Gwen Stefani’s and husband Blake Shelton’s American Music Awards performances are driving viewers b-a-n-a-n-a-s — however not for the rationale it’s possible you’ll suppose.
The present, which aired on Monday, was billed as a stay celebration of music’s greatest names.
But followers have been fast to note that neither Stefani nor Shelton carried out their units stay, despite the fact that it appeared that option to viewers at residence. On the precise ceremony, prerecorded movies have been performed to an viewers who have been left watching an empty stage.
In one TikTok video posted on Tuesday, a visibly irritated person filmed her view: a display screen exhibiting Stefani performing a few of her best hits whereas the actual star was noticeably absent.
“She’s not here,” the person says, equal components baffled and betrayed.
A separate TikTok video captured Shelton’s efficiency, additionally delivered on Monday evening by way of display screen slightly than stage.
“When Blake Shelton is performing at the AMA awards, but there is no Blake Shelton in sight,” the voiceover mentioned. Different performers, like Benson Boone, Renee Rapp and Alex Warren, sang their songs Monday evening in entrance of the viewers.
Social media customers on the platform had a discipline day with the fake performances on the platform.
One person commented, “The whole show could have been an email.”
One other declared, “This award show was the worst ever. None of it made sense.”
Curiously, whereas his set was pretaped, Shelton was within the constructing — not less than lengthy sufficient to introduce his spouse, whom he says he has lots of “love” for.
On Tuesday, Shelton took to X, previously Twitter, to deal with the pretaped fiasco.
“Just now seeing these stories about Gwen and I pretaping our performances for the AMA’s. We came and performed when the show asked us to.. Really nothing else to say,” he wrote.
