{"id":3537,"date":"2005-08-24T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2022-10-09T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:22:55","slug":"but-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Lip Synching is Now Illegal in Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Mr. Niayzov<\/a>, sometimes I like to dance around my room and lip synch to Kelly Clarkson. Is that … illegal now?<\/a> Say it ain’t so!!<\/p>\n

I know it’s not really funny, because … the people who live in Turkmenistan have to deal with him being their leader. His rules that come down from on high are … they’re just funny. And his commentary:<\/p>\n

“Don’t kill talents by using lip synching… Create our new culture.”<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

Will there now be a lip synching underground? Boot-leg music videos smuggled into the country? Secret code-words to get into secret clubs, where people can let off steam, and lip synch to their heart’s content? “50 people were arrested last night, en masse, for holding a lip synching contest out in the woods. We will show no mercy towards such rebels.”<\/p>\n

I wrote a long thing about Niyazov<\/a> a while back. Every now and then, you hear word from Turkmenistan – and it’s always some nutso ruling like Niyazov’s latest.<\/p>\n

Lip synchers: unite!! We will not allow ourselves to be discriminated against! We will stand up for what is right! We will not succumb!<\/p>\n

Again, I know it’s not really funny, because a lunatic is in charge of an entire country … but I couldn’t help but laugh, in amazement, when I read this latest one. Lip synching has “a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art”, according to Niyazov. Lemme ask you something, dude: you outlawed opera last year. You also outlawed ballet. That also might have “a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art,” don’t you think?<\/p>\n

But then again, maybe he has a point.<\/p>\n

If you were to ask me, flat out, “What is wrong with America?” – I know that the very first thing that would come to my mind would be: “Too much damn lip synching.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… Mr. Niayzov, sometimes I like to dance around my room and lip synch to Kelly Clarkson. Is that … illegal now? Say it ain’t so!! I know it’s not really funny, because … the people who live in Turkmenistan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178641,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/178641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}