Ellie Goulding blames alleged lip-syncing on “the sound guy” (huffingtonpost.com).
Who presumably does something or not with sound.
“Ellie Goulding’s alleged lip-syncing scandal is turning into one hell of a something. The incident happened Saturday at the Australian Football League pre-game show. There, Goulding was supposed to perform ‘Love Me Like You Do,’ but the song seems to play on without her. Fan outrage ensued. And, after that, it was Goulding’s turn.”
All four tweets of it, starting with taking it as a “rad compliment”, suggesting “she had no voice yesterday and a sleepless night because of meds”, “need for a long spell chill” and finally calling out the sound guy. Poor Elle. But as the article notes Ashlee Simpson blamed her infamous and far worse lip-sync incident on her drummer, and while Beyoncé just admitted to hers at the president’s inauguration she pulled fierce faces at the indignity of being questioned over it.
There’s certainly a school of thought and demographic out there that finds it’s just pop singers, usually female, that are responsible for murdering real music and such by miming but, truth is, serious musos fall foul too—Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Super Bowl anyone? The UK’s Top of the Pops for pretty much its entire duration? But given benefit of the doubt, it being usually the productions insistance rather than said musos for the potential of a disastrous sounding performance that could stop people buying the record, is it indicative of something far worse that said doubt benefit does not usually extend to pretty female singers?
Six of the most memorable moments in miming (theguardian.com, Feb. 2014).
“Miming. As the controversy surrounding the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Super Bowl appearance showed, it still bothers people when certain artists do it. Of course, for unabashed pop icons such as Madonna and Britney, it’s par for the course. Fakery is hardwired into our notions of what pop is; but actual bands comprised of sweaty men who write their own songs?”
It’s miming musical break time.
For sure, I think Shane was too pissed to even know or care if he was miming or not.
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