Waving like a dork.
People were complaining the opening was fake, holy sh!t i don't think i saw one person singing live last night during the whole show. Tell me how somebody can play an electric guitar without power, nothing was plugged in. And don't get me started on Beckham.
It was really funny to see the London bit though, everybody throwing away their newspapers into the "street" and putting up their umbrellas, especially given the UK summer i've seen this year. My home town got flooded out last week.
Was a bad end to a really good Olympics. Well done to the Brits for finishing third, a total surprise to most, and to Daley for reaching the diving final.
yeah, the chinese organiser of the ceremonies had a jibe at the west citing that we cant work well in large groups, we cant be criticised coz we've all got unions to complain to, we have to have frequent tea breaks and only work 4 days a week. all true i'd say compared to the mental amount of work put in by the chinese to pull that level of choreography off. but theres still things we in the west are better at and thats music and singing.
i too dont think a single person actually sang during the closing ceremony...all those beautiful girls lined up along the bottom of the tower were clearly miming. the hilariously bad "boy-band" style group was the same except with added cheese.
was a bit refreshing to then see leona lewis and the dude from led zep actually perform live and not mime, well at the very least do a better effort of miming, the chinese just cant do it right. and then in london to watch the chiors and the girl who sings "what have you done today to make you feel proud"
heck even McFly, The Feeling and scouting for girls actually sang into their mic's even though they couldnt carry a tune if they had a bucket. McFly royally butchered Abba's the winner takes it all, and SFG were rather tuneless and just a bit generic.
