Microphones are so passe - Burlesque (2010) Discussion

[–] CyberFD 14 years ago

This is the 21st century, she could have a microphone on that you don't see. Even news people can get this stuff so why can't a nightclub?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMTGh9vTqp0

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[–] Jackie_Michele 14 years ago

But the nightclub is failing and can't even afford to fix the upstairs sink. You think they're going to buy a special microphone for her? And even so, you would be able to see the mic attached to her somewhere.

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[–] entertainme5 14 years ago

please explain your signature. quite interesting.

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[–] Jackie_Michele 14 years ago

It's one of Mercedes McNabb's lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's quite true too....I wouldn't kick Ms. Theron out my bed.

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[–] saschatuchardt 14 years ago

It. Is. A. Movie. Musical.

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[–] Jackie_Michele 14 years ago

I know this. I'm not delusional and I love this movie. But this is not a typical musical in the sense the she is Dorothy skipping along the yellow brick road and therefore needs a microphone. Ali is on stage performing for a crowd and not once does she use a mic. That's all I'm saying.

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[–] Jackie_Michele 14 years ago

Plus also it was welcomed for me also, as watching Xtina do her what seems almost involuntary middle and ring finger tapping of the microphone would have gotten on my nerves.

I actually thought about this after the fact and maybe that's why they took the mic out totally. I don't know...

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[–] dreamweaver-x 14 years ago

Maybe the acoustics were good in the club.

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[–] deem_bastille 10 years ago

they never said they couldn't afford to fix the sink.

the sink was stopped up AGAIN! and mr tess was not going to call a plumber [again]. that is all.

he could have just wanted to rip out the sink and start all over with it.

and for the OWNER of the club and the ONLY SINGER-- yeah. they only had to buy one of those itty bitty things at that time.

they can do wonders with mikes nowadays.

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[–] wmousie 9 years ago

In the beginning, everyone was lip-syncing to a pre recorded track. No one needed a mike, so the club had no bug mikes. Then, when Nikki/Ali's "voice track" was sabotaged, Ali sang, at first a cappella, and then the band joined in.

There is this often-overlooked technique which can be used when the singer has a powerful voice. She can sing, sans microphone, with an amplified band, provided the band members refrain from cranking every volume control they possess up to 11.

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[–] Tempscire 14 years ago

Worse than that, not once in any performance was she actually singing live!

By which I mean I thought it was hilarious that she got her big break to sing live in front of the audience, but every single song she did was as obviously recorded, edited, and polished as the ones the girls were lip-syncing to. Of course she wouldn't have a microphone. =p

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[–] gremma 14 years ago

It's Burlesque--a period piece, an old art form, hello.
Then when she started actually singing instead lip-sinking into non-working micro phones, the club was so small a micro phone was not necessary. Doesn't anyone at all realize Burlesque was entertainment that took place in the United States from the 1860's to the 1940's as a variety-type show. Please people, look this up before you analyze. Just thank God they didn't do the hokey comedians!

It was an excellent movie, it attracted Cher and Stanley Tucci, they aren't lacking for work, they choose it because it was something different. I believe it wasn't nearly as successful as it should have been just because this younger generation didn't grasp the whole "Burlesque" idea.

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[–] Jackie_Michele 14 years ago

Hello!
Burlesque may be a period piece but this club was a neo-Burlesque club. And this movie was set in present day, so a history lesson is really not necessary. And regardless of how "small" the club is, she has a full band playing behind her, therefore a microphone would be necessary to hear her.

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[–] may_ouest 14 years ago

I agree, the girls who were singing should have used mics. They could have just gotten little headset ones or lapel ones. It would have improved the movie. Still liked the movie a lot, though.

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[–] dethmaul-1 13 years ago

You see, this is opposite land. In the beginning when she was singing in a teeny diner, and to HERSELF, she used a microphone. So it's completely unnecessary in a huge nightclub!

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[–] bhobnine 13 years ago

And regardless of how "small" the club is, she has a full band playing behind her, therefore a microphone would be necessary to hear her.

Competing with an amplified band would require some kind of 'Carnegie hall' acoustical magic for the non amplified singer to overcome. Perhaps if the band consisted of an acoustic guitar, a stand up bass, and a drummer playing with brushes, she could have pulled it off. But even if this were done, the vocal would sound either dry or echo-ey, not the studio mic quality of this production. Your gonna have to ignore the realities if you want to get through the movie without a sound technicians 'wtf' look on your face.

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[–] x-x-xLizzaBellax-x-x 13 years ago

Ummm hate to bursts everyones bubbes here, but there are such things as micropphnes that the persn dosnt hold.
most theaters have them suspended above the stage, have them inside the stage and around it. so the person can sing and dance at the same tie. just a thought

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[–] bhobnine 13 years ago

Hate to burst your 'bubbes' but although you can get generalised sound reinforcement from peripheral micing, for say your backing singers, lead singers tend to be mic'd via small unnoticeable 'micropphnes' attached around the collar somewhere. Christine just didnt look hooked up. I think this movie was running under the presumption that they were singing without mic's, or existing in a sci-fi world where mic's were unnecessary. It just sounded too good for that.
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