A flawless girl was asked to lipsync the angelic voice of a not flawless girl.

Was it necessary? Was it fair? Was it right? Would the opening be any less spectacular if they had not done so? Would China be any different? NO, not at all. It isn’t right, fair or necessary. It would still be the grandest, most magnificent olympic opening. China’s greatness is intact or may have soared to new heights.

Is it forgivable? Definitely, after apologies & reparations, that is. Could we stop talking about it? In time, we will. Could we move on & forget about it? Move on, yes. Forget, never – we wouldn’t want the person/s responsible to get away with tainting innocence & brilliance….

unforgetful should have been “unforgiving”

Originally they picked a 10 year old girl who will sing and show up in front of 91000 people, but they thought 10 year old is still too old to present, now tell me, are you going to accuse China of age discrimination???????????

I just saw the whole conversation of the interview conducted by 2 Chinese Radio talk show in Chinese, asking the music department official of the opening ceremony, NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY, IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, because the girl on TV, her voice range is not wide enough, can’t quite hit the high note and low keys, so they use the other girls’ voice.

So stop accusing China calling the other girl UGLY, IT’S JUST NOT TRUE, again you will only believe your western media, have you heard of “LOST IN TRANSLATION”, this may or may not be the case of lost in translation, it may be just another case of selected bias done by another media, and coincidentally by the British, who will host the 2012 Olympics, hum………….

If you have a bias mind, you are going to see every flaws from a microscope lens, and they become very huge and unforgetful, and do you view yourself or your own country the same way?????????

o Denial ~ refusing to admit or face a threatening realities or situations by denying their seriousness.

I will maintain that there really is nothing wrong w/ lip syncing. Pavarotti, Ashley Simpson & Lea Salonga did it due to health & technological constraints. But they USED THEIR OWN VOICES.
This isn’t sour grape. But your insistence that we turn a blind eye & accept a despicable injustice sure is sweet lemon, my dear.

Producing a spectacular olympic opening doesn’t make this right! Blaming it on the media or the person who leaked the truth won’t be any consolation either. Don’t go on barking on wrong trees. Better yet, don’t call it what it was NOT – technological enhancement(?!). Focus, people. Who got 8years (minimum) preparation into Beijing? These girls were yet to be conceived! Who got more than 1billion brilliant heads to pull one hell of an olympic event? If only 1 smart head out of there had said, “Stop! this can’t be done, Yang Peiyi deserved better than this, CHINA CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS, THE WORLD DESERVE WAY MORE THAN THIS.”…

Perhaps most of us who aren’t Chinese don’t fully understand or appreciate how seriously the Chinese take national pride. Maybe this is an example of that. “Maybe” even their children understand the necessary sacrifices and trade-offs one has to make for one’s country. I can respect that.

However, I would like to say that the people responsible for this swapping and lip-synching decision are … monsters. She probably did say the above statement but I can only imagine what this incident will do to her self-esteem. She will grow up with that and I just hope she will actually be able to forget it. She was chosen to sing, she rehearsed, then was replaced at the last minute because she “wasn’t pretty enough”? I’ve read about criminals doing horrible things to children and this just made it in that list.

The officials responsible for this obviously had time to prepare. Why didn’t they just scout for a very pretty Chinese girl with an equally angelic voice? I’m more than certain that she’s out there somewhere.

P.S. Asdf, if you have nothing better than that to say I would suggest you return your hands back inside your pants and resume “massaging” your brain. Thank you.

Well put, if people really believed this reporter’s intention is that he really cares about that girl, than you are fooled by him too!!!!!

He is the real fake righteous hypocrite!!!!

THE OPENING OF THE BEJING OLYMPICS WAS THE BEST EVER. IT HAD TASTE, IT HAD ORIGINALITY, IT HAD CREATIVITY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY IT SHOWED THE WORLD THAT AS MUCH AS YOU THINK CHINA IS “BACKWARDS,” WITHOUT ITS INVESNTION, THE WORLD WOULD HAVE NEVER PROGRESSED TO WHAT IT IS TODAY.

ARE PEOPLE SO NAIVE TO THINK THAT HUGE GIGANTIC PRODUCTIONS SUCH AS THIS ONE, IS NOT ENHANCED BY TECHNOLOGICAL TROUBLE-SHOOTING AND “JUST IN CASE” RED BUTTONS. GIVE IT UP PLEASE, SOUR GRAPES OUT THERE. YOU ENJOYED IT, YOU CAN’T DENY THAT, SO JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT. CAUSE IF AMERICAN SINGERS CAN LIP-SYNCH IN CONCERTS AND SATURDAY NIGHT “LIVE” THEN FOR THIS KIND OF EVENT, I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT WE CAN FORGIVE A LITTLE (AND REALLY IT WAS JUST A LITTLE) HELP FROM TECHNOLOGY.

SOUR GRAPES.

I feel for the 2 little girls involve. These are children. Their image need not be the most appropriate. They need not be perfect. They need not be flawless. How sad that the Beijing Olympics productions think otherwise.

My heart goes out to Yang Peiyi; she did nothing wrong except being called “not flawless” enough to sing for China. Honey, You may not be the look of China, BUT YOU SURE ARE THE VOICE OF CHINA…

You owe it to yourself, read up more about China, instead of getting information only from your biased media, or from shows like say “National Geographic” or “Discovery Channel”, haven’t you noticed your media will show you, here look at China’s growth, but look, underneath the growth, there are the dark sides, and let’s LOOK at the dark sides and let’s delve into it. There are lots of happy Chinese out there, and we are the majority not the minority, be fair to the majority, they are just as human like minority!!!!

By the way, your twisted interpretation of my comment does not get you anywhere! I emphasize on difference, not better or worse, please respect the difference!

Points taken, and thank you …

Cheers!
Jon

Stop saying “Oh, so poor……, I feel for her, oh, can you imagine the impact on her, blah,blah……” , that girl might be stronger than you think, maybe she doesn’t measure her confidence from being told about her appearance, I would say it’s a good thing not to be measured your value by being told you are good looking at your young age, you know what, for years to come, you may not grow as pretty as the everyone expected, then what??? Your self esteem are going to be crushed???? She will be told she is a beautiful measured by her true quality by her parents and friends, don’t worry about her, pay more attention to you own girls that start putting on makeup at their early teens!