Some netizens considered it as a "disrespect for the audience", while some felt disappointing for the "depressing retrogress of the Gala caused by forgeries". "Spring Festival Gala is not a carnival for celebrities but a festival show for common people, as an audience but not a groupie or a star-maker, what we want is to get a happy together and to enjoy a series of attractive performances. We don't need any showing-off guys. If lip-synching is acceptable, why not change the live show to be a video program and forge everything, even the Countdown for the New Year?" criticized some netizens.

Allegedly, because of the lip-synch-proof demand from organizers of SF Gala in recent years, some actors decided to quit the Gala due to their singing-off-key during the rehearsal. In order to attract the popular actors loved by audience to join in the Gala, editors proposed to solve the intonation problem with some "conservative method" in which lip-synching is allowed. Think about it, how can a popular star, who is not a professional singer, sing beautifully while dancing hotly if without the lip-synching?

Super stars are "lip-synching" in the Spring Festival Gala? What's your opinion on it? Would you support it?