Replacing a girl just because she is “not pretty”?

August 15, 2008 | By Makkez In M1 Articles |

This news might be a few days old but I really found this to be very stupid! Just because a little girl is not ‘pretty enough’, she has been banned from singing the China’s national anthem at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and had been replaced with another girl who seems to be ‘pretty’ but her voice sucks! In the end, both came to a win-win situation; “I’ll be ’singing’ using ‘your voice’. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, huh?

This reminds me of the stupid Fair N’ Lovely advertisement, where as in their belief, dark-skinned women are a disgrace and won’t be bothered unless she applied that stupid cream all over her face and became fair the following morning, and only then the guys would be sticking out their tongue! I’m just wondering, does Fair N’ Lovely still using that advertisement?
 

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[12-Aug] It was a performance that melted hearts all around the world. In front of 91,000 spectators and a billion TV viewers, Lin Miaoke sang China’s national anthem at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Or rather, she didn’t.

Rejected: Yang Peiyi (right) was banned from singing live at the Olympic opening ceremony and replaced with Lin Miaoke (left). For it emerged yesterday that the pig-tailed nine-year-old had only been lip-synching the words - because her voice was deemed not good enough, while the girl who did sing was not considered pretty enough. Chief music director Chen Qigang explained that during a live rehearsal shortly before Friday’s ceremony, the Politburo member said Miaoke’s voice ‘must change’.

So Peiyi’s voice was matched with Miaoke’s face. ‘We had to make that choice - it was fair both for Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi,’ Mr Chen told Beijing Radio. ‘We combined the perfect voice and the perfect performance. ‘The reason was for the national interest. The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings and expression. Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects. But in the aspect of voice, Yang Peiyi is flawless.’

A photo of Peiyi posted yesterday on a popular website shows a smiling girl with braces and crooked teeth. She insisted she was not upset at the switch and was honoured to have her voice used.

Source: dailymail.co.uk


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    • 18 Responses for "Replacing a girl just because she is “not pretty”?"

    1. Avatar viji August 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am

      huh very bad leader. give the priority to talent. not for look. :mad:

    2. Avatar the truth August 15th, 2008 at 8:33 am

      someone has to go and tell these chinese leaders that EVERYONE in their race, ALL look alike, and just like PIGS! what a bunch of communist FOOLS!

    3. Avatar Logan August 15th, 2008 at 9:06 am

      This is a disgrace …. another ‘fakes’ by them, sad to see that appearance seems to be the ‘eye’ in every corner - even when looking for a jobs. this gal is young, and maybe she doesnt actually ‘feels’ it when you are put aside just because looks… Dammmn! Anyhow - couldnt agree more with makkez, the fair&lovely ads is pretty much F*cked up !!

    4. Avatar Chan August 15th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

      No comments.. thing’s happen almost everywhere.
      And even in our backyard. Its has been a culture of humans to choose the best of available(including myself but not commercially).

      On thother hand, try to replace the “not pretty” with “not bumiputra” or other things and you might get another situation where we are more familar with.

    5. Avatar NK August 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

      To the truth

      EVERYONE in their race, ALL look alike, exactly a “Bastard”

      I guess if I look up on a dictationary for the word “bastard”, I probably see your picture.

    6. Avatar the truth August 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

      To NK,
      firstly, its spelled as DICTIONARY, and secondly, authors usually put words instead of pictures in a DICTIONARY.

      I bet if i were to look up the word ‘IMBECILE’ in a Thesaurus, i’d probably find a whole list of your family’s name in it!

    7. Avatar the truth August 15th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

      and a small request/advice to NK, PLEASE STOP RAPING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

    8. Avatar crazygurl.. August 15th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

      yeah..look at her talent not face…poor girl.. :?:

    9. Avatar OG August 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

      :sad: they have insulted a God’s creation..poor girl

    10. Avatar NK August 16th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

      To the Truth :

      say something more creative. Stop coping others idea by changing a few words.

    11. Avatar NK August 16th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

      To the Truth,

      Yes, usually the author use words to describe; but for “BASTARED”, your picture can save thousand words (the best explanation)

    12. Avatar NK August 16th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

      To Bastard Truth

      I’m sorry, you have no chance to rape my language, cause you are not educated enough to know one single word

    13. Avatar the truth August 17th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

      Triple Posts!! Pawnage!!

    14. Avatar townguy August 17th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

      whats the point having cute girl, at the Olympic launching ceremony , that pretty girl just sit beside the famous piano player and doing nothing .

    15. Avatar NK August 17th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

      To townguy

      The point is the same as “Why girls would sometimes take photo with
      flowers?”, because it make more attractive photo.

    16. Avatar the truth August 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

      i virtually spat all my coffee on the monitor upon reading the last comment, Freaking LMFAO,the stupidest reply one could give!! you made my day NK. Thanks!

    17. Avatar NK August 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

      the truth, at last, I make you laugh instead of anger.

    18. Avatar Asshole September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am

      Freaks shouldn’t be on national TV


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