That’s true. I guess I’m so cynical about this subject that basically any step towards reform feels like a drop in an ocean, while commentaries like this article make it clear that most people don’t have a clue how big that ocean actually is...

This is a start. But as long as American award shows are only interested in focusing on American output (or the insult that is the Oscars “Best Foreign Film”), these shows are a joke, to be frank.

Mariah just can’t help herself. Either too dumb or too prideful (or both) to just shut the fuck up about this.

We live in an age where showing accountability is akin to admitting weakness. It’s all just assholes and the internet sycophants who make an echo chamber defending them.

Well Stella certainly isn’t (she’s fuckin Mariah’s career up) so ya seem to be contradicting yourself...

Hot take: that episode of Cribs sucked and was a terrible career decision

For the record, the Soulja Boy/Chris Brown conflict (and Soulja Boy’s increasingly erractic behavior) have been one of the more interesting things in pop culture in the past couple months. Admittedly, yes this subject isn’t on the radar of a lot of the Jezebel constituency. But it’s been interesting. The…

edit: it’s been a long week already so I initially read this as sincere. I’ve since rethought that and am going to assume this was sarcasm. Why is this coffee not working?

And NBC continues to capitulate to garbage!

I know this will be hard for many on this site to believe, but I’ve seen just as many mothers reinforce shitty masculine stereotypes in their sons. So yeah, I agree with the sentiment, but I bristle at the idea that it’s just dads who do it.

The same thing happened with George W Bush, believe it or not. The early days when he was running for governor of Texas, he sounded halfway cogent. Granted, Ann Richards still destroyed him in this debate (while still losing the election, fuck rural Texas and RIP Ann Richards).

To clarify further, I absolutely feel the system you’re describing sucks. I’m not going to give up a more utopian ideal of opportunities for performance on a grand scale being based on virtue of talent. I don’t feel that automatically adding the word “commercial” to television should invite any lapse of integrity.

Could you imagine asking, for instance, Sharon Jones (RIP) to lip-sync? It’s not going to happen...

Bullshit. If you don’t soundcheck, you are absolutely of some responsibility if the performance has sound issues. A sound engineer needs that soundcheck to get things right. If the artist refuses to soundcheck, it’s not the engineer’s fault if it sounds like shit. The engineer is going to be spending the bulk of the…

Definitely one of them.

A more talented singer could have performed and got the exposure. Mariah Carey took that opportunity away and then wasted it with a lazy shitty performance and attitude. How much I paid or did not pay to see it is irrelevant.

It looks like you and the 66 morons who starred your comment don’t understand the idea of discourse and discussion on an article.

Standards in the industry are not what I’m basing my opinion. It’s artistic integrity. Lip-syncing is lame.

That’s pretty shitty and not shocking if that’s the case. With that said though, even if that was the case, Mariah Carey could have handled the situation far better (for example, stop everything, cut and sing acapella) and didn’t.

edit: I initially responded to a different Beyonce lip-sync’d performance (*faceplant*). For the inauguration, it was lame to lip-sync. But on the relative scale of things, it was also a far more important event. So yeah I’m not as outraged.