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Old 26th September 2008, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by truehappiness View Post
Go jump off of a cliff.
Isn't that too harsh? Especially when many people think that often times she lip syncs Step You - it's not like it's a totally off base thought coming out of left field or something.

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Srsly now, the girl can sing, but "take over?" LUUUUUUUUUULZ. Ayu still has a hold on fans judging by A COMPLETE's sales imo. And from what I can see, Ayu doesn't really seem to care that a bit of her fanbase is slowly slipping away. I mean her concerts still do sell out, so she still has a presence, and she has a hell of a lot more sales than some of the artists out there who are "hipper and younger"..
She still has her core fan base of course, just like all artists do, but I don't think she is really gaining any new fans and has lost touch with the general population. And I don't really see her getting any new fans if her vocals are going to continue this way in the tv performances. It then comes to the point that the tv performances can actually hurt the sales of your product and not help them. I can honestly say that if I was seeing Ayu for the first time in one of her tv performances this year I would probably think something like, "cool stage and cosumes, but she can't sing at all. Must be sorta Japan's version of Britney or something." It's only because I'm already a die hard fan that I've at least been able to enjoy her performances this year to some extent.

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Yea her technique plus MW is so hard for her to sing, I thought she had trouble with T2M but MW is even worse. It's like she doesn't have enough lung power to pull it off.
But it wasn't just Mirrorcle World - that one actually wasn't THAT bad. It was the best of the times she has performed it actually. It was Surreal that was most off - if you watch all her Surreal tv performances back to back, she struggled with this one way more than any of the other times she has sung it; it's definitely the worst tv performance she has done of it I think.

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