I said dancing motions as in how “hip” he was in the scene, not his general dancing skill, and his synching abilities as in lip synching - in other words, his ability to act so cool.
And I agree it’s a stretch for that particular actor, but the description of the video as being very demonstrative of the entire process for that scene was also a stretch. The only bits we saw of the scene were the final edited version. We didn’t see any behind the scenes footage that involved singing for that scene.
I hadn’t noticed him sounding like an older black soul singer before, but I’ll rewatch some of the other scenes and see…
While some of the other scenes this episode seemed a little overly polished vocally, this was the only one that seemed really really out of place. It really sounded like they decided they didn’t like the way some of the white characters did ‘black’ music for this one particular number, and decided to have them lip synch to some black singers.
I’m not saying they can’t sing or are usually dubbed, I’m saying that for this one particular scene the two actors sound very different from how they usually do, in a way that gives the appearance of voice doubles for getting a particular quality of voice for a particular style of singing.
Meh. They managed to strike the right balance in the other episode. I don’t see any good reason for the quality to go down over time. But I’ll reserve judgement, maybe next episode will be back to snuff.