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The Beijing Olympic was just horrible. The poor child. She would grow up not trusting anyone or have any confidence with her appearance. But it was done even more frequently in adult shows. I've seen where they replaced musical instrument players (studio recorded) with more attractive people on stage who clearly didn't fake it real enough. It sounded too good to be live.

I really agree with what you said about Britney. i've never seen her fans deny the fact that she lipsyncs and I've never seen them complain about it either

I extremely feel so sorry for that little girl tbh. How horrible humanity is…

I just assumed that every single Macy's Thanksgiving Parade performance was lip-synced. I didn't know there was any controversy behind it. 😂

Mariah was high at that concert it was in Jamaica , she did ad lib for the rest of the concert and sounded epic she rearranged all the songs and killed it in the end in the best way. Ended up being the best she’d sounded in years

'' stop singing my part now baby'' IS ICONIIIC😂

I like how John Legend clarified that on behalf of the artists. It's a fair thing to do. Probably because his live performance is incredible, he has nothing to hide. Went to a show of his and the voice, the energy, the showmanship were just top tier The Beijing Olympics one was super hard to watch 😿 but Dua Lipa looking for her mic tho 🤣🤣

I read or watched something a few years ago that said all major televised live performances like the Macy’s Thanksgiving performances and Super Bowl Halftime performances have the vocals pre-recorded and lip-synced or doubled live. If I remember correctly it’s to ensure the televised version has a clear vocal sound and you don’t just hear wind and/or the crowd noises. It also is an insurance thing to ensure the live telecast can be censored if necessary. If you ever notice, no Macy’s performance is ever out of tune. Super Bowl always has a backing track and it can be turned up/down to allow artists to still do live adlibs, but it’s still mostly prerecorded. I don’t mean tv shows. Also this was years ago and I don’t know if anything’s changed as technology has improved.

There needs to be something like Ashlee Simpson's Law where any artist being busted obviously lip syncing has to dance an awkward little jig.

6:55 I feel for the little girl who got replaced. Also, I'm curious - why do artists use lip-sync in televised performances (assuming they're not sick and perfectly capable of singing)? I remember seeing one of my favorite bands' performance on YT and wondering why they thought it's a great idea for drums/guitar to be played live while keys and vocals clearly aren't 😅

You can understand the fail-safe backing track, as long as you can still hear live vocals then I don't mind too much.

The story of Milli Vanilli is really tragic. Their five minutes of fame hurt them really, one of the two died due to drugabuse. Right now there´s a German film about them in the cinemas (Probably only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, because I´m not sure if it is translated). The producer of Milli Vanilli Frank Farian also just died recently (in 2024) Otherwise I think most big artist nowadays use at least a back-up vocal, but the fails are always funny. Greetings from Germany

I recall watching a performance of someone when I was younger with my parents, and I noticed the motion of the singer's lips was off, so asked my father about it and he answered "Imagine trying to sound perfect, while moving around like they are. It's just not possible, so they pretend to sing along with a recorded version of their voice." It just made so much sense to me that I never questioned it ever again. So it's always amusing to me when people get up in arms over artists lip syncing to their own work. It's when someone else sings for them that I tend to agree that it's wrong. So what if the original singer doesn't LOOK amazing. We're there to LISTEN to them!

I love it when Roomie gives his expert musical insights. The general audience can be a bit harsh towards talented artists when stuff like this happens. I think it would be interesting to listen to some lesser known songs by actors/famous people who aren't known for singing. Might also help with demonetization for at least one video?

Kelly Clarkson sang live at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was one of the coldest years for it and she was 100% live with her full band.

6:55 that's so sad 😢

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After binge watching all week, I finally subscribed. You rock and your content is both knowledgeable and funny. Really rare to find both those in one channel.

Made my day when I saw you posted ❤ Also loved seeing you in the Daniel Thrasher video

Especially with the televised performances, there's another factor I think that needs to be considered. Even if it were not lipsynced there can always be a lag between sound and picture. Sometimes, they will also take a corrected audio for the televised version that differs from the original onstage audio. But yeah, there's a lot of lipsync involved as well

It's crazy... But singing is so physically demanding also and they are humans. Loved this video Joel❤

The Ellie Goulding one was at Australia’s AFL (Australian Football League) grand final. Equivalent to the US Super Bowl. Definitely, not one of the best performances we’ve had at our grand finals.

I really hate when people say "singers that lip sync don't have any talent." it displays a profound lack of understanding of the entertainment business. When big money is on the line and a bad note can quickly turn into a disaster, the singer may not even have a choice but to lip sync if they want to Perform. Every artist has done it, even rock artist, and basically every artist uses tuning on their vocals, including rock and country artists. There's no reason not to, and it's not even a matter of not being able to sing, it's a matter of what makes the most sense financially and time wise. Getting perfect takes is a lengthy process, and most labels would just rather auto tune the vocals than have the singer run up the recording budget doing take after take.

Thanks for posting often now! It just makes my day!

I remember when they kept trying to "cancel" performers caught lip-synching and I was like, "Wut? Everybody does it, are people that stupid?" The question answers itself.

There's actually a really tragic story that happened after the Milli Vanilli incident, one of them, the guy in the interview clip, actually tried to have a ligit music career, which didn't go anywhere, however the other member suffered from severe depression and harassment that he actually took his own life years after because of it

For Dua Lipa she has other vocalists (background singers) who sing on some parts of her songs so when they saw that she lost her microphone then they probably kept on singing and thats who we hear so she really is singing in her shows

Your reactions are so satisfying you make so much sense, always reasonable, there’s nothing i love more than that you really know your sht

Happy that you're uploading regularly again Roomie, you never fail to brighten my day! :D

Loving your frequent uploads

“Oh no is this the Super Bowl” No Joel, it’s the AFL Grand Final

Glad to see you're back so frequently!

The Dua Lipa one was nice how she plays it off and she's just like, "Hmm, oh well."🤷🏽‍♀ and vibes. Mariah singing to the backup singers to stop singing her part. Lol🤣

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I love the lip sync fail videos, i need more of these

What is saddening is to pit two pre teen kids against each other and pushing beauty standards on them at that age. What the hell?

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It's so good to see Roomie this frequently

sometimes lipsync is inevitable, tv shows prefer to use it to save all the effort about eq, sound test and all that goes with a live show. Singing while dancing requires lot of breath control and technique so i understand the help of backing tracks. Still this make me wonder how good is a singer if i can't hear it live. So better less dancing and more singing . If you see the video of Queen Floor Jansen with Nightwish you'll see how much "static" she is to deliver freaking awesome vocals performances (not the cover videos , that ones are obviously pre-recorded, but i'm still blown away at her ability to sing after her heads windmills).

I usually go to this one bar owned by a friend's uncle. And they host concerts with all kinds of bands. The last one I caught was just two guys laying lutes and other folkie instruments. I could swear it was playback. I told my friend, he jokingly called his uncle, told him I thought it was playback, and his uncle mocked me for it. Couple of songs later, one of the dudes just backs of from the mic, and you could still hear the voices

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I didn't know I needed an "exposing singers" video today but I did😂

Finally roomies back to uploading frequently ❤

I don't think people understand what lip syncing is, from some of these clips. Because as you correctly pointed out, in some of these clips they ARE actually singing. There's a difference between lip syncing and just singing with a track in the background. If sound is coming out of your mouth, it is not lip syncing. Like in Dua's, you can actually HEAR a difference between before and after she drops her mic - her vocals are much quieter after she loses her mic, so clearly she was singing in some capacity. Which makes sense - if she was unapologetically lip syncing, she wouldn't be looking so hard for her mic. She'd just throw her hands up and keep going. But she stops for quite a while to try and find the mic, and then stops singing and just dances when she can't find it. That doesn't look like someone who was just lip syncing. That looks like someone who actually really needed the mic, because she was using it. Also I feel so bad for the little girl from the Olympics. I feel like a lot of the focus was on her when honestly, nothing about that was her fault. The organisers and her parents basically threw her to the wolves. She was a child, doing as she was told, in a nation that is NOT known for the freedom of its people. She did not deserve the crap she got from Western media.

Nothing beats Ashlee Simpson though 😂 the OG lip syncer

I feel bad for the singers mostly. Tech is so important to them during performances.

The way Milli Vanilli were treated following that ' revelation' was absolutely disgusting.Even as a teenager, I remember thinking at the time, " why the hell are they acting like they k*lled someone"?? They destroyed thise mens lives, and the kicker is, they actually could sing, and wanted to, but their music company wanted their image and different vocals. I definitely recommend watching the documentary that was made about them (unfortunately following the death of one of them), hearing how they were treated is pretty shocking. 😢

“Omg is this the Super Bowl?” *camera pans over a soccer field* 😂😂

One of the greatest examples for this is how Muse handled it on an Italian TV show, they needed to playback so changed instruments for the “live” performance 😂🤣you can easily find it on YT, hi-la-rious!

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Omg my favorite type of roomie videos

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Every TV show is going to be pre-recorded, they can't afford to have an artist screw up, or worse to drop an 'f' bomb. It would cost them a fortune in fines. In 2012, M.I.A. was issued a $1.5 million fine after she flipped off a camera during her brief appearance on stage at the February 5 show in 2012, NFL wanted $16 million, and that was just a finger, lol

nice to see reactions that actually know music. awesome vid bro

That is not true that Macy's Thanksgiving Parade vocals are all pre-recorded. Bebe Neuwirth has addressed this and her 1994 appearance in the parade was 100% live. She never missed a note or a step.

The Cheryl one gets me every time!

is that Super Bowl? THATS AFL

I'm surprised that IVE's cover of Strawberry moon by IU wasn't on here. It was the worst lip syncing ever

Dua wasn't using a backing track at all. The entire performance was live, and what you continue to hear after the (equally audible) mic drop are her background singers who also were doing a damn good job all throughout.

Pretty cool part for the song to start skipping on...'girl you know it's , girl you know it,s, girl you know...' lololol!!!

Great content as always.

The dua lipa one was actually a time she dropped her mic in the crowd and someone kept singing

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In the first few seconds Joel reminded me of one of those game show hosts, especially with the music in the background... XD

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Joel, are you planning to do more Eurovision reaction videos?

I think it should be expected if the singer is doing a lot of moving around, dancing or anything beyond singing, they're probably at the very least using a backing track if not outright lip syncing.

The Dua Lupa Clip, her Backgroundsingers keept sining.

It's bizarre to see it when it's someone who is a good singer. Just some background: sometimes, TV shows don't design their studios or sets with good acoustics in mind, and live music just happens toend up sounding bad on set, so instead of spending money on a redesign to fix it, they insist artists lip sync to a backing track. Pretty ridiculous.

0:40 Unfortunately, this has now become the norm in Kpop, and as a fan it really disapponts me. Very few artists now sing live at all and most when they do have the pre-recorded vocals at such a loud volume that it stops being a real live performance.

Lol I was watching a thing about Top of the Pops. You had people like Morrisey on The Smiths holding his microphone in the air and still lip syncing and having a blast with it.

With the word that Jon Bob Jovi having lost his voice. That is sad, was he using Lip syncing before the truth has to told? I ask as I saw a commercial he recently did for his new business, wine. He didn't talk at all. The last UKposts video concert he did a few years ago, he sounded really weak.

3:21 Aww don't knock Dua, She has backup singers in the band, that's who you hear singing.

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Professional live/mixing/mastering sound engineer here. Yes, we do that haha! Under instruction of the artists management tho. They tell us how much or little of the singer should be in the mix when using backing tracks live. Also, on the mixing end, I often deliver "performance" masters which will have the full backup vocals and the lead vocal pulled down about half the normal volume or better.

at 4:00 is the Australian Football League grand final, which is the Australian superbowl with our own sport 'Aussie Rules' football (not Gridiron / American football). Almost every year we get abismal acts that are either extremely boring or sound bad. I don't remember this year in particular shown in the video with Ellie Goulding but it would not have been recieved well by the game viewers (We are tough critics). A couple of years ago we had Robbie Williams who was absolutely fantastic and extremely popular as an artist in Australia. Last year we had KISS who although were definitely also Lip Syncing, still put on a fantastic and entertaining enough show that it didn't matter anyway. We didn't expect a bunch of 70 year old washed up rock stars to sound perfect so we can let the Lip Syncing slide! If you want to see an absolutely horrid live performance, watch Meat Loaf's performance at the AFL grand final. I remember watching it live - an absolute train wreck. He became the punch line to many jokes here in Australia after that catastrophe!

the milli vanilli one sounded cool on the first two times of the repeat, like just as "girl you know it's- girl you know it's- girl you know it's trueee"

Hey Joel 👋🏻 nothing to do with the video here, but I thought you could do a video where you react to more modern rock? Like The Pretty Reckless, Nothing But Thieves, Palaye Royale, The Warning, etc. But thank you for all the great new vids lately 😋❤️

For Fall Out Boy’s MTV performance of we didn’t start the fire, they had Patrick’s pre-recorded backing vocals instead of Joe doing backing. So I think it could also depend on the event. Like GMA or MTV wanting it to sound perfect instead of real

10:52 Hey actually if you slow it down you'll see that when she says "Exactly", the host pulls the mic away before she finishes her answer, but her voice doesn't change and we hear the ending of the word "-ctly" crystal clear. So she was actually speaking through her mic, not the host's.

I love Tom Holland's "Umbrella" in Lip Sync Battle it's so good!!

If im paying hundreds of dollars to watch a live performance and its purely lipsynched id be pissed

for dua lipa it was the backup singers that were singing

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9:36 Regular UKpostsrs:does intro at beginning of video Joel: Does intro in middle of video

Joel doing the intro at a random time in the video never gets old

The outdoor parades in the winter I will always excuse because of the weather.

Mariah even with this "isolated thing" sounds really good.

As someone who went to a different show in that concert, Dua sings live.

7:08 There's a Blues Traveler song that covers this issue as well, and that's from back in the 90s when MTV was still... well, MTV!

Fun video 😆 I can't understand how someone would agree to do what Milli Vanilli did, even for money 🤪 I feel so bad for that little girl who was told that she ain't cute enough...

Artists that can sing but that are forced to lip sync is stupid like a good example of this is Nirvanas performance on Top of the pops they were forced to play "Acousticly" and they butchered that on purpose so why have someone lip sync when the true talent is meant to be let out its stupid tbh

" This sounds really...produced " got me 😆😆😆

roomies hair has gone full circle, from fringe to whatever and beard back to quiff to the side

Good to see you Joel!

THe whole Milli Vanilli thing ended in such a sad tragic way w/the suicide of one of the guys...they were victims of something far more than just them wanting fame.

Camila apparently sound the same love and in studio, there is a vid that shows her in studio then doing live and it sounds EXACTLY the same

That neon green cat suit with the matching arm gloves…that was a choice miss Dua Lipa. 💚