Bad Lip Reading: Masters of Musical Misinterpretation

Bad Lip Reading is an anonymous American YouTube channel and musical project renowned for creating humorous videos featuring completely new audio tracks (dialogue and songs) dubbed over existing video footage, meticulously matched to the lip movements of the original speakers or singers.Launched on YouTube in 2011, Bad Lip Reading (BLR) gained massive popularity for its absurdly reimagined dialogue dubs of political debates, news reports, and sports commentary. Their unexpected evolution into creating original, catchy pop songs based on these misinterpretations, such as 'Seagulls! (Stop It Now)' and 'Mitt Romney Style', propelled them to viral music fame. The creators remain anonymous.
  • The project's creators have fiercely guarded their anonymity, rarely giving interviews and never revealing their identities publicly, adding to the mystique.
  • Their breakout music hit, 'Seagulls! (Stop It Now)', originated from dubbing over a scene in 'The Empire Strikes Back' and became a genuine viral music phenomenon, amassing hundreds of millions of views.
  • They parodied the 2016 US Presidential election by creating fictional candidates and songs like 'Mitt Romney Style' (a parody of PSY's 'Gangnam Style') and 'I'm So Humble' (for The Lonely Island featuring Adam Levine), satirizing the candidates.
  • Demonstrating mainstream recognition, Bad Lip Reading received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2016 for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for their 'Bad Lip Reading: The Presidential Debates' series.
  • Their creative process involves watching footage without sound, imagining absurd dialogue or lyrics that fit the lip movements, then composing original music and recording vocals to match perfectly.