Ellie Goulding performs during the 2015 AFL Grand Final match between the Hawthorn Hawks and the West Coast Eagles at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Photo/Getty
English singer Ellie Goulding has defended her pre-game performance at the AFL grand final after she appeared to miss the cue to her backing track, claiming she gives 100 per cent onstage "even when people don't give much back".
The English singer's two-set show was slammed on social media after
she took more than half a minute to begin singing Love Me Like You Do - leaving some wondering if the singer was lip-synching.
But Goulding responded to the comments on Twitter after the event on Saturday night, claiming she did not lip-sync and blaming a technician for the hitch.
"Incidentally the sound guy who pressed playback twice and triggered both band tracks simultaneously is nowhere to be seen??"
An hour earlier she said she loved it when people think she lip-syncs, because it is "a rad compliment", and added that, given she wasn't on top form on Saturday, she was pleased with her performance.
