yall i didnt know that the national anthem at the superbowl was always lipped!!! my dad works with the sound, television and audio crew in the washington D.C football stadium and he has been there for 20 years. He and i were arguing about this over the phone last night. Found out some amazing things with proof.
The great whitney houston lipsynched to her recorded rendition of the national anthem
Mariah did
Beyonce did.
these three have the most famous star spangle banner renditions of all times.
Why were they lipsynched?
My father told me that in the early 80’s when it was sung live, it was hard for the crowd to hear the song because of so many echoes and it sounded really bad. It is a big stadium so that many echoes just make the songs a nightmare. The other reason is, people sometimes couldnt hear the singer, and last it was safer to have a recorded version because the singer forgot the song or happen to have a bad day and their voices sounded raspy! to make sure that nothing goes wrong, people would rather if the anthem was just recorded in advanced and lipped.
Encyclopedia has an article on it and if you go to whitney’s wikipedia it says that she lipped. I didnt believe it but when u watch the videos, u can tell that most of the time the camera is barely on the singer, they shoot helicopters, flags, audience and it is a trick to avoid people seeing the obvious lipsynchin of the artist.
For whitney u cant tell at all, for mariah, they part when she says BRAVE! she waits before look for urself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stkup89ArUo&mode=re lated&search=
Same as Beyonce when she says BRAVE! u can tell she says the word before the song says BRAVE! look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5sM9QiTG3g
beyonce practiced it a lot so it doesnt look like she is lipping but all of them do!
that’s so amazing to me, now whitney was very obvious, it sounded recorded but but look at her throat and facial expression, it looks too real, she is an ACTRESS! lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5GSxSmYvME&mode=re lated&search=
this is also proof that bee is a great lipper! lol i love bee!