I upvoted under the assumption that he was singing that himself -- but either A) he's really good at mimicking Mercury's voice, or B) he's really good at lip-synching it; so arguably either way is worth the upvote...

There are a few things that to me suggest that it might be faked though:
1) First, to my ear it is just so spot on that it seems almost unbelievable.
2) I'm not a huge Queen fan, so I can't compare in my memory to the studio recording of that song -- but again it sounds very "studio perfect" to me. I'd definitely trust the judgement of a Queen fan over my own on that though.
3) It would take some work to get a high quality (non-MIDI) recording of all of the song's tracks *minus* the vocal line (but including the backup vocals) for him to sing along to (ie. a karaoke version).
4) If you are *that* good, I think that you'd be likely to alter the lyrics slightly and/or mix up a medley that switches songs on the fly to show that you aren't just lip-synching. I don't know the original song well enough to say for certain that he isn't doing the first part of that, but it definitely isn't a medley.

Anyway, I don't want to be the "FAKE!" / "I've seen lots of Photoshops in my time...I can tell by the pixels" dude, but it does seem possible on this one. Enjoyed watching though, and that is what matters.

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edit - OK, I listened to the studio recording and there are enough small (tiny!) differences in a few areas that I'm tending to think that this is for real, and he just really is that good... Impressive!

I'm thinking he lip synched that flute music... save your quarter, boys and girls.

If you're going to be world-renowned for your shitty lip synching, at least know the words. Kid doesn't know half the damn words!

He's totally lip synching. Fake!

@deathcow, this is a terrible horrific event, but it does not belong in the terrible channel which is the most incorrectly used channel imo. The description of the channel is:

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Terrible! Who gave that a green light?
You know when you open some old milk, and the first thing you do is offer it to someone else saying "wow, this is nasty, smell it"... Yeah, those kind of videos.

Videos of terrible, awful What-Were-They-Thinking commercial/pop-culture products/releases. Terrible music videos, movies, TV show clips, toys, etc. Things that some corporate exec decided to actually give a green light. The sorts of things that you watch, and think "SOMEBODY should have known better that to release that". The stuff that's so bad, you can't help but share.

Not the place for bad youtube lip-synch videos, or other sub-standard amateur releases.
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@gwiz665 livemusic isn't appropriate either as no live music was played.

*nochannel *dark, *fear, *news, *death, *wtf

It was just... so unimpressive. It was 9 minutes of the same damn thing. Light bulbs rolling on a table, and not even particularly well synched to the music.

You must not have noticed the sarcasm button but I just wanted to point out I agree with ya in the first case the second one I mentioned however to me is understandable.
>> ^NaMeCaF:

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:
Right? So what if you only sound good from 25 takes pasted together in a studio with different filters to disguise the rest of it and people are so use to hearing commercialized recordings that a live musician would sound horrible to their ears.
Even worse who cares that if you have been on the road for months singing night after night until your voice is destroyed. People will still believe you can sing after you get on stage sounding like a live version of Bob Dylan.
>> ^NaMeCaF:
I dont see any point in lip-syncing what so ever. Anyone can sit there and and pretend to play the guitar and move their lips. Why not just perform it?


And this is exactly my problem. If you need 25 takes pasted together in a studio with different filters, you shouldn't be performing live at all. Play a fucking clip. It's bullshit. It's no different than Milli Vanilli. It aint really their voice/performance, but they lip synch to it and pretend it is.
Think about it. Would you be happy paying to see a live football match when instead you just get an edited replay?

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:

Right? So what if you only sound good from 25 takes pasted together in a studio with different filters to disguise the rest of it and people are so use to hearing commercialized recordings that a live musician would sound horrible to their ears.
Even worse who cares that if you have been on the road for months singing night after night until your voice is destroyed. People will still believe you can sing after you get on stage sounding like a live version of Bob Dylan.
>> ^NaMeCaF:
I dont see any point in lip-syncing what so ever. Anyone can sit there and and pretend to play the guitar and move their lips. Why not just perform it?



And this is exactly my problem. If you need 25 takes pasted together in a studio with different filters, you shouldn't be performing live at all. Play a fucking clip. It's bullshit. It's no different than Milli Vanilli. It aint really their voice/performance, but they lip synch to it and pretend it is.

Think about it. Would you be happy paying to see a live football match when instead you just get an edited replay?

Same subject, some overlapping footage minimally synched, not a dupe.

Beautiful voice, if a bit different from what I'm sure most of us are used to. It has to take real control to project like that and hit those exotic vibratos.

But seriously... Lip synching is so 2010.

Videos start the same place but diverge quickly...same song and dance...but the videos are not synched or the same.

...pita really.

He needs some lip synch lessons... but this is pretty dang good.

charlie, nah, its a bad fps. The videos FPS is pretty good...atleast 20+ if not very close to 30. There is smooth hand shake without tearing. If we had any synch issues with the lcd monitor then we would be seeing torn frames on the monitor. For the most part however LCD camera captures have very little frame defects, only poor image quality overall.

What sucks is this probably made it impossible for him to spot the question SS viewers probably wanted answered. That is, the physics of the player as they translate through portals. Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out. Most people would agree that a hand held gun that can paste wormholes onto walls is pure scifi, and couldn't happen to us in a thousand years. But instead lets imagine that portal wormholes exhist, how accurate is portal 2's experience to how they would react in real life.

The whole feedback thing was really interesting though, the reason we can see through the portals is because light radiation is streaming through the portal to our eyes. If you stuck a portal infront of you and then a portal behind you, light radiation would stream in and out of the portals into an infinite feedback loop causing catastrophic energy output.

>> ^westy:

Its a shame we dont have Humanoid robots to perform this sort of stuff yet maby another 10-20 years we will.
I'm suprized we don't have stuff close to this in western culture as in the end its all just motivated out of capitalism and its a fairly eficent reliable low cost and convenant way of making money out of music I guess gorilaz is the only thing like this in uk


There was a video floating around where they synched a humanoid robots mouth to a hatsune song, but she looked nothing like hatsune so it kinda ruined it. Also it really lacked the mouth movements needed to be a convincing singer robot.

As for why we havn't seen much of this over here, its kinda depressing but the only software doing this is yamahas Vocaloid 2 (and 1, but no one uses it now) package. Also the package and singers are predominantly japanese, with only one of them sounding any good in english. Apparently we will see a hatsune english voice pack in the near future. Also vocaloid 3 is in the works and I imagine at that point is when we may see some serious mainstream use of vocaloids.

what the hell, the voice wasn't in synch with her lips, looks like a 1980 martial arts movie.