Lip Synching at the Beijing Olympics

Well it would appear that the Chinese didn't think that the girl who sang at the opening ceremonies was cute enough

So they did what our music industry did back in the 80's. They had her sing behind the wings while someone better looking lip synched in front of the camera's.

ttp://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-china-lip-synchedsong&prov=ap&type=lgns

After the Mili Vanilli lip synching scandal of the 80's broke a number of acts had to come clean about it. C&C music factory had to admit that it was not the hot looking girl singing in the music videos that was actually belting out Everybody Dance Now but was instead one of the groups back up singers.  Towards the end of the 80's/early 90's we had music videos where the credits read:

Song performed by:(Fill in the name of the person actually singing the song)

Song  visualized by (Fill in the name of the person lip synching)

It was certainly one of the lowest points in popular music

Of course what's really bad is that the Chinese government is defending this.