Syesha Mercado Lip Synching Her Final Song

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 8:50 pm (PST)

Tonight Syesha Mercado was voted off American Idol. So sad. I really thought she would make it to the top two, but I was wrong. She’s still going to have a career. I have to give her credit for not crying her eyes out. She did a beautiful job singing her farewell song.

There is a scandal however. At the 3:17 mark in the video you can see Syesha start smiling while you can clearly hear her still singing. Syesha’s song was PRERECORDED and Syesha was LIP SYNCHING. Is American Idol getting desperate to boost ratings by prerecording performances, rather than having contestants perform live?

David Archuleta and David Cook are now in the top two. Watch their performances closely, to see if they are lip synching too.


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8 Comments

  1. 1

    Nope, no lipsynching there. What you heard was reverb or echo for a couple of seconds after her last note, due to the acoustics of the venue. And neither of the Davids’ sang tonight.

    Comment by Gerry — May 14, 2008 #

  2. 2

    no lypsynching there either in my opinion. you can still smile and have sound coming out. it was such a bad version anyway that there is no way anyone would sing that bad in a recorded version. she did it so much better last night. tonights version showed her saddness, disappointment and nerves. it was real.

    Comment by ladybug — May 15, 2008 #

  3. 3

    looks like you’re the one making a buzz out of it. but hey, you can raise the ratings with your “news” ^^

    Comment by Raine — May 15, 2008 #

  4. 4

    Oh bullsh!t if you could not see that girl was lip synching you are blind as a bat. That was no reverb, as much as you want to believe that.

    Comment by Total Fake — May 15, 2008 #

  5. 5

    That’s not lip synching. Just because she smiles does not mean she can’t finish off her note. They get paid to smile and sing a the same time. It’s their whole life.

    Comment by Get a grip — May 15, 2008 #

  6. 6

    It’s not lip synching… You can see that when she closes her mouth to smile, the note is not as full as it once was and the note becomes more nasally… You can still smile and have sound coming out

    Comment by Christi — May 15, 2008 #

  7. 7

    For those who think it was echo or reverb - that note lasts nearly 6 seconds after she stops singing - no electronics can do that without being noticed. It was clearly lip synched. Any audio technician will tell you that - I am one. That doesn’t take anything away from her to admit it - she did a great job in the competition. Lip syching is very common in TV. Still don’t believe it? You try to make an Ooh sound when you are smiling like her - it’s physically impossible! The sound should be Eeee with that smile.

    Comment by petey — May 21, 2008 #

  8. 8

    There was NO lip synching there. The sound you heard was the background singers singing…Duhhhh! The version that was recorded wasn’t ANYTHING like that.

    Comment by American Idol Fan — May 25, 2008 #

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