Worst Lip-Synching Ever: Ashley Tisdale On NBC's Tree-Lighting Special

Watch "High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale flub the lyrics to Wham! classic "Last Christmas" throughout her live 4-minute lip-synched performance. No jig, but she gives Ashlee Simpson a run for her money. Note the very beginning and the very end, when her mic gets turned back on and you can hear her warble the last "la la la". It's at 4:07.

Comments

[djg55555]

10:12 AM on 12/03/2007

Nick introduced her by saying she was going to sing a Christmas song. How was that a Christmas song? Just because it has the word "Christmas" in it, that automatically makes it a Christmas song? By that logic, the movie "Dumb and Dumber" was a Christmas movie, because Jim Carey's character's name was "Lloyd Christmas".

[ilovedessert]

02:55 AM on 12/03/2007

OOPPS THAT SHOULD BE WHO?

[ilovedessert]

02:54 AM on 12/03/2007

WHP???

[lynchie]

11:31 AM on 12/02/2007

There real issue is why does anyone watch this crap or buy the records. As far as talent since when is than required to make money.

[WilliePilgrim]

10:27 AM on 12/02/2007

I am shocked, SHOCKED! to hear that there is lip-syncing going-on on popular morning entertain-news programs. Does the brown haird guy who's not Steve Ducey know this? I foresee an in-depth examination that will galvanize congress into action while we ignore the other stuff. Why, before you know it, some celebrity news figure will expose their underwear, or lack thereof, and because of all the horrible stuff going on, and decline in our press's first amendment protected rights to show us everything and anything having to do with scandals among the beautiful peop, we might miss it as it happens.
Oh...and lay off, Britany. She's got more cred than Katie Couric.

[mcearlgrey]

10:25 AM on 12/02/2007

I have to concur with drblack's assessment that the real issue is the use of digital auto-tuning to make people who can't carry a tune sound like pro singers.

I would add that the song is overproduced, unlistenable garbage. Also, the funnier bit of phoniness about the "performance" was the guitarist swiveling his instrument like he was soloing, even though there is no audible guitar in the song.

[ltyr2002]

02:18 AM on 12/02/2007

Oh so what!
Lip-synching is nothing new, and I frankly didn't see that she was off very much. There's a lot of layered voice parts and she'd have to choose which one to sing anyway.

I mean the song is a kind of sappy, pop tune that's infectious in an irritating way, yes indeed. But what difference does it make anymore? At least she's not singing about being a 'ho' or snuffing out someone in a gang fight.

[rektruax]

08:09 PM on 12/01/2007

I remember The Beach Boys miming and synching to a song on American Bandstand and they must have been in a seriously noncompliant mood...

Love and Brian just kinda leaned on their mics, and Dennis was literally just swinging sticks arrhythmically through the song stopping entirely on occasion and looking around and laughing. It was pretty funny.

[drblack]

06:28 PM on 12/01/2007

As mentioned above the Use of Antares auto tune has made mediocre singers stars. This is why they have to lip-sync because without the auto-tune computer program enhancement these people cannot sing. Wonder how britney can sing? Its Antares auto tune.
Listen to some of Chers recent work. Do you hear that strange sound ? That is what happens when you over use auto tune.
These pitch correction programs were written to correct an occasional bad note ..not to make bad singers acceptable.
Remember when music was made by musicians?
Today it is all computers... most rap, britney and her ilk they have no talent or ability at music.
I heard a review of britneys new record on the radio and it sounded like a bad car commercial and had almost no real musical instruments, just a bunch of computer generated noises.
If a person cannot take an instrument and play and sing they are not a musician .
I bashed on britney because she is a good representative of these terrible"entertainers' and the lack of talent in what passes for music today.
there are REAL musicians out there who play, sing and write.

[EWFish]

04:36 PM on 12/01/2007

That wasn't so awful. You want bad lip-synch? Try the Prosperity II ventriloquist preacher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjRJhW2exhY

[mexamerican]

03:36 AM on 12/01/2007

more disney child porn. i wish they'd take the cast of high school musical, add hanah montana, put them in a burlap sack and sling off a pier already. this tween music is like shoving broken glass in your ear canal with a red-hot poker.

[InofTouch]

04:06 PM on 11/30/2007

please...lip-synching is always part apprently on NBC

From SNL, to Macy's Thanksgiving Parade to Tree-Lighting.

Dosen't mean they can't sing for reall but who want to hear background like wind blowing while they here

[bartonfink]

02:49 PM on 11/30/2007

I really thought it would be worse than that. the "la la las" at the end were funny, but who cares? the generic "ashley tisdale," could there be a more generic name? brought to you by the people who have regurgitated drek like mickey mouse for the last hundred years. actually, there's something about her that fairly screams "PRODUCT OF U. S. OF A. DURING THE BUSH PRESIDENCY."

[Fletch17C]

11:59 AM on 11/30/2007

"No jig, but she gives Ashlee Simpson a run for her money."

Hardly. Everyone knows that most of the Rockefeller performances are lip synched. Tony Bennett was probably the only one who sang live. Ashley Tisdale did what was expected of her. She bopped around in short-shorts.

As for Ashlee Simpson -- she and Papa Joe flat out LIED to Lorne Michaels to hide her lack of talent. The L in SNL stands for LIVE. Ashlee had agreed to sing live, and not only didn't she do it, she had the gaul to blame her band afterward.

[sparkey]

05:41 AM on 11/30/2007

Disney hired her because she looks good in a short skirt. Kinda like another girl who just lost her kids to another washed up has-been.