Taylor Hanson: Lip-Synching Is Lowering The Standard

In an Associated Press feature on lip-synching, Taylor Hanson of the group Hanson acknowledged that not all lip-synched performances are evil, but he complained that record companies today are manufacturing artists who can’t perform live even if they wanted to. “There’s so many great bands who are performing, and singing their guts out every night, and the prevalence of artists being represented … and saying, ‘Hey everyone does this, everyone sings to track,’ I just think it’s lowering the standard,” he complained. “It’s totally insulting to so much great music out there.” Read more.