O-Town watch and comment their Liquid Dreams performance on Miss America 2000

[@Yabbadabbawhat100]

I honestly don't think that the earpieces cutting out was an accident. I truly believe that the producers of Making the Band wanted to create drama for an episode, and the Miss America Pageant was the perfect venue to make it happen. Someone in the sound booth drops out the backing tracks, they get chewed out for a bad performance, and then they strive to redeem themselves on their own show. It's a live event so it was embarrassing enough to become a plot, but it's not so huge an event that it would ruin them. I don't think the band knew about it, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was how it went down.

[@itsjemmabond]

Yabbadabbawhat100 Your theory makes sense.

[@_greaterpoint_3729]

Yabbadabbawhat100 but I think it did ruin them

[@csteplight1]

Agreed

[@danahc4851]

I sounds like it happened the way the backing track slowly faded out vs. just dropping.

[@jonthomas8569]

@@_greaterpoint_3729 you could be right. Of course by the time they arrived boy bands were starting to get old. And honestly, they weren't one of the top ones to begin with.

[@WHATTHEBUCKSHOW]

OH MY GOD!!

[@surmon11]

+WHATTHEBUCKSHOW I always find ur comments on the most random Videos I watch haha. Mostly about Gymnastics and figure skating!

[@candygirl6613]

Oh my God! We are in the company of greatness it's Michael Buckley!

[@Porsche12212]

i remember this! i felt so bad for them. when you can't hear the music in your ear, you feel like you have to almost scream when you're singing and you can never find the note :(

[@darlenebimbai2145]

Man, this was just painful to watch. Just ugh.. Eric made the whole thing worse with his shrieking. I agree with another commenter, I wouldn't be surprised if the show sabotaged them on purpose for drama and ratings.

[@larrynance9946]

He sounded to be the most out of tune with his solo parts and harmony parts. Trevor and Ashley in the starting in at least in their solo parts didn't appear to be really off. I don't get how they say Erik is the best singer in the group other than singing the highest parts in the songs a lot of the times. He has quite a few performances where his voice doesn't sound like the studio version. He does tend sing a lot of the highest notes in their songs though.

[@卩丨尺卂卂-d8u]

@@larrynance9946 he ruined this performance, he is the one completely offkey, is he tone deaf? the other guys were ok aside from the fact this group couldn't harmonize to save their lives

[@thea3229]

@@卩丨尺卂卂-d8u they couldn't hear themselves bruh its hard to sing on tune when you can't hear your own voice.

[@XelaTN]

Estoy segurísimo de eso, antes no se sabía cómo funcionaba eso, pero ahora es más que obvio que los utilizaron para el show pero nunca apostaron por ellos de verdad como músicos o cantantes

[@kobe51]

I loved it! Gave me the lulz all day👍

[@mariahdibben4066]

I just saw the other video of this full performance and I knew they sounded off but couldn't figure out why because their other performances were great. Glad it was just that their ear pieces stopped working and they couldn't hear themselves or the music. Sucks that their ear pieces stopped working though and hella suspish that it faded out instead of just stopping or glitching or something.

[@ksmurfer]

i'd say their biggest mistake in this situation, was overcompensation. First inclination should probably not be to over sing when you can't hear yourself.

[@mariahdibben4066]

Yeah but we instinctively sing or speak louder when we can't hear ourselves because we are trying to hear ourselves and we don't know how loud we're actuly being.

[@shanteaki2242]

😂😂😂 they should've just taken the earpiece out lol

[@Psalmsing12]

So to the people saying they should’ve known the notes, when you’re singing and can’t hear your own voice it’s IMPOSSIBLE to sing in tune. Think about deaf people, they can’t hear their own voice and words so when you hear a deaf person talks it sounds abnormal because they can’t hear their own pitch and tone..

[@shibbyhibby]

Jacob: We can record outstanding music… Narrator: They couldn’t.

[@larrynance9946]

Erik was the one that was really out of tune. It was quite noticeable in his solo parts and harmony parts. Jacob didn't really sound out of tune but he wasn't good either.

[@linegenrou]

@OTownHQ Actually,the guy on the vide was blaming them too,not only the "technical problem". They SHOULD have known the note that they were supposed to sing,it would a least made them sound decent enough. Another thing,you can't compare solo singing with a group of guys singing in harmony,that's why they have to know the note that they should sing.

[@EricNygma]

I don't get what they were supposed to do in that situation. It really was the sound guy's fault it went like that.

[@mariahdibben4066]

Exactly. It wasn't their fault at all.

[@VTMCompany]

I actually liked it with all the different keys for one song.

[@prisonmike4971]

It still always blows my mind that as singers, they fail to notice they aren't on key. Any time I slip out of key, I'm fully aware and mortified and start over

[@mariahdibben4066]

Yeah but you can hear yourself do that. They couldn't hear anything so they didn't know.

[@prisonmike4971]

@mariahdibben4066 yeah their in-ears were off for sure..I'm not being an ass..jjst saying a song you sing that much you know if you're a smodge off..none of them were that far off just enough to matter

[@mariahdibben4066]

@@prisonmike4971 Yeah if you can hear yourself. You really don't know if you're off if you can't hear yourself. They couldn't hear themselves or the music because their ear pieces stopped working so they didn't really know they were off or how off they were until it was played back for them.

[@SamuelJ888]

Also gotta do dance choereo too. It's more complex bri

[@prisonmike4971]

@@SamuelJ888I understand that, but this is on another level of slip ups. None of them are close to being on pitch with any of the others

[@dougconley]

You gotta be super duper good to perform without backing tracks if that what you're used to.

[@sylentknyte]

None of them were great but it sounds like Eric was largely at fault. It was so overpowering and out of tone. Is he tone deaf?

[@linegenrou]

to be honest the only one awful here was Eric. Dan sounds fine, Jacob was okay, but my god, Eric was just horrid

[@larrynance9946]

He was the one that was really out of tune. You could hear it in his harmony and and solo parts. His live voice often times doesn't sound like the studio version quite a few times. He seems to struggle.

[@TWOScottRage]

Eric was singing Harmonies so obviously he's gonna sound most off.. How can you harmonise with something you can't hear?

[@bryanpena7861]

Your reputation is on the line... then you better make sure there's no technical issues for the band my friend - they can sing, it's not their fault.

[@SamuelJ888]

What is the manager talking about? How is it the band member's fault at all? What could they have done?

[@kobe51]

Those handlers were just looking to throw them under the bus when there was nothing they could have done about it.

[@Like_Isaiah]

This was totally done on purpose. They all had the same story and experience. They werent going to do this the Backstreet Boys or NSYNC if the were doing a reality show. They were the bottom of the barrel boyband wise at that time in their league. Wow....Crazy that the producers would sabotage their musicianship for the sake of views and controversy.

[@kamneukhskhongsai1819]

Beautiful song...👌

[@tadikata]

they sound good tho 👌 it just technical. otown keep rock

[@otownweb]

@imperfecta89 Have you ever sing in front of a big loud crowd?? I have, and if you don't have good ear pices, you don't hear yourself at all. For that reason, all professional singers used them so they can be on key.

[@chezchez2005]

Funny how you say you never do lip-syncing ; then every other “live” video on KZbin you are lip-syncing !

[@Psalmsing12]

EXACTLY! People don’t understand that it’s bad enough to sing solo without being able to hear yourself but it makes it 100x harder when you’re trying to harmonize with not just 1 other person but 4 other people..

[@stanbalo]

Well Whitney does not use ear monitor

[@sp33dingbullet]

That was brutal...

[@king_burnok]

Hahaha dont worry otown , we still love you

[@HansCholo619]

THE CHOREOGRAPHY ALONE WAS EMBARRASSING let alone the singing.

[@chelleowen5777]

They should take out earpiece

[@KayYoung320]

When I saw the performance on others videos it didn't sound this bad. I could just be miss hearing it or maybe it was edited. But I know for sure that the two videos don't sound the same.

[@kittykatmt]

Kaila Young if you watch the whole performance, the show edited the worst chorus lines with the performance. The chorus we hear here is at the end of the performance...

[@angelsoto2104]

HOW THEY WERE OFF KEY BUT NOT OFF TEMPO ???

[@otownweb]

@NorthStar20121 Yes, all 3 seasons are posted.

[@maribel-89]

Shouldn't they know what note to be singing anyways?

[@_greaterpoint_3729]

BuffyGeek exactly

[@mariahdibben4066]

Yeah but you don't know if you're singing that note if you can't hear yourself.

[@ElAlacranDelNorte]

So im hearing them talk & Im saying to myself, it cant be that bad. But as soon as I heard the first few seconds, I couldn't play it. I felt soo bad for them... I skipped it. How awful must have that experience been like.

[@warrensmitchell]

Erik sounds like he’s pouting over a kid stealing his lunch at school

[@Grnggrl92]

Conservative Mormon Donny Osmond saying "Liquid Dreams". I cannot. ☠️☠️☠️

[@anthonynettleton4854]

What the fuck .. o town are allot better than this .. I feel sorry for them .. they were pretty big for a while in the UK too

[@Vixenbeach123]

Lol 😂

[@shawnellis4118]

The only embarrassing thing is that the didn't realize there listening to it thew a shity tv

[@blp5840]

Tyras the Beth best part

[@celiacentenaro6137]

Sono horrible jajajaja me mato el oido !!!!

[@HulkVahkiin]

Incredibly embarassing

[@raizen4271]

Damn when i was 15 in this time i watch this in the television my mind be like: is these guys are singers? 🤣

[@JediKnightmare]

☠️ The show was a fix…. ☠️

[@tamara_diamonds422]

And yet. They are still touring and singing together to this day. Aside from Ashley. Went to their concert I have so many pictures with them. I love how they just took over my phone. Good thing I didn’t have anything dirty on it cause Trevor went through it. lol. Wish I could post the pictures here

[@JediKnightmare]

@@tamara_diamonds422 👀 When….

[@robertchambers369]

LOL awful

[@ericeggenbergrr2439]

This whole interview was staged to try to cover up the fact they sucked. They were completely on beat and in time with the singing and lame dance steps. They had the slowdown at the end perfect and they were on pitch the last note. They were dreadful and tried to get people to believe their head sets went out. They went out overconfident without the talent to back it up. No one missed any entrance cues. The only problem was they actually suck as vocalists. Nice try to explain it away, but don't believe the lame made up excuses

[@leehollebon6041]

No one can sing without auto tune only ariana grande and justin bieber

[@mariahdibben4066]

Watch their other live performances. They can sing. Their ear pieces stopped working so they couldn't hear themselves or the music so they messed up the song accidentally.

[@SurahOnline]

Bieber uses autotune