If you pay a bajillion dollars for tickets to see a pop star who performs as a fictional character, and she lip-syncs her songs, is it really all that deceptive? I mean, you paid to see a fictional character anyway, right?
What if she disappears in the middle of her show and a body double goes onstage to replace her, and the body double lip-syncs too? Do you have any grounds to be cheesed off?
Outraged female teen trend-robots are dealing with exactly this conundrum, after Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) was spotted exiting the stage during her show and being replaced by a lookalike. The soundtrack, of course, never skipped a beat.
[I]t appears Miley may be using a not-very-convincing “Hannah” double to cover for her during a mysterious mid-song disappearance from the stage.
“When it got the to bridge of the song “We Got the Party,” her dancers began to crowd around her,” one ticked-off Miley fan tells OK!. “Then they covered her with a black sheet and she went through a secret door. Within a second, a new ‘Hannah’ came out of a different door wearing oversized white glasses. The whole time this was happening Miley’s vocals were still playing. The new imposter had her back turned while she danced, trying to hide that fact that she was not Miley Cyrus. At this instant I became very suspicious.”
I’m not exactly a big connoisseur of 15-year-old pop talent, but even I could spot the ol’ switcheroo. It happens at 2:23 in this video, shot last month in Atlanta:
Save some money, Miley. It’s going to be a short ride.
Grrr, arrgh, video gone, Hulk, uh, Rocko smash!