It’s like driving past a road accident, you just can’t stop staring. I wish I could just turn the other cheek, but I can’t. Every day something new comes out & I find myself enraged over it. I wish I could honestly say I was done with this farce that is the Olympics, but that’s not true. I’m only just getting started.
Here’s yet another story to back up everything I said yesterday.
Apparently, the 7 year old girl who sang in the opening of the Olympics was “not good looking enough” so her face was replaced by another child who lip-synced the song.
“The audience will understand that it’s in the national interest,” Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.
National interest? And what exactly would that be then?!
“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. “Lin Miaoke was the best in this. And Yang Peiyi’s voice was the most outstanding.”
Ah, it all becomes clear now, okay, never mind then.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? Who exactly are these so “understanding” audience members?
Yang Peiyi & “face replacement” Lin Miaoke
But of course, the only photo of Yang Peiyi would have to be grainy wouldn’t it.
Nice way to set that poor 7 year old girl up for a lifetime of self ridicule. There was nothing wrong with that little girl. Nothing. There isn’t anything wrong with either of them. I mean, you don’t see us replacing Phelps face do you?! But that’s not the point.
“The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression.”
“Internal feeling”?! Riiiight. Thats exactly what we witnessed from the lone standing little girl in her red dress & pumps, mouthing the words to ‘Ode to the Motherland’.
I am genuinely upset by the fact the true singer, Yang, was denied her place as the one to wow everyone who watched the opening ceremony.
I really am disgusted by this & I can’t believe there isn’t more people standing up & more importantly, saying “what the fuck?!” & calling China out for the evident bastards that they are.
Even better, there was another child given the starring role but on second thoughts, it was decided that she was too old. Too old at 10 years of age. And there’s your proof that our sweet little chinese gymnasts are, just as I said, underage. Hell, if 10 is too old, 16 is geriatric no?!
“She’ll understand when she grows up.”
And ain’t that just fucking rich.
Tell me, how do you tell a child that their singing voice will be the voice of China, but their face won’t be, because they are ugly – Oh, sorry – that she, doesn’t have good looks, nor grasp of the song nor even internal feeling.
Hear that girls, us uglies have no internal feelings.
woah. thats like intense.. When I watched the opening ceremony I could kinda tell she wasn’t quite right.. like maybe it was lip syncing.. that has definently confirmed my assumption.. I thought maybe incase she forgot words they had pre recorded it but replace her but keep her voice! SHIIITTT! thats low china.. thats more than low.. thats pathetic..
makes me feel sad for the lil darling girl who should have been standing there…
Thank you for alerting me/ everyone of this heart shattering discovery..
By: Anna on August 12, 2008
at 9:18 pm
The olympics have officialy lost their charm for me >.< I can’t watch them without wondering what else is going on, grr! I didn’t have a chance to see the girl “sing” until today when I was reading the articles and watching videos on it but my gosh, how low of them. It’s so pointless.
By: Keeley on August 12, 2008
at 10:09 pm
Never mind how you tell a child their not pretty enough, how do you tell the parents?! I tell you, I’d fucking love for anyone to give that a shot when I have children of my own. I fucking dare them. Apparently though, the parents nor the children actually knew about what was going on until it was actually over.
I quote:
Except that her proud father, Lin Hui, noticed “that the voice was a little different from hers.” On Tuesday, Mr. Lin said in a telephone interview that he had assumed “the difference might be caused by the acoustics.”
“Here’s something I want to tell you,” Mr. Lin said he had told his daughter. “The music director announced just now that it was not your voice when you were singing at the opening ceremony. The song was actually performed by you two girls.”
I especially liked this bit;
But to achieve the spectacular, not only did organizers fake the song, but they also have acknowledged that one early sequence of the stunning fireworks shown to television viewers actually included digitally enhanced computer graphics used for “theatrical effect.”
I’m actually scared to tune in any more in-case I give myself an ulcer.
And you’re welcome Anna, like I said in my post, why more people aren’t reading these stories & being outraged by them in the first place, let alone calling these bastards out, I don’t know nor will I ever understand.
By: AudaciousAria on August 12, 2008
at 10:31 pm
I couldn’t believe it either. I feel very sad for poor Yang Peiyi.
By: hystericalfemale on August 13, 2008
at 11:47 am
I fucking dare them.
Lol! That’s a very good point that I hadn’t even thought of. The whole situation is fucked up.
By: Keeley on August 13, 2008
at 1:28 pm
Your so to the point, but there is one thing that you missed. This is China your talking about, had the parents even known and tried to make noise they would have been carted off to prison for some bogus charges and never been seen again. As for keeping an image, what would one suspect, fake singer, fake fireworks, fake “underage” gymnasts make one wonder what else they trying to pull.
Like those Chinese bloggers who dared criticize their motherland. I think people forget that. Also go look for around for pictures of the number of cops they have marching around Beijing, the numbers look more like infantry platoons that simple police officers.
By: borillionstar on August 15, 2008
at 1:36 am
Actually, I didn’t miss a single thing. The parents are just as brainwashed, & I think we all know that it’s the rest of the world who need to wake up & stand up. The arse sucking is killing me.
As for the police marching around Beijing, having been there myself a few years ago, that’s very true & was rather intimidating.
Despite early attempts to torpedo their scores, seeing Nastia & Shawn bring it on home tonight though, I’m feeling pretty damn chuffed.
By: AudaciousAria on August 15, 2008
at 1:46 am
check out a more balanced report on this matter http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080815_1.htm
btw, the girl shown “singing” was the original selection all along. it was her voice that was replaced. it wasn’t the case of the singer being replaced because of her looks. i saw the program in chinese which made the revelation (sort of “the making of the opening ceremony” documentary) the music director was taking the opportunity to give credit to the singer.
but unfortunately the western media misrepresented the situation.
By: mickey on August 19, 2008
at 1:30 am
Ah, all the way from the cradle of liberty that is Singapore. Nicely done.
a more balanced report
Dude, this is a blog? As is the one that you linked.
I quoted from the Chinese officials themselves.
Lip syncing. The girl was replaced because she wasn’t pretty enough. End of.
Apologist much?
By: AudaciousAria on August 19, 2008
at 1:36 am
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at 6:57 pm
In the Beijing radio interview the music director never said she wasn’t cute enough. It’s ridiculous to ridicule her because of one “grainy picture”.
By: sdk on August 30, 2008
at 11:11 pm
I’m not sure exactly what your point is… I mean, ambiguous much? But whatever, it’s all ancient history now.
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at 11:26 pm
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