Life Is A Sham: Lin Miaoke Lip Synched “Ode to the Motherland” For The Less “Flawless” Yang Peiyi At The Olympic Opening Ceremonies
12 August 2008, 9:00 AM. By Guanabee Staff
Were you one of the one billion television viewers who sat rapt on Friday night as porcelain China doll Lin Miaoke (pictured at right) flew like Peter Pan over the Olympic opening ceremonies singing, “Ode To The Motherland”? Well, get over it. She was lip synching.
Wearing a red dress and pigtails, Lin Miaoke charmed a worldwide audience with a rendition of “Ode to the Motherland”.
But the singer was Yang Peiyi (pictured at left), who was not allowed to appear because she is not as “flawless” as nine-year-old Lin.
“The reason for this is that we must put our country’s interest first,” [musical director Chen Qigang told Beijing radio.] “The girl appearing on the picture must be flawless in terms of her facial expression and the great feeling she can give to people.”
The revelation comes after it was announced yesterday that one of the fireworks sequences, of footprints walking across the sky, was also previously taped. Communist propaganda at its finest, world!
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It is time for NBC and the rest of the media to expose China for what it truly is! The coverage of the sports has been great but I am sick to death of hearing how wonderful China is. How about reporting on the human rights of their citizens and crimes against mankind they commit every day!
this article is biased!! this is propagenda!!!
I “sang” the finale solo of the Super Bowl XX half-time show in New Orleans. So, I found it interesting to watch the “breaking news” of the little girl whose voice but not face was used for the opening ceremonies. This has been done for years. Like I said, I “sang” the finale solo of the Super Bowl XX half-time show in New Orleans. Yes, shocker, here in the United States. Well, it was me the world saw but someone I never even met recorded “my” voice months earlier and I was simply the “look” the producers wanted. I feel sorry for the little girl whose voice was used, but it is not like this is the first time this has been done. Trust me, the girl who lip synced will have a lot more explaining to do… I know! But in the end, what an honor to be either the voice OR the face. Pretty cool regardless, don’t you think?
Kinda sums up the whole Chinese Olympics don’t it? Maybe we can digitally enhance the games next to make the athletes look better.
@ adhu: Did you mean propaganda or were you being clever and coming up with a fancy new word? I think I like it and I am going to start my own. The first thing on my agenda (or should I say propagenda?) will be to claim that the opening ceremony of the Olympics was based on this picture of Lenin.
Fraud, deception and a huge big cheat!
Faking the voice with another face isn’t honorable, and it’s lying to billions of individuals for it.
Just how is this any different from stealing the work of another, like intellectual property to profit?
Why shouldn’t the real talented Chinese girl get the credit for which she performed, rather than another girl who pretended to be something she never was?
What message does this send to everyone else, when they learn about how the CCP doesn’t respect and honor the true and real talents of China, but repleaces them for their own propaganda instead?
This just shows how the Olympic Games in China isn’t just a sporting event, like U.S. Bush claimed, when in fact, it’s a political event, used for the benefit of the Communist Party in China is all….
Just how many billions of dollars ($42 billion) was spent in Beijing city just for the Olympic Games, while +300 million Chinese don’t even have basic access to fresh clean water…
Imagine the U.S. without clean fresh water, and seeing their government waste billions of dollars for propaganda that paints another picture, stating everyone is happy?
Nobody noticed the choking pollution all around them in Beijing? Nobody care about the CCP military build up?
China continues to crack down on it’s people, by denying them from watching the Olympic Games, such as the case for the bicycling road race!
Chinese are told by the CCP, go home and watch it on your TV. Their own citizens are treated like second class citizens without basic rights in their own country, and for the most part have been brainwashed into thinking that’s how it is suppose to be…
And what do all those other countries do about it? Nothing, but pay money to the CCP, like U.S. NBC’s 1 billion dollars to get U.S. airtime of the games…
The whole issue of human rights was sold for profits. Which only help and support this bloody Communist Party regime crack down more…
I would say that the politburo sucks - this is what the Chinese people have to endure, lies and deception.
when i first saw this in the news first thing that jump in my mind was milli vanilli
I honestly don’t think this is as huge a deal as everyone is making out. I really do think that if they’d explained to the girls what they were doing, it would’ve been fine. People are saying how young they are, but 7 and 9 isn’t that young. I honestly think kids understand a lot more than people make out. It’s been made clear that Yang said she didn’t mind, and that singing for her country was enough of an honour. Maybe she doesn’t fully understand the implications of it now, but none of it was her fault. Both girls are talented, and nothing can be blamed on them.
Jesus, the games adults play to screw up their kids! lol…Pity them both, the girls, caught in the middle of all these grown-up people with issues & baggage they project on to their young. Triste.
For those simple-minded enough to think it is no big deal, just look around you & see the young girls suffering fr body & image problems…not convincing ? Ask ourselves then: as she’s growing up, will Lin have this mentality that her worth is based purely on her appearance alone- which, btw wasn’t all her fault, bt a bad habit most definately encouraged by society? And will Yang grow up depressed & defeated, thinking no matter how good her talent, people are just going to see that she’s just ‘not cut from the right cloth’ for success?
It’s very sad…sad, bt unsurprising affliction affecting all these developing countries as they aped the nouveau-riche vulgarity of industrialized nations well past their prime.
Some of you guys are crazy. It was a show, for Christ’s sake! when bruce willis jumps out of the 4th floor of a burning building, it’s a double and most people know it. Does that make the movie and bruce willis crap? it was supposed to be visually delighting and all of you liked it. isn’t it hypocritical to now say it was crap? it was a show. if you go to the theater and then find up that the pretty girl was actually using a ton of makeup and in reality she’s not half as attractive, will you feel defrauded, and change your opinion that the whole play that you loved was a “sham”?
also for all the one-sided “pity” and outrage i’ve seen - one kid was gifted with voice, the other with looks. why is the voice gift (which is just as randomly conferred to her) supposed to be better than the looks? oh, the poor little kid who was turned down for her looks. why not oh the poor little kid who showed up, she was told that her voice is crap and they’ll have to use a better one cuz she’s useless
@jeff
No it definately isn’t “pretty cool”. The singer you mimed to knew the deal. Little Yang Peiyi didn’t. She thought she was the singer until fifteen minutes beforehand when Lin Miaoke was chosen to mime by some politbureau.
Image the devistation and disappointment she must have felt being told she wasn’t pretty enough (”but heh- thanks for the voice ugly”).
Also Lin Miaoke is receiving international singing offers that some suggest will make her a celebrity and millionaire while poor Yang Peiyi, the real star, is getting nothing.
This isn’t about faulting Miaoke, its just that she’s receiving all the praise for another’s singing talent. If it had been Miaoke’s voice, well fairs fair, but when one of the girls with the voice everyone raves after is being pushed into the background whilst another grabs the glory for it is plain wrong. What message is that teaching kids.
God I’d hate to be one of your kids if this is the lesson you teach them.
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The first girl who really sang the song, wasn’t ugly at all!
Sounds exactly like the obsession with beauty the U.S. has going. We’re a nation that has our kids undergoing plastic surgery (one died recently) because we place beauty and money at the top of our priority list. Evidently the Chinese sank to our beauty-obsessed level due to their now being on the *world stage.* How sad. A better article and question would be, when is the U.S. going to STOP the obsession with beauty, thinness, youth, whiteness, and MONEY and start focusing on really important values? Heck, even studies prove that the beautiful make far higher salaries in the U.S. than the unattractive. How sad.
lol Bob R screams hypocrite but then goes on to prove that he obviously didn’t understand a single word the other posters wrote :-))
I’m all for free speech & opinion of different spectrums, bt before parroting “it’s just a show”
& label them “crazy” in such condescending manner, have you tried to figure out what other people are actually trying to say?
If that’s too difficult, it’s ok- use a little imagination: YOU as a plain bt talented singer, who on yr debut concert suddenly found yourself replaced by a much handsomer man, with the organisers telling you apologetically, ” Gee, sorry,you know, you have like, the most beautiful angelic voice, bt it’s in yr best interest(lol) that we get the young handsome one to appear, but yes, yes,that way more ppl will come, you get more tickets sold too. So you see, it’s a win-win situation…”
What would you think??? That’s exactly what’s happening in this Olympic truce!
Naturally most people will be drawn to sympathize with Yang Peiyi then Lin Miaoke, whom they felt is getting all the praise & attention with no credit.
Still- and I’ve indicated very clearly in my earlier post- Lin herself is a victim too, in a way; she’s equally pitiful in that she’s still an innocent child, blissfully unaware of her beauty & yet vilified by the press as the ‘evil little girl’- its actually the ADULTS
who are to blame & will screw up her mind in time to come.
And please, spare us the comparison of this very real social problem to plastic Hollywood, because because that’s just adding brainlessness to arrogance.
The thing is… if they needed the “looks” then why not audition and just get some who has the look and the voice. And to the “non-lookers” they an just say “thanks, next”. In this instance, the child doesn’t know and therefore will not feel rejected for being “ugly” or “less pretty”.
Honestly, I could not tell the difference, with the exception that the “pretty” girl had pony tails…