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Originally Posted by Melrose
decision could also be lip synched? Oh my. : / I didn't even look into that one.
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That one I'm really not that sure of. I hope it's not. But I'm assuming that it has a high possibility to be since all of the songs surrounding it seem to be.
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Originally Posted by Melrose
Do you think she lip synched so much in the past too, though? I got the impression that before AT05 she hardly ever lip synched (0-1 per concert). And then gradually it started getting more up to the point of 4 songs in a row now with AT08 if decision is lip synched too. Very disappointed. Like, 4 songs in a ROW? That's pretty big.
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Well, back during Tour of Secret, Evan Chan, a Chinese singer, went to her show and said to the media that a lot of it was lip synced. Everyone practically killed the guy over making that comment, saying that Ayu would never lip synch. I personally can't really comment on tour of secret because I didn't go to that one. I've only seen the DVD and Avex is infamous for making the dvds sound better. I personally think that either Avex edited that DVD too much or she was lip synching 50% of the concert. So once again, since I wasn't there to experience it myself I'll give her the benefit of the doubt on that one and say that they just edited the sound for dvd a lot.
I saw both her tours in 2004 and 2005 multiple times. 2004 was totally live. 2005 was too except for alterna. (I mean come on she is hanging out of a ball with a bar across her stomach most of the time) I also was at CDL 06-07 and I don't really remember suspecting any lip synching then either. So it does seem to be that she has started to do it more and more often recently. I don't know how much it has to do with the ear, but it seems like the larger factor is that her performances are just becoming more and more choreographed. But then there is the infamous case of her lip synching Theme of a-nation at CDL 05/06 - I still can't think of any good explanation for that one.
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Originally Posted by Melrose
But you know, maybe it's just different in Japan, and they prefer lip synching over meh-average vocals?
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Actually no, artists rarely lip synch in Japan. It is starting to get more common, but still when compared to the west or China and Korea, Japan has very little lip synching. Even Johnny's boy bands are usually at the very least half live, if not completely live. I've never heard Namie lip synch, Morning Musume very rarely, never heard Koda lip synch except for using doubling(I don't count that as lip synching), the list of artists could go on and on. Typically on an episode of Music Station, if anybody lip synchs its almost always a western artist.
So no, I would say that Japan prefers average vocals to lip synching way more than any other country.