In the last few weeks we've had a myriad of "famous" musicians "perform" in what was a "live" setting. First at the presidential inauguration and then at the Super Bowl. I use the quoted words loosely... very loosely.
You can read all about it here.
Very few of them actually perfomed anything. Very little of their appearances were live. And they should be ashamed of themselves. I am disgusted with this whole thing. And you know what I'm talking about.... this lip synching to a pre-recorded track. If it's going to be a live performance then let them play and sing. If you want to play a recording and have the person who made the recording stand (or sit) up on a stage and receive accolades for it, fine. But don't lie to me.
It comes as no surprise to me that American Dildo musical director, Rickey Minor, is responsible for insisting upon the artists lip synching all pre-game songs at the Super Bowl. This asshole has no concept of what music is anyway as evidenced by the total horseshit he sends across the airwaves.
What Minor has done is controlled America's collective minds into believing live music needs to be absolutely perfect. When just the opposite is true. A true classical virtuoso can play the same piece over and over flawlessly without fail. So with guys like Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman it shouldn't really matter. And a true virtuoso of the improvisational styles such as jazz, country, blues, and rock can allow the conditions at the moment to alter his/her performance to take the music where it has never gone before and may never go again. This makes for a unique listening experience for those present. A diva like Aretha Franklin may bitch about her own performace afterwards. But that 19 degrees had an affect on her voice and it was uniquely beautiful anyway.
Bruce Springsteen is nothing more than a political windbag anymore but at least he sang the vocal track live to the pre-recorded music track. Not that it was really good. Maybe he should have lip-synced his vocals after all? But I give him credit anyway. Although The E Street Band should hide their faces.
Idiots like Minor put more emphasis on sychronizing pyrotechnics with a song than having a talented and patriotic American sing America The Beautiful or the National Anthem from their hearts. Somewhere Milli Vanilli must be rolling over in their graves or wherever their lip-sych routine put them. Or maybe these American Dildos can't really sing to begin with.
And Etta James is right, Beyonce is a bitch. I'd love to see the day Etta gets ahold of her lip- synching ass! ...at last.
3 comments:
I agree. I am sick of it all.
Why even have them there?
Put them up on the jumbotron or something during a commercial because I dont want to see it anyway. The commercials are better. And Beyonce......all that doe-eyed crap....reminds me of Marilyn and Kennedy.
Michelle better watch her back.
On a different note: Did you guys watch Inside the NFL where the guys responsible for distributing the shirts to the winner of the superbowl were scrambling around like idiots during the end of the 4th quarter? It was totally hilarious.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long long time.
Dude ... A-freakin-men. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Howard stern was discussing tis subject this week and Fa Fa Fo Hi opined that the reason this is done at the Super Bowl and award shows is that every instruement is plugged ina nd tuned to perfection with mixing before a concert. It would be next to impossible to guarantee that level of professionaalism when you have limited time to setup for 1 song. I totally get that, but you would think a solution could be easily found for that issue. At minimum the singers should sing.
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