I thought that trying to pass off lip-synching as entertainment was an abomination when I was in my early teens, and spent too much time watching "American Bandstand" and "The Lloyd Thaxton Show." Improvements in sound and recording technology that developed during the late 60's could have made this abomination obsolete. Instead, we got EmptyV, which institutionalized it, and created an environment where people actually pay money to watch people on the stage pretend to sing and play instruments.
The content of the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games is an occasional topic of conversation in Vancouver, although little is known about it other than the budgeted cost, which is $40 million. This money comes out of the pockets of taxpayers, and we should be insisting that we get Sheryl Crow, not Ashlee Simpson. I've put up an article on Vancouver 2010 Insider about this: Proposal for the 2010 opening ceremony.
