Now maybe I am getting too cynical about SNL but...

did Eminem just lip synch Mosh?

Published on October 30, 2004 By historyishere In TV Shows

I was just watching Eminem perform Mosh on SNL.... and it sounded WAY too close to the video version. I mean, it was almost exactly the same as what was on the video, and at one point I could have sworn he pulled the mike away from his mouth, and he was still singing(it might have been his own backing vocal though). I can't prove it conclusively, but it looked like he was.

The irony is that SNL has been really ripping into Ashlee Simpson all show.... and if he did lip synch, well, it makes them look even worse.

Comments (Page 2)

powderfinger007

on Oct 31, 2004

I hate Eminem.

historyishere

on Oct 31, 2004

Hmm......I'm going to paying closer attention to the SNL musical guests in the future.

I doubt either of the past two performers will appear on any SNL DVD material in the future. I guess he felt like he could just phone it in.

Least Nat had the juevos to speak out. If she did the same thing now, do you think the reaction would be the same? Probably not.

I think that you are right about that. Its all a matter of timing... then again, she might have made it easier for other artists to come out against Bush today.

D'oh! I fell asleep and missed his Mosh performance. I woke up near the beginning of Weekend Update. I can't believe I did that.

It might end up online at someplace like MTV.

new-age nomad

on Oct 31, 2004

How could anyone hate Eminem? I just don't understand it.

Trinitie

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 31, 2004

I can remember watching American Bandstand and trying to see which artists were lip synching.

I mean I knew you were old, but sheeeeesh. Did you see the one where Jerry Lee Lewis came on and set the piano on fire?

messybuu

on Oct 31, 2004

I like Eminem, even if he does lip-sync and does get political (this isn't the first time actually, now that I remember Square Dance on The Eminem Show).

Perhaps the audience in SNL needs to stop being so polite booing if SNL keeps screwing them over with prerecorded performances.

Now I'm trying to remember if the New Kids on the Block lip-synced at their concert.

historyishere

on Oct 31, 2004

I mean I knew you were old, but sheeeeesh. Did you see the one where Jerry Lee Lewis came on and set the piano on fire?

Or the one where Dick Clark destroyed Philly in a rampage of radioactive breath and fought Mothra....

wait... that was a Godzilla movie... or Dick Cheney.... I can't remember which.....

kdclla

on Oct 31, 2004

I never catch SNL, but I did last night and I saw the same thing! I definately think he was lip synching and I thought the same thing but just blew it off....I guess I wasn't the only one

historyishere

on Oct 31, 2004

And now Lorne Michaels is saying that lip-synching is not a common practice for SNL, when it is looking increasingly like it is. Shameful really.

I never catch SNL, but I did last night and I saw the same thing! I definately think he was lip synching and I thought the same thing but just blew it off....I guess I wasn't the only one

Maybe that was the hope... because this case doesn't seem to be receiving much coverage in the press. We'll see if anyone is talking about this tomorrow though.

BlueDev

on Nov 01, 2004

How could anyone hate Eminem? I just don't understand it.

Very, very simple. Can't stand the guy. See how easy that was?

just john

on Nov 01, 2004

I am a fan of Em. I hate Mosh. I think that it is a very charged attack from someone who hasn't taken time to look at all of the facts. That said...

If you go back and look at the performance, he is not lip synching. In his "Music" he traditionally raps over his background tracks. 80%+ of his music is recorded this way. He took the mic away from his mouth several times in that performance with words still comming out of the speakers. But, when the mic is up you can clearly hear 2 voices.

historyishere

on Nov 01, 2004

I don't really hear the second voice. Sorry....

RedneckHunter

on Nov 01, 2004

I believe ALOT of artists lip-sync during concerts. Have you ever watched Britney Braziers bounce around on stage and never miss a note?

historyishere

on Nov 01, 2004

I believe ALOT of artists lip-sync during concerts. Have you ever watched Britney Braziers bounce around on stage and never miss a note?

And that makes it right? I don't think so.

RedneckHunter

on Nov 01, 2004

And that makes it right? I don't think so.

Never said it did/did not. Kinda like that Dancin' Chicken at the fair. Everyine thinks it is talented cause it dances to music. While all along it is just the dude turnin up the heat on the hotplate.

historyishere

on Nov 01, 2004

See, I am against lip synching both in theory and principle.... if you go to a concert, and they lip synch, I think you should be able to demand your money back, because that is not what is being advertised.

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