I guess Janet Jackson and other lip synching artist won't be performing in China much longer because they're trying to ban all lip synching.

China will name and shame artists who lip-synch or engage in other "fake" acts at commercial concerts, with repeat offenders getting their performing licenses revoked, local media reported on Thursday, citing the Ministry of Culture.

The Culture Ministry was seeking public opinion on a draft amendment to existing legislation on commercial performances that would ban lip-synching, the Beijing News said.

In China, amendments to legislation that reach the stage of seeking public opinion are generally already fixed, and are usually passed by China's rubber-stamp parliament with little or no change.

"Performers must not cheat audiences by lip-synching, and concert organizers must not arrange for performers to lip-synch," a draft amendment posted on the ministry's website (www.ccnt.gov.cn) said.

The names of performers caught lip-synching would be released to the public, and those caught twice in a year would have their performing licenses canceled, the paper said.

The draft also placed the onus on concert organizers to "dispatch personnel for supervision, to guard against lip-synching from happening." (source)

This is SO humorous to me. They are dead serious about performers being on their A+ game. Hell, who will be able to perform over there? Dead @ them putting folks on blast and revoking performance privileges. The way some of these artist sound, I would prefer lip synching over live singing any day.

More importantly, is it really that serious?