{"id":15669,"date":"2010-11-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15669"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:28:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:28:35","slug":"wages-of-mtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15669","title":{"rendered":"Wages Of MTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of years of trolling Youtube, I realized something &#8211; it&#8217;s been close to thirty years since I&#8217;ve seen a Lip Sync show.<\/p>\n<p>You know &#8211; the ones they had back in the sixties&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6uqBTzfcIk4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6uqBTzfcIk4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and seventies&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/um4pnvJr07A?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/um4pnvJr07A?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and very very very early eighties&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SxjEKu2TmUA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SxjEKu2TmUA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;where a band or singer would lip-sync along with a song or, in some rare cases, sing over the recorded instrumental track. \u00a0After about age 12, it was hard not to notice that the guitars weren&#8217;t plugged in; there were no string sections visible; often as not, the lips weren&#8217;t synched.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with vids everywhere, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve seen any of these lip sync shows; I don&#8217;t miss &#8217;em much.<\/p>\n<p>But I used to wonder; why did artists never ever ever spoof the conventions of the lip synch show? \u00a0All those years, and I don&#8217;t recall it ever happening.<\/p>\n<p>Until now:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g6yTRq_rJg4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g6yTRq_rJg4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of years of trolling Youtube, I realized something &#8211; it&#8217;s been close to thirty years since I&#8217;ve seen a Lip Sync show. 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