ludwig said:

Oh...I'll have 2 view it again. No wonder he kept holding the mic so close 2 his mouth.

He lip synched Emancipation, not once, but twice.

IAintTheOne said:

Prince did not Lip-sync the Super Bowl fools
He made UP A Line Commentating on the Rain



Unless he knew it was going to rain when he recorded this?
So either he lip-synced or he is a weather-god
But he did lip-sync at the WMA and he was terrible at iton the commetry of Purple Rain they said he wasn't hitting marks when he had to synch so he sang live to a pre-recorded backing track and was mixed later in the edit

daPrettyman said:

As ludwig stated it was lipsynced to a live performance recorded at a gig in New York almost a month before he performed on the Chris Rock Show.

IAintTheOne said:

I really don't understand why. It's a shame that Prince released a concert movie that played in theaters and it was lipsynched.

Efan said:

Cause most of it was recorded at paisley park i thnk just the crowd shots was at the venues

cream72 said:

That doesn't explain why it was lipsynched.

The SOTT movie was not lipsynced, because it is not really live at all. Large parts of it were re-recorded later on in the studio because the initial takes were unusable - it is an assembled piece on the overall. That includes the drums from all of the cuts as well, which is why they stick out from the mix in such a peculiar way. If anything ,it was a "lipsync in reverse" at some parts. Prince had to match his voice to the original takes.

Well, the whole thing works, so I have no complaints about it.
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novabrkr said:

I love watching it and consider it a lot of fun, but I still think the explanations about it are weird. There are clearly parts that are lipsynched--It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night is the most obvious instance. He is frequently "singing" without a microphone in parts of that song.

I know the official answer is that it was supposed to be all live but then parts of the video were not usable or something like that. What I don't understand is why you would assemble a band of great musicians, put them on a soundstage, give them all their instruments, get all the cameras and recording equipment needed, and bring in an audience...and then not just have them do the same concert that they've been doing for months, have rehearsed, and are old pros at.

Couldn't they just have done the concert there at Paisley Park, recorded it, and made that the concert film?

amorbella said:

Yup...

I have an interview right b4 the world music awards and he was complaining that they are making everyone lipsynch. Plus, he was mad about the way they had that big gold symbol...he said something like "they have my name looking like....".

Soul Train guest ALWAYS lip-sync....

There have been a few times but the Super Bowl and Oprah was not.....

novabrkr said:

There was a part during House Quake that said "is he lip-synching"?

Dewrede said:

No I'm sure he didn't (not positve) but I googled the information and that is where I got the information that many performers do.

prime said:

"Sleep Around" was, or at least part of it was; I'm not sure about the rest of the songs since I haven't watched it in forever. But on "Sleep Around," he had a shoutout to "Oprah!" in there where he was nowhere near a microphone.

novabrkr said:

Because the audience was comprised almost exclusively of media ...

What about when he did, I wanna be your lover and Why you wanna treat me so bad back in 1980 on a tv show, (not too sure of it tho, way before i was born) which i saw on youtube ages ago. That soo looked lip synced. Even the music went quieter in the backgroud when they where still miming.

Efan said:

then u have obviously never seen prince during multiple nights on a tour or heard multiple nights from the same tour 2 find out that every show is DIFFERENT regardless if it's the same songs ..especially with a song like it's gonna b a beautiful night where he changed how it was done every single night ..the same is with rehearsals ..something different about those..so he took the audio from the 3 rotterdam shows and just recreated the per4mances from that

L4OATheOriginal said:

Um, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

2freaky4church1 said:

i know once on the NAACP awards...

Efan said:

yes it does cause ur wondering y not do the same show that they have been doing 4 months ..every show is not the same and the per4mance taking from when the cameras were 1st rolling is awesome. and in one aspect it documented xactly what prince wanted 4 the film. it was just the video shot from the concert wasn't useable.

he mos def lipsynched Lil Red Corvette on Sold Gold

and American Bandstand and I think on Soul Train too

I think he was lip-syncing in the My Name Is Prince video, too.

squirrelgrease said:

but not the arsenio performance

PEJ said:

That was some serious lip-syncing. I was embarrassed for him.

L4OATheOriginal said:

No, I'm not. I'm wondering why you would assemble a band and have them lipsynch and pretend to play instruments for a concert film. Your condescending notion that I don't know what Prince concerts are like is nonsense. I'm not saying that every one of his concerts is the same. I'm saying that the band had been on the SOTT tour and would have been ready to play a kick-ass concert on the Paisley Park stage if they needed to be.

Are you saying that Prince and that band weren't talented enough to put on a concert that was at least as good as the recorded one?

squirrelgrease said:

?????

squirrelgrease said:

Aren't all music videos lip-synched?

L4OATheOriginal said:

No, apparently the audio was (for the most part at least) rerecorded as well.
So Efan's question is a very valid one. I've often asked myself the same thing. There really doesn't seem to be a logical explanation. But then, it IS Prince we're talking bout right?

JayJai said:

Lalalalalalala... I can't hear you.