So the cute little Chinese girl who sang at the opening ceremony and “won the hearts of the world,” to quote one tabloid, was not all she seemed to be . The beautiful voice belonged to Yang Pei Yi, a cute child in the way of those round faced Chinese dolls little girls used to play with. As well as looking too Chinese Yang is also getting her second teeth. Not photogenic enough for western audiences, the authorities decided. They used Yang’s recording but parachuted in a substitute for the live appearance. Lin Mi Oke, a child with fine bone structure and the wide cheekbones and narrow jaw typical of Eurasians in the South West of China was sure to appeal to westerners, particularly those mothers who push their daughters into junior beauty pageants and the paedos who lust after the prematurely slutty contestants.
What we saw while watching the opening ceremony was no lovely little Li singing live but Li Lip-syncing to a recording of the more tuneful Yang.
Cue outrage! And the sport has hadly got started.
“The Phoney Games” blustered one paper as, on the back of the singing scandal it emerged that some of the fireworks in the spectacular pyrotechnics display were actually not fireworks but computer generated effects. Even worse, we learned next that volunteers were being bussed in to fill empty seats at the venues for certain niche sport events such as synchronised diving, small bore shooting and sticking baguettes up your nose.
But are the Beijing games any more phoney than any modern entertainment event. When all is said and most is done they are supposed to be about sport not singing and ceremonies Soon the crowds will rapturously applaud the pharmaceutically enhanced efforts of runners, jumpers and throwers; singing superstars lip sync at live gigs and there was no fuss about news of people being bussed into Berlin to swell the crowd for Barak Obama’s speech and reinforce the impression that he is a viable candidate.
All that aside, we are happy to see “best live performer of the year” awards going to performers who have never sung live in their lives. So if it’s good enough for Madonna, why not for the Olympic games?
As Tony Blair once said, “presentation is everything.”
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That little girl did fantastically 'singing' in front of all those people and the singers voice was beautiful. Who cares whether it was lip synced.