Why do professional singers still need a click-track while performing? Doesn’t performing enough times makes you develop rhythm?

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Why do professional singers still need a click-track while performing? Doesn’t performing enough times makes you develop rhythm?

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If a singer can hear the band, and particularly the drummer, then they shouldn’t *need* a click track at all while performing live. I think that a certain level of perfection is expected from the performers in pop music, so the whole band plays to clicks on stage.

I once saw an AMA from a bassist who was in Avril Lavigne’s touring band. He said they played with a click track, and they were not allowed to improvise or alter the songs in any way. So it seems that the goal was to have the live performance sound as much like the studio track as possible.