“It sounded like ****,” said Taggart told the magazine. “We were told my voice was going to be mixed well, but there was no reverb and it was way louder than the track for the broadcast.” He continued, “I was set up to fail. Nearly every other person lip-synced it, and we knew because we had them in our ears. So now I know why you lip-sync.” His/their ego is tooooooo high  source: http://www.idolator.com/7645906/the-chainsmokers-talk-2016-vma-performance-billboard-cover-story