Milli Vanilli Scandal Resurfaces as Cardi B Faces Backlash for Mic Throwing Incident: Are Standards for Musicians Lower Than Ever?
3 min readCardi B is facing backlash on social media over mic-throwing and lip-syncing incidents that took place recently even making many compare it with the Milli Vanilli scandal. In recent times, audience-throwing things at music artists on stage has become common. But Cardi B threw her mic on one of the concertgoer as the latter threw something at her on stage.
Read ahead to know more about Cardi B facing backlash over lip-syncing and mic-throwing incident.
Cardi B throws the mic at a concertgoer
There have been concerts of music artists going all over the world with huge crowds attending them. However, some shocking incidents take place at such concerts too. Yes, we are talking about concertgoers throwing things at music artists.
Cardi B throws mic at DJ after he got her upset 😵💫 pic.twitter.com/WMayjLqteB
— 212 (@212mediaTV) July 31, 2023
Recently, while Cardi B was performing her song Bodak Yellow at her concert. A concertgoer threw a drink at Cardi. But Cardi B didn’t let the concertgoer get taken away so easily. As she also threw her mic from the stage at the concertgoer who threw drinks at her.
Cardi B slammed for throwing mic at concertgoer and lip syncing
Cardi B after throwing the mic at the concertgoer has been getting criticized on social media lately. But that’s not all as many of the netizens slammed her for lip-syncing at the concert too. Some of the fans were unhappy at how Cardi B threw her mic at the concertgoer.
I call this….
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Cardi B as:
Milli Vanilli pic.twitter.com/PTz5wLeL9X
While some showed their disappointment over lip-syncing at her concert. A fan wrote, “Song didn’t stop bc whoever she threw mic at kept singing. Seriously tho, they don’t even try”. Not just that, some compared the incident with Milli Vanilli scandal too.
Correct! Milli Vanilli was a clear example!! Got caught lipsynching, and boom! Career was over… 😁
— Simeon Law (@law_simeon) July 31, 2023
Cardi B lip syncing and mic-throwing incident compared with Milli Vanilli scandal
Some of the unhappy netizens even compared the Cardi B lip-syncing and mic-throwing incident with the Milli Vanilli scandal. Well, for all those who don’t know about the Milli Vanilli scandal. In the duo Milli Vanilli, Fab Morvan, and Rob Pilatus were once caught on stage lip-syncing during live performances.
The duo had to even return their Grammy award back in 1990 because they hadn’t sung the song for which they won the award. Thus, disappointed fans of Cardi B slammed her on social media making her comparison with Milli Vanilli scandal.
@tmz stop tf playing wit her ! Milli Vanilli was using other singers voices to get by that was her own mf voice on the backtrack and she still had her mic on , since when we’re rapper’s required not to have backtracks and only be live vocals ? She’s not a singer who’s paying yall https://t.co/NtuVQ6bQB1
— Jatirahh (@Jatirahhbackup) July 31, 2023