune placed inside a large box.
Dressed in a gold crepe dress by Marc Jacobs and wearing Chanel jewelry, she climbed down from the dune while attempting to sing.
Miley Cyrus begins her performance atop a staged sand dune on The X Factor UK (Credit: The X Factor)
Fans compare Miley Cyrus’s singing to a goat during her live performance of Wrecking Ball (Credit: The X Factor)
One critic said Miley Cyrus looked like a female Nicolas Cage (Credit: The X Factor)
Miley Cyrus refused to pre-record Wrecking Ball but probably regrets it now (Credit: The X Factor)
Miley Cyrus wonders if anyone heard her singing as a yodeling goat (Credit: The X Factor)
Miley Cyrus performing her new single Wrecking Ball on The X Factor Results shown on ITV1 HD on November 17, 2013 (Credit: The X Factor)
The Nashville-born singer had been told to dress modestly for the family show, but reactions to her outfit were as mixed as those to her singing.
Viewers repeatedly compared her singing to the sound of a goat, with many describing it as “yodeling” and some even suggesting she sounded like a “female Nicholas Cage.”
Fans take to social media to criticize Miley Cyrus’s live performance on X Factor UK (Credit: Twitter)
What do you think of Miley’s performance? Did she sound like a goat? How about her Marc Jacobs dress? Here’s a photo that was taken backstage:
Miley Cyrus poses backstage at X Factor UK in London, England, on November 17, 2013 (Credit: The X Factor)