Seems Rami Malek didn’t quite sing the Freddie Mercury bits in the movie, but lip synced to a mix of himself+some impersonator 🤔
And more confusingly the soundtrack album is apparently all Queen originals.
I thought Hollywood didn’t approve of this and considered it cheating?
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I thought this was a cool strategy for recording live in A Star is Born. (can ignore video and just read text) variety.com/2018/artisans/ (tl;dr: recording live but unamplified and then processing using impulse response data)
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Particularly ironic give that the script featured an anti-lipsync scene, to show Freddie and Queen as morally grounded and authentic. Otoh, it was a great movie, so means justify the ends?
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Poll:
What is the one claim regarding "authenticity" that you would most willingly give up...
How many more pseudo-scandals of the "A didn't sing X" variety do we have to endure?
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Sorry Josh- movie didn’t work for me on too many levels. Clearly I am a snob :)
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