By now I'm sure everyone has read about how the little Chinese girl who sang while the Chinese flag was marched in during the Olympic opening ceremonies was actually lip-syncing. Here you have the news from Dagens Nyheter and here you have it from CNN.
The actual, and amazing, 7-year old singer Yang Peiyi apparently wasn't cute enough. She had a "round face" and "uneven teeth" (so very shocking for a 7-year old!). The lip-syncer was deemed to have the properly cutesy appearance. According to the musical director, and I'm translating from the Swedish article, "The reason that Yang couldn't be seen was that we wanted to project the right image. We were acting in the nation's best interests."
Well, I'd say we got the right image, alright, but whether or not it was in the nation's best interests is debatable.
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