Presidential Inauguration--progress and fakery

While I'm a little late to the party on this, the Presidential Inauguration was a big deal.  The President mentioned the word "gay" in his speech, a gay poet recited a bad poem (just one guy's opinion--everyone else seemed to love it) and Beyonce lip synced.

Here's why the fake performance heard around the world bothers me.  She started the song and seemed very unsure, with her voice faltering and not matching the music.  I truly thought she was having sound issues or problems with her earpiece.  Then she magnificently took the earpiece out and was great.  So I gave the gal props for overcoming a bad situation.

Then we learned she lip synced the performance.  Unlike others, I wasn't that upset that she joined the ranks of Milli Vanilli because I've never been a huge fan of the diva.  It was that she lip synced poorly.  When viewers at home are wondering if you are having sound problems with a lip synced performance, you might as well have done the thing live.

Now, next month at the Oscars, I will be disappointed if Babs and Adele lip sync.  These are talented ladies who wouldn't be caught dead with autotune.

I am over this story which popped again today because Beyonce is on a mission to convince the world she can sing live.  Who cares.  What does matter about the day and my take away from the event is that the LGBT community took a massive step forward with the President's acknowledgement.  And that is something that wasn't fake.