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Rascal Flatts Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons After Brutal Performance From Lead Singer Gary LeVox
Seems like Gary “The Voice” had a rough night.
Rascal Flatts is back out on the road with their Life Is A Highway Tour, which kicked off last year after the band announced in 2020 that they would be going their separate ways following a farewell tour that same year.
Well we all know what happened in 2020, and the farewell tour was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, meaning that for a while it appeared that we had already seen the last of Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus on stage together.
Back in 2024 though, Rascal Flatts announced that they were reuniting and would once again be hitting the road together in 2025, with Lauren Alaina and Chris Lane opening up for them.
The group recently brought their tour to Omaha, Nebraska for a show at CHI Health Center on January 24, and afterwards fans were left questioning what was going on with lead singer Gary LeVox.
Videos from the concert show the normally-powerhouse LeVox sounding…well, to put it bluntly – terrible.
@nebraskalex Crowd did most of the singing, very very pitchy, didn’t seem like they remembered all the words, too lots of breaks. Save your money it’s not the nostalgia you’re looking for. #chihealthcenter #rascalflatts #omaha #badconcert #rascalflattslifeisahighway ♬ original sound – LexMM
And it’s not just one or two people saying he didn’t sound great. There’s video after video on social media of LeVox singing off key, messing up lyrics, and seeming to struggle throughout the entire show:
@made.line00 Bought tickets because I love Rascal Flatts. Showed up ready to sing every song. Left with more questions than answers and a newfound appreciation for studio recordings. Some things should stay nostalgic. #omaha #rascalflatts #disappointed #offkey #bad ♬ original sound – Madeline
@bigcountry8598♬ original sound – Chris Miller
@bigcountry8598Rascal Flatts in Omaha♬ original sound – Chris Miller
Some people even said that in the moment they enjoyed the show, but when they listened back to their videos they realized just how bad it was…
@elainezorn Seeing Rascal Flatts live has to be one of my favorite concerts thus far. Nothing will change that even these videos . #rascalflatts #blessthebrokenroad #favoritesongs #concert #fyp ♬ Cycle Syncing Frequency – Still Haven
And I get it, everybody has an off night. Maybe he was sick or maybe he was just losing his voice. There have been plenty of videos from their other stops shared on social media, and none I’ve found make it seem like this is the norm for Gary and the rest of the band. But the comments were comparing it to a bad karaoke performance – or worse:
“He needs autotune this is really bad”
“Yeah that road sure is broken”
“Someone said I wanted rascal flatts but only got flat rascals”
“I want a refund and I wasn’t even there.”
“this is like watching my own videos the morning after tequila and karaoke”
“Well that was excruciating THATS WHAT HURTS THE MOST”
“Dang. I didn’t realize it was karaoke night”
“I fear this is what I sound like singing these songs in my car..”
“I was on the floor and thought the same thing! Disappointing”
“Veryyyy disappointing and overall bizarre experience”
“My husband and I went and we struggled to understand him most of the time!”
“There’s no way this is real”
“I never asked for a refund to a concert I didn’t attend before, but…”
“There’s so many sounds and so few words”
“I’m just gonna say this…. The Mic was on. It shouldn’t have been.”
At least you know they weren’t lip synching, which got the band in trouble before when they were caught performing to a recorded track at the ACM Awards back in 2014.
Rascal Flatts “performed” their then-current single “Rewind,” and fans immediately began to call them out for not singing live during the show:
Sick lip sync, can't fool me rascal flatts
— Mikayla Herfkens (@mikaylaherfkens) April 7, 2014
Did Rascal Flatts just lip sync? I think soooooo #TiskTisk
— Seth Stillwell (@SethStillwell) April 7, 2014
Thanks for the cheesy lip sync Rascal Flatts…… Fail! #ACMs
— Backwoods Life® (@BackwoodsLife) April 7, 2014
Even fellow country artist Granger Smith took a shot at the performance – without calling the band out by name:
There's no reason to lip sync in an awards show. That is all.
— Granger Smith (@GrangerSmith) April 7, 2014
Well the next day they decided to address the controversy, admitting that yes, they were lip-syncing, and blaming it on their lead singer Gary LeVox losing his voice prior to the performance:
“After having performed several shows earlier in the week, Gary lost his voice. So, instead of canceling our commitment to do the show, we made a last minute decision to lip-sync. We’ve never done it before, and we’re obviously not very good at it. We look forward to singing live again in the very near future!”
And during an interview with the AP, Jay DeMarcus defended the lip syncing:
“I think half the people on the road touring right now use a lot of tracks and use a lot of vocals on tracks, and I think the whole thing is about presentation. Is it great to sing live whenever you can? Absolutely. But sometimes given the conditions and what’s happened prior to a show it is physically impossible sometimes to do, so we were faced with the decision to either cancel, which they had nothing to fill the time slot for, or keep our spot on a widely watched national televised awards show.”
LeVox then went on to blame it on his “Vegas throat,” saying that the band had played several shows in Las Vegas and that his throat was just too dry. But the band then went on to mock the outrage by having DeMarcus voice an apology for LeVox, so I’m not sure whether they really cared all that much about the people who were upset about it.
Maybe he had Vegas throat in Omaha too.The post Rascal Flatts Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons After Brutal Performance From Lead Singer Gary LeVox first appeared on Whiskey Riff.
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