The world of pop music disappoints me more and more each day.

As an admitted YouTube-a-holic, one of my favourite channels is titled Wings of Pegasus.

The channel is hosted by a British musician known as Fil, and Fil’s claim to fame is analyzing music performances from a technical standpoint.

Fil is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to music software, and lately has been calling out questionable performances by well-known, typically respected musicians.

He can analyze a performance and tell listeners if autotune or pitch correction software has been utilized in a recording.

Readers may recall a recent quip I made about Don Henley of the Eagles being called out by Fil for lip-syncing in live performances of their hit song “Desperado.”

Henley is simply too old to hit the highest notes any longer, so he seamlessly lip syncs his performances of this song.

Is that OK? Perhaps, if he was at least transparent about it.

But he hasn’t been.

Now lip syncing is nothing new and many will recall the name Milli Vanilli, a German duo back in the late ‘80’s to early ‘90s.

I won’t go into details about them other than to say that in 1990 after scoring several worldwide radio hits, winning many awards including a Grammy, they were suddenly exposed for not only lip syncing their music, but for the fact their voices weren’t even on the recordings!

The term Milli Vanilli is now considered a verb and used to describe anyone lip syncing or faking a performance in any way.

Fil has most recently been exposing........

© Sarnia Observer