Fake Fireworks And Fake Singing - What's Next?

From China Digital Times


Lin Miaoke

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For $300,000,000 perhaps they could find a real cute singer.

Lin Miaoke, the sweet nine-year-old girl who sang “Paean to the Motherland” when the Chinese national flag entered the Bird’s Nest Stadium during the Olympics Opening Ceremony, is now the hottest child star in China. Her image was also on the front page of the New York Times and thousands of other print media reaching billions of readers around the globe.

But in a recent interview with Beijing People’s Broadcasting Station, Chen Qigang, the General Music Designer of the Opening Ceremony, revealed that the voice everyone heard singing at the Opening Ceremony was actually a pre-recording of another child, Yang Peiyi, a student of the Attached Primary School of Beijing University at Zhongguancun .

Chen Qigang: The first condition was that the director wants the image to be very cute. We selected about ten children… Then we had to choose one from those who had a good image who can sing well…   Finally we made the decision that the voice we would use was Yang Peiyi’s.

The reason was for the national interest. The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression. Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects. But in the aspect of voice, Yang Peiyi is flawless, in each member of our team’s view.

As far as Lin Miaoke is concerned, since we have two recordings - one from Lin Miaoke, another from Yang Peiyi - and their voices are not too different, so when Lin Miaoke was singing, she may not have realized that was not her own voice.





What's next, a "wardrobe malfunction?"

At least the Super Bowl uses real artists.  There hasn't been any lip sync there for quite a while.  Billing that little girl as the 'singer' without revealing the real artist is disingenuous at best.  Heck, she didn't even know she was being lip-synced.

You're kidding, right?  What did it say?  BTW, both the fireworks and lip-sync stories made the CBS evening news tonight.