Chinese Adviser Urges Lip Synching Ban

[davidinalameda]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=555015

Chinese government advisers meeting in Beijing this week have some weighty matters to discuss: blocking Taiwan's formal independence, alleviating dire poverty in the countryside. And lip synching.

Ma Bomin, an official with Shanghai's municipal radio, film and television administration, likens the practice of performers pretending to sing to selling fake goods. She wants to pass a law making it a crime for a performer to do so without first notifying audience members.

"Fake singing is no different from trading in fakes. It should be resolutely boycotted and shunned," Ma was quoted as saying in Saturday's Beijing News.


sounds like a plan--but we'll lose most of our "artists" though

what will we do without Ashlee Simpson??

[name not needed]

1. I LIKE THIS LAW

Can we get that here? The anti-poverty thing would be nice too.

[Stop_the_War]

2. Looks like Ashlee Simpson won't be visiting China anymore

:P

[aden_nak]

3. You could still see Ashlee Simpson. And tell her you wand fries with that.

[BlueHandDuo]

4. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...

...but I liked Karen Valentine's lip-synch performance in the 1964 Miss Teenage America pageant. Ed Sullivan liked it, too, enough to get her on his own show doing the same number.

As long as it's done honestly, there's nothing wrong with lip-synching.

[davidinalameda]

5. like drag queens

Karen Valentine was in the 1964 Miss Teenage America pagent?

I don't know what's scarier--that she was in it or that you know that she was in it