Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face »
Posted By Green84 1 year, 4 months ago in News
A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched "Ode to the Motherland," a ceremony official said
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Nixie1 year, 4 months ago
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"A member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl's face with another's voice, the ceremony's chief music director, Chen Qigang, said in an interview with Beijing Radio.
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"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night."
That's so mean. Apparently the little girl had a pretty voice, but buck-teeth. Poor little thing. I'm not sure how this serves the "national interest". Everyone is not a great beauty, it's not like that's a secret. And all the time, they were touting how all the performers were just "ordinary Chinese citizens". -
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