History Main / ThatSyncingFeeling

* According to a ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'' developer, the game started out as a complete clone of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} II'', including nausea-inducing graphics and clumsy controls. Then, at a game show, the booth next to them showed an at-the-time revolutionary RTS game that led them to make Starcraft as we know it. Only later did he find out the demo was prerecorded with the demonstrators pretending to play.

** Notably, Music/SechsKies (one of the most important Korean boy groups during the late 90s) was one of the most frequent targets of lipsyncing allegiations - that is until they had enough of the allegiations and decided to prove they're '''[[SubvertedTrope not]]''' the case in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k_BO5KUBUE most impactful way known to mankind]]:

* In 1999, the satirical Italian band [[Music/{{ElioELeStorieTese}} Elio e le storie tese]] (Elio and the Tense Stories) once had a performance on the Italian music program 'Festivalbar'. The band was told to lip-synch their performance, and that their instruments would not be plugged in. Though this was common practice, this didn't sit well for a band known for playing its music live. So what did the band do? Half-way through their song 'Discoteca', the entire band froze in place, all while their song continued playing with vocals to a confused crowd. And they stayed like this '' '''for the rest of the entire performance''' '', even as they were carried off at the end like mannequins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6oi3DJkOo&ab_channel=michelesera It has to be seen to be believed.]]

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* In one ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'' [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0103.html strip]], Fenton can tell a singer is lip-syncing thanks to his echolocation: he can tell the sound is coming from the amps and not her beak.

** Notably, Music/SechsKies (one of the most important Korean boy groups during the late 90s) was one of the most frequent targets of lipsyncing allegiations - that is until they had enough of the allegiations and decided to prove they're '''[[Main/SubvertedTrope not]]''' the case in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k_BO5KUBUE most impactful way known to mankind]]:
-->'''Jiwon:''' ''[ad-libbing]'' Aww yeah! Haha, listen to my words! [[spoiler:[[Main/PrecisionFStrike THE FUCKING]] [[Main/WhamLine DICK IS IN YOUR PUSSY!]]]][[note]]They got away with it.[[/note]]
* Every UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime show has the performing musicians pre-record their audio, as the Super Bowl is ''the'' most watched program in the United States every year and any major mistakes in the music would generate a whirlwind of bad publicity both for the NFL and the performers.

* Music/MilliVanilli is the TropeCodifier for this and RepetitiveAudioGlitch, to the point that their name has become synonymous with this trope. From 1988 to 1990, the duo was one of the most successful pop acts in Europe and the US. However, when they performed live onstage on MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut in mid-1989, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" played and [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch began to skip]], repeating "Girl, you know it's..." over and over on the speakers. They continued to lipsynch onstage for a few moments before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running offstage]] when [[OhCrap they realized what was happening]]. Downtown Julie Brown rushed after Rob Pilatus, who was in such a state after the incident that he told her "I've had enough. I quit." While this didn't keep them from winning a Grammy for Best New Artist the next year, people became suspicious - especially after one of the ''actual'' singers announced that it was a scam before retracting his statements [[RevealingCoverup at the duo's request]]. Eventually, their producer finally confessed to the scam, causing their Grammy to be revoked and twenty-seven lawsuits to be filed against them for fraud. Their debut album was pulled from shelves and the masters were deleted, while their second album was hastily re-credited to the actual singers, branded "The Real Milli Vanilli" (or "Try 'N' B"), and [[NoExportForYou only released in Brazil, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand]].

* Music/MilliVanilli is the TropeCodifier for this and RepetitiveAudioGlitch, to the point that their name has become synonymous with this trope. From 1988 to 1990, the duo was one of the most successful pop acts in Europe and the US. However, when they performed live onstage on MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut in mid-1989, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" played and [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch began to skip]], repeating "Girl, you know it's..." over and over on the speakers. They continued to lipsynch onstage for a few moments before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running offstage]] when [[OhCrap they realized what was happening]]. While this didn't keep them from winning a Grammy for Best New Artist the next year, people became suspicious - especially after one of the ''actual'' singers announced that it was a scam before retracting his statements [[RevealingCoverup at the duo's request]]. Eventually, their producer finally confessed to the scam, causing their Grammy to be revoked and twenty-seven lawsuits to be filed against them for fraud. Their debut album was pulled from shelves and the masters were deleted, while their second album was hastily re-credited to the actual singers, branded "The Real Milli Vanilli" (or "Try 'N' B"), and [[NoExportForYou only released in Brazil, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand]].

->''I wanted to die. It stopped... "Girl, you know it's-Girl, you know it's-Gir-" 80,000 people. "Girl, you know it's-Girl, you-" You know, I couldn't repeat it fifteen times. "Girl, you-" So I stopped, I panicked, I ran off stage. Julie Brown, who used to work for Creator/{{MTV}}, ran after me. I didn't wanna go back to the stage; I'd had enough. 80,000 people waiting. I said, "I've had enough. I quit."''

* Music/MilliVanilli is the TropeCodifier for this and RepetitiveAudioGlitch, to the point that their name has become synonymous with this trope. From 1988 to 1990, the duo was one of the most successful pop acts in Europe and the US. However, when they performed live onstage on MTV in mid-1989, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" played and [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch began to skip]], repeating "Girl, you know it's..." over and over on the speakers. They continued to lipsynch onstage for a few moments before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running offstage]] when [[OhCrap they realized what was happening]]. While this didn't keep them from winning a Grammy for Best New Artist the next year, people became suspicious - especially after one of the ''actual'' singers announced that it was a scam before retracting his statements [[RevealingCoverup at the duo's request]]. Eventually, their producer finally confessed to the scam, causing their Grammy to be revoked and twenty-seven lawsuits to be filed against them for fraud. Their debut album was pulled from shelves and the masters were deleted, while their second album was hastily re-credited to the actual singers, branded "The Real Milli Vanilli" (or "Try 'N' B"), and [[NoExportForYou only released in Brazil, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand]].

* One scene of ''Animation/HappyHeroes 2: The Battle of Planet Qiyuan'' has Happy S., Zelia, and Big M. pretending to be the band Aprilday (a parody of the real-life Taiwanese band Mayday). Big M. does quite an impressive singing voice when they perform at their concert, and the fans can barely tell the difference. And then Big M.'s phone battery goes dead, the audience realizes he was lip-syncing the lyrics, and they're certainly not happy about it.

Compare HongKongDub for the movie equivalent. See also WrongSongGag. A subtrope of ProfessionalVoiceDissonance and SingingVoiceDissonance.

Compare HongKongDub for the movie equivalent. See also WrongSongGag.

* Creator/DisneyChannel's ''Shorty [=McShort=]'s Shorts'' multi-part episode "Boyz on Da Run" involves the titular band [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the run]] from angry fans after their singing talents (or lack thereof) is exposed a la Milli Vanilli.
* The Ashlee Simpson incident on ''SNL'' is parodied in a CutawayGag from the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E15BrianGoesBackToCollege Brian Goes Back to College]]", when "Ol' Man River" from ''Theatre/{{Showboat}}'' starts playing when she opens her mouth.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]", Fluttershy is a great singer, but she won't perform in public because of her [[PerformanceAnxiety crippling stage fright]]. When Big Mac loses his voice right before an important performance, Fluttershy's friends convince her to hide behind a curtain and provide Mac's singing voice. The ruse works for several shows, but Fluttershy gets so into performing that she starts ad-libbing, and Big Mac has trouble keeping up. At the planned final show, Fluttershy accidentally knocks the curtain down, exposing the ruse. The audience applauds her, but she has a nervous breakdown and flees.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' episode "Beach Boys & A Girl", the kids form a band but later find out they sound awful. Sam remixes their recorded audio to make them sound better, and they become a hit. They're later asked to preform live, but since their music isn't genuine, they resort to lip-syncing. Their cover is blown, they get laughed off stage, and they decide to end the band.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'':
** In the short "Texas Tom", Tom tries to impress a girl cat by singing to a recording. Jerry has some fun by changing the speed on the record player, forcing Tom to lip-sync faster and then slower.
** The later Gene Deitch-era short "Carmen Get It" has Tom posing as a concert violinist to get into an opera house where ''Carmen'' is being performed, so he can get Jerry in there. He has a violin with a reel-to-reel tape recorder inside, which he plays during the actual performance, and mimes playing the violin to the tape. Jerry gets into the violin and changes the speed setting of the tape to fast, upsetting the conductor, who proceeds to break the violin/tape recorder over Tom's head.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E14NewKidsOnTheBlecch New Kids on the Blecch]]", a Navy lieutenant disguised as a talent scout persuades Bart and several classmates to form a BoyBand as part of a SubliminalAdvertising campaign to gather recruits. The boys are all terrible singers, so the lieutenant uses real-time AutoTune to fix their singing at their live shows. When the lieutenant is told that the band is no longer marketable thanks to a scathing article by ''Magazine/MadMagazine'', his commander ends the band in the bluntest way possible: turning off the auto-tune in the middle of a song. Upon hearing their uncorrected singing, the crowd immediately leaves.

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Witchy Grrrls" opens with a local talent contest. RichBitch Gem Stone is seemingly the only one performing well...until Sabrina sees her sip a glass of water during the performance and realises she's lip synching.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub'' has an instance where lip syncing is justified. A rock star is one of the suspects in the theft of a priceless crown, based on an audio cassette Larry found. But he wasn't the perp. The rock star lip syncs from the cassette so as not to strain his voice.

* In 1999, the satirical Italian band [[Music/{{ElioELeStorieTese}} Elio e le storie tese]] (Elio and the Tense Stories) once had a performance on the Italian music program 'Festivalbar'. The band was told to lip-synch their performance, and that their instruments would not be plugged in. Though this was common practice, this didn't sit well for a band known for playing its music live. So what did the band do? Half-way through their song 'Discoteca', the entire band froze in place, all while their song continued playing with vocals to a confused crowd. And they stayed like this '' '''for the rest of the entire performance''' '', even as they were carried off like mannequins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6oi3DJkOo&ab_channel=michelesera It has to be seen to be believed.]]

* In 1999, the satirical Italian band [[Music/{{ElioELeStorieTese}} Elio e le storie tese]] (Elio and the Tense Stories) once had a performance on the Italian music program 'Festivalbar'. The band was told to lip-synch their performance, and that their instruments would not be plugged in. Though this was common practice, this didn't sit well for a band known for playing its music live. So what did the band do? Half-way through their song 'Discoteca', the entire band froze in place, all while their song continued playing with vocals to a confused crowd. And they stayed like this '''for the rest of the entire performance''', until they were carried off like mannequins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6oi3DJkOo&ab_channel=michelesera It has to be seen to be believed.]]

* In 1999, the satirical Italian band [[Music/{{ElioELeStorieTese}} Elio e le storie tese]] (Elio and the Tense Stories) once had a performance on the Italian music program 'Festivalbar'. The band was told to lip-synch their performance, and that their instruments would not be plugged in. Though this was common practice, this didn't sit well for a band known for playing its music live. So what did the band do? Half-way through their song 'Discoteca', the entire band froze in place, all while their song continued playing with vocals to a confused crowd. And they stayed in place '''for the rest of the entire performance''', until they were carried off like mannequins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6oi3DJkOo&ab_channel=michelesera It has to be seen to be believed.]]

-->-- '''Fab Morvan''', on the disastrous concert that led to Music/MilliVanilli's exposure as a fraud.

* In one ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'' strip, Fenton can tell a singer is lip-syncing thanks to his echolocation: he can tell the sound is coming from the amps and not her beak.

->''I wanted to die. It stopped... "Girl you know it's-Girl you know it's-Gir-" 80,000 people. "Girl you know it's-Girl you-" You know, I couldn't repeat it fifteen times. "Girl you-" So I stopped, I panicked, I ran off stage. Julie Brown, who used to work for Creator/{{MTV}}, ran after me. I didn't wanna go back to the stage; I'd had enough. 80,000 people waiting. I said, "I've had enough. I quit."''

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Agnes Nitt is not conventionally attractive, but is a supernaturally talented singer. Christine, on the other hand, is a BrainlessBeauty who sings in a screech. The Opera House management therefore explain to Agnes that they would like her to ''sing'' the lead, but not, as it were, ''play'' the lead. Christine herself is totally ignorant of this, as she is of most things, and at one point complains to Agnes that she's singing too loudly for a member of the chorus. When Agnes realises the male lead has been replaced by the Opera Ghost, Christine opens her mouth to sing, but what everyone hears is Agnes shouting "[[Music/MeatLoaf Stop right there!]]"

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Agnes Nitt is not conventionally attractive, but is a supernaturally talented singer. Christine, on the other hand, is a BrainlessBeauty who sings in a screech. The Opera House management therefore explain to Agnes that they would like her to ''sing'' the lead, but not, as it were, ''play'' the lead. Christine herself is totally ignorant of this, as she is of most things, and at one point complains to Agnes that she's singing too loudly for a member of the chorus. When Agnes realises the male lead is actually the Opera Ghost, Christine opens her mouth to sing, but what everyone hears is Agnes shouting "[[Music/MeatLoaf Stop right there!]]"

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Agnes Nitt is not conventionally attractive, but is a supernaturally talented singer. Christine, on the other hand, is a BrainlessBeauty who sings in a screech. The Opera House management therefore explain to Agnes that they would like her to ''sing'' the lead, but not, as it were, ''play'' the lead. Christine herself is totally ignorant of this, as she is of most things, and at one point complains to Agnes that she's singing too loudly for a member of the chorus.

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Agnes Nitt is a FatGirl and a supernaturally talented singer. Christine, on the other hand, is a BrainlessBeauty who sings in a screech. The Opera House management therefore explain to Agnes that they would like her to ''sing'' the lead, but not, as it were, ''play'' the lead. Christine herself is totally ignorant of this, as she is of most things, and at one point complains to Agnes that she's singing too loudly for a member of the chorus.

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Agnes Nitt is FatGirl and a supernaturally talented singer. Christine, on the other hand, is a BrainlessBeauty who sings in a screech. The Opera House management therefore explain to Agnes that they would like her to ''sing'' the lead, but not, as it were, ''play'' the lead. Christine herself is totally ignorant of this, as she is of most things, and at one point complains to Agnes that she's singing too loudly for a member of the chorus.

* In ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', Lina is forcing Kathy to dub all her performances from now on. When she's asked to sing a song at the movie premiere, she has Kathy behind the curtain singing for her. Don then pulls open the curtain, revealing Kathy to the audience, but Lina is not made aware until Cosmo starts filling in for Kathy.

* Kandi Kisses "sang" on the Wrestling/{{Wrestlicious}} stage, where she was jeered for doing a poor job disguising she wasn't the one singing and continuously mocked by Wrestling/JimmyHart for it.

* ''Film/TheRocker'': The main character's former band, ''Vesuvius'', is performing a concert to celebrate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when the lead singer does a trick with the microphone stand, and the microphone goes flying away... only for him to be able to continue singing uninterrupted. Everyone starts to look confused as the stage grew rushes to give him a new mic. Then the RepetitiveAudioGlitch starts up and the jig is up. ''Vesuvius'' gets booed off stage and the protagonist's new band, A.D.D., is called in to perform an encore in their stead.

* ''Film/TheRocker'': The main character's former band, ''Vesuvius'', is performing a concert to celebrate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when the l;read singer does a trick with the microphone stand, and the microphone goes flying away... only for him to be able to continue singing uninterrupted. Everyone starts to look confused as the stage grew rushes to give him a new mic. Then the RepetitiveAudioGlitch starts up and the jig is up. ''Vesuvius'' gets booed off stage and the protagonist's new band, A.D.D., is called in to perform an encore in their stead.