eat your words

Image via Wikipediafor some weird reason, i had a sudden mental outrage against lip sync-ers. i used to be neutral on this issue, or rather apathetic. because let's face it, it's pretty pathetic and not really worthy of the effort wasted on processing an idea as daft as that in my head.

but today i just felt... angry. so i was watching the evening news, on the chinese channel, and they showed these bunch of celebrities (in the chinese community) at tian'anmen singing. apparently they were celebrating the "milestone" of 100 days before the official opening of the beijing olympics.

firstly i just thought it was stupid to waste money on such a publicity sham. it's not like the olympics has already started. no amount of positive publicity is going to change the public's perception of all their other daft ideas such as the "flame protectors" who were really plain clothes police exercising their non-existent jurisdiction in foreign countries. they might as well have sent some fighter jets over just to be "safe" right? in case some terrorists tried to steal the olympic torch to create some terrible weapon of mass destruction.

ok so these singers were obviously lip sync-ing. i mean they weren't even trying to make an effort to sync it. it was so obtrusively out of sync that i was flabbergasted. i mean if they were gonna spend that kind of money inviting all those people, they should at least give the people who turned up there to see it their money's worth right? why don't they have faith in their own vocal prowess? i'm not sure if i remember correctly, but the last time i checked, those people sang for a living?

imagin eddie vedder, robert plant, ian gillan, etc. lip sync-ing, it would almost gurantee to cause an instant riot. so can someone remind me why are these people lip sync-ing again?


+listening to: monkey business by bonnie raitt