As expected, Kelly missed the beat on her very first line.
The music had already moved several beats ahead by the time she picked up the microphone.
And then, disaster struck.
Her voice was dry and raspy like she hadn't had a drop of water in days.
She was utterly offbeat, missing every cue.
She sang loudly, trying to make up for it by striking poses and batting her eyes at the audience.
I saw the crowd staring in shock, their mouths agape, unable to believe that this was Kelly singing.
The show's staff looked panicked as if they wanted to rush onto the stage and drag her off.
The band members were frowning deeply, struggling to match her timing but finding it impossible.
Kelly wasn't even listening to the accompaniment; she was just doing her own thing.
I checked my phone, and sure enough, within a minute of her taking the stage, the trending topics were flooded with her name.
Of course, none of them were good.
"Kelly's singing is terrible, an absolute disgrace."
"Kelly, this is just awful."
"Kelly's a singer? More like a disaster."
"Kelly's off-key."
"Kelly's true colors revealed in live broadcast."
The comments were unanimous, slamming her for embarrassing herself and questioning how a professional singer could be so completely out of tune.
After her five-minute song ended, the audience was utterly stunned.
Of course, the show's crew and even the director were shocked, too.
Who could have expected her to sing so terribly?
Well, except for me, I wasn't surprised at all.
She was nothing more than an empty shell, packaged by her team.
When she swaggered backstage, she immediately threw a tantrum.
"What's wrong with them? I sang my heart out on stage, so why didn't the audience applaud?
"They were so excited for those foreign singers, but when I was up there, they acted like they didn't even know who I was. Not a single reaction!"
I stayed silent while her manager was running around like a headless chicken.
Amid the flood of trending topics criticizing her terrible performance, there was one that stood out: "Kelly, the Voice of an Angel."
It was so obviously a pre-arranged post by her manager, but now it was too late to retract it.
It couldn't be more embarrassing.
The comments below it were even more brutal.
Netizen 1: [Kelly, go away! How dare you sing like that on a stage meant for real singers?]
Netizen 2: [Exactly, it's humiliating! Is there no one better left in our showbiz?]