Lip Synced

For decades, drag queens have dressed up as superstars and lip-synced to hit songs. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

Over the next three years, they appeared together and, though they lip-synced in the ads, they met with music executives about a CD. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She impulsively changed outfits in nightclubs, hung out with shady guys with names like Osama and Adnan, and listlessly lip-synced her way through a live performance on MTV. ❋ Mara Reinstein (2010)

Get rid of the cheesy lip-synced Broadway numbers by TV has-beens and show the actual PARADE! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rapper M.I.A.'s 1.5 seconds of a middle finger, raised pseudo-defiantly during Madonna's completely ridiculous, lip-synced Super Bowl halftime show. ❋ Mark Morford (2012)

I've heard the complaints from some of my co-workers that the show is just too cheesy, and that the extremely poorly lip-synced songs are just annoying. ❋ Reel Fanatic (2010)

When Ali finally does get to sing live, though, her voice is so loud, so over-amped, so disproportionate to the physical setting, that she sounds lip-synced from start to finish. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)

Already there are grumpy Twitters and bloggers who have proclaimed that Rick Rolling is now officially done on account of MCA (Mainstream Corporate America) staging this “canned, lip-synced, hollow, and uninspiring” prank just to show they are “hip”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Irrelevant Acts of Entertainment," playing at the Shop through Saturday, features a slate of lip-synced tunes and monologues complete with costume changes, backup "singers" and choreographed interludes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have to say, one of the advantages of being an old bugger is that back in my youthful days it was much harder and more expensive to do lip-synced filming and editing so that, fortunately, many of my youthful enthusiasms slipped quietly away unrecorded for posterity. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Then, when on high, President Obama called for the figurative heads of these latter day robber barons, the lickspittle choir all lip-synced en masse a collected "Whatever you say, Boss" and changed their tunes immediately. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In American evangelical Christianity, in other words, there's a ready-for-prime-time stage act -- toned down and lip-synced to match a set of PG lyrics that won't scare the advertisers -- and then there's the real party backstage, where the spiritual hair really gets let down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I had known, I would have told the Spice Girls the following story: on that warm November night when you lip-synced "" Spice Up Your Life '' for Charles, Harry and 30,000-odd others, a small group of reporters held cell phones aloft. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The little girl was chosen to belt her heart out even though she lip-synced in her song because, according to Chinese authorities, musical director and production staffs, the 9 year old girl is cute. ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)

And here's another first -- it was Vanilli's producer, Frank Farian, who announced that the duo had only been paying lip service to the music (it had long been rumored that they were just good-looking mouthpieces because they lip-synced in concert). ❋ Unknown (2008)

During filming, the actors lip-synced to playbacks of the prerecorded songs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wow, Kanye West is getting heat for singing terribly on [SNL] the other day ([Love Lockdown]) Yeah, it's better though than lip syncing than Ash and [Brit] ❋ Junebugtnt (2008)

1)"Did you hear about that band Milli-Vanilli that was around [before you were born]? They started the whole lip-syncing trend. apparently it caught on..." 2)She may have [acid reflux], but she can sure do a great hoedown. 3)"And here we have Hilary Duff lip-syncing while looking into a mirror, which serves as the rigerous [rehersal] for her next tour..." 4)"Hey man, she couldn't sing so she had a right to lip sync! It says so in the rules...." ❋ Raquel.w (2006)

[I can't] [Believe that] she would lip-sync to her own [song]. ❋ Light Joker (2006)

that [douche bag] was lip-syncing on [SNL] ❋ Koolkas (2006)

"Dance and [lip-sync] were a method to target [Asia]" - from Lee Soo Man's [interview] on Korean site. ❋ Lady Dragon (2014)

You will now Lip sync for [your LIFE]. [Good luck] and don’t [FUCK IT UP] ❋ Skinnyursula (2017)

Why would she [lip sync] in [front] of thousnands of [people] ❋ Cartiervert (2016)

I really enjoyed [the snap] chat [lip sync] I received from my friend Eli. It really [made my day]. ❋ Moxiefromroxie (2013)

I really liked [PewDiePie's] new [diss track]. So i got my girlfriend with me and i did a [scandinavian lip Sync] to congratulations. But my tongue is very brown now and my face is covered with poop. ❋ LeilaSP (2019)