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I happened to catch a portion of the SNL repeat that featured Kelly Clarkson as the musical guest. One of my pet peeves is seeing bands on shows miming to backing tapes. I mean, if you’re going to be on broadcast TV, you should be able to prove to America that you’ve got talent and play/sing live. “Dancing with the Stars” is an example of a show that frequently features musical guests lip syncing to pre-recorded tracks. SNL, on the other hand, does a pretty good job in making most of their musical guests perform live except for that train-wreck of an incident years ago with Ashley Simpson of course.

Now, Kelly Clarkson was solid as usual and the band indeed played live but I noticed something odd going on with one of Kelly’s backup singers. One of the girls had a guitar on but it appeared to me that she didn’t know the first thing about the guitar and it probably wasn’t plugged in anyway. I don’t know who’s idea it was but it was pretty distracting and took the focus off of Clarkson. The poor girl looked awkward with it on and her hand positions were a dead-giveaway. She had no business “playing” the guitar on stage. Come on, stuff like this is simply offensive to legit guitar players everywhere. If you’re going to be on stage with a guitar in hand, YOU BETTER know how to play. WTF?

The only plausible theory that I could come up with is that the SNL director demanded that a guitar be strapped on the chubby backup singer to hide her bulge. Why else would she have a guitar in her hands when she obviously doesn’t know how to play? It’s a cruel, cruel world in TV-Land for the *NOT-so-thin and beautiful*. …But then again if my theory were true, why didn’t Kelly have a guitar on her? hhhhmmmmm….

Check out the performance on Hulu -

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