Does Anyone Actually Give A Shit About Lip-Synching? The Daily Nooner (EST)!
Awesome Video Of The DaySome Band Called Squeeze Squeeze Theeze Pleeze Gets Busted Lip-Synching
Whenever I hear about these so-called lip-synching "scandals" it kind of makes me want to kick King Tut in the balls1. What difference does it make if Britney Spears or Ashlee Simpson are actually singing their songs in concert? They've got all that dancing and running around to worry about, and it's pretty much impossible for them to have the lung capacity to do both. Besides, after all of the processing and production that goes into making a studio album, you could probably make the argument that pop vocalists barely even sing their own songs on their RECORDS, let alone in concert. I know they make like trillions of dollars or whatever, but I still think the expectations we're setting for our pop stars are a little bit ridiculous.
When I personally go to a concert, yeah, sure, I expect the band to actually perform their songs with real instruments and vocals, but I don't go to very many Britney Spears concerts (only every once in a while). Britney fans don't give a shit about musicianship, do they?! Aren't they just there to see their favorite singer dancing with all the flashing lights behind her and stuff? When you're in an arena packed with 5,000 screaming 14-year-old girls, you're probably not going to be able to hear anything anyway, right? Why NOT lip-synch?
I guess I can think of one really good reason not to lip-synch: it's completely humiliating when you get busted doing it (and completely hilarious to everyone who isn't you). Particularly when it involves falling off of a stage in front of millions of people. Just ask the guy in this video. I don't know who Squeeze Squeeze Theeze Pleeze is, but that must have been pretty embarrassing. I hate to give credit to this douche, but the guy played it off about as well as anyone possibly could. By which I mean he didn't burst into tears and bludgeon himself to death with the microphone in front of a live television audience. I'm pretty sure that's the "normal" response in that situation.
1 This is my new favorite expression.
People pay alot of money to see a band perform. They're also paying money to HEAR it. I can buy a band's CD and listen to it whenever I want, bu. I don't need them to play the same damn thing at a concert for more money. Lip-synching is an atrocious offence to a person's audience and a profession to failure of talent, resulting in a less-spontaneous show that can often come off as too perfect, aka boring. I am completely against synching of any sort.
ReplyHey, that doesn't necessarily mean he was lip-syncing, he still had the microphone down there where he landed, he could have still been using it to sing. Btw, Ross, I very much like your new favourite expression. I have one myself. It is: CM, you're a boorish little fuck. Suck my dick, too.
ReplyI think your blog needs a new wordpress template.
ReplyI heard that 90 pop band S Club 7 recorded two versions of every song so that when they played "live" it sounded different than the album version.
ReplyAlanis's Q: "As long as it’s entertaining, who gives a rat’s ass?"
ReplyA: People with a genuine love of music.
People with a genuine love for music are not listening to Britney Spears.
Hey! I'm a screaming 14-year-old girl that thinks Brittany should just overdose already..
ReplyAnd Squeeze is awesome, by the way!
"And he wakes to find the fire's out and arrows in his ass"
- Cool for Cats = best album ever!
Hilton even*
ReplyI cant stand spears or Hitlon, i think the only reason why they are so talked about is either
Replya) theyre christian
b) they spread thier legs to every Dick's dick
c) they make money (with thier legal brand of prostitution)
I wouldnt give a rats ass about those two idiots, and it would please me greatly if they got hit by a bus, same with that Jamie Lynn ditz.
Why does almost every funny article/blog entry pulls along a bandwagon of douche comments from people who see themselves as superior to others? I'm looking at you, CM.
ReplyI couldn't care less about pop music, but as long as I don't have to hear it, why not let other people enjoy it?
Also, on a serious note here: lolzorz achieved on the video.
Some things are too funny to make up. The lead singer's name, for example:
ReplyAssalino.
Seriously.
I'm with CM on that one.
ReplySo does this mean that Miley Cyrus is off the hook? Cause I say 'no'....
ReplyCM, what can I say? I am deeply abashed. I appreciate now that only you and a handful of other humans on the planet are REAL fans of pop music. I have to admit, it was a shock to hear that I am not one of them. I mean, I really did think I enjoyed some of it (it's so CATCHY.) Wow, is my face red. But, live and learn, eh?
ReplyDon't worry, though, I'll tell the others and maybe they'll stop ruining popular music by enjoying it, too. I can't speak for the rest of them, but for myself, I can only say I am SO sorry. I guess I just wasn't thinking. "My bad", as the kids say.
As for all the other musical genres I enjoy, your opinion can suck my dick. I'll like what I like -you don't get a vote.
Alanis: "I don’t care about lip-synching when there’s a good singing/dancing/costume changing/look at the pretty lights show to be seen. If I were there to see them stand there and sing at me, that’d be different. But a show’s a show. As long as it’s entertaining, who gives a rat’s ass?"
ReplyThis is exactly what is so wrong with pop music today, and people like you have caused it. You're not a fan of music, you just like to look at shiny things. There are a lot of incredibly talented people out there who could put on a great show LIVE, but if they are not pretty and plastic, no one wants to hear from them. DIAF.
I remember when The Smiths went on BBC in the 80s to play 'This Charming Man' and Morrissey, in his ever loving doucheness, decided he wasn't even going to pretend to make it look real. He sang the song whilest swinging around a bunch of flowers like he did in the song's video.
ReplyBut really, what a fucking douche.
If you're appearing on television as a musical act, there's approximately a 95% chance you were not given the chance of not lipsyncing. Setting everything up for a live band performance takes a lot of time and work (=money) and they don't like to risk you fucking up or playing something their audience doesn't want to hear. It sucks, but that's how it is. Practically nobody anywhere performs live on television.
ReplyConan O'Brien's show is an exception, usually.
KidCthulhu, never head of wireless mikes?
Reply(But they weren't plugged in, were they? Saves the studio a lot of expense that way. :-)
I believe you're thinking of Weird Al's "Taco Grande."
ReplySadly, I didn't need to look that up.
Of course, you realize that when you're watching a music video, its got very little to do with a music performance.
ReplyThose are boring as hell sitting down in a studio and crafting a song in three to five second chunks. No excitement or interesting visuals at all.
What do you expect? That the band is doing this live? And that it will sound exactly the same every time? While they're supposed to be prancing around? Puh-leez.
I'm just waiting for some video producer and band to see the humor to putting the wrong music on a video. ("a la" Weird Al's "Rico Suave" but they could really send it up by having everything just slightly off kilter.)
Eh - you have a point, but if I'm going to pay over $50 for a Britney Spears ticket (or $500 for a Hannah Montana ticket) the very least she could do is sing her songs, even with all the dancing and flashing lights. I guess it's just frustrating to see the muscianship being taken out of being a musician. That's the biggest problem people have with lip-synching.
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