The International Edition of Kelly Rowland’s ‘Here I Am’ album was released in the UK this week so she wisely boosted her promotional campaign for the project by performing at BBC 1Xtra Live yesterday. However, despite delivering some exciting choreography with her dancers, the ‘X Factor UK)’ judge struggled to achieve the same results with her vocals.
Among the songs the Rowland attempted to sing were ‘Motivation’, ‘Dilemma’ and ‘Lay it on Me’. Watch her full set, which included special appearances by Luke James and Big Sean, below:
‘Like This’
‘Dilemma’/'I’m That Chick’
‘Work’/'When Love Taks Over’/'Commander’
‘All of the Night’/'Lay it on Me’
‘Motivation’
It was great to see that Rowland has improved her dance routines but her vocal performances were near horrific. Perhaps, she should start using the seamless backtrack tricks that Destiny’s Child cleverly employed during their shows – that Beyonce still utilises to this day – because listening to Rowland gasp for air is never an enjoyable experience.
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She really needs to work on that..Almost every time she performs she is out of breath. I know Matthew had DC doing some sort of training so they could sing while dancing so I don’t know why she doesn’t go back to that.
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Her vocals are alot better than when she first went solo. but she was so lost at the end of motivation she saved it though.
She can SLAY a stage with her confidence, dancing and presence, but she’s real shaky in her lower chest range. No power or stability.
She really needs to work on that.
Everyone seems to think Kelly is the second best singer in DC but Michelle and LeToya are on another level…
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I think she did well. She did some songs better than others but she definately was NOT horrible. Rihanna does much worst. Considering that she was actually putting on a show with live vocals and choreography she did good.
If this had been Rihanna you would have tarred and feathered her and demand she start picking bananas for a living.
My favourite parts were the entrance, DC mashup, Dilemma (mostly the crowd singing) and her dancing just before Lay it on me. She is definitely commanding the stage now but she should be ashamed of her lack of creativity and lazy vocals. I guess she put more focus on becoming a stronger performer instead of working harder on strengthening her vocal ability, breathing and control. Should she do that she could really be incredible but will people still be interested.
IMO, it wasn’t as bad as Trent makes it out to be. I think the only major flub was motivation and secretly, those dancers were so hot, I forgot about Kelly’s non singing.
Trent , I don’t what video you were watching, but Kelly
sung and dance her butt off. Gardner, noone is saying
that Kelly is the second best singer DC. We all know
that Latoya can sing better than Kelly, and Michelle
can act , sing and dance. But I think people are
just glad to see Kelly stepping out of the shadow
of Beyonce.
shadow of Beyonce.
She wasn’t that bad vocally…. well… she wasn’t good- I know she can really SINGG but she needs to work on her live vocals she did some of the songs really well and other just feel flat i.e. Motivation
But tbf she put ona really good show and her dancing was good. So all round it was entertaining but vocally quite dissapointing.
I liked it but motivation shoulda just been lipped…lol
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some parts were painful to watch!!
I love Kelly but she gotta work on her vocals…
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those performances left alot to be desired! I mean why bother if your gonna give some half way there dance moves and pant all over the song. I dont understand why she doesn’t go hard every single performance like she did in her DC days. Her dancers are too much btw!