7-year old lip-synched at Beijing Olympics opener - original girl ‘wasn’t cute enough’
Man, just how deep is this rabbit hole? Hot on the heels of yesterday’s revelation that the fireworks extravaganza at the tail end of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was a CGI simulacrum, I now read that Lin Miaoke, the cute-as-a-button tyke that performed at said ceremony didn’t actually sing. Which isn’t such a big deal, I suppose. But the reason she took center stage strikes me as a bit superficial…Beijing had 7-year-old Yang Peiyi on hand, who was every but up to the challenge - but they felt she wasn’t ‘cute enough’. So what we got was a composite performance - Peiyi’s voice, Miaoke’s face.
China, welcome to the club…
Lin Miaoke’s performance Friday night, like the ceremony itself, was an immediate hit. “Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke becomes instant star with patriotic song,” the China Daily newspaper headline said Tuesday.
But the real voice behind the tiny, pigtailed girl in the red dress who wowed 91,000 spectators at the National Stadium on opening night really belonged to 7-year-old Yang Peiyi. Her looks apparently failed the cuteness test with officials organizing the ceremony, but Chen said her voice was judged the most beautiful.
“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.”
Bonus: Here’s a news video about the controversy…
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