Lip-synching is considered a part of "miming". Lecoq wrote on the art and philosophy of mimicry and miming. The minor roles used British actors miming to their Broadway counterparts. The music video consisted of the band miming to the song on a sound stage. Dance elements include Boogaloo, popping, locking, and miming. This performance is an experiment mixing together the elements of miming, dance, pop and theater. They faced each other, miming their actions as the song played. However, the singer "withheld from moving his lips to the line&colon; "I'm miming"". The video shows various fans miming to the song in their bedrooms. The band twice appeared live in the studio, miming to the song. Numerous historical clips of the show were aired, including Gene Pitney's miming gaffe from 1989. In Britain, the Beatles ran foul of the Musicians Union's ban on miming on television. It features all four rappers and Ronson miming to the original track. It caused some controversy as he and his band were accused of "miming". A mechanical version of Sid appears in "Robots" during the miming scene.