Those Communists!! China bans lip-synching effective September 1st

soundboy · 07-29-2005, 04:17 PM

Watch out, Ashlee Simpson!!

According to this article, " the government will severely punish any firm or singer involved in lip-synching." (second to last paragraph)

I read another article where the Chinese government considered lip-synching as "consumer fraud". Hmmmm.... I remember many years ago, there was proposed legislation in Arizona (I think) that any pre-recorded material played back during a concert performance must be printed as a disclaimer on the ticket. I wonder if that bill passed.

Please, this thread is about lip-synching only. No politics or anything else.

John B Good · 07-29-2005, 04:41 PM

first they come for the lip synkers. next they come for the vocoders

**Bob Lovely** · 07-29-2005, 04:47 PM

I find this rather ironic when you consider that it is near impossible to get the Chinese government to honor U.S. patents and patents from other countries. Sorry for the commentary but, hard to avoid...

Bob

**mudbone** · 07-29-2005, 04:51 PM

Wait til they ban the air guitar.

mud-

Jimbo · 07-29-2005, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mudbone

Wait til they ban the air guitar.

mud-

They can take my air guitar when they pry it from my cold dead imaginary fingers!!!

audio · 07-29-2005, 05:12 PM

Good for them.

**mudbone** · 07-29-2005, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbo

They can take my air guitar when they pry it from my cold dead imaginary fingers!!!

Imagine no fingers.

mud-

blind_melon1 · 07-29-2005, 07:47 PM

i actually support this !

haha...

bartels76 · 07-29-2005, 07:48 PM

I hope Britney doesn't go to China. She would get the death sentence!

**mudbone** · 07-29-2005, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartels76

I hope Britney doesn't go to China. She would get the death sentence!

Brian Cruz · 07-29-2005, 08:04 PM

I really like those dubbed martial arts movies.

inperson · 07-29-2005, 09:24 PM

I live there! Every Chinese group whether professional or not lip-sync on Chinese TV and it is SOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAD. But I am sure they are just saying it, they won't really do anything about it. That is the Chinese way. If they do do it it won't be against any of the 100,000,000 awful boy/girl groups from China but they will try to "punish"(or whatever) some evil corrupting foreign singer/group probably from Japan. This is just FACE folks, just words with no real action. Again that is the Chinese way!

inperson

antonkk · 07-29-2005, 11:54 PM

Lip-synching was a plague of russian music biz for many years as well. There were several suggestions to ban it legaly but unfortunately nothing came out of it so far. I would love to see a serious punishment for that because in case of many local stars - people never even heard their true voices, they only heard studio achievements.

The Kid · 07-30-2005, 03:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartels76

I hope Britney doesn't go to China. She would get the death sentence!

Umm, gee...on the other hand, a Chinese tour might be just the ticket...

SVL · 07-30-2005, 03:33 AM

No need to ban it, but there should be a clear warning on posters, promotion material and tickets. No warning - people get their money back. That should teach 'em :p

Tjazz · 07-30-2005, 11:39 AM

Like most laws, here or there. Meaningless without enforcement.

Patents, copyrights - 50 years? 75 years? Who decides the years? Why not 5 years? Why not 100 years? The debate can go on forever.

bruckner1 · 07-30-2005, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by audio

Good for them.

Ditto.

t3hSheepdog · 07-30-2005, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inperson

...do do it it...

hehe

I like this law

pdenny · 07-30-2005, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartels76

I hope Britney doesn't go to China. She would get the death sentence!

I'd consider going to one of her shows a death sentence!

Rachael Bee · 07-30-2005, 07:44 PM

If lip-syncing ends here, Estados Unidos, I quess we'll know the Chinese have covertly taken over, eh?

07-29-2005, 04:17 PM	#1
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John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NS, Canada Posts: 11,243	first they come for the lip synkers. next they come for the vocoders

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inperson Forum Addict Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: United States of America/People's Republic of China Posts: 1,347	I live there! Every Chinese group whether professional or not lip-sync on Chinese TV and it is SOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAD. But I am sure they are just saying it, they won't really do anything about it. That is the Chinese way. If they do do it it won't be against any of the 100,000,000 awful boy/girl groups from China but they will try to "punish"(or whatever) some evil corrupting foreign singer/group probably from Japan. This is just FACE folks, just words with no real action. Again that is the Chinese way! inperson

07-29-2005, 11:54 PM	#13
antonkk Forum Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: moscow Posts: 8,433	Lip-synching was a plague of russian music biz for many years as well. There were several suggestions to ban it legaly but unfortunately nothing came out of it so far. I would love to see a serious punishment for that because in case of many local stars - people never even heard their true voices, they only heard studio achievements.

07-30-2005, 03:33 AM	#15
SVL Forum Addict Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kiev, Ukraine Posts: 1,693	No need to ban it, but there should be a clear warning on posters, promotion material and tickets. No warning - people get their money back. That should teach 'em :p __________________ Sergei

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Tjazz Forum Icon Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: South Florida / Southen California Posts: 2,450	Like most laws, here or there. Meaningless without enforcement. Patents, copyrights - 50 years? 75 years? Who decides the years? Why not 5 years? Why not 100 years? The debate can go on forever. __________________ DVD collection Looking for Austin City Limit, CMT CrossRoads, and Soundstage shows on DVD.

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