: I was thinking when I saw that Milli Vanilli video in class – Why couldn’t Rob and Fab have continued there careers and just kept lip syncing? Since many of there crazed fans would surely still support them for there live performances on stage. Many of there fans did not care about their authenticity; they just enjoyed seeing them perform. So for some Milli Vanilli supporters, obviously, the visual performance alone was enough to keep them coming back for more. Similar to the loyal monkey’s fans who still supported them even after they had discovered that they didn’t write/sing there own songs. Some people supported the Monkey’s more for there rebellious attitude and what they represented rather than their music.
Is there really much difference between the lip syncing scandal of Milli Vanilli and the virtual musical figures of today? For example: that virtual frog thing (which I really hate by the way and can’t recall it’s name) which is on all the music videos. Is a computerised character which plays a visual role in the artists mainly computer generated music really that different from the lip syncing situation of Milli Vanilli? After all they both didn’t produce there own music. Since and Fab (Milli Vanilli) were human figures performing the visual role for the real singer's music. In both of these very different examples – the music and visual performances are separated, to produce better quality entertainment. Perhaps if the actual singer of Milli Vanilli had performed in concert, his music would never have become as famous as it did when it was lip synced by Rob and Fab.
Anyway…. Back to the topic, I personally prefer the idea of authentic music, musicians who produce their own material. But, I believe that, with technology becoming so advanced, in the not to distant future, we will struggle to distinguish between authentic and inauthentic music. Also the mediated and digitally enhanced songs we hear on the radio/CD will become superior to the live music heard in concert (this is already happening today). This will lead to, and already has in some bands/musicians, to ‘radio/CD only musicians’, who can’t or are too intimidated to attempt to ‘cut it live’. But, this process will be slowed because it is in the music industries best interests to maintain the distinction between live and mediated music. Since there is a lot of money associated with the selling and/or promoting of the same song/album many times as ‘live on dvd’ or ‘live in concert’ etc.
adam.
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