http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXhEUPcLSCI
They're on a live show on which they're not allowed to play live, and the people in charge have said, "no, you have to lip sync." This is Muse's way of saying "screw you" to lip syncing on live TV. :D
Awesome. That took balls.
Hah, Vox just showed me this. Hilarious, and clever. Though I still don't get why they can't play live?
Cant risk them screwing up and making the show look bad.:/
So they make them lipsync, making the chance of screwing up go higher and the fallout worse? Eh, whatever.
Because most of the groups on there are teeny pop outfits who can't actually play the songs. Probably partially to prevent mistakes, too, or to keep the song sounding the same as on the CD (which is stupid if you ask me, but that's mainstream modern pop for you!).
Keeping in mind that the type of people who are usually on that stage are six vocalists, all of whom have synthesised voices, and very few of whom can probably play any instruments (depending on whether you count the tambourine), it wouldn't surprise me at all if they didn't actually have anything that could be used if anyone -wanted- to do an honest job, anyway. Just a huge CD player.
Ah. That actually sounds pretty plausible. Stupid, but chances are completely correct. Personally, if I was a band that COULD play live, I wouldn't ever want to be on a show like that...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8952317542412386687&q=Nirvana
Same kind of thing, except with instrumental backing track and jokey live vocals. Keep your eye out for the drummer, its hilarious.
Nice video. That website's video playing system is pretty horrible though.
I think its funny how the crowd still goes completely insane even though its blatently obvious its lipsync. Bet ashley simpson wish she preformed in front of this crowd. And i agree...video quality is horrible.
Iron Maiden wins at the lipsync
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81NGwXodo4&search=Wasted%20years
The thing I hate about crowds like those at the Nirvana knockoff is the CLAPPING. WHY MUST THEY CLAP?!?
"Hey, man, wanna see my sweet 4/4? I can really pound 1 and 3. Here, I'll clap to show you."
No!!