Talk:Lip Sync Battle

No description of game play
Read the article and have no idea exactly how the game is played. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6000:EF05:F000:8426:506C:7E98:6F9F (talk) 11:52, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Four years later and still no improvement. I am not the original poster, but after reading the whole article, I don't know what a Lip Sync Battle is supposed to be. There is a link to lip sync, but that does not answer the question of how the battle is actually carried out. It seems to me that each participant is an artist who has written a popular song in the past, but even that info is nowhere to find. More open questions: What lip sync is each participant performing? One of their own songs? One of the opponent's songs? Are they dressing up as their opponent and lip syncing their own song, or the other way round? Are they dressing up as the opponent and lip syncing the opponent's song? Or does it have nothing to do with the opponent, and they can just choose a random performance and/or song to lip sync to? After the question about the game play is answered, there is more clarification needed about how the winner is determined by the audience. Do they measure the volume of the applause? Does every spectator have some kind of remote control? And most of all: What is the criteria that determines the winner? Is it just who performed better? Is it who came closer to the original? Who parodied the original better? Some sort of creativity? Or is it entirely up to the audience? At the time of writing, this article is 24,915 bytes long and has lots of information about the creation history, episodes, staff, critical reception, spin offs and international versions. But a newcomer trying to learn about what this show is actually about is left clueless. None of the aforementioned basic questions are answered here. It seems like a difficult task. --2A04:4540:820C:E200:1CF6:221:D95E:90BC (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Missing Data
I don't know who's responsible for maintaining this page, but I just happened upon a truly delightful episode of this show (which I'd never really known about until tonight) staring Will Farrell, Fallon and another guy whom I unfortunately don't know. And yet there is no mention of Farrell on this page. Perhaps it's the most recent episode? LMorland (talk) 07:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Color commentator
What is a 'color commentator'?????? --Cameron Scott (talk) 15:33, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

It's a term that's mostly used in a sports setting. See Color_commentator. For example, of the famous "Kruk and Kype" duo who call (usually the TV side of) the San Francisco Giants games, only Duane Kuiper actually "calls" the games... meaning he has the responsibility of reporting all the facts (who's up, who's on base, the count, the number of outs, etc.). Mike Krukow gets to say whatever comes to mind about the game in progress... which, as a former pitcher, often involves very precise analysis of the pitching performance, but he has plenty of other insights as well. And he is often hilarious!

So in that duo, Krukow is the "color commentator." LMorland (talk) 06:55, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Bad faith reversion
I made this edit, but it was reverted. I call WP:COMMONNAME on my edit, and feel that the reversion with no explaination given was done in bad faith. What are others thoughts on this? 65.24.44.45 (talk) 15:38, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Good faith goes both ways - a reversion like this most likely isn't bad faith at all (and to assume so isn't good faith). I'm hedging my bets that it's simply a misunderstanding. While reverting without explanation isn't good practice, your own edit summary wasn't particularly detailed in what you were doing, either. No big deal - just wait to see what the editor says and it'll sort out! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 16:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, perhaps "bad faith" was an inappropriate moniker. The editor has responded by saying that they were "in competition" with each other and Pepa was the winner, so that's the reason for the reversion.  However, everything that I have seen about the group has ALWAYS had Salt listed first.  65.24.44.45 (talk) 16:59, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Christmas Special
Was going to add the Christmas special to the list of episodes but wasnt sure whether it should be season 1 or 2, or get its own section for special episodes. Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs Anthony Mackie - aired 19 November 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.218.112.161 (talk) 09:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed "Controversy" or "Criticism" Section
Reading this article, I'm rather shocked there isn't any mention of RuPaul's reaction to the show or "RuPaul's Drag Race." The controversy being that "Lip Sync Battle" lifted its premise from the Lip-sync for Your Life closing portion of every episode of "Drag Race." As well as the broader idea of straight culture (Lip Sync Battle/Jimmy Fallon) lifting ideas from gay culture (RuPaul & Drag Race) throughout history, this just being one example. RuPaul has spoken about "Lip Sync Battle" and Jimmy Fallon taking the idea from "RuPaul's Drag Race" in multiple print interviews, even calling it a "poor ripoff," and just last week on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." Other famous drag queens agree. But it's not just drag queens, think pieces by popular publications have even tackled this topic. A section focusing on this backlash should definitely be added by a Wikipedia author who knows how to properly do so. Thank you 216.17.44.216 (talk) 21:53, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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