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Lip Syncing and Vocal Performance

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Performers are supposed to show us there talent on stage than in a video and that mean not to lip sync so that also means you should be on your a-game and give us the paying fans their real voice and not a voice over. Everyone is a different performer when it comes to world tours and performing in general some artist like there stage to be simple and some artist like for there stage to be extreme. There are many artist that go to perform and lip syncing some have a reason and some don't. Famous lip syncing artist are Milli Vanilli, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Ashlee Simpson. Performing is a hard thing to do depending on what you perform and where you perform."It's as if the fakery has become satisfactory," (Jonathan Vankin) Performing is a task on its own and could be difficult it requires time and creativity. Singing is also a task alone but if your a artist with the talent of singing and dancing it's even harder but they committed to this life and should be ready for what's being thrown at them. Lip-syncing is common is the music industry but also is frowned upon because we expect more from them as entertainment and as a artist that we pay to see. I personally don't like getting half of a performer if I go to your concert or show I came to the show to see a show not to hear a voice over and some artist really don't care and some artist do and I will give example of artist who lip synced and see if they had a reason why or if they have reason. One famous lip-syncing artist was a group duo called Milli Vanilli they were a R&B,pop, and dance music project created by Frank Farian in Munich, West Germany in 1988. They had a number one international success album called “Girl You Know Its True” and this album achieved them two Grammy Awards one of them was for Best New Artist in Febuary, 1990. They started to become a major act between 19980's to the 1990's. On the MTV Lake Compounce show Milli Vanilli was performing there song “Girl You Know It's True” and the Track began to skip they tried to play it off and they eventually ran of stage. Milli Vanilli eventually came out that not only d

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