|
| ||||||||||||
Beijing,Olympics,opening,ceremony,Yang Peiyi,Lin Miaoke Little girl deemed not cute enough to represent ChinaLittle girl deemed not cute enough to represent Chinatags:The voice the world heard coming from adorable Lin Miaoke in the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, was really that of another little girl, who was deemed not cute enough to sing in person.
Comments  who voted for this video iwastheturkey
- siftbot
x97 - kronosposeidon
- sepatown
- Ursapolar
who has this post bookmarked lertad
- ElessarJD
| Friends O' the Sift Top New Videos by Vote                 Subscribe Top 15 Sifters of All Time Top 15 Sifters of the Past Week 13. Seric
(139 votes) Newest Appreciated Comments           | |||||||||||
Stumble This
norway did something similar in their 94 olympics. not on this scale.. i'll see if i can find a clip.
"The Government says you are too chubby, and you have crooked teeth"
She overacts her singing.
By the way if you think that china doesn't have a home field judge advantage then look at the scoring in gymnastics.
Of course, their plan to use it as a showcase of the superiority of the master race kind of backfired when Jesse Owens (an african american) trounced them winning four gold medals... (edit: whoops, I checked wikipedia and while it is true that Jesse Owens "owned" at the olympics that year, the Germans did in fact get the most gold medals overall... sorry, guess they were the master race
Going back to China... really, in this day and age, I find it kind of disengenous. I know that the Olympics are supposed to be about bringing the world together, but it seems more like that we all just get together and "look the other way" in regards to the major problems. It is highly corporate, political, and ultimately doesn't seem to address anything important. Some people get together and play some games. Meanwhile all the millions (if not billions) of dollars that are poured into this event don't quite serve to make anyone's life that much better.
The fact that we have to drug test everyone is yet another sign of the fake-happy-face nature of the event.
yeah, can you tell I'm not a sports fan in general
Are there no more important issues to read about then someone lip syncing?
Don't blame Chinese officials, blame those that would judge a country blanketly and unilaterally based on the attarctive or perceived cuteness of a young singer. There's obviously no doubt this kind of thing happens all the time, just it's swept under the rug more often than not.
But add that up with the other oddities that have happend and it starts to not become playing to the crowd but being a deciver. The more and more odd things that happen make it seem more like PR than playing to the crowd.
Who cares. The IOC approved it, China approved it. You would have done the same thing if you were trying to promote your country wouldnt you?
Are there no more important issues to read about then someone lip syncing?
I care and no I wouldn't have. The actual little girl is very cute and was shamefully robbed of her opportunity to display her voice in front of the world. Sure there are more important things to read about, but I happened to come across this and my opinion on the matter is "Shame on them".
?
anyone got a link? because it might be one episode i actually agree with.
They were, in a sense, passing off a movie as a document of a real-world ceremony, and many people in many countries don't like the idea that an Olympic Games ceremony was essentially photoshopped a little.
Don't worry about the chubby little girl. Angelina Jolie just adopted her.
>> ^barraphernalia:
What surprises me, is that out 1.3 billion people, they couldn't find one girl who met both criteria.
The one chosen by the official bugs at me the way Jon Benet's parents do whenever I see a picture of her all painted up "5 going on 25". *shudders*
There be some yucky things going on in the politburo I think..
http://www.videosift.com/talk/The-Faketastic-Olympic-Opening-Ceremony-Broadcast
Returning to the topic, I read an article on this earlier in the week (which carried a little more substance to it) and apparently the story is that the girl you SAW was selected early to perform (she IS a singer, and a nice one), but during the last rehearsal a powerful politician decided her voice had to go. Thus the music director scrambled to find another good voice, which he did, but then the owner of that lovely voice was deemed not cute enough to represent China. Both kids and their families say they are okay with it (of course, they might have been instructed to say that), the singer that she's just happy her voice was used to represent China. I think that's a classy way to come off it, and whoever's handling PR for China seems to have done the best they could after the fact (ie not denial). I still don't agree with the decision, as I think both kids were adorable, and I feel confident that if the visible girl made it through auditioning and rehearsals, she was indeed a great singer anyway. It's unfortunate that this one dude with all the power decided otherwise, but hey, that's art.
And finally, to whoever posted that quip about slave labour being related, that's gotta top my personal list of dumbest correlations ever. And further, a country that is known to use slave labour might be a sad thing, but is it much better to be in one of the many countries that quietly but enthusiastically continue to fund said labour?
My overall point is this isn't a good deed by any means, but I suspect that the world is chomping at the bit to cry foul at China, given the one-sided press it gets. And as another poster commented, on the grand scale, who really cares about lip-synching? (Pavarotti lip-synched in the 07 Winters, I think... due to age and cold air?)
PS: Milli Vanilli was AWESOME. Blame it on the Rain was such an awesome song I'm not even upset about the whole lip-synching faking debacle.
And I say, "murderous totalitarian regime".
Yeah, same thing.
Oh, and I lost all respect for Pavarotti much earlier than when he even started lip-synching. Not much of a role model there.
britney spears was picked only for her looks + mimes in front of millions.
Why don't we report on how the Chinese athletes (cough*slaves*cough) are torn away from their families when they're 3 and forced to practice and compete and only get to see their families once a year?
Ironically they included many of the other kids who tried out for the national anthem. Yang Paiyi herself replaced a 10 year old that had originally won the competition, but was deemed too old to be adorable enough.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2563786/Beijing-Olympics-Ethnic-children-revealed-as-fakes-in-opening-ceremony.html
Adding video to channels (Asia, Lies, Music, News, Sports, Worldaffairs) - requested by kronosposeidon.