Olympic mood

Ni hao! Some nuggets from the Beijing Olympics:

Theme song: You and me


Beijing welcomes you:

which song was it that they used a different singer who was pretending to sing the original song for Olympics?

cool, 2nd vid: a who's who in the chinese pop scene. must admit i don't know some of the faces. Pretty good production values too. first vid: nice natural shots of ordinary ppl, camera must have been rolling while director told them dirty jokes. lol.

To answer Sel, the first video was sung by the two performers shown in the video, atop the globe in the opening ceremony.

The Girl who lip-synced, but did not actually sing the song, was nine years old. I could tell she wasn't actually singing the song during the opening ceremony, but I thought they at least were using her voice. Unfortunately they weren't.

I suppose the Chinese party officials who made the decision to do this were unfamiliar with free press, and therefore wouldn't have known what a ravenous pack of piranhas the International press can be when you give them something like this to harp on about.

Still, I was thoroughly impressed by the opening ceremony. The fire works and various dances and demonstrations, and the wire work was most impressive at all.

I cannot imagine another country ever doing a better job, for all the brouhaha over lip-syncing and foggy fireworks displays. It was truly a new level, a new standard has been set.