Music at the Olympics

[sportzchick]

I am watching the beach volleyball and have noticed they are playing mostly American music during breaks. I also recall hearing some during the swimming between races.
Now... i know I can't hear all of the music at all of the events and I am not exactly a world traveler...but is American music so prominent that Beijing would choose to play "our" music instead of theirs?

[New York'rr]

China has no music of their own. The only musical sounds they make are the twangy noises you always hear in the movies when someone finds themselves waking up in China after being Shanghaied or something.

These Olympics are proving to be a fake, phony fraud, like the Chinese government's representation of their country's "rights" and "freedom".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00789/lin-yang-460_789580c.jpg

For example, the lip-synching pretty girl in the red dress got all the credit when the actual talented singer was thrown off the stage by a Communist politican for having "buck teeth".

The fireworks were a fraud! Computer animation. How sad. I always thought China had the best fireworks, but even they aren't confident enough in their fireworks ability to actually use actual fireworks.

The "spectators" in the seats are also fannies which have been paid to sit there and cheer for both sides, so the athletes won't be competing before an empty stadium.

Hopefully, some TV crew has managed to get some real information about the real China while they are over there. They would probably have to give their handlers the slip and go get some real footage.

Andrea Koppel has spoken about doing this very thing when she was Bureau Chief for CNN in Beijing. She would probably face arrest if she returned there after admitting that she went out and got footage of REAL Chinese suffering and smuggled the tapes out of the country.

That was real journalism on her part.

Unlike the worthless pablum being put out on the networks these days.

[s'news]

I heard about the fake fireworks on the news this morning. You'd think the Chinese wouldn't have to fake that.

[Gil]

Can't speak for China, but when I lived in Taiwan - the Republic of China - for 15 months back in the early 1970s, American music and movies and television programs were all extremely popular.

[jrat33]

I heard about the fake fireworks on the news this morning. You'd think the Chinese wouldn't have to fake that.

I guess folks weren't paying attention during the opening ceremonies. Matt Lauer and Bob Costas both said the fireworks footsteps portion were computer generated while it was happening.

And they say the media doesn't pay attention to detail...

[Jane Craig]

This one really rankles me -- the little singing girl wasn't the one doing the singing, because the child with the best voice was determined to be of insufficient cuteness (she looks adorable to me).

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/oly.kids/index.html

Anybody remember Singin' in the Rain? Martha Wash of The Weathergirls?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........................

[22]

I guess the Chinese have never heard of Milli Vanilli.

[JoinUsForCake]

China has no music of their own. The only musical sounds they make are the twangy noises you always hear in the movies when someone finds themselves waking up in China after being Shanghaied or something.
...and Medialine's least favorite racist rears his pathetic head once again!

You never cease to amaze.

[Mr. Rugen]

China has no music of their own. The only musical sounds they make are the twangy noises you always hear in the movies when someone finds themselves waking up in China after being Shanghaied or something.

If bigotry were brains you'd be a genius, instead of a troll.

[Jane Craig]

I guess the Chinese have never heard of Milli Vanilli.

Yeah, I almost mentioned them, but the mere thought sent me on an unpleasant flashback so I bailed. :cool:

[Roy Hobbs]

Anybody remember Singin' in the Rain? Martha Wash of The Weathergirls?



I recall Martha Stewart and the Van Heflins...:rockon:
http://creoleindc.typepad.com/rantings_of_a_creole_prin/images/2008/01/25/martha_stewart.jpghttp://content9.flixster.com/photo/98/22/75/9822755_tml.jpg
http://www.lanaturneronline.com/Heflin%20and%20Turner.jpg

[Sultanosurf]

Watcha expect the cheerleaders to dance with?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39995000/jpg/_39995000_onthebeach.jpg

[Clever Login Name]

To be fair, it's my understanding that the fireworks t-v viewers saw were a computer-generated replica of what was actually happening overhead at the stadium ... they just didn't feel confident that any kind of aerial camera could capture it wholly and accurately without putting a pilot or two at risk, so they spent a year recreating it on a computer for the viewers at home.

The little girl ... not surprising.

[SamG]

To be fair, it's my understanding that the fireworks t-v viewers saw were a computer-generated replica of what was actually happening overhead at the stadium ... they just didn't feel confident that any kind of aerial camera could capture it wholly and accurately without putting a pilot or two at risk, so they spent a year recreating it on a computer for the viewers at home.

The little girl ... not surprising.
That's what I heard also. So the fireworks *DID* happen, but the *ONE* segment (footsteps) was not actually televised.

[s'news]

That's a lame reason, I believe, for coming up with a computer-generated version.

I didn't hear announcers say that it was computer-generated. The clips I heard of Lauer on the radio this morning, from when the fireworks were allegedly going off, didn't include him saying it was computer-generated.

[Spike]

That's what I heard also. So the fireworks *DID* happen, but the *ONE* segment (footsteps) was not actually televised.

The CGI footprints sequence was broadcast at the same time that the actual footprints were being fired off. There is amateur video of the real footprint fireworks here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZrI8onelg

Zhang Yimou just couldn't get the aerial shot he wanted live, so he used the animation. Personally I think it might have been better to shoot it from the ground. Even in that shaky-ass amateur video, the footprints themselves are rather impressive from underneath as if a giant is walking over you.

[The Thrill]

Makes sense to play American-style sports music for beach volleyball...didn't we invent the game?

But if I hear "The Ketchup Song" one more time at The Water Cube... :frustrated:

[Kace]

Last night, while I was watching the softball game, they played The Official Song Of Death ("You Are My Sunshine," for the unfamiliar) in between half innings.

I had to mute it.

[The Thrill]

Still not as bad as what the PA came up with for the first timeout during the Lions-Packers '94 wildcard playoff at Lambeau.

"I Swear" By All-4-One.

We all looked up at the box and went, "WTF!?" :confused: