They may be lip-synching to recordings of themselves, but yeah, they're singing.

Once music rights are cleared, songs are arranged and pre-recorded by the cast.

Auditioning actors with no theatrical experience were required to prove they could sing and dance as well as act.

From here.

And I have to say, aren't you like the opposite of the target audience for this show?

It sounds and looks like lip-synching to me.

I thought maybe that was the teacher's voice.

The numbers in the 2nd episode were WAY overproduced compared to the ones in the pilot. I mean, that was still some pretty amazing singing for high school kids, but it didn't take me out of the show from wondering when Artie got possessed by the spirit of Barry White.

but it didn't take me out of the show from wondering when Artie got possessed by the spirit of Barry White.

Yeah, he's the only one I can't figure out. Apparently he was in a lower-tier boyband, but I'd like to hear him actually sing like everyone else did in the audition scenes.

Apparently he was in a lower-tier boyband,

okay, I had to look it up. He was in something called NLT, which never released their debut album because most of the songs got leaked. They were going to rework it and release it, but in the intervening time, the band broke up.

And I have to say, aren't you like the opposite of the target audience for this show?

I don't actually know what the target audience is. Surely black republican men aren't the target audience?

hahahaha.

This is Michael Steele's SHIT!

I don't actually know what the target audience is.

People who never ran from the room at the thought of a "Once More With Feeling" singalong? Or is it just people singing in public, rather than on the TV screen?

Wow. I don't even know how to answer that in a way that won't make me sound like an asshole.

Plus, I don't think that "people who never ran from the room at the thought of a 'Once More With Feeling' singalong" is a Nielsen demographic.

Sorry, didn't mean to put you on the spot.