A week after Ashlee Simpson was caught using a pre-recorded vocal track on Saturday Night Live, some are accusing rapper Eminem of doing the same thing.
"Fox & Friends" co-host Mike Jerrick said Sunday morning on Fox News that it appeared Eminem was lip-synching during his performance on Saturday Night Live. That at one point the rapper took the microphone away from his mouth and viewers could still hear him rapping.
A search of Google News service turns up a story on Hundredpercenter Newswires blog spot by Malachy Joyce that says "Eminem looked foolish, for not only lip synching, but doing a very bad job of it.
"At one point, Eminem, who was out of synch with the voice over, put his mic down near his hip and stopped rapping. However, the song with voice continued."
One Eminem defender in the comments section of that site said that Eminem wasn't really lip-synching, he just using a backing track. A practice that is apparently becoming more and more common with "entertainers".
Eminem has hit back at claims he lip-synched on "Saturday Night Live," insisting he sang over a vocal track.
Newspaper reports claimed the rapper lip-synched to his new single "Mosh" just a week after pop star Ashlee Simpson was caught miming on the very same show.
A studio source said, "He was singing 'Mosh' and you could tell he was lip-synching. The track was just a bit ahead of his lips and he put the mike down at one point but the track kept going."
But a representative for Eminem insists he was trying to "duplicate the sound on his album," telling Page Six, "He had a vocal track on for double vocal effect on the first song, to make it more powerful. Lots of hip-hop artists do that. Tupac Shakur did it."
I believe that he had the track running in the background too, but he still mimed some of the song, didn't sing some of it and rapped over the track for the rest of it.
That's no where near being a live performance, which he originally claimed it was. And he bagged out Ashlee for singing over her track, which is exactly what he did. Hypocrite.
Since eminem is an established performer I don't really care, especially since it was on a live show where characters such as himself are suspect of swearing... but up and comers aught to know better than to try to lip sync something they haven't even learned the words to yet.
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
11-01-2004 07:07 AM
