NEW YORK — Rising pop superstar Chappell Roan has left her fans miffed after her recent appearance on Saturday Night Live. Serving as the musical guest for the long-running variety show, Roan, 26, performed her signature hit song, “Pink Pony Club.” However, midway through her performance, the singer shocked the audience when she yelled out “sing it!” and held the microphone towards the crowd in an apparent effort to pawn off the burden of belting out the chorus.

While the audience obliged and Roan eventually resumed singing on her own, the act drew criticism from her fans as “lazy,” with some calling into question the singer’s work ethic. Brian Jones, a 29-year-old tax accountant from Schenectady, was among SNL’s audience that evening and recounted his experience.

“It’s just a bit ridiculous honestly. These pop stars are paid millions of dollars to play dress-up and sing a little song and she can’t even be bothered to get through the tune without phoning a friend? I can’t believe my taxes pay for this laziness. The SNL actors would never stop mid-sketch and have me come up on stage to make moderately funny jokes. I would never ask one of my clients to commit their own tax fraud. And what kind of name is Chappell? Who is her opening act — Synagogue Roan?”

Jones’ apparent and ironic misunderstanding of tax allocation aside, his sentiment was echoed by fellow audience members, who felt “cheated” out of an authentic Chappell Roan concert.

“I paid good money to hear Chappell Roan sing, not some tone deaf hillbilly mom of four in the crowd blurting out words adjacent to the actual lyrics,” said Alan Jacques, a 35-year-old father of four who attended the show with his wife Darlene. “It’s not even just the singing. We went to one of her (Roan’s) shows a few months back and she made us physically spell out the chorus to that song “Hot to Go” with our arms. I don’t know if the teleprompter broke or what, but the very least you can do as an artist is remember your own lyrics and how to spell them. Same goes for the Village People wherever the hell they are.”

Roan is just the latest in a long line of musical artists who have chosen to delegate the chorus’ of their most well-known songs to amateur audience members. Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman and worst version of the Joker, Jared Leto, came under fire for a similar stunt at the 2011 Reading Festival, forcing the raucous crowd to sing large portions of his acclaimed song “The Kill,” while he shirtlessly clung to a security guard during a crowd surf.

Chappell Roan could not be reached for comment, while Leto responded by sending us a rat trap with a still alive rat in it and a bowl of condoms with holes poked in all of them. Weird guy.

Both performances mentioned in this article can be viewed below.

Chappell Roan:

Jared Leto: