Ever since Lady Gaga's rise to fame in 2008, and even after her comments during TMB, a lot of stans have viewed lip-syncing in a totally different way.
During the times of Michael Jackson and even up to Britney's global reign, performances were viewed for their cinematography and choreography all leading into the overall performance. Vocals weren't the priority and even though lip-syncing has always been viewed as sub-par in some form to the general public, it wasn't taken seriously in the stan world.
Gaga comes in and denounces lip-syncing, claiming that she'll never lip-sync (playback is not considered the same thing) and since then, certain stan groups have thought any performance that lacks live vocals is automatically sub-par, despite rave reviews.
Now this isn't EVERYBODY and I'm not calling out the Little Monsters because they all don't have the same view, but here's the question.
Michael Jackson has literally lip-synced 97%, dancing or no dancing (see Motown 25) and he is considered an all-time LEGEND and even god like to some people. But is MJ sub-par because he lacked live vocals in 97% of his performances post-Thriller?
Discuss
