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🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, say can you see? |
0:05.0 | You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. |
0:09.0 | I'm Dallas Taylor. |
0:11.0 | Back at the 2013 presidential inauguration, |
0:15.0 | superstar Beyonce sang the Star-Spangled Banner. |
0:18.0 | But she didn't do it live. |
0:21.6 | Beyonce admitted to lip-syncing. |
0:23.6 | Due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check, |
0:31.6 | I did not feel comfortable taking a risk. |
0:34.6 | It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him |
0:39.3 | in my country proud. So I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track. |
0:44.3 | Beyonce's decision to lip sync acknowledges the importance of taking sound very seriously, |
0:50.3 | especially during a live performance. Big events rely on great designers, |
0:55.5 | mixers, microphones, speakers, |
0:57.7 | and a whole host of other things |
0:59.3 | in order to sound effortless to an audience. |
1:02.0 | At least, that's true today, |
1:04.1 | but it wasn't always that way. |
1:10.2 | For generations, there was no sound system in the theater. |
1:13.6 | Everybody strained to listen in those days. |
1:16.6 | Today, audiences are inundated with earbuds and other forms of mechanical reproduction, |
1:22.6 | so they don't longer strain to listen in the theater. |
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