China clamps down on miming musos

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the new regs will not affect amateur performers #

Posted Monday 17th November 2008 13:39 GMT

Aye, well, so kareoke's still in, then. Damn, I was hoping we could point at the brave new world and ask for similar rules here.

Paris, because she knows all about the difference between live and Memorex.

Stu Reeves

Great Idea #

Posted Monday 17th November 2008 13:39 GMT

can we have it here? That would get rid of the 90% of talentless bimbos on the market....and the Mercan starts who always seem unwilling to perfomr live, despite being so called megastars.

Pascal Monett

They're not unwilling #

Posted Monday 17th November 2008 16:58 GMT

It's just that they don't always have the real-time morphing/fixing/sound better hardware available with the proper settings for every song in the trailer.

Because nearly none of them are actually "singers", i.e. people who can sing their own songs without instrumentation and not not only not be thoroughly ridiculous but also be heard by all the people in the room.

Today's "singers" are more along the line of "performers" - they "perform" the act of singing like a prostitute "performs" love. Some of them even mix the two to a certain extent.

Nigel

Send them all to Huangyangtan! #

Posted Monday 17th November 2008 16:58 GMT

Yeah, send those musos off to that base (Beijing's own Area 51?) which the Chinese Army built a few years ago but still has yet to be figured out:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/

and

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/

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