When I saw that Eminem was the musical guest on tonight's Saturday Night Live, I wondered if he would perform his anti-Bush screed, "Mosh." Despite my suspicion it would be an Elvis Costello-style bait-and-switch, NBC apparently let him play his song in his first set. Rather than bleep out his "stomp Bush, f--- Bush" line, Mr. Mathers adjusted it to "punk Bush." The song is pretty moving, and although the performance wasn't as gripping as the brilliantly animated video, Eminem in a black hoodie on stage with Obie Trice behind turntables was still effective. At the end of the song, he eschewed a Sinead O'Connor moment, simply holding up a handwritten sign reading "vote." Yeah, you should vote if you haven't yet.
it might just be me (and not to bring up last week's thing, heaven knows!), but....i thought he was totally lip synching...and not only that, but reading his lyrics off of a telepromter on the floor....
Posted by: mel at October 30, 2004 11:44 PMno suprise, this sort of thing (pre-recorded vocals or entire tracks) has been going on for a long long time. from highly paid club djs to arena divas to live tv, anytime the stakes are high (expensive show, national broadcast, etc.,) and there is a chance for technical failure (always) there will be performers faking it.
this is exactly why i don't by joe simpson's explanation. its just considered good (safe) practice to have a pop singer fake it. hell, even indie kids are doing it now... just a few weeks ago, i watched a kid jump around while his ipod sang for him.
sure, some big ticket performers actually do perform, but only their front of house engineer knows for certain. nobody likes to talk about it, and i'm suprised the general public is still in the dark about it as much as they are.
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