Talk:Lip dub
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Continuing from an earlier discussion, would some professional videos by artists on [MTV] be considered early forms of lip dub, since it is not really lip syncing. I believe lip syncing to be the original artist singing over a pre-recorded track of their own material. And lip dub to be anyone other than the original artist. To that effect, Milli Vanilli and the woman from C+C music factory would be lip dubbers, vice lip sync-ers.
The MTVish videos I was referring to would be:
- George Michael - "Freedom" Various supermodels lip dubbing the song
- Johnny Cash - "God's Gonna Cut You Down" Various Celebrities lip dubbing the song
immunity talk 07:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Immunity - the key difference to me between lip sync and lip dub are: (1) the amateur nature of the recordings, (2) the absence of passing of the recording as a true performance, and (3) the incorporation of video. Originally, lip syncing meant a performance that involves one singing to a pre-recorded audio track, intending to pass of the performance as real. It has since been lessened to mean karaoke and many other versions, that are clearly not meant to be professional. Still, I would consider a lip dub to be distinctive because it requires an amateur performance and it is on video. Also, the performance does not try to pass of its own voice as the real performance, rather the audio is dubbed over theirs. (Still need to view the videos to determine if this distinctions covers them) -- The Robot Champion talk to me 03:37, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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I found this article, Numa Numa, and it makes me think that this is one of the first lip dub's that went popular. Is this considered a lip dub? The article calls it a lip sync...-- The Robot Champion talk to me 03:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC) immunity talk 05:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)ya, numa is definitely the first and most popular lip dub. immunity talk 05:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
