American Idol Admits Its Contestants Lip-Sync

We, along with Justin Guarini and just about anyone else who has tuned in to American Idol this season, totally called it that those group numbers they’ve been singing were lip-synced.

In one of our first recaps from this season we mentioned that it was painfully obvious that the music we were hearing during the group song didn’t totally match the lips we were watching, but Idol producers denied the claim. A few weeks ago a spokesman for Idol said simply, “The Idols don’t lip-sync, period.” But now he’s changing his lip-synced tune. Seems that enough people started to notice, so they had to come clean.

That spokesman, Manfred Westphal, released a message yesterday saying, “Due to extensive choreography and to balance their voices with open mikes against a screaming audience, the Idols do sing along to their own pre-recorded vocal track during the group performances only.” Even though it’s just a pre-recorded track and not a full-on Milli Vanilla scandal, we’re glad to hear them admit what we’ve been noticing all along.

If only they could somehow find a way to body-sync so they wouldn’t have to worry about that pesky choreography, the contestants seem to be struggling with that a lot more than the singing. [Photo: Getty Images]