Playing it safe: A brief history of lip-syncing
- Written by Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
By now, you’ve probably heard about Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve disaster. After some technical malfunctions, Carey – who was supposed to lip-sync over a vocal track for “Emotions” and “We Belong Together” – ended up neither singing nor dancing much, and mostly talked about tech issues over...