I don't want young artists thinking it's OK, because it's not.'Ĭhurch might be famously outspoken, but he wasn't the only artist to have his feathers ruffled by Brooks' performance. But at least you'll get what you get.' Closing his tirade, the 'Desperate Man' singer added, 'To me, lip-syncing is and always will be a red line. If I can't sing, I won't sing, or I'll sing badly. I can speak for myself - I'm not lip-syncing. I felt like he was speaking for the other nominees.
'F**k that! And I didn't like his excuse at all. 'So the winner of the biggest category of the night lip-synced in the biggest moment of the show?' Church fumed in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone.