Comments on: Olympic Singer Fails China Cuteness Test
Girl With Pixie Smile Lip Synchs Voice Of 7-Year-Old Deemed Not Pretty Enough For Olympic Opener
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- tolduso12 wrote: Who the fvck knows who she is besides her family and friends--this is a joke--you are just so pro Asian that you want to defend this tripe.
^---both girls were televised nationwide in China after the ceremony. And the vocalist was never rejected, and never called "not cute enough." ...that''s only what our media is calling her. Shame on us. - Reply to this comment
- "The national interest requires that the girl should have good looks and a good grasp of the song and look good on screen," Chen said.
"National interest also requires that dissidents are rounded up and spend years doing hard labor, or worse," he added. "It also requires that the Chinese people put up with deadly pollution without complaining, and that Mattel apologize to China for the lead-tainted toys we send them." - Reply to this comment
- The Chinese people are great, just like everywhere else in the World. It''s the Governments that need to be removed and overhauled. (and the "Leaders"* Jailed)
*(Did anyone else wince, watching Shrub making an Azz of himself once again on the World Stage???
What an Embarrassment this Drooling Idiot is) - Reply to this comment
- MILLI VANILLI... CHINESE VERSION...
What they did was wrong. Its not a beauty contest, I''ve seen the photo of Yang Peiyi on CNN and she is cute. - Reply to this comment
- About those fireworks--they were faked--not from the actual fireworks display at all--according to China:
(from CNN) Viewers around the world saw a display in which 29 firework "footprints" travelled across Beijing from south to north.
But a senior official from the Beijing organising committee (Bocog) confirmed on Tuesday that footage of the display had been produced before the big night.
This was provided to broadcasters for "convenience and theatrical effects", according to Wang Wei, Bocog''s executive vice-president.
"Because of poor visibility, some previously recorded footage may have been used," he told a daily press conference.
You were saying brian? - Reply to this comment
- Then you agree with the Chinese, they let the best voice they could find be put with the cutest face they could find, to be a part of the best show they could stage, I don''''t see anything wrong with that, as two girls are now famous and honored.
Posted by brianbwb at 03:38 PM : Aug 12, 2008
so... you''d be okay with say, Whitney Houston singing off camera but with the voice being done by Paris Hilton and you''d be okay with the explanation that Whitney was not pretty or white enough to be seen with her own voice? Knives cut both ways brianbwb. - Reply to this comment
- Then you agree with the Chinese, they let the best voice they could find be put with the cutest face they could find, to be a part of the best show they could stage, I don''''t see anything wrong with that, as two girls are now famous and honored.
Posted by brianbwb at 03:38 PM : Aug 12, 2008
Oh really? point out the pics of the real singer than, brianbwb. Ya can''t because you have not been given a picture of her. So how is she famous? Who the fvck knows who she is besides her family and friends--this is a joke--you are just so pro Asian that you want to defend this tripe. It was sexism, and prejudiced and actually speaks ill of the world to imagine we would even care if the girl was China-pretty or not. It says China thinks we are just as shallow as they are. Only the girl who was seen is famous--though I would wager due to the expose--that the other girl may be famous soon and better received by the public as the real thing and not some lip synching fake. Karaoke is not a category of the Olympics--I think the other girl (the cute one) should suffer the same fate as Milli Vanilli--being booed off every stage she tries to get on now. - Reply to this comment
- We do the same here in the USA. Ej.Britney Spears - Terrific body and face - terrible singing.
Posted by Be_Real at 03:44 PM : Aug 12, 2008
Sorry, I have to disagree. Brittany Spears is fugly--looks like trailer trash. But she can entertain well. - Reply to this comment
- "I can understand why they picked the prettier girl. They need to maintain a certain aesthetic beauty during the opening ceremonies. This situation is not so bad, especially since it gives two people an opportunity to shine rather than just one."
Argue with that at peril of your sanity.
Posted by brianbwb at 03:16 PM : Aug 12, 2008
Only one girl shone and it was the one faking the singing. Even her father gushed that she was an "overnight singing sensation" As for the other girl, she might as well have been doing voice overs for a cartoon--she is unknown and probably will remain so. Two girls did NOT shine here--one girl shone at the expense and singing skill of the other--and that is the sad truth. The odd thing is, in America, often the greatest singers are not that cute. Think Fantasia who won American Idol, or Mick Jagger, or STing--or Amy Winehouse, they aren''t cute but we adore them because they still can entertain.
This phoniness was not necessary, and now everything else the Chinese do for the Olympics will be viewed with a wink and a smirk as we wonder what else they are faking. - Reply to this comment
- Fake fireworks and now their very own Milli Vanilli singer. Gotta love the Chinese--so if they go to such lengths for the visuals--what cheating/fudging do they do for the sports behind the scenes. Phony is the new entertainment.
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- This is done in the US all the time! What''s the big deal?
Why publish this krap? To give the little girl some kind of unbeautiful complex!
How ridiculous! - Reply to this comment
- I thought she sounded like Milli Vinilli!
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- I guess the message was very clear. China has awaken and has the technology. At least it has the nerve to reveal its secrets and that is cool. With very limited time, they were able to pull a very superb show. It was very similar to the missiles that was test fired by Iran. It looks three to tango and in this case it took two to dance.
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- Who are we to be critical of China? The same obsessions exist in the good old USA. We are famous for adulation and obsessions based on outward appearance. It even extends to crime. America obsesses over crimes committed against so-called "beautiful" young women and girls, while those deemed less attractive are ignored. SO LET''S NOT BE HYPOCRITICAL, AMERICA.
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- Maybe the one little girl was the wrong ethnicity.
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- Boopsie200, you''re misled. The "cute" girl was ALREADY picked. It was during her last minute rehearsals that they felt her voice wasn''t up to par, and change the vocals.
So the actual singer was NEVER called "not cute enough." She was NEVER rejected. Only we in the US are labeling her that way... Shame on us. - Reply to this comment
- There really isn''t an Olympics. The whole thing is computer generated effects, programmed by a 7-yr old kid in India.
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- Oh my, just shut up please. let me know the last time you saw an "ugly" kid on a Welches commercial.
Get your head out of the sand
Posted by mjm117
A Welches commercial? - Reply to this comment
- I clicked over and found the picture of the other little girl on CNN and felt a sense of shock that she wasn''t deemed cute enough! She looks like a typical seven-year-old; I was half expecting some kind of disfigurement after reading about what the Chinese had pulled.
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- WOW!! The Chinese are getting more like the Americans every day.
Watch any show on American TV and everybody is perfect. - Reply to this comment
