Stephen on hold with the COVID

[Bob Jersey]

https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1714345688815804680 (link)

Although the musical guest survived to the 'toob...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsIcDivsls (link)

Pity, as tonight's (Oct 18th) show would have featured a sit-down with all of the Talking Heads:

https://www.thewrap.com/the-late-show-canceled-tuesday-stephen-colbert-has-covid/ (link)
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[Bob Jersey]

(And then he recalled the Colbert posts in the "Will Smith b-tchslaps Chris Rock" thread...)     B

[Mark Jeffries]

Undoubtedly recorded last week for telecast last night (which is why Colbert wears the same suit every night).

I am guessing that Polachek is the first musical guest in "Late Show" history (both Dave and Steve) to lip-sync her number (although that scream almost has to be live).  I'm sure she would say it was for artistic reasons--after all, they don't play Jessica Simpson on those "Music Discovery" stations like WFUV.

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[Kevin M.]

Britney has done more than her fair share of lip syncing over the years. 

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[Mark Jeffries]

But on the "Late Show?" I don't think Dave ever allowed lip-synching, especially considering that for years you were required to perform with Paul and the band.

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[Kevin M.]

Exhibit A

https://youtu.be/ok9UWdvEIEY?si=hdvH6-ZBVD4cp1TL

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[David Bruggeman]

From the YT clip I would not be surprised if this was recorded somewhere that wasn't the Ed.  And the graphics could certainly have been planned with an October 17 airdate in mind.  Not sure if that would have had an impact on how the vocal appeared in sync (or not) with the audio.  Some of the YT comments think she may have been singing to a track with vocals, but there's no consensus (surprise!).  For a Late Show music segment, it's got a lot of views (171K in the 24 hours since release).

NPR Music released a Tiny Desk Concert by Ms. Polachek last week.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnZHQNN5cc

This concert makes me think Polachek has serious vocal control, and can use her voice to produce tones that resemble audio that's been modulated or otherwise processed (think of this as a variation on singers who can produce overtones like in throat singing).  The video description notes that Polachek has been criticized for sounding like she uses pitch correction software, but the NPR performance didn't use that or any other vocal processing.

None of this means that the Late Show performance wasn't lip synced, but it makes me think that some of what sounded artificial in that performance may indeed be natural to Polachek.

David