Flawlessly Flawed
China made a last-minute decision to lip-synch the voice of the little girl who sang during the Olympic’s Opening Ceremony.
I read about this at Treespotter‘s blog – I don’t actually follow the Olympics mostly because sports have never been my interests (except when it’s being done horizontally on a nice comfy surface) and because China has been having so many issues even before the event had started (Tibet, air pollution, etc).
Here’s an explanation from CNN:
You can watch the whole lip-syncing action here. Seriously, if I didn’t know anything about this I swear I would’ve believed it was the girl in the red dress who sang – she was vay good at it!
I can’t understand why they didn’t just swap the girls instead of pulling a weird stunt like this. Both of the girls are pretty, and using Peiying’s chubby cheeks and crooked teeth as excuses was just too silly – I think I looked far uglier than her when I was her age but people adored me anyway (Haha).
Perhaps it is true that Asians care so much (too much?) about the surface of things, but I wonder about the real reasons behind it. Maybe we all crave for the big compliments and approvals from others, but at what stakes are we willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to achieve them?
This whole thing reminds me of the time when I used to share a flat with a Korean dude. His girlfriend went back to Korea after she finished her studies and he was telling me how she was getting plastic surgery in Korea to heighten her chance of securing a better job. Apparently, plastic surgery was really ‘in’ in Korea – you could even get your jaws shaved to get that high-cheeked supermodel look you’ve seen on magazines.
In the other hand, it’s funny how the American news are sort of mocking the fakeness of China hosting the 2008 Olympics by using attention-grabbing headlines like “Word Class Fakes” and “Media Doctoring” (vay creative!) when all the while they have their very own fake plastic society in Tinseltown.
But of course, Hollywood and the movie business are supposed to be fake, and the Olympics are supposed to be about honest and healthy competition in between countries of the world.
And yet it is only the beginning of it…
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I think Yang Peiyi, the person behind the actual voice looks cute and should have taken her rightful place. Who the hell in this world has the right to call a child ugly? They should accept her for who she is, not what she looks like. But then you also know, everything from China is fake (no pun intended)
Shame on China… some people or some country would do anything in the name of image and glory, shame.
Chinese government is really obsessed with flawless image!
I was appalled by their decision to conducting “Olympic clean-up” (i.e. cats being killed or sent to death camp for a “clean & green” image of Beijing – according to this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-528694/Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html)
And calling a child ugly?! My goodness, it’s their next generation they’re talking about. I read an article in Marie Claire in the past on how the people in China are becoming obsessed with plastic surgery to become “better” so their chance to get a job would be bigger. I guess it’s the government propaganda that led them to this state of mind.
Gosh, they really should stop their obsession and start to learn the fact that there’s no such thing as perfection.
hi hi… the whole thing was faked..
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I know ther! I was just reading this article a couple of days ago and was discussing this with my hubby. I personally think it’s just so unfair. Furthermore, it’s damaging to the kid’s self-confidence. Imagine how you will feel if you are being told you aren’t supposed to perform just because you are ugly? I mean for an adult, such an insult will be easier to bear but a child…come on… they are too cruel!
The fact that they use a different person to represent the real singer is not really nice and it is really not fair to the child. Maybe they just want to impress the world on their opening ceremony and decided to lip sync it but IMHO it shows how they treat people by appearance alone. Tsk!
Yeah, it’s horrible. She’s just a 7 year old kid for God’s sake. Who in the right mind can tell her that she’s too ugly hence she cannot perform?
Sometimes people value looks a bit too much / over the limit, besides her job was to sing, not to do modelling (which we all agree that modelling job needs good appearance). It’s her voice that matters, not her face.
Poor girl. But I heard that they are going to “compensate” by making her perform for the closing ceremony?
Ther, if looks is all that matter..the Olympic Chinese officials should ask celebrities such as Allan Wu, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li and the likes to replace them at the opening ceremony because they look far better from every angle. Am sure many of the Beijing committees are old, ugly with spitting habit and stinky
Talk about flawless standard huh? 
“not the kind of face that China want to show the world?”
What happen with chubby cheek and crooked teeth anyway… the girl still look so cute on that face. Besides, as therry said… me, as well, is far more uglier then her when I was in her ages… and still, I was adored and being loved at that moment.
What the hell in their mind when they decided to swap that chubby 7 years old girl just like that… IT’s SO RUDEEE…
ugghh.. I really hate them for doing that.
so silly…