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...