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Date: 10/25/2004 7:10 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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The clip I saw shows pretty clearly that the band was playing. One fan
site
says she was saving her voice for a concert on Monday.

I didn't see SNL, but I'm surprised they ran anything where the singer
botched things. The show's not actually live; it's taped earlier in
the evening, unless things have changed over the years.

It is live on the East Coast. Always has been.

I'd think
they'd edit out an obvious mistake or do another take.

They tape their rehersals and those are used to cover for major screwups after
the live broadcast to the east coast.

I suspect that for many of the most popular singers lip-sync has become
more
common than we might suspect. The performance requirements appear to be
very heavy and cause strain, so I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many
performers save where they can.

I've read that also, or that there will be some lip-synching during a
show just so the singer can catch his/her breath occasionally. Part of
the problem is that many singers now try to put on massive,
spectacular shows with dancing and choreography, and it's hard to keep
up with all that stuff and sing perfectly at the same time. (I don't
know about Madonna, but in the past her shows included singing,
dancing, costume changes, etc. and she might want or need to give her
voice a rest sometimes during a show.) And the singers want to do
something spectacular so that the performance is more like a music
video, and at current ticket prices, audiences deserve and expect a
big show.

Some of them can do it some of them cannot.