NOTE: Different media reports used different adjectives to describe what Eason said. The one published in the version I read said Eason 'criticised' Ayu. Judge for yourself.
Chinese news: (this is a summary)
Ayu lip-synched?? Eason slept till he snored.
A lot of big Hong Kong stars attended Ayumi's Hong Kong Asia tour stop last Saturday. However, one of them, Eason Chan, accused that Ayumi, the queen of Jpop, of lip-synching for almost 1/3 of the entire concert.
"The stage design and set-up is good, but she lip-synched for 1/3 of the concert. If we do that in HK, we will definitely get scolded," Eason said. He was quick to add that lipsynching is not a big problem.
Because of his busy schedule, he also fell asleep at the start of the concert, prompting his friend to jab him~ so that it won't look ugly to have someone sleeping in the front row.
The organiser of the concert insisted, "Ayumi did not lip-synch AT ALL. The sound system is specially flown in from Japan, so it might have been so fantastic that Eason got the wrong idea."
Singapore Chinese News
Singapore English Straits Times News (for Japanese news to make it on this paper means it's huge)
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Originally Posted by ayuflareup!
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Originally Posted by Ayu_desu
here's one in canto about him sleeping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inekxjtbuqY&NR=1
he says that he knows that japanese concerts, esp ayu, have a huge production value to it and that he wouldn't waste an opportunity to watch it. but because he didn't sleep for a couple nights, he wasn't in the mood to watch the concert, which is why he dozed off during some parts of the concert. he adds that it wasn't her fault, but instead it was his own fault. |
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Originally Posted by ayu_fan929
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Originally Posted by Ayumiko
Heres some more news regarding about ayu being accused of lipsynching:
-eason said ayu lipped 1/3 of the concert
-eason gave ayus performance 87 points
-eason said ayu lipped very well and lipsynching is not a big deal, a lot of Japanese dancing singers lipsynchs (  WTF)
-ayu fans want eason to apologize in public
-reader or reporter? yagomi said ayu did not lipsynch...infact in 2 songs she forgot some lyrics (I read somewhere one of the song was audience that she forgot some lyrics)
-3 member group:grasshopper, one of the member said: everyone, please dont think we lipsync, dont compare us to foreigners. We have real talent.
-蔡一智 (one of the member of grasshopper that have dancing background) who DID NOT attend ayus concert said: it is impossible to dance and sing for 30mins and not gasp for breath. He also said: When a singer performs live while singing and dancing, there should be a difference compared to the record cd. There has to be some sort of gasp for breath sound.
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Grasshoppers stick their big noses in when they have nothing to do with it at all!
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Originally Posted by babamon
不老神话草蜢举行签唱会 暗示滨崎步假唱
[04月09日香港讯]草蜢“Forever Grasshopper Collection”签唱会昨日(4月9日)举行，三子又唱又跳，并唱新歌《Forever》，阿智强调 他们没有对口型，似暗示陈奕迅爆日本天后滨崎步对口型的事，杰仔为了能有助事业迈向国际，故改名为木慧一杰 。杰仔透露早前卜卦，相士指他的名字应有个“木”字，故决定改名为“木慧一杰”，相士指这个名可助他蜚星国 际。
对于eason指滨崎步对口型一事，草蜢三子表示未看过滨崎步的演唱会，只是看到报道。阿智說：「大家不要 以為我們『咪嘴』，我們不似外國來的那些人，我們是真材實料！」谈及不少滨崎步的fans不满eason的 言论，致电报馆投诉闹Eason。阿智支持eason说：“报导指滨崎步唱歌时没有索气，以他们的经验来说 ，像他们练得这样辛苦，一定会索气的。
Basically they are telling everyone not to think that they lip-sync, as they are not like those foreigners as they are made of the real stuff. 
And according to their experience, it's kinda impossible not to be gasping for air when u're dancing so much. |
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My own thoughts:
I was there at the concert myself, and like many Ayu fans here, have watched countless LIVE performances, and spinned her RECORDED versions a hundred times - its really easy to tell when Ayu is using her live singing voice - and she was. However, her voice was really in a superb condition (though she struggled a lot on 'Secret') - and that might have led to confusions. Even I was shocked at her live singing quality.
Also, the video feed from the big screen seemed to lag at several short moments, so if Eason was watching the screen instead of Ayu herself, he might have mistook the situation too.
I also find it quite funny that he dared to say it so proudly because I can easily count with my fingers the number of famous HK stars that lip-synch on a regular basis. *roll eyes*
IMO Ayu definitely did not lip-synch at all. She was good, but not CD-quality good.