Ashlee Simpson's tour organizers should take note: China is set to pass legislation banning lip synching in public performances. The new legislation is being passed after the uproar created when the Chinese Olympic organizers pulled a little C+C Music Factory action, and touched the hearts of millions by putting a cute girl onstage to lip synch while a slightly less cute girl actually sang backstage. Apparently, that's not cool.
When the law takes effect, violators will be shamed via publicly released lists. Kind of like a list of people who write bad checks posted at a crappy restaurant. Brilliant! Singers who violate the new law twice in a year will have their performance licenses revoked.
Does this mean that China is building an army of super-talented vocalists who will one day flock overseas and take American Idol by storm? We can only hope.
Also on Lemondrop: Lip-synching may be outlawed in China, but at least they can still make awkward faces while they're dancing. Check out these hilarious shots of people caught mid-boogie.
Tragic Dancing Faces
He looks just like a guy we saw on "Intervention" one week.
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He just saved a bunch of money on his car insurance by switching to GEICO!
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And in that moment, she was no longer a middle-class housewife in small-town Ohio, but a Prima ballerina starring in "Swan Lake" before an audience of adoring fans.
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The seductive tug of the belt coupled with that glassy stare makes you wonder if this nightclub has a proper screening process.
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You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the Old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim, DDR extraordinaire.
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Proof that nirvana can be achieved, even in techno clubs.
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One picture is worth 1,000 Divinyls jokes.
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Captured at the exact moment the pee-pee dance went awry.
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No matter what you do, there's no hiding from those "Night at the Roxbury" creeps. They'll devour you whole.
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"Not now chief, I'm in the friggin' zone. Now go get me some Jagerbombs stat."
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Saturday 15 November
By Owen
Hmm...interesting, considering that the Chinese had a child lip-synch at the Olympics. They should be more concerned with the poisons that they export all over the world.
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Saturday 15 November
By Dude
Well, if China can pass a law against the Ashleys of the world, perhaps they can end all the music and video pirating too. HA hA hah ahahahahahahahaha yeah right!
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Saturday 15 November
By G.L.
They should ban it. Especially after that stupid ordeal at the Bejing Olympics where they chose that one little Chinese girl over the other one. That was so ignorant for them to say that one was picked over the other because "she wasn't pretty enough." They could have at least kept their reasons to themselves instead of risking hurting that little girl's feelings. Idiots.
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Saturday 15 November
By CHUCKIE
Wasn't this the same hypocritical China that had a "cuter" kid lip-synching a "not-so -cute" kid's song during their Olympic opening ceremony?
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Saturday 15 November
By luvhusband1
u people at aol are idiots - it wasn't C+C Music Factory that was caught lip syncing it was Millie Vanillie right picture wrong group.
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Monday 01 December
By Danny
Good call on the C + C Music Factory versus Millie Vanillie. You would think that the person who wrote the article would have checked the fact prior to publishing it.
Saturday 15 November
By Adam
Actually it's hypocritical that Americans criticize lip synching at performances overseas, considering how much of modern vocal music is both over processed and lip synched here. But hey, hate China at all costs right? Judgmental people are funny.
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Saturday 15 November
By Rhonda
I could care less about the lip-sync fiasco. If I was China, I'd be more embarrassed about their under age gymnasts. I saw many close ups of the girls involved and one didn't even have her 12 year molars.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Don
Outlawing lip synching is a good idea. That'll put a lot of these pop stars out of work which I think would be nice.
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