First Chinese singers fined for lip-synching

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Mon Apr 12, 8:50 am ET
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) – Two Chinese singers have become the first people in the country to fall foul of new rules banning lip-synching nearly two years after widespread criticism of miming at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony.
The two young female singers were spotted lip-synching during a concert in southwestern China's Chengdu city last year, the official Xinhua news agency said on its website (www.xinhuanet.com).
"No signals were received from their microphones while the show was on," it quoted an official with the local government's cultural affairs office as saying.
The two have been fined 50,000 yuan (4,757 pounds) each, Xinhua added.
China's feisty internet users frequently blame famous singers of short-selling their fans by lip-synching on stage.
But some have also wondered why these first fines were levelled against two almost unknown singers rather than more famous stars.
"Why do they choose to keep their eyes closed when it's a famous singer miming?" one commentator wrote on the website of the Beijing Daily.
Lip-synching, known as "fake singing" in Chinese, burst into the open during 2008's Beijing Olympics.
China's Olympic organisers were lambasted by Internet users and in the media after they admitted a nine-year-old girl lip-synched during the opening ceremony, in place of the real singer who was rejected because of her appearance.
The Culture Ministry then issued an edict formally banning lip-synching and threatened to revoke the performance licences of repeat offenders.
(Reporting by Huang Yan and Ben Blanchard)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100412/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_miming

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Could you imagine how the industry in America would change if industry standards where applied. Not just no lip-syncing, but standards to recordings.
A grading system to recordings so to say. How much processing has been used, how much alteration etc. There would still be a demand for highly processed recordings. People will always eat junk food, but could you imagine a purity standard or organic standard in the industry.
I would not pass, my work is highly processed to the point beyond junk food into the realm of chemical.
But wouldn't you like to know?
I favor bowed played strings and French horns. I would like to know the quality I get in the recordings.
Is is symphony or is is synth?
Just a thought.

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First Chinese singers fined for lip-synching

Mon Apr 12, 8:50 am ET
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) – Two Chinese singers have become the first people in the country to fall foul of new rules banning lip-synching nearly two years after widespread criticism of miming at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony.
The two young female singers were spotted lip-synching during a concert in southwestern China's Chengdu city last year, the official Xinhua news agency said on its website (www.xinhuanet.com).
"No signals were received from their microphones while the show was on," it quoted an official with the local government's cultural affairs office as saying.
The two have been fined 50,000 yuan (4,757 pounds) each, Xinhua added.
China's feisty internet users frequently blame famous singers of short-selling their fans by lip-synching on stage.
But some have also wondered why these first fines were levelled against two almost unknown singers rather than more famous stars.
"Why do they choose to keep their eyes closed when it's a famous singer miming?" one commentator wrote on the website of the Beijing Daily.
Lip-synching, known as "fake singing" in Chinese, burst into the open during 2008's Beijing Olympics.
China's Olympic organisers were lambasted by Internet users and in the media after they admitted a nine-year-old girl lip-synched during the opening ceremony, in place of the real singer who was rejected because of her appearance.
The Culture Ministry then issued an edict formally banning lip-synching and threatened to revoke the performance licences of repeat offenders.
(Reporting by Huang Yan and Ben Blanchard)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100412/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_miming

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