Lip Sync

The Lip Sync or TIP Sync is a traditional performance by TIPsters that typically occurs at the end of the second week of the term. Performers rehearse in advance to give a site-wide dance-and-mouthing routine. The performances range from raunchy to avant garde to downright terrible.

History

The Duke East Lip Sync 2006 term II featured several groups of TIPsters. The show was set up, as usual, as an American Idol competition, with "Sid Luscious" and "Tober" (AKA Anu and Adam, the teacher and co-instructor for Bach to Rock) in the mean judge, 'Simon' role. The night concluded with the awards, with first place going to "Mary Magdalene and the Unholy Trinity, feat. Yabo" aka Yabo, Alyssa, Rashmi, Natalie, and Wenfei.

In Term I East 2007, this tradition continued. Revolution and Terror TA Will Harris and Political Theory TA Josh Parker split the hard-line position at the table, and Enlighten Me TA Lizzie Tooke softened the blows. A charismatic rendition of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" by Emma Johnson and company took home the Vermonster.

Memorable Moments

2006

Some quotes from the 2006 judges, as said to various acts:

"You girls stand up and look at those two fans onstage. Take a good long look, 'cause those are the only fans you're gonna get."

"That was not suggestive at all."

"Does your mother know you packed that dress?!"

"You guys definitely have a career in this business. If you look onstage you'll see what that career is." (Onstage there are RCs mopping milk.)

"That was.....disturbing."

"I was going to get a subscription of the Abercrombie and SPAZ catalogue, but I think I've seen enough."

RC acts included the "Gangsta Rap" aka "A Thousand Miles" and "Can't Touch This" by OSC Sam.

In most TiPster's opinions, however, "The Final Countdown" with Tyler Mefford, Brad, and Luke P, should have won. It was disqualified for too much "sexuality" (i.e. Luke humping air after he unsuccessfully counted down).

2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKqR18zAYc Captain planet-RC lip sync

2008

During Term I East, fourth years Adam Wilson, Cara Weisman, Trevor Cross, Dylan Crouch, Rose Darugar, Blake Montgomery, Nik Padinha (who took to being ill and couldnt perform), Smith Mathieu(who sub-ed in for Nik), Rachel VanDaalen, and third years Cat Hollander, Charmee Mehta, and Joe Sharp did an extremely risque cross-gender version of "Cell Block Tango" to cheers of all TIPsters. The comment by the judges was "This is not a Dance contest- this is a Lip Sync", the group didn't really care. During Term I at Duke East, a group of enterprising RCs, led by editing mastermind Justin Boucher and choreographer Wesley Payne (occasionally known as "T-Pain" or "3.0"), performed a creative and well-rehearsed "N'SYNC vs. Backstreet Boys"-themed act, culminating with a collective rendition of the titular line of the N'SYNC chart-topper "Bye Bye Bye." The performance was especially notable for the raucous nature of the crowd; several TIPsters even created apparel celebrating their favorite RCs, particularly James Hicks and Peter Sloan, both members of the fabricated Backstreet Boys. The video of the performance can be seen here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO4FA71yCxE

Majority of the TIP East II 08 TIPsync can be found on Emily Fry and Nicki Lemay's Video Website!!! http://web.mac.com/mleefry/Site/Welcome.html

2009

During Term 1 East, only eight acts participated. The lack of acts wasn't really a bad thing, because they were mostly pretty good and the Lip Sync was held to a reasonable length.

Spencer Heim danced with bunny ears and cyborg sunglasses. It was an interesting way to start the night.

Mya Wilkes performed "If I Ain't Got You," singing it to Darius Greyer. It was really good. She wore a bathrobe, painted her nails, etc., as if she were preparing for a date (with Darius.) Many think that this act should have placed.

A 2nd year rendition of "I Kissed a Girl" was an interesting sight. The lip syncing wasn't great, but it was an overall funny act because both of the boys were totally into the act.

There was a song called "Lollipop," performed by five 3rd year girls. The dancing was pretty good and they threw out candy, but something about the act just screamed "NOT TIPROPRIATE." The lyrics went along the lines of, "I'll bite your lollipop." Judge and Writing With Power TA James Hicks suggested the girls "look up the word 'euphemism'" in a dictionary.

One memorable act was "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, who were actually members of the Muffin Rag. They had good dancing, good lip movement, lots of personality, but they didn't win or even place.

Taking third place was Chris Squitieri, John Vaughan, Michael Sikes, Zach Getson and Chester Chambers dancing to "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys. As a part of their routine, the boys serenaded various TIP females (Nettie Finn, Kelsey Cannon, Katie Chaplin, Molly Cowger, and Scout Henninger). The highlight of the performance was when four of the five guys (Zach forgot...) ripped off their dress shirts, revealing their wife beaters. This routine could have won the Lip Sync, but it is specualted that the blatant lack of TIPropriateness knocked the performance to third place.

In second place was "Tainted Love," performed by Joe Sharp, Sarah Garza, and Emma Joselyn. The act wound up being very amusing and cohesive with impressive dancing by Joe Sharp. The performers pulled off a great performance, despite the worries of individuals who knew of the act prior to the TiP-syncing competition.

The winning act was "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent, performed by Cat Hollander and Sarah Garza. It was applauded for being well-rehearsed and for breaking the "fourth wall" of the stage. These talented girls pulled it off although they had only practiced for the first time that morning. Some may argue that this act won because of seniority, which is totally rediculous because Cat was the only fourth year in the act, while Sarah was a third year, and there were far more fourth years in several other acts.

Of note is the fact that of the nine people on stage who won, eight of them were 4th years living in Bassett, clearly a reflection of just how superior 4th years are to underlings.

2010

Hayley Mockler, Cat McKeown, Alex and Trish Sullivan, Haley Sheehan, Joey Swanson, and Sona Kumar performed a well-choreographed dance to "I won't say I'm in love", a song from the Disney movie Hercules. Joey was Meg and Sona was Hercules. It was a very nice act, and Joey had a highly amusing wardrobe malfunction. It was a very good act, but they did not win. Moral of the story: never (always) make a strapless dress out of a skirt.

Also, the gorgeous Miss Yuri Lee, along with her umbrella and her faithful sidekick/soul mate Ezila performed a wonderful rendition of "The Cars that Go Boom," along with Kristen, who was super sexy in a car that went BOOM, and Misha and Tim (two poor, BOOMless nerds). They didn't rehearse at all, but the performance was still pretty great.

The RC's made fun of Justin Bieber.

Davidson Lip Sync

• • Although not as disturbing as Sam Baggs in a dress dancing to promiscuous, there were lows and highs to the davidson talent show.

Mya "Paco" Wilkes singing "If I Ain't Got You" in the style of Alicia Keys was definitely a high. dressed all in black and gold, Paco did a dramatic walk up to the balcony and appeared to be belting it out! a low would be the pathetic performance of Hips Don't Lie by Stuie and his group.

• other acts included:
  • the all-famous Chicago performance, among whose performers were Grace, Lexi, Steph, & Sam W.
  • the Lion King performance, consisting of Jack and all members of his RC group.
  • the Barbie Girl in the style of Aqua performance w/ Zenas & Eli.

2010 Term 2

The most amazing rendition of Burning Up (by the Jonas Brothers) was performed by Harvey's RC group. They had Kevin Jonas (Peter Litts), Joe Jonas (Sanjeev Prasada), Nick Jonas (Jackson Dellinger), Demi Lavoto (Zac Brenner), Big Rob (Kendall as the legs with Andrew Zhang on his shoulders rapping), and a kick-line including everyone else. Special thanks to Madie Wolff for letting the JoeBros borrow 1 pair of skinny jeans, 2 tight T-shirts, 1 scarf, 3 vests, and 1 bandanna. The saddest part of the whole thing is that you need girl clothing to be the JoeBros.

Also at Davidson term 2 Sydney's amazing RC group created a music video worthy preformance of "Accidently in Love" a song commonly known for it's use in the movie Shrek. In their exciting preformance half of the girls dressed up as boys and danced with the others. A Thanks to Dylan Wieger for graciously lending clothes (although some of them were not returned by his "TIP fling"). Also thanks to Maggie for giving us inspiration with her Shrek plushie that ended up in the Searching for Clues Classroom the next day when Sidney decided she wanted to "babysit".

2011 Term 2

Donald's RC group had a very memorable performance of 'Party in the USA'. All of the guys dressed up in dresses and stuffed themselves. A certain someone's tube sock was hanging of his dress without him noticing. Sade's RC group won most Original for singing Tik Tok with glitter smeared on the faces along with yelling apple juice whenever alcohol was suggested. Brandons RC group holds the unnoficial record for most rules broken in one tipsynch performance, one of which was tying up their shirts and exposing their stomaches which had written acrossthen "CL GIRLS"... D-I-S-T-U-R-B-I-N-G surprised they didnt get kicked off for that, their song? "California Gurls".

East Lip Sync

Lucas Partridge, Charley Snyder, George Netscher, Hanna Bridges-Curry, and Billy McCormick performed "Party All The Time" by Eddy Murphy. Because they had not auditioned their act and had not performed their full choreography during the pre-show run through, no one knew how inappropriate their act was. They won, but were punished by Sam afterwards, They had to go to bed at 10 for two nights, and were originally not allowed to perform in the talent show. Lucas got Sam to change his mind about the talent show, which led to Lucas, George Netscher, and Emma Johnson MCing. They did a fantastic job and will go down in TIP history as total badasses.

UGA

• I Want it that way

• Girls just wanna have fun

• Danjo-Danjo*

• My first kiss

• Im on a boat

• Can't be tamed

• Milkshakes

Note: This is not in english by the way for more info contact nintendohead7777@yahoo.com mc were John and George The intro to Danjo-Danjo was about penguins

ASU Lip Sync

The Lip Sync for ASU was... jaw-dropping to say the least.

• First place went to Julia's Gems with their performance of "Hot and Cold", which was fitting as they had Katy Perry in that group (<3 youu).

• Second place was Peter's Perfect People and their outstanding reenactment of Justin Bieber's "Baby". Where Jeremy dressed up as a girl (an idea we totally had first).

• Third place was Erika's RC Group with a grand act of "It's Raining Men", complete with choreography with actual umbrellas!

Some other memorable Lip Syncs were performed as well.

• Sonja's RAG with "Tik Tok" which performed well, but apparently not enough to beat a group who only practiced for about 45 minutes (i'm only playing :p).

• Jojo's Friendly Dinosaurs with a remixed version of the theme song to Barney, where Michael played Barney-or as my RAG thought as a terrorist.

• Jenna's Beastmode Boys Better Than Ta's Group (what a mouthful... guess that's what happens after you compromise) did an awe-inspiring performance of the late Michael Jackson's "Thriller". We only practiced for a total of about 45 minutes and I say we did maybe fourth or fifth place (I'm totally guessing). We had Jaden dress up as a girl, mostly because we made him, hehehe. And then we finished it off with a Batman off the stage and Keeren carrying off Jaden.