The rapper stars in a viral video where he interrupts his “Sexy Shop” performance twice during a concert in Sicily. In a video released in recent hours, he apologizes and explains: “I never said I was Celine Dion, but in this case it wasn’t really my fault.”
Technical problems for Fedez during a concert in Sicily, in Terranova, on September 7. The singer was forced to interrupt his performance twice due to technical issues.
What happened during Fedez’s concert
The technical issue specifically occurred during the performance of his summer hit Sexy Shop, precisely at the start of the song, which begins with the refrain. Fedez had difficulty singing that part of the song and therefore stopped the track for the first time, implying to the audio technician that the issue was that he couldn’t hear himself in the headphones. The track then restarted for a second time, but the problem recurred, leading to a third attempt, which Fedez humorously introduced: “We just wanted to make you warm up your voice.”
The singer’s apologies
The song then restarted, not without a hint of vocal uncertainty from the rapper, probably due to a loss of voice, as well as a mere intonation issue. From the video, it appears to be an intonation problem, but it was Fedez who explained in some stories that the problem is related to a malfunction of the autotune mechanism:
Why Fedez is right about his autotune incident, we deserve a better audience
Very viral video, I sang badly “sexy shop” last night at a show. But I state that I never said I was Celine Dion, I didn’t sing it badly because I didn’t have autotune – probably I would have sung it badly even without autotune – but in this case, the autotune was set to a different harmonic scale than that of the song. So even if a tuned person had sung it, they would have missed it because the autotune takes you to different notes than those in the song. That said, I won’t hide that I’m a bit annoyed, especially about that song. We had three shows in one night, and for the last one, we arrived at 4 AM. “Sexy shop” was a disaster.