CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars

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#1CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 12:18am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GiJBu0hhzc

I would've thought that with the Beyonce lip syncing controversy, perhaps they wouldn't have wanted to have it lip-synced, but I guess I was wrong. The dead give-away at 1:52 when she closes her mouth but the audio still holds out "that". She did, however, dance the number very well, at 43 years old! Her dancing I guess makes up for her lip-syncing. Thoughts?

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#2CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 12:21am

It's being discussed in the other Oscar-related threads (like the Les Miz one) if you'd like to peruse there

Updated On: 2/26/13 at 12:21 AM

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#2CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:17am

43 makes her only half the age of Emmanuelle Riva, so it's not like she's totally decrepit or anything. Her good dancing shouldn't be that surprising.


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FindingNamo
#3CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 11:10am

She and my ass are both "43 years old".


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#4CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 11:18am

And 72 year old Shirley Bassey and 70 year old Barbra Striesand and 75 year old Jane Fonda were incredible.
I will give you the point that none of the above did a "Fosse Dance" on stage. :)

FindingNamo
#5CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 11:24am

I found the utter lack of microphones and popped Ps to be somewhat suspicious.


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#6CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 11:56am

Actually Dame Shirley B is 76 and in terrific voice.

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#7CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:05pm

The lip synching looked obvious to me, which probably isn't good....

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#8CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:08pm

Do we think she was lip-syncing to a recording she did for this performance? I can't quite tell if she's lip-syncing to the soundtrack.

If she did record that recently, I think she has more vocal ability than people have been giving her credit for in the past couple of years.

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#9CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:17pm

She's definitely not lip-sycing to the soundtrack, the delivery is different and the register much lower than what was recorded 10 years ago.

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#10CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:26pm

Thought so. I think her singing was unfairly criticized during NIGHT MUSIC. The part didn't have much singing, and she was sick towards the end of the run. Hopefully she has stopped smoking.

OrdinaryJukebox
#11CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:41pm

Where are all the "who cares that she lip-synched" that Beyonce got?

beautywickedlover
#12CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:43pm

As I mentioned earlier, she did probably did not want a repeat of her 2010 Tony Awards performance.

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ComingUpRoses2
#13CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:46pm

It wasn't her voice that was the problem on the Tonys. It was acting. She played "Send in the Clowns" like a scene from The Last Exorcism. After all, pretty much anyone can sing "Send in the Clowns".

ghostlight2
#14CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:53pm

Who cares that she lip-synched?

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#15CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:57pm

Who cares that she lip-synched?

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#16CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:57pm

Regardless of whether she was lip syncing or not, I think she really sold the number and did fantastic.

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#17CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 1:58pm

Where are all the "who cares that she lip-synched" that Beyonce got?

I think you're mentally ill. CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars

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#18CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:10pm

Maybe she lip synched because she's not really 43 and finds it hard to dance and sing that number?


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#19CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:12pm

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#20CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:37pm

Am I the only one who is bugged by the fact that the past tense of lip-synch is lip-synched? Why isn't it lip-sanch?


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ghostlight2
#21CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:39pm

Why do birds suddenly appear?

funnyman2
#22CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:42pm

A poster in another thread says that she sang the first bit of the song live, then started lip-synching once she got off the piano and started dancing. This makes sense to me, as I didn't start thinking she was lip-synching until halfway through.

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#23CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/26/13 at 2:42pm

Am I the only one who is bugged by the fact that the past tense of lip-synch is lip-synched? Why isn't it lip-sanch?

I don't know if you're actually asking, but it's because "lip-synch" was originally short for "lip-synchronize." It's not related to "sing."

Synchronize, lip-synch. Synchronized, lip-synched.


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#24CZJ lip-synced at the Oscars
Posted: 2/27/13 at 12:43am

Wow! She's 43 and can still dance? You sh**ting me?!

Come on, kids. 43 today is like 23, seriously.

Chita Rivera was an old bag at 65 when she danced in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. Look at this clip for yourselves and see what a 65 year old dancer can do and you'll see that Zeta-Jones at 43 isn't any impressive revelation:

"Where You Are" at the Tony Awards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUQlQGH1fhc