I don't think it was fully mimed, but there were some song i suspect were Double tracked with a pre recorded lead vocal they sing along too.
It's pretty standard these days unfortunatly as it hides weak vocals and slight out of tune singing. The person doing the EQ can then fade the live vocal in an out when needed to cover parts of the song the singers struggling with.
It's an old trick that's been done for years, old singers who voices are starting to crack / weaking do it a lot.
Paul McCartney springs to mind. As evident when he mistimes his intro to Hey Jude at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics and you can hear his backing track signing away before he starts singing live.
Madonna mentioned above is another, very noticable becuase you go from strong vocals to weak quiet ones as they mess with the EQ.
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