Lip reading
Lip reading, also known as lipreading or speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue when normal sound is not available, relying also on information provided by the context, knowledge of the language, and any residual hearing. Although primarily used by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, people with normal hearing generally process visual information from the moving mouth at a subconscious level.
Process
In everyday conversation, people with normal vision, hearing and social skills sub-consciously use information from the lips and face to aid aural comprehension and most fluent speakers of a language are able to speechread to some extent (see McGurk effect). This is because each speech sound (phoneme) has a particular facial and mouth position (viseme), and people can to some extent deduce what phoneme has been produced based on visual cues, even if the sound is unavailable or degraded (e.g. by background noise).
Bad Lip Reading
Bad Lip Reading (abbreviated as BLR) is a YouTube channel, run by an anonymous individual in the music production business, that spoofs clips from films, TV shows, songs, sports, and political news stories by overdubbing humorous vocal work that matches the lip movements of the targets. Rolling Stone described the channel as "the breakout hit" of the 2012 United States presidential election cycle. As of November 2015, the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel had amassed over 4.6 million subscribers and over 537 million views across its videos. The creator declines to identify himself.
Background
The "Bad Lip Reader" behind the channel is an anonymous music and video producer. The first Bad Lip Reading video released was a spoof of Rebecca Black's song "Friday", titled "Gang Fight". New music and lyrics were matched to Black's video to make it appear as though she were singing about gang warfare. The "Gang Fight" YouTube video, released in March 2011, earned BLR a million hits and thousands of subscribers.
Podcasts:
Bad Lip Reading
ALBUMS
- Asian Baby released: 2011
- Hot Jumping Beans released: 2011
- Magic Man released: 2011
- (Rockin') All Nite Long released: 2011
- Gang Fight! released: 2011
- Everybody Poops released: 2011
- Black Umbrella (The Right Stuff) released: 2011
- Dirty Spaceman released: 2011
- Morning Dew released: 2011
- Russian Unicorn released: 2011
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by Bad Lip Reading
Bad Lip Reading
by: Bad Lip ReadingWe're on Broadway
I once knew a kid
Whose tongue fell off in his sleep,
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
What?
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do
The girl in my basement
Probably thinks I'm a creep
Yeah, probably
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do
I've got,
9 cases of anti-fungal ointment that
Nobody can use without appointment
Down in
Woodberry (Woodberry, Woodberry)
Is that your little play-town?
Where it's very
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-WHAT?
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
Give me your bubble gum!
Now what makes you think I have gum?
Yeah, well I found out from Orlando
That biter that was a handyman
Woah, you got a handyman that's a walker?!?
Well to be honest
He breaks more things than he fixes
But he's still got most of his face
So, I trust him
(Heads in aquariums, heads in aquariums)
I own heads in aquariums
And don't find them scary
I'm fond of Bavarian cream
My dream of
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
Dum-Dum, Dum-Dum-Dum...
Starfish command!
You know what?
Not even going to bother with that
Ricardo,
If you have to ask
You'll never know
My uncle was tall
But had these really short legs
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do
I wonder if poodles in Jamaica
Have dreads
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do
This is a violet
No it isn't
Yeah, well it could be a flower
The other night there was this movie all about gardens
Called "Bloody Shrimp"
You got a problem?
Uh, yeah
I just found out that we missed Halloween
I always wanted a Wookie
But I found out they weren't real
Thanks for nothing, George Lucas
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Dum
La-Bibbida-Bibba-Do (x3)
Cluck went the chicken!
And that's how they do it
On Broadway