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Sophisticated_Dicks

I watched it with 0 sound. Even if there was no context, I would believe this is from '97.


SpooogeMcDuck

I was there, you don’t need to hear the anything. Just imagine counting crows, hootie, or barenaked ladies


TxAggie2010

Haha so true. Barenaked ladies was my first attended live concert in ‘98. Semisonic opened


SpooogeMcDuck

Weird- that was MY first concert too. We saw the same tour for our first time. What does that make us?


TxAggie2010

barenaked lovers.


InerasableStains

>Hootie You mean country music sensation Darius Rucker???


SuperSoftAbby

What? And also: What! Well. Guess he is the first artist to switch genres and still make music I love


InerasableStains

I am excited that you learned this today


gotoankit5

At least try to lip sync 😂


IrksomFlotsom

Probably top of the pops, their policy was for every artist to mime to a backing track or just put the vocals out if the band could provide an instrumental version of their single Nirvana didn't like this so their TOTP performance is legendary xD


Muad-_-Dib

> Probably top of the pops, their policy was for every artist to mime to a backing track or just put the vocals out if the band could provide an instrumental version of their single That policy shifted a lot in both directions over the run of the show and a number of singers and bands performed live. The Who, Blondie, The Jackson 5, Elton John, New Order, Whitney Houston, Billy Ocean, Anita War, Boney M, the Nolans and Bowie among many others all performed live. Sometimes they tried to enforce it and as you say bands like Nirvana and others like Oasis, All About Eve etc. protested it by blatantly not playing the song or otherwise intentionally fucking it up. But over time they switched to more live performances, especially when the studio got upgraded and bands could control the quality of their performance to a greater degree and became more comfortable singing live. (a bunch of artists for example would ONLY mime because their live stuff was terrible). It used to be the gauge of if a band was going to be any good to go and see live if they would do a live TOTP performance or not.


Dependent-Rope-1042

> [...] Boney M [...] performed live. I press X to doubt.


crockrocket

Why doubt? Legit curious, I don't know much about them despite enjoying their music


Dependent-Rope-1042

As some others have said, Boney M is famous for having band members who were rather actors and dancers and did not sing or make the music themselves. The male voice you hear on Boney M tracks is the producer/songwriter Frank Farian, rather than Bobby Farrell who was the dancer/actor front-man (in performances he overacted in a pretty fun way that - at least to me - always made it clear that he's not actually singing much and is fully aware of it). Out of the women who were part of the band also only *some* of them were actually singing on recordings at all (mostly Liz Mitchel I think). So in short, Boney M is known as *the* lip sync group. They never really hid it as far as I can tell and no one cared about it. They still created fun, high-energy performances and Farian produced some very catchy tunes even when he wasn't the one on stage. You just gotta treat their performances more as theatrical acts rather than live singing.


crockrocket

Cool, thanks for the rundown!


crappysignal

I remember the first time I saw Beck playing Loser on TOTP and his band were all pensioners. I was surprised when I saw him live a year or two later and his band weren't pensioners.


deffjay

lol - Boney M. Frank Farian did the lead vocals for them. He was a white guy. The same guy behind the band Milli Vanilli


zaor666

Iron Maiden mocked it too. They were just swapping instruments during the whole thing. I think only Adrian Smith just played seriously.


bonkerz1888

Smiths took the piss too when Morrisey sang into a bunch of flowers.


Cmarkinn

I’ve read a few times that Kurt Cobain channeled Morrissey for his Smells like teen spirit performance on TOTP.


yyzda32

Whitney Houston singing I wanna dance with somebody on TOTP was up there


pmyourthongpanties

you mean when Ringo would just hold an umbrella? Hell even Muse did it better.


Militantpoet

Lol there was some TV performance Muse had years ago where they were told to lip synch and perform synch. So they just switched around their instruments and fucked around for the song.


magnakai

I went to a live taping once as a teenager (yes I’m that old). It was fairly ironic because I thought I was too cool for the lame pop they played. The taping covered a couple of episodes iirc. Most of the acts were miming but I remember Busted actually played live, and were by far the most entertaining people playing that session. I had to give them a bit of grudging respect for it.


Qubeye

Hearing Kurt Cobain sing "HEWH WE AWRE NOW....EHNAHTAINERS...." is still the funniest shit I've ever heard in my life. It was like hearing Kermit do vocals.


cclooopz

lol I had to see the original on YouTube, I think it’s a bit delayed on Reddit


dominarhexx

It's Not just delay. They're lip syncing. Super common for bands to do when being recorded on video. Most musicians have slight variation to live performance because they aren't being post produced on stage. When songs sound the exact same as the released recording, you should be suspicious. Edit: words


DaHappyCyclops

Lol, this is Top of the Pops. It was famously always lip synched. Look up Morrisey's classic performance with the Smiths where he refused to use the microphone and instead lip synched into a bunch of flowers as a real piece of pop-culture history.


danbob87

Also Nirvana holding the wrong instruments and not even bothering to try and make it look like they were playing


Softmachinepics

Yeah except Kurt was actually mic'd and so he did like an obnoxious opera singer thing. Hilarious


rabbithole2000

Just watched it. It’s almost like he used a mid 80s euro voice.


Ok_Hippo_5602

is top of the pops the name of a show?


Capnmarvel76

It was American Bandstand, but Syd Barrett standing motionless, staring blankly into the camera lens with his Telecaster hanging off of him, while the rest of Pink Floyd mimed behind him.


Varanjar

Unfortunately, that's how Syd usually played towards the end of his time in the band. That's pretty much why they stopped picking him up on the way to their shows.


anotherpredditor

The cure where all of the instruments are not even plugged in and they are being silly to show it.


unlizenedrave

Iron Maiden member trading their instruments and cycling through the drum kit and the mic during their performance


BannedSvenhoek86

That's why I love artists like Prince and Rage Against the Machine who would constantly be at odds with TV producers who wanted them to lip sync for TV. Hell, Prince is I think the last person to bully the NFL producers into playing his halftime live. I'm not sure about backup vocals and the band, but Princes voice and his guitar are 100% him during the performance. You can even hear him bump the guitar and when the stage hands change them out. And did it all *in the pouring rain without missing a beat*. Greatest halftime show of all time. When the producers told him "It's raining. What do you want us to do?!?" His response was famously, "Can you make it rain harder?" Well apparently this sub blocks video links for some dumb reason, but I suggest you all look it up, you can find it pretty easy.


zehnodan

Prince was something else though. My friend went to one of Prince's performances. He said Prince had a basketball hoop installed on stage, and would occasionally shoot during his songs. He also said Prince never missed a shot.


alaginge

Game: blouses.


Ricky_Rollin

I wish I could have even a quarter of his confidence. We’re just not made from the same star stuff. I’m taller than him and yet I have let my height affect me every step of the way in my life. Prince at 5’2 was like “ima be a sex icon anyways”. Lord, give me that strength.


Capnmarvel76

Prince was a force of nature, and the man worked HARD to get where he was. Anybody who has a performance venue *at their house* just in case he felt like playing a show after rehearsing and recording all day - that’s a musician.


MantisToboggan1189

Charlie Murphy confirmed this. Then after, he offered them pancakes.


SquishMont

The universe fucking robbed music by killing Prince before he could play at the Super Bowl in MN.


-_KwisatzHaderach_-

In a just world that season we would have had Prince play at half time and the Vikings would be playing


TheRolexChef

![gif](giphy|7NS84LzFwgMDK)


HerbaceousMongoose

I believe Lady Gaga also refused to lip-sync her Super Bowl performance. The instruments were pre-recorded, but she sang live.


audible_narrator

Read about the electrician who stripped wires and then help them in the socket for 12 mins in the rain, because a cable got cut when the stage was brought on field.


UnjustNation

>When songs sound the exact same as the released recording, you should be suspicious. Unless you’re Green Day, then you sound the exact same if not even better.


Pakmanisgod111

Linkin park and avenged sevenfold also say hello. Edit: Spelling.


ProjectMew

Knocked loose and Rise Against send their regards


Tro1138

Tori Amos sounds better live


SuperCaptSalty

It’s the cornflakes


DeadliestViper

They're*


asomek

They're. Ftfy


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This is 100% lip synced. The vocal effects are exactly the same as the recording. There would be some difference in quality, delay, volume, etc because she's jumping up and down and this is live. The room would affect the sound, and you would hear her voice being affected by her movements.


FROSCHTY

those lips are the opposite of synced


Dense_Sun_6127

![gif](giphy|OmiX1ioqxLs52)


harley4570

thank you....she wasn't even close


otheraccountisabmw

The sound is off.


Better_than_GOT_S8

To be fair, I didn’t pay attention to her lips.


[deleted]

Nip syncing is on point though!


IHateTheLetterF

I was her mailman in Denmark until quite recently. She still dislikes bra's.


Illustrious_Donkey61

Getting jiggly with it


sesoren65

Them boobies were slingin


Friendly_Age9160

With my big ass boobs they’d prolly fling back and throw me right off the damn stage lmao. I miss being 14 and having barely any. I really hate them so much cause I used to wear no bra all the time. Sadly that time is no longer. It’s so much more fun having basically nothing dangling of your chest but I try not to complain too much as there are so many women who’ve lost theirs and I’m grateful to be healthy so far, but. Like god damn they’re fuckin annoying.


sesoren65

Don't feel too bad. The human body has many ways ro make sure you can't have as much fun as you used to. If it isn't boobs, it's knees and ankles. If not that, then a slipped disc. And of course there's always the congenital crap that shows up later in life just as you're getting all your shit together.


eldelshell

/r/SipsTea


thesimplerobot

This is from a recorded TV performance, they were very popular at the time, in the UK top of the pops was the main program like this. Bands did not perform 100% live on these shows for a number of reasons; if the dance moves were energetic, if the singers live voice was shit or if the band had a reputation for misbehaving (most notable was Nirvana who had to teen spirit perform over a backing track and went full tilt surreal). There were a number of incidents in the UK in the 90's of bands disrupting live performances either playing alternative tracks, going off script or swearing (Shaun Ryder of the happy Mondays and black grape was the reason TFI Friday - the channel 4 Friday teatime entertainment show - stopped being broadcast as true live and had around a ten minute delay introduced) In the case of Barbie Girl, I guess it was because the dance performance was too energetic to sing at the same time.


LickingSmegma

Considering that I'm yet to see a live TotP performance from the 70s to the 90s, I'd guess the main reason was the consistent ‘fuck that’ from sound engineers.


Pirate_Green_Beard

Saturday Night Live was one of the first TV programs to actually feature live music performances. And yeah, it was a nightmare to engineer in the 70s.


jclark59

Yes, appears everyone there was having a terrible time. Imagine if she didn’t lip sync how it would changed things


Toe-Bee

The audio is clearly out of sync with the video. Watch the drummer


Mallory_Kiddo

The girl at the end looking right at the camera 😂😂😂


68024

"I'm on tv!!"


iplaypokerforaliving

I wonder what she’s up to these days


thispsyguy

Honestly, probably counting her grandchildren n making sure her will is in good order


Prior_Seaweed2829

She just had her 2nd grandkid last year.


Youre_Whole

Dude is rocking a Lemieux jersey. Got to give some props there


madgirafe

I loved the 90s and how random celebrities would rock penguin jerseys.


-KFBR392

Snoop rocking the Pens jersey in Gin & Juice was such a great thing to experience the first time you saw it.


DefinitelyLevi

https://preview.redd.it/ujqtt9ky9z6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=713d29fd3a20ce654e0748a7ad154c992e543d19 I have one


TylerBlozak

One of the most famous images of 2Pac is him spitting into a camera wearing a Red Wings jersey post-court appearance


SteelTerps

THAT was the oldschoolcool


Tuknroll420

I can appreciate paying homage to one of the goats.


kitunya

https://preview.redd.it/ls9zvrg13w6d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77b70630ddf860309126101827a06f4a381b8349


DepresiSpaghetti

That crop could have saved the Irish.


alexiswellcool

That's the funniest thing I've read all week.


Saltire_Blue

That made me laugh far more than it should have


CyberSosis

https://preview.redd.it/77l52mamxx6d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f047fc15bb3659cb9d37fc291f8024c97fa5c16


Gastkram

Was it the spiky hair or the completely bald head?


Jokerthekushmaster

![gif](giphy|2aUHzicwSpEu8L5xBb)


KnockturnalNOR

Ah yes, Lene Nystrøm, or better known (at least here) as Aqua-Lene. Late 90's/early 00's Europop was a wild ride


Automatic_Release_92

Saw her at a nice restaurant in Copenhagen, eating right next to our table. I never would have known if my Danish friend hadn’t quietly pointed her out. She was living her best life, clearly looking much older than this but sitting on the lap of a dude at least half her age. Had bottle after bottle of wine brought to her table which appeared to be a large group of friends.


BillNyeCreampieGuy

The motherfucking life


fat-lip-lover

![gif](giphy|lbidtjzpO9l15mtx2R|downsized)


LateralLimey

Judging by the comments and the video I would say there is a lack of support.


drillgorg

Don't watch spice girls then.


IDontLikePayingTaxes

But which video shouldn’t I watch?


drillgorg

Don't watch Wannabe and if by accident you do then don't pay attention to Scary Spice or Sporty Spice.


83749289740174920

Its 2024! Ladies should be free.


Nilrem2

“Old” 😭


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PapaPatchesxd

Aquarius was the first album I ever bought and it was amazing.


Frablom

Dr Jones was my favourite song growing up and it's a banger


Aggressive-Mix9937

It's Aquarium you fucking casual 


literallywhateverok2

Ok. Your attitude is what’s shite tho.


TheRightKindofJuice

Indeed, probably a limp biz kit fan


Deadly_Fire_Trap

He did it all for the nookie


p8ntslinger

this song is an absolute banger, my guy


i-Ake

You were too old at 15. I was 9 and it was awesome.


bythewayne

Same thought, pre-disney kids music - Hanson, A teens, everybody sing this song dooda dooda...


His_RoyalBadness

Had the biggest crush on her.


WordyIIRappinghood06

Gwen Stefani and Aqua chick ass to ass Requiem style baby Edit: this was made as experiment, didn't think horny ahs would upvote it 😭


ToToroToroRetoroChan

Where does Sharon Costanzo from Len (Steal My Sunshine) fit into this?


lereisn

May the power of christ compel you!!!


jg123224

I use to work with a guy who would yell ass to ass frequently.


I_love_milksteaks

We all did<3


Ba55of0rte

Fuck bras


tenroseUK

let em out


amazing-peas

Aqua was a talented group cursed by a novelty hit single.


expfarrer

1997/98 society peaked


TerrancePryor

Saw them last year in Los Angeles. Absolutely fantastic live show.


Nego10

When? They did shows in Australia this year that were reportedly terrible


the-revenant

The Brisbane show was pretty good. I think they had gotten it together by then.


thestraightCDer

Honestly what would you really expect


catgoesmeow22

I refuse to believe this for at least 3 reasons.


Rybo_v2

Back when they didn't even try to hide it was lip syncing.


BrockVegas

>Back when they didn't even try to hide it was lip syncing. Milli Vanilli would like subscribe to your newsletter.


JessicaBecause

![gif](giphy|3rgXBBYCVzihkifBRK|downsized)


ee-5e-ae-fb-f6-3c

Every so often I think back to this incident, and feel second-hand embarrassment every single time.


serenwipiti

Same. Like what the fuck possessed her to make that that jig a reaction. *A leprechaun?*


xotyona

The issue with Milli Vanilli was not that they were lip syncing, everyone does that on a talk show performance, industry standard. The scandal was that the "lead singers," of Milli Vanilli did not actually record any of the songs themselves. The whole group was a smoke-and-mirrors act by Frank Farian. THAT would hardly have been a big deal, but they had already been awarded a grammy under false pretenses. The music industry was embarrased by the whole thing, because they really should have known better. It's not like Farian had not been doing exactly this for decades with pop and disco groups.


LickingSmegma

It's 'Top of the Pops', there's no reason to not flip them a bird. Disallowed live performances for at least thirty years straight.


orthicon

https://i.redd.it/jgfi94fbyx6d1.gif


ZDTreefur

Just enough to bojangle.


i-Ake

![gif](giphy|11DFuwckOK9mdG)


AIMWSTRN

![gif](giphy|b7yzh4kvd54pq)


crazyeyeskilluh

I loved it. That singer was gorgeous as well. Pretty much every hipster in nyc nowadays dresses like this lol


deenali

Yup. Totally gorgeous. I remember watching her in the Turn Back Time video for the 1st time over 2 decades ago and thought she must have had the most perfect facial features I've ever seen.


dasbasst

The bra was invented in 1998 - saved you a comment.


Trainwrecktom38

Lip sync hell.


ZynthCode

That mic was not on


elladeehex33

God, I was obsessed with https://preview.redd.it/qd86vmdq6x6d1.jpeg?width=1022&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60a8b0511906fa850dfab4fe7e906bfe0d5f94fe Aqua for a while when I was younger. I had this VHS tape and would replay it constantly!


trader2O

The 90’s hit different


wrinkleinsine

Go Pens!


Hadrians_Twink

Horrible lip syncing wow lol.


MrsSadieMorgan

It’s a video delay, not bad lip syncing. Although I suppose both could be true.


szryxl

I don't know they are cool or notbut playback is never cool!


Eupolemos

nutbutt?


forfucksakesteve

Nice pair


darkbrews88

Loving the Lemieux jersey


Shoehornblower

Dude wearing a Mario lemuiex shirt.


Significant-Candy-37

I can feel the cocaine through the phone screen


rasmu19890

God, the 90s really was a different time. Holy shit.


lazysheepdog716

That drummer in his head: "I'm getting paid, I'm getting paid, I'm getting paid, I'm getting paid, I'm getting paid..."


RGDJR

Let’s go Pens.


jpstepancic

The Mario lemiuex jersey tells me exactly when this was.


Outrageous-War-3228

Perky.


md_eric

Bouncing around


Darkstar68

To many people this song represents the **abrupt end** of an incredible and more importantly an *authentic* music scene, destroyed by an industry in pursuit of the unbridled commercialization of music.


Mr_Mojo-_-

Really miss the diversity in the charts we all had at that time during the 90's, we had EVERYTHING 🕺🕺🤘


Girardkirth

Even our crappy music was better than the top music today.


DoctorArK

Aquarium is one of if not the most fun album of all time


Kind_Structure6726

![gif](giphy|45a5As2Su3RykbNB74) Those dance moves


JR21K20

![gif](giphy|58M8dvS8MU0QE|downsized)


rubins7

That lip syncing though!


RepulsiveCelery4013

So barbie girl is oldschool cool now :D :D :D? What world am I living in. Feeling like a grandpa right about now.


hamzer55

It was nearly 30 years ago ofcourse it’s oldschool


Natural-Upstairs-681

Ah the 90's even the crap songs were good


PercivalGoldstone

Terrible song but watching those bouncing boobies makes it okay.


barweepninibong

punk as fuck! they were proper trolling


nilbog420

The late 1900's was wild


OneProAmateur

Jiggle jiggle jiggle.


EquipmentValuable283

This tune was massive at school


lostmember09

Love that song & band. Unfortunately, back then ALOT of artists were pressured into lip syncing for quicky TV show appearances (one song) A lot of folks didn’t care back then.


urbanlife78

When they came out, I thought Aqua and No Doubt were the same band


Worried-Photo4712

Paying to watch someone lipsync is totally old school cool 


LeDouche1

Boobs


TheMadManiac

The 90s just seemed easier.


Riskofban4keanu

I miss 90’s nips


mostlygray

A couple days ago I found a mix CD I made in about '99. It featured "Barbie Girl" as the lead track. I never liked the song but it was a novelty. That's followed by Blur "Song Number 2". After that is Burt Bacharach "What the World Needs Now". After that, it's 16 tracks of generic house dance music. I have no idea what was going on in my mind when I made that CD. Zero recollection of my intents. It was unlabeled and I ran across it an old CD folio. This story was pointless. I do like Burt Bacharach though.


CodAdministrative563

Lip syncing but shout out to the Lemieux sweater


Mguerra6

Some of the worst lip syncing I have ever seen


KingPumba91

And they gave Millie Vanillie a bad time about lip Syncing lmao


E05DCA

Rarely has there been a more irrelevant drummer.


MetalPaul

They have bras in ‘97?


cinesota

This is played on a loop in Hell


NotMyGovernor

Without audio it was impossible to link this up with the barbie girl song. There is no way it was actually sung there lol.


InterestingRelative4

We used to have so much fun 🥲


Candid_Leg_7392

Great jigglies


MeetIndependent1812

Yes. Those were the hidh times for cheap Dutch ecstasy pills, crop tops and bad taste


superkbf

Danish Gwen Stefani Oops Norwegian Gwen I guess…


WhoStoleMyJacket

She’s Norwegian. The dudes are Danish


Hicklethumb

I really hope she's okay now


PartyRepublicMusic

Her mic not even turned on 🫨


ShaperLord777

I was around in 1997. This was not cool.


levenspiel_s

The year I started college. I had heard this song first time in the welcoming party. Took me back right there.


Viking-Savage

High energy Danes.