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at 07/05/2009 1:58 PM Visits: 47,481
The Millionaires not quite live @ Warped TourRe: the issue of lip syncing raised by Nathan Leone of Madina Lake's blog post about what happened when their cd skipped while performing...
"so yesterday I went to see a band called Millionaires. sheer curiosity. what i saw was shocking and awesome to say the least. remember i’m not judging anyone here, just telling a story lol. about 5 songs into their set the CD skipped. Think Ashley Simpson times 10. 3 girls fumbling around absolutely clueless as to what was happening. they seriously didn’t even know why the song they were “performing” suddenly skipped to the song they “played” before it. then it skipped again and again and they just huffed and puffed around the stage. of course none of their mics were even ON but i was at the side of the stage and one of them turned to the other and goes “ewww this is sooo anoyyying” like one of the bitchy girls on MTVs Sweet 16. hah it was amazing." Alexisonfire also writes about bands lip syncing on Warped Tour in their blog post titled "LIES" "The most surprising thing about this tour is the amount of bands that are faking it. Straight up lip-syncing nonsense! To begin with Millionaires don't sing at all, and the one dude from brokeNCYDE is up there just pretending" In this video of "I Like Money" from Warped Tour in San Francisco (NOT the performance Nathan was referring to with the cd skip) at 1:10 seconds it seems pretty clear they're "singing" (and possibly at times lip syncing) over recorded playback of their vocals, when Melissa forgets to keep the mike anywhere near her mouth during her part and you can hear the recorded track until she gets the mike up and her live voice covers it. Now, some other groups that dance during their performances have been known to use some degree of vocal playback... however, the mix of recorded vs live vocals is normally low. (See "Wikipedia: Backing Track") But playback to the point it replaces most of the live vocals is not much more than just lip syncing it completely (like Britney Spears, Milli Vanilli, and the infamous Ashlee Simpson incident) Elton John once said, "Anyone who lip-synchs in public onstage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot." I wouldn't go as far as to say THAT ... but I wonder what Warped Tour is turning into with bands who not only don't have bands on stage (both Jokencyde and The Millionaires performed to recorded instrument tracks, in contrast to Jeffree Star and 3OH!3 who came prepared to play with actual back up musicians)... but are dancing around to prerecorded vocals.
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And you know, I'm genuinely kind of insulted over the idea of Warped Tour having bands who lipsync on stage. I understand that alternative music has evolved over the years and that yes, different genres will end up included. But to have a group which apparently can't even perform live on this tour (and in fact, brags about their live performances...I'm sorry, you don't get to do that if you're not actually singing the whole time), it's sort of a slap in the face, ya know? Gabe Saporta nearly killed his voice last year on Warped, but he still stuck it out and sang every fucking day there and every fucking show Cobra played on the Sassyback Tour. So for these three "alternative" pop tartlets to have to fake it onstage is amazingly shitty to their fan(s).
I seriously do not get why everyone has their panties in a bunch over this band. I am not exactly a fan but I hardly think them to be the biggest travesty to happen in music. They aren't trying to produce some amazing, compelling piece of art. Not everyone can write Melon Collie & the Infinite Sadness. & to be honestly, why would you want to listen to that all the time? Every now & then I want to hear songs party songs about getting fucked up. I do not see the big deal. No one is complaining about Peaches singing Fuck The Pain Away, I just think the bashing of this band is completely ridiculous. I can understand it to some level, especially after it was announced they were going to be on warped, but come the fuck on.
Is anyone REALLY surprised about this?
That is all
At Warped Tour, however, people can't avoid them. My friends were trapped next to their stage waiting for an autograph/cd from Lights and were traumatized by the "screeching that was both mindnumbing and eardrum shredding". I have just as much pity as the crowd waiting at the Old School Punk stage who had to endure 30 minutes of listening to Jokencyde who was put on the stage 6 feet away, while they waited for the next band to play. (I have never been hit by so many flying objects in the photo pit before)
It's sort of like 2nd hand cigarette smoke. Everyone in the vicinity pays for it.
As an actor, I have been TRAINED to be able to sing and DANCE and the same time. For YEARS people have sang and danced at the same time. For YEARS, before the invention of voice amplification. In addition many MANY musicians dance as "hard" as they are and sing at the same time. It takes a very very simple thing to do that.
Talent,
They disgust me.
That and quite frankly you're giving them credit as real musicians which they just aren't.
Although I say the dance move where the double team the girl who most resembles a female out of the three of them.
Mad classy.
That is all
But I'm not suprised they lip sync~