Wages Of MTV
By Mitch Berg
After a couple of years of trolling Youtube, I realized something – it’s been close to thirty years since I’ve seen a Lip Sync show.
You know – the ones they had back in the sixties…
…and seventies…
…and very very very early eighties…
…where a band or singer would lip-sync along with a song or, in some rare cases, sing over the recorded instrumental track. After about age 12, it was hard not to notice that the guitars weren’t plugged in; there were no string sections visible; often as not, the lips weren’t synched.
Now, with vids everywhere, I don’t know if I’ve seen any of these lip sync shows; I don’t miss ’em much.
But I used to wonder; why did artists never ever ever spoof the conventions of the lip synch show? All those years, and I don’t recall it ever happening.
Until now:
Heh.
November 30th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
A good number of pop concerts are just live lip-synch shows.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Disco – True. And 20 years ago that was a scandal, which says something about “music” “performance” today.
And while I’m anything but a curmudgeon about musical style, let me just say that the emergence of AutoTune as an instrument in its own right, as opposed to a production tool, is a trend that I’d love to kill with fire.
November 30th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
And while I’m anything but a curmudgeon about musical style, let me just say that the emergence of AutoTune as an instrument in its own right, as opposed to a production tool, is a trend that I’d love to kill with fire.
Amen, brother.
December 2nd, 2010 at 9:34 am
“Walk Away Renee” one of my all time favorites. I hear it and I’m 17 again in that moment.
“Day After Day” and I’m just dating the first woman I loved as an adult. Music truly does have the power to transport us through time doesn’t it?
One of the very first “Favorites” I saved on YouTube with a brief picture of the real “Renee”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuwhZvXa6Y