Bleah, the lip-synching article is disturbing too. "Tell me, who can sing hanging on a harness upside-down?" The implication being that singing is just not as important as hanging on a harness upside-down, and that concerts should be appreciated more like circuses, because who cares about live music performance? I wonder how representative an opinion that is, though-- at least there are 3500 Britney fans willing to sign an anti-lip-synching petition. And I'm really skeptical that "the artifice [of music videos] almost vanishes for kids"; more likely is that they're very aware of the artifice, but they just take it for granted.
I'm a little puzzled by the discussion of sampled instruments (or back-up vocals) as if that's the same thing as lip-synching. No one's pretending that that pre-recorded music is actually being generated live, but lip-synching is fundamentally about deception.
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Date: 2004-02-02 04:20 pm (UTC)I'm a little puzzled by the discussion of sampled instruments (or back-up vocals) as if that's the same thing as lip-synching. No one's pretending that that pre-recorded music is actually being generated live, but lip-synching is fundamentally about deception.